Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-03-30
the requisite qualifications in addition to the branch

their number as clerk shall keep their
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and the said board make all needfu rules and
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he county auditor, exclusive of blank books stationery
the accounts when presented to be subsanated
on OATH which said auditor may administer and file in his
- STATE COMMISSIONER.
s5 A. There The elected sa by tn the life electors
and every three years thereafter state commissioner
years. and until his shall be elected and qualified
The election of said commissioners and the returns thereof
ton of judges supreme court in ease
in said Office by DEATH resignation otherwise,
the governor shall fill the same by appointment for the
pired term.
dutes the said bond in the penal
of ten thousand dollars the State of Ohio with
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property which into his hands his eapac
law and he shall also take and oath amao
of Ohio and diligently and faithfully to discharge the duties
of his oath endorsed creon shall be filed with the treasurer
| of state.
Sec The books and papers of his department shall be
kept the suitable be
furnished by the state, which shall give attendance when
addition to duties oce discharge duties Of sec
retry to the commissioner of common Schools under his d
sEc so. It shall be duty Of the commissioner spend
the State and encouraging teachers,
Institutes, comforting with township boards Of education
other school officers counseng Teachers visiting schools
lectures topics calculated to subserve the inter-
ests of popular education. ta
the purpose of furnishing the common schools
with libraries and apparatus will admit shall be the duty
the said commissioner to purchase the and the books
and apparatus purchased shall be distributed through
auditors office of each county the board oeducaon in each
township city or village according to the emu
Sec He such supervision over the
educational
their safety and right application, and according
township boards of education school
an al
reports by them required to be mad all such other in
management thereof, may deem important
Sec So He shall prescribe suitable FORMS and regulations
ngs under this act same with
hs to
school officers, who shall be governed in accordance there
Sec. He shall many copies laws relating
to schools and teachers institutes with appendix appro-
pirate and Instructions for carrying into execution all
laws be printed separate youme and distributed
each county with the laws journals and other documents
for the of the school officers therein often after the first
distribution any change said laws may be made of s
an ID the require
Sec 1t shall be the duty of said commissioner of
iet day Of January in each and year. to the General
Assembly, when that body shall be in session such yea
when not in session one year, then the said report
shall be made the governors shall the to be
published, and shall also communicate copy thereof to the
/
SEC. The commissioner in the annual report of
and s ms shall Of the
purposes of education; statement of the number of COM
such schools their SEX taught
numbero select schools in the far as the
asceane, and the number ofschoars attending
such schools their and the branches taught statement of
the
the expenditures of the public school funds of descrp
men ofcommon schools other information
the educational interests of the state as he may think ofm
said commissioner shall entitled receive
for his services the sum Of fifteen hundred dollars annually
payable quarterly out of the state treasury the warrant of
the auditor of state -='
Sec purpose ofurnishng school libraries and
apparatus schools in the state, and for the
Keeping up supply apparatus
Aforesaid from time to tme be considered
spect nearly practicable there shall hereafter be
an Pa n @
the grand taxable for state purposes state
of oneenh mill the dollar valuations to be applied
exclusively purposes aforesaid, and
renses, under the direction ofhe commissioner of common
books Of seetaan character shall be
SEC So The amount of said tax when collected, shall be
by the county treasurers to the state at
out by that for the Aforesaid upon the
Sec co. 1t shall be the duty of county auditor, when
the said libraries apparatus shall be received distribute
the clerks township boards ofeducation,
other local shcoo officers their respective countless having
in charge the of common schools and the books and
shall deemed OF
boards school officers, whom the may
have been delivered and shall not be subject to execuon
sale or alienation, for any cause whatever.
Sec 6 The local boards of edueaion other school Off
GERS having charge of schools be held
hey @
periods of the books belonging the libraries and
the books by persons entitled their and also to provide
SEC g. shall be the duty of the local school boards
other school Officers having charge Of schools to appoint the
be deposited selecting such central points will best
modate the schools and families of the districts
subdistrict shall be entitled the
from theschoo library although member Of such family
under the inspection of the librarian at stated
ods throughout tue be prescribed by the board Of
ucaon other proper school oces without regard to the
session of the schools.
- STATE SCHOOL FUND.- So
SEC g. the purpose afording the advantages of
free youth of this sate the state
duced by the annual levy mills upon
dollar vauao the grand list taxable property
dion to the revenues required for general purposes,
the said mills upon the dollar valuation aforesaid;
and levied and assessed, shall be col
leced in the same manner as other state taxes and
collected. shall be annually distributed to the sew
cral of the stae in proportion to the enumeration
scholars and be applied exclusively to the support OF
mon schools.
Sec 64 The debts which have heretofore been
estimates of the proper school boards created under
the provisions of this act. t's'
SEC 65 The process all suits against township board
educaion other local officers having charge Of of
public schools under the provisions Of act shall be
summons shall executed by leaving copy thereof
with clerk secretary of such board other school Off
either Of against such board or other
officers shall be prosecuted defended the may
by the prosecuting attorney OF the proper county, as
Sec g. The of educaton other local officers
having charge of schools in any city, township or village in
which schools have been organized under the
regulation public schools in eities towns &
they deem expedient to call meeting Of the
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