The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-11
Nem ADVERTISEMENTS.
ImPORTANT NOTICE TO SCHOOL


- OFFICERS.
sc THE School Commissioners deems j, i'm
portant to call the ate ntion of Local
Directors, Township Clerks, and Boards of
Education, 10 certain duties imposed upon them
BY the School Law, and to the nconySniences
losses and penalties which must inevitably ac-
crue if these duties are neglected or unreason-
ably postponed.
i. By section 8, it is made 60 the duty of
| the directors in each sUb-district to take, or
cause to be taken, annually bettoeen the first
and third Monday Of October, (rrom October I'd
to October l6 in 1854 } an enumeration OF all
the unmarried white and colored youth, no.
ing them sepa -ately, between the ages of five
and twenty-one years, resident within such SUBJ
district aud not temporarily there, designating
between male and female, and return a certified
copy thereof to the Township Clerk"
2. II the directors fail to make and return
the enumeration, the Township Clerk must
employ a competent person to doit and collect
'he expense from the directors iEdivid ually.
3. The Township Clerk shall make an alb
| straci Of she enumeration 90 returned to him,
| designating the number Of youth in each SUBJ
district, and transmit such abstract duly cert'f-
ed to the County Auditor, tcithin ttsenfy days
after the return made to him by the Directors
or the person appointed to take such enumcra-
ton.
4. By section I9, II 10 made the duty of the
Board of Education :" to prepare, or cause to
be prepared, and forwarded to the County Au-i
ditor, at the same time when the return of the
enumer.tion of scholars is required to be made,
a statement ex SHIFTING the number Of Children
in the township between the ages of five and
tweuty-one years, Distinguishing between male
and female; the number of schools, specifying
the different grades; the nVmber of teachers,
male and female /; the number of Children,
male and femsle, who have attended school
during the past year (; the average attendance,
the length of the terms of schools, compensa-
ton of teachers, male and female; the number
and condition of the school houses and furni-
ture, and the estimated value thereOf; the
number and condition of the books in the
school libraries, the number of libraries, the
kind of school books used in the schools, the
number and value OF school apparatus, and u
full account Of the expenditures for sc hooi Pur-
poses together with such other statistics and
mi in relation to schools as the State
Commissioned OF schools may require.
8. Section 40 directs the County Auditors,
6 on or before the twentieth day of December,
annually to forward abstracts Of 6 all the re-
turns of school statistics made from The Town.
ship to the State Commissioner, and attaches
a penalty of fifty dollars for the neglect, be-
sides making them responsible for any loss
thereby sustained by any township or county.
A similar liability for damages follows upon a
failure by u township clerk to 6 make and re-
turn the abstracts and enumeration required
by the act.' ~ rT
From the foregoing summary, the duties OF
the different officers are.apparent and it now
,lecting heir performance. The State Auditor
appoYnons the school fund among the counties,
9 upon the enumeratien and returns made to
him by the State Commissioner,' and { the
County Auditors shall Annually, Immediately
after their annual settlement with the County
Treasurer, apportIon the school funds for their
resp Counties, according to the enumer-
alton and returns in their respective Offices !;
and no township, or other district, city or Will
age, which shall have failed I" make aud return
such enumeration, shall be entitled &c receive
any portion of the common school fund.- (Sec-
ton 3J) s
2 ...u - - = - 4
clause Of section 81, 60 wits IL shall not be
Ia wfhl for any County Treasurer TO pay over
any portion of the school fund to any local
treasurer, board of education, or other school
offic ers of any city, township, or village, or
ganized as to schools either under a general
or a special law, except on the order of the
proper county and NO such order shall be
drawn by the county auditor, unless the local
treasurer, CLERK, recorder, or secretary Of such
board, or other scho oil officers, shall first de-
post with said auditor, annually, an abstract of
the enumeration of scholars, aud other statis-
tics relative to the schools under their charge,
as required by this act of Teachers, Local Di>
rectors and Boards of Education in Townships
As the reports required of the several grades
OF school officers follow each other in a sort OF
series, with nearly the same length
of time olloited to each grade for making and
reporting their respective abstracts,i it is highly
impo Ttant that these reports be promptly made
within the time prescribed. This is indispen-
sobIe not only to avoid losses to school dis
tries, and penalties to school officers but also to
the harmonious and efficient working OF the
whole school system.
The reports required of those school officers
whose duty is to take the enumeration of youth,
should not be delayed beyond the goth day of
nor those required of Clerks
and Board of Education, beyond the Goth day |
Of November. If these reports be promptly
made. then will the County Auditors be able,
on or before the Goth day of December, to make
out and transmit to the Commissioner Of Com.
mon Schools, an abstract Of all the returns of
school statistics made to them, and the Com
will be able to make his report on or
before the 10th of January, and the Auditor Of
State will be able to apportion, At the proper
the common school funds among the diff
erent Co unties.'
h. II. BARNEY, Com. Com. Schools.
- Columbus. Sept.. 1854. 3waOr |