The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-16
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AN ACT to amend the " act TO provide for the
maintenance and better regulation of Com
mon Schools, in the city of Cincinnati -
passed January 81, 1854.
Sec. 1. Be 1t enacted 6y the General
Assembly Of the State Of Ohio, That the
seventeenth section of the act entitled,
" an act to provide for the maintenance
and better regulation of Common Schools
in the city of Cincinnati )" passed jan
uary ~, 1858, be so amended as to read
as follows Sec. IL. The property of
all colored pei sons IN said city shall be
listed and taxed for school purposes in
the same manner as the property of 9TH
er persons, aud separate schools shall be
established for the education of the col
ored children of said city, in such dis
tricts as the board of trustees and visi-
tors of common schools shall, from time
to time establish for that purpose and
the district schools so established, shall
be conducted under the control ard man
agement of three directors in eaeh of
said districts, who shall be elected an
nually in the month of June, by the said
board of trustees and visitors of com
mon schools, at a regular meeting, from
among the colored people resident in
such districts respectively, and who shall
take an oath of Office. Said directors
shall hold their Office one year, or until
their successors shall be elected and
qualified, and vacancies in their number
shall be filled by said trustees and visi-
tors, and said directors shall have the
care and managemert'of the schools and
school property of their respective dis
tricts, appoint teachers and regulate
their salaries, regulate the course of
studies and text books, fix and deter
mine the times and duration of such
schools, and the vacations thereof, pro-
vide suitable accommodations, furniture
and fuel, &C., for their due maintenance,
and perform all the duties necessary for
keeping up such schools, and for the gov
eminent and instruction of the colored
children of their respective districts in
such schools; said directors shall cause
a record of their proceedings to be fair
ly kept in books which they shall pro-
vide for that purpose, and transmit to
their successors; andsaid.directors shall
render accounts monthly, in detail, of
all their expenditures or liabilities, to
the said board of trustees and visitors
of common schools, and if approved by
said board, the same shall be paid, upon
the order of said board, out of the fund
colored schools provided by this act
and so much of the school funds of said
city, as upon an equal distribution of
same per capitqI under any enumera-
ton required by this act, would fall to
the share of the colored children of said
as aseertained by any such enumera-
ton, shall be appropriated as a fund,
to the order of said board of
and visitors, for the support of
said schools for colored children; Pro
Dided, that no person shall be employed
paid, directly or indirectly, as teach
er or instructor, in any of said schools,
until he or she shall first have obtained
from the board of examiners created by
his act, a certificate of qualification, as
to his or her competency and moral
character.
Sec. 2. That the original section
seventeen of the act of which this act
amendatory, be and the same is hereby
repealed.
F. G. LEBLOND,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
JAMES MYERS,
President of the Senate.
April Is, 1854.