The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-25
fcDoI Noticcs.
EMPOssg,AET NOTICE To SCEaOOr
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OEFICEEsS.
&c EgNIIE School Commissioner deems it i'm
portant to call the ate ntion of Local
Directors, Township Clerks, and Boards Oi
Education, q certain duties imt5oscd upon Them
10y the School Law, nd III the nconyanIenccs
losses and pr;ialties Which mist tnevitafny &C
crue if these duties are neglected. or uRrcason-
ably postponed
l. By section 8, it is made ss tire ,fniy oi
the directors in each suh-.iistrict to take, or
cause To be taken, annually 6etDeen the first
and third Monday Of October, (from October I'd
to October 10 in 1854 an enumeration of all
the unmarried white and colored youth, no.
ing them separately, between the ages of FIVE
and twenty-one years, resident within such sub
district ard not temporarily there, designating
between male and female, and return a certified
copy thereof To the Township Clerk"
=. IL the directors fail to make and return
the enumerntion, the Township Clerk must
employ n competent person to d0it and collect
the expense from the directors individually.
3. "The Township Clerk shall make an abb
stract OF the enunleIa alton so returned to him,
designating the number OF youth in each sub
district, and transmit such abstract dHiy certifi-
cd to the County Auditor, Uifhia tLcnty days
after the return made to him by the Directors
or the person appointed to take such enHmera-
ton.
4 BY section 10, # is made the duty of the
Board of Education d" tn prepare, or cruise To
be prepared, and. forwarded to the County Au-
dltor, at the same time when the return of The
enumeration OF scholars is required to BIO made,
Il statement exhibiting the number of children
IN the township between the ages of five and
twenty-one years, Distinguishing between male
and female; the number Of schouls, specifying
the different grades the number of teachers,
male and female the number of children.
male and female, who have attended school
during the past year the average attendance,
the lengthc of the terms of schools, compensa-
ton of teachers, male and femalc the number
and condition of the school honses and furni-
ture. and the estimated vaIua fhnraoP. tho
number and condition of the bOOks in the
school libraries, the number of libraries, the
kind of school books used in tho schools, the
number and value of school apparatus, and u
fuil account Of the expenditures for school pur-
poses, together with such other statistics and
information IN relation to schools as the State
Commissioned OF schools may require.
D. Section 40 directs the County Auditors,
{ on or before the twentieth day of December,
annually b forward abstracts of 6 all the re-
turns of school statistics made from the town
ship to the State Commissioners and attaches
a penalty of fifty dollars for the neglect, be-
sides making them responsible for any less
thereby sustained by any township or county.
\ 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.'
From the 70, cgoing summary, the duties OF
the different officers are.apparent and-it now
remains to consider the consequences of neg
lecting their Performance. The State Auditor
apportions the school fund among the counties,
8 upon the enumeration and returns made 20
HIM by the State COMMISSIONER and 8 the
County Auditors shall annually, Immediately
after then. annual settlement with the County
Treasurer, apportIon the school funds lor-their
respective Counties, according to the cnumer-
alton and returns in their respective offices
and no township, or other district, city or Will
age, which shall have failed to make aud return
such enumerati6n, shall be entitled &c receive
any portion of the common school fund.- 6Sec-
ton 81
Still more explicit and imperative is the last
clause OF section CT, to wit: IT shall not be
la wful for any County Treasurer to pay over
any portion of the school fund to any local
treasurer, board of education, or other school
offic6es of any city, townshipJ or village, or
ganized as to schools either under 4 general
or u special law, except on the order of the
proper county aud no such order shall be
drawn by the county auditof, unless the local
treasurer, clerk, recorder, or secretary of such
board, or other school officers, shall first de-
post with said auditor, annually an abstract of
the enumeration OF scholars, and other statis-
tics relative 10 the schools under their charge,
as required by this act of Teachers, Local Di>
rectcrs and Boards of Education in Townships
As the reports required OF the several grades
of school officers follow each other in 4 sort oil
ascending series, with nearly the same length
of time olloited to each grade for making !and
reporting their respective abstracts, it is highly
impo rtant that these reports be promptly made
NAhAAAh 1hS eALAS Inns 80 oAcPS
soble 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 tho enumeration of youth,
should notbc delayed beyond the Goth day OF
October, nor those required of Township 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 trsnsmit to the Commissioner of Conn
mon Schools, an abstract of all the returns of
school statistics made to them. and the Com
missioner will be able to make his report on or
before the Goth Of January, and the Auditor OF
State will be able to apportion, at the proper
time, the common school funds among the DIFF
ferent Co untIcs."
H. II. BARNEY, Com. Com. Schools.
Columbus, Sept, 1884. 3w20
SAFE OF asEAL ESTATE.
Isaac Gates, Admir- of Es-