Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-05-30
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Supplement - the Common Schocl LG|---1355-
A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT TO an Act for the regula-
ton ard continuance of System of Education
By Common Schools, approved the Sth day of
May Ammo Dosa mi one thousand eight hundred
and ffty-four.
Section /. Be !. enacted, &c, That so much
OF the act TO which this is supplement-, as
aboishes inieped-nt districts at present
tsb!isiled under special acts OF Assembly, shall
not take effect until the first day uf June, one
thousand eight hundred and fiity-siz.
SECTION ,. That the continuance Of indie
peaien; districts beyond the period named in
tae foregoing section may b. allowed, when
or the application Of the directors of any such
district TO the judges of the cou:. 0! common
pleas of tile coHn:v in which any portion of
s,ii district may be ioc tied, setting forth the
necessity 70. lis continuance, the said judges
may, after cl-crul c. nsidcrltion decree the
same ; a2.l tilat in all cases where the said
court shall refuse to allow = further coatinu-
ance o. any such district, they shall be au-
taorisei AMI required, also, 10 determine the
rights of property rested in the several scilC"l
boards in an s;ch district. AMI n Ike proper
disposition uf the Same: PryriIed, That the
boirI of school directors Of tie townships out
OF which any such applying Independent
school district nay be formed, shall have re-
ceiyei ten days notice Of the proposed ap-
,jiic&tioa and of t:e time AMI place of herring.
SECTION 3. Th-t the assessors in each and
every township, where any portion Of said
township, may b. included within the Ta!ts Of
al IN dependent school district, shall write on
their duplicates, opposite to the names of the
persons residing within said Independent dis
t-ict the letters |. D.. for the information Of
the collector Of sail tax, anl the county COM
rnissiouers.
Section 1. That in eli cases in which school
directors Of Independent districts have not
been chosen at the recent spring elections, or
on the ay specially fixed by law, it shall be
lawful :o- ne qualified voters of any such dis
tric. to meet at their usual pac: Of holding
sim.iar elections, ten days notice thereof nav
ing been given by the late president of the
proper board, and shall el:ct two persons to
s.rve as school directors for the ensuing year
and the remaining members and officers ofth
board who would have continued in Office un-
der the provisions of the supplement 10 the
school l.w of My Sth, one thousand eight
hundred and ifty-four, be AMI they are hereby
continued in office until the expiration of the
terms for which they were originally elected !;
the said elections shall be held and conducted
in the same manner and BY the same persons
heretofore authorised by law.
SECTION 5. fhat uYon petition of not less
than twenty taxable Inhabitants of any town
sim, or townships, desiring the formation of
iae territory upon which they reside into a
separate and independent common school dis
t-ict. and setting forth the bounds of such
proposed district. the court OF quarter sessions
of the proper county shall appoint commits
gioners 70 view the premises and report 10 the
court ~ its next term, the lines of the pro-
r,osed new district, either according to the
bounds SC; forth in the petition. or to such
other bounds as they shall think more adyisa-
ble, together with their opinion on the expe-
dieney of establishing not establishing IN.
same, the proceedings upon which petition,
commission and report, and the final disposi-
fion thereof shall, in all other respects, be ac-
cording TO the act of Assembly now in force,
relative TO the erection of new townships
Prori9ei,, That if said proceedings result in
the establishment of a new common school
district, the cost of the commission. and the
ctfice fees shall be paid by the said new dis
trict, but if otherwise, said costs and fees
shalt be paid by the petitioners themselves.
SEC. 6. That whenever new district shall
be erected according TO the provisions OF this
sc;. it shall bs:on $40 al intsnts and purposes
of the common school system of the State, a
separate ana Independent district, subject,
ta--a-.=- 20 t'.e ,-prisions of the third and