M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-05-21

be competent witness und the money SO
collected shall be applied to the use ofcom-
mon schools in the proper township. The
Township Clerk shall make an abstract of
the enumeration so returned to him, desig-
mating the number Of youth in each sub-dis-
trict, and transmit such abstract duly certi-
fed to the County Auditor, on or before the
first day of October.
SECTION A. That section twelve Of said
act be 50 amended as to read as follows
Section IL. 1t shall be the duty of the
Township Board of Education to hold regu-
lar sessions OH the third Monday of April
and on the third Monday of September in
each year, in the usual place of holding
township elections, or at such place in the
immediate neighborhood as may be conve-
nient for the transaction of any business
which may be necessary in relation 10 the
subject of either the primary or graded
schools of the township, with power to ad-
journ from time to time, or to hold special
meetings at any other time or place within
the proper township, as they may think de-
sirable Tor the transaction Of business as
aforesaid, and at all such meetings shall APP
point one OF their number 10 the Chair, and
in case of the absence Of the Township
Clerk may appoint one of their own num-
Der to serve temporarily as Clerk.
SECTION 8, That section nineteen of
said act be so amended as to read as fol-
lows Section 49, The Bolrd of Educa-
ton in each township shall prepare, or
cause to be prepared and forwarded to the
County Auditor, on or before the first day
Of October, q statement exhibiting the num-
Der of children in the township, between the
ages of five and twenty-one years, distin-
gushing between male and female, the
number of Schools, specifying the different
grades, the number of teuchers, male and
female, the number of children, male and
female 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 num-
Der and condition of the schoo! houses and
furniture, 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 full account of ofexpenditures for school
purposes, together with such other statis-
tics and information i'll relation to schools,
as the State Commissioner Of Schools may
require.
SECTION 6. That section twenty-five
of said act be so amended as to read as fol-
lows: Section %. 1t shall be the duty
of the Board of Education of any organized
township OF the state, annually to deter
mine by estimate, us nearly as practicable
the entire amount of money necessary to be
expended in the township for purchasing
school house sites for erecting, furnishing
and repairing school houses, for providing
fuel and for any other school purpose other
than the payment of teachers, not exceed
inc two mills on the dollar of the taxable
property of the township ; Provided, that if,
in the opinion Of the Township Board, a
greater tax shall be necessary for said pur-
poses during any year, the Board shall call
a special meeting of the qualified voters of
the school district over which they have ju-
risdiction, which meeting shall be called and
held in the manner prescribed in the prece-
ding section, and shall decide by vote the
question whether such greater tax, or any
other greater tax for said purposes than two
mills on the dollar shall be raised. 1t shall
also be the duty of the Board TO estimate
such additional amount as they may think
necessary, not exceeding two mills on the
dollar of the taxable property of the town.
ship, for the exclusive purpose of sustain
ing teachers in the central or high schools,
or for the purpose OF prolonging, after the
State funds have been exhausted, the terms
of the several sub-Gistricts or primary
schools in the township or for both purposes,
as the board may adjudge best. These sew
eral amounts of money so estimated or de-
cided upon, the Board shall make known by
certificate, in writing, on or before the first
Monday in June in such year, including any
tax which may have been voted by special
meeting of electors as provided in the pre-
ceding section, to the Auditor of the proper
County, who shall thereupon assess the en-
tire amount of such estimates on all the taX-
able property of the township not included
in any City or incorporated village or ter
ritory annexed thereto forming any special
district, to be entered by said Auditor on the
tax duplicate of the county, and collected
by the County Treasurer at the same time,
and in the same manner, as State and
County taxes are collected and when col
lected, shall be paid over to the Treasurer
of the proper township on the order of the
County Auditor and said County Treasur-
er shall be entitled to receive for collections
one per cent. on all moneys by him col
lected for school purposes, and no more.
SECTION 7. That section twenty-four
of.said act be so amended as to read as fol-
lows: Section "a. All school funds
which may come into the hands of the
township Treasurer from whatever source
shall be paid out only on the order OF the
Clerk of the Board Of Education. under the
direction of the Board, expect in paying
teachers for their services, the said Clerk
NAV, on such teachers presenting their GER
tifcate of qualification, and depOsiting with
the Clerk true copies thereof, draw the re-
ouisite orders on the Treasurer for such
amount as may have been certified to be due
by any two of the local directors of the prop
er sub.district in which the teacher was
employed; and so much Of the school mon
eys coming into the hands of the Treasurer
as NAV be derived from the State tax oI
from any township tax levied for the con-
tinuation of schools after the State fund has
been exhausted or from such school funds
as arise from the sale or rents of section six
teen, or other school lands shall be appllca'
BILE only to the payment of teachers IN the
proper township, and shall be drawn tor nc