Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-06-04
LAWS OF OHIO.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
1877 AN ACT

c~ntItied"an act 70 provide Tor the re-
organization, supervision and main
tenance of Common Schools" passed
March II, 1858.
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Ohio, That
section three Of the act aforesaid be so
amended as to read as follows Section 3.
The said directors within five days after
their election, shall take an oath or
affirmation to support the Constitution
of the United States and of the State OF
Ohio, and faithfully and impartially to
discharge the duties of their Office;
which said oath the directors are author
lied to administer TO each. other. And
in case vacancy shall occur in the office
of director, by death, resignation, refusal
to serve, or otherwise, it shall be the
duty of the township clerk to fill such
vacancy within ten days after being in
formed thereof, by the appointment of
some suitable person who shall hold his
Office until the time of the next annual
meeting, when a director shall be elected
for the remainder, if any, of the uncx-
pirad term, in the manner prescribed in
section two.
Sec. =. That section four of said
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Section 1. If the qualified voters of any
-~subsdistrfct shall fail to meet and elect
school directors as prescribed in sections
two and three, it shall be lawful for any
three qualified voters of such sub-dis-
trict to call a special meeting of the
voters OF such sub-district for the pur-
pose of electing directors, on first Civ
ing five days notice in writing of the
time and place of holding such meeting
by posting the same in three of the
most public places in such sub-district;
and the directors so elected at such
special meeting, shall hold their offices
for the ~unexpired term which they
were respectively elected to fill.
SEC. 3. That section eight of said
act be so amended as to read as follows
Section s. 1t shall be the duty of the
directors in each sub-district to take or
cause to be taken, annually, between the
first and third Monday of September,
an enumeration ofall the unmarried white
and rolorcd youth, noting them separa-
tely, between the ages of five and TWEEN
ty-one years, resident within such sub
district and not temporarily there, de
signaling between male and female, and
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township clerk: and in case the dir
ectors in any sub-district shall full to
take and return the enumeration aforc-
said, it shall be the duty of the town
ship clerk to employ a competent person
to take the same and allow him Il rea-
sonable compensation for his services,
and shall proceed to recover the amount
so paid for such services in civil action,
before any court having jurisdiction, IN
the name of the State Of Ohio, against
said directors in their individual capac-
ity; and in such suits, said clerk shall be
q competent witness; and the money so
collected shall be applied to the use of
common schools in the proper township.
The township clerk shall make an alb
stract of the enumeration so returned to
him, designating the number of youth
in each sub-district, and transmit such
abstract duly certified to the county Il u
ditor, on or before the first day Of Octo-
Der.
Sec. 4. That section twelve of said
act be so amended as to read as follows:
Section II. 1t shall be the duty Of the
township Board of Education to hold
regular sessions on the third Monday Of
April and on the third Monday of Sep
tember in each year, in the usual place
of holding township elections, or at such
place in the immediate neighborhood as
may be convenient for the transaction of
any business which may be necessary in
relation to the subject Of either the
primary or graded schools Of the town
ship, with power to adjourn from time
to time, or to hold special meetings at
nfhnr fIpan or nlopl within tho
proper township, as they may think
desirable for the transaction of business
as aforesaid, andat all such MEETINGS. shall
appoint one of their number to the
Chair, and in case of the absence of the
Township Clerk may appoint II of
their WI number to serve temporarily
as Clerk.
SEC. 5. That section nineteen of
said act be SO amended as to read as fol-
lows Sec 10. The Board of Education in
each township shall prepare, or cause to
10 prepared and forwarded to The coun-
ty Auditor, on or before the first day of
October, a 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 schools, specify
ing the different grades, the number OF
teachers, male and female who have at
tended school during the past year, the
average attendance, the length of the
terms of schools, compensation of teach
CTS, male and female, the number and
condition of the school houses and
furniture, and the estimated value there
OF 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
schools apparatus, and a full account of
the expenditures for school purposes,
together with such other statistics and
Information in relation to schools, as the
State Commissioner of Schools may re-
quiFe.
SEC. 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 organ
lied township of the State, annually to
determine by estimate, as nearly as
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