Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-05-19


clerk shall be a competent witness; and the
moneyso collected shall be applied to the
use of common schools in the proper town
ship. The township clerk shall make an
abstract of the enumeration so returned to
him, designating the number of youth in
each sub district, and transmit such abb
stract duly certified to the county auditor,
on or before the first day of October.
SEC. A.. That section twelve of said act
be so amended as to read as follows -
Section 12 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 Septem-
| Der in each year, in the usual place of hold
ing township elections, or at such place in
the immediate neighborhood as may be
convenient for the transaction of any bus
mess which may be necessary in relation
to the subject of ether the primary or
graded schools of the township, with pow
er to adjourn from time to time, or to hold
special meetings at any other time or place
within the proper township, as they may
think desirable for the transaction of busi-
ness as aforesaid, and at all such meetings
shall appoint one of their number to the
Chair, and in case of the absence of the
Township Clerk may appoint one of their
own number TO serve temporarily as Clerk.
Sec. 5. That section nineteen of said act
be so amended as to read as follows: Sec
ton 10. The Board of Education in each
township shall prepare, or cause to be pre-
pared and forwarded to the county auditor
on or before the first day of October, a
statement exhibiting the number of children
iii the township, between the ages of five
and twenty-one years, distinguishing be-
tween male and female the number of
schools, 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 length of the
terms of schools, compensation of teachers,
male and female, the number and cont' ition
of the school-houses and furniture, and the
estimated value thereof; the number and
condition of the books in the school libra
ries, the number of libraries the kind of
school books used in the schools, the num-
ber and value of school apparatus, and a
full account of the expenditures for school
purposes, together with such other statis-
tics and information in relation to schools,
as the State Commissioner of Schools may
require.
SEC. 6. That section twenty-five of said
act be so amended as to read as follows ::
Section 90 1t shall be the duty of the
Board of Education of any organized town
ship of the State, annually to determine by
estimate, the entire amount of money ne
cessary to be expended in the township for
purchasing school house sites, for erect
ing, furnishing and repairing school-houses
for providing fuel and for any other school
purpose other than the payment Of teach
ers, not exceeding two mills on the dollar
of the taxable property of the township !;
Provided, that if, in the opinion of the
Township Board, greater tax shal! be
necessary for said purposes during any
year. the Board shall call special meeting
of the qualified voters of the school district
over which they have jurisdiction, which
meeting shall be called and held in the
manner prescribed in the preceding section,
and shall decide by vote the question
greater tax for said purposes than two
mills on the dollar shall be raised. 1t
shall also be the duty of the Board to es
innate such additional amount rs they may
| think necessary, not exceeding two mills
on the dollar of the taxable property of the
township, for the exclusive purpose of sus-
tanning 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-districts or
primary schools in the township or for
both purposes, as the Board may adjudge
best. These several amounts of money so
estimated or decided 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 a special meeting of electors
as provided in the preceding section, to the
Auditor of the proper county, who shall
thereupon assess the entire amount of such
estimates on all the taxable property of the
township not included in any city or in
colporated village or territory annexed
thereto forming any special district, to be
entered by said Auditor on the tax dupIi-
cate of the county, and collected by the
County Treasurer at the same time, and
i'll the same manner, as State and county
taxes are collected; and when collected,
shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the
proper township on the order of the county
Auditor, and said County Treasurer shall
be entitled to receive for collections one
per cent. on all moneys by him collected
for school purposes, and no more.
SEC 7. That section twenty four of said
act be so amended as to read as follows
Section "a. All school funds which may
come into the hands of the township Treas
urer 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, except in paying teachers for
their services, the said Clerk may, on such
teachers presenting their certificate Of
qualification, and depositing with the Clerk
true copies thereof, draw the requisite or
ders on the Treasurer for such amount as
may have been certified to be due by any