The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-08-13
TO define ne duties Of certain officers, and est
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TO defne NE dattes Of certain 0tcers and establish
Schools.
Section 1st. BE il ordained by the City Council of
ottumwa That this city shah constitute School
District g
Sec. 2. That the City Council constitute the Dis
trict Board of said District.
Sec. B. That the Mayor shall perform the duties
required by the one thousand hundred aud TWEEN
ty-second and the one thousand one hundred and
twenty fifth sections of the Code of Iowa to be per-
formed by the President of School Districts
Sec. A. The Recorder shall preserve copies of all
reports made for the School Fund Commissioners and
shall file all papers transmitted TO him by other school
officers, pertaining to the business of the district
He shall between the first and fifteenth days of Sep
TENDER in each year. take and keep record list of
the names of all the white persons in the city between
the ages OF five and twenty-one years. On the first
day ofOctober, in each year, he shall make out and
file in the Office of the School Fund Commissioner of
this county report the affairs of this city relating
to schools, containing:
l. The number of white persons i'm the city between
the ages of five and twenty-one years.
2. The number of schools and the branches taught
in each.
| 3. The number of pupils in each school,
4. The number ofteachers employed in each school,
and the average compensation of each per month.
. The number of days each school has been taught,
8. The average cost of tuition per month in each
school,
| I. The books used in each school.
5. The number of volumes in the Library of each
school.
| .. The aggregate amount of paid teachers during
the year, the source from which the received
and the amount of teachers fund in the hands of the
Treasurer. st
| 10. The number of district school houses and the
| cost Of each.
II. The amount raised by tax for school purposes
and such other information as he may deem useful
Sec .. The treasurer shall apply for and receive
all money apportoned to this District by the School
Fund Commissioners when notified of such apporon-
ment; and the money SO obtained shall be applied to
the payment of the teachers and to no other use
! Sec. 9. The committee schools shall make all
Contracts purchases and sales carry
any vote, resolution ordinance of the Council for
procuring the site for building renting repairing or
furnishing any school house, dsposng thereof or
for keeping a school therein.
| Sec. I. Whenever any school schools are es-
tablshed, IT shall be the duty of the committee,
some member thereof to visit the respective schools
the District, monthly, and report thereon to the Cou
ell at its next meeting, after making such visit
Sec :. Before any person shall be employed to act
as teacher the committee shall examine said person
or caise him or her to be examined in all The branches
usually taught In the schools department thereof of
which he or she 80 have charge and if found cope
tent and Of good moral character give said person a
certificate thereof which shall be valid one year. ui-
ss sienerr-moyed by the c inmittee
See 5. The academic year shah commence on the
second Monday OF September and continue fourteen
weeks, The second session 10 commence the first
Monday in January and continue fourteen weeks after
vacation oil one week, the third session to
ana continue fourteen weeks.
Sec. To- Whenever any teachers have been emtIoy-
ed In any schools in this city they shall be paid po
'ata rom the public funds appropriated at each
sion, 50 far it will pay them, and the balance shall
be by the Marshal fo those persons scnidg
to said school, in proportion to the time that pupils are
sent.
sec. IL. The teacher shah keen n correct account
Of the time each pupil attends school, and make out
rate Blil Tor the amount due tine coseof each session.
After deducttng from the amount due said rate bill
shall centain the name OF each person liable To paw
tuition fees the aggregate number of DAYS each person
has school during the session ana .l,a ,,o,t
for which each person is liable together with an addi
ton of five per cent for collectors fees thereon
Sec. IL Upon the Masking Of any rate lin as
IN the foregoing section specified the Mayor shall ISIS.
ne warrant TO be attested by the Recorder and an
heXea to SAID rate bill, commanding the Marshal to