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

venience TO the inhabitants; and such school
funds as arise from the sale or rents of sec
ton sixteen, or other lands in lieu thereof
shall be distributed to the localities to which
such funds belong. All other school funds
Of the township not raised for the central
high schools, nor made applicable to the
payment of teachers, as aforesaid, shall be
applied under the direction of the Board
! in procuring school-house sites, building
furnishing and repairing school-houses,
providing fuel and in making such other
provisions for schools in the sub districts
of the proper township as may, in the opin-
ion OF the Board, be necessary; and the
Board of Education of each township, city
or village shall make the necessary provis-
ions for continuing the schools in opera
ton in their respective townships or sepa-
rate school districts for at least six months
in each year.
SEC. 8. That section forty of said act be
so. amended as to read 40 follows: Section
4O The Auditor of each and every coun-
ty shall, on or before the 9th day of No
vember, annually, make out and transmit
to the Commissioner of common schools
at Columbus, an abstract Of all the returns
of school statistics made to him from the
several townships in his county, according
to the form that may be prescribed by the
State Commissioner; and he shall cause to
be distributed all such circ culars, blanks
and other papers. including school laws
and documents, in the several townships
in the county, as said Commissioner shall
lawfully require; IN case the county Audit
or shall fail, from any cause, to make re-
turn of the abstract as aforesaid, it shall
be the duty of the county Commissioners
to deduct for every such failure, from the
annual salary or allowance made to the Au-
ditor for his services, the sum of fifty dol
lars.
Sec. 9. That section sixty-four of said
act be so amended as to read as follows ::
Section "a. The debts which have hereto
fore been contracted by any school district
for school purposes shall be provided for
by the estimate Of the proper school boards
created under the provisions of this act and
actions may be brought against such boards
to recover the same.
SEC. 10. No sub district composed of
the fractional parts of two or more town
ships, which is now organized or may be
hereafter organized shall be dissolved
changed or altered unless by the concur
rent action of the Boards of Education of
the several townships which may have ter
ritoly included in such sub district. In
raising and expending money in such frac-
tional sub-districts, other than for the pay
ment of teachers, the ratio shall be the
taxable property of the respective parts of
townships in such sub-districts included.
Sec. IL. If the directors of any sub
district dismiss any teacher for any frivo-
lous or insufficient reason, such teacher
may bring suit against such sub-district,
and if, on the trial of the cause, judgment
be obtained against the sub-district, the
director thereof shall certify to the clerk of
the board the sum so found due, and he
shall issue an order to the person entitled
thereto, upon the township treasurer, to
pay the same out of any money in his hands
belonging to said sub district and applica-
bic to the payment of teachers. In such
suits process may be served on the clerk of
the sub-district, and service upon him
shall be sufficient
Sec. 2. That sections three, four, eight,
twelve, nineteen, twenty-five, twenty-four.
forty and sixtyfour of the act aforesaid be,
and the same are hereby repealed.
N. II. VAN WORRIES,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
THOMAS II. FORD,
President of the Senate.
April II, 1857.