Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1858-12-09

township Tor the Deneut OF Schools anu
all conveyances Of real estate which may
be made to said board, shall be to said !
board in their corporate name, and to (
their successors in Office.
Sec H. 1t shall be the duty of the |
township board of education to hold reg
ular sessions on the third Monday of
April and on the third Monday of Octo-
Der in each year, at such places in the
immediate neighborhood as may be con-
venient for the transaction of any business
which may be necessary in relation to the
subject Of either the primary or graded
schools Of the township, with power to
adjourn from time to time, or to hold spec
ial meetings at any other time or place
within the proper township, as they may
think desirable for the transaction of bu-
siness as aforesaid, and at all such meet
ings shall appoint one of their number to
the chair, and in the case of the absence of
the township clerk may appoint one of
their own number to serve temporarily as
clerk.
See. II. The township board of ed
ucation shall have the management and
control of all the central or high schools
of their proper townships which may be
established therein under the author
ity of this act, with full power in respect
to such schools, to employ, pay and dis
miss teachers, to build, repair and fur
nish the necessary school houses, pur-
chase or lease sites therefor, or rent suit
able school rooms, and make all other
necessary provisions relative to such school
or schools as they may deem proper; and
it shall be the duty of said board of edu-
cation, TO exercise all the power conferred
on local directors in respect to sub-dis-
! trict schools, whenever such local direc-
tors shall neglect to discharge their duties
in any sub-district as required by this
act; and it shall also be the farther duty
Of said board to prescribe rules and reg
ulations for the government Of common
schools within their jurisdiction said
board of education may provide for Ger
man schools for the instruction of such
youth as may desire to study the German
language, or the German and English
languages together, and if the board shall
deem it necessary they may appoint one
of their number the acting manager oi
schools for the township, who shall do anC
perform all such duties as the board may
! prescribe in relation to the management
and supervision of the different schools
and the educational interests Of the town
ship, and may allow him a reasonable
coDnpensation for his services.
Sec 13. The said board shall prepare
or cause to be prepared, a map of theil
township, as often as they may deem ne
cessary, on which shall be designated
the sub-Gistricts of the township, which
they may change or alter at any regular
session, and the number of scholars as.
slgned to each; but no sub-district shall
contain within its limits less than sixty
scholars by enumeration, except III cases
where in the opinion of the board it j:
necessary to reduce the number; and i
shall be the duty of the board to estab
lish school in each sub-district of the
township of such grade as the public gooC
in their opinion may require, and in the
location of primary schools, or schools O
) higher grade, the board shall have ref
erence to population and neighborhood
paying due regard to any school house
already built, or site procured as we'll a
to all other circumstances proper to b,
considered so as to promote the best in
terests of schools.
Sec. IA. The board shall have powe
to assign such number Of scholars TO tn
several primary schools as they may thin
best, and when such assignment has bee
made, shall furnish the teacher list c
the scholars so assigned and the boar
{ shall also have full power 10 regulate an
r control the admission of scholars to school
}, of a higher grade, according TO age an
: attainments, and may admit scholars owe
twenty-one years of age, and may su:
f pend, or authorize the local directors
Y suspend, from the privileges of either
K the schools, any pupil found guilty Of di.
orderly conduct, which suspension sha
o not extend beyond the current session
u the school.
L Sec. Is. Whenever it shall happe
k that persons are so situated as to be be
|, ter accommodated at the school of an al
n joining township, or whenever i! may
l. desirable to establish a school compose
u of parts of two or more townships,
+ shall then be the duty of the respect,
s, boards of the townships in which sui
Ie persons reside, or in which such scho
may be situated, or of the townships
of parts of townships of which the school
/ to be composed, to transfer such perso
il for educational purposes to the townsh
v, in which the school house is, or NAV
c. located; but the enumeration of schola
'e shall be taken in each township as if
ty such transfer had been made, and su
~ school, when so composed, shall be su
or ported from the school funds of the I
IN spective townships from which the sch,
ey ars may have been transferred; and t
ir board of that township in which the schc
I'D house is situated shall have the cont
Sc and management of such school, and I
er board of the adjoining township or tow
It's ships, so connected for school purpo:
If shall make the proper estimates of th
III share of expenses of every kind neces.
'ol ry to sustain said school, and certify /
nix same to the county clerk of their prof.
n county as part Of their annual es
n; mates for school purposes, and draw
nv derS on their reSDectiva tox4-7shio tro