The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1860-01-26

expenditure of any funds belonging tc
such sub district, derived from any debts
due or tax levied by it previous to its or.
ganization under the +" Act for the Pub.
lie Instruction Of the State of Iowa." ap.
proved March l2th, 1853.
Sec. 38. The County Judge of each
county shall at the time of levying the
tax for county purposes, levy tax for
the support Of schools within the county,
of not less than one mill, nor more than
two and half mills on the dollar, on
the assessed value of the real and per-
sonal property within the county, which
shall be collected by the county Collec-
tor at the time and in the same manner
as State and County taxes are collected,
except that it shall be receivable only in
cash.
SEC. 80. On the first Monday Of April
annually, the County Judge of each
county shall apportion said tax, together
with the interest of the permanent school
fund to which his county is entitled, and
all other money in the hands of the Coun-
ty Treasurer belonging in common to the
schools of his county, among the sever
al school districts therein, in proportion
to the number of persons between five
and twenty-one years of age, subject to
the provisions of section two of this act.
And in order to enable him to make such
apportionment. it is hereby made the du-
ty of the several County Superintendents
to report to their respective County Judg-
es, on the fifth day of October. annually,
the number ofsuch persons in each school
district in his county.
SEC. 40. The County Judge shall i'm
mediately notify the President of each
school district of the sum to which his
district is entitled by said apportionment,
and shall issue his warrant for the same
to accompany said notice. which warrant
shall also be signed by the President and
countersigned by the Secretary of the dis
trict in whose favor the same is drawn,
and shall authorize the district treasurer
to draw the amount due said district from
the county treasurer, and the Secretary
shall charge the treasurer Of the district
with all warrants drawn in his favor and
credit him with all warrants drawn on
the funds in his hands, keeping separate
accounts with each fund.
QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES OF TEACH
ERS.
SEC. al. Frst-No person shall be
employed to teach a common school
which is to receive its distributive share
of the school fund. unless he shall have
a certificate of qualification signed by
the County Superintendent of the coun-
ty in which the school is situated and
no certificate shall be valid more than one
year from the date thereof; and any
teacher who commences teaching with
out such certificate, shall forfeit all claim
to compensation for the time during which
he teaches without such certificate.
.Second-The teacher shall keep cor
rect register Of the school, which shall
exhibit the district, township, coun-
ty, and State IN which the school is kept,
the day of the week, the month and
year the name and age and attendance
of each scholar, and the branches taught,
the register to be as near as practicable
after the form appended to this act.
IHird-When scholars reside in differ
ent districts. register shall be kept for
each district.
Fourth-The teacher shall, immedi-
ately after the close of his school, file in
the office Of the Secretary of the board
certified copy of the register aforesaid.
OF THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.
SEC. AZ. A County Superintendent
of common schools shall be elected in
each organized county of this State.
whose term of service shall be two years.
SEC. 43. The first election of,hat off
Ger shall take place on the second Tuesday
Of October. 1859, at the time and several
places ofelecting the township boards and
at the general election on every two years
thereafter and the election returns to be
made in the same manner as for other
county officers. The present incumbents
who have been elected under the act
Of March 18th, 1858. shall serve in
that capacity until their successors
are elected and qualified but the rate
of their compensation after the taking
effect Of this act, shall be as hereinafter
provided.
SEC. a. Within twenty days after
his election, he shall take and subscribe
his oath of office. On his failure to do
SO, or if for any other cause there be a
vacancy in said office. the County Judge
shall appoint person to fill such vacan-
cy. who shall qualify in like manner,
and who shall hold his Office till the first
general election thereafter.
SEC. 45. The County Superintendent
shall examine all persons who shall pre-
sent themselves at the proper time and
place. as to their competency and abili-
ty to teach photography, reading. wri-
ting. arithmetic, geography and English
grammar. and such other branches as
may be required hereafter. In making
this examination he may, at his option,
call to his aid one or more assistants.
SEC. 46. II the examination is salts
factory. and if the applicant is shown to
be of good moral character, he shall re-
ceive certificate accordingly. The
names of all those receiving such certi.
ticates, and of all those rejected. shall be
entered on register kept by the County
Superintendent at the date at which they
were given.