Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1862-03-07
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Passed ut the Session Of the Board Of
Education held In December, SCI.
CONTINUED.
AN ACT

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Defining the duties and regulating the Com
pensation Of County Supcrintendents.
Section I. BE 1t enacted By the Board of
Education Of the State Of Io,ca, That Coun-
ty Superintendent of Common Schools, shall
be elected in each organized County of this
State, whose term Of service shall be two
years.
lSection2. The next election of that officer
shall take place on the Second Tuesday Of
October, 1868, at the time ard several places
of elccting the Township Boards, and at the
General Election on every two years there
the same manner as for other county officers.
The present incumbents, who were elected
on the second Tuesday Of October, 1861,
shall serve in that capacity until their sue
cessors are elected and qualified, but the rate
Of their compensation after the taking effect
of this Act, shall be as hereinafter provided.
Section 8. Every County Superintendent
hereafter elected in the State Of Iowa, shall.
on or before the first day Of january next az
ter his election, execute and file in the Office
Of the Clerk of Board of Supervisors of the
county in which he is elected, bond to the
State of Iowa, with two or more good and
sufficient sureties, in the sum of five hundred
dollars, conditioned for the faithful perform
ance of his duties as such Superintendent
and take and subscribe to the oath as provid-
ed by law in cases where official bonds arc
required said bonds to be approved by the
Board of Supervisors of the county in which
the Superintendent has been elected. Iau
Section 4. County Superintendents elect
ed at the general election in October, 1861,
shall within ten days after the taking effect
Of this act, enter into bond as prescribed in
the third section Of this act
Section 8. Should any County Superin-
tendeEt hereafter elected. or any elected at
any general election in October, 1851, fail to
ale an official bond, and take and subscribe
the oath Of Office as prescribed in the third
and fourth sections Of this act, the Office shall
become vacant. n
Section 6. II, for any cause, vacancy
occurs in said Office, the Board of Supervis.
ora Of the County in which the vacancy &C.
ours, shall appoint some suitable person to
fiji such vacancy, who shall hold his Office
till the FIRST day of January after the next
general election, at which a County Super
int,ndent would be elected had no vacancy
occurred, and who shall file the bond and
take and subscribe the oath prescribed in the
third section of this act. t
Section 7. The County Superintendent Of
each county shall examine all persons who
may present themselves at the time and place
hereinafter mentioned, as 10 their competen-
cy and ability to teach photography, reading,
writing, arithmetic, geography and English,
grammar, and such other branches as may in
special cases be required. In making this
examination he may, at his option, call to his
aid one or more assistants; and the exami.
nation be satisfactory, and if the applicant is
shown to be qualified to teach the branches
above specified, and is of good moral charac-
ter, such applicant shall receive from the
Superintendent, making the examination, a
certificate accordingly /; and tho Superintend-
ent shall enter upon a register, to be kept for
that purpose. the names Of all persons 50 ex-
amined by him, time and place of examina-
ton, the names Of persons to whom be issues
such certificate Of qualification, and date Of
issue.