The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-03-06

boards of education, but shall not IN con.
sequence of being clerk be deprived OF
his right to vote upon any question PEN
ding before the board. Wherever the
word township" occurs in the act above
mentioned, it shall be construed to mean
SCHOOL district" whenever necessary TO
give effect to the provision OF this act
The treasurer of Ohio county shall be
the treasurer of all the funds for SCHOOL
purposes belonging to the school district
of Wheeling, and he shall conform to all
the requirements made OF township
treasnrers in regard to funds for school
p,lrposes Said board of educstlon may
hold stated meetings at such times as
they may appoint, eight members OF sald
board at all meetings thereof constItu,
ting a quorum for business. Special
meetings thereof may be called by their
president at the request Of ten members
by the clerk, on giving one days nouce
of the time and place OF the same.
8. The board of education OF the
school district of Wheeling shall nave
mower to establish in said district an adj
eouate number of primary schools, in
which the rudiments of education shall
be taught. They shall have power to di-
vide the said district into three sub-dis-
tricts, and to establish in each OF said
sub-districts grammar school to be so
located as best to accommodate the In
habitants thereof, in which shall be
taught such of the common branches OF
education, and to such extent as the said
board snall prescribe; and said board also
shall have power to establish central
biub school. in which shall be taught AL
zebra, Geometry, Natural Philosophy,
Chemistry, Physiology, with such other
| branches of Mathematics or Natural Sci
ences, or Literature, as the board may
determine, including such as may be
necessary for the admission of pupils to
the colleges of this OF neighboring States.
A. Admission to the various schools in
this system shall be gratuitous to all
white children, wards and apprentices,
| of actual residents in said district be-
| tween the ages of six and twenty.one
years, and the board of education shall
have power to admit to said schools other
| pupils not under the age of six years
upon such terms or upon the payment of
such tuition as they may prescribe; Pro-
rided that no pupil shall be admitted to
| the grammar schools who fails to sustain
a thorough examination in the studies OF
the primary Schools and no pupil shall
be admitted to the high school who fails
to sustain thorough examination in the
various studies of the grammar schools,
and provided further that the said
| board shall have power to make
and enforce rules for the exclu-
| sion of children wien their at
tendance would be dangerous to the
health or detrimental to the morals or
discipline of the school.
5. Said board shall have power to
make all necessary rules and regulations
for the government of said schools, for
the admission of pupils therein, and for
the examination that pupils must pass
preparatory to admission into the schools
of higher grade than the primary; to pur-
chase all necessary stationery, text books
and books of reference for the use of
teachers and INDECENT children and to in
cur all other expenses necessary to make
the system efficient for the purposes for
which it is established and to pay the
same from the school funds of said dis
trict.
6. The board of education of said
school district shall, annually, at their
first meeting i'll July, or at the same
meeting adjourned, elect and fix the sala-
~ of the Superintendent of schools of the
district of Wheeling, whose duty it shall
he to perform in and for the school dis
trict OF Wheeling all the duties which in
the general school law of the State are
devOlved on county uperintendents, so
far as they are not inconsistent with or
superseded by the provisions of this act;
also such other appropriate duties as
agent of the board as said board may de-
volve upon him. But the said board shall
have power to appoint committee,
which shall include said superintendent,
and whose duty it shall be to examine
teachers and grant certificates in accord
ance with the provisions of the thirty
fifth section of the general school law.
7. The provisions of the general
school law in regard to county superin-
tendents shall be held applicable in Ohio
county only to the schools OF those town
Ships not included in the school district
of Wheeling.
8. The State Superintendent in his
report to the Auditor shall specify sepa-
rately the results of enumerations of
youth in the school district of Wheeling
and in the remainder of the county And
the Auditor in apportioning money for
school purposes shall apportion to the
school district of Wheeling and the rest
of the county separately, according to
their respective numbers of youth as
shown in the list furnished him by the
State Superintendent.
8. At the annual meeting of any of
the townships included within the said
school district, the qualified voters pre-
sent, on levying taxes for school pur-
poses, as provided in the thirty-ninth Sec
ton of the general school law passed De-
cember 10th, 1868, may by a majority
vote approp rate the avails of such taxes
to be expended within their respective
townships for any of the following
named purposes, to-wit:
For the establishment and maintenance
of night schools for the benefit of such
youth of their township as are not able
to attend the day schools.
For providing instruction in the free
schools of their township in the German
language, linear and perspective draw
ing, vocal music or other studies OF in-
Guided in the regular course of study
prescribed by the board, but approved of
by said board and to be under the super
vision and management of the Superin-
tendent of the schools.
For extra furniture or apparatus for