New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-11

fintendent of Public Education, who may
bide the appeal. subject to the revision Of
State Board of Education at its next
Aeting.
Nothing in this act shall be 80 con-
fued as to authorize either the Division
bperin.endent or the State Board OF Ednca-
b to render judgment for money:
Their shat they be allowed any other COM
nsation than is now allowed by law; pro-
ded, that all necessary postage must first
paid by the party aggrieved.
That the following shall be section fifty
Be it further enacted, etc, That where
lnds shall be required tor the erection of
chool house, or for enlarging q school
house lot. and the owner thereof shall re-
use to sell the same for reasonable COM
pensation, the District Board Of School
Directors shall have the power to select and
possess such sites, embracing space suth-
Eciently extensive to answer the purpose OF
4 school house and grounds. Should such
landholder deem the sum assessed too small,
he shall have the right to institute suit be-
fore any proper judicial tribunal for his
claim, but the title shall pass from him to
the school corporation.
Nopersop shall hold any Office under the
provisions of this act unless he is qualified
voter of the State.
A failure on the part of any district, parish
: or State officer to perform the duties i'm
nosed upon him in this act, and in the
buner herein specified, is hereby
clsred misdemeanor in Office, upon con.
Elton whereof such officer shall be pun
he'd by fine not less than fifty and not
6xeeeding one hundred dollars, and by i'm
ptisonment in Parish Prison for a term OF
not less than thirty days. and not exceeding
tiree months. All prosecutions for offenses
against this section shall have precedence
t.yer all other cases before any justice OF
lie peace. or parish or district court.
Nothing in this act shall be construed to
papply to the State Seminary OF Learning and
Military Academy, it being the true intent
4 and meaning of this act TO leave that insti-
|81utioR to be controlled by laws heretofore
enacted concerning 1t.
NJ The State Superintendent shall prescribe
the course of study, and supervise the gen.
a eral Curriculum in every particular not pro-
4 vided for in this law. He shall make pro.
4vision for model, primary and grammar
Xschools under permanent and highly quail
y fed teachers, in which the students OF the
Normal School shall have opportunity to
practice in the art of teaching. The salary OF
the teachers of the model and expert
mental schools shall be paid from the tut.
ton fees derived from the pupils of said
model schools, and those of the Normal
School who pay for their tuition; and any
balance that may be required shall be paid
public fund.
/ The following shall be section ffty-one.
II Be il further enacted, That in case any
n District Board of School Directors, for any
ward or any parish, city or town, or if the
b annual meeting of the qualified electors of
Aany such district shall refuse or fail to
&make suitable provision by purchase, lease
or otherwise, for at least one schoolhouse in
leach district, to be used for school purposes
at least four months in each year, and for
the suitable furnishing and warming of the
Fsame, or to levy q sufficient tax tor these
purposes, no apportionment of any school
Z fund made to such distric. by the State Su-
<perintendent of Public Education, or
by any other officers, under this act,
shall be paid by any State. parish or city
treasurer to the Board, of District School
Directors for such district.
It shall be the duty of the State Superin-
tendent of Public Education to notify the
proper treasurers of any such delinquent
districts, and such notification shall De the
authority of such Treasurer for the with
holding Of such payments.
The following shall be section tifty-two:
Be it further enacted. ETC., That If, in any
parish, before the month of December, in
the years 1870 aud 1871, the several District
Boards of School Directors shall have failed
to establish at least one school in district,
In one-half of the districts of the parish, the
Parish Board of School Directors are hereby
empowered to make provisions for schools
in the districts for which schools have not
been provided, and for that purpose, after
apportioniDg to the districts which may
have established schools their proportion OF
the parish school tax, said parish board may
direct the expenditure of the remainder
upon the schools established by said board 8.
The following shall be section fifty.three:
Be it further enacted, etc, That in the
years 1870 and 1871, whenever, in any par
ish, any or all of the school districts shall
fail to levy sufficient tax and make suitable
provision for at least one schoolhOuse in the
district, and for the payment of a teacher
| for at least two months or when, in any or
| all of said school districts, the District Dr.
rectors shall have failed to qualify and enter
upon the duties of their offices before the
first day of December ia each or either o!
said years, the State Superintendent may,
upon the written report of the Parish Board
of School Directors, setting forth the facts
above named, direct the State Treasurer to
withhold the apportionment OF the State
school fund from said district or districts
/. and direct him to pay the same to the treas
/nrer OF the Parish Board of School Directors
OF such parish, and such Parish Board shall
proceed 20 establish and conduct and main
= tain public schools in such district or dis
ricts, and may expend the funds from the
tate or parish school taxes of the distric,
or that purpose.
The following shall be section ifty-four:
PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY or NEW OR
LEANS.
Be it further enacted, etc, That IN the
kity of New Orleans there shall be Board
a bf School Directors of eleven members, who
shall hold their offices for two years, and
/ until their successors are duly elected OF
appointed and qualified. At its first meet
ing after the passage of this act, the State
Board of Education shall appoint six mem
beers of the. said City Board of School Di
L rectors, and the Common Council of the city
of New Orleans shall, as soon as possible
Ders thereof.
If the Common Council should fail o.
neglect, for three months after the appoint
ments are made by the State Board of Edu.
cation, to elect such members, the STATE
Board OF Education shall fill thei
places. Said board shall have all tn.
powers and perform all the duties
In reference to the public schools o
the city, and to the distribution of the
school funds thereof, herein conferred upoI
the Parish Boards of, SCHOOL, Directors fo
other parishes. Said board shall hold it
first meeting within thirty days after it
appointment; shall choose President ant
Treasurer from its own members, and shall
1 at once proceed to appoint, for each ware
y of the city of New Orleans, Ward Board o
School Directors. of FIVE persons.
The following shall be section tfty-tve:
Be it further enacted, etc, That the Boart
of School Directors for the city of New Or
leans may elect Secretary, whose salar,
shall be eighteen hundred dollars (SlSOO
per annum, payable monthly, out Of tn
public school fund, upon the warrant OF tn
President of the board.