The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-03-04

AN ACT TO amend and re-enact sections |,
2, 3 and II of an act entitled An act &c
lating TO the School District OF Wheel
ing" passed February 23d, loO7.
BE 1t enacted by tie LGgiS1t''~e Of Wcs'
Virginia, That sections one, two three
and eleven Of chapter fitty-seycn Of the
Acts of 1867, are hereby amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows
SEC. |. The townships OF Madison,
Clay, Union, Center and Webster, III
the county of Ohio, and such portions
of the townships of Washington and
Richie as are included within the cor
porate limits of the city OF Wheeling,
in the said county, shall constitute but
one School District, to be known as
The School District of Wheeling.
SEC. =. At every annual election for
township officers, there shall be
elected in each township or part Of
township of the School District OF
Wheeling, one competent person 70
serve as School Commissioner for a
term Of three years from the first Mon
day in July succeeding his election, and
until his successor is elected and quail
fled and the persons so elected through
out the district, together with the Com
missioner already elected for three
wears. and whose term OF office will not
expire at the close Of the present school
wear, shall constitute board of cdu-
cation tor the district, to be denomi-
mated Board of Education OF the School
District of Wheeling The terms OF
office of the members ofcuhe present
Board OF Education shali> cease with
the expiration of the time tor which
they were respectively elected. And
whereas hereafter in other sections of
said act the word township occurs,
the words cor part OF township shall
be inserted.
SEC. ). At the first annual election
for township officers, after the passage
of this act, the voters of that portion d
the township of Richie embraced with
in the corporate limits OF the said CITY
Of Wheeling, shall elect three compe.
tent persons to serve as School Com
missioners. the person receiving the
highest number Of votes TO serve for
three years, the person receiving th"
next number OF votes to serve for two
years, and the person receiving the next
lower number to serve tor one year
and annually thereafter the election OF
Commissioner shall he held in accord
ance with the provisions OF the second
section Of said act relating 10 the
School District Of. Wheeling
And it shall be lawful for the Board
of Education of the said City Of Wheel
ing to provide, by appointment, for the
representation of the sub-DiStrct Of
Richie in the said Board, until said
School Commissioners Of that sub-Dis-
trict shall be elected and qualified in
pursuance of the provisions Of this
act, and the said act relating to the
School District of Wheeling.
1t shall be the duty of the Board OF
Education annually, in the month Of
July, to determine as nearly as practl,
cable, the amount OF money necessary,
in addition to all other available funds,
TO continue the schools OF the District
for a period of not less than nine
months, and for all other purposes re-
lating to the schools of the District,
such as the repairing and Improvement
OF. school premises, the purchase of sites
and the building of school houses
the payment of debts previously con
tracted which may fall due within the
year.
And said Board shall cause the
amount to be assessed on all the taxa
hle property of the District; provided,
that no more than four mills on the
dollar valuation of said taxable prop
erty shall be assessed in any one year
for the purpose of continuing the schools
for said period Of not less than nine
months and for ordinary repairs and
incidental expenses; and not more than
three mills on the dollar valuation for
the purchase of sites, the building OF
houses and permanent improvement.
The amount collected under the assess
ment last named shall be known as the
building fund
The assessments made under the pro.
visions OF this section shall be collected
10y the same officers by whom the city
levies are collected. The amounts thus
collected shall severally be certified by
the collecting officer to the clerk of the
Board of education, and shall be paid
out only upon drafts signed by tbs clerk
and issued by order OF the board; but
the Board of Education shall not, dur.
ing any one year, incur any expenses
that shall exceed the amount OF availa
BILE funds received for school purpose:
during that year