The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-08-16
Rules and Regulations adopted April
25th, 1872, by Board Of Education.

ZSths 1871, BY Hoard Of Education.
The Commissioners OF common schools of
ing to law at the court house in the town OF
Columbia on the day of December, 1871,
and organized az the County Board of Edu-
cation by electing T; B. Rains, President,
Burke, I'd Vice President, and j. s. Beecher,
Secretary, and on the 18th April, 1872, II. T.
Gordon, Superintendent and Assistant Sec
The following resolutions were adopted:
As to Board Of Edacation.
LIST. The officers of the Board are elected
for three years, and are the executive COM
mittee of the Board, whose duty 1t shall be
to draft rules and regulations for the govern
ment of the schools, which rules and regu-
ton by the Board.
A. to Schools. -,
Cd. There shall be one session of five
months, or, twenty weeks in each year, COM
mencing between the inst week in July and
the first week in August. The branches
Mental and Written Arithmetic, Geography
and English Grammar; and the money for
their support shall be divided among the
whites and cOlOred according to the annual
enumeration.
AZ to Teachers.
Sd. No teacher shall be permanently en-
ployed without having q certificate from the
county superintendent. The fee for exam
lining being one dollar, and the certificate to
be renewed annually. Each teacher also
County Superintendent, cooperating with
the school commissioners, and the orders
upon the County Trustee for the payment
of the teachers will not be valid until ap-
proved by the County Superintendent.
As to Agents.
4th. The Clerk Of each civil district board
is appointed agent of the County Board, so
that If the commissioner neglect the emu
meration OF the scholastic population, he
Will be called upon for the enumeration.
and II the whole work rests upon him be-
cause of the other commissioners neglect,
he shall be allowed, IL his district numbers
400, or under, two cents per scholar, ii be-
tween 400 and 800, one and a half cents, and
If over 500 one per cent. per scholar, for
which he shall be paid out of the funds due
his district by the County Trustee upon the
order Of the chairman and secretary of the
County Board, or, IL both clerk and COM
mossiOners fail, the county superintendent
Is authorized to employ some suitable per-
son to take the enumeration, and have him
paid according to the plan first specified.
Asto the County Superintendent.
5th. The County Superintendent will be
employed about two-thirds Of each week
during six months of the year, commence
ing July lst and closing December 3lSt, uSu-
ally being in his Office in Columbia on Mon
days and Saturdays SO as to be accessible to
commissioners and teachers; spending one
or two days Of each week in visiting schools
throughout the county; consulting from
time to time with the commissioners and
teachers respecting school houses, method
of instruction, books, &C., &C., examining
teachers, receiving their reports, approving
proper ordersfor their salary upon the Coun- |
ty Trustee; keeping record of what is be- |
ing done for the common schools under his |
His business being, during the |
time above specified, to promote the best in |
terests of public instruction in the county, |
and his Compensation for his personal |
services, rent Of Office and travelling |
expenses shall be fifty dollars per month for |
are to be performed, payable by the County |
Trustee upon the order drawn by the Presi- |
ident and Secretary Of the County Board of |