Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-01-13

or for the keeping Of bowling alleys or
billiard saloons, or from any penal laws
of this Territory. Such moneys shall be
paid into the county treasury and be ad.
ded to the yearly fund raised by tax in
each county and divided iu the same
manner. '.ta'"
SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of
the Couuty Auditor Of each county to
report to the County Superintendent of
common schools. at least twenty days be.
fore the first Friday in November Of each
year, the amount Of school tax levied in
their respective counties for that year, and
that it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the
District Court, at the close Of every term
thereof, to report to the Superintendent
the amount of fines imposed during said
term of Court; and that it be the duty
of all Justices of the Peace to report to
the Superintendent, at least twenty days
before the first Friday of November of each
year, the amount Of fines imposed and col.
lected by them for the past year.
CHAPTER III.
County Superintendent.
SEC. ]. There shall be elected by the
legal voters of the respective counties in
Washington, Territory, County Superin-
tendent of common schools for each county,
who shall be elected at the general elcc-
tion of 1872, and at the regular election
held biennially thereafter, who shall hold
his Office for the term Of two years, and
until his successor is elected or appointed
and qualified. And in case of vacancy
occurring in said Office by removal, death
or otherwise, the County Commissioners of
each county arc authorized to appoint
County School Superintendent as in all
cases of vacancies in their respective count.
les, who shall qualify in the same manner
as the elected Superintendent, and per-
form all the duties Of the Office according to
this law for the unex pircd term for which
he was appointed, aud until his successor
is elected aud qualified.
SEC. g The Superintendent shall qualify
within ten days after notice of his election,
by taking an oath to faithfully discharge
the duties of his Office, and to the best of
his ability promote the interests of educa.
tion with in his county, which oath shall
be in writing, and placed on file in the
County Auditors Office.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the Su.
pcr;ntendcnt to district the whole county,
so that every resident of the county shall
be included in SOME district, and to divide
such portion of his county as shall be
Inhabited, into convenient school districts
to define the boundaries and numbers, and
to keep in his office map of the districts
of the county, upon which the lines and
boundaries Of each district shall be clearly
defined, he shall lay off new districts or d.
vide old ones when the public good shall
require it.
SEC. i. Whenever any school district
shall be formed by the Superintendent, it
shall be his duty to prepare notice in
wiring of the establishment of such dis.
trict, describing its boundaries, and to
deliver the same to some taxable inhabit.
ant of such district who shall have asked
for the formation of the same. 1t shall be
the duty of said inhabitant, within two
weeks after the receipt of such notice, to
notify the other inhabitants of the district
Of the time and place Of the first district
meeting, which time and place he shall fix
by written notices, and which shall be
posted up in three public places in the
district, at least ten days previous to the
time of meeting. In case the inhabitants
fail to attend in sufficient numbers to do
business as herein after directed, notice
may be renewed ut such times as may BE-
thought proper.
SEC. S. 1t shall be the duty of the
County Superintendent to b. at the county
seat on tho third Friday aud Saturday OF
May and November of each year, for the
purpose Of examining teachers and for the
transaction Of other business, and he shall
give ten days public notice Of the same
BY posting up handbills or otherwise.
And any person or district applying on
different days for the transaction Of such
business, shall pay the Superintendent
reasonable compensation for his trouble,
and not exceeding the sum of two dollars
and any teacher examined on different
day shall pay the Superintendent the sum
of two dollars.
SEC. 6. 1t shall be the duty of the Su-
perintcndcnt to examine all persons who
wish to become teachers in his county; he
shall examine them in photography, read
ing, arithmetic, defining. penmanship,
Erglish composition. English grammar and
geography, history Of the United States !;
and if he DO of the opinion that the per-
son examined is competent to teach said
branches, and that he or she il OF rood
moral character. he shall give such person
a certificate certifying that he or she is
qualified to teach common school in said
county; such certificate shall be for the
term of one year only aud may be revoked
sooner by the Superintendent for good
cause (; but in the examination of the
teachers he may make a distinction ac-
cording to qualification. granting cortif
cate ofqualitication to teach in any specifed
district if the applicant therefor be quail
fed for the school of such district, and