The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-05-31
NOTICE
OFFICE co. SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS, q
+ oRANoEDURa, C. H., sc,
y e May 1Tth, 1873.

/ Boards OF School Trustees of their resnee.
we school Districts is hereby directed 10
the following Circular to the County Sch ooI
commissioners from the State superinten-
dent Of Education
SECTION 40 of'An Act to amend an A n.
entitled an Act to establish and ;naiptoir
! system OF Free Common Schools for tina
H'h'e OF South Carolina" approved March
9TH lS7l, provides that "An annual meet.
ing of cach School District shall be held q,
the last Saturday in June, of each year. at
~ o'clock NJ, notice of tliethe tirno and
place being given by the Clerk OF the Board
Of Trustees, by posting written or prinsed
notices ih three public places of the District
nj least ten days before he meeting"
SEC. 81 of the said Act provides that
'fho INHABITANTS qualified to Vote Mt n
school meeting, lawfully assembled, shall
| have power: ,.......
lSt To appoint Chairman To preside
over the meeting
u 10 adjourn from time to time.
"d' To choose clerk, who shall possess
the qualification of voter.
~ i"ioo ny tt1, III dulltiOn to the
amount nppor;ioned by tie State Il, their
! use, such further sums of money as thew
may deem proper for the support OF public
| schools, said sum not To be more than three
dollars for every child In the District be-
tween the age: Of six and sixteen, aS asSer-
tainOd by the last eftumeration; said sum 10
be collected by the County Treasurer, and
to be held by him. subject to Che order Of
the Trustees, eountersigned by the County
School Commissioners, such sums of money
| to be uscd rs shall be agreed upon at the
meeting, either for the pay ofteachcrs, sala-
res, or to purchase or lease sites for school
houses, to build, hire or purchase such
school houses, 10 keep thom in rcpSir and
furnish the same with necessary fuel and
"tcndngcs. or to furnish blac,boards out.
line maps and apparatus for ilfustrl lting the
principles of science, or to- discharge any
debts or liabilities lawfully incurrcG
9th. To give, ouch direction and make
snch provisions Us may be deemed necessa-,
ry, in relation to the prosecution or defense
of any suit or proceeding In which the Dis
trct mag DC party.
9Th. Tc authorisc the Board OF TruSt'cc5
to build school houses, or rent the same, ,o'
sell any school house site or other prop.rf/
belonging TO the D't.:iat. when the same
shall no lopGot b. u.el:u for the Ii Sc of thu
Dis; rict.
fh. 10 alter orrapeal ticirpraoeedinse,
from time to time, as Gee siol n,.,y rcarrir...
aud to do any other busintsj Contemplated
in this Act"
io" are hercby most c.. yncst!y alyi<cl t5
ins.rnc' the Clerk of caa'i Of tn1 several
boards Of Scilpol Trnstcc. irr.yo,iy county to-
give due notice of an annual mcctiu.. to be-
held N the Scaoui Dls;r!s under their
supervision, o. .Sttnrd,.y. .sih 'dty. of June,
1873, at - n'oioe's. NJ lIsa.l of great
Importance to titc success CT our Free tJonr.
men School System, thai iars. meeting. he
held III cs'eFy School Dis,,ic. =. lie STAT anil
that each School District raise a lii al
Local or District School Tx for Tie support
of its Free Common Schools for the follow
ing reaspns;
lst he Sinac appropriation made for
Free Common School purposes, for the cur
rent fiscal year. is itself, insu iisicnt to sup
ply the educational want oi ,"e people. In
those States having the most popular, salts
factory, and successful systems of Free com.
mon Schools, the scho ools a-e almost wholly
sustained by means Of Local School Taxes.
I'd, The amount of Poll Tax collected in
each of the several School Districts is, of
itself, insignificant. 4hH sASGE
3D.. The Local School Tax raised in any
School District will be of great service as
z'xilliAry and Supplementary to the State
appropriation and Poll Tax.
4th. The local School Tax is paid into
the County Treasury, and IS ,ii ectly subject
to the order Of the Board Of School Trustees
countersigncd by the County School Com
| missioner"
| In accordance with the above Circular
and in order that an amount necessary to,
! liquidatc the Indebtedness of this important
Branch of the administration of the County,
for the fiscal year next ensuing. would
suggest the importance of liberal tax levy
by the several school Districts for the sup
port of its Free Common Schools
+, r. McKINLAY,
County School Commissiorer,
Orangeb,ug COu1 ty S. C.
may IL st