Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-07-22
TIE SCHOOL ELECTIONS.

clrcular respecting tue coming school elec.
tions, which will be found great convenience
to election officers and the public generally 5:
1.-The following school officers will be
elected on the second Friday of fAugust, 1873
| A county superintendent for each county
board of education to be composed of q
| president and two commissioners for each dis
trict, and one trustee for each sub>district,
and such officers as the special Law creating
it provides for each independent school dis.
trict. at the same election shall be taken
the sense of the voters of each school district,
on the question of authorizing the annual
levy for school purposes School Law, Sec. 2.
2. The boards of education now in Office.
! will at least three weeks before the second
Friday of August, post notice of this cleo
tion on the door of the house in which the
election is to be held, and at other places if
| they see proper to do so. Sec. 2, School Law
3. When the voters shall haye assembled
at the place of voting on the morning of cleo.
ton, or reasonable number of them to do
SO, they shall choose Judge and clerk of the
election. The judge will preside at the cleo
tlon and see that all legal voters are permitted
to vote, and reject all persons not entitled to
vote in the sub district.
No voter not residing in the sub district in
which the election is held, is entitled 70 vote
not vote for members of the board Of educa-
tion or for or against the district levy if he is
a resident of the district for which the board
is to be chosen tie levy to be made, or for
county superintendent if he resides in the
county, provided he will vote by open ballot,
| so that the judge may see that he does not
vote in the election of trustee. The Judge
and clerk shall sign the certificate attached to
the poll book.
4. The voting must be by ballot, but it
may he opon, sealed or secret ballot, as the
voter may see proper. See Constitution, Art.
w, Sec. 2.
5. It will be the duty of the clerk to re-
cord the name of each voter on the poll book
as his vote is deposited in the ballot box. and
number the voters consecutively. See Acts
of 1878, Chap. 11S, Sec. %.
6. In case of a tie for the Office of trustee
the judge of the election shall give the cast
ing vote. School Law. Sec. 2. pa
Z. As soon as the polls are closed the judge
and clerk of the election shall open and count
the ballots cast at the election, and ascertain
how many votes were cast for each candidate
voted for, and also how many votes were cast
'f"r power to levy" and "agaiust power to
levy" and mark them down on the tally
sheets, each under the appropriate head, and
give certificate of election, to the candidate
having the highest number of votes for trus,
tee, signed by the judge and clerk.
| 8. The facts above stated having been as
| certained. the judge of the election will put
all the ballots cast at said election into an en-.
velope, seal it and write his name across the
seal, and send it to the secretary of the board
of education, of the district of which the
| sub>district in which the election was held is
part.
The law requires. that within ten days after
the holding of said election, the judge who
conducted it shall forward to the secretary of
the board of education of his district, the
| full official records of the election as held by
! him. | would recommend that such records
be sent by the judge Immediately. after the
| envelopes have been sealed up as above di-
rected, and not wait till near the expiration
of the ten days.
8. The judge and clerk conducting the
election shall. before entering upon the dis
charge of their duties, take an oath to the fol-
lowing effect: ~, A. b, do solemn
ly swear that will support the Constitution
of the United States, the Constitution of this
State, and that in the election about to be held
l will faithfully discharge my duties to the
best of my skill and Judgment; so help me
God" If no person shall be present who is
authorized to administer an oath, or, being
present refuses to do so, the judge shall adj
minister the oath to the clerk and the clerk
shall thereupon administer the eaid oath to
the judge. See election law passed 1873
| Chap. lis, Sec. II.
| Heavy penalties are imposed upon both the
| judge and clerk for fraud in the discharge of
| their duties.
Neither the judge nor clerk of these cleo
tions will be eligible to hold any Office to be
filled at an election at which they preside
Sec. 2, School law
10. The board Of education of each dis
trict shall assemble on the second Monday
after each election for school officers, and
majority of them being present, shall open
the ballots and examine them to see that they
| correspond with the tallies made by the jud ge
| and clerk of the sub-district. They shall also
examine all the other records of such elec>
tions, and if mistakes have been made correct
them, and ascertain who has received the
largest number of votes for the several officers
of the district boards of education, and give
certificates of election to those entitled thereto
| and also ascertain whether the majority of the
votes cast in the district was for or against q
levy for school purposes. School Law, Sec.
2,p.4
And in case of tie for members of the
board of education, the county superintendent
shall give the casting vote.
IL. The board of education of each dis.
trict shall also ascertain the sum of the votes
cast in each sub>district of their district, for
the different persons voted for as county SUI
perintendent, and within FIVE days report the
same to the Clerk of the County Court; the
board will then place the ballots of each SUBJ
district in sealed envelope and the president
will write his name across the seal. and also
state on the back of the envelope what SUBJ
district voted the ballots enclosed, and retain
them for one year to be used in ease of con-
tested election for any office.
H. The Clerk of the County Court shall
ascertain from the reports made to him by the
boards of education the person who has re-
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