The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-06-07
NOTICE
OFFICE co. SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
g. oRANGEBuho, C. H., g. c.,
May 17th. 1873

! May 18th, 1873.
The attention of Clerks of the Several
( boards of School Trustees Of their respec-
1--WE Sehooi Districts is hereby directed to
the following Circular to the County Sch ooI
Commissioners from the State Superintep-
dent of Education.
"SEcTIoN 40 of''An Act To amend an Act
entitled an Act to establish and maintain 81
| system of Free Common Schools for the
State of South Carolina, 'sappr6Yed March
! 9th, 1871; provides fhat @AnfiaffI-fnuaf meet..
ing OF each School District shall be held ON
'he last Saturday in June, of each year. at
IL o'clock NJ, notice of the the time aud
place being given by the Clerk of the Board
OF Trustees, by posting written or printed
notices in three public places of the District
at least ten days before the meeting.''
$40. 5l Of the said Act provides that
''The inhabitants qualified to vote ~ n
school meeting, lawfully assembled, Ihalf
have power: s}Es tsF ~
LIST. To appoint Chairman to preside
over the meeting. ~
I'd. To adjourn from time TO time.
3D. TO choose a clerk, who shall possess
thc luaifncatlOn OF Il voter. s.
4th. To raise by tax, in addition to the
amount hpPoriioncd by the State to their,
use, such further sums of money as thew
mGy 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 nge. Of six and sixteen, as ascer-
tanned by the lass enumeration: said sum 10
be collected by the County Treasurer, and
/ to be hch by hEn, subject to the order of
the Trustees, coun,ersigned by the County
School Commissioners, such sums of money
to be used as shall be agreed upon at the
meeting, either for thepay ofteachers. sala-
ries or to purchase or lease sites for school
houses, 10 butltl hire or purchase sucb
school houses, TO keep tliom in renair aud
furnish the same with necessary fuel and
apendases. or to furnish blackboards ont
line maps and apparatus for illustrating the
principles of science, or to discharge any
debts or liabilities lawfully incurred.
9th. To give siIch fdireoiion and make
snch provisions as lnay he deemed necessa-.
~, iq relation to the prosecution or defense
of any suit or proceeding In whiehHiik Dis
trict may boa party as{rstr
fh. Toauthorisc The Board of Trustces
to build school houses, or rent the same; to-
sell any school house site or other property
belonging 10 the District, when the same
shall no longc.. be nceltul for the u sc of tia,
District.
9TH To alter or repeal their roccelirfsg,,
from time TO time, ns occt-ion. may require.
aud to do any other busincx3 contemplated
in this Act"
You arc hereby most earnestly al scl to-
instruct Tie Clerk OF esuuy OF the several
boards OF School Trustcc-'i;: vonr aoahty to
give due notice uf an anh,iai meeting. to n,
held in the School DiAltic,. under their
supervision, ar Saturday. oa.a day Of June.
lsss, Al. - o'clook, ". flecpit of great
Importance 10 the success os cur Free Con.
mon School System, ;lat tlcs, meetings be
held III every School District .Mthc State an
that each School District raise liberal
Local or District School Tax fuftlc snrport
of it's Free Common Schools for the follow
ing reagons;
IS fst The stare appropriation made for
Free Cemtnon School purposes, for the cur
rent fiscal year. is itself, insufficient to sup
ply tile educatiensl wants of the people. In
those States having the most popular. satis-
factory and successful systems of Free com.
mon Schools, the schools arc almost wholly
sustained by means of Local School Taxes.
ID. The amount Of Poll Tax collected in
eacif of the soverai School Dislrietss4is. of
itself ii,Signi6cant.
Sd. Thc Local School Tax raised in any
School District win be of great service as
auxiliary and supplementary to the State
Approximation and Poll Tar. "a.
4th. Tic Local s.slsool Tax Isl paid into
the County Treasary. AMI IS disestly subject
-to'tiis order Of the Heard ef School Trustees
countcrsignedbs stks County School Com
'miss,oncrn
In accordance with the above Circular
and in order that an amount necessary to
liauidutc the Indebtedness of this important
B'anch of the administration of the County,
for the fiscal year next ensuing. would
suggest The Importance of . liberal. tax lovy
by the several school Districts for the sup
portofis Free Coiamon SehooIss Sg
F. r. McKfNhEY,
Coun.y,School Commissioner,
Orangcburg Coun ty s. C.
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