Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-02-26
A BILL.

BY Mr.. McCOy:-lO auInOriZe
the appointment of Commissioners
to compile or prepare a series of
Text or School Books for use in
the Common Schools of the State of
Ohio.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Ohio, That the Governor be and is
hereby authorized to appoint, by
and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, three commissioners or
authors, whose duty it shall be to
prepare or compile for publication
various series of school books cor
responding to those in number now
in use in the common schools in the
primary, secondary, and grammar
departments.
Sec. 2. The ownership of said
series of manuscripts or books, when
SO complied or prepared, shall vest
in and be the property of the state,
and shall be deposited in the office
of the secretary oil state, for safe
keeping, and when so deposited, the
same, by copy, shall be absolutely
free to any one who may wish to
publish the same in book form, and
when they shall have published by
any person one year, they shall be
used as text or book OF instruc
tion in those departments of the
common schools named in the first
section of this act.
SEC. 8. All boards of education
throughout the state shall adopt,
within one year from the time ofpub-
lication, the work or books so cem-
piled or prepared by said commits
sioners as the book or books of in
struction in the school or schools
under their supervision, any law to
the contrary Notwithstanding; and
it is hereby made the duty of the
commissioner of common schools IN
and for this state to give notice to
all boards of education of the time
of completion of the work of said
commissioners and publication of
the same, and to require of boards
of education a notice or statement
to said school commissioners, certi-
fed to by the clerk of said school
district, of the time when such t5xt
book or books of instruction were
introduced or adopted by said board
of education, the date thereof to be
duly recorded in the Office of school
commissioner in a book of record
provided for that purpose; and no
other books of instruction shall be
substituted or used in said depart
ments until ten years. shall have ex-
pired from date of introduction.
SEC. 4. The secretary of state is
hereby required to furnish suitable
desks and accommodations for said
commissioners for preparing their
manuscripts, and to furnish the
same with all stationery necessary
to carry out the foregoing provis-
ions of this act.
SEC. 5. Said commissioners shall
receive for their compensation the
sum of two thousand dollars each,
to be paid out of the general reve-
nue. fund by warrant drawn upon
the treasurer by the Governor, from
money not otherwise appropriated
and the sum of two thousand dol
lars is hereby appropriated, which
may be used in purchasing works
or parts Of works of authors already
compiled, either in manuscript or
book form, to be paid for by war
rant of the Governor upon the re
commentator of said board ol
commissioners.
SEC. 6. Any superintendent OF
teacher of a school or schools, mem
ber or members Of board of edu.
cation who shall be found guilty oi
violating the provisions of this act
shall be deemed guilty of misde.
meanor, and upon conviction there
of before any court of competent
Jurisdiction, shall be fined in any
sum not less than fifty nor more
than two hundred dollars, and shall
forfeit the position so held by such
person.
SEC. Z. All prosecutions for vio-
lation of the provisions of this ACT
shall be in the name of the State OF
Ohio, by the prosecuting attorney
> in and for said county in which
such violation occurs, and the
amount of fine or fines SO collected
shall be paid into the common
school fund of the state.
SEC. s. This act shall take eff
feet and be in force from and after
this passage.