The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1874-02-21

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appointed y atsb toaHg iof flat par
pose e1nsi.tIh3 Of Three competent
and qualified pefs0at ono m Ie se.
lecied by lbe Jajgo of ibe Circuit
Court ono - ihe Chancellor of fhe
District IN Witch socb eoaaly may
be located aai one vs. tbo President
Of The Board Of Supervisors q each
county; who o day 70 shall bo ~
meet 40 he county scat after giving
ten days notice Of such meeting.
whenever from any cause q vacancy
shall occur IN the Office Of the super
intendcnt Of Education for such
county, aud proceed to examine any
person or persons who may desire to
lie appointed to Gil such vacancy upon
the following points to wit:
And If such examination be salts.
factory to said Board Of Examiners
they shall give to such person or per.
Sons a certificate setting forth these
facts, and the State Board OF Educa.
ton SHALL IN NO CASE APPOINT ANY
PERSON TO BE SUPERINTENDENT or
EDUCATION IN ANY co. WHO DOES NOT
SUBMIT SUCH CERTIFICATE WITH HIS
APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT"
And if these officers are 10 be ap,
pointed, it seems as if the above sec,
ton would throw a proper guard
around the appointments, and furnish
a guarantee TO the people hat only
proper and qualified persons would be
elevated to a position so responsible,
charged as they are to a great extent,
with the education of the youth and
children of the State. For the Act
them with much discretionary
power; and they have to examine all
public teachers, pronounce upon
their qualification, issue certificates,
md classify under the different
the various schools of the
This office is no sinecure,
md every man of family is deeply in
crested in it, and that it be filled
'nly by competent and qualified per-
IONS, and certainly the Office should ,
'e taken oat,-as says the Jackson
'ilot-of the "maelstrom of politics" ,
nd the political slough" ),
Men" says again the Pilot, in op
losing the attempt to make the office
"are selected for the Office !
-ow SOLELY on account of their men. |
and moral worth and without q
luch regard TO political affiliations, .
tc., etc." =
Now let US see. A yaean,y has for :
ometilnc existed in this coGnty. Dur :
the latter partoflast year, Messrs. +
)r. Griffin, Minor aud Woodhouse,
'ere appointed, as required by the :
5ove section, a Board of Examiners, =
} examine applicants. =
On November 9Th they published :
the STAR q notice to all applicants -"
!, meet them at the Court House on
following 22nd, to be examined.
Only one, of those who were ex-
was deemed qualified. and
eeeived a certificate. His arplicl- :
on and certificate were daily forwar-
ed 10 State Superintendent Pease; no '
office wac taken of it, not the bare =,
ckne wledgment of its reception-a :
which any GENTLEMAN would
ave extended-was made. but the :
pplication was treated with supreme
difference and contempt. But on
enewiDg the applica ion, lately, to ,
superintendent Cardozo, he is inform :
i that "Mr. Wesley f. Feriill was
ppointed Go. Supt. of Pub. Educa-
on for Jackson County, by the late
tate Board of Education" Now