The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-06-08
CIRCULAR.
OFFICE STATE SUPERINTENDENT EDUCATION,
COLUMBIA, 8. c., May 18th, 1876.

COLUMBIA, 8. c., May 18th, 1876.
TO THOMAS P. BENSON
County School C0u,missioner Of anderson o.:
DEAR SUBSECTION 40 of an Act entitled IAN
| Act to establish and maintain a system Of Free
Common Schools for the State of South Carolina"
approved March 9Th, 1871, provides that IAN
| annual meeting Of each School District shall he
held on the last Saturday In June Of each year, at
u o'clock m, notice Of the time and 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.
Section 81 of the said Act provides thai "The In
habitants qualified to vote at school meeting law
fully assembled, shall have power
lst To appoint Chairman to preside over the
meeting. .sS'e7 IL
I'd. To adjourn from time to time.
3d. To choose a Clerk, who shall possess the
qualification Of a voter. ~ a.,t'
4th. To raise by taI, In addition to the amount
apportoned by the State to their use, such further
sums of money as they may deem proper for the
support of Public Schools, said sum not to be more
than three dollars for every child in the District
between the ages Of six and SIXTEEN ascertained
by the last enumeration; said sum to be collected
by the County Treasurer, and to be held by him
subject to the order Of the Trustees countersigned
By the County School Commissioner-such sums Of
money to be used as shall be agreed upon at the
meeting either for the pay of teachers salaries or
to purchase or lease sites for school houses to
build, hire or purchase such school houses; to
keep them in repair and furnish the same with
necessary fuel and appendages; or to furnish
blackboards outline maps and apparatus for illus
trating the principles Of science, or to discharge
any debts or liabilities lawfully incurred.
5th. To give such direction and make such pre-
visions as may be deemed necessary in relation to
the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceed
ings in which the District may be party.
6th. To authorize the Board of Trustees to build
school houses rent the same; to sell any school
house site or other property belonging to the Dis
trict when the shall no longer be needful for
the use of the District
7th. To alter repeal their proceedings from
time to time, as occasion may require, and to do
any other business contemplated in this Act.n
You are hereby most earnestly advised to IN
struct the Clerk of each of the several Boards of
School Trustees in your County to give due notice
of an annual meeting to be held in the School Dis
trict under their supervision, on Saturday, the
oath day of June, 1876 at - o'clock m. deem it
of great importance to the success Of our Free
Common School system that these meetings be
held in every School District In the State and that
each School District raise liberal Local or Dis
trict School Tax for the support Of its Free Com
mon Schools, for the following reasons:
1st The State appropriation made for Free Com
mon School purposes for the current fiscal year Is,
of itself, insufficient to supply the educational
wants of the people. In those States having the
most popular, satisfactory and successful systems
Of Free Common Schools, the schools are almost
wholly sustained by means of Local School Taxes.
| ID. The amount Of Poll Tax collected in each of
the several School Districts Is, Of itself, insignif
| cant.
| Sd. The Local School Tax raised in any School
District will be of great service as auxiliary and
supplementary to the State appropriation and Poll
| Tax.
4th. The Local School Tax is paid into the Coun-
ty Treasury and is directly subject to the order of
the Board of School Trustees countersigned by the
County School Commissioner.
Very respectfully,
]. K. JILLSON,
State Superintendent Education, S. c.