The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-04-26
Tbe school Law.

At4p AN~NA~ ~ ---s--fNrN
forth the following as the result Of
labors with the school law. Some
paftieularsare decided Improvements
over the old law. We give synop-
sis Of the more important features
Section . OF the law Of 1928 is
amended so as to provide for the cleo
ton Of school officers, including
county superintendent, on the first
Tuesday in August, 1877, and in e.
cry second year thereafter. vt this
election, president and two COM
missieneTs who shall constitute a
board Of education for the district,
shall be elected in each magisterial
district Of each county. Their tetms
of office shall commence on the Grst
day of September following and con-
tinue for two years. These elections
shall be held at the usual places of
voting, for State officers, instead ofat
the school houses, us heretofore. It's
made the duty Of the County Court
to appoint three commissioners to
superintend the election at each place
of voting, and all the provisions of
the general election law are made APP
plicable to. this election, These COM
missioncrs are required at the elect
ion next August, toalso superintend
the vote on the location Of the CAPT
tai, and TO serve without compensa-
ton.
S3tiln is stricken ont and a
ntG secii5h inserted, which provides
for a meeting Of the district beard of
education to | held on the first Mon
day in September, 1871, at which
they shall appoint three intelligent
and discreet persons us trustees for
each sub-distiict in their district,
one Of whom shall be appointed for
one year, one Tor two years, and one
for three years.
Section 10 is so amended us to re-
quire the trustees Of the school dis
tricts to employ teachers, subject to
the approval of the Board of Educa.
ton; and, whenever at the end Of
any school month, the daily ayoyage
attendance for that month has been
less than thiriy,fyc per cent, Of the
whole number Of pupils enumerated
in the sub.Gistrict, the trustees shall
dismiss the tcgeLers and discontinue
the school, unless otherwise directed
by the Board Of Education.
Sec. so requires every teacher to
keep = daily register and make mon
thlyreports to the Secretary Of the
Board. By this section the school
month is extended to twenty-five
days, excluding Saturdays, twenty
DAYS of which shall b. devoted to
teaching, aud two days to attending
county or district institutes, which
time the teacher shall devote in the
improvement Of himself and fellow
teachers in the branches Of learning
taught in the free schools, and in the
art Of teaching.
1t is made the duty of the County
Superintendent 10 organize and con
duet such institutes, TO keep record
Of their proceedings, and report to
the Board Of Education the names Of
the teachers attending and those
who failded to attend. Each t,aaher
is r6auiged to attend such institutes
at leqst eight days in each year and
faiEufs % do 50 works forfeiture
osa pro xatG part Of his salary.
II isa vivid idea of the terror ere
ated by the grasshoppers in Jhe West
that is given by the proclamation Of
the Governor Of Minnesota for public
prayer against them. lie setsapart
a day OF fasting, humiliation and
prayer that the Almighty God may
stay the grasshopper scourga; and he
calls upon the people Of the State to
ask for this mercy, with contritc
hearts, in their places OF Worship
in the shadow Of the locust plague,
whose impending renewal threatens
the destruction Of theland," says the
| Governor, "let US humbly invoke the
defence Of the hand which alone can
stay it" Thus he goes on, sentence
after sentence, not for getting to
speak of those who are in sutI-
ering and grief on account of the
plague. There are doubtless, people
| in this part of the country who will
think it queer to see the State of
Minnesota trying to get rid of the
dcvouring grasshoppers by public
! fasting, humiliation, and prayer but
the Minnesotians did not resort to
this means of defence until they had
| fully realized their own helplessness.
They have themselves struggled
against the grasshoppers in vain;
! they have spent money in the war
upon them; and they have advcrtis-
| ed for weapons to destroy them
Even while fasting in humility and
praying in hope, they must not re-
! lax their efforts to devise some nat
ural way of conquering the grasshop-
per enemy,
A Bill has been introduced in the
| Ohio legislature making persons ov-
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