Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1878-03-06
Wednesday, March 6, 1878.
AN ACT
To incorporate the public schools
Of the township of Alpena.
Continued from last lreek.
AN ACT

SEC. .. Inc Doaiu OF education
of said district shall have power
and authority to designate anc
purchase school-house sites, erect
buildings and furnish same, employ
teachers, provide books for district
library, to make bylaws relative
TO taking the census of all children in
said district between five and twenty
years, TO maks all necessary reports
and transmit the same to the proper
officers, as designated by law, sc
that said district may be entitled
to its proportion of the primary
school fund, and said board shall
have authority to make all needful
regulations and bylaws relative to
visitation of schools; relative to
the length of time school shall be
kept, which shall not be less than
three months in each year; relative
to the employment and exami-
nations of teachers, their power
and duties; relative to regulations
of schools and books to be used
therein; and generally do all thing
needful and desirable for the
maintenance, prosperity, and sue
cess of the schools of said district,
and the promotion of the thorough
education Of the children thereof I;
and it shall be the duty of said
board to apply for and receive
from the county treasurer, or other
offers holding the same, all money
appropriated for primary schools
and the district library of said
district, and may adopt such by
laws and rules for their own pro-
cedure as they may deem neces-
sary.
SEC. 0. The board Of education
shall, at their regular meeting on
the third Monday of August in
each year, make an estimate of the
amount of money deemed necessary
to be raised by taxes for the ensu-
ing year for all purposes OF ex.
penditure within the power Of
said board, which Ultimate shall
specify the amounts required for
different objects Of expenditure,
and such estimate shall be entered
in the record of proceedings OF
said board, and the clerk of said
board shall, within twenty days
thereafter, make a written report of
the amount of taxes so deemed
necessary, and certify the same to
the supervisors of said township
of Alpena, who shall spread the
same upon the regular tax roll Of
said township, and the same shall
be levied, collected, and returned |
in the same manner rs other town.
ship taxes: PrOrided, That for
purchasing school lots, and erect
ing school-houses no greater sum
than five mills on the dollar of all |
the taxable valuation of real and
personal property in said district
shall be levied in any one year.
Sec. 10. The treasurer of said |
board shall have the keeping of all |
the school and library moneys, and |
shall not pay ont the same without
the authority of said board, upon
warrants or orders drawn upon him
and signed by the clerk and coun-
tersigned by the president; and
said treasurer shall, before enter
ing upon the duties of his Office,
give bond to said district in such
sum and sureties as said board
shall determine, conditioned for
the faithful performance of his
duties and honest accounting for
all moneys coming into his hand
belonging to said district.
SEC. II. The said board shall
be the board of school inspectors
for said district, and shall, as such,
report to the clerk of the county
of Alpena. And all teachers en-
ployed by said board of education
shall first be inspected by a COM
mittee of the board, and if found
qualified, shall receive a certificate
in the form which may be perscrib-
ed by said board, and no other
inspection or certificate shall be
required to authorize such person
to teach within said district.
SEC. II. The said board shall
annually, on the third Monday of
March in each year, make de-
tailed statement of the number of
said schools in said district, the
number Of teachers employed, and
the number Of pupils instructed
therein during the preceding year.
and the expenditures of said board
for all purposes, and also the re-
sources and liabilities of said dis
trict, which report or statement ,
shr', be entered at length in the ,
record of said board, and shall be
publicly read by the president of
said board, or in his absence, the I
clerk thereof, TO the electors of the |
said township of Alpena, at their
annual township meeting on the ,
third Monday of April thereafter,
at the hour twelve of o'clock, noon. ]
SEC. IL. The treasurer of the
township of Alpena shall at any c
time, at the written request of :
said board of education, report !,
10 said clerk the amount of school I
in his hands, and shall, on
he order of the president of said I
board, pay to the treasurer of said I
board all such money, taking his .
receipt therefor, and also dulicate
receipt, which he shall file with the 3
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