Daily Republican., 1879-08-12
THE SCHOOL. BOARD.
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The Board of Education held it's reg.
ular meeting last evening, President
Eckel in the chair. The hour of meet.
ing is 7.3O but owing to a quorum not
being present, the session did not com.
menceunt;l $40.
Mr.. Kenny reported that the $50 ap.
preparation for the purpose Of kalso
mining No. 4 school was insufficient.
Permission was granted him to with.
draw his request to have work done.
Mr.. Morrow was granted permission
to ascertain what it would cost to dig
out under the wall of school No. 9 and
to procure estimates to excavate suffi.
cient OF the ground to make cellar.
The committee on No. 7 were granted
permission to make certain repairs in
said school at cost not to exceed
$40.50
On motion an order was directed to
be drawn on Francis Vincent for $685..
SO on taxes for 1878.
A motion was made that an order be
drawn in favor of Francis Vincent fol
$l85.5O for school taxes collected, said
amount being in excess of the appro.
priation Of 1875. Referred to Finance
Committee.
Mr.. Baird offered the following reso-
luton
Resolved, That the examination of can.
didates for the position OF teachers to be held
the 26th and 9th inst, be restricted to those
persons on the accepted list OF teachers who
are required by the rule OF the Board to at
tend.
Mr.. Conrad was opposed to the reso-
luton as he thought it placed the
COMMITTEES in very unenviable light.
He was in favor of doing away entirely
with the examination next year, but
this year he was in favor OF holding it
and excluding nobody.
Mr.. Baird thought it was only triAing
with candidates from other places as
there is surplus of teachers at the
present time.
Mr.. Eckel, calling Mr.. Conrad to the
chair, said that the resolution showed a
whimsical position on the part Of TIL
Board. This same point was introduced
at two Of the previous meetings and al
each of them the Board said positively
that these examinations should take
place. He thought it would be better
for the Board to let this matter alone
and let thoss who desire to attend the
examinations to do 80. ~.n
DR.. Shortlidge was of the opinion
that the teachers outside of the city
were not aware that there is surplus
of teachers. He thought it would be
useless to have candidates outside Of
the city to be examined as they may
not be able to secure positions within
five years, perhaps more.
Mr.. Baird said that this matter had
only been before the Board at one
meeting. He thought that it was per-
fectly right and proper that the daugh-
ters Of the tax payers should have the
positions. He did not approve of hav
ing teachers coming from any other
place.
The resolution was adopted.
On motion of Col. Heisler the Secre-
tary was authorized to correct clerical
error in the account against No. 10
school.
The committee on No. IL school were
authorized to have certain repairs done
at a cost not to exceed So.
The Secretary of the Board reported
that he had notified the tea1hers of
their appointment and all had replied
excepting Misses Harrigan and Elias.
Miss Ada J. Armstrong had declined
the position assigned her. The report
was referred to the Committee on Teach
ers.
On motion of Mr.. Grubb the proper
officers were authorized to draw on the
city for the one ninth part OF
the appropriation for August.
Mr.. Heisler moved that the chairman
of the Finance Committee be directed to
settle with the State Auditor.
Mr.. Conrad moved to amend by
striking out Finance Committee and in
serting committee of one, Mr.. Heisler
to be the appoiDtee.
The motion as amended was adopt
ed.
ORDERS.