Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-06

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A New Loan.
Mr.. Evans also presented the following
resolution for the creation of q ten thou
sand dollar loan to pay the Indebtedness
contracted in the erection of school houses.
Resolued, That for the purpose Of pay
ing the indebtness contracted by order Of
this board for the erection of the Lemon
and James street school houses, registered
bonds of tho board to the amount of ten
thousand dollars shall be issued in denOm-
nations of $500. The said bonds shall be
dated June list 1881, and bear interest at,
the rate of four per cent per annum, pay
able quarterly, on the first days of Septem-
Der, December, March and June, in each
and every year while they remain unpaid.
And shall be payable on the first day of
juno A. D. 1891, but may be redeemed at
the option Of the board at any time after
the first day of June A. D. 1882. Each
bond shall be signed by the president,
secretary and treasurer, and the corporate
seal of the board attached thereto.
SEC. 2 An annual tax of one sixteenth of
one per cent, on all subjects of taxation
for school purposes, is hereby levied to
pay the principal and interest of the
above loan, collectible and payable as
other school taxes.
The resolution was unanimously agreed
to.
A judicial Report.
Mr.. Wilson, from the judiciary COM
mittee, submitted the following written
report
To the Honorable the School Board Of Loncas-
ter City: III
GENTLEMEN The question referred to
the judiciary committee Is as follows :
Can the school board increase the salary
of teacher during the term for which he
has been elected
This question your committee, after
careful examination, answer in the affirm
alive. The relation between a board of
school directors and q teacher is simply
contract relation. The teacher agrees to
perform certain services and the board
agrees to pay him a certain salary. BY
the consent of both parties the contract
may be modified or even totally re-
scinded. If during the course Of the term
additional duties are imposed upon the
teacher it may be proper that his compen-
satiOn should be increased, and If for any
reason the board should deem it proper to
increase teachers salary your committee
do not see anything in. the constitution OF
the statutes of the commonwealth which
will forbid such an act.
The constitution of Pennsylvania, in arr
t;cle 2, section 8, provides that 10 mem-
ber of the General Assembly shall during
the term for which he may have been elect
ed receive any increase Of salary or mile
age under any law passed during such
term. It also provides in article Sd, Sec
ton II, that no bill shall be passed giving
any extra compensation to any public Off
Ger, servant, agent, employee OF contractor
after services have been rendered or con-
tract made. III ~. u =
It is obvious that neither of these SEC
lions applies to the case in hand. A teacher
is not a public officer, servant or employee
in the same sense intended by tho consti-
luton, and if he were the restrictios in |
only that no bill shall be passed by the
Legislature increasing his compensation |
after services rendered or contracts made. |
OF course, it would be manifestly i'm
proper to increase = teachers compensa-
ion during the term for which he |
,as been elected unless his duties had also |
been increased after his contract was made.
Respectfully submitted,
W. A. WILSON,
ALEXANDER HARRIS,
1HOSs d. NOCHHANs
The New soh0ol Houses. Il
Mr.. Slaymaker, from the building com.
nittee, reported that the committee were
atisfied the new buildings both on Lemon
nd James streets, required additional
Iater closets. The committee would also
Ike to be instructed as to whether wooden
r iron fences should be placed around the
chool grounds.
On motion, these matters were left to
be discretion of the committee.
CIty-Superintendont's Report.
The following report of the city super.
ntendent was read .rE .-"'
. the Board Of School Directors:
GENTLEMEN The city superintendent
resents the following report Of the public
,hools for April: The whole number Of
upils enrolled was 2, 952, the average num-
or in attendance was q ASS, and the aver
ye percentage was "a. The number of visits
'ade by tho visiting committee, as re
orted by the teachers, was 2; all by J.
|. Westhaeffer by directors, 81, as fol-
ws: ]. N. Westshaeffer, 49,; H. r. I
Z; L. Richards, IA; ]. w. &
lckson, 3; J. I. Hartman, Z; D. G. Ba.
sr, 1; H. E. Slaymaker, 6; Rev. c.
1; DR.. J. Levergood, 2; Ill
F. EbermaD, 1; F. w. Haas, 4; G. c
scher, 3; by the city superintendent 118.
q examination of the statistical table
i'll show that the attendance in the
mes street schools, in regard to both
lmbers and regularity, was most excel n
ut.