The Russellville Democrat., 1881-05-12
DOVER DOTS,

DOVER DCTSs
 Health is reasonably good in Dover everything is moving along right side up-strawberries and cream! o hushl
 Mrs. White, the we'll known propri> etress of the RussellYile boarding house, is spending few days with Aunt Su- san Kirchof in Dover. She anticipates spending the summer at the Eureka Springs. She needs rest, and plenty of it.
 A sad misfortune In the family of Judge Bayliss. His daughter May, was thrown from horse Sunday eyes ming on the Russellville road near home and had her leg broken, both bones being broken entirely off short way above the ankle joint. Dr. c. l.. Kirksey is treating the case and will give it due attention.
 Marriage licenses were issued to the following parties tho past week. J. w. Starr and Miss Mollie Yeates {; W. R. Mckinley and Miss Lucinda Finley; Ned Coifnan and Miss Mary Church, ard J. N. Mathis and Miss Jane Ceffman. Notwithstanding this is the year the land is to be visited with Pharaoh's plague, marrying will go right on as though nothing was to happen.
 Strayed or stolen from Dover, Pope county; Arkansas, ou or about the 80th day of April, 1881, one sheriff and one clerk and ex-officio recorder of said county. The last saw fthem they had on their other clothes, army fronted shirts, high up collars, and left in a southerly direction. Any information leading to the whereabouts of said offi> cials will be thankfully received. An act to render more efficient some of tic provisions of the school laws, and for other purposes.
 Sec. l. That any director, or other person, whose duty it may become to report to the county court the per cent. of tax levied by any school district, at an annual meeting, and who shall neg lect or refuse to do so, in the manner and at the time provided by law, shall be liable for all loss which may be sus- tained by such failure, and tor all costs, more than fifty dollars.
 Sec. 3. That within fifteen days after any special tax shall be voted by a school district, at an annual meeting it shall be the duty of the directors to furnish the county clerk with certi- fled list of all persons owning property in the district liable to pay such special taY.
 Sec. 4. That no teacher shall be en- titled to the last months pay for any school taught by him, until he shall have returned to the directors of dis trict in which such school was taught the daily register furnished him, with all statistical work, which teachers are by law required to perform, perfected and complete, and no director shall otherwise issue an order tor such last months pay.
 Sec. 5. An old director shall, upon application of an incoming director, ad- minister to him the oath of office. | Sec. 6. That no new school district shall be formed, having less than thir- ty>fve persons residing within the territory included in such new district of scholastic age, and no district now | formed shall, by the formation of new district, be reduced to less than thirtys five persons of scholastic age.
 See. z. That if any county examiner shall be found incompetent, or shall be frequently neglectful of his duty, upon satisfactory proof, the county judge shall remove him from office, and shall immediately appoint his successor, | Sec. 8. That the county treasurer shall, on or before the first day of Sep tember, each year, forward to the su- perintendent of public instruction a certified statement, showing the amount l in kind, of public school funds, receiv- ed by him, from what source they were received; how and for what purposes they have been disbursed, and what amount, in kind, remaining in the treasury.
 Sec. 9. That any person, whose duty it Is to execute any of the sections Of l this act, and who shall fail to do so; shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars; and the same shall be paid into the county treasury if the person fined be acting as dis trict official, to the credit of the district school fund if the person fined be a county official, to the credit of the county school fund.
 Sections 2, 10, II and 12 are omitted. Some of the above amendments were needed and has the ring of business. The teacher having complied with the requirements of section 4, the directors at the time of enumerating the children will be able to properly and correctly furnish the examiner with tho annual report of their district for the school year ending on the 30tll day of June previous. Section 3 makes 1t the duty of the county treasurer to furnish the superintendent with financial state ment of the public school fund of the county, and who is the proper person to furnish said report, he being in pos session of all the the figures and facts ! in the case. But ID section three ol tlt