Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-03-13
The Memphis school Bill.
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of the Board OF Education De aud the
same is hereby abolished in all taxing
districts organized prior to the year
1912, where there is an incor-
porated system of public schools, and
| instead thereof the Office of School
Commissioner is hereby created. The
Board sf Education for each Of said
incorporated system Of public schools
shall hereafter be composed of i've
school commissioners who shall be
selected from said taxing district at
large, where said incorporated system
of schools is respectively located.
TSec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
said commissioners shall be elected
by the qualified votes Of such taxing
district, and their election shall take
place at the same time and places as
that Of the officers OF said taxing dis
trict, at the first election to take place
on the first Thursday after the first
Monday in January in the year 1884,
Three Of said commissioners shall be
elected for two years and two for four
years, and thereafter said commission.
ers shall be elected for term OF four
years.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, that
the Governor of the State of Tennes
see shall Immediately on the passage
of this act appoint five School Com
missioners for each o; such taxing
districts by. and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, who shall hold
their offices until their successors are
elected and qualified as prescribed in
this act
Sec. 4 Be il further enacted. that
the School Commissioners shall fill all
vacancies which occur in the Office OF
School Commissioners by death, resig,
nation, removal or otherwise, and the
Commissioner so elected to fill va
cancy shall hold his Office until the
next election thereafter Of taAing ais,
trict officers when his successor shall
be elected and qualified.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, that
each one of the five commissioners
shall enter into bonds in the sum oil
5000, with two good and sufficient
sureties, whose bond shall be ap-
proved in writing by and fled with
the President Of the Taxing District
for the faithful performance of their
duties, and the President Of the
board shall also enter into an addi-
tional bond of $4,000, secured,
approved and filed in like manner
for the faithful performance of his
duties as President. The President
Of the Board shall receive salary not
| exceeding FIVE hundred dollars per
annum, payable in equal monthly pay
ments; and each one of the other Com
missioners shall receive a salary not
to exceed two hundred dollars per an
mum, payable in like manner. They
shall be citizens Of said Taxing Dis
trict. Each Commissioner shall be a
man of good moral character and
temperate habits. He shall be able
to read and write, and shall have a
general knowledge Of the common
branches of learning sufficient to en-.
able him to judge of the qualification;
of teachers. He shall not hold ans
| Office or position for pay or compeBsa.
ton in the employ of the Beard Of
Education, except the Office Of secre.
tary, treasurer or census taker, mol
shall he be interested, directly or in
directly, in any contract OF bushes:
| for said Board. The Board Of Edu
cation shall be the judges of the quail
| fcations Of its own members.
SEQ. 6. Be it further enacted, That
said FIVE commissioners shall each
have and possess all the powers aud
privileges which have heretofore been
conferred on member of said Board
Of Education, except where said
powers and privileges have herein
! been restricted and modified. Three
commissioners when regularly assem-
| bied in session shall constitute 9
quorum for the transaction Of bust.
ness; but not otherwise.
| Sec. Z. Be it further enacted, THAI
said commissioners shall, Immediately
on their appointment, organize theil
respective Boards of Education b.
electiUg a President and Vice Presi
dent from among their number, anC
| by electing a Superintendent who il
not School Commissioner and By
electing Secretary and Treasurer
This Secretary and Treasurer may b.
a School Commissioner; they may BE-
citizens who are not School Commits
sioners, as the said Board Of Educa.
ton thus constituted and controlled
by such commissioners shall in theil
discretion see proper. Said Board o.
Education shall enact bylaws fol
their government. They shall pay
their Superintendent a salary not ex
oeeding $500 per annum, and thu
Secretary salary not exceeding Sl20t
per annum.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, Tba
J the said Board of Education shall
keep the scholastic census required b.
law in a we'll bound book, 10 which
shall be entered the name age. color
and sex Of each person OF scholastic
age. Said Board Of Education shall
! in no case pay for taking census NOR
than two cents for each person o
scholastic age enumerated in SAT-
! census returns. Said census return
when taken, and before their adoption
shall be referred to q special commit
tee Of three commissioners, who shall
e compare said returns with the tota
! population of such Taxing Distric
and with the census returns of pre-
d ceding years, and with other data an,
statistics, and they shall report il
writing to the Board of Education
n whether or not, in their opinion, tn
census has been fully and fairly taken
e Sec. 8. Be it further enacted Tha
the present members Of the Board O
Education and School Visitors, Super
= intendent, Secretary, Treasurer
J. teacher and other employees Of sal
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