Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-01-29
SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

The following are the provisions of the
bill which passed The State Senate yester-
day to provide Tor The appointment and
removal of district school trustees, and to
repeal the fourth clause of the seventh Sec
ton of the seventy-eighth chapter Of the
Code of 1873.
Section |. That the General Assembly
shall during the session of 1882, and every
four years thereafter, proceed to elect three
citizens of each county in this Common
wealth, to be known as the county board OF
school commissioners, the members of said
board to go into office on the lst day OF
Apri succeeding their election, having first
taken and subscribed the usual oath of office,
aud to hold their Offices for the term of four
wears. or until their successors are duly
elected and qualified.
Section =. The said board shall elect one
of their number chairman, and another Sec
rotary; any two shall constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business, and any va
cancy occurring in any of the said county
school electoral boards during the recess OF
the Legislature shall be filled by appoint
ment of the Judge of the circuit court of the
county in which such vacancy may occur,
said appointee to hold office until thirty
DAYS after the next meeting Of the General
Assembly.
Section 3. The General Assembly may
eject said county school electoral boards in
Joint resolution for that purpose emhrac-
ing all the counties of the Commonwealth.
Section f. All vacancies existing or occur
ring in district boards of school trustees
shall be filled by said county school elector-
al boards: provided, that no person who is
unable to read and write shall he appointed
school trustee and provided further, that
nothing in this act shall be construed as
giving authority or power to said electoral
boards to interfere in any way with the APP
pointment. az heretofore, of school trustees
by municipal councils, or to disturb in any
way the present law bearing on the action
of said municipal councils in the premises.
Section 5. The said school trustee electo-
raj boards shall have power, and it shall be
their duty to declare vacant and to proceed
to Gil the Office of any trustee in their re.
spective counties who fail to qualify and
deliver to the clerk of the board his official
oath in the usual form within thirty days
atter he has been notified of his appoint
ment, which notification shall be promptly
given by the clerk. The hoard shall also
vacate the Office Of any and every trustee
who fails to discharge the duties OF his Office
according to law.
Section 6. Any member of said board may
call meeting by notifying the other two.
All proceedings shall be recorded in a bound
volume: and such record book and station
cry as may be necessary shall be paid for
from the county school fund provided the
cost of the same shall not exceed five dollars
in any one year. 1t shall also be the duty
of the clerk of said board to furnish the
board OF education with list Of school
trustees and such other information as may
be called for.
| Section 7. The clerk shall convene the
said electoral board promptly when unex-
pected vacancies occur, and also at least
thirty days before the expiration of regular
terms of office, so that district boards may
be kept full and no members be left to hold
| over unnecessarily.