Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-08-01
CITY SCHOOL BOARD.

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smith, Strauss, Thompson and Vincent, of
he trustees. The Superintendent stated
hat Mr.. VIM. A. Moore, elected by the
City Council to Gil the unexpired term of
Major VIM w. Herbert, had taken and
fled the required oaths, and that gentle
man took his seat as a member.
The minutes having been read and ap'
proved. Supt. Carne from the COMMITTEE on
Studies and Discipline, reported the loi-
lowing new by laws which were unanimous
y adopted:
A penalty of five dollars shall be imposed upon
any janitor who shall permit person suffering
from any infectious or contagious disease 10 re-
main in the school building under his or her
rhyrpe more than one hour after the nature OF
,nch disease is discovered. The ianitor shall
nav in addition a penalty Of ten dollars for each
day the person shall remain III 'Hch schcoi
-.
The penalty aforesaid shall be deducted from
the salary of the janior, first accruing after the
School Board shall have Determined inc alhou"'
of tho penalty incurred.
The permits granted to the child or ward OF
nuy parent or guardian shall be revoked, II sucn
parent or guardian shall permit his child or ward
TO attend school while any contagious or ntectous
disease prevails st the dwelling Of said child OF
have ceased there.
Mr.. I4eadheater, from the Committee on
Finance and Accounts, reported as correct
The bills of James T. Carln & Sons, for coal
hods. sc, 81. IS, and Hubert Snowden, clerk
of the Board, for taking school census, SlS9;
both Of which were ordered to be paid. he
then offered q resolution to pay the clerk
500 additional and chat officer explained the
Additional work he had been obliged to do,
and the necessity of employing tWo persons
to assist in the enumeration, whose pay haa
taken nearly the entire sum appropriated.
MIR, Strauss moved to amend Mr.. Lead
heaters motion by inserting $40 instead Of
go, which was carried.
Mr. r. l.. Garne seid that be dlsliked
greatly to act ungraclously, especially Wneh
the matter concerned friend, and that the
clerk had undoubtedly been called upon TO
do much more work than had ever been
required before-work of DO manner oil
use~-tut he had serious scruple about
voting extra Compensation tne law hxed
the sum of three cents name as the pay,
and how could the Board make it more?
He would like to have the matter referred
to q committee consisting OF the lawyers OF
the Board; if they reported that there was
law for it, he would vote Ior even larger
extra compensation than had been proposed.
The chair said that he, in conjunction
with another lawyer, had examined the law
carefully, and that they had no doubt Of the
lauality Of the action propO5ea
Mr., Carne said that his obi lection was en-
tirely removed and he would cheerfully
vote for the resolution, which was then
adopted unanimously.
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usual repairs to the school buildings were
ordered; the whiteVashing CT three sides Of
Lee building at cost of SS was directed
the Clerk was ordered to advertise for pro.
posas for supplying the schools with coal
and wood, and Tuesday, the lst OF Septcm-
Der. was fixed upon as the time for re open
ing the schools.
Ga motion Of MIR. Leadbeater, the Com.
miltee on Schoolhouses and Furniture was
directed to contract for repairing and keep,
ing in order the stoves in the various schools
for the current year.
On motion of the Superintendent, Friday
rext. August 7th, was fixed upon as the
time for the annual meeting required by
The law for examining the accounts, and
on his lurlhsr motion, all the white male
and female teachers and all The colored
male teachers were unanimously re-elcct
ed, With respect to the colored female
teachers, he said that Hallowell school hav.
inr had seyenty.tWo pupila less than IN the
proceeding year, he felt it his duty to recon-
mend the reduction Of one teacher, but was
not prepared to say which it should be,
Whercupon,
On motion OF Mr. R. L. Carne, all the
colored female teachers were re elected,
with the provision that the Superintendent
assign such only as may be needed, and that
in determining who shall not be assigned,
be shall select the teachers whose schools
were smallest lest year, and that no salary
be paid to the teachers not assigned.
Whilst the resolution was pending, Col.
Smith, offered substitute electing Rose
Williams, well qualified Alexandria girl
who had been finely educated at the North,
a teacher, but Mr.. Il. l.. Carne objected that
to do so would necessarily throw out another
teacher against whom there was'no COM
pIaint, and the substitute was lost. Miss
Williams was then elected substitute
teacher.
The election ofjantors was next in order,
when Mr.. r L. Carne moved that new jan
itors, hereafter elected, shall not reside in
school buildings. This being objected to as
All unfair discrimination against new Janl-
tors, he modified his motion by striking out
The word new.
Mr.. Vincent thought tho bylaw just
adopted was sufficient to protect the schools
against the danger of contagious diseases,
and several other trustees concurred with
him.
MIR. R. L. Carne replied that there were
some other reasons: which he stated, against
having children In school buildings, but the
chief reason was, that no incumbent of the
Board would have the heart to require the
removal of child ill with measles, mumps,
or scarlet fever, in very cold or bad weather
and perhaps at the risk of its life, and that
the bylaw would not always be executed
for that reason, but the schools would be
closed.
The superintendent said that the suspen
sion of last spring had caused loss of S275,
and yet Mr.. Coles family was one of the
least likely to be affected by contagious dis
eases, his children being grown. The mo-
ton was then unanimously adopted.
Mr.. Strauss moved that all the janitors be
reelected except the janitor of the Peabody