Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-28
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County Judge Orange COUNTY
LEE COUNTY.
GIDDwGs, TEN, March 20, 1855.
To the Editor Of the Gazette.
In my opinion:

GIDDiNGs, TEN, March 20, lSsG
To the Editor Of the Gazette.
In my opinion:
| l. The proYiso TO article 1880 should
be stricken out 50 that roads might, in
the discretion of the commissioners
court, be changed to put the road on bet
ter ground as well as 10 cases where great
/ Injury is done to private rights in run
ming roads obliquely or otherwise across
lands While the country was open and
land of little value roads were opened on
the most direct line from one point to
another, often without notice to owners
who might be minors or non-residents
without regard to private rights. Now
when lands are becoming more valuable
and small farms are becoming the rule,
many find their lands so cut up by the
roads as to materially depreciate their
value. Where tails private injury Is much
greater than any public good arising
therefrom, the court should have the
! power to change the road.
= The supervisor should be required to
examine the roads twice during the wear.
reporting to the February and August
terms OF the commissioners court, and
| should be given direct authority over the
road overseers with power to cause them
to order out the hands to work the road
when in his judgment they have neglected
their duty. In the event of this change
! supervisor should be allowed twenty
days TO supervise his roads instead of ten
as at present
SCHOOL LAW.
| /. NO efficient system of schools can be
maintained without official supervision
THIS cannot be had under the present sys-
tenn There should be county superin-
tendents.
! 2 Teachers should in all cases be ex-
amined in the county where they are to
teach One county Judge and his board
OF examiners may desire to raise tHe
grade OF the schools In the county, and SO
make their examination reality instead
OF mere form. A would-be teacher un-
able TO pass such an examination will 90
to county where no attention is paid to
the matter, get high grade certificate
and come into the county and teach, re-
ceiving the same salary as those who
have prepared themselves for their yoca-
tion. This is unjust to the competent
teacher, and unjust to the pupils com.
mitted to the charge of the Incompetent
). Under the present law, county
| Judges may cancel u teachers certificate
only when the trustees shall report to
him such misconduct or immortality as. in
their opinion, disqualifles him for the in
struction of children. think the county
Judge should have power Subject to ap-
peal to the superintendent of public in
stltutlon) to cancel teachers certificate
when such misconduct or immortality
comes to his notice from any reliable
source.
A. Section 792 should be so amended as
to give the county Judge some discretion
In the matter of closing schools when the
attendance falls below 3SI per cent. of
the registered pupils of the community.
or ne should have some power to scale
the salary in such case, II 1t seemed to
him proper. | know one school where Che
teacher Is receiving $50 per month for
teaching i've pupils-they, of course, are
the children of the trustees.
JOIN i. GROVE,
County Judge Lee County.