Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-02
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pssae Advice 10 school Observation-Disclosures
Extracts From the Minutes In
srcdacing new Books.

30B SCHOOL bOOA QUBSTfOH.
s,,ss lA0v,cs 10 school Observation-Disclosures
Extracts From the Minutes ON In
srcfacing new Books.
For two or three years past the learned
seutlSmeo composing the board of directors |
Of Laacaster city school district, have almost
unanhnously declared in favor rcplacipgofthe
school readers now In use( Buffers old series)
by books OF more recent publication and bet
ter arrangement; but majority of the
board have not been able to agree on any one
series, and the ruling Of the president of tn Q
board has been that it requires a ma
tority of the board nineteen mem
bers) TO adopt any series of new readers.
Tho ruling Of the president was wrong, but
has been scquiesced In by the board.
Thstrouble has been caused by members
of the board supposing the provisions of the
general school laws Of 1854 and 1so2 to have
superseded the provisions of the special law
of 1850, passed for the government of the
Lancaster city schools From the time this
special law was enacted the Lancaster school
board always held 1t to be in force, where its
provisions were at variance with the general
law, until the rulings of the past two or three
years.
At The meeting OF the board held August
| I, iSI3 the book committee reported in favor
of adopting new readers (the New American
series) i'm place of the series then in use. The
| report OF the committee was adopted by u
| vote Of 10 yeas to 1 nays.
Mr.. j. w. jackson raisedthe point OF order
that IL required a majority OF the members al
1 the board (l9) to adopt the new books. What
followed we copy from the minutes:
| EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES, AUG. l., lsS2-
son motion of MIR. Jack the subject OF
the number of votes necessary to constitute
| lawful majority tor the adoption of school
| books he referred to the legal members OF
| the board, and that when the board adjourn
| 1t adjourn to meet on Monday evening,
i Anpust 10 hear the report Ot tie COLL
| mittee. Adopted
"August Il, lS72-Mr. Wilson from the
| comttee of legal members of the board pre-
| seuted the following report:
To the School Board Of ne can of Lancaster.
| "Tbs undersigned in obedience to a reso.
luton of the board adopted az the last meet
| ing referring to the directors who are men,
bers of the bar the question then raised
| whether the resolution selecting the text
books was passed in accordance To the law 5
| governing the case, now present the follow.
ing report:
| U'rhat "A meeting of said committee was
called at the orphans court room on Wed.
| nesday evening last, where all COMPOSING
said committee were invited to attend
| "The resolution i'm question WAS adopted
by vote of 10 against IL, one director de-
| ciiuinp to vote The Question seems To turu
| on the effect which the general school law.
| of 1854 and lSti2-the latter being supple
| mental to the former-have on The specia
| school laws for this city, and PARTICULARLY OF
l
| provides amoug other things "that thirteer
| members of said board shall be "A quorum to
| the transaction of all business except the lew
| aud assessment of school tax the election
of teachers, the purchase and sale ot rea
| estate, and the adoption OF resolutions for tn,
| erection of new school houses, IN which case
Q | twenty shall constitute a quorum"
ufthis act is in force the action of the boarC
: | Is perfectly legal. II, however, the genera
: school law OF 1862 applies, then the case i,
I | otherwise for by it "the annual series o
| text bo0hs' can only he selected "by tht
% snrnaliae ip, no.e ., % m%isiotl'y oi tne "noi'
c,ty is niuataan "l''i ''J"''s III 'n'
HThe supreme court i'm the case ot Rrow,
, | VS.. county commissioners, o Hainss. page 81
| i'm commenting on the effect of genera
/ | statute on a special one, saw: aIt is apains
reason to suppose that the legislature i'm fran,
ing a general system for the state inteude,
| To repeal a speciaI act which the local cirrnm
| stances of one county had made necessary.
, | gain Duane on statutes star mage 47l saws
"But a later statute which is general does no
abroyate a former which IL uarticIla ~
at is a noticeable circumstanCe that TN
| number of directors i'm a srhooI district
fxed by the General school law at nj,
y | whereas ours, under the SDcri1I law is five
It at tbirty-six.
:, aThe foregoing views seem In be'strenytl
;, ened bv our special school law Of lS5o 7rt
E, ferred In NV the act of Is,T9, tba nrovi ,o,s
II the I8tb section ofwhich. a. Val as ihs 90,
70 eral school law Of 1851, 50th section, wSuI
y | seem in cases as the one i'm hand In exam,
u us from the operations of the general scho,
p law. Upon the whole we think the action
], | the board isnot contrary tn law
u "Siyned-Wm r. Wilson Daniel g. Rake
IL John b. Warfel Goo. +. Brqnemap Georo
10 Naumau, Ahram Shenk, Samuel II. Re
10 noIds, A. l. EberIy J. W Johnsop Simc
s. On motion, the report WAS receiyei An
81 ..st,.. II.