The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-09-26
BOARD OF
EDUCATION.
Amendments to The lBy=
Laws Proposed by The
Law Committee.

The Board of Education held an i'm
portant meeting last evening. Attention
was called by tho law committee TO tw
! Suggestions, by a member sof the boar d
which they did not include in their recon-
mendations, but submitted for the board.
approval.
| One was that the manual training ant
drawing teachers be required to give twt
| hours, from to II o'clock. each Saturday
morning of the school term, to teaching
| the boys in the fifth and sixth grammar
| grades. The other was that tsachers in
arithmetic be required to personally ex.
amino slates and papers cn arithmetic
done by pupils. Permission was granted
TO the committee to have so copies printed
Of the proposed amendments. No further
action was taken.
Bids as follows were opened for printing
700 copies Of the superintendent's annual
report, and were refcrfel TO the committee
with power to act:
Mercantile Printing Company $l.OS a
Star Printing and Publishing Company,
ST. Is page; the John NJ. Rogcr,' Com
pany. Sl4S apage for printing, end six
half-tone cuts, the platos to be furnished
by The board; II. b. McCullom, Sl.O5H II
page, including half-tone cuts, the plates
to be furnished by tho board; the Frank
lin Printing Company, Sl.05 page, ill.,
Guiding half.tone cut.
The law committee submitted number
OF amendments to the bylaws and rules of
ordor. The proposed amendments will
cause general change in tho numbering
of the sections.
= ODe new section proposed is that IA
committee be appointed on the Whining
ton Free Library to examine all reports
made 10 tho librarian and attend to such
other matters as the board may direct. 1t
was also suggested that u new section be
inserted pro"iding for keeping the SUPER
intendent's office open during school hours.
The law committee also recommended that
the president shall be ex-ollicio momber
of all standing committees but with no
vote excepting In case of q tie: that the
committee on finance be increased from
three to five members; that provision be
made for a committee on the Wilmington
Free Library: that on The fourth Monday
IN June, 1891. superintendent, assistant
superintendent, and assistant superintcnd.
ent's clerk shall DO elected by ballot for
term OF two years; that neither teachers
nor substitutes bo paid for holidays; that
the sehoo. year shall begin the first Tues
dag in September and end on tho Wednes
day preceding July 4, that no other busi-
ness excepting that specified in calls for
special meetings. shall be done except on
agreement of three -fourths of the members
present: that in stormy weather one ses
sion DO held in tine High School, until 10
p. m, and in tho grammar schools until
1.H0 p. m and that section 81 of tho rule;
for governing the schools be so amended
that all cases OF absence must be reported
to the visiting committees.
] THE teachers committee reported that
Mary X. Logan Ind been appointed to
take charge Of tho new room at No. 8
school, and Isabelle d. Anderson to the
lowest position at No IS school.
On the recommend alton OF George Rom.
nell of the fuel, heat and ventilation COM
mittcc, tho application of John w. Kirby.
of No. II school. for an increase Of salary
was not granted.
Tho following applications for repairs
and now furnishings wero referred to the
repair and new buildings commit, GO: No.
school, clock repairad; No. II school, re-
pairs to blackboards and boariwaiks re-
laid; No. l3 school, clock repaired and con-
sideration of removal of soampipes from
corridors; and No. 81 school, repairs TO
latticework and Stats in the basem ent |
Authority Was givon to make several |
necessary purchases.