The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-14

p1uSAuuu or County Comm11ionerU CT members of Boards of Revenue.
 Sec. ]. That this act shah not take ef- feet until the first of January. nineteen hundred and four.
 Approved Oct. l. 1sos.
 T. THos. HErLIN.
 Secretary of State. No 366.) AN ACT IS. 2l0. To provide for the redistricting of the
 public schools of the State and for the
 management and control of the same.
 Section 1. Be 1t enacted by the Leg1sla- ture of Alabama, That township lines for school purposes. in the State of Alabama, are hereby abolished; provided. nothing herein contained shali~ be SO construed as to deprive the inhabitants of any town ship in this State of the sixteenth section or any fund arising therefrom, for the purpose of ceiling and leasing the six- teenth section school lands of the several townships as provided by law. there shall be three townshlp trustees in each town law, the existing township trustees shall continue in office until the expiration of their terms of once for the purpose of selling and leasing such lands.
 Sec. 2. One of the County Commsision- CTS or member of the County Board of Revenue to be selected by such Commis- sioners or Board of Revenue, the County Superintendent of Education. and one of the County Surveyors, to be named by the Court of County Commissioners, or Board of Revenue, in each of the several counties of the State are hereby created the County Redistricting Board, whose duties shall be as hereinafter provided.
 Sec. g. That on the first Monday in March, 1904. the County Redistricting Boards provided for In Section 2 of this Act, shall meet at the court house in their respective counties and organize by electing one of their number as chair man. The County Superintendent of Ed ucation shall be, by virtue of his office, Secretary of such Board: a majority of the members of such Board shah con- stitute a quorum.
 Sec. ( As soon as practicable after or gantzation, the said County Redistricting Boards shall lay out and divide their re- spectfve counties into public school dis tricts. acording to centres of population and natural barriers. Such districts shall be So arranged. if practicable. as to place a public school within two and one-half miles of each child within school age within such district; provided, that no district shall be formed which contains Jess than fifteen children in the school age.
 Sec. s. The work of estsbIishinr such districts. as provided in this Act. shall be completed not later than June 1st, 1904. Within ten days after said work shall have been completed. the said several County Redistricting Boards shall make, In writing, an accurate description of each district so established. which descriptions they shall deposit with the Judge of Pro- bate. whose duty 1t shall be to record the same In substantially bound book, to be kept by him for this purpose in his ofice.
 Sec. 6. On the first Saturday in July, 1904, and each fourth year thereafter the qualified electors of each public school district shall meet at the district public school house and elect from among the free-holders and householders who can read and write, residing in such districts, a local Board of three District Trustees, whose duty shall be as hereinafter pro- vided. Such district trustees shall hold office for the term of four years from the time of their election, and until their suc- cessors are elected and qualified.
 Sec. !. The trustees provided for in the last preceding section shall, within ten days after their election meet at the pub lie school district school house, or at some place more convenient to all concerned, and shall organize by electing one of their number chairman and another secretary.
 Sec, 8. The District Trustees shall, dur ing the month of August, 1901, and in every even numbered year thereafter. make an enumeration of all the children within school age in their respective dis tricts, in accordance with the require ments of Section 3573 of the Code of 1896, and report the same as herein provided to the County Superintendent of Education. who shall, by the 18th day of said month. make a written report of such enumera- ton by numbered districts to the State Superintendent of Education. and 1t shall be the duty of the County Superintendent of Education to enumerate or cause to be enumerated al the children of school age in any township or townships in his county in which the sixteenth section in- terest exceeds the amount of per capita apportionment from the general school fund, and report the same to the office of the State Superintendent of Education.
 Sec. g. It shall be the duty of the said Dis- trict Trustees to care for all school prop erty, employ teachers for their school dis tricts, such employment to be subject to the approval of the County Board of Edu- cation, to visit the schools within their respective districts, observe the manage ment of the same, to make quarterly re- ports of the condition of such school to the County Superintendent of Education and to perform such other duties as may be required by the County Board Of Edu- cation hereinafter provided for.
 Sec. 10. The chairman of the several Board of District Trustees shall meet at the court house in their respective coun- ties on the second Saturday in August af- ter their election and every four years therafter, and shall elect four County School Trustees, who shall hold ofhce for the term of four years from the date of their election, and until their suces- sors are elected and qualified. Before en- terinS upon the duties of oftice. they shall take the oath of office prescribed bv the Constitution of the State. The County Superintendent of Education ana said four County Trustees shall consul tute the County Board of Education with in their respective counties. The County sunarintendent of Education shall be the 0hief Executive officer of said county. Boards of Education and shall see that all the rules, regulations and orders Of said County Boards are enforced; provided, however, that no County Trustee shall' during his term of office. be eligible to election as a District Trustee.
 Sec, Il. That said County Board of Education shall have entire control of the public schools within their respec- tive counties, unless otherwise provided by law. They shall make rules and for the government of the of the school, see that teachers perform their duties, and exercise such powers, consistent with the law, as. in their judg- ment will best Subserve the cause of education. The said Board shall have the right to acquire, purchase. lease, receive, hold, transmit and convey the title to real and personal property for school pur- poses. Said Board of Education shall by and in name of County Board of Educa-