The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-12-31

teinber, 1903. The census finall,
FLED contains the names OF Az
children.
"6. George A. Davis, Superin
tendent of Schools at L'Anse, de
poses under oath that within hi
personal knowledge all the children
whose names appear on the salt
census list were actually residents
OF the township OF L'Anse at th'
time the school census should have
been taken, that is, during the fifteer
days prior to the first Monday in
September, 1908.
~. The several members OF The
board of education for L L'Anse town
ship also testified to the fact that
the children whose names appear in
the census were actually residents
OF the district at the time the census
should have been taken, and further
that not all the children who should
have been included in the census
were actually included.
"8. The completed record OF the
school census Of the state is made
and closed by this department on or
before May 1st in each year so that
the apportionment OF primary school
interest fund may be made on May
10th.
20. The census OF L'Anse was
not received at this department
until on or about May Is, 1904, after
the complete record of the state had
been made.
CONCLUSIONS OF THIS DEPARTMENT.
Il. That the census list and finan-
cial statement for L'Anse township
for the year ending September /,
1908, was not fled with the county
commissioner of schools on or before
October 1st, as the law requires.
"2. That said reports were not
fled in the Department Of Public
Instruction on or before November
l, 1903, as the law requires.
"3. That Mr.. Philip Voetsch. Sec
retary OF the board of education,
failed to perform his duty as a public
officer.
"a. That said Voetsch did actually
receive the notifications sent from
this department requesting that the
report should be Immediately filed,
and that he paid no attention what
ever to these notices.
''5. That the other members OF
the board OF education failed in the
performance OF their duty in that
they did not know and determine
absolutely that the secretary Of the
board was performing his duties as
the law required.
"6. That on the date when said
voetsch finally did take action the
records and reports for the year had
all been completed in the depart
ment, and that it was too late then
to receive and include the report
from L'Anse township.
~. 1t appears from the records
that it is probable that the school
census was actually taken on or about
the proper time as the law requires,
this being indicated from the cash
book of the treasurer Of the dis
trict.
''8. That at the time said census
should have been taken and during
the ensuing school year the children
whose names appear in the census
list now in the hands OF this depart.
ment we're actually residents OF the
district.
80. That the superintendent oi
schools and the citizens OF the town
ship we're not to blame for the failure
OF the board OF education, and espe
cially the secretary OF the board, t.
perform duties required by law
Therefore, and by virtue OF the dis
cretionery powers given to the
Superintendent OF Public Instruc
tion by the provisions OF section.
4643 and 4644 Of the Compiled Law.
OF 1897, ! have decided that the pri
mary school interest fund due L Ans,
township for the year 10000 shal
be made up as deficiency in th'
next semi-annual apportionment o
May 10, 1905"