The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-08-29
SIX ARE TO BE CHOSEN AT THE
ELECTION IN DECEMBER.
CAN HOLD NO OTHER OFFICE
The Number OF Members OF the Board
Reduced FROM Twelve to Six. City
School Law Amended.

School Law Amended.
The voters of Dawson will have to
choose six members of the board of
the city school commissioners at the
city election in December
The law creating d system of public
schools in Dawson was amended dur
ing the recent session of the general
assembly and the board of commits
sion reduced from twelve to six in
number. Ii was provided also for the
election Of members of the board by
the people instead of by the city
council and the board itself, as at
present. Another feature of the law
as amended is that no member of the
board can hold any other city office.
1t stops doublebarrel office holding.
The law was amended upon the unani-
nous request of the present board.
The present commissioners, who
will go out of office on the first of JAN
uary, are j, A. Laing, j. G. Dean, Il.
l.. Rainey, A. J, Baldwin, j. M.
Griggs, w. G. Kendrick A. j. Car
yer, r. L. Melton, w: Fl. Davis, f. f.
Clark and b. F. Melton. DR.. w. w.
Farnum was the twelfth member. OF
these Messrs. Laing, Griggs, Baldwin,
Dean, Rainey and Kendrick have
been members of the board since the
inauguration of the public schools in
Dawson in 1S89-seventeen years
ago. Messrs. Baldwin and Rainey
have respectively been treasurer and
secretary of the board all of this time.
Each of the other members of the
board have served continuously for
several years. The act amending the
school law is as follows:
bill to be entitled An Act to
amend sections and 4 of an Act to
establish a system of public graded
schools in the City of Dawson, ap-
proved October 10th, 1889, so as to
make the Board of School Commits
! sioners of Dawson elected by the~peo-
pie, to change the number of said
Commissioners from twelve Q2) to
six (6), to fix their terms of Office,
and for other purposes.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Georgia, and it
is hereby enacted by the authority of
the same, that the Act approved Octo-
Der 10th, 1889, entitled An Act to es-
tablish system of public schools in
the City of Dawson, and for other pur-
poses, found on page 1907 of the Acts
of the General Assembly of Georgia
for 1889, be and the same is hereby
amended by striking from said Act
section g. and substituting therefor
the following: THAT there shall be
Board of School Commissioners for
said public schools, consisting of six
persons, who shall be male citizens
of Dawson, twenty-one years of age.
and of good moral character, all of
whom shall be elected by the qualified
voters of said city of Dawson at the
next municipal election for Mayor and
Aldermen of said city, and at the same
time and under the same provisions
as said officers are elected. Three of
said commissioners shall be elected
for a period of two years, and three
for a period of four years, and each
succeeding two years after the cleo
ton of the first commissioners an cleo
ton shall be held at the regular city
election for three commissioners for a
term of four years to succeed the COM
missioners whose terms will then eX-
pire, which said election shall be held
under the same provisions and at the
same time and place as the Mayor and
Aldermen or Aldermen are elected.
Should any vacancy or vacancies oc-
cur the same shall be filled at the next
city election for Mayor and Aldermen
or Aldermen, and under the same reg
ulations and provisions governing said
election. No official of the city of
Dawson shall be eligible to election
as a member of said Board. They and
their successors in Office shall have
power to take and hold all property,
both personal and real, that they may
acquire by purchase, donation or
otherwise, in trust for said city of
Dawson, with the right to sue and the
liability of being sued"
Section q Be it further enacted,
That all Of the fourth section of said
act after the word hands in the
sixth line thereof, shall be stricken
out.
Section 3. Be it further enacted,
That all laws and parts of laws in con
fict with this act be, and the same
are hereby repealed.