Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1907-11-01
THE LIGHT
TURNED ON
More Light On the Contingent
Fee of the High School.


18th, Mr.. Williams gives reasons
why he should not aad cannot make
the report $50 much clamored for. A"
First he says: Printing reports
cost money. but good business meth
odS save money" The law on this
is Acts 1906, .22i, reads "Thc sever
nj county and district school boards
in Virginia are required TO cause 10
be made after the annual settlement
with the cuonty Treasurer n sta;c-
ment show ing the RECIPES ard dis
burSements of the school funds for
the year tnen ending, which said
settlement, printed ns n band bill.
shall be posted on the front door of
every court house aad voii lg place i'm
the county" Penalty for not doing
so: 1.-The Judge of the Circuit Court
at the next session of his court next
succeeding the annual settlement of
the county and district school board
with the treasurer, shall, in his dis
cretion instruct tie grand jury TO as
certain whether or not the county
and district school board have made
and posted the statement herein re-
quired. And if the grand jury shall
discover that said stateme ITS have
not been made and posted as required
by law, then indictments shall be
found against each of the members
composing the said county and dis
trict school board, who shall lie
deemed guilty of Il misdemeanor, and
upon conviction, shall be fined not
less than ten dollars nor more than
one hundred dollars"
cannot think that any unlawful
business method Is good business
metho3' let il cost what il may.
Second, he cannot make report
because the Board of Supervisors re-
fused To allow room i'm the Court
House To be occupied rs an Office for
the school Superintendent, thereby
forcing the Superintendent TO change
offices frequently, ana in so doing
lost many valuable papers.
Too bad 10 think that or Superin-
tendent was being bufreted about
from Office 10 Office, when Farruday
Coal and Coke Company was occupy
ing large front room in the high
school building with an adjoining
room TO store their valuable papers.
The Board of Supervisors may have
had this I'm mind when they refused.
Mr.. Williams motto: Equal rights
TO all and special privileges to none"
is good, though our law makers,
fearing some nigh. not agree OF this
point, has placed in Che Code, Section
1899, reading: For the purpose of
encouraging an intermediate grade OF
instruction between that of gram
mar school and that of the college,
provided, tnat for the instruction ia
such higher branches the board may
require n fec TO be paid monthly or
quarterly i'm advance net TO exceed
two dollars and fifty GEMS per month
for each pupil. As "gooI business
IN ethods' The board las ra sed tais
to three dollars aud thirty rec and
one third cents per mon,h FOX each
pupil, with n chrome attached in tie
y
for which l can't quote the code or
section, not being able to find L..
appeal TO the parents and Ia \
payers of this town TO know if we
are TO sit idly by and continue 10
hand out our money mt the Tate vf
thirty dollars for each pupil, in addi-
tion 10 the State, Coun y and Corpor-
alton tax we now pay? Or snail we
stand together and ask the Council To
have this corporation made n separate
school district as prescribed in Code,
Sec. 1869, reading: "a town OF more
than five hundred inhab. sants may,
if the council SO. elect, be contsitutol /
n single school district, andsuch coun-
Gil shall have the power TO appoint
three school trustees To serve ore and
two years eacn, thereby enjoying the
same school privileges that the towns
OF Richlands, Graham and Pocahonts
enjoy absolutely free, for which priv
ilege we pay thirty dollars and n
chrome.
The funds available for this school
! would DE our town tax n now paid,
amounting TO $2S56. To this amount,
by the town paying S4C0, the State
Board of Education will pay $40O.
This, with the proportional part of
the State and county tax should run
the school as ii does in other places.
Under the present arrangement the
teachers of the school here are paid
$2405 for the seven months term, this
being the end of the free school term.
1t may not be out of place to call Mr.
Williams attention to the great in
justice dope the free school children
by continuing the free school for two
months as "A pay shcool. With "equal
rights TO all' the free school should
stop at the end of the free school
term, and not force the children TO go