The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1912-06-21
ron ACT NO. Z.
A0AIM0T ACT NO. 4.

OF Arkansas.
Section 1. That every school teacher
who resides in this State. who holds first
grade certificate to teach in the public
schools of the State and who liz now.
and at the date of the approval of this
Act shall have been engaged in the yoca-
ton of school teaching for the three
previous consecutive years. is hereby de-
ciared to be a member or a Popular Edu-
cational Committee the duties of which
shall be hereinafter particularly defined.
That the superintendent OF public in
struction is hereby made the chairman
of said committee. and the said chair
man shall designate some employe of his
office to act as secretary thereof. said
chairman and secretary to serve without
Sec g. That 1t snail be the duty of
the chairman and secretary of said COM
mittee to Immediately prepare and com
pile from the records of the office Of the
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton and the offices of the several county
examiners of this state complete ros-
ter or list of all the teachers of the state
of the residence. grade and term of serY-
ice named in Section l of this Act and
shall indicate opposite the name of each
and said roster or list SO compiled shall
constitute the official Popular Educa-
tional Committee of the State of Ark
ansas which shall in this Act be desig-
mated as the Committee.
Sec. 3. The Arkansas Text Book Com
mission, composed of SIX mcpbers of
the Committee. to be chosen in The man
ner herein provided. the duty of which
Is hereinafter prescribed is hereby Gre
ated. Said Commissioners shall serve
terms as follows The two receiving
the greatest number or votes shall
serve for six years: the two receiving
the next greatest number of votes shall
serve four years. and the two receiving
the next greatest number of votes shall
serve for two years, and every two years
from and after the date of first election
two Commissioners shall be chosen in
the same manner in which the original
Commission is chosen.
Sec. T. That within ten days after
the date of the completion of the off
cial roster named in Section the chair
man and secretary of the Committee
shall mail to each and every member of
said Committee a call for nominations
of committeeman who may be elected
members of said State Text Book Com
mission by the Committee. Each mem
Der of said committee may nominate as
many candidates as there are Text Book
Commissioners to be CHOSEN, which nomi-
nations. made upon blanks to be pre-
pared and mailed to the members of
the Committee, shall be signed by the
Committee member and returned and
filed with the secretary of the Com
nnttee within Is days from and after
the date of the call for nominations, and
nominations received after that date
will not be considered.
Sec. g. Whenever any member of the
Committee shall have received 10 or
more nominations the secretary OF the
Committee shall notify said nominee
that he or she has been nominated as a
candidate for place on said Commits
sion. and the nominee 50 notified shall
within five days from and after the re
eeipt of the notice. If he or she desires
to serve on said Commission. file with
said secretary an acceptance which shall
embrace an agreement TO serve on said
Commission If elected. Nominees who
fail to file such acceptaIfCes within the
time required shall be deemed to have
declined to serve and their names will
not appear upon the official ballot.
Sec 6. That Immediately after the
date for the closing of nominations and
for deelinations and aeeeptances the
chairman and secretary of the Commit
tee shall compile list of all nominees.
giving opposite the name OF each nomi-
nee the total number OF nominations re.
ceiVed by each OF them. which list shall
be printed and mailed to each member
of the Committee.
Sec, 7. Within 10 days after the
nominations are returned and filed and
the names of those who have accepted
the nomination shall have been ascer-
tanned. the chairman and secretary Of
the committee shall prepare the official
ballot, which shall contain the names OF
those who have received 10 or more
nominations and have accepted the same
With the usual instructions as in other
Elections stating the number of Com
missioners to be elected. and the man
ner of voting and the time within which
the ballots must be returned. which shall
be Is DAYS from the date the ballots
are mailed to members OF the Commit
tee. The names of candidates shall ap-
pear on the ballot in alphabetical or
der and the secretary OF the Committee
shall mail one of said ballots to each
and every member of the committee bV
first class mail. and the mailing of all
the ballots shall be upon the same day.
Sec. s. Members OF the Committee
shall indicate their choice of the candi-
front OF the name of the candidate for
whom the member of the Committee
wishes to vote. Each ballot shall he
signed by the member OF the Committee
voting the same. who shall also write
his or her postoffice address under his
OF her signature. and the said ballot
may be transmitted to the secretary oi
the Committee by first class mail
Printed elf-addresse1 envelopes shall
be furnished members OF the Committee
by the secretary for this purpose The
envelopes containing the indtvidaul bal
lots upon which shall be printed the
words Election Returns. shall be FILED
with the secretary of the Committee
who shall indicate in writing the true
date upon which IL was received. after
which said envelopes. unopened shall
be deposited in a barot box prepared
for that purpose.
date named for the closing of the cleo
ton the State Board of Election Com
micsoners shall canvass the returns
and declare the result of said election
Before counting the ballots and the num-
Der OF votes for the nominees. said Elec-
tlon Commissioners shall compare the
names signed to each ballot with the
names appearing upon the roster pro
Yided for In Section 2. and in case the
names signed to the ballots do not APP
pear upon the official roster such ballot
will not be counted. After the ballots
have been counted and the result de-
clared the State Board OF Election Com
missieners shall issue their certificates
of ale1tion TO the successful candidates
EMO file the same with the Governor
who shall issue commissions for the
terms indicated in Section
See. 10 Withis ten days after the
date Of their election the Commissioners
shall meet In the city of Little Rock
and take the oath of Office prescribed nv
law for other state officials and shall
Immediately enter upon the discharge
of their duties as herein defined They
shall organize by eleeting one of thel
number as chairman and another -.
their members as secretary.
Sec. IL. 1t is hereby made the duty
of the State Text Book Commission I,
adopt a uniform system of text book,
for the common schools of the State Ot
Arkansas, and to provide that sale
books shall be supplied to the patron:
of tho nubiic schools in the follow ms