Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-22
EOR ACT NO. 4. AGAINST ACT NO. 4.
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Arkansas:

Be it Enacted by the People of the State
 of Arkansas:
 Section 1. That every school teacher who resides in this State, who holds first schools of the State and who is now, and at the date of the approval of this Act shall have been engaged in the voca tion of school teaching for the three clared to be d member or Popular E,du- catiOnal Committee. the duties of which shall be hereina taer 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 chairman and secretary to serve without further or other compensa ton than is now allowed by law
 Sec. ?. That it shall 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- tion and the offices of the several county examiners of this State a complete ros- ter or list of all the teachers of the State or the residence, grade and term of serv shall indicate opposite the name of each teacher his ,or her. postoffice address. 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 desg- mated as the Committee.
 Sec. 5. The Arkansas Text Book Com mission, composed of SIX members of the Committee to be chosen in the man. ner herein provided the duty of which is hereinafter prescribed. is hereby ere terms as follows: The two receiving the greatest number Of 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. 4. That within ten days after 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 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 tho members of the Committee, shall be signed by the Committee member and returned and filed with the secretary of the Com mittee within 15 days from and after the date of the call for nomination and will not be considered.
 Sec. 5. Whenever any member of the committee ,,,nrn shall have received 10 or nor, more ,,,i examinations the secretary of the that he or she has been nominated as a candidate for place on said Commits sion. and the nominee so notified shall within five days from and after the re- ce1pt of the notice. if he or she desires to serve on said Commission, file with sald secretary an acceptance which shall embrace an agreement to serve on said Commission if elected. Nominees who fail to file such acceptances 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 for declinatons and acceptances the chairman and secretary of the Commit tee shall compile list of all nominees swing opposite tho name of each nomi- 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 the names of those who have accepted the nomination shall have been ascer- tained, the chairman and secretary of the. committee shall prepare the official 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 ner of voting and the time within which the ballots must be returned, which shall be- 15 days from the date the ballots are mailed to-. members of the Commit. pear on Sthe ballot in alphabetical or. der. and the secretary Of the Committee shall mail one of said ballots to each end every member of the committee by the ballots shall bs upon the same day