Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-15
FOR ACT NO. 4. AGAINST ACT NO. 4.
Be 1t Enacted by the People of the State of Arkansas:

Be 1t Enacted by the People of the State
 of Arkansas:
 Section l.. That every school teacher who resides in this State. who holds q first grade certificate to teach in the public schools of the State and who is now, and at the date of the approval of this tlon of school teaching for the three previous consecutive years, is hereby de- ciared to be member or Popular l1du- cational Committee. the duties of which shall be hereinafter particularly defined. That the superintendent of public in- struction is hereby made the chairman or 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 further or other compensation than is now allowed by law
 Sec. 9 That it shall be the duty of the chairman and secretary of said com pile from the records of the office of the state superintendent of public instruc- t1on and the offices of the several county examiners of this State a complete ros- ter or list of all the teachers of the State of the residence. grade and term of serv- Ice named in Section 1 of this Act. and shall indicate opposite the name of each teacher his or her postoffice address, and said roster or list 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 members of the Committee. to be chosen in the man
 ner herein provided, the duty of which
 is hereinafter prescribed, is hereby cre- ated. Said Commissioners shall serve
 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 rom and after the date of first election fuyn ,s,,t xe same manner fl, which the original Commission is chosen.
 q, Sec. 1. That within ten days after
 cial roster named in Section 2 the chair
 man and secretary of the Committee
 shall mail to each and every member of @ said Golnmittee call for nominations
 members of said State Text Book Com mission by the Committee. Each mem per or said committee may nominate as many candidates as thcre are Text Book Commissloners to be chosen. which nomi- nations, made upon blanks to he pre-
 pared pa and mailed to the members of committee member and returned and i filed with the secretary of the Com.
 mittee m within l days from and after nominations received after that date
 will not be considered. ~ Sec > 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 so notified shall within five days from and after the re ceipt 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
 com,mission %, mi s!,, if elected. Nominees who time required shall be deemed to have declined to serve and their names will
 not appear upon the official ballot.
 a Sec. .. That immediately after the date Tor the closing of nominations aud for declinations and acceptances fhe chairman and secretary of the Commit tee shall compile list of all nominees.
 giving opposite tho name of each nomi
 nee tne total number of nominations re-
 ceived by each of them, which list shall be printed and mailed to each memher
 of, the Committee Sec. '. Within 10 days after the
 organizations are returned and filed and
 the nomination shall have been. ascer- tained, 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 efections. stating the number of Com rptssioners to be elected. and the man
 rer of voting and the time within which tue palIots must be returned. which shall pc 15 days from the date the ballots
 are mailed ,toSmemheEs 4ofathe sC,omsnit. tee. The names of candidates shall an. pear on the ballot i'll alphabetical or. derxand the secretary or the Committee sn9fl mall one of said ballots to each rlst class mail. and the mailing of all 1 tnes ballots shail be upon the same day