Pocahontas star herald., 1912-06-14
FOR ACT NO. 4.
AGAINST ACT no. 4.
BE It Enacted by the People of the state
of A rlfnueaq.

who resides i'm this State, who holds nISt
grade certificate to teach tn the puDhc
schools of the State and who Is now
and at the date of the approval OF TINS
Act shall have been engaged In the vOca-
tion of school teaching for the tilIee
previous consecutive years Is hereby 1e-
clarcd to be a member or Popular Nlu-
Cational COMMITTEES, the duties of when
shall be hereinafter particularly deflneu'
Frhat the superintendent OF publc IN
Etruction Is hereby made the chairman
OF said committee. and the salu cnali
unan shall designate some emplOye OF his
office TO act as secretary Thereon; sa,u ,,t
chairman and secretary to. serve without
Further or other compensation than IS
now allowed by law.
Sec. g. That II 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 tne
state superintendent Of public instruc-
ton and the offices of the several county
examiners OF this State q complete Ios-
ter or list Of all the teachers OF the state
of the residence, grade and term OF serV,
ice named In Section ! of this Act, ana
shall Indicate opposite the name of each
teacher his or her postoffice address,
aud said roster or list so compiled shall
constitute the official Popular iduca-
tional Committee of the State of Ark
ansas which shall in this Act be deslg-
mated as the Committee,
Sec 3. The Arkansas Text Book Com
snission composed of SIX members OF
the COMMITTEES to be chosen in the man
ner herein provided, the duty of when
rs hereinafter prescribed, Is hereby ere
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
w
from and after the date of first election
two Commissioners shall be chosen IN
the same manner I'm which the original
Commission is chosen.
Sec. 4. That within ten days after
thc 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
mittee within 10 days from and after
The date of the call for nominations, and
Will not be considered
Sec. 5. Whenever any member OF the
Committee shall have received 10 orl
more nominations the secretary of the
Committee shall notify said nominee
that he or she has been nominated as a
candidate for q place on said Commits
sion. and the nominee so notified shall
within five days from and after the re-
capt of the notice II he or she desires
40 serve on said Commission, file with
said secretary an acceptance which shall
embrace an agreement 10 serve on said
Commission IL elected. Nominees who
fall to file such acceptances within the
time required shall be deemed to havel
declined to serve and their names will
not appear upon the official ballot
Sec 6, That Immediately after thel
date for the closing of nominations and
for declinations and acceptances the
chairman and secretary of the Commit |
toe shall compile a 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
nomina tions are returned and filed and
the nommatiOn shall have been ascer-
tained, the chairman ana secretary of
the committee shall prepare the official
ballot which shall contain the names of
those who have received le or more
nominations and have accepted the same
with the usual instructions as in other
elections. stating the number of Com
snissioners to be elected and the man
ner of voting and the time within which
the ba ilots must be returned which shall
he 15 days from the date the ballots
are mailed to members of the Commit
tee The names of candidates shall APP
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 by
first class mail. and the mailing of all
the ballots shall be upon the same day
Sec. 8. Members of the Committee
shall indicate their choice of the candi-
dates by placing an Y in the square I'm
front of the name of the candidate for
whom the member of the Committee
wishes to vote Each ballot shall be
signed by the member OF the Committee
voting the same. who shall also write
his or her postoffice address under his
or her signature, and the said ballot
may be transmitted TO the secretary Of
the Committee by first class mail
Printed self-addressed envelopes shall
be furnished members of the Committee
by the secretary for this purpose The
envelopes, containing the individual 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
lbe deposited In a barOt box prepared
for that purpose
Sec, .. Immediately following the
date named for the closing of the cleo
tion the State Board of Election Com
missioners 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
vided for I'm Section ?. and in case the
names signed to the ballots do not ap-
pear upon the official roster such ballot
will not be counted. After the ballots
have been counted and the result de-
c!ared the State Board OF Election Com
missicners shall issue their certificates
of election to the successful candidates
and file the same with the Governor
who shall issue commissions for the
teTms indicated in Section 3
Sec. 10. Within 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 bv
law for other state officials and shall
Immediately enter upon the discharge
shall organize by electing one OF their
number as chairman and another OF
their members as secretary.
Sec. H. II is hereby made the duty
of the State Text Book Commission to
adopt a uniform system of text books
Arkansas, and 90 provide that said
books shall be supplied TO the patrons
Of the public schools in the following
manner:
j. BY contracting with publishers Of
adopted books at prices advantageous to