Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-06
FOR ACT NO. 1. AGAINST ACT NO. 4.
Re 1t Enacted by the People of the State of Arkansas:

Be 1t 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 sl ave been engaged in the voca- tion or .-Shool teaching for the three previous consecutive years, js hereby de- clared to be q member or 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 further or other compensation than is now allowed by law
 Sec. 2. That 1t shall be the duty of the chairman and secretary of said com mittee to immediately prepare and oom- 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 of 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 tional Committee of the State of Ark ansas. which shall in this Act be desig mated as the Committee.
 sec. 5. Ine AfkanSaS IeXt 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 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 two Commissioners shah be chosen in the same manner in which the original Commission is chosen
 Sec. 4. That within ten days after the date Of the completion of the off cial roster named in Section 2 the chair man and secretary of the Committee shall mail to each and every member of said Committee call for nominations of committeeman who may be elected members of said State Text Book Com mission by the Committee. Each mem Der or 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- parel and mailed to the members of 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 nominations. and nominations received, after that date will not be considered.
 Sec D. Whenever any member of the committee small nave 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 Commis-
 sion. and the nominee 50 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 said secretary an acceptance which shall l 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 declinations and acceptanees the | chairman and secretary of the Commit
 tee shall compile list of all nominees. l 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. q Within 10 days after the | nominations are returned and filed and | the names of those who have accepted
 the nomination shall have been ascer- l 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 l 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 ! be IS days from the date the ballots 1 are mailed to members of the Commit | tee. The names of candidates shall ap
 pear on the ballot in alphabetical or l shall mail one of xaid ballots to each l and every member of the committee by 1 first class mail. and the mailing of all
 the ballots shall be upon the same day,