The Huttig news., 1912-06-01
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 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 Act shall have been engaged in the Yoca- .tion of school teaching for the three previous consecutive years is hereby de- clared to be a 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 salu chairman and secretary to serve without further or other compensation than IS now allowed by law.
 Sec 2. 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 of the residence. grade and term of serv- Ice named in Section 1 of this Act. and sha'i 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 desig- mated as the Committee.
 Sec. g 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 hereira eter 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 fnr tyun a nd tyNe yyaa re from and after the date of first election two Commissioners shall be chosen in the same manner in which the original ConNnlssion Is chosen.
 Sec f. That within ten days after the date of the completion of the off ciai rcster named in Section the chair shnii mail 10 each and every member of eatd Comriittee q 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 Comm 'ssieners to be chosen. which nomi- nations n,ade upon blanks to be pre- pare and mailed to the members of the Committee. shall be signed by the Cemmttee member and returned and filet with the secretary of the Com mitsee within 15 days from and after the tate of the call for nominations, and no-nins tinrs received after that date will not be considered.
 
 Committee shall have received 10 or rnore romina tions the secretary of the Corn-,ittee shall notify said nominee that re or she has been nominated as a candidate far a place on said Commis- sier. ard the nominee so notified shall within fiv. days from and after the re- ceirt of the notice, if he or she desires tn serve on said Commission. file with sail sn"retarv an acceptance which shall embrace an agreement to serve on said co~r;ssi n if elected. Nominees who tire re7u'ret shall be deemed to have dselices to serve and their names will not appear noen the official ballot.
 Sac {. Thrt immediately after the for aec'inations and acceptanees the chasr-'an and secretary of the Commit toe shall compile list of all nominees. eiving ite the name of each nomi- Toe t"e total number Of nominations re- ceive' tv each of them. which list shall te prirtei ani mailed to each member of t'e ronr,ittee
 Sec '. Within 10 days after the roni~a tinrs are returned and filed and tsa names of those who have accepted tive romtnation shall have been ascer- tairei. the chairman and secretary of the cor,r'st sttec shall prepare the official tarnt wNich shall contain the names of tfcsa who have received 10 or more noo,irat'nns and have accepted the same with the nerel instructions as in othpr eleetiors stating the number of Com missinrers to be elected and the man TOT Cf voting and the time within which the ha'lets must be returned which shai te K '"vs from the date the ballot are r'a'lea to members of the Commit tee The "anes of candidates shall ap pear on the ballot in alphabetical or 6er ana tNe secretary Of the Committe, shall mail one of said ballots to each enr evHrv member of the committee b fi~st c'ass rnni. and the mailing of all the Nali ts shall be upon the same day
 Sne z Members of the CommitteeI shell 'nsieate their choice of the candi dates hv r'acing an X in the square in frort or t1e name of the candidate for whom the member of the Committee vfs''es ta vote. Each ballot shall be eirrea hw t@e member Of the Committee his er her restoffice address under his or her st~nature. and the said ballot ray he t~a asnitted to the secretary of tSe rc,nm'ttee by first class mail. te furn 'she members of the Committee bv tre secretary for this purpose The erve'o"cs. containing the individual bal lots. uror which shah be printed the worss 'r1ectfon Returns" shall be filed with the secretary of the Committee, who shall inlicate in writing the true date ursn which it was received. after which sa'' envelopes. unopened. shall be deNHs tel in bauot box prepared for tnat pu~-ose
 Ser g. rrm sdiateiy following the tien the State Board of Election Com missiore~s shall canvass the returns and declare the result Of said election Before co9nting the ballots and the num- 1.er of votes Cor the nominees, said Flee ton Co-@ missioners shall compare the names si~ned to each ballot with the Ga~res appearing upon the roster pro- vieel for in Section 9. 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- clared 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 terms indicated in Section 8
 Sec To 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 av law for other state officials and shall immediately enter upon the discharge of their duties as herein defined They shall organize by eiecting one of their number as chairman and another of their members as secretary
 Sec. II. It Is hereby made the duty of the State Text Book Commission to adopt a uniform system of text books for the common schools of the State of Arkansas. and to provide that said books shall be supplied to the patrons of the public schools in the following manner:
 1. By contracting with publishers of adopted books at prices advantageous to school patrons by buying in such auan- titles as will induce such publishers to reduce the margin of profit to the mini-