Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-06-01
FOR ACT NO. 4. AGAINST ACT NO. 4.
Re 1t Enacted by the People of the State

Re 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 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 previous consecutive years, is hereby de- clared to be member or q 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 chairman and secretary to serve without further or other compensation than Is now allowed by law,
 the chairman and secretary of said com mittee to immediately prepare and com pile from the records of the office of the state snperintendent of public instruc- 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 desig mated as the Committee.
 occ 0. lie ATkdilSAS ext 6OOk SOI- mission. composed of six members of the Committee, to be chosen in the man. ner herein. provided. the duty of which ted IS here,nafter in & 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 O ind fft tnn thA <1r.ko <,fF al two Commissioners shall 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 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 Con- 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- the Committee. shall be signed by the Committee member and returned and filed with the secretary of the Com the date of the call for nominations, and nominations received after that date will not be considered.
 Sec. 5. 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 said Commis- sion. and the nominee so notified shall within five days from and after the re- eetpt of the notice. if he or she desires to serve on said Commission, file with said 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 Sec. 6. That immediately after the date for the closing of nominations and for decltnattons and acceptances the chairmap and secretary of the Commit tee shall compile list of all nominees. giving opposite the name of each nomi- nee the total number of nominations re- cetved by each of them, which list shall be printed and mailed to each member Of the Committee
 nominations are returned and filed and 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 IS. days from the date the ballots are mailed to members of the Commit pear on the ballot in alphabetical or der. end tho secretary Of the Committee sheu mall one of said pallofs t9 each and every member Of the committee bs ] ths beiiots shaii bs upon the sape day