The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-06
roE ACT NC. f. AGAINST ACT NO. {.
Be 1t Enacted by the People of the State
 of Arkansas.

Be t 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 voca- 1 tion of school teaching for the three previous consecutive years. Is hereby de- clared to be member or Popular Edu- T. 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 com pile from the records of the office of the state superintendent of public instruc- ton and tho 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- lee named in Section l of this Act, and 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 aFsas, which shall in this Act be desig mated as the Committee.
 
 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 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 fro mud aFt Ftnfa Hn d ta of rof oiA two Commissioners shal! be chosen in the same manHer in which the original Commission is chosen.
 Sec. f. That within ten days after the date of the completion of the off cial roster named in Section the chair and seereta::. e 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 hy 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 5 days from and after the date of the call for nominations. and nominations received after that date will not be considered.
 Sec g. 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 Commits sion. and the nominee so notified shall within five days from and after the re- geipt of the notice, if ne 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 v'ill not appear upon the official ballot Sec 6 That immediately after the date for the closing of nominations and for declinations and acceptances the chairman and secretary of the Commit tee shall compile a list of all nominees, giving opposite the name of each nomi- nee the total number of nominations re- ! cetved hy each of them, which list shall | be printed and mailed to each member l of the Committee.
 | nominations are returned and filed and | the names of those who have accepted ! the nomination. shaif ha4vs been asa-f1 l tained. the chairman and secretary of | the committee shall prepare the official | ballot which shall contain the names ot | those who have received 10 or more | nominations and have accepted the same | with the usual instructions as Tn other l elections. stating the number of Conn | missioners to be elected. and the man. | ner of voting and the time within which | the ballots must he returned which shall ' be l5 days from the date the ballots ! are mailed to meinbefe of the Commit 1 tee The names Of canil1atas shall ap- | pear on the ballot iH alphabetical or | der and the secretary or the Committee 1 shall mail one Of said ballots to zach | and every member of the committee bv
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