The Prescott daily news., 1912-05-31
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 pile from the records of the office of the stale 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, ana 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,
 Sec. 8. The Arkansas Text Book Con- mission, composed of SIX members or the Committee, to be chosen in the man ner herein provided. the duty of which is 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 serve for two years. and every two years from and after the date of first election 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 ms mber 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 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 on said Commis 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 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 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- 
 be printed and mailed to each member of the Committee.
 Sec '. Within 10 days after the 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 ballot which shall contain the names of those who have received 10 or more nominations and have accepted the same with the usual instructions in other elections. stating the number of Com missioners to be elected. and the man. ner of voting and the time within which the a'lots must be returned, which shall be 15 days from the date the ballots are mailed to members of the Commit tee. The names of candidates shall ap- 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 hv first class mail. and the mailing of all the ballots shall be upon the same day.
 Sec. s. Members of the Committee shall indicate their choice of the candi- dates by placing an X in the square in 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 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 it was received, after which said envelopes unopened. shall be deposited in a baYrot box prepared for that purpose.
 Sec. g. Immediately following the date named for the closing of the cleo tion the State Board of Election Com mfssioners 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- tion Commissioners shall compare the names signed to each ballot with the names appearing upon the roster pro- vided for in Section 2 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 missioners shall issue their certificates or election to the successful candidates and file the same with the Governor who shall issue commissions for the terms 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 of their duties as herein defined They shall organize by electing 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 ad hooks at ad mt to school patrons by buying in such quan- titles as will induce such publishers to reduce the margin of profit to the mini mum
 g. By preparing or causing tn ha