Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-01-30
SCHOOL LEGISLATION
Continued from first pa0e)

expire and until their successors are
elected and qualified
Sec. 4736. The county board OF
education shall as soon as possible
after organizing make survey OF
it's district. The board shall arrange
the schools according to topography
and population in order that they
may be most easily accessible to pu-
pills. To this end the county board
shall have power by resolution at
any regular or special meeting to
change school district lines and trans
fer territory from one rural or vii
lage school district to another. A
map designating such changes shall
be entered on the records of the, board
and copy of the resolution and map
shall be filed with the county audi
tor. In changing boundary lines the
board may proceed without regard to
township lines and shall provide that
adjoining rural districts are as near
~ equal as possible in property valu-
Iation. In no case shall any rural dis
trict be created containing less than
fifteen square miles. In changing
boundary lines and other work of a
like nature the county board shall
ask the assistance of the county sur
veyor and the latter is hereby re-
quired to give the services of his Of
flee at the formal request of the
county board.
Sections 1926 and 4727 relate to
the Capitalization of rural schools.
Sections 4747 and 4747-1 relate to or
ganization and meetings of Boards of
Education in city, village and rural
districts.
Sections 7730, 7730-1 and 7731 deal
with the suspension of schools, the
transportation of pupils to schools
and when and how schools are to be
abandoned in districts where the
electors have voted against central
ization, fixing the minimum average
daily attendance necessary to the
continuance of school at IL.
Sec. 4737. The county board of ed
ucation shall publish with the adj
vice of the county superintendent a
minimum course of study which shall
be guide to local boards of educa-
tion in prescribing the courses of
study for the school under their con-
troll. The county board may publish
different courses of study for village
and rural school districts.
Sec. 473S. The county board of
education shall within thirty days af-
| ter organizing divide the county
school district into supervision dis
tricts, each to contain one or more
village or rural school districts. The
territory of such supervision dis
tricts shall be contiguous and COM
pact. In the formation of the super
i go. 49, <1o~, c1 ho
given to the number of teachers en-
ployed, the amount of consolidation
and Capitalization, and the condition
of the roads. The territory in the
different districts shall be as nearly
equal as practicable and the number
| of teachers employed in any one sup
Iervision district shall not be less than
twenty nor more than eighty.
Sec. 4739. Each supervision shall
be under the direction of district
superintendent Such district super
intendent shall be elected by the pres
Iidents of the boards of education
within such district, except that where
such supervision district contains
three or less rural or village school
districts the boards of education of
such school districts in joint session
shall elect such superintendent. The
district superintendent shall be en-
| ployed' upon the nomination of the
county superintendent but the board
electing such district superintendent
may by three-fourths vote elect a
district superintendent not so nomi-
mated.
Sec. 4740. Any village or rural
district or union of school districts
for supervision purposes which al
ready employs a superintendent who
gives at least three-fourths of his
time to supervision, whether the num-
ber of teachers employed are twenty
Ior less, shall upon application to the
county board of education be contin-
| ued as a separate supervision dis
trict so long as the superintendent re-
ceives salary of at least one thou
sand dollars and continues to give
three-fourths of his time to super