The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-04-28

state the proposed length Of the term
as nearly as practicable, and a copy
signed by at least a majority Of the
Board of Trustees shall be filed at the
date of issuance in the Office Of the
County Superintendent Of Education
In any district, aggregation Of adjoin-
ing districts, this Act shall not take
effect and become operative until, and
unless, a petition signed by MAORI
ty of the qualified electors Of such
district, aggregation of districts, re-
questing the compulsory school at
tendance under this Act be authorized
in such territory, shall have been
submitted to the Clerk OF Court. The
said Clerk Of Court shall examine
such petition with especial reference
to the legibility Of the names contain
ed thereon, and after examination
shall refer such petition to the Coun-
ty Board Of Registration. Along with
the petition the Clerk Of Court shall
send his written statement showing
that he has counted the names thereon
and has found them to be so many
| giving the number). Immediately
upon receipt Of the petition and the
statement Of the Clerk of Court, the
County Board of Registration shall
check such petition against the regis
tration books Of the county or Of such
number thereof as may be affected,
and the said County Board Of Regis
tration shall certify it's findings in
writing to the County Superintendent
of Education. Upon receipt Of such
certificate showing that such petition
bears the signatures Of majority of
the qualified voters of the territory
affected, the County Board Of Educa-
ton shall forthwith declare the pro-
visions Of this Act Of full force and
effect in such territory. If such peti-
ton for any district, or aggregation
Of districts, is filed with the Clerk cf
Court, checked by the County Board
Of Registration, and certified to the
County Superintendent Of Education
after the opening Of any school or
schools, the County Board of Educa-
ton may fix the date for the begin
ming of.the compulsory school atten-
dance for that year; or the said Coun-
ty Board of Education may order such
compulsory school attendance to begin
at the opening Of the next succeeding
scholastic year. That where no such
petition is filed, signed by majority
Of the electors as herein provided,
upon the filing Of a petition signed by
one-fourth of the qualified electors Of
such districts, or aggregation Of dis
tricts, an election shall be ordered by
the County Board Of Education, sub
mitting to the qualified electors Of
such district, or aggregation Of dis
tricts, the question of compulsory
school attendance of no compulsory
school attendance for said district, or
aggregation of districts: Provided,
further, That the County Board Of
Education, in all school districts con-
tanning town Of a population Of
1,500 or more inhabitants, upon the
petition of majority Of the Board Of
Trustees shall order such election.
The said election shall be held at the
schoolhouse, or schoolhouses, for
white children, in the said district, or
aggregation of districts. The manag-
ers shall be appointed by the Board
of Trustees of each district, and the
said election shs'! be conducted in
accordance with the rules governing
general elections. The County Board
of Education shall supply printed bal
lots, as follows: Compulsory school
attendance accepted" compulsory
school attendance rejected" and if the
majority vote in the said election
Compulsory school attendance ac-
cepted," then the provisions of this
Act shall apply to the said district, or
aggregation of districts. The said
election shall be held on the second
Tuesday in June, one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen, following the
fling Of the said petition, or on the
second Tuesday in June of any subse-
quent year. Any district omittlng,
failing, or refusing to accept compul-
sorry school attendance as herein pro-
yided, either by petition or by cleo
ton, may adopt the provisions of this
Act in any subsequent year, either by
retition or by election as hereinaboye
provided.
1G. The Board of Education OF
each county. and in case Of towns and
cities of two thousand inhabitants,
the Board of Trustees therein shall
have power at any meeting to make
such rules and regulations not in coll
flict with the provisions hereof, as
they may deem best with reference to
the time, place and hours for school
attendance so as to secure the atten-
dance of all children between the
ages Of eight and fourteen years upon
the schools of the county as herein
provided, and such rules and regula-
tons, when approved by the County
Superintendent Of Education, AMI
posted at the courthouse door and at
the door Of each public schoolhouse
in the territory affected thereby, shall
have the force of law until, and un-
less, they have been revoked on ap-
peal by the State Board of Education.
The operation of such rules and regu-
lations may be suspended by the State
Superintendent of Education during
the pendency of such appeal.
II. No tuition, contingent, matric-
ulation, incidental, or other fee of any
kind shall be charged or collected for