Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-06-04

attendance for that year; or the said
County Board Of Education may or
der such compulsory school attend
ance to begin at the opening OF the
next succeeding scholastic year. That
where no such petition Is filed, signed
by a majority Of electors as herein
provided, upon the filing Of a petition
signed by one-fourth Of the qualified
electors Of such district, or aggrega-
tion Of districts, an election shall De
ordered by the County Board OF Ed.
ucation, submitted to the qualined
electors Of such district, or aggrega-
tion of districts, the question Of
compulsory school attendance or no
compulsory school attendance for
said district, or aggregation Of dis
tricts: Provided, further, That the
County Board Of Education, in all
school districts containing town OF
a population Of $500 or more inhabi-
tants, upon the petition Of majority
of the Board Of Trustees shall order
such election. The said election shall
be held at the schoolhouse, or school,
houses, for white children, In the SAID
district, or aggregation OF districts.
The managers shall be appointed by
the Board Of Trustees Of each dis
trict, and the said election shall be
conducted in accordance with the
rules governing general elections.
The County Board Of Education shall
supply printed ballots, as follows:
Compulsory school attendance ac-
cepted;" Compulsory school attend
ance rejected" and II the majority vote
in the said election be Compulsory
school attendance accepted" then the
provisions of this Act shall apply to
the said district, or aggregation OF
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held on the second Tuesday in June,
one thousand nine hundred and fif-
teen, following the filing Of the said
petition, or on the second Tuesday In
June Of any subsequent year. Any
district omitting, falling or refusing
to accept compulsory school attend
ance as herein provided, either by
petition or by election, may adopt the
provisions Of this Act in any subse-
quent year, either by petition or by
election as herein provided.
Sec 10. 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
conflict 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 at
tendance Of all children between the
ages Of eight and fourteen years up
on the schools Of the county as here
in provided, and such rules and regu-
lations, when approved by the Coun-
ty Superintendent of Education, and
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 Educa-
ton. The operation of such rules
and regulations may be suspended by
the State Superintendent OF Educa-
tion during the pendency OF such ap-
peal.
Sec. II. No tuition, contingent,
matriculation, incidental, or other fee
of any kind shall be charged or col
lected for the attendance Of any pupil
upon any school In the common or
public school department residing In
this State adopting the provisions OF
this Act.
Sec. -. The County Board Of Ed
ucation shall have full power and
authority to remove from office any
Trustee, or Board Of Trustees, neg
lecting refusing or omitting to carry
out the provisions Of this Act, and to
fill the vacancy thereby created on
said Board in accordance with exist
ing law.
Sec. 13. This Act shall be In full
force and effect from and after the
first day Of July, one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen. All Acts and
parts of Acts inconsistent with this
Act be, and the same are hereby, re-
pealed.
Approved the goth day Of February,
A. D. 1915.
JOHN E. CARROLL,
T. E. McMACK1N,
F. w. HALL,
County Board Of Education.