The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1916-05-08
For Better Schools

TO establish a Board of Educa-
ton for the County of Ben Hill
and to incorporate the same, to
define its duties and powers, and
for other purposes.
Section |. The General Assem-
bly, do enact, That from and after
the passage of this Act there shall
be established in and for the
County of Ben Hill, Board of
Education to be styled the
Board of Public Education for
Ben Hill County" which shall be
charged with the direction and
control of the education of white
and colOred children of said Coun-
ty, between the ages of six and
eighteen years and which shall be
entirely distinct from, and indie
pendent of, "The Georgia State
Board of Education:" Provided
that the Board of Education shall
furnish to the State School Com
missioner all statistics and infor-
nation relative to the schools and
children of said county, which
may be required of them by said
Commissioner.
Section 2. Be it further enact
ed that citizens of Ben Hill coun.
ty shall constitute the Board Of
Education for said county and
that from this number its mem.
bers shall elect chairman, sec.
rotary and treasurer, each with
the respective authority and du-
ties devolving on such office, that
the Mayor of the city of Fitzger-
aid, the judge of the court of Or
binary and the Clerk of the Su-
'perlor Court of Ben Hill county
shall be cX-ofhcio members of the
Board of Education of Ben Hill
county and these officers together
with the said citizens of Ben Hill
county, shall constitute the Board
OF Education, and under the name
and style aforesaid, shall be and
they are hereby created a body
polite and corporate, for the pur-
pose aforesaid, and as such, shall
have full power and authority to
establish, and from time to time
modify d system of education for
white and colored children be-
tween the ages of six and eight
cen, in the County of Ben Hill,
and to carry out and superintend
the same; to select, appoint and
remove superintendent, teach
ers, and all other employees under
SAID system to provide school
houses; to make bylaws for their
own government, and rules and
regulations for the government
OF superintendent, and of the tea
cheers and schools under their con-
troll; to establish schools, in their
discretion, and to prescribe the
studies pursued in the same: Pro
V1ded, however, that they shall
not introduce into any school es-
tabllshed by them any book of a
sectarian character; and provided
further, That said schools shall
be SO established as to extend
impartially, the benefits of the
same to white and colored child
rem, and to the different sections
OF SAID County of Ben Hill due
regard being had to differences
IN population; to purchase. take.
receive, hold and enjoy, for the
purpose aforesaid, moneys and
real and personal estate, by bar
gam and sale, gift, grant. con
tract' devise or bequest; to sue
ana be sued by the name and sty-
lie aforesaid; to have and use a
common seal, and generally. shall
De clothed with all the rights,
powers and privileges incident to
corporations and necessary or
convenient for carrying out the
purposes Of their creation.
Section 3. Be it further enact
ed, That the said Board shall be
entitled to and receive, for the
purposes aforesaid from tho