Year: 1862




thereat, except that of adjourning to some
time and place to be agreed on by the COM
missioners present, and at all meetings of
said commissioners the treasurer of the
school fund of the county hereafter to be
appointed shall attend and lay before them
his books and accounts for their inspection
and examination.


Sec. 7. And be 1t further enacted That
the said commissioners shall cause to be
kept regular record Of all their acts and
proceedings in a book to be kept for that
purpose, and said record, or copy thereof
certified to be correct under the hands and
seals of a majority of said board of COM
missioners shall be considered evidence of
their acts and proceedings in all judicial
proceedings. And the board of cvmmis-
sioners aforesaid shall have power to sp-
point clerk, prescribe his duties, and pay
him a salary, and also to allow the treas
urer of the school fund, hereinafter to be
appointed, an annual compensation for his
services out of the general school fund,
hereinafter to be provided: Provided, That
neither the said clerk nor treasurer shall be
paid more than one hundred dollars per
annum.


Sec. 8 And be ii further enacted That on
the second Monday in May, in the year
eighteen hundred and sixty-th and an
nuaily thereafter, the said Levy Court shall
appoint one of said board of Commissioners
from each primary school district and the
said commissioners appointed as aforesaid
shall, each acting in his respective district,
examine all persons who shall offer them
selves as candidates for teaching in such
districts and in such examination it shall be
the duty of the commissioners aforesaid to
Inquire, and, so far as he shall be enabled
thereto, to ascertain aud inform himself as
to all the qualifications mentioned and con-
tained in the certificate hereafter specified
and given in form and if be shall be sat-
ished as to the snfficiency of such qualiiea-
tious he shall certify in writing, under his
hand, and deliver such certificate to the
person go examined by him as aforesaid liz
TO m aud substance following: the un-
dersigned, resident commissioner of prima-
~ schools of district No., do certify
that have examined -, and do be-
lieVe be (0r she as the case may be), is of
a good moral character, and of sufficient
Learning aud ability, and in all other res
pecis ell qualified TO teach a primary
school. Given under my hand this - day
OF -, in tine year of our Lord one thou
sand eight hundred and -
commissioner of primary school district No.
-, aud dismiss any incorporate, cruel,
negligent, or immoral teachers and cause
to be put up 10 every shool- house such gen.
iai system of rules aud regulations as may
b. adoped by the board of commissioners,
which board shall also direct what books
shall! be used, and what branches shall be
taught and the resident commissioners
aforesaid shall visit the schools in each of
their respective districts at least twice
year, ~zvrCiss a general supervision, and
endFavor to promote full, equal and USE
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Sec. 9. ARd be Il further enacted, That
wherever any school district shall be form
cd by the commissioners of primary schools
as aforesaid it shall be the duty of the said
commissioners, within twenty days there
after, to make notice in writing describ-
ing the metes and bounds of such district,
aad appoint time and place for the first
district meeting, and notify the taxable
white inhabitants residing in such district
rs aforesaid by public advertisement to be
put up at the most public places of the said
district, at least six days before the time of
such meeting; aud in case such notice shall
not be given as aforesaid, or the inhabitants
of such district when so notified shall neg
lect or refuse to assemble or form district
meeting in pursuance of such notice, or in
case auy district, having been formed or
organized in pursuance of such notice,
ehall, in the opinion of the commissioners
aforesaid, be dissolved by adjournment
without day, or from any other cause what
ever, it shall and may be lawful for the
commissioners aforesaid, or any one of them
at any time therea .er, to renew such no.
tice, aud the white inhabitants of such
district liable to pay taxes as aforesaid shall
assemble together, in pursuance OF such no.
lice, and when SO assembled in district
meetings it shall and may be lawful for
them, or majority of such of them as
shall be present at such district meeting, to
adjourn to any other ime or place and at
such first or any future legal district meet
ing it shall aud may be lawful for them or
a majority of them as shall be present as
aforesaid, to adjourn from time to time as
occasion may require, to fix on time and
place for holding their future annual meet
ings, which annual meetings they are here
by authorized and required to held; to
choose by ballot three trustees to manage
the concerns of such school district, and
one district collector also to designate
suitable and central site for schOol-house,
10 vote tax pP 9 the PEene-.s- =; e. l,eG1
addition to the proportion of the school
fund hereinafter to be provided for} allot-
ted 10 such school district to purchase,
lease, or rent q site for school-house to
build, lease or rent and keep in repair said
house to supply fuel. books, stationery,
and furniture to pay the salary ofa teach
er, and all other necessary expenses Pro-
vided, hosoeUer, That no location of school
house shall be fixed upon unless the same
be approved by majority of the commits
sioners, and no change shall be made after
sach school house shall have been built but
by consent of majority Of said commits
sioners all the expenses incurred by maxi
ing such change shall be betrayed by do
nation or by Lewis authorized to be made
by majority of the white citizens of such
school district upon the assessable property
therein owned by white persons.


Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, that
the clerk OF the Levy Court shall annually,
without fee or reward, make out for the
trustees of primary school districts, or such
of them as shall apply for the same, copies
from the assessment books of said county
of all the assessable property in said dis
trict or districts.


Sec. IL. And be az further enacted. That


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