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Dec. Ses. 1825. |
JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
make returns thereof within three days, to the judges of the levy
court, and the clerk of said county, whereupon the clerk aforesaid,
shall immediately and severally thereof notify the persons
elected; and if it shall appear upon counting the ballots at
the close of an election of commissioners of public free schools,
that two or more persons have an equal number of votes, so as to
make it impossible to decide which of them is elected, the names
of said persons shall be written on similar pieces of paper,
which shall then be placed in the ballot box, and afterwards
be seperately drawn by a judge of the election, in a way that
shall not permit him to discriminate; and the person or persons
shall be considered elected or not, as may be necessary
to make the whole number of commissioners in the order of
priority, in which their names may thus have been drawn. |
Organizing
the board. |
3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners
of public
free schools who may be hereafter elected, according to the
provisions contained in the first section of this act, shall assemble
at the usual place of holding elections in their district,
on the third Monday after their election, at the hour of three
o'clock, P. M. to organize their board; and every commissioner
before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall solemnly
promise to fulfil the same with fidelity and impartiality,
and the qualified commissioners, if a majority of their whole
number be present, shall then, or at their next meeting, choose
from their own body, one member to be president, and an
other to be secretary of their board, whose appointments shall
be certified to the judges of the levy court by the attending
commissioners; and it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners
to fill any vacancy that may exist or occur from
time to time in their own body; they shall also determine as
soon after they have formed a board as may be found practicable,
what number of public schools shall be opened in their
district, what buildings and furniture shall be provided therefor;
and in like manner, what branches of study shall be pursued,
and what books used therein; who shall be the teachers
of the several schools, and what their pay, and being thus enabled
to form an estimate of the probable aggregate expense
of pubic free schools in their district for the current civil
year, or year next ensuing their election, they shall inform the
levy court of its amount, by a formal requisition, which, if
within the limits prescribed by this act, shall be payable by the
treasurer of said court on and after the first Monday of the
months of January, April, July and October, next ensuing, in
the proportion and to the extent of quarter yearly instalments,
on the entire expense of a year; but such payments shall only
be made by the treasurer aforesaid, out of the funds collected
or received, as a school fund for the account of said district
and upon the presentation and delivery of drafts to him aforesaid,
signed by the president, secretary, and another member |
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