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An Act to provide for the Reorganization, Supervision and Maintenance of Common Schools. 1865 170 (1865)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0266 and id is 1 raw text is: 170 sCHOOLS. SCHOOLS: ORGANIZATION OF. AN ACT to provide for the Reorganization, Supervision and Maintenance of Common Schools. 1. School districts, how composed and to whose management confided; sub- districts, how composed, and to whose management confided. 2. Local directors, when and how elected and their terms of office, etc. 8. Oath to be taken by said directors; vacancy in office, how filled. 4. If qualified voters fail to meet and elect such directors, special meeting shall be called. 5. When they are to meet and how they are to organize. 6. They shall control and manage the educational interests and affairs of the sub-district. 7. Shall make all contracts for providing fuel for schools, repairing, building or furnishing school-houses, etc. 8. Shall take an enumeration of the. white and colored youth annually. 9. Township boards of education, how composed. 10. Shall be a body politic and corporate, etc. 11. Shall hold regular sessions, when and where. 12. Shall have controll and management of all central and high-schools; shall re- quire English language to be taught in all schools, and may appoint an acting manager of schools. 13. Shall cause to be prepared a map of their township, with the sub-dis- tricts designated thereon, etc. 14. Shall have power to assign certain number of scholars to primary schools, suspend pupils, etc. 15. May transfer persons for educational purposes to other townships. 16. Shall have power to determine the studies to be pursued and books to be used. 17. Statement to be forwarded to the county clerk. 18. Shall have power to establish graded schools. 19. Cost and location of such schools how to be decided. 20. Separate schools for colored children to be established. 21. Estimate of school funds, how to be made. 22. Under what circumstances schools may be continued for longer period than four months. 23. Township board of education may make separate estimate for purchas- ing school house and site in sub- district not bearing due share of taxation for school purposes. 24. Directors of sub-district may perform the duties of township board of education, when. 25. Compensation of members of town- ship board of education. 26. Penalty for violating provisions of pre- ceding section. 27. Moneys collected under preceding sec- tion, how to be applied. 28. School funds in bands of county treas-. urer, how to be paid out and ap- plied. 29. Duties and liabilities of clerks. 30. Settlements with the county treasurer. 31. County treasurer to be treasurer of funds for school purposes, and to give separate bond. 32. Shall annually settle with and account to county clerk for such funds. 83. Penalty for failing to make such annual settlement. 34. Election and term cf office of State Superintendent. 85. Bond to be given by him. 36. Shall reside and keep his office, where. 87. Shall spend ten days in each Congres- sonal district annually. 38. Shall exercise supervision over educa- tional funds of the State, and may grant certificates of qualification to teachers. 89. Shall prescribe forms and regulations for making reports and governing public schools. 40. Shall cause copies of school laws to be printed and distributed. 41. Assistant State Superintendent, how appointed, and his salary. 42. His duties. 43. Report of the State Superintendent to be made annually, and to whom. 44. Said report shall embrace, what. 46. State Superintendent prohibited from acting as agent for any author, pub- lisher, etc. 46. Moneys expended by him, by whom al- lowed. 47. Salary of State Superintendent. 48. Office of county superintendent cre- ated. 49. How and when elected and term of office. 60. Qualifications of county superintend- ent. 51. His powers and duties. 52. His salary. 53. Report to be furnished by him, and vacancy in office, how filled. 54. Powers of county superintendent of St. Louis county restricted.

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