SCHOOL OFFICER'S GUIDE. 1. Fund for education of all white youth; 2. To be raised by annual tax, (and from whom and how collected;) 3. And from certain revenues, &c. How distributed. 4. Annual enumeration, and apportionment of school fund, &c. 5. School districts, how laid off;-map thereof.-Alteration of districts. 6. Annual district meetings.-Special district meetings. 7. Directors to be sworn;-to appoint a clerk who shall be district treasurer-his bond, and suits thereon.-Record of proceedings of district meetings.-Di- rectors body corporate.-Deeds, &c., to them.—Their orders for money, and General powers and duties of directors, and how far schools free. 11. Township treasurer to be treasurer of school fund;-his bond, and suits 12. How he shall apportion and pay out school funds.--Teacher to present him SECTION 32, 33, 34, 35, 36. District schools and officers in incorporated towns and cities. 37, 38, 39. Powers and duties of state superintendent. 40. Same subject.-Trusts, &c., for school purposes, 41. Suits by and against districts. 42. Acts repealed.-Saving, &c. 43. When preceding act took effect, &c. how enforced, &c. 44. County commissioners may reduce school tax, &c. 45. Directors may rent school rooms, and levy special tax, &c. 46. Part of 19th section of this collection repealed; 47. -And part of 16th section; 48. And part of 8th section. 49. Language and branches to be taught. 50. In what cases tuition charged, and account, and collection thereof. 51. What children received into schools, and enumerated. 52. What moneys township treasurer to sue for and collect. 53. Township clerk's jurisdiction in certain cases; 54. His bond. 55. Duty of county auditor in paying over money to township treasurer. 56. Districts, and maps thereof of 1838, recognized as legal, &c.—Alteration of districts by trustees.-School funds to be paid, when full enumeration made, by districts heretofore delinquent.-Districts not heretofore laid off. 57. District tax not to exceed two mills. 58. Loans to purchase site and build school houses, and tax to pay interest. 59. Evening schools. 60. Township trustees may dispense with visitation of township clerk. 61. When youth may go out of district to a German or other school, and adjustment of school fund in such case. 62. Voters at district elections. 63. Black and mulatto persons to be noted on assessor's list. 64. General repealing clause. 66. Interest on school fund, how calculated and paid. 67, 68. Office of state superintendent dispensed with; and his duties to be per 72. When parts of townships may be districted together. 73. Term for which school directors shall be elected. 74. Clerks of school districts to take enumeration of white youth, and report to township clerk. 75. Clerks of townships to make returns to county auditor;-County auditor to make return, annually, to superintendent. 76. District and township clerks' fees. 77. Auditor of State shall annually apportion school funds;-County auditors to annually apportion school fund for counties. 78. Township treasurers shall retain a copy of teacher's certificate. 79. District and township clerks and county auditors responsible for losses, and shall be liable to action, &c. 80. Tax voted by one township not to be expended in another. 81. State superintendent to prepare an edition of school law; directions and forms. SECTION 82. Number of copies and thier distribution. 83. To be printed by state printer. 84. To be bound in a good and substantial manner. 85. Who entitled to laws. 86. When school land may lie in two or more counties, how to proceed. 87. Interest on purchase money, to whom paid. 88. Trustees may alter school district. 89. School houses not to be sold on execution. 90. School tax, when payable. 91. Two school directors to form a quorum, and give orders for money. 94. Repealing clause. An act for the support and better regulation of common schools, and to create permanently the office of superintendent. [Passed March 7, 1838. Took effect April 1, 1838. Col. Stat. 824.] cation of all white youth; To be raised by annual tax, (and from whom and how 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Fund for eduof the State of Ohio, That a fund shall hereafter be provided, in manner hereinafter specified, for the education of all the white youth in this state, in such branches of learning as shall hereinafter be prescribed. 2. SEC. II. That for the purpose aforesaid, there shall be, annually, levied and assessed upon the ad valorem amount of the general list of taxable proper- collected;) ty, in each county of this state, (the property of black and mulatto persons excepted,) two mills (a) on the dollar; which assessment shall be made by the county auditor, and collected by the county treasurer, in the same manner as other county taxes are levied and collected; provided that if any tax for school purposes shall be levied on the property of any black or mulatto person, it shall be the duty of the county treasurer, or other person charged with the collection of the same, to abate said tax. -And from certain reven 3. SEC. III. That there shall be a state common school fund established, consisting of the interest on the ues, &c. surplus revenue, at five per centum, the interest on the proceeds of salt lands; the revenue from banks, (a) It may be reduced to one mill; for which, see 44th section of this collection. insurance and bridge companies, and other funds to be annually provided by the state, to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars per annum; and that said sum of two hundred (a) thousand dollars shall be How distribu- annually distributed among the several counties in this state, in the month of December, according to the number of white youth, (unmarried,) between the ages of four and twenty (b) years, resident in each county, under the restrictions and regulations hereinafter provided. ted. &c. Annual enu- 4. SEC. IV. That the superintendent of common meration, and apportionment schools, (c) for the state of Ohio, shall, on or before of school fund, the fifteenth day of December, annually, furnish to the state auditor an accurate enumeration of all the youth, as aforesaid, in each county in this state; and shall, in such enumeration, state the numbers residing in the Virginia military district, United States military district, and Western Reserve, each, separately; and the said state auditor shall, thereupon, immediately make an apportionment of said two hundred thousand dollars, as above provided; and shall also add to the portion of each county, all interest on the proceeds of lands that may, at the time, be due to the several counties, or townships in the counties, and shall designate the amount so added, as belonging to the proper fund or township, as the case may be, (d) and forthwith give notice to the several county auditors of the state, of the amount so apportioned and due to their respective counties, stating from what several sources the same is derived; and the several county (a) Words in italic repealed, and common school fund reduced to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, by act of 1842, entitled "an act making appropriations for the year 1842." (b) See 51st sec. As to how this sum was raised in 1838-39, see 37 v. Stat., 74, sec. 3. (c) See 68th section of this collection. (d) Interest on school funds calculated to first of January: see 66th section. |