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Examiners, or any two of them, shall examine any per- Duty of Examson that may apply for that purpose, with the intention of becoming teachers in any of the schools in said district; and if they find the applicant, in their opinion, qualified to teach in any of said schools, and to govern the same, and of good moral character, they shall give said applicant a certificate naming the branches in which the holder of said certificate was found qualified to teach-and no person shall be permitted to teach in said schools without such certificate--and said Examiners may, in all cases where two of their number concur, have power to annul such certificate, and, when so annulled, the person holding the same shall be discharged as a teacher of said schools; said Examiners shall also, separately or otherwise, together with said Board of Education, or any of them, or such person as they may appoint, or invite, visit said schools as often as once in every term, and observe the discipline, mode of teaching, progress of the pupils, and such other matters as they may deem of interest, and make such suggestions, and report thereupon to said Board, as they may think proper, which report may be published at the discretion of said Board. SEC. 14. Upon the adoption of this act in the manner Acts repealed herein provided, by any city, town, village, or district, all laws now in force therein, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. may collect charges for tuition. SEC. 15. That said Board of Education, or the Treasurer Treasurer thereof, shall have power to collect any charge or account for tuition, in the same manner as the Treasurer of any common school district in this State, is now, or may hereafter be, authorized to collect any such charge or account. JOHN G. BRESLIN, Certain appro authorized. Council may poses. CHAPTER VII. An Act to amend the act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages," passed May 3, 1852. [Passed March 11, 1853, LI vol. Stat. 364.] SEC. 12. That the ninety-eighth section of said act priations not be, and the same is hereby so amended as to read as follows: That the Council of any municipal corporation shall not authorize any loan or appropriation not predicated on the revenues of the corporation for the current fiscal year, and shall not authorize any order or appropriation of money, when there is not, in the city treasury, money unappropriated sufficient to pay such appropriation; and any appropriation otherwise made or authorized, shall be held and deemed utterly void and of no effect as against said corporation: Provided, however, that for the purpose of purchasing necessary borrow money grounds, and erecting suitable school buildings for the for school pur- use of public schools, the Council of any such corporation may, at the request of the Board of Education of said corporation, make sufficient appropriation therefor, and shall have power to borrow money upon the credit of such corporation, sufficient for the aforesaid purposes, at such rates of interest as said Council deem proper; and, for the purpose of effecting such loan, the said Council shall have power to pledge the faith of said corporation for the payment of both principal and interest, including the power to levy a tax for the payment of the same, whenever the same may become due, and to make and execute such bonds, or other evidences of debt, and payable at such times and places as shall be agreed upon by the parties so contracting, which said bonds, or other evidences of debt, may be made transferable and redeemable in such form, and at such times and places, as may be therein designated; and the necessary grounds shall be procured, and the said school buildings hereby authorized Loan how fected. per may School Build shall be constructed under the direction of, and in accordance with, a plan, or plans, furnished by the ings, how conBoard of Education of said corporation. * * * structed. CHAPTER VIII. An Act to amend the "Act for the better regulation of the [Passed March 13, 1850, XLVIII vol. Stat. 40.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That the act for the better regulation of the public schools in cities, towns, etc., passed February 21, 1849, be, and the same is hereby extended to incorporated townships, and to school districts, now or hereafter to be organized, which shall adopt the same in the manner specified in the second and third sections of said act: Provided, however, that said act shall not be so extended to any township or school district, containing less than five hundred inhabitants, unless said school district consists, in whole or in part, of an incorporated town or village. Extending actin reference to pub lic schools. Single school SEC. 2. Township and school districts to which said act may be extended in the manner aforesaid, shall districts. thereafter be known and recognized in law as single school districts, with all the powers, rights, and franchises which, for educational purposes, are, or may be conferred upon incorporated cities, towns, and villages, in virtue of the act aforesaid; and the Board of Educa- Board of Education of such townships and school districts, shall be elected and organized in the same manner as is provided in the fourth and fifth sections of said act, and shall have like powers, rights, and privileges, and perform like duties as Boards of Education of cities, towns, etc., under the act aforesaid. SEC. 3. The title to all real estate, and other property belonging, for school purposes, to any city, town, village, township, or district, or to any part of the same, which is or may be organized into a single school district, in tion. Title to real estate to vest in Board. accordance with this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, shall be regarded in law as vested in the Board of Education thereof, for the support and use of the public schools therein, and said Board may dispose of, sell, and convey said real estate, or any part of the same, by deed, to be executed by the President of said Board, upon a majority vote for such sale at any regular meeting of the Electors of said district. SEC. 4. The Board of Education of any city, town, village, township, or school district, organized for the support of schools under this act, or the act to which this is amendatory, or the act for the support and better regulation of common schools in the town of Akron, and the acts amendatory thereto, or under any special local act, shall have authority to exclude from the public schools, in such city, etc., all children under the age of six years. BENJAMIN F. LEITER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHARLES C. CONVERS, Speaker of the Senate. CHAPTER IX. AMENDMENTS OF THE GENERAL SCHOOL Tax levied for school purposes dollar valuation 21⁄2 mills on the An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization, supervision, and maintenance of Common Schools," passed March 14, 1853. [Passed March 1, 1854, LII vol. Stat. 110.] SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That section sixty-three of the act entitled, "an act to provide for the re-organization, supervision, and maintenance of common schools," passed March 14, 1853, be, and hereby is so amended as to read as follows: Section 63. For the purpose of affording the advantages of a free education to all the youth of this State, the State common school fund shall here after consist of such sum as will be produced by the annual levy and assessment of one and one-half mills on the dollar valuation, on the grand list of the taxable property of the State; and there is hereby levied and assessed annually, in addition to the revenues required for general purposes, the said one and one-half mills upon the dollar valuation as aforesaid, and the amount so levied and assessed, shall be collected in the same manner as other State taxes; and when collected, shall be annually distributed to the several counties of the State, in proportion to the enumeration of scholars, and be applied exclusively to the support of common schools. SEC. 2. That section sixty-three of the act to which Section repealed. this is amendatory, be, and the same is hereby repealed. An Act to provide for the completion of certain contracts heretofore made by School Directors. [Passed February 6, 1854, LII vol. Stat. 17.] Sɛc. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That in all cases where pursuant to law, contracts have been made or entered into for the sale of school-house sites or lands, the property of any school district heretofore existing in this State, and the sale remains to be perfected by conveyance, the township Board of Education, in the township where such property may be situate, shall be authorized to complete the same by executing a conveyance in the manner prescribed in section eleven of the act entitled an act to provided for the re-organization, supervision, and maintenance of common schools, To empower township Boards of Education to com plete certain contracts. |