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Number of school

months.

Election,

mode of vot

ing

ballots,

how worded.

7. The said board of education shall have power to determine the number of months the school shall be kept in operation.

8. The election provided for, in section one of this act, shall be by ballot, and those voting in favor of the establishment of said independent district shall have written or printed on their tickets, the words, "For Independent District," and those voting against the establishment thereof shall have written or printed on their tickets the words, "Against Independent District." The election shall be superintended, and the result thereof ascertained and declared by election officers to be appointed by the county commissioners of Braxton county; and all the provisions state elec- of the election laws in this State, so far as applicable, shall be enforced and govern such election, unless otherwise provided.

-ascertaining result.

tion law to

govern.

Acts amended.

Board of Education to prescribe text

books used

(Senate Bill No. 166.)

CHAPTER 135.

AN ACT to amend and re-enact section three of chapter twenty of the Acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, entitled "An Act to establish the Independent School District of New Cumberland, in Hancock County."

[Passed February 21, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. Approved February 22, 1901.]

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That section three of chapter twenty of the acts of one thousand eight hundred and eighty three, entitled "An Act to establish the independent school district of New Cumberland, in Hancock county," be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

3. The branches to be taught and the text-books. to be used in the schools of the independent school district of New Cumberland, Hancock county, shall and branches be prescribed by the board of education. The independent school district of New Cumberland, herein authorized to be established, shall conform to and be governed by the general school law in this State, except where it is otherwise provided by this act.

taught.

-what law governs, except, etc.

(Senate Bill No. 171.)

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT relating to education in the counties of
Brooke and Hancock.

[Passed February 22, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. Approved February 23, 1901.]

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

education;

how long

1. That every person having under his control a child or children, between the ages of eight and four- Compulsory teen years, shall cause such child or children to attend between what some public or private school in the city, independent ages. district or district, in which he resides, and such at- -when child tendance shall begin with the opening of the school must begin; term, and shall continue for at least sixteen weeks of continue. the school provided, that the school be in session for as many as sixteen weeks; and for every neglect of such duty, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction thereof, before any justice, be fined two dollars for the first offence, and two dollars for each subsequent offence; and any person who does not pay immediately the fine imprisonso imposed against him, shall be committed to jail for not less than five, and not more than twenty days.

-penalty.

ment, when.

What failure

an offence, except, etc.

2. An offence, as understood in this act, shall consist in failure for one day in any week to send to school constitutes any child, except it be shown to the satisfaction of the teacher that the bodily or mental condition of the child does not permit of its attendance; or that such child has attended for a like period of time a private school or has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time, in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools; or has already satisfactorily completed such branches. The -text books board of education, on the order of the teacher, may for indigent at their discretion purchase out of the building fund of the district the necessary text books for whose parents are not financially able to provide them; but such purchase shall not exceed one in amount per year, for each child so supplied with purchase, per books; but if there be no public school in session -when perwithin two miles by the nearest traveled road any to penalty.

of

pupils

pupils.

dollar-limit of

child.

son not liable

Duty of trustee and teacher; fine for failure.

person, in the school district, he shall not be liable to the provisions of this act.

3. And it shall be the duty of every trustee and every teacher to inform against any one so offending and upon a failure so to do they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not exceeding five dollars. Any where placed. fine so collected shall be placed to the credit of the building fund of the district.

-such fine,

Truant officers; who to be.

-when and what to investigate,

and what to report.

4. For the better enforcement of this act, all marshals and town sergeants in incorporated towns, and all constables in every district, shall be and are hercby designated truant officers; whose duty it shall be upon notification from the teacher of the absence of any child, or children, to investigate the causes of such absence and if it seems probable that such absence on account of such bodily or mental condition is unavoidable, the said truant officer shall report the facts to the teacher; but if he do not find such causes for absence he shall report to a justice of the peace, who shall thereupon enforce the provisions of this Moreover, if the teacher finds that the cause of absence, in any case reported to him by the truant officer, is not due to some bodily or mental defect, he shall notify the truant officer, who shall as in all other cases report to the justice of the peace; but if for any truant officer, reasons, whatsoever, there is no constable or

-duty of Justice.

-teacher, of

what to no

tify officer.

-board may appoint

when; his pay.

Provision as

pupils.

act.

special

police in the district the duties of truant officer shall devolve upon some one designated by the board of education, whose salary shall not be more than two dollars per day for time actually engaged in his duties as truant officer.

5. Boards of education may set apart school rooms to disorderly in public school buildings for children who are insubordinate or disorderly during their attendance upon instruction in the public schools.

6. This act shall take effect and be in force only act limited to in the counties of Brooke and Hancock, unless upon

Provisions of

Brooke and

Hancock counties.

-may be extended to

other coun

ties, how.

the petition of one hundred voters of any county, the county court of said county shall submit the question of making this act a law of said county to the voters of said county at an election to be held at a time and with such notice as may be specified by said court.

If at said election a majority of the votes cast should be in favor of making this act the law of said county, the said county court, or other tribunal in lieu thereof, shall at its next meeting after said election, by resolution, declare this act to be in full force and effect in said county as the law of said county, as heretofore provided for Brooke and Hancock counties.

(House Bill No. 136.)

CHAPTER 137.

AN ACT to repeal chapter eighty-three of the Acts. of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, making provision for free schools for the town of New Haven, in Mason county.

[Passed February 16, 1901. In effect 90 days from passage. Approved February 19, 1901.]

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

of New

1. The act passed February the twenty-third, one Act creating thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, entitled, independent "An Act to create an Independent School District out school district of Sub-District Number Two in Graham District, Haven, reMason county, to be known as The Independent pealed. School District of New Haven," is hereby repealed.

board to

2. The property, real and personal, vested at the Property time this act takes effect in the board of education af held in what the independent school district of New Haven, shall vest. by this act vest in the board of education for the school district of Graham in Mason county: provided, proviso as that this act shall not be construed as impairing any to existing obligation heretofore created or existing of any indebtedness of the said board of education of the independent school district of New Haven.

indebtedness.

Board of education of Greenbrier district authorized to issue bonds,

amount; de

nomination;

rate of inter

est and when payable.

-principal, when demandable.

May be paid

(Senate Bill No. 174.)

CHAPTER 138.

AN ACT to authorize the Board of Education' of Greenbrier District, of Summers County, to fund at a lower rate of interest one hundred and twenty one hundred-dollar bonds.

[Passed February 20, 1901. In effect from passage. Approved February 23, 1901.]

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

The board of education of Greenbrier district, in Summers county, is hereby authorized, at any time within one year from the passage of this act, to issue not exceeding twelve thousand dollars of coupon bonds of the said district, of said county, in such form as may be provided for by the board of education thereof, and of the denomination of one hundred dollars, bearing four per centum interest, payable annually; the principal of which bonds shall not be demandable for fifteen years from date of issue.

2. The said bonds, or any portion thereof, may be at any time, paid at any time after this proviso shall be expressed on the face of the bond.

when.

Sale of such bonds.

Same subject.

Payment of interest.

Notice of

payment of bonds.

3. The board of education of Greenbrier district, of Summers county, shall sell and dispose of the bonds issued under this act, at not less than their par value, or so much of them as is necessary to pay off the bonded indebtedness unpaid of the said Greenbrier district, of the said county.

4. The board of education of Greenbrier district, of said county, shall dispose of the bonds hereby authorized in conformity with any plan adopted by them for selling such bonds to the best advantage and for the most money.

5. The board of education of Greenbrier district, of Summers county, shall provide for the payment of interest on the bonds hereby authorized.

6. The bonds to be paid shall be designated by their numbers, and public notice of the time of pay

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