tion to be Sec. 76. Such proportion shall be ascertained and de- How propor. termined according to the value of the taxable property ascertained, of the respective parts of such former District at the time of the division, by the best evidence in the power of the Inspectors; and such amount of any debt due from the former District, which would have been a charge upon the new, had it remained in the former District, shall be deducted from such proportion: Provided, That no real estate thus set off, and which shall not have been taxed for the purchase or building of such School house, shall be entitled to any portion thereof, nor be taken into account in such division of District property. to be eerti Sec. 77. The amount of such proportion, when so ascer-Proportion tained and determined, shall be certified by the Township fed to SuClerk to the Supervisor of the Township, whose duty it dispos shall be to assess the same upon the taxable property of ed of. the District retaining the School-house or other property nary course of instruction, and the afternoon in a public examination of the scholars. The District Board and parents should be invited to be present. It is to be hoped that a system of County School In spectors, or Superintendents, will soon be adopted in our law. (Section 75.) 1. This section was amended by the act passed Feb. 15, 1859, by the addition of the last clause. In the enlargement of Districts, for the purpose of establishing larger and better Schools, it sometimes occurs that an old District is entirely destroyed, its entire territory going to swell the extent of two or more adjoining Districts. The law was found defective in not authorizing the sale of the old District property, when neither of the new Districts wished to retain it. This amendment will cover all such cases. 2. When part of a District possessed of a School-house or other property, is set off to another District possessing a School-house, the part set off is not entitled to receive any share of the District property; what it loses in the old District being counted as made up by what it gains in the new. How When apportionment of the former District, in the same manner as if the same had been authorized by a vote of such District, and the money so assessed shall be placed to the credit of the taxable property taken from the former District, and shall be in reduction of any tax imposed in the new District on said taxable property for School District purposes. Sec. 78. When collected, such amount shall be paid over collected to to the Assessor of the new District, to be applied to the be paid o'er use thereof, in the same manner, under the direction of its proper officers, as if such sum had been voted and raised by said District for building a School-house, or other District purposes. Report from Clerk. Sec. 79. Between the first and fifteenth days of October to Township in each year, the Inspectors shall make out and deliver to the Township Clerk duplicate reports to the County Clerk, setting forth the whole number of Districts in their townships, the amount of money raised and received for the Township Library, together with the several particulars set forth in the reports of the School Directors for the preceding year. Sec. 80. The Board of Inspectors, before making their (Section 79.) 1. The necessary blanks for the Reports required by this section are annually forwarded to the proper officers. Three of these blanks are sent to each Township Clerk-two for the duplicate copies to be delivered to the County Clerks, and one to be filed in the office of the Township Clerk for the use of the Board and their successors. 2. The facts and statements for the Inspectors' reports are to be derived mainly from the annual reports of the District Directors, required by section 54. Should these reports be deficient in any particulars, or incorrect, the Inspectors are not authorized to correct them, except in the single case provided for in section 80. They may, however, and should, where time will permit, notify the Director of the deficiency or error, and get the same corrected. (Section 80.) 1. The month in this section must be understood to embrace twenty-six work days, though the Teacher to before Re annual report to the County Clerk, shall examine the Record of record of Teachers to whom certificates have been given be examined by them, and if in any School District a School shall not port made, have been taught for three months during the preceding etc. School year by a qualified Teacher, no part of the public money shall be distributed to such District, although the report from such District shall set forth that a School has been so taught; and it shall be the duty of the Board to certify the facts in relation to any such District in their reports to the County Clerk. of Districts ships. Sec. 81. Whenever it shall be necessary or convenient Formation to form a District from two or more adjoining townships, in two or the Inspectors, or a majority of them, of each of such ad-more Town joining townships, may form such District, and direct which Township Clerk shall make and deliver the notice of the formation of the same to a taxable inhabitant thereof, and may regulate and alter such District as circumstances may render necessary. The Director of such District shall To whom remake his annual report to the Clerk of the Township in made. which the School-house is situated. port to be Report to Sec. 82. The Director of every District formed as provi- Director to ded in the preceding section, shall also report to the Clerk each Town. of each Township in which the District is in part situated, ship. the number of children between the ages of four and eighteen years in that part of the District lying in such township, and books shall be drawn from the Library of each Township for the use of such District; but the District shall have access to but one such Library at the same time, and the said Inspectors shall establish the order in which books shall be drawn from each Township Library. vacant Saturdays, or Saturday afternoons, or regular holidays allowed the Teacher, may be counted in. 2. No Teacher is to be regarded as a qualified Teacher who did not hold a certificate at the time of commencing School. (Section 81.) 1. Whenever the Inspectors of two or more Townships meet to form or alter the boundaries of Districts, a majority of each Board is necessary to a decision. A simple majority of the joint Boards is not sufficient. 2. The provisions for the annual reports of the Directors of Fractional Districts, demand especial attention. The Districts formed from Sec. 83. Such School Districts already formed from two two or more or more townships, shall continue to be governed by the Townships; regulations already established according to law, in related. tion to the annual reports, and the drawing of books from the Township Libraries, subject to such changes as may how regula. be made in respect thereto by the said Inspectors, in conformity with the preceding provisions. Amount of Sec. 84. The full amount of all taxes to be levied upon taxes; how the taxable property in such District, shall be certified by apportioned the District Board to the Supervisor of each of such town certified and ships, and each of said Supervisors shall certify to each other Supervisor within whose township such District is in part situated, the amount of taxable property in that part of the District lying in his township; and such Supervisors shall respectively ascertain the proportion of such taxes, to be placed on their respective assessment rolls, according to the amount of taxable property in each part of such District. Director should make only one full report, and that should embrace all the children in the District of proper School age. 3. When a District lies partly in two Townships, one having a Township Library and the other having District Libraries, the District is entitled to draw its quota of books from the Township Library even though it has a District Library of its own. The property of that part of the District lying in such township is taxed for the support of such Library, and it is equitably entitled to draw its proportion of the books. It would be better if the Fractional District thus situated could be allowed its share of the Library money from each Township to which it partly belongs, and purchase the books for its own Library. (Section 84.) Much confusion and trouble has arisen from the assessment of District taxes in fractional Districts. Both the reason of the law and the law itself will be evident if it is remembered that no tax can be assessed upon any property in any township but by the Supervisor of the township. EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS. tion of Sec. 85. It shall be the duty of the Inspectors to examine Examina all persons offering themselves as candidates for Teachers Teachers. of Primary Schools in their Townships, in regard to moral character, learning, and ability to teach a School; and they shall deliver to each person so examined and found qualified, a certificate signed by them, in such form as shall be Certificate. prescribed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Each Supervisor must, therefore, be notified by the District Board of the entire amount of the District taxes. Then each Supervisor needs to know the entire amount of taxable property in the District. This latter information is furnished by the several Supervisors to each other. Each Supervisor knowing thus the entire amount of tax to be raised, and being able to ascertain the proportion of the property of the District lying in his township, is prepared to assess upon such property its equitable proportion of the tax. (Section 85.) 1. This section reads as amended by the act approved February 15, 1859. The amendment requires the certificate to state "the branches in which the holder thereof has passed a satisfactory examination," and authorises the giving of certificates for different periods of time, "not less than six months nor more than two years." 2. No certificate should be given to a Teacher who does not pass a satisfactory examination in the common branches, Reading, Spelling, Geography, Grammar, and Arithmetic. See section 88. Whenever the applicant proposes to teach in the higher departments of a Graded School, or in any advanced Primary School, he should be required to pass an examination in all the branches he will be expected to teach. 3. Inspectors may lawfully invite any gentleman they may choose, to assist them in their examinations; but they cannot deputize any one to give a certificate in their stead, |