Liability of inspectors for neglecting to report. Liability of township clerk. Liability of neglect to transmit reports. qualify and serve as such, or who, having entered upon the duties of his office, shall neglect or refuse to perform any duty required of him by virtue of his office, shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars. (8141.) SEC. 4. If any board of school inspectors shall neglect or refuse to make and deliver to the township clerk their annual report as required by this act, within the time limited therefor, they shall be liable to pay the full amount of money lost by their failure, with interest thereon, to be recovered by the township treasurer in the name of the township, in an action of debt, or on the case; and if any township clerk shall neglect or refuse to transmit the report herein mentioned within the time limited therefor, Le shall be liable to pay the full amount lost by such neglect or refusal, with interest thereon, to be recovered in an action of debt, or on the case. ($142.) SEC. 5. Any county clerk who shall neglect or refuse to county clerk for transmit to the superintendent of public instruction the reports required by this act, within the time therefor limited, shall be liable to pay to each township the full amount which such township, or any school district therein, shall lose by such neglect or refusal, with interest thereon, to be recovered in an action of debt, or on the case. (§143.) SEC. 6. All the moneys collected or received by any township treasurer under the provisions of either of the two last preceding sections, shall be apportioned and distributed to the school districts entitled thereto, in the same manner and in the same proportion that the moneys lost by any neglect or refusal therein mentioned would, according to the provisions of this act, have been apportioned and distributed. How moneys collected on account of neg. lect disposed of. Liability of township clerk in regard to district taxes. ($144.) SEC. 7. Any township clerk who shall neglect or refuse to and supervisor certify to the supervisor any school district taxes that have been reported to him as required by this act, and any supervisor willfully neglecting to assess any such tax shall be liable to any district for any damage occasioned thereby, to be recovered by the assessor in the name of the district, in an action of debt, or on the case. When township certain officers. See App, A., §§ 10-15. to record order for removal. ($145.) SEC. 8. The township board of each township, and in board to remove the case of fractional school districts, the township board of the township in which the district school-house thereof is situated, shall have power and is hereby required to remove from office, upon satisfactory proof, after at least five days' notice to the party implicated, any district officer or school inspector who shall have illegally used or disposed of any of the public moneys entrusted to his charge, or who shall persistently and without Township clerk Sufficient cause refuse or neglect to discharge any of the duties of his office. And in case of such removal it shall be the duty of the township clerk of such township to enter in the records of such township the resolution or order of such board, for such removal; and such record of such resolution or order so entered, or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the jurisdiction of such board and of the regularity of the proceedings for such removal, and (unless the party so removed shall, within thirty days after such removal, institute proceedings before a court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of such order for removal, or if after such thirty days such Party removed may institute proceedings for removal of order of township board. proceedings to obtain such removal shall be discontinued or dismissed) shall be conclusive evidence of jurisdiction and regularity, if it shall appear that the party so removed had five days' notice of the time and place fixed by said board for the hearing of the case as aforesaid. and teachers not not to be inter. (§146.) SEC. 9. No school officer, superintendent, or teacher of School officers schools, shall act as agent for any author, publisher, or seller of to act as school school books, or shall directly or indirectly receive any gift or book agents, etc. reward for his influence in recommending the purchase or use of School officers any library or school book or school apparatus, or furniture what- ested in contracts ever, nor shall any school officer be personally interested in any way whatever in any contract with the district in which he may hold office. Any act or neglect herein prohibited, performed by such acts deemed any such officer, superintendent, or teacher, shall be deemed a misdemeanor. in certain cases. misdemeanors. (8147.) SEC. 10. All provisions of this act shall apply and be in Where this act force in every school district, township, city and village in this shall apply. State, except such as may be inconsistent with the direct provisions of some special enactment of the legislature. (8148.) SEC. 11. Chapters numbered one hundred and thirty-one, Chapters and one hundred and thirty-six, one hundred and thirty-seven, and one acts repealed. hundred and thirty-eight of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and act numbered forty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory of said chapters and said act, being acts numbered fortyone, forty-two, fifty-six, and sixty-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, acts numbered forty-four, sixtynine, seventy-one, seventy-six, ninety-eight, one hundred and nineteen, one hundred and thirty-two, one hundred and sixty-four, and one hundred and ninety-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, acts numbered thirty-six, fifty-one, eighty-four, ninety-four, one hundred and six, one hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred and eighty-three, and two hundred and thirty of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, acts numbered seventy-seven and one hundred and seventy-three of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, acts numbered forty-four, forty-six, one hundred and fifty-nine, one hundred and sixty-four, two hundred and fifty-four, two hundred and fifty-five, and two hundred and sixty-four of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and all other acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby fully repealed. CHAPTER XIV. Act No. 158, Laws of 1881. ELECTION OF SCHOOL INSPECTORS. ($149.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Sections That sections eight and fourteen of chapter twelve, of the compiled amended. laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one, as amended by act number forty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy Annual meeting. Officers to be elected. school inspect ors. five, are hereby amended, and section thirteen of the same chapter, repealed by said act, is hereby restored and amended, and section one hundred and three of the same chapter, as amended by act number one hundred and ninety-nine of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, is hereby amended, all of said sections to read as follows: (§ 150.) SEC. 8. The annual meeting of each township shall be held on the first Monday in April, in each year, and at such meeting there shall be an election for the following officers: one supervisor, one township clerk, one treasurer, one school inspector, one commissioner of highways, so many justices of the peace as there are by law to be elected in the township, and so many constables as shall be ordered by the meeting, not exceeding four in number. Term of office of (§ 151.) SEC. 13. Each school inspector elected as aforesaid shall hold his office for two years from that time and until his successor shall be elected and duly qualified, except when elected or appointed to fill a vacancy, in which case he shall hold the office during the unexpired portion of the regular term: Provided, That in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-two one additional school inspector in each township shall be elected for the term of one year: Provided further, That the township superintendent of schools and school inspectors now in office shall continue to act as school inspectors, and said superintendent of schools shall continue to act as chairman of the board of school inspectors until the school inspectors provided for by this act shall have been elected and duly qualified and shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices. Vacancy. Proviso. Term of office. Who eligible to office. Proviso. Examining officers to collect fees from teachers. Proviso. (§ 152.) SEC. 14. Each of the officers elected at such meetings, except justices of the peace and school inspectors, shall hold his office for the term of one year, and until his successor shall be elected and duly qualified. (§ 153.) SEC. 103. No person, except an elector, as aforesaid, shall be eligible to any elective office contemplated in this chapter: Provided, however, That any female person of or above the age of twenty-one years, who has resided in this State three months and in the township ten days next preceding any election, shall be eligible to the office of school inspector. CHAPTER XV. Act No. 53, Laws of 1877. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. (8154.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That all school boards or officers, authorized by law to examine applicants for license to teach, or to give certificates of qualification to teachers, shall collect from each male applicant receiving a certificate, a fee of one dollar, and from each female applicant receiv ing a certificate, a fee of fifty cents, to be used as hereinafter provided: Provided, That no teacher shall be required to pay said fee more than once in any school year. (§155.) SEC. 2. All such fees received by the examiner shall be to county treas paid over to the county treasurer of the county in which they are Fees to be paid collected, on or before the first day of January, April, July, and urer quarterly. October, in each year, accompanied by a list of those persous to whom certificates have been granted; and all moneys so paid over constitute teach fund. to the county treasurers shall be set apart as a fund, to be known Fees so paid to as an institute fund, for the support of teachers' institutes, as here- ers' institute inafter provided. (§156.) SEC. 3. The superintendent of public instruction shall an- Annual county nually appoint a time and place in each organized county for hold- institute. ing a teachers' institute, make suitable arrangements therefor, and give due notice thereof: Provided, That in organized counties Proviso. having less than one thousand children between the ages of five and twenty years, the holding of such institute shall be optional with. the said superintendent, unless requested to hold such institute by fifteen teachers of the county in which such institute is to be held: Provided, however, That if there shall not be a sufficient number Proviso. of teachers in any county to make such request, then teachers of adjoining counties who desire to attend such institute may unite in the required application to said superintendent: Provided, also, Proviso. That the said superintendent may, in his discretion, hold an institute for the benefit of two or more adjoining counties, and draw the institute fund from each of the counties thus benefited, as hereinafter provided.1 institute may be (§157.) SEC. 4. Said superintendent, in case of inability person- Conductor of ally to conduct any institute, or to make the necessary arrangements appointed. for holding the same, is authorized to appoint some suitable person for that purpose. (§ 158.) SEC. 5. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of Expenses of inrooms, fires, lights, or other necessary charges, and for procuring stitute, how paid, teachers and lecturers, the said superintendent, or the person duly authorized by him to conduct said institute, may demand of the county clerk of each county for the benefit of which the institute. is held, who shall thereupon draw an order on the county treasurer of his county for such sum, not exceeding the amount of the institute fund in the county treasury, as may be necessary to defray the expenses of said institute; and the treasurer of said county is hereby required to pay over to said Superintendent or duly appointed institute conductor, from the institute fund in his hands, the amount of said order.1 in certain cases. (§159.) SEC. 6. In case the institute fund in any county shall be May draw on insufficient to defray the necessary expenses of any institute held State treasurer, under the provisions of this act, the auditor general shall, upon the certificate of the superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute, and that the county institute fund is insufficient to meet the expenses thereof, draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such additional sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute; which sum shall not exceed sixty dollars for each institute of five days' duration, and shall be paid out of the general fund. 1 As amended by Act No. 68, Laws of 1379. Yearly State institute. Expenses to be paid from State treasury. Proviso. Vouchers for payments. Acts repealed. ($160.) SEC. 7. The superintendent is authorized to hold, once in each year, an institute for the State at large, to be denominated a State institute; and for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of such institute, the auditor general shall, on the certificate of said superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute, draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute, which sum shall not exceed four hundred dollars, and shall be paid out of the general fund: Provided, That not more than eighteen hundred dollars shall be drawn from the treasury, or any greater liability incurred in any one year, to meet the provisions of this act. (§161.) SEC. 8. The superintendent of public instruction, or the conductor of the institute by him appointed, drawing money from the county treasurer, under section five of this act shall at the close of each institute, furnish to the county treasurer, vouchers for all payments from the same in accordance with this act, and he shall return to the county treasurer, whatever of the amount that may remain unexpended, to be replaced in the institute fund. (§162.) SEC. 9. An act entitled "An act to establish teachers' institutes," approved February tenth, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, as amended by act two hundred and thirty-nine, session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, being compiler's sections three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, three thousand seven hundred and ninety, and three thousand seven hundred and ninetyone of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy one, are hereby repealed. Diplomas may be ates. CHAPTER XVI. Act No. 104, Laws of 1857. NORMAL SCHOOL DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES. ($163.) SECTION 1. The State board of education is authorized granted gradu- to grant to such students as shall have completed the full course of instruction in the State normal school, and shall have been recommended by the board of instruction, a diploma, which, when signed by the members of the board of education and by the board of instruction, shall be evidence that the person to whom such diploma is granted is a graduate of the State normal school, and entitled to all the honors and privileges belonging to such graduates.1 Certificates to graduates. Copy, where filed and effect of When may be suspended. (8164.) SEC. 2. The board of instruction of the State normal school shall give to every graduate receiving such diploma a certificate, which shall serve as a legal certificate of qualification to teach in any of the schools of this State, when a copy thereof shall have been filed or recorded in the office of the legal examining officer or officers of the county, township, city, or district. Such certificate shall not be liable to be annulled except by the board of instruc 1 As amended by Act No. 105, Laws of 1863. |