Civil Government for Common Schools: Prepared as a Manual for Public Instruction in the State of New YorkNortham, Henry C.
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Civil Government for Common Schools: Prepared as a Manual for Public Instruction in the State of New York
Northam, Henry C.
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IV. One librarian.
Q. What are the names of those districts in which there is a board
of education?
A. Union free school districts; and they are allowed to have an
additional officer, called a treasurer.
Q. What is the term of office of each?
A. I. If there be only one trustee, his term is one year.
II. If there be three trustees, the term is three years, one being
elected each year; if the board of education consists of six or
nine members, the term is three years; one third of the number
being elected each year.
III. Clerk, collector and librarian, each hold the office for one
year.
Q. Who are eligible to school offices in this state?
A. None but males; they must be twenty-one years of age; and
trustees can hold no other school office.
Q. What are some of the duties of school district officers?
TRUSTEES.
A. I. To hold and keep district property for the use of the
school.
II. To hire and pay a qualified teacher or teachers, and maintain
a school for at least twenty-eight weeks during the school year.
III. To make to the school commissions an annual report between
the first and second Tuesdays of August in each year.
IV. To make out all district taxes and issue a warrant for their
collection, etc., etc.
CLERK.
I. To record the proceedings of the district.
II. To give notice according to law of annual and special
meetings.
III. To notify each person elected or appointed to office, and
also to report their names and post-office address to the town
clerk.
IV. To notify the trustees of every resignation accepted by the
supervisor.
V. To keep and preserve all books, records and papers belonging to
his office, and to deliver the same to his successor, etc, etc,
COLLECTOR.
I. To collect all district taxes made out by trustees and placed
in his hands.
II To pay out the money as directed by their order.
LIBRARIAN.
To have charge and supervision of the school district library.
Q. What is the salary of these officers and how paid?
A. The collector only is entitled to pay; he receives one per
cent. on all moneys collected during the first fourteen days after
advertising; after that time five per cent.
Q. How shall we find hereafter that officers are paid?
A. Some are paid a salary; some by the day; some by a fee; some by
a per cent.
Q. What is meant by a salary? a fee? a per cent?
Q. How can a school district having three trustees change to one
trustee?
Q. Can a district having a sole trustee change back and legally
elect three?
[NOTE--All questions unanswered here, should be studied by
teachers very carefully, and the correct answers obtained. they
should also introduce many others that will be suggested by the
lesson.]
III.--THE TOWN.
Q. What is a town?
Q. How many towns in your county?
Q. How many towns in New York State?
Q. What are the names of the officers in a town, the number of
officials in each, and their terms of office?
A. I. One supervisor, elected for one year.
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