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 ochool Laws of Ohio 
 
 Seventy-first and Seventy-second General Assemblies 
 
 1594—1806. 
 
 COLUMBUS, O 
 THE WESTBOTE CO., STATE PRINTERS 
 1896. 
 
[Senate Bill No. 88.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3961 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended 
 March 15, 1892, (89 O. L. 95). 
 
 SEcTION I. Le zt enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Ohio, That section 3961 of the Revised Statutes as 
 amended March 15, 1892 (89 O. L. 95), be amended so as 
 to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3961. Fora joint subdistrict the estimate required 
 by section 3958 shall be made by the board of education 
 having control of the school thereof, and apportioned to the 
 several townships having territory therein in proportion to 
 the enumeration of youth in the territory belonging to each. 
 The board shall certify such estimate, so apportioned, to the 
 county auditor, who shall add the portion for each town- 
 ship to the estimate for a contingent fund certified to him 
 by its board of education, and place it on the tax list there- 
 with for collection as part of the township estimate; when 
 the county auditor apportions the school funds he shall 
 transfer to the township having control of the school, from 
 the other townships, tlfe amount so assessed and collécted, 
 and certify to the clerk and treasurer of each township the 
 amount due the board in control of said school, including 
 state tax, interest on the common school fund, contingent 
 fund, and money received from other sourccs, which amount 
 shall be paid to the treasurer of the board having control 
 of the school; and such board shall cause to be kept such 
 accounts as will show the funds received from each town- 
 ship, and the disposition thereof, and transmit to the other 
 board or boards interested, at the end of the school year, a 
 statement of such receipts and expenditures. When it has 
 been brought to the attention of the county auditor that 
 any township having territory in a joint subdistrict has not, 
 by reason of errors, mistakes, omissions or otherwise, con- 
 tributed its pro rata share of the expenses of establishing 
 said district, building, repairing or furnishing school-house, 
 and other necessary building or buildings, and maintaining 
 the school or schools in the said joint subdistrict, the audi- 
 tor of the county shall, after giving ten days’ notice to the 
 clerks of the boards of education of the townships having 
 territory in the said joint subdistrict, proceed to correct any 
 and all mistakes, errors or omissions which have, or may 
 hereafter occur by reason of any error, mistake or omission 
 of the township clerk or clerks, or county auditor, respect- 
 
 School funds. 
 
 Contingent 
 fund for joint} 
 subdistrict. 
 
 Correction of 
 errors, 
 
Repeals, ete. 
 
 School-houses : 
 
 When and how 
 question of tax 
 
 levy submitted 
 o yoters. 
 
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 ing the certification of the apportionment or distribution 
 of the funds between the several townships having terri- 
 tory in the said joint subdistrict, the same as making distri- 
 bution of the school funds for the current year, and in cor- 
 recting any error, mistake or omission, the county auditor 
 shall, annually thereafter, levy upon the tax duplicate of the 
 
 township or townships so found indebted to other town-. 
 
 ships having territory in the said joint subdistrict, such an 
 additional rate per cent of levy from year to year as will be 
 sufficient to liquidate one third of such indebtedness so as- 
 certained by the county auditor, each year, until the amount 
 so found due by said county auditor has been fully liqui- 
 dated. : 
 SECTION 2. That said section 3961 of the Revised 
 Statutes as amended March 15, 1892, be and the same is 
 
 hereby repealed and this act shall take effect onits passage. 
 
 LEONIDAS H. SOUTHARD, | 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 T. H. McCONICA, 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. 
 Passed February 8, 1804. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 73.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3991 of the Revised Statutes. 
 
 SECTION I. Bet enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 
 State’ of Ohio, That section 3991 of the Revised Statutes be 
 
 amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3991. When the board of education of any dis- 
 trict, except a city district of the first class, determines that 
 it is necessary for the proper accommodation of the schools 
 of such district to purchase a site or sites and erect a school- 
 house or school houses thereon, or to do either, or when it 
 shall become known toa board of education that the money 
 provided for the purchase of a site or sites and the erection 
 of a school-house or school-houses 1s not sufficient therefor, 
 and such board ascertains that the purchase of such site or 
 sites, and the erection and furnishing of such school-house 
 or school-houses, or either, or the completion of a partially 
 built or unfurnished school-house or school houses for 
 which a sufficient sum of money has not been provided, 
 
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 will require a greater tax upon the.property of such district : 
 
 than the board is authorized by this title to levy, and that 
 to provide means there or it will be necessary to issue 
 
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 bonds, it shall make an estimate of the probable amount of 
 money required for such purposes, or either of them, and at 
 a general election, or a special election called for that pur- 
 pose, shall submit to the electors of the district the ques- 
 tion of levying taxes for such purposes or either of them, 
 and the further questions whether the levy shall be made 
 from year to year thereafter, and what amount shall be 
 levied each year until the actual cost of such site or sites, 
 
 * the erection of such school-house or school houses, or com- 
 pletion or furnishing or refurnishing of same, or either of 
 them, is raised; and ten days’ notice of such submission 
 shall be given by the board by posters put up in five of the 
 most public places in the district, which shall state the time, 
 place and object of the election. 
 
 SEcTION 2. That said original section 399! is hereby 
 repealed and this act shall take effect upon its passage. 
 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ANDREW L. HARRIS, 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Passed February 27, 1894. 
 
 [House Bill No. 66 ] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 1 of an act entitled “ An act to authorize the use of 
 school-houses for literary entertainments, school exhibitions, sing- 
 ing schools and religious exercises,’ as amended March 24, 1892 
 (O. L., vol. 89, p. 147, S. and B. 3987—1). 
 
 Section 1. Be tt enacted by the General Assembly of. school-houses 
 the State of Ohio, That section 1 of an act entitled ‘‘An act 
 to authorize the use of school-houses for literary entertain- 
 ments, school exhibitions, singing schools and religious 
 exercises,” as amended March 24, 1892 (O. L., vol. 89, p. 
 147, S. and B. 3987—1), be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3987—1. That when, in the judgment of any Regulating u 
 board of education, it will be for the advantage of the chil- ice 
 dren residing in any school district to hold literary societies, 
 school exhibitions, singing schools, religious exercises, 
 select or normal schools, the board of education shall 
 authorize the opening of such school houses for the pur- 
 
 _ poses aforesaid. And the board of education of any school 
 district shall have discretionary power to authorize the 
 opening of such school houses for any other lawful pur- 
 poses; provided, however, that nothing herein contained 
 shall be construed to authorize any board of education to 
 
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Repeals, 
 
 City districts, 
 
 econd class 
 and village dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 Membership of 
 board of edu- 
 cation. 
 
 Repeals, 
 
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 rent or lease any school-house when such rental or lease 
 shall in any wise interfere with the public schools in such 
 district, or for any purpose other than such as is authorized 
 by this act. 
 
 SECTION 2. That section 1 of an act entitled “An act 
 to authorize the use of school-houses for literary entertain- 
 ments, school exhibitions, singing schools and religious ex- 
 ercises,” as amended March 24, 1892, be and the same is 
 hereby repealed. (O. L., vol. 89, p. 147, S.and B. 3987—1.) 
 
 SEcTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ANDREW L. HARRIS, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed February 27, 1894. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 238.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 To amend section 3904 of the Revised Statutes. 
 
 Section 1. Se it enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 3904 of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio be so amended as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3904. In city districts of the second class, and 
 in Village districts, the board of education shall consist of 
 six members, except in districts organized under a law pro- 
 viding for only three members, who shall have the qualifica- 
 tions of an elector therein, and in such districts the mem- 
 bership may be increased to six, in the manner hereinafter 
 provided ; but the board of a city district of the second class 
 may provide, by a vote of a majority of its members, that 
 the board shall consist of as many members as the city has 
 wards ; provided, that in no such city district, the number 
 of members composing such board shall be less than six. 
 
 Section 2. That said original section 3904 is hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 T. H. McCONICA, 
 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. 
 Passed March 22,. 1894. 
 
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 [House Bill No. 429.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3950 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
 
 Section 1. Be zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 3950 of the Revised Statutes 
 be amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 3950. No joint subdistrict, which is now organ- 
 ized or may hereafter be organized, shall be dissolved, 
 changed or altered, unless by the concurrent action of the 
 boards of education of the several townships having terri- 
 tory included therein; provided, however, that when any 
 board of education, in a joint subdistrict desires to dissolve, 
 change or alter the same, the board of education desiring 
 such dissolution, change or alteration, shall notify, in writ- 
 ing, the boards of education interested of the time when 
 they will meet to consider the proposed dissolution, change 
 or alteration. The place of meeting shall be the school- 
 house in such joint subdistrict; but if there be none, then 
 at some convenient place in the vicinity of such joint sub- 
 district. If the joint board fails to meet, or having met 
 cannot agree upon a dissolution, change or alteration, as 
 the case may be, then the board of education desiring such 
 dissolution, change or alteration may appeal to the probate 
 court of the proper county, and the same proceedings shall 
 be had as in case of appeals in the formation of joint sub- 
 districts, so far as applicable, as provided in sections 3935 
 to 3941, inclusive; and any joint subdistricts established by 
 proceedings in the probate court may be dissolved, changed 
 or altered, as provided in this section, at any time after the 
 expiration of five years, or the court may dissolve the same 
 at any time, upon being petitioned to d> so by two thirds 
 of the voters residing in the district which is affected by 
 the change, when the best interests ot the schoo! demand 
 such dissolution, change or alteration. And provided fur- 
 ther, that the provisions of this section shail in no wise 
 interfere with the establishment of any special district under 
 the provisions of sections three thousand nine hundred and 
 twenty-eight to three thousand nine hundred and forty-nine, 
 inclusive, as amended March fifteen, one thousand eight 
 hundred and ninety-two. 
 
 SECTION 2. That said section 3950 and all acts amend- 
 atory thereto be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 SecTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ANDREW L. HARRIS, 
 Passed April 4, 1894. President of the Senate. 
 
 Joint subdis# 
 tricts. , 
 
 Dissolution or 
 alteration, 
 
 Establishment 
 of special dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 Repeals. 
 
Women en- 
 titled to vote 
 and be voted 
 for at certain 
 school elec- 
 tions, 
 
 Separate bal- 
 lot boxes. 
 
 Registration. 
 
 Repeals, 
 
 Board of edu- 
 cation: 
 
 Election in 
 Village dis- 
 tricts. 
 
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 [Senate Bill No. 296.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To secure a voice in school affairs to the women of Ohio on equal terms 
 with men. 
 
 Section 1. Be at enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Ohio, That every woman born or naturalized in the 
 United States, of the age of twenty-one years and upward, 
 who shall have been a resident of the state one year, and of 
 the county, town, township or other election district such 
 time as the law provides for men, preceding any election 
 held for the purpose of choosing any school director, mem- 
 ber ot the board of education or school council under the 
 general or special laws of the state, shall be entitled to vote 
 and be voted for at such election for any such officer or 
 officers. 
 
 SECTION 2. A separate box shall be provided for the 
 ballots of those voting for any such office mentioned in 
 section one of this act. 
 
 SECTION 3. All laws relating to the registration of 
 voters shall apply to women upon whom the right to vote 
 is herein conferred, provided, that the names of such women 
 may be placed upon a separate list. 
 
 Section: 4. That all acts or parts of acts in so far as 
 they are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 SecTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and atter its passage. 
 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ANDREW L. HARRIS, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 24, 1894. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 163.] 
 
 SECTION 5a. That section thirty-nine hundred and 
 eight (3908) ot the Revised Statutes of Ohio be so amended 
 as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3908. In village districts members of the board 
 of education shall be elected on the first Monday of April, 
 annually, to serve for the term of three years from the 
 third Monday of April succeeding their election, and until 
 the election and qualification of their successors; if the 
 board consists of six members, two judicious and compe- 
 tent persons shall be elected each year, and if it consists of 
 three persons, one such person shall be elected each year; 
 
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 provided, that when the village of which the village district 
 is, in whole or in part, composed, is divided into wards or 
 voting precincts, the election for members of the board of 
 education shall be held in each of such wards or precincts; 
 ‘but all the members shall be elected at large by the electors 
 of the district, and voters residing in such wards or pre- 
 cincts who are also residents of the school district, shall 
 vote for member of the board of education in the ward or 
 precinct in which they reside. The election for members 
 of the board of education in such wards or precincts shall 
 be held by the same judges and clerks provided for the 
 municipal or township election, and returns of such election, 
 duly certified as in other cases, shall be made within five 
 days to the clerk of the board of education of any such 
 
 district 
 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ANDREW L. HARRIS, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 5, 1894. 
 
 {House Bill No. 30.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 4026 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended 
 April 26, 1890, (vol. 87, O. L. pp. 316-317.) 
 
 SECTION I. Be tt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Olio, That section 4026 of the Revised Statutes 
 as amended April 25th, 1890, be so amended as to read as 
 follows: 
 
 Sec. 4026. That each board of education may furnish 
 the necessary school books free of charge to enable the 
 parent or guardian without expense therefor, to comply 
 with the requirements of this chapter, the same to be paid 
 for out of the contingent fund at the disposal of the board, 
 and such levy each year, in addition, if necessary, to that 
 otherwise authorized by law, is hereby authorized as shall 
 be necessary to furnish such school books free of charge to 
 all the pupils attending the public schools; but such pupils 
 as are already wholly, or in part, suppiied with necessary 
 school books, shall be supplied free of charge only as other 
 or new books are needed, and all school books furnished as 
 herein provided, shall be considered and be the property of 
 the district and loaned to the pupils on such terms and con- 
 ditions as each such board may prescribe. 
 
 SECTION 2. That said section 4026 be and the same 
 is hereby repealed. 
 
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 SEcTION 3. This act shall take effect one month after 
 its passage. 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 T. H. McCONICA, 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. 
 
 Passed May 16, 1894. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 328.] 
 AN ACT 
 To supplement section 3961 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
 
 SECTION I. Be zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 3961 of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio be supplemented as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3961@. In case the board of education having 
 control of the school in any joint sub-district shall fail or 
 neglect to perform any of its duties as provided in section 
 thirty-nine hundred and sixty-one; or if said board shall 
 use or expend any part of the funds belonging to a joint 
 subdistrict for any other purpose than for the use of the 
 schools of such joint subdistrict; ur shall fail or neglect at 
 all times to keep the funds belonging to such joint sub- 
 district in the treasury, the board of education of any town- 
 ship having territory in such joint subdistrict may maintain 
 an action in its own name, in any court having jurisdiction, 
 against the board of education having control of the school, 
 to compel such board to pertorm its duty, or to restore to 
 the treasury any funds which may have been unlawfully 
 appropriated or taken therefrom; and such board in addi- 
 tion to costs, shall be liable for all necessary expenses 
 incurred in the prosecution of such action in the event of 
 judgment being rendered against it All actions under this 
 section shall be commenced within six years from the time 
 the right of action accrued; but such right of action shall 
 not be deemed to have accrued, until the discovery thereof. 
 
 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 ALEX BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Ri presentatives. 
 
 ANDREW L. HARRIS, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed May 16, 1894. 
 
II 
 
 {House Bill No. 851.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3893 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended 
 March 8, 1892, as amended March 23, 1893 [3 gaining 
 
 SECTION I. Se zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 3893 of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio, as amended March 8, 1892, as amended March 23, 
 1893, be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3893. A part or the whole of any district may 
 be transferred to an adjoining district, by the mutual con- 
 sent of the boards of education having control of such dis- 
 tricts; but no transfer shall take effect until a statement, 
 or map, showing the boundaries of the territory transferred, 
 is upon the records of such boards; nor, except when the 
 transfer is for the purpose of forming a joint subdistrict, 
 until a copy of such statement or map, certified by the 
 clerks of the boards making the transfer, is filed with 
 auditor of the county in which the territory so transferred 
 _is situated; and any person living in the territory so trans- 
 ferred may appeal to the county commissioners, as provided 
 in section thirty-nine hundred and sixt.-seven, and the 
 commissioners, at their first regular meeting thereafter, 
 shall approve or vacate such transfer; provided, however, 
 that when a village or a portion of a village, township, or 
 special school district has been attached to and become a 
 part of an adjoining city or village by annexation, the por 
 tion of such village, township, or special school district 
 thus annexed to such city or village shall be deemed to be 
 thereby transferred from such village school district, town- 
 ship, or special school district into such city or village school 
 district, and the amount of the existing school indebtedness 
 of such village school district, township school district, or 
 special school district, shall be ascertained and apportioned 
 by the county commissioners in the same manner as pro- 
 vided in section sixteen hundred and fifteen; and the county 
 auditor, in the proper apportionment of the school tax for 
 the respective school districts, shall be governed by an 
 accurate map of the territory so annexed as aforesaid; 
 and the boards of education of the respective school dis- 
 tricts shall immediately after the passage of this act, cause 
 to be entered upon the records of their respective boards 
 a complete and correct description of the territory so an- 
 nexed. 
 
 SECTION 2. That section 3893 of the Revised Stat- 
 utes of Ohio, as amended March 23, 1893, be and the same 
 
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 is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage. 
 
 ALEX. BOXWELL, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 ANDREW L. HARRIS, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed May 18, 1804. 
 
 {House Bill No. 17.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 4086 Revised Statutes of Ohio, 
 
 Teachers’ in- Section 1. Se zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 
 ead the State of Ohio, That section 4086 be amended so as to 
 read as follows: 
 
 gi ine a Sec. 4086. A teachers’ institute may be organized in 
 
 teachers’ insti: any county, by the association of not less than thirty prac- 
 tute. : “Le ; 
 tical teachers of common schools residing therein, who shall 
 declare their intention in writing, to attend such institute, 
 the purpose of which shall be the improvement of such 
 Blection. term, te@chers in their profession ; such institute shall elect annu- 
 duties and ally by ballot a president, secretary, both of whom shall be 
 Goara, ex-officio members of the executive board, and one member 
 of an executive committee who shall serve for a term of 
 three years; provided that at the first annual election under 
 the provisions of this act, there shall be elected three mem- 
 bers of an executive committee; the one receiving the 
 highest number of votes to serve three years; the one 
 receiving the next highest number of votes to serve two 
 years; and the one receiving the next highest number of 
 votes to serve one year. It shall be the duty of this execu- 
 tive committee to manage the affairs of the institute ; which 
 committee shall enter into a bond, payable to the state of 
 Ohio, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the county 
 auditor in double the amount of the institute fund in the 
 county treasury, for the benefit of the institute fund of the 
 county, and conditioned that the committee shall account 
 faithfully for the money which will come into its possession, 
 and make the report to the commissioner of common 
 schools, required by section four thousand and eight, and 
 such election of officers shall be held during the session of 
 such institute and at a time fixed by the executive com- 
 mittee thereof, of which election at least three days’ notice 
 shall be given the members of such institute by posting con- 
 spicuously in a room, where such institute is held, a notice 
 of the time and place of holding such election, and of the 
 officers to be voted for at such election. 
 
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 SEcTION 2. The said original section 4086, Revised Repeals. 
 Statutes of Ohio, be and thé same is hereby repealed. 
 Sec1ion 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 DAVID-Ls oLEEPER, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed February 6, 1896. 
 
 [House Bill No. 244.] 
 AN ACT 
 To amend section 4074 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
 
 Section 1. Be tt enacted by the General Assembly of gonoo) exami- 
 the State of Ohio, That section 4074 of the Revised Statutes ners: 
 of Ohio be so amended as to read as !ollows: 
 
 Sec. 4074. No person shall be employed as teacher Certificate a 
 in a common school who has not obtained from a board of eset lente 
 examiners, having competent jurisdiction, a certificate of ©! teacher. 
 good moral character, and that he or she is qualified to 
 teach orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, 
 
 English grammar, the history of the United States, including 
 
 . civil government, and possesses an adequate knowledge of 
 
 the theory and practice of teaching, and, if required to teach 
 
 other branches, that he or she has requisite qualifications; 
 
 but persons who desire or are expected to teach only special Specialstudies 
 studies, such as music, drawing, painting, penmanship, gym. Sahtment. os 
 nastics, German or French, or any one of them, or the 
 
 primary department in any graded school, may be exam- 
 
 ined in regard to such study or studies above mentioned, 
 
 or with special reference to their qualifications to teach in 
 
 such primary department only, and having obtained a certi- 
 
 ficate of qualification therein, and of good moral character, 
 
 may be employed to teach such study or studies, or in such Physiology 
 primary department; provided, that after January 1, 1880, a seg 
 no person shall be employed as a teacher in any common 
 
 school, who has not obtained from such board of examiners 
 
 a certificate that he or she is qualified to teach physiology 
 
 and hygiene. 
 
 Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after July 1, 1806. 
 DAR Dt SS DEEPER. 
 Speaker of the House of Represeniatives. 
 ASAH EL W.»TONES; 
 Pristdent of the Senate. 
 Passed February 20, 1896. 
 
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 [House Bill No. 175.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To supplement section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as 
 amended March 20, 1801. 
 
 School funds: Section 1. Be zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio. That section 3951 of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio, as amended March 20, 1891, be supplemented as 
 
 follows: : 
 i aoe Sec. 395 1a. For the purpose of affording adequate 
 sity fund. support to the Ohio university and to the Miami university, 
 
 there shall be levied annually a tax on the grand list of the 
 taxable property of the state of Ohio, which shall be col- 
 lected in the same manner as other state taxes and the pro- 
 ceeds of which shall constitute the “Ohio and Miami uni- 
 versity fund.’’ The rate of such levy shall be designated by 
 the general assembly at least once in two years, and if the 
 general assembly shall fail to designate the rate for any 
 year, the same shall be for the said ‘“‘the Okio and Miami 
 
 eer university fund” three one-hundredth (.03) of one mill upon 
 
 pupils, each dollar of valuation of such taxable property. Said Ohio a 
 university and Miami university shall admit free of tuition all 3 
 residents of this state who shall conform to the standards of 
 admissions. 
 
 Pp eoution. of Sec. 39510. The said ‘‘Ohio and Miami university 
 
 fund” shall be distributed and paid annually, seven-twellths 
 (7-12) thereof to the treasurer of the Ohio university upon 
 the order of the president of the board of. trustees of said 
 Ohio university, and five tweltths (5-12) thereof to the treas- ee 
 urer of the Miami university upon the order of the president | 
 of the board of trustees of the said Miami university. 
 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 DAVID -L=SbEE PEK: 
 Speakir of the House of Representatives. 
 
 JNO. C. HUTSINPILLER, a 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. : 
 
 Passed February 26, 1896. % 
 erence y 
 
 [House Bill No. 372.] 
 
 AN ACT . 
 To amend section 4044 of the Revised Statutes. 
 Tyeasarerot SECTION I. Be zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 school funds: 4 State of Ohio, That section 4044 of the Revised Statute f 
 be so amended as to read as follows: ‘ 
 
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 ‘Sec. 4044. The treasurer shall, annually, within the 
 first ten days of September, settle with the county auditor 
 for the preceding school year, and for that purpose shall 
 make a certified statement showing the amount of money 
 received, from whom, and on what account, and the amount 
 paid out, and for what purpose; he shall produce vouchers 
 for all payments made; if the auditor, on examination, find 
 the statement and vouchers to be correct, he shall give the 
 treasurer a certificate of the fact, which shall prima facie, be 
 a discharge of the treasurer for the money paid; and for 
 making such settlement he sha!l be entitled to receive the 
 sum of one dollar, and also five cents per mile for traveling 
 to and from the county seat, to be paid out of the county 
 treasury, on the order of the county auditor. When the 
 treasurer’s term begins on the first day of September the 
 annual settlement shall be made by the outgoing treasurer. 
 
 SECTION 2. That section 4044 be and the same is 
 hereby repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 CHARLES H. BOSLER, 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 
 DINO. CHU TSINPILEER, 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. 
 Passed March 5, 1896. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 21.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3951 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as amended 
 March 20, 1891. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 3951 of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio be amended soas to read as follows: 
 
 ‘Sec. 3951. For the purpose of affording the ad- 
 vantages of a free education to all the youth of the state, 
 there shall be levied annually a tax on the grand list of 
 taxable property of the state, which shall be collected in the 
 same manner as other state taxes, and the proceeds of which 
 shall constitute ‘the state common school fund:” and for 
 the purpose of higher, agricultural and industrial education, 
 including manual training, there shall be levied and collected 
 in the same manner, a tax on the grand list of taxable prop- 
 erty of the state, which shall constitute “the Ohio state uni- 
 versity fund.” The rate of such levy in each case shall be 
 designated by the general assembly at least once in two 
 years; and if the general assembly shall fail to designate the 
 
 Annual gettle- 
 ment by treas- 
 urer with 
 county audi- 
 tor. 
 
 Repeals, ete. 
 
 School funds: 
 
 “The state 
 common 
 school fund ”’ 
 and “ the Ohio 
 state university 
 fund.’ 
 
Repeals, ete. 
 
 County exami- 
 ners, 
 
 Granting,valid- 
 ity, renewabil- 
 ity and revoca- 
 tion of certifi- 
 cates. 
 
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 rate for any year, the same shall be for the ‘“ state common 
 school fund,” one mill; and for the ‘‘ Ohio state university 
 fund” one tenth of one mill, upon each dollar of valuation 
 of such taxable property. 
 
 SECTION 2. Said section 3951 of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio, as amended March 20, 18g1, is hereby repealed, 
 and this act shall take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 CHARLES H. BOSLER, 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed March 9g, 1896. 
 
 [House Bill No. 430.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for a professional certificate for teachers of common 
 schools. 
 
 Section I. be tt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 4073 of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio be amended to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 4073. ‘The board may grant certificates for one, 
 two and three years from the day of examination, which 
 shall be valid in the county wherein they are issued, except 
 in city and village districts that have boards of examiners, 
 in which they shall not be valid; and the examiners may 
 grant certificates for five years to such applicants as in addi- 
 tion to the necessary qualifications have been for three years 
 next preceding their application engaged in teaching, twelve 
 months of which experience shall have been in one place; 
 and such certificates for five years shall be renewable upon 
 the same condition, but without examination, at the discre- 
 tion of the examining board ; and the examiners may grant 
 certificates for eight years from the date of examination, 
 to such applicants as, in addition to the necessary qualifica- 
 tions, hold or have held a certificate for five years, and have 
 been for three years next preceding their application engaged 
 in teaching, eighteen months of which experience shall have 
 been in one place; and the applicants for such certificates 
 for eight years, in addition to the other qualifications, shall 
 be required to passa satisfactory examination in botany, 
 algebra, natural philosophy and English literature ; and such 
 certificate for eight years shall be renewable upon the same 
 conditions, but without examination, at the discretion vc‘ 
 the examining board; and if at any time the recipient of a 
 certificate be found intemperate, immoral, incompetent, or 
 
 + Ses 
 
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 negligent, the examiners, or any two of them, may revoke . 
 the certificate; but such revocation shall not prevent a Investigation 
 teacher from receiving pay for services previously rendered; 
 and when any recipient of a certificate is charged with in- 
 temperance, or other immorality, the examining board shall 
 have power to send for witnesses and examine them on oath 
 or affirmation touching the matter under investigation. The 
 fees and other expenses of such trial shall be certified to the 
 county auditor by the clerk and president of the examining 
 board, and be paid out of the county treasury upon the 
 order of the auditor. ‘ 
 SEcTION 2, Said original section 4073 (85, O. L., 331) ae 
 is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage. 
 DAVID: L. SLEEPER, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 JNO. C.. HUTSINPILLER, 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 6, 1896. 
 
 ‘Expenses. 
 
 [House Bill No. 157.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend supplementary section 4022a of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, 
 as amended March 8, 1894. 
 
 e 
 
 Section 1. Se zt enacted by the General Assembly of schools: 
 the State of Ohto, That supplementary section 4022a ot the 
 Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended March 8, 1894, be 
 amended as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 4022a. The board of education of any township ca eeubietiete 
 district, [subdistrict,] joint subdistrict, special or village dis- nearest school. 
 trict, within the state of Ohio, shall permit children of school 
 age who reside further than one and one half miles from the 
 school where they have a legal residence under the school 
 laws of Ohio, to attend the nearest subdistrict or joint sub- 
 district school; or the grades below the high school in spe- 
 cial and v''lage district schools; and where such children are 
 under twe.ve years of age, boards of education of city dis- 
 tricts of the first class shall permit them to attend schools 
 under their control and the per capita current expense of 
 running the school in the district where such children attend, penchP'*©* 
 for the term so attending, shall, upon the demand of the 
 board of education of such district, be paid by the board 
 of education of the district where such children have a 
 legal residence. The per capita cost of running the school 
 in the subdistrict and joint subdistricts shall be the quotient 
 
 2 SCH. L. 
 
Guyahoga and 
 Franklin coun- 
 ties. 
 
 Consent of 
 board not re- 
 quired, etc. 
 
 Repeals 
 
 School dis- 
 tricts: 
 
 Cincinnati 
 board of educa- 
 tion: how con- 
 stitu ed; quali- 
 fication, elec- 
 tion, term, au- 
 
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 produced by dividing the total current expense of running 
 such school by the total number of children of school age 
 
 -in such district; the per capita cost of running the school in 
 
 special and village districts shall be the quotient arising 
 from dividing the total current expense of the departments 
 below the high school, including so much of the superin- 
 tendent’s salary as may be paid for the supervision of such 
 departments, by the total enrollment in these departments; 
 provided that in counties containing a city of the second 
 grade of the first class and the first grade of the second class, 
 any board of education of any township district located 
 therein may, when in its opinion the same will be for the best 
 interests of the pupils therein, temporarily suspend school 
 in any subdistrict, and provide for the conveyance of said 
 pupils to the school in the adjoining subdistrict most con- 
 venient for them respectively. Provided that nothing in 
 this act shall be so construed as to require any pupil to pro- 
 cure the consent of the board of education either in the dis- 
 trict in which said pupil is entitled to attend under the pro- 
 visions of this act, but the attendance as herein provided 
 for shall be as a matter of right. 
 
 SECTION 2. That section 4022a, as amended March 
 8, 1894, is hereby repealed. 
 SEcTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after September 1, 1896 
 CHARLES H. BOSLER; 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES a5 
 / resident of the Senaie. 
 Passed Apri! 8, 1896. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 199.] 
 ANVACT 
 
 To amend section 3897 of the Revised Statutes and supplementary 
 thereto, 
 
 SECTION t. Be wt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 3897 of the Revised Statutes 
 of the state of Ohio, as amended May 17, 1894 (91 v. 289), 
 be amended and supplemented as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3897. In city districts of the first grade of the 
 first class the board of education shall consist of one mem- 
 ber from each ward, and each member of the board shall 
 
 thority, ete, ot be an elector of the ward, or of the township, or part of 
 
 members and 
 cle: ks. 
 
 the township, which for school purposes has been or may ~ 
 
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 be attached to such ward for which he is elected or ap- 
 pointed; provided, that in city districts of the first grade 
 of the first class, beginning with the election of city officers 
 to be held in April, 1897, one member shall be elected from 
 each ward, or from territory attached to each ward for 
 school purposes, who shall serve for the term of three (3) 
 years; and provided further, that all members, clerks and 
 ‘assistant clerks of such- boards heretofore elected, shall con- 
 tinue to be members, clerks and assistant clerks thereof 
 until their successors are elected and qualified as herein 
 provided ; and thereafter as the term of members elected 
 by said ward, or ward with territory attached for school 
 purposes, as above provided, shall expire, successors shall 
 be elected for the term of three years; and provided fur- 
 ther, that the clerks and assistant clerks of any such boards 
 shall be elected for the term of three (3) years. If any per- 
 son elected a member of said board shall, during his term 
 as said member, move out of the ward for which he was 
 elected, then his term shall cease and determine, and said 
 board shall elect a person to fill the vacancy ; the members 
 elected under this act shall hold office until their successors 
 are elected and qualified ; provided, that the board of educa- 
 tion established by this act shall be in all respects the suc- 
 cessors of the respective board whose place they take; 
 but the members of such board of education shall not, as 
 individuals or as local committees, exercise supervisory 
 authority over the schools in the several wards or districts 
 or have the selection or nomination of teachers; and pro- 
 vided further, that when a new or additional ward shail be 
 created in such city district, the board of education shall 
 proceed to elect a person who isan elector of such addi- 
 tional ward, or of territory thereto attached for school 
 purposes, as a member of the board from such ward, to 
 serve until the next election for members of the board of 
 education, at which election the qualified electors of such 
 new wards, and the territory annexed for schoo] purposes. 
 shall elect one judicious and competent person, having the 
 qualifications of an elector of such ward or territory thereto 
 attached for school purposes, to serve as a member of the 
 board of education. 
 
 Sec. 3897a. The superintendent of the public schools 
 of said city district of the first grade of the first class shall 
 appoint all the teachers of said schools by and with the con- 
 sent of the board of education, which appointments shal! 
 be for a period of one year, when made the second time 
 shall be for a period of two years and when made the third 
 time shall be for a period of four years; all teachers who 
 shall have served seven successive years in the public 
 schools of said city district, whether before or after, or 
 partly before or after the passage of this act, shall whey 
 appointed by said superintendent, and confirmed by said 
 
 Appointment, 
 termes and re- 
 moval of teach- 
 +18; investiga- 
 tion of ehargea, 
 
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 board, hold their positions until removed by death, resig- 
 nation or for cause, subject, however, to the provisions and 
 requirements of sections 4074 and 4081 of the Revised 
 Statutes and all other sections and provisions of the Re- 
 vised Statutes relating to board of examiners and their 
 powers and duties; provided, however, that any teacher 
 of said schools may at any time be removed by said super- 
 intendent or by said board of education for cause, but any 
 teacher who is removed by the superintendent may, upon 
 a written appeal to said board of education have such cause: 
 or causes of removal investigated by the board of educa- 
 tion of said city district, or by a committee appointed by 
 said board of education for such purpose, of which com- 
 mittee the superintendent of the public schools of said city 
 district shall be a member, and a decision of said board of 
 education or of said committee shall be final. Whenever 
 in said city districts of the first grade of the first class the 
 high schools of said city district shall or at any time here- 
 after may be under the control and management of a union 
 board of high schools or of any other separate board, the 
 superintendent of the public schools of said city district 
 Sail appoint all the teachers of said high schools, by and 
 with the consent of the majority of the members of said 
 union board of high schools, or other separate board of 
 said district, which appointments shall be for a period not 
 exceeding one year; provided, however, that all teachers 
 of said hgh schools who shall have served five successive 
 years in the public schools of said city district or in the 
 high schools of said city district, whether before or after, 
 or partly before or after, the passage of this act, or both, 
 when appointed by said superintendent and confirmed by 
 said union board or other separate board having the con- 
 trol of said high schools, shall hold their positions until 
 removed by death, resignation or for cause, subject, how- 
 ever to the provisions and requirements of sections 4074 
 and 4081 of the Revised Statutes and all those sections 
 and provisions of the Revised Statutes relating to boards of 
 examiners and their powers and duties ; provided, however, 
 that’ any teacher of said high schools may at any time be 
 removed by said superintendent, subject to the approval 
 of the majority of said union board of high schools, or 
 other separate board, or by said union board or other 
 separate board for cause upon written charges, which 
 charges, when filed, shall be investigated by said union 
 board of high schools, or other separate board of said city 
 district, or by a committee of said board appointed for 
 such purpose, of which committee the superintendent of 
 the public schools of said city district shall be a member, 
 and a decision of such union board, or other separate board 
 having control of said high schools, or of said committee 
 of suid board, shall be final; provided further, that when- 
 
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 ever the power to appoint teachers in the public schools of 
 such city district of the first grade of the first class is not 
 given by the law of the state to the superintendent of the 
 public schools or not given to him by the board of educa- 
 tion of such city district in pursuance of law, then said 
 union board of high schools, or other separate board, shall 
 appoint such teachers in the high schools to serve as above 
 provided, with power of removal as above provided. The 
 provisions of this section relating to the appointment and 
 terms of teachers shall not apply to the appointment or 
 term of any superintendent or superintendents of schools 
 of such city district. 
 
 Sec. 38976. In order to create a fund to be known 
 as the school teachers’ pension fund, one per cent (1%) 
 of the salaries, paid to all teachers of said city district of 
 the first grade of the first class, including the teachers of 
 the high schools of said city district shall be deducted by 
 the proper cfficers and paid into the city treasury to the 
 credit ot said fund, to be used exclusively for pensions for 
 teachers as hereinafter provided. All moneys received 
 from donations, legacies, gifts, bequests or from any other 
 source shall also be paid into said fund; but no taxes shall 
 be levied or any other public moneys be appropriated for 
 said fund, except as herein provided. 
 
 Sec. 3897c. Said school teachers’ pension fund shall 
 be under the charge, management and control of a board 
 to be known as the board of trustees of the schoo! teachers’ 
 pension fund, comnosed of seven members, two to be elected 
 by the board of education of said city district, one to be 
 elected by the union board of high schools, or other sepa- 
 rate board having charge of the high schools in said city 
 district, three to be elected by the teachers of the public 
 schools, including the teachers of the high schools of said 
 city district, and the superintendent of schools of said city 
 district who ex officio shall be a member of said board. 
 The board of education of said city district shall, at its 
 first regular meeting after this act goes into effect, elect 
 two of its members, one for one year, and one for two 
 years and thereafter annually elect one of its members for 
 two years, who shall serve as members of said board; the 
 union board of high schools, or other separate board hav- 
 ing charge of the high schools in said city district, shall, 
 at its first regular meeting after this act goes into effect, 
 and thereafter annually elect one of its members, who shall 
 serve as a member of said board; the teachers of the public 
 schools, including the teachers of the high schools, of said 
 city district, shall within thirty days after this act goes 
 into effect, at a meeting to be called by the superintendent 
 of schools of said city district, elect three of their number, 
 one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, 
 
 Non-applica- 
 bility to super- 
 intendent. 
 
 School se I 
 ers on 
 feng 
 
 Board of trust- 
 ees of the 
 school teach- 
 ers’ pension 
 fund ; consti- 
 tution and 
 powers; elec- 
 tion and term 
 of members. 
 
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 and thereafter annually at a meeting to be called in the 
 same manner, elect one of their number for three years, 
 who shall serve as members of said board. The members 
 of said board shall serve as such without compensation and 
 shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. 
 Said board of trustees shall have power to invest said pen- 
 sion fund in the name ot said board in bonds of the United 
 States, or of the state of Ohio, or of any county in this 
 state, or of any municipal corporation in this state, or of 
 any school district of this state, and said board shall have 
 power to make payments from said pension fund of pen- 
 sions granted in pursuance of this act. Said board of trust- 
 ees shall also have power from time to time to make and 
 establish such rules and regulations for the administration 
 of said pension fund as they shall deem best. 
 
 Retirement Sec. 3897d. Said board of education of said city dis- 
 teachers; trict and said union board or other separate board having 
 acacher’ de’ the control and management of the high schools of said 
 city district shall each of them have power by a majority 
 vote of all the members composing said board to retire on 
 account of physical or mental! disability any male or female 
 teacher under such board who shall have taught fora period 
 aggregating twenty (.0) years, whether before or after, or 
 partly before or after the passage of this act; provided 
 however that three-fifths of said period of service shall have 
 [been] rendered by said beneficiary in the public schools or 
 the high schools of said city district or in the public schools 
 or high schools of the county in which said city district 
 is located. The term ‘‘teacher” under this act shall in- 
 clude all superintendents of instruction, principals, special 
 teachers, and teachers employed by either of said boards. 
 Any female teacher shall have the right to retire and be- 
 come a beneficiary under this act who shall have taught 
 for a period aggregating thirty (30) years, whether betore 
 or after, or partly before or after the passage of this act, 
 and any male teacher shall have the right to retire and be- 
 come a beneficiary under this act who shall have taught 
 for a period aggregating thirty-five (35) years, whether be- 
 fore or after, or partly before or after the passage of this 
 act; provided that three fifths of said term of service shall 
 have been rendered in the public schools or the high schools 
 of said city district, or in the public schools or high schools 
 of the county in which said district is located. Each teacher 
 so retired or retiring shall be entitled during the remainder 
 of his or her natural life to receive as pension an amount 
 equal to one halt of the annual salary paid to such teacher 
 at the date of his or her retirement, said pension to be paid 
 monthly during the school year, but in no event shall such 
 pension paid to any teacher exceed the sum of six hundred 
 (600) do.lars in any one year; provided further that if said _ 
 
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 pension fund shall at any time be insufficient to meet the 
 pensions so provided for, that during the period that such 
 fund is insufficient to make such payments, the amount in 
 said fund during said period shall be prorated between the 
 parties entitled thereto. No payment shall be made to any 
 beneficiary, nor shall any teacher retired or retiring be en: 
 titled to any payment under the provisions of this act prior 
 to July 1, 1899. 
 
 Sec. 3897e. Said board of trustees shall have the 
 power to use both the principal and income of said fund 
 for the payment of the pensions herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 3897f The clerk of the board of education of 
 said city district and the clerk of the union board of high 
 schools or other separate board having the control and 
 management of the high schools of said city district, shall 
 each of them certify monthly t» said board of trustees all 
 amounts deducted from the salaries of the teachers as afore- 
 said, which amounts as wellasall other moneys contributed 
 to said fund shall be set apart as a special fund for the pur- 
 poses herein specified, subject to the order of said board 
 of trustees. All moneys belonging to said fund shall be 
 paid only on the order of said board of trustees entered 
 upon its minutes on warrants signed by the president and 
 secretary of said board. 
 
 Sec. 3897g. The city treasurer of said city of the first 
 grade of the first class located wholly or partly in said city 
 district shall be the custodian of said pension fund and shall 
 keep the same subject to the order, control and direction 
 of said board of trustees. He shall keep books of accounts 
 concerning said fund in such manner as may be prescribed 
 by said board, which books of accounts shall always be 
 subject to the inspection of said board of trustees or of any 
 member thereof. Said treasurer shall execute a bond to 
 said board of trustees with good and sufficient sureties in 
 such sum as said board of trustees shall require, which 
 bond shall be subject to the approval of said board and be 
 conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as 
 custodian of said board and treasurer of said board. He 
 shall always keep and truly account for all moneys and 
 profits coming into his hands as such treasurer belonging 
 to such fund, and at the expiration of his term of office, 
 shall pay over, surrender and deliver to his successor all 
 securities, moneys and other property of whatsoever kind, 
 nature and description which may be in his hands or under 
 his control as treasurer aforesaid. Said treasurer shall be 
 paid for his services under this act a compensation not to 
 exceed one per cent annually of the amount paid into said 
 fund during the year 
 
 Power to use 
 principal and 
 income. 
 
 Monthly cer- 
 tifications of 
 deductions 
 from salaries; 
 creation and 
 disbursement 
 of specia] fund. 
 
 Duties, bond 
 and compensa- 
 tion of custo- 
 Cian of fund. 
 
Termination of 
 teacher’s inter- 
 ast in fund. 
 
 Repeals. 
 
 Taking effect. 
 
 County school 
 examiners: 
 
 Examinations 
 of pee of 
 
 su bdistricts 
 and special dis- 
 tricts; privilege 
 and tuition of 
 successful ap- 
 
 mt. 
 
 Township and 
 sounty com- ' 
 mencements ; 
 declamation, 
 essay, anaual 
 address and 
 diploma. 
 
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 Sec. 38972. The death, resignation or removal of any 
 teacher for cause as aforesaid shall terminate all interest of 
 said teacher in said fund. 
 
 SEcTION 2. Section 3897 of the Revised Statutes as 
 amended May 17, 1894 (gI v. 289), be, and the same is 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after the first day of September, A. D. 1897. 
 
 CHARLES H. BOSLER, 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 14, 1896. 
 
 [House Bill No. 518.i . 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend sections t and 2 of an act entitled “An act to provide for 
 graduation from the common schoois of subdistricts and special 
 districts,” passed March 22, 1892, and amended March 13, 1894. 
 
 Section 1. Le tt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 
 the State of Ohto, That sections t and 2 of an act entitled’ 
 
 ‘“‘An act to provide for graduation from common schools 
 of subdistricts and special districts,” passed March 22, 1892, 
 as amended March 13, 1894, be and the same are hereby 
 amended to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 1. Each board of county school examiners shall 
 hold examinations of pupils of the subdistricts and special 
 districts in the subjects of orthography, reading, writing, 
 arithmetic, geography, English grammar. United States 
 history and physiology. Two such examinations shall be 
 held at such place or places, and on such dates as the board 
 of county examiners may determine, and shall be ef sucha 
 character as shall permit the successful applicants upon the 
 payment of tuition to enter any high school in the county 
 in which the applicant resides, or in any adjoining county 
 in which said applicant desires to attend such high school, 
 and such applicant shall be examined in the county in which 
 such high school is situated, and the tuition of such appli- 
 
 cant may be paid by the board of education of the township 
 in which such applicant resides. 
 
 Sec. 2. The clerk of the township board of educa- 
 tion shall! provide for holding a township commencement 
 at some place within the township, and shall appoint a 
 teacher of the township to have charge of the same. At 
 this commencement each successful applicant shall be re- 
 
 ; 
 r 
 ‘ 
 7am 
 
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 ~quired to deliver an oration or declamation, or read an 
 
 essay. The board of county school examiners shall pro- 
 vide for the holding of a county commencement at such 
 time and place as they may determine. At this commence- 
 
 ‘ment there shall be delivered an annual address provided by 
 
 the county board of school examiners, at the conclusion of 
 which a diploma shall be presented to each successfut ap- 
 
 ‘plicant who has complied with the provisions of this act. 
 
 SECTION 2. That said sections I and 2 of said act as 
 amended March 13, 1894, be and the same are hereby 
 repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from 
 
 -and after its passage. 
 
 CHARLES H. BOSLER, 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Repr sentatives. 
 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 18, 1896. 
 
 [House Bill No. 147.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 4043 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
 
 Section 1. be zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 
 -the State of Ohio, That section 4043 be amended to read as 
 
 follows: 
 Sec. 4043. Each school district treasurer or county 
 
 ‘ 5 . ; u 
 treasurer who is ex officio treasurer of a school district, 
 
 shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute 
 
 a bond, with sufficient sureties, in double the probable 
 
 amount of school funds that may come into his hands, 
 payable to the state of Ohio, to be approved by the board 
 
 of education, conditioned for the faithful disbursement, ac- 
 
 cording to law, of all such funds which come into his hands; 
 and he may at any time thereatter be required to give ad- 
 ditional sureties on his accepted bond or to execute a new 
 bond with sufficient sureties to the approval of the board 
 of education whenever the said board of education deem 
 it necessary, and if said treasurer shall fail for ten days after 
 service of notice in writing of such requisition, to give 
 bond or additional sureties as aforesaid as required by said 
 board, the office shall be considered and declared vacant 
 and shall be filled as in other cases. Every bond, when 
 so executed and approved, shall be filed with the clerk of 
 the board of education of the district, and recorded, who 
 shall cause a certified copy thereof or the names of addi- 
 
 Repeals, etc. 
 
 Treasurer of 
 school funds: 
 
 tional sureties 
 or new bond. 
 
Production, 
 counting aud 
 
 record of mon- 
 eys and securi- 
 
 ties at time oi 
 approval, 
 
 Repeals, 
 
 County school 
 examiners 
 
 President and 
 clerk of board; 
 duties and 
 compensation 
 of clerk. 
 
 Rules and reg- 
 ulations. 
 
 tional sureties, to be filed with the county auditor without 
 delay, and such board at the time of the approval of any 
 bond or sureties, shall require the treasurer of the school 
 funds to produce all money, bonds or other securities in 
 his hands as such treasurer, and the same shall be then 
 counted by the board or a committee thereof, in the pres- 
 ence of the clerk of the board, who shall thereupon enter 
 upon the records of the board, a certificate, setting forth 
 the exact amount of money or securities so found in the 
 hands of such treasurer, which record shall be signed by 
 the president and clerk of the board and shall be prima 
 facie evidence that the amount therein stated was actually 
 in the treasury at that date. 
 
 SECTION 2. Said original section 4043 is hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 DAVID -L. SEEERER} 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 JNO... C. AAU TSINPIRE ER 
 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. 
 Passed April 21, 1896. 
 
 [House Bill No. 36r1.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend sections 4070, 4071, as amended April 12, 1892, and 4075 
 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be zt enacted by the General Assemoly of 
 the State of Ow, That sections 4070, 4071, as amended 
 April 12, 1892, and 4075 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, 
 be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 4070. The board shall organize by choosing 
 from its members a president and clerk; the clerk shall 
 keep a record ot the proceedings, showing the number and 
 date of each certificate issued, and to whom, for what term, 
 and for what branches of study, and such other statistics 
 relating to the examination and proceedings as the com- 
 missioner of common schools may require, and shall report 
 such statistics to the commissioner annually on or before 
 the first day of September; the clerk shall receive four 
 dollars for each examination of sixty applicants or less, six 
 dollars for each examination of more than sixty applicants| 
 and less than one hundred, eight dollars for each examina- 
 tion of one hundred applicants or more, to be paid out of 
 the county treasury on the order of the county auditor; the 
 board may make all needful rules and regulations for the 
 proper discharge of their duty. 
 
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 Pe ee eT ee ey Le ee ae eee 
 
 fe 
 
 nee 
 
oly] 
 Tae 
 
 Sec. 4071. Each board shall fix upon the place and 
 times for holding meetings for the examination of appli- 
 cants for certificates, notice of which shall be published in 
 two weekly newspapers of different political parties printed 
 in the county, if there are two papers thus published; if 
 not, then a publication in one only is required; the meet- 
 ings, of which there shall not be more than ten in any 
 year, shall be held at such place in the county as will in the 
 opinion of the board best accommodate the greatest num- 
 ber of applicants; a majority of the board may examine 
 applicants and grant certificates; and as a condition of ex- 
 amining each applicant shall pay to the board a fee of fifty 
 cents. 
 
 Sec. 4075. Each member of the board shall be en- 
 titled to receive ten dollars for each examination of sixty 
 applicants or less, fourteen dollars for each examination of 
 more than sixty applicants and less than one hundred, 
 eighteen dollars for each examination of one hundred 
 applicants or more, to be paid out of the county treasury on 
 the order of the county auditor; all books, blanks and sta- 
 tionery required by the board shall be furnished by the 
 county auditor; the board may contract for the use of suit- 
 able rooms in which to conduct examinations, procure fuel 
 and light, and employ janitors to take charge of the rooms 
 and keep them in order, and the expenses so incurred, 
 together with the cost of advertising required by section 
 4071, shall be paid out of the county treasury on orders 
 of the county auditor, who shall issue such orders upon 
 the certificate of the president of the board, countersigned 
 by the clerk. 
 
 SECTION 2. That said sections 4070, 4071, as amended 
 April 12, 1892, and 4075 be and the same are hereby re- 
 pealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from 
 and after its passage. 
 
 DAV Date, SLE, DER. 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 JNO, \C.. HO-TSINPILLER, 
 President pro tem. af the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 21, 1896. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 249.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for supplying the schools of Ohio with good and sufficient 
 school books at the lowest possible prices. 
 
 Section 1. Be at enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Olio, That any publisher or publishers of school 
 
 Meetings for 
 examinations; 
 majority’s 
 power; exam 
 nation fee. 
 
 Compensation 
 of members}; 
 stationery, 
 rooms, etc.; 
 payment of 
 ex penses, 
 
 Repeals, ete. 
 
 Filing and pe 
 servation 0. 
 copies and 
 prices of school 
 books. 
 
Fixing of max- 
 imum price 
 and notifica- 
 tion of pub- 
 lisher, 
 
 Agreement 
 with publisher, 
 and its effect. 
 
 Notices to 
 boards of edu- 
 cation. 
 
 Legality de- 
 pendent upon 
 com piiance. 
 
 Procedure 
 upon violation 
 of agreement 
 by publisher ; 
 penalty ; re- 
 covery and 
 disposition. 
 
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 books in the United States desiring to offer school books 
 for use by pupils in the common schools of Ohio as herein- 
 after provided, shall, before such books may be lawtully 
 adopted and purchased by any school board in this state, file 
 in the office of the state commissioner of common schools, 
 a copy of each book proposed to be so offered, together with 
 the published list wholesale price thereof, and no revised 
 edition of any such book shall be used in the common 
 schools until a copy of such revised edition shall have been 
 filed in the office of the said. commissioner together with the 
 published list wholesale price thereof The said commis- 
 sioner shall carefully preserve in his office all such copies of 
 books and the prices thereof so filed. 
 
 SECTION 2. Whenever and so‘often as any book 
 and the price thereof shall beso filed in the commissioner’s 
 office as provided in section 1, a commission consisting of 
 the governor, the secretary of state and the state commis- 
 sioner of common schools [he] shall immediately fix-the 
 maximum price at which such books may be sold to or pur- 
 chased by boards of education as hereinafter provided, 
 which maximum price so fixed on any book shall not exceed 
 seventy five per cent of the published list wholesale price 
 thereof, and the state commissioner of common schools 
 shall immediately notify the publisher of such book so filed, 
 of the maximum price so fixed. Ifthe publisher so notified, 
 shall notify the commissioner in writing that he accepts the 
 price so fixed, and shall agree in writing to furnish such 
 book during a period of five years at the price so fixed, such 
 written acceptance and agreement shall entitle said pub- 
 lisher to offer said book so filed for sale to said board of edu- 
 cation for use by the pupil under the terms of this act. 
 
 SECTION 3. The said commissioner shall during 
 the first half of the month of June, 1896, and during the first 
 half of the month of June in each year thereafter, furnish 
 to each board of education the names and addresses of all 
 publishers who shall have during the year ending on the 
 first day of said month of June in each year, agreed in writ- 
 ing to furnish their publications upon the terms provided 
 in this act. And it shall not be lawful for any board of 
 education to adopt or cause to be used in the common 
 schools any book whose publisher shall not have complied, 
 as to said book, with the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 4. If any publisher who shall have agreed 
 in writing to furnish booksas provided in this act, shall fail 
 or refuse to furnish such books adopted as herein provided 
 to any board of education or its authorized agent upon the 
 terms as herein provided, it shall be the duty of said board 
 at once to notify the said commission of such failure or re- 
 fusal, and the commission shall at once cause an investiga- 
 tion of such charge to be made, and if the same is found to 
 
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 be true the commission shall at once notify said publisher 
 and each board of education in the state that said book shall 
 not hereafter be adopted and purchased by boards of educa- 
 tion; and said publisher shall forfeit and pay to the state of 
 Ohio five hundred dollars for each failure, to be recovered 
 in the name of the state, in an action to be brought by the 
 attorney general, inthe court of common pleas of Franklin 
 county, or in any other proper court or in any other place 
 where service can be made, and the amount, when collected, 
 shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the com- 
 mon school fund of the state. 
 
 SEcTION 5. Each board of education on receiving 
 the statements, above mentioned, from said commissioner, 
 
 shall on the third Monday in August thereafter meet, and 1 
 
 at such meeting, or at any adjourned meeting within two 
 we&s after said Monday, determine by a majority vote ofall 
 members elected the studies to be pursued and which of 
 said text-books so filed shall be used in the schools under 
 its control, but no text-books so adopted shall be changed, 
 nor any part thereof altered or revised, nor shall any other 
 text-book be substituted therefor for five years after the date 
 of the selection and adoption thereof without the consent of 
 three-fourths of all the members elected, given at a regular 
 meeting; and eich board of education shall cause it to be as- 
 certained, a: d it regular meetings in Apriland August shall 
 determine which, and the number of each of said books the 
 schools under its cnarge shall require, until the next regular 
 meetings in April and August, and shall cause an order to 
 be drawn for the amount in favor of the clerk of the board 
 of education, payable out of the contingent fund; and said 
 clerk shall at once order said books so agreed upon by the 
 board, of the publisher, and.the puolisher, on the receipt of 
 such order, shall ship such books to said clerk without delay, 
 and the clerk shallforthwith examine such books. and, if 
 found right and in accordance with said order, remit the 
 amount to said publisher, and the board of education shall 
 pay all charges for the transportation of such books, out of 
 the school contingent fund; but if said boards of education 
 can, at any time, secure of the publishers books at a price 
 less than said maximum price, it shall be its duty so to 
 do, and may without unnecessary delay, make effort to secure 
 such lower price before adopting any particular text book. 
 Each board of education shall have power to, and shall make 
 all necessary provisions and arrangements to place the buoks 
 so purchased within easy reach of and accessible to all the 
 pupils in their district, and for that purpose may make such 
 contracts, and take such security as they may deem neces- 
 sary, for the custody, care and sale of such books and 
 accounting for the proceeds; but not to exceed ten per 
 cent of the cost price shall be paid, therefor, and said books 
 
 Determination 
 of studies and 
 text- books; 
 change, ete., of 
 atter. 
 
 Determination 
 of books re- 
 quired, and 
 purchase, ship- 
 meut, examin- 
 ation, etc., of 
 same; remit- 
 tance to pub- 
 lisher, charges 
 for transporta- 
 tion. 
 
 Price less than 
 Maximum. 
 
 Sule to pupils. 
 
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 shall be sold to the pupils of school age in the district, at 
 the price paid the publisher, and not to exceed ten per 
 cent therefor added, and the proceeds of such sale shall 
 Embezzlement. be paid into the contingent fund of such district, and who- 
 ever receives said books from the board of education 
 for sale as aforesaid to the pupils, and fails to account 
 honestly and fully for the same, or for the proceeds to the 
 Rea Lt board of education when required, shall be guilty of em- 
 local dealers. bezzlement and punished accordingly. Provided, how- 
 ever, boards of education may contract with local retail 
 dealers to furnish said books at prices above specified, the 
 said board being still responsible to the publishers for all 
 Purchase ium books purchased by the said board of education. And 
 Fsie. © when pupils remove from any district, and have text-books _ 
 of the kind adopted in such district, and not being of the 
 kind adopted in the district to which they remove, and 
 wish to dispose of the same, the board of the district 
 from which they remove, when requested, shall purchase 
 the same at the fair value thereof, and resell the same as 
 Free books. = other books; and nothing in this act shall prevent the board 
 of education from furnishing free books to pupils as provided 
 Appropriation by law. That for the purpose of carrying into effect the 
 tnirapes. foregoing provisions of this act, and paying the expenses 
 penses. incident thereto, there be and is hereby appropriated out 
 of any money in the state treasury, to the credit of the 
 general revenue fund, not otherwise appropriated, the sum 
 of five hundred dollars, to be disbursed and paid on the 
 allowance and order of said commissioner. 
 Taking effect. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 on and after May 5, 1806. 
 CHARLES Fs BOShiak: 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 22, 1896. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 300.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3959 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as amended 
 April 21, 1890 (87 O. L., 240), as amended March 24, 1892 (89 O. L.. 
 142), as amended April ro, 1896. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be zt enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 School funds: State of Ohio, That section 3959 of the Revised Statutes as 
 amended April 21, 1890, as amended March 24, 1892, as - 
 amended April 10, 1895. be amended to read as follows: 
 
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 Sec. 3959. Such estimate and levy shall not exceed, 
 in cities of the first grade of the first class, three and one- 
 fourth mills, provided, however, that the boards of educa- 
 tion in said cities may levy one mill additional for every five 
 thousand pupils over and above twenty-five thousand ea- 
 rolled in the public schools of said cities, which levy, how- 
 ever, shall in no case exceed four and one-tenth mills; and 
 in cities of the second grade of the first class such estimate 
 and levy shall not exceed seven mills on the dollar of valua- 
 tion of taxable property; provided, however, that boards of 
 education in said cities of the second grade of the first class 
 may levy, in addition to the seven mills aforesaid, a tax of 
 not to exceed one mill on the dollar-of valuation of taxable 
 property within said district-which said levy shall be used 
 for the purchase of school-house sites and the erection of 
 school-buildings thereon and for no other purpose whatever, 
 and for the purpose of paying for such sites or for the con- 
 struction of such buildings such boards of education may 
 issue certificates of indeb edness in anticipation of such 
 levy, payable at such times not exceeding one year from 
 date of issue as they may designate, but bearing no interest 
 before maturity. And in all other districts, except those 
 hereinafter named, such estimate and levy shall not exceed 
 seven tnills on each dollar of valuation of taxable property; 
 provided, however, that in counties containing a city of the 
 first grade of the first class, in districts outside such city in 
 which a high school is maintained, and in all special and 
 village districts of any county in the state, such estimate 
 and levy shall not exceed eignt mills-on each dollar of val- 
 uation of taxable property; but a greater tax than is author- 
 ized above, except in city districts of the first class, may be 
 levied for either of the purposes specified in section 3958 
 if the proposition to make such levy shall have been first 
 submitted by the board of education to a vote of the electors 
 of the schooi district, under a resolution prescribing the 
 time place and manner of voting on the same, and approved 
 by two-thirds of those voting on the proposition, notice of 
 which election must be given by publication of the resolu- 
 tion for three consecutive weeks prior thereto in some news- 
 paper published and of general circulation in the district, or 
 by posting copies thereof in five of the most conspicuous 
 places in the district, for a like period it no such paper is 
 published therein. 
 
 SECTION 2. That said section 3959 of the Revised 
 Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 10, 1896, be and the 
 same is hereby repealed. 
 
 SEcTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 DAVID L. SLEEPER, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 Maximum of 
 levy in Cincin. 
 pati. 
 
 Cleveland, 
 
 All other dis- 
 tricts, except— 
 
 Certain Hamil- 
 ton county and 
 all special and 
 village dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 When and for 
 what purpose 
 greater tax 
 may be levied, 
 
 Repeals, 
 
School dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 Board of edu- 
 cation in city 
 districts of the 
 first class, ex- 
 cept first and 
 second grades. 
 
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 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 
 President of the Senate. . 
 
 Passed April 27, 1896. 
 [House Bill No. 836.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3898 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio as amended” 
 
 March 14, 1894 (91 vol., 69, 70, 71). 
 
 SecTion 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 
 State of Ohio, That section 3898 of the Revised Statutes. 
 
 of Ohio as amended March 14, 1894 (91 vol., 69, 70, 71), 
 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 3898. In each city district of the first class, and 
 not of the first or second grade, the board of education shall 
 consist of two members from each ward, except in city 
 districts organized under a law providing for one member 
 only for each ward, in which districts the board may, at any 
 time, by a vote of the majority of all its members, provide 
 that thereafter each ward shall be represented by two mem- 
 bers, and thereupon proceed to choose one additional mem- 
 ber for each ward, to serve until the next annual election for 
 
 city officers, and until the election and qualification of his- 
 
 successor; and each member of the board shall be an elector 
 of the ward for which he is elected or appointed; and at 
 every annual election for city officers in a city which consti- 
 
 tutes districts of the first class, wherein the board consists . 
 
 of two members for each ward, there shall be elected in each 
 ward, by the qualified electors thereof, one judicious and 
 competent person to serve asa member of the board of 
 education of the district for two years, from the third Mon- 
 day of Aprii succeeding his election, and until the election 
 and qualification of his successor; provided, that at the 
 annual election for city officers, held after a city has been 
 constituted a city district of the first class, with a board to 
 consist of two members from each ward, there shall be 
 elected in each ward of such city, by the qualified electors of 
 such ward and of said district entitled to vote in such ward, 
 two persons of the required qualifications to serve as mem- 
 bers of the board of education of such districts, one for one 
 year and the other for two years from the third Monday of 
 April succeeding their election and until the election and 
 qualification of their successors; and provided, that any 
 elector residing in such district, but not in any ward of such 
 city, shall, if the territory containing his residence has not 
 been attached to any ward for school purposes as provided 
 
 in section thirty-nine hundred be entitled to vote {0 member~ 
 
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 of the school board in the ward nearest his residence; and 
 in such case a separate ballot-box and poli book shall be pro- 
 vided and used, as required in section thirty-nine hundred 
 and two, in each ward where any such elector may be en- 
 titled to vote when the board of education in such city dis- 
 trict of the first class consists of as many members as there 
 are wards, there shall be elected at the annual election for 
 city officers in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and 
 every two years thereafter, in each ward designated by an 
 even number, and in the year eighteen hundred and eighty- 
 one, and every two years thereafter in each ward designated 
 by an odd number by the qualified electors thereof, one mem- 
 ber of the board, who shall hold his office for two years, and 
 until the election and qualification of hissuccessor. Provided, 
 that in any such city which has been, or may be redistricted 
 for election purposes, by whomsoever or howsoever such re- 
 districting may be made, such redistricting shall not affect 
 the term of the members of the board of education then in 
 office, but each of said members shall serve the full term for 
 which he was elected, and shall be the member, in said 
 board, for the remainder of the term for which he was 
 elected, of the ward in which he resides, after such re- 
 districting is made, if such ward shall be a part or the whole 
 of the ward in which he was elected ; at the annual election 
 for city officers occurring next after such redistricting has 
 been, or may be, had, a member shall be elected for each 
 ward created by such redistricting in which a member does 
 not hold over as above provided. The members chosen at 
 such election from wards entitled to elect members for a 
 term of two years shall serve for such period and until their 
 successors, who shall also be elected for a similar term, 
 are elected and qualified. The members chosen at such 
 election from wards not entitled at such election to choose 
 members for a term of two years, shall serve for one year, 
 at the expiration of which term a successor shall be elected 
 for each of said members to serve for a period of two years, 
 and until his successor, who shall be elected for a term of 
 two years, is elected and qualified. Any ward which, but for 
 the holding over of a member, as above provided, would 
 elect a member at the annual election for city officers oc- 
 curring next after the redistricting of any such city, for a 
 term of two years, shall, at the expiration of the term of 
 such holding over member, elect a member for the term of 
 one year, but the successor of any member so elected for 
 one year, shall each be chosen for a term of two years and 
 until his successor is elected and qualified. In city districts 
 of the first class and not of the first or second grade, the 
 boundaries of which are not identical or coterminous with 
 the boundaries of the city, the population of which at the 
 federal census of 1890 did not exceed 10,100, the board of 
 
 3 SCH. L. 
 
 City redis- 
 tricted for elec- 
 tion purposes. 
 
 Massillon. 
 
Repeals. 
 
 Levying taxes: 
 
 Power of cer- 
 tain officers to 
 issue bonds or 
 borrow money 
 to change but 
 not increase 
 indebtedness. 
 
 Resolution as 
 to such in- 
 debtedness. 
 
 34 
 
 education shall consist of six members elected at large by 
 the qualified electors of the district. Provided that at the 
 next annual election, succeeding the passage of this act, two 
 members shall be elected to serve two years and until the 
 election and qualification of their successors, and at the 
 second annual election succeeding the passage of this act 
 two members shall be elected to serve two years and two 
 members to serve three years and until the election and 
 qualification of their successors. At all subsequent annual 
 elections two members shall be elected to serve three years 
 and until the election and qualification of their successors. 
 
 SECTION 2. That section 3898 as amended March 14, 
 1894, be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 DAVID L. SLEEPER, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 27, 1896. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 85.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 2834a of the Revised Statutes of Ohio and to repeal 
 an act entitled “An act to supplement section 2834 of the Revised 
 Statutes of Ohio,” passed February 3, 1896. 
 
 SecTION I. Bezt enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Ohio, That section 2834a of the Revised Statutes 
 of Ohio be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 2834a. The trustees of any township, the board 
 of education of any school district, except in cities of the 
 first class, and the commissioners of any county, for the pur 
 pose of extending the time of payment of any indebtedness 
 which, from its limits of taxation, such township, school dis- 
 trict or county is unable to pay at maturity, or when it ap- 
 pears to said trustees, board of education or commissioners, 
 for the best interest of said township, school district or 
 county, shall have power to issue bonds of such township, 
 
 nually or ‘semi-annually; provided, however,, that,.n9o, dns, 
 debtedness of any township, school district, or county shall. 
 
 Troyer 
 
 ¢ 
 at Woe G 
 
a 
 
 ” 
 
 35 
 
 be funded, refunded or extended unless such indebtedness 
 shall first be determined to be an existing, valid and bind- 
 ing obligation, of any such township, school district or 
 county by a formal resolution of the trustees, board of edu- 
 cation or commissioners of any such township, school dis- 
 trict or county, which resolution shall so state the amount 
 of the existing indebtedness to be funded, refunded or ex- 
 tended, the aggregate amount of bonds to be issued therefor, 
 their number and denomination, the date of their maturity, 
 the rate of interest they shall bear, aud the place of payment 
 of principal and interest. 
 
 SECTION 2. That an act entitled “An act to supple- 
 ment section 2834 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio,” passed 
 February 3, 1896, is hereby repealed, and this act shall 
 take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 DAVID: L: SLEEPER, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES. 
 Prestdent of the Senate. 
 Passed February 20, 1806. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 123.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the holding of elections for municipal officers and mem- 
 _ bers of board of education in incorporated villages having less 
 than five hundred (500) voters, situated in two or more counties. 
 
 SECTION I. Be zt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That in incorporated villages having less 
 than five hundred (500) voters, situated in two or more 
 counties, all municipal elections and elections of members 
 of board of education shall be held under one set of judges 
 and clerks; such judges and clerks to be appointed py the 
 regular board of elections in the county having the majority 
 population of said corporation, and that said judges and 
 clerks shall be residents of said corporation upon either side 
 of county line so dividing said corporation. 
 
 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 CHARLES H. BOSLER, 
 Speaker pro tem. of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed March 17, 1806. 
 
 Repeals, eto, 
 
 Judges and 
 clerks in mt- 
 nicipal and 
 board of edu- 
 cation elec- 
 tions in cer- 
 tain villages. 
 
Display of U.S. 
 national flag 
 during school 
 sessions, 
 
 Repeals, 
 
 Sinking fund 
 for extinyul-h- 
 ment of bond- 
 ed indebted- 
 ness of city 
 schoo! di tricts 
 of the first class. 
 
 Investment of 
 money set 
 aside for such 
 fund. 
 
 36 
 [House Bill No. 112.] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the placing of the U. S. national flag upon all public 
 school -houses. 
 
 SecTION I. Be wt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That all boards of education be author- 
 ized and required to display the U. S. national flag upon all 
 school houses under their control, during all day school 
 sessions in fair weather, and to be displayed on the inside 
 of the school house on all other days and said boards of 
 education shall make all rules and necessary regulations for 
 the care and keeping of such flags the expense of the same 
 to be paid out of the contingent funds of such boards. 
 
 Section 2. All laws and parts of laws conflicting 
 herewith are hereby repealed. 
 SECTION 3. This act to take effect and be in force on 
 and after the second Monday in May, A. D. 1896. 
 DAY TD -L, SLEEPER. 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, \ 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed March 25, 1896. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 376.] r 
 AN ACT 
 
 To create a sinking fund to pay bonded indebtedness in certain school 
 districts, 
 
 SECTION I. Be et enacted by the Gincrat Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That for the purpose of creating a sinking 
 fund for the gradual extinguishment of the bonded indebted- 
 ness of city school districts of the first class, the board of 
 education of such districts shall annually and not later than 
 
 the first day of Januury, of each year set aside from its - 
 
 revenue, until payment of the bonded indebtedness be 
 fully provided for, a sum not less than one twentieth of the 
 total bonded indebtedness, outstanding at said first day of 
 January. The sum so set aside shall be deposited in the 
 treasury andapplied by order of the board of education to 
 extinguishment of the bonded indebtedness and to no other 
 purpose. 
 
 SECTION 2. The board of education shall invest all 
 moneys set aside for sinking fund purposes in bonds of the 
 
af 
 
 United States, state of Ohio, city of Cincinnati, city of To- 
 ledo, city of Columbus, or in bonds of its own issue. 
 
 SEcTION 3. All interest received from such invest- 
 ments shall be deposited in the treasury to the credit of the 
 sinking fund, and reinvested in like manner. At no time 
 shall there be over one thousand dollars kept on deposit if 
 investment can be made without jeopardizing the pesimpt 
 redemption of bonds falling due. 
 
 Section 4. All assets belonging to the sinking fund 
 shall be deposited in the treasury, and when so deposited 
 they shall be drawn only on the written order of the board 
 of education, signed by its president and countersigned by 
 its clerk. 
 
 SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after September 1, 1896. 
 
 DAVID L. SLEEPER, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 JNO. CC. HHOTSINPILLER, 
 President pro tem. of the Senate. 
 Passed April 27, 1896. 
 
 [Senate Bill No. 315.] 
 AN ACT 
 
 To further supplement section 2834 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
 
 Section 1. Be tt enacted by the General Assembly of 
 the State of Ohio, That section 2834 of the Revised Statutes 
 be supplemented so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 2834. The commissioners of any county, the 
 trustees of any township and the board of education of any 
 school d.strict, except in cities of the first class of first, 
 second and third grade shall enter into no contract, agree- 
 ment or obligation involving the expenditure of money, 
 nor shall any resolution or order for the appropriation or 
 expenditure of money be passed by any board of county 
 commissioners, township trustees or board of education, 
 except in cities of the first class, of first, second and third 
 grade, unless the auditor or the clerk thereof shall first 
 certify that the money required for the payment of such 
 obligation or appropriation is in the treasury to the credit 
 of the fund from which it is to be drawn, or has been levied 
 and placed on the duplicate, and in process of collection, 
 and not appropriated for any other purpose; which certifi- 
 cate shall be filed and immediately recorded, and the sums 
 
 Interest from 
 investments; 
 restriction on 
 amount to be 
 kept on de- 
 posit. 
 
 Deposit of 
 assets; huw 
 drawn. 
 
 Taking effect. 
 
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 so certified shall not thereafter be considered unappro- 
 priated, until the county, township or board of education, 
 except in cities of the first class, of first, second and third 
 grade is fully discharged from the contract, agreement or 
 obligation, or so long as the order or resolution is in force, 
 and all contracts, agreements or obligations, and all orders 
 or resolutions entered into or passed contrary to the provi- 
 sions of this section shall be void. 
 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after 
 its passage. 
 DAVID: L. SLEBPER: 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ASAHEL W. JONES, 
 
 President of the Senate 
 Passed April 27, 1896. 
 
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