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COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM.
AN ACT
To COnaoliclnto and amend the several acts rola.
tivo to a General System of Education by
• COMMON SCHOOLS.
Semen 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, in General
Assembly met, and it is het eby enacted by
the authority of the same, That every town
ship, borough or ward in this common
wealth, not within the city and incorporated
districtsaf the county of Philadelphia, shall
constitute a.school district: Provided, That
any borough which is, or may be connected
with a township, in the assessment ofcoun
ty rates and levies, shall,with the said town
ship, form a district.
Seer. 2. Annually at the same time and
place that elections are held for supervisors
and constables, and in wards and boroughs,
at the time and place of the borough elec
pons,and in like manner, two persons shall
be elected school directors for each district,
whosaterm of , office shall be three years—
and the persons so elected shall be notified
thereof within five days, by the judges of
said election: Provided, That in districts
where directors have not been elected, or in
new districts, which may be established by
the diVision of a township or otherwise, six
directors shall be elected in such districts at
tho first election, two to serve one year,two
to serve two years, and two to serve three
. years.
.Sscr. 3. Within twenty days after said
election, each board ofschool directors shall
organize by ehoosiog a President and Secre
---tery'eui -of their own- body;- - they shall-also
appoint a treasurer for the district, and shall .
_reclaim - him to give sufficient security to in,
siirethe 'faithful perforMance of his dut);
they shall also have pOwer to fill any vacan
ey which may occur ia_their board,by death,
resigdation, or otherwise; until the next e
lection, when such vacancy shall ho filled
by electing a person to supply the same.
&cr. 4. The -school directors of every
school district which has adopted the corn
, mon school system, or which may hereafter
•
adopt the same, shall annually,. on or before
-.. the first Monday of May, authorize to be
.levied such an amountenax on said district
as they may think necessary for schoolpur ,
poses; not less than equal to, nor more than
,tieble the amount which. the district is en
• titled to receive out of the annual-state op
. - Prepriatloni arid; for 'the purpose of raising
• any additional sum that may be deemed ne
- ceSsary, meetings shall .be called of, the
taxable inhabitants of the township or dis
trict;:by the .direetors, on the first Tuesday
of May annually; notice of the time and
pleee"..of holding such meetings being first
giVen: hYrit least six advertisements put up
at the.ntost public places in such township or
.'district, for the space of two weeks, a ma
jority of whom shall decide by ballot, how
`much and what additional sum shall be rais
for school purposes; and any additional
. - .Suni so authorized,shull be assessed and col
. lected, paid over and distributed in the same
...manner that is provided for by this act.
f3scrr. b. The assessor of every ward,
• township or borough,. composing any school
district as aforesaid,.shall upon demand,flir
-. nish the school directors of the district with
a Correct - copy of the last adjusted valuation
in. the same for county purposes; whereupon
.. .the board of directors shall, on or before the
first day of June, annually, proceed to levy
and.apportion the said tax as follows, viz:
1. On each male taxable inhabitant of
the :district,.a poll tax at their discretion,not
',exceeding fifty cents.
2. On all offices and posts of profit, pro
.. fessions, trades and occupations, and on all
single freemen abiwe the age of twenty one
years do not follow any occupation, not
eiteeding the amount assessed on the same
:for county purposes.
3. On personal property which was made
:±-taxiible-by an act-entitled "An act assessing
a .tax on personal property, to be collected
•• with the county rates and levies, for the use
of ;the' commonwealth," passed the twenty
,:Gfth
. day. t .Of March, one • thousand eight bun
'. ..dred . and thirty-one; and the said property
shall• continue to be assessed according to
the . provisions of said act, and upon all pro
• • perty. now taxable ftir county purposes:—
Provided, That said . act
.taxing personal
property, shall not be so construed as to
Make widows dower liable to the payment
of taxes, and upon all property now taxable.
-.-for county purposes. • :
&cr. 6. When the school tax is so leVied
and apportioned in any district, the secreta
ry of the board of directors shall make out a
correct duplicate of the same, and the presi
dent of the board shall issue his warrant,
with the duplicate aforesaid,to the township
- or borough collector, or to some other suite
' ble person residing within the district, to
collect the said tax, and shall require from
• him sufficient security to insure the faithful
discharge of. his duty; and the board of di
. .rectors of each district shall have the right,
at all times, to make such abatement or ex
' Orieratione for mistakes, indigent persons,
unseated lands, dm. as to - them shall appear
. just and reasonable; and the secretary of the
:board ,shell enter in a book or books, to be
•:
kept by hini for that purpose, the names o
all persons so 'abated or exonerated,together
with the reasons for such exone rations.
Slim- 7.. The said colleCtors shall have
• , like fowers to enforce the payment of the
/shool tax as collectors of county rates and
2.;,-levtoa baps to enforce the payment of the
and shalt receive the like componsa
.--. ~ tion for his services, from time to time, as
the said tax is collected; the collector of the
'l, , Aetna shall pay the amount over to the dis.
(riot treasurer, and shall settle up his dupli
#,—*o on or before_ the time fixed upon in the
.iarrant of the, president: Provided, That,
rtho tax so levied on unseated lands shall
7' 7 :'1 . -4ilbt: be ,vulentarilv paid by the owner or
Orilors thereof, the district collector shall
c'-•:-.444-Ititle the same to the county cominission.
#••ii i kte)l the said , county commissioners shall
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enforce the collection thereof in the semi
manner as t he collection of the taxes on un
seated lands is enforced, when assessed for
county purposes; and when so collectcd,the
same shall be paid to the district treasurer,
for the time being, by orders drawn by the
said commissioners on the county treasurer.
SECT. 8. The school directors of every
school, district which shall have adopted the
common school system, shall perform the
following duties in addition to those above
specified.
1. They shall, if they deem it expedient,
divide the district into sub•districts,and shall
establish a sufficient number of common
schools for the education of every individ
ual above the age of four years, in the dis
trict, who may app:y, either in person or by
his or her parents, guardian or next friend,
for admission and instruction,and shall keep
the said schools open at least six months in
every year, if they shall have funds for that
purpose.
2. They shall cause suitable buildings to
be erected.rented or hired for school houses,
and supply the schools with fuel.
3. They shall exercise a general supervi
sion over the schools of their respective dis
tricts, and fix the amount of the salaries of
she teachers.
4. They shall pa) nll necessary expenses
of the schools, by orders drawn on the dis
trict treaburer, signed by the president, and
countersigned by the becretury of the board.
5. Each board of directors, by one or
more of their number, shall visit every
school within their district, at least once in
every month, and shall cause the result of
Said visit to be entered on the minutes of the
board.
6. Whenever it may be necessary or con
vement to establish one or more schools out
of two or more adjoining districts,tho school
directors of such adjoining districts may es
tablish and regulate such lichools; and the
experise thereof shall he paid, as may be a
greed upon, by the directors of•said adjoin
ing districts.
7. They shall annually, on or before the
first Monday in January, make a report to
the superintendent of the common schools,
setting forth the number and situation of the
schools in their district; the character of the
teachers, designating whether they are
males or females; the number and sex of
the scholars admitted during the year; the
branches of study taught in each school; the
number of months in the year during which
each school shall.have been kept open; the
cost of the school houses,cither fir building,
renting, or repairing; and all other expenses
which may have been incurred in maintain
ing the schools of their districts; together
with such other information as may be bene
ficial in forming a just estimate of the value
of common schools.
8. No school director or treasurer shall
receive any pay or emolument whatever for
his services, as such; but he shall be ex
empt during the time he continues to per
form the duties of his office, from military
duty or from serving in any borough or
township office.
9. When the school directors shall have
divided the several districts into sub•districts
for separate schools, the voters of each sub
district may meet,on notice being given,for
ton days at least, signed by not less than
four voters of said district, - and choose a
committee of three of their number,to serve
for one year, who shall have the appoint-I
ment of the teacher for such sub-district.
10. The directors of each school district
shall have the power to -direct in which of
the schools, so established in pursuance of
this act, the individuals in said district who
may be admitted,shall be instructed.
11. In case the school directors deem it
inexpedient to divide their district into sub
districts, or in case the voters of any sub
district, shall neglect or refuse to elect a
committee, as provided for in the ninth arti
cle of this section, then the duties. of said
committee shall devolve on and bo perform
ed by the school directors.
SECT. 9. The district treasurer shall re
ceive all moneys belonging to the district,
whether the Niinlbe derived from appro
priation;i by tßeiNte, district taxes, private
donations, or otherwise, and shall pay out
the same on orders drawn by the president
and attested by the secretary of the board
of directors, by order of the board, and his
accounts shall be audited and adjusted as
accounts of townships and boroughs are di
rected by law to be audited and adjusted.
SEcT. 10. The Secretary of the Com
monwealth shall be Sup, intendent of the
Common Schools, and shall perform the fol
lowing duties:
1. Prepare suitable blank forms, with ne
cessary instructions, for making district re
ports, and for conducting the necessary pro
ceedings under his jurisdiction; and shall
cause the same, together with all such in
formation as he may deem necessary for the
further improvement of the schools, to be
transmitted to the commissioners of the se
veral counties for distribution among the
several boards of directors,at the same time
and in the same manner as the pamphlet
laws of this commonwealth are transmitted,
and at such other times and in such other
manner as he may think expedient.
2. - Prepare and submit an annual report
to the legislature, containing a statement of
the condition of the common schools thro'.
out the commonwealth; estimates and ex
penditures; plans for the improvement of
the common school system; and all such
matters relating to his office of superinten
dent and the concerns of common schools,
as he shall deem it expedient to communi
cate.
3. fie shall sign all orders on the State
Treasurer for the payment of moneys to the
treasurers of the several school districts; but
no order shall be drawn by him in favor of
any district treasurer until he shall have
been furnished with a certificate, signed by
the president and attested by the secretary
of the board oftlirectors of the district, that
a sum, at least equal to the amount of the
district's share of the annual state appro
priation of two hundred thousand dollars,has
been levied on said district for school,pur.
•
poses.
4. H any controversy should arise errOng
the directors of any district, 'or adjoining
districts,concerning t he duties of their office;
the distribution of the state appropriation,or
the levying and collection of taxes, he is
hereby authorized to settle and adjust the
same, without cost to the parties; aria all
moneys reasonably expended by him in this
and other matters appertaining to the execu
tion of his duty as superintendent, shall,upon
due proof, be allowed to him by the Audi
tor General, and be paid out of the Slate
treasury.
5. He shall annually, in the month of
February, transmit to the commissioners of
each county a statement of the amount that
every district therein that has,and every dis
trict that has not adopted the common school
system, may be entitled to receive out of the
annual appropriation of two hundred thou
sand dollars; and the commissioners shall
immediately cause such statement to be
published three times in one or more news
papers printed in said county: Provided,
That nothing in any section of this net shall
he so construed as -to deprive the districts
which have not adopted the common school
system, of their due proportion of the com
mon school fund, until after the first of No
vember, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight.
Svc-r. 11. One hundred thousand dollars
in addition to the one hundred thousand dol
lars payable by the hank of the U. States,
both of which sums to be accounted and dis
tributed as the Mate apprepriation i ii,re here
by appropriated out of the school fund for
the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty seven, and a like sum annually there
after; which shall be apportioned among
the several school districts of this common
wealth, and the city and county of Philadel
phia; according to their number of taxahfo
inhabitants, but shall only be subject tp the
drafts of the superintendent of common
schools, agreeably to the provisions of this
act: Proridcd, That the balance of appro
priations made under the act entitled, "An
act to establish a general system of educa
tion by common schools," passed the first
day of April, one thousand eight hundred
and thirty-four, and the supplement thereto,
and the balance of the first appropriation of
one hundred thousand dollars, which shall
remain undrawn on the first day of Novem
ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven, and all subsequent balances, shall re
main in the treasury, and accumulate for the
use of such district or districts entitled to
the same, for any term not exceeding one
year from and after the first day of Novem
ber, one thousand eight hundred and thirty
seven; and all such undrawn balance re
maining in the- treasury on the first day of
November ono thousand eight hundred and
thirty-eight, shall be repaid into the school
fund; and in like manner the 'indrawn bal
ance of subsequent appropriations shall be
repaid into the said fund annually thereafter.
SEer. 12. As soon as the president of the
board of directors of any school district shall
have issued his warrant for the collection of
a school tax, agreeably to the sixth section
of this act, he shall certify the same, stating
the amount of such tax, and also, the name
of the district treasurer, to the superinten
dent of common schools,who shall forthwith
draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for
the whole amount such district is entitled to
receive.
SEcT..I:3. The school directors of every
school district, which shall not have adopted
the common school syStem, shall annually
:all a meeting of the qualified citizens of the 1
district, on the day of election for directors,
to be held at the usual place of holding town
ship, ward or borough elections, by at least
six advertisements put up in the most public
places in the district, for the space of two
weeks: And tho said meeting shall be or
ganized between the hours of one and four
o'clock, P. M. on the said day, by appoint
ing a president, and the secretary of the
board of directors, or in his absence some
other member of the board, shall perform
the duties of secretary to the meeting.—
When the meeting is so organized, the ques
tion of establishing the common school sys
tem in the district, shall be decided by ballot,
and the said president and secretary shall
perform the duties of tellers to the meeting,
and shall receive from every person residing
within the district qualified to vote at the
general election, a written or printed ticket,
containing the word "school, or the words
"no school," and shall continue without in
terruption or adjournment until the electors
who shall come to the said election shall
have opportunity to give in their respective
votes; and the said tellers shall count the
votes, and
. if a majority shall contain the
word "school," the secretary shall certify
the same to the board of directors of the
district,who shall proceed to establish schools
therein agreeably to the provisions of this
act, but if a majority shall contain the words
"no school," the secretary shall certify the
same to the county commissioners of the
proper county: And the school directors of
every school district which may have adop
ted the common school system, may, if they
deem it expedient, call a meeting of the
qualified citizens of the district, on the first
Tuesday of May, in the year one thousand
' eight hundred and thirty-seven, and on the
same day in every third year thereafter, to
be held at the usual place of holding town
ship, ward or borough elections; at which
time and places an election shall be held, to
decicle,by ballot,whether the common school
system shall be continued or not. The
notice for holding such meetings, and the
time for and manner of holding said elections,
to be in conformity with the preceding part
of this section, and, should there be a majori
ty of the taxable inhabitants of said district
in favor of "no school," the secretary shall
certify the same to thecounty commissioners
of the proper county, and the operation of
the common school system shall be suspen
ded. in said district, until such time as a
majority of the citizens shall otherwise de
cide. I
SECT. 14. Tito school directors of every
school district in which the common school
system has been adopted, or shall hereafter
be adopted, shall have power to putchase
and hold real and personal property • which
they be'necessary for the establishment and
"support of.spid schools; and the same to sell,
alien and dispose of, whenever it shall be no
longer required for the uses aforesaid; and
in all cases wlitt# real estate is held by true.
tees for the general use of the neighborhood,
ns a school house or its appendaars, it shall
be lawful for the said trustees, the survivor
or survivors of them, to convey the same to
the school directors aforesaid; and from
thenceforth the said board shall hold the
said property for the same term and for the
same uses for which it was granted to said
trustees.
SECT. 15. School diieCtors elected under
the provisions of former acts, shall severally
hold their offices during the term for which
they were elected; and all appropriations
authorized by former acts, whether by the
state or county, and all taxes authorized to
ho raised for school purposes, shall be col
lected as they would have been collected if
thi s a ct had not been passed.
SECT. 10. The county commissioners of
every county within this commonwealth,
except the county of Philadelphia, when
levying a tax for county purposes,shall esti
mate the amount which will be required to
educate the poor• gratis in the several dis.
tricts of their county which shall have re
jected the common school system; and
when nn estimate is so made,they shail levy
the amount on said districts, and collect the
same in the usual manner, and shall con
tinue to provide for the education of the poor
gratis therein, agreeably to the provisions
of an act entitled "An act to provide for the
education of the poor gratis," passed the
foUrth dAy of April, one thousand eight-hun
dred and nine, or such special acts of as-'
sembly as may be in force in any of the,
counties where there may be districts re
jectivg the provisions of this act: Provided,
That the whole expense thereby incurred,
shall be paid out of the amout.t levied on
said districts as aforesaid.
SECT. 17. Where a school is or shalt
hereafter be endowed by bequest, or other
wise, the board of directors of the district in
which such school is located, are hereby
authorized to allow such school to remain
under the immediate direction of the regu
larly appointed trustees of the. same, and to
appropriate so much of the district school
find to said school\ as they may think just
and reasonable: Provided, That such school
shall he generally conducted in conformity
with the common school system of this com
monwealth.
SECT. 18. The act entitled '-An act to
provide for a general system of education
by common schools," and also the supple.
ment thereto, passed the fifteenth day of
April, Anne Domini, eighteen hundred and
th i rty• five, are hereby repealed: Provided,
'That every thing heretofore done in pursu
ance of said acts, shall be held valid.
SECT. 19. If the corporation of the city
of Lancaster shall at any time adopt the
common school system, agreeably to the
provisions of this act, then the act to provide
for the education of children at the public
expense, in the city and incorporated bo
roughs of the county of Lancaster, passed
the first day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-two,and the supplement.
thereto, passed the first day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-three,
shall, from the time of the adoption of the
common school system in said city, be in
operative, null and void.
Sr•.cr. 20. In all cases, where, under "An
act. to provide for a general system of edu
cation by common schools," and also the
supplement thereto, passed the fifteeenth
day of April, Anno Domini, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-five, the directors
of any district may have met and decided
to accept of the law, and have appointed a
delegate to attend the county convention
for the.purpose ofaccepting and carrying in
to effect the provisions ofsaid law,but if from
any cause said delegate has failed- to attend
said convention, said township shall be en
titled to all the benefits and provisionsthere
of, on the same terms and conditions as those
who have literally complied are entitled:
Provided, said delegate shall, on or before
the first day of August next, record the vote
of said township in the affirmative, with the
clerk of the convention.
SEc.r. 21. The school year mentioned in
this act, and in an act entitled "An act to
provide fbr a general system of education
by common schools," and tl e supplement
thereto,. passed the fifteenth day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five,
shall be taken and understood to end on the
first Monday oflune, to wit: The school
year of one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-seven, will end on the first Monday of
June of that year, and so of all other years.
SECT. 22. Immediately after the passage
of this act, the superintendent of common
schools shall cause circular letters, with a
printed copy of this attached thereto, to be
addressed to .the county commissioners of
every county; and it shall be the duty of
every commissioner aforesaid to cause the
same to be published in one and not more
than three newspapers in the county, for
three successive weeks, and the_ expense
thereof shall be defrayed out of the county
treasury; and the said superintendent shall
also cause this act to be printed in pamphlet
form, and shall forward to the county com
missioners of each county a number ofcopies
thereof, equal to the number of school direc
tors in thei► county, to be distributed among
the several boards of directors.
SEcT. 23. The act and its supplements
now in operation in -the city and county of
Philadelphia, entitled "An act to provide
for the education of children at the public
expense within the city and county of Phil
adelphia," are declared to be concurrent
with the provisions of this act, and are in nom
wise to be considered as altered, amended.
or repealed, except so far that said city and
county shall be entitled to recolve . their duci
proportion and share of the annual state ap.
propriation of two hundred thousand dollars:
Provided, That the controllers of the . pub.
lie schools for th' city and county of Phila
delphia be, and they hereby are authorized,
whenever they shall think proper, to estab
lish one central high school, for the full edu
caticfli of such pupils of the public schools of
the first school district, as may possess the
requisite qualifications, and the moneys ex
pended in the establishment and support of
the said high school, shall he pi ovided and
paid in the same manner as is now, or shall
hereafter be directed by law, with respect
to the other public schools of the said dis
trict: And Provided 'further, That so
much of thelent b section of the act of March
3d, 1818, as:renders the exclusive use of
the Lancastorian system in the first school
district, obligatory upon the controllors or
directors, and all such provisions, (if any) in
the said act and the several supplements
thereto, as limit the benefits of the said pub
lic schools to the children of indigent parents,
end so much of any act as is hereby altered
or supplied, be and the same are hereby re
polled; end in said public schools all chil
dren over four years of age shall be admit
ted.
NER MI DDLESWARTEI,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS S. CUNNINGHAM,
Speaker of the Senate.
ArrnovEn—The thirteenth day of June,
Anno Domini, eighteen hundred and thirty
six.
JOS: RETNER.
June 20, 1838. 3t-12
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of six months, and $3 00 if not paid during the
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In July will be commenced the publication can
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Tho Tin Trumpet; Or, Heads and Tales.
Winter Sketches. By Delta.
1. Bloom and Blight,
H. The Snow Fall,
111. Light in Darkness.
Tho Backwoods of Canada.
Tocquovillo's Democracy in America.
Tho Popes of the Sixteenth and Seventeoth Con.
turies.
Fanny Fairfield—Continued.
•
William Pitt
The Captive, a Tragic Scene. By M.G.Lowir.
Snarloyyow, Chapters VI., V 11.4 VIII. By
Captain Marryatt.
Liberty and Slavery in America.
Scone in Calcutta.
Mildred Pemberton.
Literary Statistics of AUstria.
Discovery of an Englishman at Port Philips
Irish 'Varieties.
Humanity of British Naval Officers.
Florence O'Brion—Continued.
The Charity Sister.
Snarlevyow, Chapter IX.
Fanny Fairfield—Part 11.1.
Pronunciation in different Nations of Europe
Sabbath Morning.
DR. HULL'S RECEN'T'LY IMPRO
VED TRUSS.---The distinguished
surgeonsand medical faculty of the cities gener
ally, and elsewhere, have come to the conclu
sion that this Truss, in its present improved
state, is the only instrument surgically adapted
to the disease of Rupture. and the only one that
patients can rely upon fur the safe retention of
the bowels and the final cure of the disease.
In confirmation of which the following names
of distinguished medical gentlemen of New
York city, with many others, have expressed a
decided preference for this instrument, are res
pectfully added:
Valentine Mott, M. D. George Bush°, M. D.
A. A. Stevens, M. D. David Hosack, M.D.
John B. Beck, M. D. Samuel Ackcrly, M. D.
Cyrus Perkins, M. D. David M. Reese, M. D.
John Stearns, M. D. Wm. Anderson, M. D.
Also, the following extract of a late certificate
of Dr. Mutt, of New York:
"For the last twelve months, the curative
powers of Dr. Hull's Truss have been tested
under my own observation with the most grati
fying success in cases of great difficulty, in
which the mutilated imitation Trusses so com
mon in our market, had only aggravated the
disease. Dr. Dull is an experienced surgeon,
who has displayed not a little surgical skill and
mechanical ingenuity in bringing this unrivalled
instrument to its present state of perlection,ren
dering it, I know, the best I ever saw for secur
ing, comforting and curing the ruptured patient
and is in my opinion, the only instrument of the
kind that is entitled to patronage of the proles•
sion, and the confidence of the people.
VALENTINE MOTT, M. D.
Park Place, Feb. 90, 1834.
Letters Patent (lithe United Stales have been
granted to Dr. Hull for 14 years from the last
improvement, dated July sth, 1833.
For sale at the Drug Store of
Dr. J. GILBERT, Gettysburg.
May 9, 1839. tf—G
Office of the Star & BanneF
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