Powers of state board of examiners. Validity of state certifi cates. cessors are appointed; and all vacancies in said board which may thereafter occur by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by said commissioner for the unexpired term. SEC. 86. The state board of examiners thus constituted, are hereby authorized to issue life certificates of high qualifi cations to such teachers as may be found upon examination to possess the requisite scholarship, and who may also exhibit satisfactory evidence of good moral character, and of eminent professional experience and ability. SEC. 87. All certificates issued by said state board of examiners, shall be countersigned by the commissioner of common schools; and such certificates shall supersede the necessity of any and all other examinations of the persons holding them by county or local boards of examiners, and May be revoked such certificates shall be valid in any school district in the state, unless revoked by said board of examiners for good for cause Examination fee. Probate judge to appoint examiners. No person connected with a normal school shall be an examiner. Probate judge shall appoint a substituto When judges of common pleas may appoint ex aminers. Cause. SEC. 88. Each applicant for a state certificate shall pay to the board of examiners a fee of three dollars. COUNTY EXAMINERS. SEC. 89. It shall be the duty of the probate judge of each county of this state, as soon after the election of school officers under the provisions of this act as practicable, to ap point a county board of school examiners, to consist of three competent persons, resident in the county, one for the term of one year, one for two years and one for three years, and annually thereafter one for three years, who shall hold their office for the term of three years, and until their successors are appointed; provided, that no person shall be appointed school examiner who, as principal or teacher is connected with or interested in any Normal School, or school for the special education or training of persons for teachers; and if any school examiner shall after his appointment as such examiner, become so connected with any such normal school or school for the education or training of persons for teachers, his place shall thereby be held and become vacant, and the probate judge shall immediately fill such vacancy by appointing some suitable person not so connected with any such school; provided the said probate judge may at any time revoke the appointment of any school examiner upon satisfactory proof that said examiner is inefficient, negligent or guilty of immoral conduct; and all vacancies in said board which may thereafter occur, whether from expiration of the term of office, refusal to serve, or otherwise, shall be filled by like appointment by said judge; and it shall be the duty of the probate judge, within ten days after the appointment of school examiners, to report the names and residence of the appointees to the state commissioner of common schools; provided, that in case there be no probate judge in said county, the judge or judges of the court of common pleas shall perfo.m the duties by this section required of the probate judges. SEC. 90. It shall be the duty of the examiners to fix upon the time of holding the meetings for the examinations of teachers, in such places in their respective counties as will, in their opinion, best accommodate the greatest number of candidates for examination, notice of all such meetings being published in some newspaper of general circulation in their respective counties; and at such meetings any two of said board shall be competent to examine applicants and grant certificates; and as a condition of examination, each applicant for a certificate shall pay the board of examiners a fee of fifty cents. Powers and duties of board. Quarterly re iners. Examination fees to be set port teachers' institutes. apart to sup SEC. 91. All such fees received by the examiners shall be paid over quarterly to the county treasurer, with a statement port of exammade to the auditor of the number of applicants, male and female, examined; and all moneys so paid over to the county treasurer by the board of examiners, shall, after paying on the order of the county auditor, the necessary traveling expenses of said examiners, which in no quarter shall exceed one-third the amount so paid to the county treasurer as examination fees, be set apart as a fand for the support of teach. ers' institutes, as hereafter provided in this act, and shall be used for no other purpose; provided, that the number of meetings held by said board of examiners for the examination of teachers, shall not, in any one year, exceed eighteen. SEC. 92. A certificate granted by county examiners shall Validity of be valid only for six, twelve, eighteen, or twenty-four months county certifi from the day of examination, and in all the school districts of the county in which it shall be granted; provided, no sach certificate shall be valid in a city district of the first class, in a city district of the second class, or in a village district, unless the same shall be endorsed by the president and secretary of the boards of examiners of such districts. If at any time the recipient of the certificate shall be found immoral, incompetent or negligent, the examiners, or any two of them, may revoke the same. SEC. 93. No person shall be employed as a teacher in any common school, unless such person shall have first obtained from a board of examiners having competent jurisdiction, or a majority of them, a certificate of good moral character, and that he or she is qualified to teach orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, and pas sesses an adequate knowledge of the theory and practice of teaching; and in case such person be required to teach other branches than those herein specified, he or she shall first obtain a certificate of the requisite qualifications, in addition to the branches aforesaid. SEC. 94. And it shall be unlawful for any clerk to draw an order on the treasurer for the payment of a teacher for services, unless said teacher shall have first filed with said clerk a legal certificate of qualification, or a true copy thereof, covering the entire time of the services for the payment of which snch order is drawn, and the branches which such teacher has taught; provided, that orders may be drawn for special teachers of drawing, painting, penmanship, music, gymnastics, or any foreign language, on presentation of a cate. Certificates may be revoked. Certificates to teachers. When orders for teachers' pay illegal. Payment of special teachers for branches. Board of exan clerk; his duties. Amended See per 242 certificate, signed by a majority of the examiners, covering the time for which said special teacher has been employed. SEC. 95. The said board of examiners shall appoint one iners to appoint of their number to serve as clerk, who shall keep a record of their proceedings, noting the number and date of each certificate given, to whom, for what term of time, for what branches of study, and such other statistics relating to their examinations and proceedings as the state commissioner of common schools may require; and said board may make all needful rules and regulations for the proper discharge of their duties. The members of the board shall be entitled to receive each two dollars for every day necessarily engaged in official service, to be paid out of the county treasury, on the order of the county auditor, exclusive of blanks and stationery, which the county auditor shall furnish; and the county auditor may require the accounts when presented, to be substantiated on oath, which said officer shall administer and file in his office. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said board of examiners to prepare and forward to the state comReport to state missioner of common schools, on or before the first day of Compensation commissioner. Clerk's beal. Beard of educa Compensation. Shall appoint October, a statement of the number of examinations held by the board, the number of applicants examined, the number of certificates granted and for what length of time, the amount of fees received and paid over to the county treasurer, the amount received of the county by the board for their services, and such other important statistics and information in relation to their duties as the state commissioner of common schools may require. The clerk of the board shall de posit with the county auditor a bond with surety to be approved by him, in the sum of three hundred dollars, that he will faithfully pay into the county treasury, quarterly, the examination fees required by this act to be so paid, and that he will faithfully make the statistical returns required and authorized by this act. CITY EXAMINERS. SEC. 96. The board of education of each city district of the first class shall, as soon as practicable after the first organization under this act, appoint a board of examiners to consist of three, six or nine competent persons, as the board may determine, who shall have power to examine the schools established in such district, and shall examine all persons that desire to hold teachers' certificates valid in such district One-third of said examiners shall be appointed for one, onethird for two, and one-third for three years, and shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. The standard of qualifications of teachers shall be determined by the board of examiners, and the board of education are hereby empowered to fix the salary or pay of said examiners, and to pay the same from the general fund raised for school purposes. SEC. 97. The said board of education shall annually thereafter appoint one, two or three examiners, as the case may be, who shall serve for three years and until their suc vacancies. cessors are appointed and qualified. And the board of edu SEC. 98. The board of examiners in each city district of the first class shall organize by appointing one of their own number as clerk, who shall give bond, with surety to be approved by the board of education, in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned that he shall pay to the school treasurer of his district the examination fees collected in pursuance of this act, and that he shall make, on or before the first day of October in each year, such returns in reference to the examinations as may be required by the state commissioner of common schools of the clerk of the county board of examiners. Names of examported to state iners to be re commissioner. Organization of board. SEC. 99. Said board, or a majority of them, may grant Certificates, certificates, which shall be valid only in the city school dis- when valid. trict in which they are granted, for either one, two or three years. SEC. 100. Said board of examiners shall have power to Farther powers revoke the certificate of any person who shall be guilty of of examiners. immorality or improper conduet, or shall prove to be inefficient, and if such person shall be employed in any school in the district, they shall have power to discharge such teacher, who shall, however, be entitled to pay for services to the time of such discharge. Every person applying to a city board of examiners shall pay to the examiners fifty cents Examination before entering upon the examination, which money shall be paid quarterly to the school treasurer of the city, and shall be set apart as a teachers' institute fund, to be appropriated as provided for in this act. extended. SEC. 101. The powers and privileges hereia granted to Certain city districts of the first class, with reference to boards of privileges examiners, are hereby extended to city districts of the second class and village districts having a population not less. than twenty-five hundred; provided, that the board of examiuers in such districts shall consist of three members; and provided further, that in any city districts of the second class, and in village districts, (except in those localities where associations have been or may hereafter be formed as provided for in section 119 of this act,) the fee of fifty cents which is required to be paid to the board of examiners by every person applying for a certificate to teach, shall be paid by said examiners to the county treasurer for the use of county institutes, and be paid out as other funds for the same purpose are ordered to be paid. The boards of educa When commissioner elected. Term of office. Vacancy, how filled. His official bond, -and oath Office, &c, at seat of govern ment His duties in visiting the sørral judicial districts. His supervision over school funds tion of said city districts of the second class, in the matter of attaching the annexed territory for voting purposes, shall be governed by the provisions of this act conferring like powers upon city boards of education of the first class, as provided for in section ten. CHAPTER VIII. STATE COMMISSIONER. SEC. 102. There shall be elected by the qualified electors of this state, at the annual election for state and county offi cers, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and every three years thereafter, a state commissioner of common schools, who shall hold his office for the term of three years from the second Monday in Jannary succeeding his election, and until his successor is elected and qualified. The election of said commissioner, and the return thereof, shall be the same in all respects, as is provided for the election of judges of the supreme court; and in case a vacancy shall occur in sail office by death, resignation, or otherwise, the governor shall fill the same by appointment until the next annual election of state officers, occurring not less than ninety days after such vacancy, and until a successor shall be elected and qualified. SEC. 103. Before entering upon the discharge of his official duties, the said commissioner shall give bond, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, to the state of Ohio, with two or more sureties, to the acceptance of the secretary of state, conditioned that he will truly account for and apply all moneys or other property which may come into his hands in his official capacity for the use and benefit of common schools, and that he will faithfully perform the duties enjoined upon him according to law; and he shall also take and subscribe an oath or affirmation to support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Ohio, and diligently and faithfully discharge the duties of his office as prescribed by law, which bond, with the certificate of his oath, endorsed thereon, shall be filed with the treasurer of state. SEC. 104. The books and papers of his department shall be kept at the seat of government, where a suitable office shall be turnished by the state, at which he shall give attendance not less than ten months in each year, except when absent on public business. SEC. 105. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to visit annually, each judicial district of the state, superintending and encouraging teachers' institutes, conferring with boards of education or other school officers, counselling teachers, visiting schools, and delivering lectures on topics calculated to subserve the interests of popular education. SEC. 106. He shall also exercise such supervision over the educational funds of the state as may be necessary to secure their safety and right application and distribution according to law. He shall have power to require of county auditors, certain officers. boards of education, clerks and treasurers of boards of edu May require reports from |