A Bill for
An Act regulating schools in township 39 N. R.[North Range] 14 E.[East]

Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of Illinois, represented in general assembly. That the legal voters in township thirty nine north, range fourteen east in Cook ^County^ shall assembly at the usual place of holding elections in the said township, on the first Monday in June next & annually thereafter, & elect either five or seven persons to be school inspectors, who shall continue in office one year & until others are elected.

Sec 2 The school inspectors shall recommend, to the county commissioners of Cook County, to lay off & divide the said township into school districts, number & from time to time alter the same & create new ones, as circumstances may require: & the said county commissioners are hereby required to lay off, number, alter, & create such districts, as the said school districts as the inspectors may from time to time recommend.

Sec 3 The said school inspectors, or some of them, shall visit all of the public schools within the township, at least once a month: inquire into the progress of the scholars & the government of the schools: examine all persons offering themselves as candidates for teaching &, when found well qualified, give them certificates thereof gratuitously; & attend at the quarterly examinations of the schools. They may advise & direct as to the books to be used & the course of study to be pursued in the schools: may remove teachers for any just cause: make by-laws for the regulation of the schools, provided, that a majority of the voters at any legal meeting of the township

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called for that purpose, may repeal such by-laws: may [divide] the schools into male & female departments, if they think it expedient; & when a majority of the legal voters of the township shall require it, they shall ^may^ establish one or more high schools ^under such regulations as [...?] ^a^ majority of such legal voters may direct prescribe^ & they may do such other things in relation to schools, not inconsistent with this act, as a majority of the legal voters of the township may direct.

[Sec] 4 The legal voters in each school district shall annually ^elect^ three persons to be trustees of common schools, whose duty it shall be to employ qualified & suitable teachers to see that the schools are free & that all of the white children in the district have an opportunity of attending them, under such regulations as the inspectors may make: to take charge of the school houses & all of the school property belonging to the district, & to manage the whole financial concerns thereof. The said trustees shall annually levy & collect a tax sufficient to defray the necessary expense of fuel, rent of school room[,] & furniture for the same: and they shall, whenever ^levy & collect such additional taxes as^ a majority of the legal voters of the district, at a meeting called for the purpose, shall direct, [lea?] provided that such additional taxes shall never exceed one half of one per cent per annum upon all of the taxable property in the district, all of which taxes the said trustees shall have full power to assess & collect. Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent two more dis

Sec 5 Each school district shall have full corporate powers for all school purposes. Provided that nothing herein contained shall prevent two or more districts from uniting together for the purpose of erecting school houses, whenever a majority of the legal voters in such districts shall agree to do so.

Sec 6 The trustees of each district shall at the end of every quarter make report to the school inspectors in writing, which report set forth the number of schools within the district, the time that each has been taught during the previous quarter & whether by male or female teachers: the number of scholars & the time of their attendance during the quarter, to be ascertained by the teachers’ keeping an exact list or roll of the scholars' names, the number present every school time or half day, which roll or list shall be sworn to or affirmed by the teacher & shall accompany the trustees’ reports.

Sec 7 The people of the said township may, at their annual meeting [t?] in June, determine upon what amount of the interest of their school fund shall be appropriated for the support of schools during the coming ^next^ year. but if the people shall refuse or neglect to make such appropriation then it shall be left discretionary with the school inspectors.

Sec 8 The school inspectors shall ^quarterly^ apportion the said school monies among the several districts in the said township, according to the number of scholars in school therein, between the ages of five & twenty one years, & also according to the time that each scholar has actually ^attended^ such school ^during the previous quarter^, to be ascertained by the reports of the ^said^ trustees & teachers.

Sec 9 Whenever the said apportionment shall have been made, the school inspectors shall make out a schedule thereof, setting forth the amount due to each district, the person or persons entitled to receive the same, & shall deliver the said schedule, together with the reports of the trustees & the lists or rolls of the teachers, to the commissioner of school lands &

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& thereupon the said commissioner shall pay over such [?] of the interest of the school monies, belonging to the said township, as the said inspectors, in their said schedule, may direct.

It shall be the duty of the commissioner of school lands in Cook County to preserve all of the said schedules, reports[,] & teachers rolls, that may be delivered to him as aforesaid & to make a record thereof in a book to be by him kept for that purpose & he shall annually make & transmit to the Auditor of the State, a report which shall set forth the various items contained in the trustees’ reports & teachers rolls, & such other information concerning the schools in the said township, as he may have in his possession, together with a particular account of all of the school monies by him paid out & such other matters as he may see fit to add.

Sec 10 It shall be the duty of the inspectors semi-annually to make a report setting forth the ^state &^ condition of the schools in the said township & cause the same to be published in one or more of the newspapers printed in the township. provided nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authoriz the school Commissioner of Cook County to pay to said trustees any part of the principal belonging to said Township

this act to be in force from and after its passage