subject to such rules and regulations as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may prescribe, which grades of certificates shall be as follows: The certificate of the first First grade. grade shall be granted only to those who have taught at least one year with ability and success, and it shall be valid throughout the State for four years: Provided, That no Proviso. first grade certificate shall be valid in any county other than that in which it was granted, unless a copy of said certificate, certified by the county commissioner who issued the same shall be filed with the county commissioner in the county in which the holder of said certificate desires to teach. The certificate of [the] second grade shall be granted only second grade. to those who shall have taught at least seven months with ability and success, and it shall be valid throughout the county for which it shall be granted for three years. The Third grade. certificate of the third grade shall license the holder thereof to teach in the county for which it shall be granted for one year: Provided, That the county commissioner shall have Proviso, power upon personal examination satisfactory to himself or herself to grant certificates which shall license the holder thereof to teach in a specified district for which it shall be granted, but such certificate shall not continue in force beyond the time of the next public examination and it shall not in any way exempt the teacher from a full examination: Provided further, That in case the holder of a special cer- Further proviso. tificate does not appear for examination before the board at the next public examination succeeding the date of such special examination, a second special certificate shall not be granted to such person, except when it appears to the commissioner on good evidence that the absence was occasioned by sickness or other unavoidable cause. certificate, etc. SEC. 7. The board of school examiners may suspend or Suspension of revoke any teacher's certificate issued by them for any reason which would have justified said board in withholding the same when given for neglect of duty, for incompetency to instruct or govern a school, or for immorality, and the said board may, within their jurisdiction, suspend for immorality or incompetency to instruct and govern a school the effect of any teacher's certificates that may have been granted by other lawful authority: Provided, That no certificates shall Proviso. be suspended or revoked without a personal hearing, unless the holder thereof shall, after a reasonable notice, neglect or refuse to appear before the said board for that purpose. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the county commissioner: Duty of comFirst, Immediately after his or her qualification as com- Notice of qualmissioner, to send notice thereof to the Superintendent of ification. Public Instruction and the chairman of each township board of school inspectors of the county; missioner. inations, etc. Second, To keep a record of all examinations held by the Record of examboard of school examiners and to sign all certificates and other papers and reports issued by the board; Third, To receive the institute fees provided by law of fees. Record of certificates. List of teachers, etc. To visit schools, etc. Proviso as to assistant visitors. Counsel with teachers, etc. Improvement and to pay the same to the county treasurer quarterly, beginning September thirty, in each year; Fourth, To keep a record of all certificates granted, suspended or revoked by the said board or commissioner, showing to whom issued, together with the date, grade, duration of each certificate and, if suspended or revoked, with the date and reason thereof; Fifth, To furnish, previous to the first Monday in September in each year to the township clerk of each township in the county, a list of all persons legally authorized to teach in the county at large, and in such township, with the date and term of each certificate, and if any have been suspended or revoked, the date of such suspension or revocation; Sixth, To visit each of the schools in the county at least once in each year and to examine carefully the discipline, the mode of instruction, and the progress and proficiency of pupils: Provided, That in case the county commissioner is unable to visit all the schools of the county as herein required, the said commissioner may appoint such assistant visitors as may be necessary, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the visitation and supervision of schools as said commissioner shall direct: Provided, That the whole expense incurred by such assistant visitors shall not exceed the sum of ninety dollars in any one year; Seventh, To counsel with the teachers and school boards as to the courses of study to be pursued, and as to any improvement in the discipline and instruction in the schools; Eighth, To promote by such means as he or she may of schools, etc. devise, the improvement of the schools in the county, and the elevation of the character and qualifications of the teachers and officers thereof, and act as assistant conductor of institutes appointed by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and perform such other duties pertaining thereto as the superintendent shall require; To receive etc. Ninth, To receive the duplicate annual reports of the annual reports, several boards of school inspectors, examine into the correctness of the same, requiring them to be amended when necessary, indorse his or her approval upon them, and immediately thereafter and before the first day of November in each year, transmit to the Superintendent of Public Instruction one copy of each of said reports and file the other in the office of the county clerk; Subject to instructions of Supt. Public Instruction, etc. Tenth, To be subject to such instructions and rules as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may prescribe; to receive all blanks and communications that may be sent to him or her by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and to dispose of the same as directed by the said Superintendent, and to make annual reports at the close of the school year to the Superintendent of Public Instruction of his or her official labor, and of the schools of the county, together with such other information as may be required; Eleventh, To perform such other duties as may be Other duties. required of him or her by law, and at the close of the term of office to deliver all records, books and papers belonging to the office, to his or her successor. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the chairman of the Duty of chairboard of school inspectors of each township: men, etc. First, To have general supervisory charge of the schools Supervision of of his township, subject to such advice and direction as the Schools, etc. county commissioner may give; etc. Second, To make such reports of his official labors and To make reports, of the condition of the schools as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may direct or commissioner request. commissioner. SEC. 10. The compensation of each commissioner shall be compensation of determined by the board of supervisors of each county respectively, but the compensation shall not be fixed at a sum less than five hundred dollars per annum in any county where there are fifty schools under his or her supervision; at not less than one thousand dollars per annum where there are one hundred schools under such supervision; and not less than twelve hundred dollars where there are one hundred and twenty-five schools under his supervision; and in no case shall such compensation exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Each mem- of examiners. ber of the board of school examiners other than the county commissioner shall receive four dollars for four dollars for each day actually employed in the duties of his office. The compen- of assistant sation of any assistant visitor, when appointed as provided visitors, in this act, shall be determined by the county commissioner, but in no case shall it exceed three dollars for each day employed. The compensation of the county commissioner, To be paid members of the board of school examiners and of any quarterly. assistant visitor shall be paid quarterly from the county treasury, upon such commissioner or visitor filing with the county clerk a certified statement of his or her account, which shall give in separate items the nature and amount of the service for each day for which compensation is claimed: Provided, That in no case shall the county com- Proviso. missioner receive any order for compensation from the county clerk until he has filed a certified statement from the Superintendent of Public Instruction that all reports required of the commissioner have been properly made and filed with said superintendent: Provided further, That no Further proviso, commissioner shall receive an order for compensation until he shall have filed with the county clerk a detailed statement under oath showing what schools have been visited by him during the preceding quarter and what amount of time was employed in each school, naming the township and school district. The necessary contingent expenses of of contingent the commissioner for printing, postage, stationery, record books and rent of rooms for public examinations shall be audited and allowed by the board of supervisors of the county, but in no county shall the expenses so allowed Limit of. expenses. Shall not act as agent, etc. Of vacancies. Certain schools exempted, etc. Of city schools. to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per annum and no SEC. 11. No county commissioner shall act as agent for the sale of any school furniture, text-books, maps, charts or other school apparatus, nor be interested financially in any summer normal, or teachers' training class in the county for which he was elected. SEC. 12. Whenever by death, resignation, removal from office or otherwise a vacancy shall occur in the office of the county commissioner of schools, the county clerk shall issue a call to the chairman of the township board of school inspectors of each township in the county, who shall meet at the office of the county clerk on a date to be named in said [notices] notice not more than ten days from the date of the notice, and appoint a suitable person to fill the vacancy for the unexpired portion of the term of office. SEC. 13. All schools which by special enactment may have a district board authorized to inspect and grant certificates to the teachers employed in the same, shall be exempt from the provisions of this act, as to the examination and licensing of teachers. The officers of every school district which is or shall hereafter be organized in whole or in part in any incorporated city in this State where no special enactments shall exist in regard to the licensing of teachers shall have power to examine and license, or may require the county commissioner to examine and license teachers for such district and such license shall be valid in said district for the term of three years. All city schools having a superintendent employed by their respective boards of education shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter as to the examination and licensing of teachers and To make reports, as to the supervision of the schools in such city, but all such schools shall, through their proper officers, make such reports as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may require. Exempt from licensing of teachers, etc. Repealing clause. SEC. 14. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. NOTE 1. The present secretary shall continue to act under the provisions of the old law until the fourth Tuesday of August. NOTE 2. The members of the old board of examiners other than the secretary shall act with the school commissioner until the second Monday of October, when the term of the examiners under this act will begin. [ACT No. 176.] [Takes effect June 30, 1891.] AN ACT for the organization of township school districts in the Upper Peninsula. organization. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Petition for That whenever the qualified electors of any organized township in the Upper Peninsula desire to become organized into a single school district, they may petition the township board to give notice that at the succeeding township meeting the officers for such organized school district will be chosen, and such other business transacted as shall be necessary thereto. Such petition shall be signed by a majority of the qualified electors of the township and shall be filed in the office of the township clerk at least fifteen days prior to the annual township meeting. Upon the receipt and filing of Clerk to notify said petition, the township clerk shall notify the members board, etc. of the township board and the school [inspector] inspectors of the township to attend a special meeting to be held not more than five days thereafter, and at which meeting it shall be the duty of such township board to compare the names signed to the petition with the names appearing on the list of registered voters qualified to vote at the preceding election, and if it be found that a majority of the voters qualified to vote at the preceding election have signed the petition that the organized township of which they are resident be organized as a single school district, they shall give notice that at the then succeeding township meeting officers will be chosen for such organized school district; and shall make and file, both with the county clerk and the secretary* of the board of school inspectors of the county in which such township is located, a certified copy of the above mentioned petition together with their finding and doings thereon, and thereupon such township shall become a single school To be single district which shall be subject to all the general laws of the districts, ete. State, so far as the same may be applicable, and said district shall have all the powers and privileges conferred upon union school districts by the laws of this State, all the general provisions of which relating to common or primary schools shall apply and be enforced in said district, except such as shall be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and all schools organized in said district in pursuance of this act, under the directions and regulations of said board of education shall be public and free to all persons actual residents within the limits thereof, between the ages of five and twenty years, inclusive, and to such other persons as the board of education shall admit: Provided, That Proviso. whenever the majority of electors in any surveyed township in such organized township shall petition the board of education to establish a school or schools therein, the said board of education are hereby authorized and directed *School Commissioner. |