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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1849
Page
1
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Ohio lawmakers authorize creation of separate colored districts within townships and cities, with election of directors by eligible black taxpayers. The act outlines district formation, governance, tax limits up to four mills, school operations, and examiners to certify teachers. It repeals earlier color-based restrictions while providing conditions for admissions and funding.
The text states that any vagrant offender shall forfeit up to 500 dollars plus costs, to be recovered in court by debt or indictment for the State of Ohio. They shall be imprisoned until the fine is paid unless the court directs otherwise. Dated February 10, 1849, Speaker of the Senate.
The act amends the 1848 and 1838 school laws in Ohio. It requires district clerks to certify taxpayer lists to the county auditor when a school tax vote passes. It preserves township power to vote additional taxes and directs district directors to bill parents or guardians for fuel provided, with the treasurer authorized to collect unpaid accounts. March 6, 1849. Speaker of the Senate.
An Act to amend the 1838 act for the mon schools creates the office of superintendent. It requires districts to provide English grammar and geography when residents request, and sets teacher certification to include geography and English grammar along with reading writing and arithmetic.
This excerpt records legislative actions in Ohio from 1849 involving school funding and governance. It notes the Akron board of education may adopt certain sections of earlier acts to regulate public schools and outlines repeals and effective dates, with signatures from the Speaker of the Senate on March 19, 1849.
The act extends authority to trustees to create and map school districts anytime after enactment and within six months after passage for existing townships. Maps recorded per fifth section of the March 7 1838 act are treated as full compliance and grant continuation of district creation powers.
The act to amend taxes on property provides that rents entered for taxation on the grand duplicate shall be valued at or below the annual rent value and included in the recipient’s property statement returned to the assessor as with other personal property and credits, where applicable.
Biographical sketch chronicles Major General William J. Worth born in Hudson, New York, rising from private secretary to Lee to aid of Scott. He fought from Chippewa to Monterey and Puebla, commanded at Saltillo, Vera Cruz, and Chapultepec, earning praise from Taylor and Scott before dying after a cholera outbreak in Texas.
Signor Blitz, the ventriloquist, nearly spoils a horse trade in Philadelphia as the jockey assures the crowd the horse is sound until the horse blurts out the flaw about the heaves in a comic aside.
In a Cincinnati letter about a Wheeling mail coach trip Greeley recalls a companion a young Ohio tape retailer who pretended to carry valuable papers to tease fellow travelers. His chatter focused on women and his humor skimmed low, leaving the writer resigned to never meeting him again.
In Toledo Blade prose by B F Stickney the brain is the legislature and the spinal column the President. Heads of Departments sit at the shoulders kidneys and hips as the body’s governance, with executive power moving swift as fluid after brain decree.
The Doylestown Democrat jokes that cholera did not appear under Polk but broke out under Taylor, while an Arab chief questions divine mercy. The piece quotes the Washington Union on Republicans and notes thieves and burglars are warned of reward. A Patterson jury delays verdict in an embezzlement case amid perplexing evidence and a false friend.
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