or either of them shall become due and payable, or within sixty days thereafter, with five per centum damages thereon, and all costs; and I hereby acknowledge myself bound for the payment of any deficiency in the amount of principal, interest, and costs so due, after such sale, to be recovered by said commissioner or his successors in office, by action of debt, in any court of competent jurisdiction. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of August, 1832.

A. B. [SEAL.]

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Eli Tancy.

June. 115

TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS.

The qualified voters in each congressional township are authorized to elect three trustees, who hold their offices for the term of three years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The persons so elected are styled the "Trustees of School Township No.

," and before entering on the duties of their respective offices, they are required to be sworn to discharge the duties enjoined upon them by law. The trustees appoint a township clerk, who is in like manner sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of his office.

The board of trustees thus organized, are empowered to divide the school lands into such lots as will best suit purchasers, and ensure the best price for the land; and also to fix a minimum price to each lot, not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre; and it is the duty of the clerk to certify such division and valuation to the school commissioner of the proper county, to be by him recorded in a book provided by the county for that purpose. Rev. L. 464, 5.

It is also the duty of the trustees of each school township in which the school section has been sold, to call a meeting of the qualified voters of such township, and take their votes, as to the disposition of the moneys arising from such sale; and the said moneys are to be deposited in the state loan office, or loaned by the school commissioner of the proper county, in conformity with the vote so taken, which vote is to be recorded in the record book of the township, by the clerk thereof and certified to the school commissioner of the proper county. Id. 467, 8.

It is the further duty of the trustees, to divide the township into school districts, and appoint three subtrustees in each district; to receive from the sub-trustees a report of the decision of the voters of the respective districts, as to their willingness to support public schools, and cause the same to be recorded by the township clerk; and also to examine school houses, and name them, and number them in the order of time in which they are finished; and cause the name and number of each to be recorded in the record book of the township. Id. 473, 4, 5.

The form of the oath required of trustees is similar to that required of a school commissioner.

Oath of a township clerk.

You solemnly swear, that you will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Indiana, and that you will faithfully and honestly discharge the duties of the office of township clerk for school township number , according to the best of your skill and understanding. So help you God.

Notice of a meeting of the voters to decide as to the disposal of school funds.

are

then

The qualified voters in school township No. requested to meet at on the day of and there to decide, whether the school funds belonging to said township shall be deposited in the state loan office, or be loaned out by the school commissioner.

August 10, 1832,

A. B.

C. D.

Trustees.

E. F.

in

Record of the decision of the voters.

At a meeting of the voters of school township No.

on the

county, held at day of agreeably to notice previously given by the trustees of said township for that purpose, it was decided by a majority of the voters aforesaid, that the school funds belonging to said township shall be loaned by the school commissioner; there being in favour of that measure

votes, and for depositing said funds in the loan office,

.votes.

Division of the school township into school districts, and appointment of sub-trustees, in each district.

held at

At a meeting of the trustees of school township No.
, in the county of
on the
, 1832, it is ordered, that the said township.
school districts, as follows, to wit,

day of

be divided into

(describe the boundaries of each.) And it is further ordered that A. B., C. D., and E. F. be appointed sub-trustees in the first district; G. H., J. K., and L. M. in the second district; &c. (naming three sub-trustees in each district) of which appointments the said sub-trustees, in their respective districts, will take notice and govern themselves accordingly.

i

A. B.

C. D.

E. F.

Trustees.

Notice to the inhabitants of the district to meet and decide as to the support of a public school in the district.

who are

The inhabitants of the first school district, in school township No. , in the county of freeholders therein, are requested to meet at said district, on the day of

in

then and there to

decide whether they will or will not support a public school in said district.

Report of the decision of the inhabitants.

At a meeting of the inhabitants of the first school district, in school township No. in the county of who are freeholders and householders therein, at in the said district on the it was decided that the said inhabitants will support a public school in said district, months in each year, all which is hereby certified to the clerk of the township trustees.

day of

August 10, 1822.

A. S.

B. T.

Sub-trustees.

W. C.

of

Record of the number and name of school houses.

The trustees of school township No

9

in the county

having examined a school house, lately erect ed in the third school district, and found the same com