SECTIONS OF THE OHIO SCHOOL LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE DISTRICT OF CINCINNATI. Adopted June 27, 1879-with Amendments. CHAPTER 1. CLASSIFICATION AND CHANGE OF DISTRICTS. CHAPTER 2. CITY DISTRICTS OF THE FIRST CLASS. SECTION 3885. The state is hereby divided into school districts, to be styled respectively city districts of the first class, city districts of the second class, village districts, special districts, and township districts. SEC. 3886. Each city having a population of ten thousand or more, by the census of 1870, including the territory attached to it for school purposes, and excluding the territory within its corporate limits detached for school purposes, shall constitute a school district, to be styled a city district of the first class. SEC. 3887. Each city of the second class, having a population of less than ten thousand by the census of 1870, including the territory attached to it for school purposes, and excluding the territory within its corporate limits detached for school purposes, shall constitute a school district, to be styled a city district of the second class. SEC. 3888. Each village, including the territory attached to it for school purposes, and excluding the territory within its corporate limits detached for school purposes, shall constitute a school district, to be styled a village district. SEC. 3889. Municipal corporations hereafter created, or advanced to a higher grade, except villages created by advancement or otherwise, shall, from and after their creation or advancement, be school districts corresponding to their grade as herein provided. SEC. 3890. Each organized township, exclusive of any of its territory, included in a city, village, or special district, shall constitute a school district, to be styled a township district. SEC. 3891. Any school district now existing, other than those mentioned in sections thirty-eight hundred and eighty-six, thirty-eight hundred and eighty-seven, thirty-eight hundred and eighty-eight, and thirty-eight hundred and ninety, which has been established by a vote of the people in accordance with any act of the general assembly, or which has been established by a general or local act of the general assembly, shall constitute a school district, to be styled a special district; and such districts may be established as provided in chapter five of this title. SEC. 3892. The several sub-districts and joint sub-districts now existing within any township district shall continue, according to their respective boundaries, to be sub-districts or joint sub-districts thereof, subject to the provisions of this title. CHANGE OF DISTRICT. SEC. 3893. A part or the whole of any district may be transferred to an adjoining district, by the mutual consent of the boards of education having control of such districts; but no such transfers shall take effect until a statement or map, showing the boundaries of the territory transferred, is entered upon the records of such boards; nor, except when the transfer is for the purpose of forming a joint sub-district, until a copy of such statement or map, certified by the clerks of the board making the transfer, is filed with the auditor of the county in which the transferred territory is situate; and any person living in the territory so transferred may appeal to the county commissioners, as provided in section thirty-nine hundred and sixty-seven, and the commissioners, at their first regular meeting thereafter, shall approve or vacate such transfer. SECTION 3897. [As amended March 25, 1880.] In city districts of the first class, the board of education shall consist of two members for each ward, except in districts organized under a law providing for one member only for each ward, in which districts the board may at any time, by a vote of a majority of its members, provide that thereafter each ward shall be represented by two members, and thereupon proceed to choose one additional member for each ward, to serve until the next annual election for city officers, and until the election and qualification of his successor; and each member of the board shall be an elector of the ward for which he is elected or appointed-Provided, that in city districts of the first class, having a population, according to the last federal census, of one hundred and fifty thousand and over, the board of education shall consist of thirty-seven members, twelve of whom shall be elected at the April election of the current year, to hold office as follows: The four members who receive the highest number of votes for three years, the four who receive the next highest number of votes for two years, the four who receive the next highest number of votes for one year; and thereupon there shall be elected annually four members to serve for three years. In case of a tie vote, the choice of terms shall be dete mined by lot. And the remaining twenty-five members shall consist of those members of the board of education elected at the April election in 1879, and whose terms of office do not expire until April, 1881: that beginning with the April election of 1881, one member shall be elected from each ward of said cities; and such of said members as shall have been elected by wards having an odd numerical designation shall serve for a term of one year, and such as shall have an even numerical designation shall serve for the term of two years; and annually thereafter, as the term of the members elected by said wards shall expire, successors shall be elected to hold for the term of two years. The members elected under this act shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified; provided, that the board of education, established by this act, shall be in all respects the successors of the respective boards whose places they take. SEC. 3898. At every annual election for city officers in a city which constitutes a district of the first class, and wherein the board consists of two members for each ward, there shall be elected in each ward, by the qualified electors thereof, one judicious and competent person to serve as a member of the board of education of the district, for two years from the third Monday of April succeeding his election, and until the election and qualification of his successor. SEC. 3899. When the board consists of as many members as there are wards, there shall be elected, at the annual election for city officers, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty, and every two years thereafter, in each ward designated by an even number, and in the year eighteen hundred and eighty one, and every two years thereafter, in each ward designated by an odd number, by the qualified electors thereof, one member of the board, who shall hold his office for two years, and until the election and qualification of his successor. SEC. 3900. An elector residing in the city district, but not in any ward of the city, shall be entitled to vote in the ward to which he is attached by the board of education for school purposes; but an elector residing in the city, and not in the city district, shall not be entitled to vote at any election provided for in this chapter; the board shall ascertain the ward or wards to which such attached territory is to be thereafter assigned; which plat shall be recorded as part of the proceedings of the board. SEC. 3901. The election provided for in section thirty-eight hundred and ninety-nine shall be conducted by the judges and clerks of the city elections, and they shall make returns of such election to the board of education within five days from the time of holding the same. SEC. 3902. The judges and clerks of city elections, in the wards to which any territory beyond the city limits has been attached by the board of education for school purposes, shall have two separate ballot-boxes and two sets of pollbooks; the electors residing on such attached territory may vote at all regular and special elections in such wards for members of the board of education; the judges of election in such wards shall receive the ballots of the electors residing on such attached territory, and deposit them in the ballot-box provided for that purpose; the clerks of election shall enter upon the separate poll-books provided for that purpose the names of such electors so voting; and due returns of such elections for members of the board shall be made, as provided by section thirtynine hundred and one. SEC. 3903. The board of education shall hold regular meetings once every two weeks, and such special meetings as it may deem necessary; it may fill all yacancies that occur in the board until the next annual election, and may make such rules and regulations for its own government as it may deem necessary; but such rules and regulations must be consistent with the constitution and laws of the state. SECTION CHAPTER VI. SCHOOL FUNDS. 3951. The "state common school fund." 3953. The "common school fund." Accounts of common school fund-how 3955. Bequests, etc., in trust for common 3956. Apportionment of school funds by auditor of state. 3957. To what county common school fund paid when county line divides 3958. Estimate and levy for contingent fund. 3960. Estimate to be certified to county audi tor. 3961. Contingent fund for joint sub-district. SECTION 3962. Same when county line divides such sub-district. 3963. Funds of district composed of territory in more than one county. 3964. Apportionment of school funds by county auditor. 3965. Distribution of money after apportion ment. 3966. Apportionment of common school fund by county auditor when county line divides original surveyed township. 3967. Apportionment of contingent fund by boards of education. 3968. How contingent fund to be applied in Toledo. 3969. County commissioners to levy contin gent fund when board neglects. 3970. County auditor to collect fines, etc., and inspect section sixteen accounts. SECTION 3951. For the purpose of affording the advantages of a free education to all the youth of the state, there shall be levied, annually, a tax upon the grand list of taxable property of the state, which shall be collected in the same manner as other state taxes are collected, and the proceeds of which shall constitute the "state common school fund;" the rate of such levy shall be designated by the general assembly at least once in two years; and if the general assembly fail to designate the rate for any year, the same shall be one mill upon each dollar of valuation of such taxable property. SEC. 3952. The state shall pay interest annually, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, upon all money which has been paid into the state treasury on account of sales of lands commonly called "salt lands," and upon all money heretofore paid, or which may hereafter be paid into the state treasury, on account of sales of swamp lands granted to the state of Ohio by act of congress; the money received from such sales shall constitute an irreducible debt of the state; and the interest shall be apportioned annually on the same basis as the state common school fund is apportioned, and distributed to the several counties as provided in section thirty-nine hundred and fifty-six. SEC. 3953. The money which has been and may hereafter be paid into the state treasury on account of sales of lands granted by congress for the support of public schools in any original surveyed township, or other district of country, shall constitute the "common school fund," of which the auditor of the state shall be superintendent, and the income of which shall be applied exclusively to the support of common schools, in the manner designated in this chapter. SEC. 3954. The common school fund shall constitute an irreducible debt of |