--- title: Times and Seasons description: Issues of 1841 to 1842. authors: - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints editors: - Ebenezer Robinson - Don Carlos Smith - Smith, Joseph, Jr. - Taylor, John collections: - periodicals tags: - newspaper - times-and-seasons - nauvoo - nineteenth-century periodical: Times and Seasons volume: 3 number: 4 published: 1841-12-15 publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois language: en type: article reference: "“Common Schools,” *Times and Seasons* 3, no. 4 (December 15, 1841): 632." printed_title: COMMON SCHOOLS. source: url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-12-15_3_4 transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v3n04.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair) identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-12-15_3_4 start_page: 632 end_page: 632 curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement. rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1841 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1841-12-15_3_4 publication_year: 1841 --- # Common Schools The School Wardens of the University for Common Schools are desired to organize the schools in their respective wards in conformity to an act of the Regents in relation to that important subject-the Teachers must procure a certificate of competency from the Chancellor and Registrar before they can be recognised [recognized] by the Wardens.