The Public Statutes of Massachusetts Relating to Public Instruction: With Annotations and Explanations, Including the Laws in Force June, 1892Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1892 - 101 pages |
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Page 5 - Court within this jurisdiction; and for this end they, or the greater number of them, shall have power to take account from time to time of all parents and masters, and of their children, concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of this country...
Page 35 - ... the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican constitution is founded...
Page 7 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufacture, and a natural history of the country...
Page 40 - EDUCATION. [Jan. twenty-third section, the mayor and aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town proceed to elect an entire board of school committee. An article " to choose all necessary town officers" is notice only of those elections that are provided for by the standing laws.
Page 6 - ... send their children be not oppressed by paying much more than they can have them taught for in other towns ; and it is further ordered that where any town shall increase to the number of 100 families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 30 - ... maintain a school to be kept by a master of competent ability and good morals, who, in addition to the branches of learning before mentioned, shall give instruction in general history, bookkeeping, surveying, geometry, natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, the civil polity of this Commonwealth and of the United States, and the Latin language.
Page 66 - ... are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the school committee and to the chief of the district police or the inspector of factories for the district.
Page 59 - ... in the public schools ; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teaching therein.
Page 6 - Church and Commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors — " It is therefore ordered, that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 64 - Then personally appeared before me the above-named [name of person signing] , and made oath that the foregoing certificate by [him or her] signed is true to the best of [his or her] knowledge and belief. I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of [name of child...