dence of the scholars. In addition to this register other records shall be kept, in which shall be entered the daily absence of the scholars, and such notes of their class-exercises as may exhibit a view of their advancement and standing.

schools.

SECT. 8. All school registers and other books for Blanks for records, as well as all blanks for monthly reports and circulars required in the several schools, shall be after uniform patterns, to be determined by the Superintendent of Public Schools, to whom all teachers are expected to apply whenever such articles are needed by them.

SECT. 9. Each master shall examine the pupils under the care of the other teachers in his school as often as he can consistently with proper attention to those who are under his immediate charge.

returns.

SECT. 10. During the week preceding the quarterly Semi-annual meeting in February and in August, the principal teacher in each school shall make to the Secretary of the Board semi-annual returns of the number of pupils belonging to the school, conformable to the blanks furnished for this purpose. They shall also include in their reports the names of those pupils belonging to their respective schools who do not reside in the city, with the dates of their respective admissions.

SECT. 11. Each master shall, within one week after Notices to be given to the the appointment of a teacher, send to the Secretary Secretary. of this Board the full name of such teacher, with the precise date of his or her commencing service in his school; and if the person appointed has previously been in the service of the City as a teacher, he shall state where, when, and how long such service was rendered. In like manner he shall give notice when any teacher shall have relinquished service in his school.

Teachers visit

SECT. 12. The instructors may, for the purpose of observing the modes of discipline and instruction, visit ing schools.

Corporal pun

ishment.

pupil.

any of the Public Schools in the City; but such visits shall not be made oftener than once a quarter, nor till provision satisfactory to the Chairman of the District Committee, or of the Sub-Committee, has been made for the proper care of the pupils under their immediate charge.

SECT. 13. All instructors shall aim at such discipline in their schools as would be exercised by a kind, judicious parent in his family, and shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good order can be preserved by milder measures. And it shall be the duty of the several masters and teachers in the public schools to keep a record of all instances of inflicting corporal punishment, which they shall submit to their respective Committees at each quarterly examination, when said record shall be erased.

Exclusion of a SECT. 14. For violent or pointed opposition to authority in any particular instance, a principal teacher may exclude a child from school for the time being; and thereupon shall inform the parent or guardian of the measure, and shall apply to the District Committee for advice and direction.

Suspension or

expulsion and

pupils.

SECT. 15. When the example of any pupil in school restoration of is very injurious, and in all cases where reformation appears hopeless, it shall be the duty of the principal teacher, with the approbation of the committee on the school, to suspend or expel such pupil from the school. But any child under this public censure, who shall have expressed to the teacher his regret for his folly or indiscretion, as openly and explicitly as the nature of the case may require, and shall have given evidence of amendment, shall, with the previous consent of said committee, be reinstated in the privileges of the school.

SECT. 16. In cases of difficulty in the discharge of their official duties, or when they may desire any tem

porary aid, the instructors shall apply to the District Committees of their respective schools for advice and assistance.

pay their sub

SECT. 17. Whenever any instructor shall be absent Absentees must from school, and a temporary instructor rendered ne-stitutes. cessary, the amount required to pay said substitute. shall be withdrawn from the salary of the absentee; unless upon a representation of the case, by petition, and a report on said petition from the Standing Committee on Salaries, the Board shall order an allowance to be made. And no substitute shall be employed in any of the Primary Schools for more than one day at a time, without the approbation of one or more of the sub-committee of the school; nor in any department of the Grammar Schools without the approbation of two or more of the District Committee, the Chairman being one of them. The compensation allowed for substitutes in the Primary Schools and for Assistants in the Grammar Schools shall be $1.00 per day; for Ushers, $2.75 per day; for Sub-Masters, $3.75 per day; and for Masters, $5.00 per day; for each day of actual school time during which such substitute shall be employed.

and ventilation.

SECT. 18. It shall be the duty of all the instructors Temperature to give vigilant attention to the ventilation and temperature of their school rooms. A regular system of ventilation shall be practised, as well in winter as in summer, by which the air in the rooms shall be effectually changed at each recess, and at the end of each school session before the house shall be closed.

SECT. 19. There shall be a recess of fifteen minutes Recesses. for every pupil each half day, including the time occupied in going out and coming in.

SECT. 20. The masters, ushers and teachers, in the Physical exerPublic Schools, shall so arrange the daily course of

cise in schools.

Care of school premises.

Things not allowed.

Same.

Same.

exercise in their respective classes that every scholar shall have daily in the forenoon and afternoon some kind of physical or gymnastic exercise; this exercise to take place as nearly as practicable midway between the commencement of the session and recess, and between recess and the end of the session.

SECT. 21. The principal teachers of the several schools shall prescribe such rules for the use of the yards and out-buildings connected with the school houses as shall insure their being kept in a neat and proper condition, and shall examine them as often as may be necessary for such purpose, and they shall be held responsible for any want of neatness or cleanliness on their premises; and when anything is out of order they must give immediate notice thereof to the Superintendent of Public Buildings.

SECT. 22. No instructor in the public schools shall be allowed to teach in any other public school than that to which he or she has been appointed, nor to keep a private school of any description whatever, nor to attend to the instruction of any private pupils before 6 o'clock, P. M., except on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, nor to engage as editor of any newspaper, or of any religious or political periodical.

SECT. 23. The instructors shall not award medals or other prizes to the pupils under their charge.

SECT. 24. No subscription or contribution for any purpose whatever shall be introduced into any public school.

SECT. 25. No person whatever shall read to the pupils of any school, or post upon the walls of any school building, or fences of the same, any advertisement. Nor shall any agent or other person be permitted to enter any school for the purpose of exhibiting, either to teacher or pupils, any new book or article of apparatus.

books and

studies.

SECT. 26. The books used and the studies pursued Authorized in all the public schools shall be such and such only as may be authorized by the Board; and the teachers. shall not permit any books, tracts or other publications to be distributed in their schools.

required.

SECT. 27. No pupils shall be allowed to retain their Books, &c., connection with any of the public schools unless they are furnished with the books and utensils regularly required to be used in the respective classes.

SECT. 28. In cases where children are in danger of Books, &c., for indigent chilbeing deprived of the advantages of education, by dren. reason of inability to obtain books, through the poverty or negligence of parents or guardians, the Committee on Accounts are authorized, on behalf of the School Committee, to carry out the provisions of the statute on this subject. [Rev. Stat. ch. 23, §§ 20, 21, 22. Stat. 1855, ch. 456, § 1.

SECT. 29. Tardiness shall be considered a violation Tardiness. of school regulations, and shall subject delinquents to such penalty as the nature of the case may require.

school required.

SECT. 30. Pupils shall not be absent from school Attendance at except on account of sickness, or other urgent reason; and no pupil shall be allowed to leave school before the appointed time for closing, for the purpose of attending to any music lessons or writing lessons, or for any other cause whatever, except in case of sickness or some pressing emergency; and the teacher's consent must first be obtained.

SECT. 31. No child whose residence is not in this Admission of pupils. city, or who has only a temporary residence here for the purpose of attending the public schools, shall be permitted to attend them, (excepting always those for whom provision is made by an act of the Legislature, passed March 24th, 1855,) and it shall be the duty of