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Page 107 - The superintendent of schools or, if there is no superintendent of schools, the school committee, or teachers acting under authority of said superintendent or committee, may excuse cases of necessary absence. The attendance of a child upon a public day school shall not be required if he has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the school committee...
Page 109 - ... read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, or is exempted by law from such attendance.
Page 122 - If any person shall employ or exhibit a child under the age of fourteen years in dancing, playing on musical instruments, singing, walking on a wire or rope, or riding or performing as a gymnast, contortionist, or acrobat in any circus or theatrical exhibition, or in any public place whatsoever, or shall cause, procure, or encourage any such child to engage therein, or if any person having the custody or control of any such child, shall permit him to be so employed, such person shall be fined not...
Page 107 - No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed at work performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the...
Page 105 - An act donating land to the several States and Territories, which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts...
Page 109 - ... in session in the common English branches, or having acquired those branches, in other more advanced studies. Any person who does not comply with the requirements of this section shall be fined ten dollars for the first offense and twenty dollars for every subsequent offense, for the use of the district.
Page 108 - ... where the offense is committed. SECT. 19. Any person exposing any domestic animal as aforesaid, affected with any other contagious or troublesome disease, shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars for each offense, for the benefit of the town. SECT. 20. It shall be...
Page 124 - No prosecution for the violation of any provision of this chapter shall be sustained unless begun within thirty days after the commission of the offense. CHAPTER 282. — CONVICT LABOR. SECT. 14. The sheriff of any county may, with the approval of the county commissioners, employ and set to labor any prisoner confined in the county jail, in such manner as shall be consistent with his safe keeping, if the labor can be prosecuted without expense to the county.
Page 114 - ... shall be valid against attaching creditors, or subsequent purchasers, without notice...
Page 128 - Section 1 of this act, may file the same for record in the office of the Secretary of State by leaving two copies, counter-parts or fac-similes thereof, with said secretary and by filing therewith a sworn application specifying the name or names of the person, association or union on whose behalf such label...

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