The school committee. § 1. the overseers of the poor of the city of Boston, until the same shall be altered or qualified by the legislature.] SECT. 53. The school committee shall consist 1835, c. 128, of the mayor of the city, the president of the 1851, c. 309. common council, and of the persons hereinafter mentioned. A majority of the persons duly elected shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and at all meetings of the board, the mayor, if present, shall preside. Same sub ject. Organization of SECT. 54. At the annual election next after the passage of this act, the qualified voters of each ward shall be called upon to give in their ballots for six inhabitants of the ward to be members of the school committee; and the two persons who receive the highest number of votes, or, in case more than two receive an equal number of votes, the two persons who are senior by age, shall hold their office for three years from the second Monday in January next ensuing, and the next two persons who receive the highest number of votes, or who are senior by age in the contingency aforesaid, shall hold their office for two years from said date; and the two other persons shall hold their office for one year from said date; and, at every subsequent annual election, two persons shall be chosen in each ward, to be members of the school committee for the term of three years. SECT. 55. The persons so chosen as members school com- of the school committee shall meet and organize mittee. on the second Monday of January, at such hour and subor as the mayor may appoint. They may choose a secretary and such subordinate officers as they Secretary may deem expedient, and shall define their duties dinate offiand fix their respective salaries. cers. duties of mittee. § 19. SECT. 56. The said committee shall have the Powers and care and management of the public schools, and school commay elect all such instructors as they may deem 1821, c. 110, proper, and remove the same whenever they consider it expedient. And generally they shall have all the powers, in relation to the care and management of the public schools, which the selectmen of towns or school committees are authorized by the laws of this commonwealth to exercise. tions of municipal and elections, any 1821, c. 110. etc. § 8. Amend. SECT. 57. Every male citizen of twenty-one years of age and upwards, excepting paupers and Qualificapersons under guardianship, who shall have re- voters at sided within the commonwealth one year, within the city six months next preceding meeting of citizens, either in wards or in general meeting, for municipal purposes, and who shall have paid by himself or his parent, master or See xx. guardian, any state or county tax, which, within Const. two years next preceding such meeting, shall have been assessed upon him in any town or district in this commonwealth, and also every citizen who shall be by law exempted from taxation, and who shall be, in all other respects, qualified as above mentioned, shall have a right to vote at such meeting, and no other person shall be entitled to vote at such meeting.1 1 By the twentieth amendment of the constitution of the state, no person Board of aldermen to of voters prior to SECT. 58. It shall be the duty of the board of make lists aldermen, prior to every election of city officers, or of any officer or officers under the government of the United States or of this commonwealth, to 1821, c. 110, make out lists of all the citizens of each ward § 24. R.S.c.3. qualified to vote in such election, in the manner every elec tion. in which selectmen and assessors of towns are required to make out similar lists of voters, and for that purpose they shall have free access to the assessors' books and lists, and shall be entitled to the aid and assistance of all assessors, assistant assessors, and other officers of said city. And it shall be the duty of said board of aldermen to deliver such list of the voters in each ward, so prepared and corrected, to the clerk of said ward, to be used by the warden and inspectors thereof at such election, and no person shall be entitled Inspectors to vote at such election whose name is not borne And to prevent all frauds and misis not on the takes in such elections, it shall be the duty of the inspectors in each ward to take care that no person shall vote at such election whose name is not so borne on the list of voters, and to cause a mark to be placed against the name of each voter on such list, at the time of giving in his vote. And the city council shall have authority to establish such rules and regulations, as to making out, publishing and using such lists of qualified voters, as they to allow no one to vote on such list. whose name list. shall have a right to vote "who shall not be able to read the constitution in the English language and write his name." The amendment does not, however, apply to any person prevented by a physical disability from complying with its requisitions, nor to any person who in May, 185 had the right to vote, or who was then sixty years of age and upwards. shall deem proper, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the commonwealth. nationaland cers. 1821, c. 110 R. S. c. 5, R. S. c. R. S. c. 4, 11. 2, 18. Amend. Const. 14. SECT. 59. All elections for governor, lieu- Election of tenant-governor, senators, representatives, repre- state offsentatives to congress, and all other officers, who are to be chosen and voted for by the people, $2. shall be held at meetings of the citizens qualified § 11. to vote in such elections, in their respective wards, 9, 18. at the time fixed by law for those elections respec- 12. tively. And at such meetings, all the votes given R. S. c. 5, § in being collected, sorted, counted, and declared R. 8. c. 6, by the inspectors of elections in each ward, it shall 1852, c. 209 be the duty of the clerk of such ward to make a true record of the same, specifying therein [the See xiv. whole number of ballots given in], the name of each person voted for, and the number of votes for each, expressed in words at length. And a transcript of such record, certified by the warden, clerk, and a majority of the inspectors of elections in such ward, shall forthwith be transmitted or delivered by each ward clerk to the clerk of the city. And it shall be the duty of the city clerk forthwith to enter such returns, or a plain and intelligible abstract of them, as they are successively received, in the journals of the proceedings of the board of aldermen, or in some other book kept Examinafor that purpose. And it shall be the duty of the turn of board of aldermen to meet together within two voters. days after every such election, and examine and compare all the said returns, and thereupon to make out a certificate of the result of such election, Certificate. to be signed by a majority of the aldermen, and tion and re lists of votes be trans mitted to the secretary or to sheriffs. R. S. c 5, § 1. also by the city clerk, which shall be transmitted, delivered, or returned, in the same manner as similar returns are by law directed to be made by the selectmen of towns; and such certificates and returns shall have the same force and effect, in all respects, as like returns of similar elections made Separate by the selectmen of towns. At the election of for govern- governor, lieutenant-governor, and senators, it or, etc., to shall be the duty of the board of aldermen to make and seal up separate lists of persons voted for as governor, lieutenant-governor, and senators of the commonwealth, with the number of votes for each person, written in words at length against his name, and to transmit said lists to the secretary of the commonwealth, or to the sheriff of the county. The board of aldermen shall, within three days next after the day of any election of Votes for electors of President and Vice-President of the president, United States, held by virtue of the laws of this commonwealth, or of the United States, deliver or be transmit cause to be delivered, the lists of votes therefor, sealed up, to the sheriff of the county; and the ' said sheriff shall, within four days after receiving said lists, transmit the same to the office of the secretary of the commonwealth; or the said aldermen may, and when the office of sheriff is vacant, they shall themselves, transmit the said lists to the said office, within seven days after the election; and all votes not so transmitted shall be rejected. Proceedings In all elections for representatives to the general resentatives court, in case the whole number proposed to be elected shall not be chosen according to law, by electors of etc., how and when to ted to the secretary. 1844, c. 167, § 1. in case rep are not chosen. |