The Public Statutes of Massachusetts Relating to Public Instruction: With Annotations and ExplanationsWright & Potter, 1883 - 69 pages |
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ABSENTEES FROM SCHOOL amount annual meeting appoint apportioned appropriated approved attending school Barnas Sears blank forms board of education by-laws certificate chap chapter child children under sixteen cities and towns city or town clerk Commonwealth court Cruelty to Children Cush distribution duty educational purposes election Emory Washburn employed employment exceeding expense fifty dollars fourteen furnished governor Hampden County hereby authorized high school Horatio G hundred dollars income INDIAN SCHOOL FUND inhabitants institutions instruction land LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS legislature Massachusetts School Fund mittee neglect normal schools paid parent or guardian Penalty persons Plymouth County preceding section prescribe public schools Public Statutes pupils receive reside Resolved school committee school district system school registers school-houses schools therein secretary SECT selectmen superintendent support of schools taught teachers teaching term thereof thousand dollars tion treasurer truant officers truant schools vacancy vote William Claflin Worcester Worcester County
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Page 42 - that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them to read the English tongue, and a knowledge of the capital laws.
Page 42 - the selectmen of every town were instructed to have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them to read
Page 54 - Whoever wilfully and maliciously or wantonly and without cause writes upon, injures, defaces, tears or destroys a book, plate, picture, engraving or statue belonging to a law, town, city or other public library, shall be punished by fine of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding six months.
Page 23 - of competent ability and good morals, who, in addition to the branches of learning before mentioned, shall give instruction in general history, book-keeping, surveying, geometry, natural philosophy, chemistry, botany, the civil polity of this commonwealth and of the United States, and the Latin language. Such high school shall be kept for the benefit of all the
Page 3 - required the selectmen of every town to have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves and others, their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and a knowledge of the capital laws.
Page 8 - The board may take and hold, in trust for the commonwealth, any grant or devise of lands, and any donation or bequest of money or other personal property, made to it for educational purposes; and shall forthwith pay over to the treasurer of the commonwealth, for safe-keeping and investment, all
Page 42 - or has already acquired the branches of learning taught in the public schools, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable, such penalty shall not be incurred.
Page 3 - others, their children and apprentices so much learning as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and a knowledge of the capital laws.
Page 43 - the teaching in the public schools in the same locality, and that equal progress is made by the pupils therein, in the studies required by law, with that made during the same time in the public schools; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teaching therein.
Page 56 - place in the county of Essex, and that the sum of six thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated from the proceeds of the public lands or the school fund, according to the provisions of the act of the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, chapter two hundred and nineteen, to defray the