Графични страници
PDF файл
ePub

SEC. 5. Said district is hereby authorized to purchase and hold such quantity of land for school house lots, not exceeding three acres in any one lot, and erect such school houses thereon, as may be determined on by vote of the district.

SEC. 6. Whenever the cost of erecting any school house shall exceed two thousand dollars, including the cost of the lot, said district may hire the excess above said two thousand dollars on the district's note, signed by the prudential committee, or any other persons or committee authorized by vote of said district; and the sum so hired with interest thereon, may be assessed and collected in future years, as said district may by vote determine.

SEC. 7. Any provision contained in the general laws of this State, relating to schools, which may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act, shall not be in force in said district after the time when this act shall take effect therein.

SEC. 8. This act shall be in force from its passage, but shall not take effect in said district until adopted by a vote thereof, at a meeting called for that purpose.

[blocks in formation]

3. Superintending school committees to 11. Additional compensation of commis

[blocks in formation]

SECTION 1. The governor and council shall annually appoint a commissioner of common schools in each county of this State, who shall hold his office one year from the fifteenth day of July. (Laws of 1850, chap. 955, sec. 1.)

SEC. 2. The several county commissioners shall meet in Con

cord, at the capitol of this State, on the third Wednesday of August, and shall in their associated capacity constitute a board of education, with the power of choosing a chairman and secretary; and shall recommend such books as may appear to them most suitable to be used in common schools, and such methods of instruction, modes of government and discipline to be pursued in said schools as may seem best adapted to promote their usefulness. (Sec. 2.)

SEC. 3. The superintending school committee in each town shall immediately after the close of the winter schools, and on or before the first day of April in each year, transmit to the secretary of state, to be by him delivered to the secretary of the board of education, a copy of the report presented by them to the town at its annual meeting, and also at the same time shall forward to the secretary of state for the same purpose, according to forms by him provided, answers to all such questions relating to the appropriation of money raised in the town, the studies pursued in the schools, the books used, the methods of instruction and discipline adopted, the condition of the school houses, and such other subjects relating to the schools as shall from time to time be proposed by the board of education, by direction of the governor and council. (Sec. 3.)

SEC. 4. No town from which such returns shall not have been received by the secretary of state on or before the first day of April, shall be entitled to receive its portion of the literary fund for that year; and such portion of the fund shall be distributed among the towns entitled to receive the same; unless before the third Tuesday of June following it shall be made to appear to the governor and council that the neglect to make return was occasioned by some mistake or accident; provided, the secretary of state shall have notified the selectmen of such town by the first day of May, that said return has not been received by him, and unless the said return shall be thereupon made to the secretary of state by the twentieth of the same month. (Sec. 4.)

SEC. 5. The superintending school committee of any town neglecting to make a return of the schools of said town to the secretary of state agreeably to the provisions of this chapter, shall be responsible to said town for the amount of the literary fund forfeited through his negligence. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1102, sec. 1.)

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to spend not less than one day in each town of his county each year, for the purpose of promoting by addresses, inquiries and other means, the cause of common school education, and to report his doings to the secretary of the board of education. It shall also be the duty of each county commissioner to take charge of any teachers' institute that may be held in his county. (Laws of 1850, chap. 955, sec. 5.)

SEC. 7. The board of education shall annually, in the month of June, through their secretary, make to the general court a re

port upon the common schools of the State, comprising the substance of the returns from the several towns, and such information and suggestions as may seem useful to said board. And the secretary of the said board shall procure, at the expense of the State, the printing of six hundred copies of the report, and lay them before the general court to be disposed of at their direction, and shall procure annually the printing of an additional copy of said report for the use of each school district in the State. (Laws of 1850, chap. 955, sec. 6, amended by laws of 1852, chap. 1251.)

SEC. 8. The annual salaries of the commissioners of common schools in the several counties shall be as follows:

Rockingham, one hundred and seventy dollars.

Strafford, seventy-five dollars.

Belknap, sixty dollars.

Carroll, eighty dollars.

Merrimack, one hundred and thirty dollars.
Hillsborough, one hundred and fifty-five dollars.
Cheshire, one hundred and twenty dollars.

Sullivan, ninety dollars.

Grafton, one hundred and eighty-five dollars.

Coös, one hundred and thirty-five dollars. (Laws of 1850, chap. 955, sec. 7.)

SEC. 9. The salaries of commissioners of common schools shall be paid semi-annually from the state treasury. (Sec. 8.)

SEC. 10. Each commissioner shall also be compensated for such reasonable sums as he may have expended for stationery, printing, postage, and the transmission of blank forms and circulars; his account for the same having been allowed by the governor and council, and the governor and council are hereby authorized to draw the same by warrant from the treasury. (Sec. 9.)

SEC. 11. Whenever the several county commissioners meet as a board of education, they shall, in addition to their annual salary, receive the same mileage as the members of the house of representatives, and the same per diem allowance, not exceeding two days. (Sec. 10.)

SEC. 12. The secretary of the board of education shall receive two dollars per day while employed in preparing his annual report, which sum, together with the mileage and per diem allowance of the several commissioners, shall be paid as provided in section tenth of this chapter. (Sec. 11.)

SEC. 13. No commissioner shall be employed as an agent of any bookseller or publisher of books, or in the sale of any books; and if it shall appear to the governor and council that any commissioner has been thus employed, he shall not be entitled to any compensation for his services. (Sec. 12.)

SEC. 14. The several county commissioners shall commence their services as such on the first Monday in December. (Sec. 13.)

[blocks in formation]

1. Towns may raise money to support 3. Selectmen authorized to pay the same to county school commissioner.

teachers' institutes.

2. Towns to appropriate three per cent.

SECTION 1. Any town in this State, at a legal meeting for that purpose, may raise in addition to the amount by law required to be raised therein for the support of common schools, a sum not exceeding five per cent. of such amount, to be applied to the support of a teachers' institute within the limits of the county in which said town is situated. (Laws of 1846, chap. 338.)

SEC. 2. A sum equal to three per cent. of the amount required by law to be raised for the support of common schools in each town be appropriated by said town for the support of teachers' institutes in each county. (Laws of 1851, chap. 1156.)

SEC. 3. The selectmen of each town in this State be authorized to pay over to the school commissioner of their county the sums by law required to be appropriated by said town for the support of teachers' institutes. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1326.)

CHAPTER 84.

OF INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH IN MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS.

SECTION

IDENTICAL WITH

Chapter 622, Laws of 1848.

SECTION

1. Child under fifteen years of age, when 3. Penalty for employing unless a certifi

may be employed.

2. Child under twelve years age, when

may be employed.

cate is lodged with agent or clerk.

SECTION 1. No child under the age of fifteen years shall be employed to labor in any manufacturing establishment unless such

child shall have attended some academy, high school, or public or private day school where instruction is given by a teacher competent to instruct in the branches usually taught in district schools, at least twelve weeks during the year next preceding the time when such child shall be so employed.

SEC. 2. No child under the age of twelve years shall be employed as aforesaid unless such child shall have attended some academy or school as aforesaid at least six months during the year next preceding the time when said child shall be so employed: provided, however, that in case such child, when not prevented by sickness, shall have attended the district school in the district where such child had its residence during the whole time such school was kept in the district during said year, such child may be employed as aforesaid in the same manner as if the child had attended an academy or school as aforesaid for the full term of six

months.

SEC. 3. The owner, agent or superintendent of any manufac turing establishment who shall employ any child to labor in such establishment, unless a certificate is lodged with the agent or clerk thereof, signed by the teacher under whose charge such instruction was received, or by the prudential committee of the district in which such child attended school as aforesaid, certifying that said child has attended school as provided by the first and second sections of this chapter, shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars for each offence, to be recovered by indictment to the use of the complainant.

[blocks in formation]

SECTION 1. Every banking corporation in this State shall pay to the treasurer of the State, on or before the second Wednesday of June annually, one half of one per cent. on the amount of the

« ПредишнаНапред »