The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-07-28
WORCESTER CENTER SCHOOL DISTRICT
INCORPORATION.

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ISz4 Chap. g. the inhabitants of the Center Schoo
district m Worcester, are authorized to raise mon
ey IN ADDITION to the moneys voted and raised b.
tne Town, to be appropriated to the support O
Sonools III sald District In such manner the in
ha6itants Of said District may direct
- by an additional Act, passed February, 1926
Chap a. the Center School District was author
lzeu 10 determine in what manner future meeting:
Oh the inhabitants of said District should be called
Al legal meeting of the inhabitants of said Dis
uict' held April ID, 1896 it was voted that " the
legal method of notifying all future meetings of the
Center School District, be by written notification
ioni the Board OF Overseers for the time being and
sRneo by them or ma or part of them, and posted
OF the four meeting houses within the District, al
eist seven days before the time appointed for such
meetings."
BOARD OF ovERsEERs.
By vote of the District, Dec. 81, 1928, the
Board of Overseers of Schools for the Center Dis
trict are authorized and it is made their duty TO
determine upon the qualifications of instructors
| and to contact with them for their services: to
determine upon the attainments of scholars to be
admitted into said Schools respectively; to pre-
scribe the course of instruction therein and all
necessary rnles and regulations for the government
thereof; to determine upon all complaints of in
structors, Of parents, or of scholars, which may
arse IN relation to said Schools or either of them
to visit and examine said Schools respectively at
stated penods during the year; to encourage, in
every s@.ttble manner, both instructors and scho-
ars in the performance OF their relative duties; and
to make report, in writing, annually, to the Dis
trlct, of the condition of said Schools during the
period Of their office"
By subsequent vote of the District. the expen-
diture OF all moneys was entrusted to the Beard
and at meeting on the Sd of MAY, 1926. it was
voted; that all orders for the payment of money,
hereafter expended, be drawn by the Board OF
Overseers or by their direction"
In pursuance of power granted by these. and 9TH
er votes o the District, the Board of Oyerseers
nave adopted the following regulations -
regular meetings of the Board shall be holden
on the hrs Monday of each month, and special
meetings nay be holden whenever the President
may deem ADVISABLE or whenever he NAV be re-
quested to :all one by two members of the Board.
The several members of the Board shall be in
formed OF all meetings thereof by written Motif
catlon IRON the Secretary, designating the time
and place d the meeting. And where meetings
are SO caLed, when the time appointed has arrived
one-third of the Board shall constitute Quorum
to transact business.
There shall be standing committee ofthe Board
TO consist OF three, who shall be called the Com
mlttee on Accounts, whose duty it shall be to ex-
anime all accounts presented against the District
and If correctly stated to report them to the Board
II snail be t1e duty of the Secretary of the Board
10 draw orders for all moneys, which the Board
Shall direct to be paid, and to keep Book, where
In Shall be regularly entered an account of all mon
eys received by the Board or passed to their cred
IL, on the Town Treasurer's books and of all mon
eys paid bythem; which account shall be settled
al the close of the year for which the Board chos
en-. He shall also keep an account current with
each Instructor employed by the Board, which
snail be settled as often as twice in the year And
sept on jPr moneys paid By the R2ard Ehal be
pers of the Board.
ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOLS.
UvI e a. Al.
established, in addition to the Grammar School,
which is supported by the town, seven permanent
Schools and one temporary one, the arrangement
and designation of which are as follows:
The two Schools now kept, one in the Vestry OF
the Baptist Meeting House, and the other in the
North ochool house, are for the youngest and low
est grade of scholars, and are denominated the
North and South Infant Schools.
The School now kept in DR.. Green's building,
near the Center School House, and that kept in
the School House on the common are the next in
grade, and are denominated the North and the South
Primary Schools. Promotions to these are made
from the Infant Schools.
The next in grade the Boys School, and the
Second Female School, to which promotions are
made from the Primary Schools.
The last, and highest in rank of the permanent
District Schools is the Female High School, to
which promotions are made from the Second Fe-
male School. All the foregoing Schools are to be
only as may be required for the accommodation OF
the teachers, or as may be directed by the Board
In addition to these, School is kept for three
months in the winter, for apprentices and clerks
and such other boys as attend School only part
of the year.
Each of these Schools is to be under the imme
date care Of a subcommittee of two members O.
the Board of Overseers, called the Visiting Com.
mittee, to be assigned by the Board as often a:
they shall deem expedient; and of every new as
signment, notice shall be given to the teachers re
spectively, in writing, by the Secretary of the
Board.
1t shall be the duty of the Visiting Committees
on the week preceding the regular meetings O
the Board, to examine the several Schools in the
branches to which they have attended during the
months preceding; and at the examinations pre-
ceding the meeting in the months of January
April, July, and October, they shall review thei
studies for the last three months, and report tn,
names Of candidates for promotion to the mex
meeting of the Board. Minutes of the examina
tons shall be made in book kept for that purpose
designating the whole number OF scholars and tn,
number present; the exercises of each class witt
the number of scholars belonging it present arc
the number absent the head of the class; and an,
( other particulars necessary to give information o
the state of the School. A report embracing thes,
particulars shall be made at the next regular meet
| ing Of the Board.
ADMISSION AND PROMOTION OF SCHOLARS.
| Scholars can be admitted to the Infant and Pri
mary Schools only by ticket Of admission signed b.
at least one member of the Board of Overseers
For the other Schools il is necessary that the tick
| cts be signed by two members or more, one, a
least, of whom, shall be a member of the Visiting
| Committee Of the School to which the ticket i
directed.
All transfers or promotions, from one School t.
another, except where the transfer is to anothe
School of the same grade, shall be made by vot
! of the Board to be certified by the Secretary
The teachers shall preserve the tickets of admis
sion of all scholars who shall attend their Schools
and present the same to the Visiting Committee a
the first examination after they shall be admitted
No scholar shall be admitted into any of tn
Schools under the age of three years.
No person shall be entitled to the benefit of tn
Schools IN the District, who is not a member c
some family resident therein and residence in
family shall not endtle person to this privileg
when any compensation is given for board, othe
than services rendered to the family during tn
term for which the person continues in School.
When any doubts arise whether an applicar