Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-11-27

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it hereby enacted by tie General Assembly OF the
State of V%eEneHt1 as4onews:
Sec. /. All the laws ofthis State, heretofore pas
sed respecting the State School Fund, are hcrebY-Te
pealed.
Sea- Az te moneys notes, bonds, mortgages
and other s%ecuritied of every name and nature, ana
all goods chattels, rights and credits whatsoever, and
all lands which now belong to, and constitute the State
School Fund, are hereby transferred to, ana made the
pu7perty of the State, and shall hereafter be so deem
ed.
a: Sec. 3. The State Treasurer is hereby directed to
appropriate and apply SO much OF SAID money, GOODS,
chattels, rirhts and credits 80 transferred to the State,
as aforesaid. as may be required to cancel and extin-
.euish the Indebtedness of the State TO said Fund, and
the balance of the proceeds of said fund shall be put
into the Treasury for the use and benefit OF the State.
Sec. A. Nothing in this act contained shall pre-
vent the State Treasurer, as commissioner OF said fund
from prosecuting and collecting, for the. benefit ofthe
State, either in law or equity, any outstanding debt or
claim, of whatsoever nature, which may be due, or
1reater shall fall due, in respect of said fund.
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Approved, Nov. 5, 1845.
No. Am act in addition to San net, in amend
'ment of Chapter Is Of the Revised Statutes, entitled OF
Common Schools approved Oct. 80 lo44. It'll here
by enacted, &c.
Sec. |. The Treasurer is hereby directed, III ma
king payment to the prudential committee OF school
districts, in any lnorganized town or gore, OF their pro-
portion of the interest of the surplus deposite money,
il, accordance with the provisions Of the act to which
this is in addition, to include each year that a school
has been kept in said town or gore since March 20,
l842.
Sec. 2. If there shall be more than one school dis
trict in any morganized town Or gore, the same rules
shall be observed in apportioning the money among the
districts, as in organized towns,
Approved, Oct p, 1845.
No. San Actin addition to chapter l5 of the Re-
vised Statutes, entitled "of Conmon Schools" 1t Is
hereby enacted, &c.
e Sec. l.. Whenever a person, residing, in a school
district in one town, shall be set to q school district in
an adjoining town, as provided in section six Of chap
ter %eighteed Of the Revised Statutes, his property and
person shall be taxed and the taxes thereon shall be
collected within, and for the use Of the district to which
he shall be set as aforesaid, in the same manner, as
said property and person would be taxable, and the
taxes thereon collectable in the said district in the
town wherein he resids, in case he has not been set to
said other district in an adjoining town. Provided
that said property and person shall be taxable as alore-
said only in the district to which said person shall be
set as aforesaid.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage,
Approved, Oct, IS, 1916.
No. Am Act relating to Common Schools. 1t is
hereby enacted, &c. >
Sec. !. There shall be one Or more Superintendent
Of Common Schools, not exceeding three in each town
in this State, to be appointed by thefreemen thereof at
their March meeting annually.
Sec. 2. There shall be a superintendent of Com
mon Schools in each County, IN this State, appointed
by the Judges of the County Courts, in the several
counties, at the sessions of said Courts next precee-
ding the first day of October of each year. The APP
%pontment shall be in writing under the hand of the
said Judges, and shall be recorded by the Clerks Of
said Courts respectively, who shall ~thereupon give no
tlee OF such appointment to the State Superintendent
and shall hold their Offices for one year from the LIST
day OF October following their appointment. And the
Assistant Judges OF the several counties shall meet on
the 25th Of November, one thousand eight hundred
and torty-tive, at the offices Of the several county Clerks
and appoint county superintendent in manner aiore-
SAID, to serve until the first day Of October next.
Sec. 3. There shall be a state superintendent of
common schools, who shall be annually appointed by
the Joint Assembly.
Sec. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the Town Superin-
tendent to visit all such common schools within their
respective towns as shall be organized according to law,
at least once IN each year, and ottener if they deem it
necessary. AT such visitation the Superintendent shall
examine into the state and condition of such schools as
respects the progress of the school in learning, and the
order and government of the schools; and they may
. give advice to the teachers of such schools as to the
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therein; and In general, to perform the duty relative
to the inspection, examination and regulation of the
: schools, and for the improvement of the scholars in
learning, imposed on the prudential committee OF the
districts by the last clause of Section IL of Chapter
eighteen OF the Revised Statutes. And it shall also be
the duly OF such superintendent to visit the said schools
with the superintendent of the county in which they
are situated, as often as said county superintendent
shall require hin so to do.
The town superintendent shall require full and sat
1sioctory evidence of the good moral character ofall in
%structors who may be employed in the public schools
IN thef respective towns, and shall ascertain by per-
sonll examination, their qualifications and capacity for
the instruction and government Of schools.
Every instructor of a district school shall obtain Of
the town superintendent of such town Tor of the super
'intendent of the county as is i hereafter provided a Ger
a%tlheate Of his qualifications, before he opens such
schools, which he shall cause to be recorded in the
Town Clerks office of said town, before any payment
IS made to such instructor on account of his services :;
which certificate shall be available for one year only.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of the county superin-
%tendents, first; To visit all the towns within their re-
spectlve counties at least once in each year, and often
er if they shall deem it necessary to notify the town
superintendent Of such town of the time or times when
such schools in such towns will be visited, and invite
him to assist in such visitation and with such town
superintendent, if he shall attend at such visit, or with
out his presence, ifhe shall fail to attend, to inquire
lhIo I'LL hIdlCoIs reldtlilg 10 te government, course Oh
instruction, books, studies, discipline, and conduct OF
such schools, and the condition of the school-houses,
and of the districts generally -; and to advise and coun-
sci with the Prudential Committees in relation to the
duties, the proper duties, discipline and conduct of the
schools the course of instruction TO be pursued, and
the books of elementary instruction to be used therein.
Second: 10 examine persons offering themselves as
Candidates for teachers Of common schools and to grant
them certificates Capitalization, in such form as shall
be prescribed by the State Superintendent, which GER
stIfcate shall be evidence of the qualifications of such
ateachers in every town and district of the counties re-
specially, to which such superintendent belongs, and
Third: The superintendent shall by ali means in his
power, promote sound education, elevate the character
andqqaliications ofteachers, improve the means of in
.%structlon, and advance the interests of the schools, and
among other means of accomplishing these purposes,
the said superintendent shall deliver public addresses
on the subject OF education, upon his visits to the sew
erAE towns. for the DnrnOsns af,rnea;5 ot loot o,a, =.