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

so report as fully as may be Practicable the number
of Select Schools kept in their respective counties the
number of scholars taught ineach, and the amount
paid to their instructors in the year preceding the first
ofJanuary before making their report n
And it shall be the duty ofthe county superintendent
as often as once in each year, to call conventions OF
the teachers in their respective counties, at such places
and by such notices as they may deem proper, at which
convention, said Superintendent shall each deliver, or
cause to be delivered, Hn address on the subject OF ed
n%cation, and make provisions for such other exercises,
as they may deem expedient
Sec. 6. In case a district shall be formed of parts
Of two counties, or parts Of two towns, " shall Tor all
purposes Of visitation and returns, and Tor the eXamin-
ation ofSchool Teachers, as provided for IN the fourth
md fifth sections of this act be taken and deemedt to
belong to the county and town IN which the school
house o fsuch districts shall be situated.
Sec. Z. 1t shall be the duty Of the state superiuten-
dent, to prepare and submit to the General Assembly,
at The opening of leach annual session thereof, a report
containing Il statement of the condition of the common
schools OF the State, and ofthe expenditures of the
school moneys therein, plans for the better organiza-
ton and instruction Of the common schools, and IN gem
oral all such matters relating to his office, and to conf
mon schools, as he may deem it e%Xpedient to commu-
~nicate; and he shall also transmit with his report, the
report which may have been made to him by the county
Superintendents aforesaid.
He shajFproposa suitable forms and regulations for
linking all reports, and conducting all necessary pro-
ceedings under this act, and shall cause the same,
with such Instructions as he may deem necessary and
proper for the better organization and government Of
common schools to be Transmitted to the Superinten-
dents ofthe several counties, and he shall also frequent
ly correspond with the county superintendent in re-
gard to all matters which concern the duties Of their
office, and the advancement ofthe interests of educa-
ton in the State.
He shall also open such correspondence abroad as
may enable him to obtain, so far as practicable, inform
alton in regard to the system of common school I'M
p~rovement and instruction in other States and counties,
which he shall enbody in his annual reports to the
General Assembly.
Sec. g. Any contract for teaching, made after the
first day Of March next, between the prudential com
nlttee Of any school distr'c and any common school
teacher, shall be null and void if the said teacher fail to
obtain 4 certificate of qualification of the Superinten-
dent of the County in which such district shall be sit
uated, or Of the superintendent Of the town in which
such district shall be situated, as provided for in the
fourth AMI fifth sections of this act, before the com
mencement Of the school for which such contract shall
have been made.
Sec. 9. The State superintendent shall be entitled
to receive from the Treasurer of the State, the sum of
two hundred dollars per annum, PAYABLE quarterly
which shall be in full for his services us Superinten-
dent, And all monies expended by him for hostages
on letters connected with the duties of his office, and
for the printing Of forms and Instructions and trans
hitting the same to the County Superintendent shall
be allowed him by the Auditor of Accounts, and paid
out Of the Treasury of the State.
Sec. 10. The County Superintendent shall be al
owed two dollars for each day necessarily spent in the
discharge Of their duties, including expenses but the
whole amount of compensation allowed to any Coun-
ty Superintendent, in any one year, shall not exceed
ten dollars for each town in the county in which he
Sh1U have served Tho ar1O1nt shall hn mid hu tho
State Treasurer upon the warrant of the auditor of
Accounts against the State.
Sec. ii. The town Superintendent shall receive
a reasonable compensation for their services not to ex-
coed one dollar for each day necessarily spent in the
discharge of their duties.
Their accounts shall be audited and CERTIFIED by the
s%clectmen, Or a majority of them, and paid out Of the
reasuy of such towns.
Sec. 10. The town superintendent, and County
superintendent, shall give public notice Of suitable
times and places, that they will attend to the examina-
ton Of teachers, before the commencement of the win
ter and summer schools.
Sec. 10. So much of an act entitled San addition
to chapter IL ofthe Revised Statutes, relating to com
mon schools" approved Nov. /, 1913, as requires the
Town Clerks to make returns to the Governor annual
N, is hereby repealed,
Sec. II. This Act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Approved, Nov. ), 1915.
No. 5.-An act relating to the Grand List. 1t is
hereby enacted, &c.
All shares in rail road companies that heretofore
have been, or hereafter may be granted, shall be sub
ject to taxation and shall be placed in the lists of the
several towns in which the same are owned in the same
manner as stock in moneyed or other corporations is
now by law assessed and set in the list: Provided, how
ever, that no shares in any rail road company shall be
.Iuhla f. + ,.,EtDo until r,a,o portin, &c +o vol - A.,
company shall have been made and brought into use
for the transportation of freight Or passengers.
Approved November 5, l845.
No. G.-An act in addition to chapter % of the Re-
vised statutes, relating to Trustees Process. 1t is
hereby enacted, &c.
Section four of chap. % of the revised statutes shall
be so construed as to extend to and embrace whatever
any trustee may have in his hands or possession which
he holds against law and equity.
Approved November ), 1915.
No. An Act relating to subsequent attaching
creditors. 1t is hereby enacted, &c.
Whenever Il subsequent attaching creditor of real or
personal property shall wish to contest the validity of
the debt Or claim on which a previous attachment is
founded, the court before whom the process shall be
rcturnable on which such previous attachment shall
have been made, may, in their discretion, permit such
subsequent uJIdCHIliB creator 10 appear NY nlIllSe1 Or
counsel and defend said suit.
Approved November 5, 1915,
No. S.-An.A Act in explanation of section forty nine
Of chapter 20 Of the revised statutes, relating to the
di5continuance of roads. 1t is hereby enacted, &c.
Section forty nine of chapter 90 of the revised stat
utes shall be constructed as empowering select men of
towns and county, and supreme court, commissioners
to discontinue any road previously laid out, according
to the provision Of said section, whether said road shall
have been made or not.
Approved November 3, l845.
No. o.-An Act to repeal theta giving a bounty
on silk, 1t is hereby enacted, sc.
Chapter 10 of the revised statutes, entitled "of the
production of silk" and all acts in addition to, or in a.
m%endmcnt or alteration of said chapter, are hereby re-
pcaled.
Approved October 90, 1845.
Ne, l0-An Act in addition to an Act entitled
" an Act to encourage and promote Agriculture" It is
hereby enacted, &c.
Live animals, the growth of any foreign State or
county, which have been owned and kept in any of the