Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-12-11

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Approved, Nov. Is, 1858.
No. 23.-An Act relating to Common Schools.
IL is hereby eaacted, de-
SEC. l. The several towns in this State shall.
at their annual March meeting, ect one per
son to be Superintendent of common schools
within such town, who shall hold his office dur
ing the school year. commencing on the first
day of April next after his election, and, when
appointed by the seectmen, during the remain
der OF the then current school year and who
shall receive for his services one dollar for each
day necessarily spent in the discharge of his le-
gal duties, and reasonable sun for his annual
report to the March meeting and his accounts
shall be audited by the cour, auditor of the
County in which he resides, and when approved,
shall be paid out of the State treasury upon the
order OF the various County cerks, who are
hereby authorized to draw orders therefor; but
no order shall be drawn by the County clerk for
until such Superintendent shall have filed with
such clerk the receipt of the Secretary of the
Board OF Education for the statistical return of
the preceding school year, required by law of
such superintendent; but no Superintendent
snail receive compensation for his services
While visiting schools for number of DAYS
greater than twice the rumber of schools in the
town for which he acts
SEC. 2. The statistical returns required by
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by the Town Superintendents of schools annu-
ally on or before the first day of September,
shall hereafter be made and returned to the
Secretary on or before the first day of April of
each year, and the Secretary is directed on the
receipt of such return, to forward a certificate
thereof to the Superintendent making the re-
turn.
SEC. 3. The examination of teachers bv Town
Superintendents shall be public and held in
some public place after due notice given pursu-
ant to law, in the months of May and Noyem-
Der in each year, and citizens generally invited
to attend and no examination of teachers shall
be held at any other time or in any other man
ner except in the discretion of the Superinten-
dent, and for the accommodation of teachers
prevented by sickness or other unavoidable cir
cumstances from attending at the regular pub
lie examination; and any Superintendent ex-
ulllNlllS At any otHST lll1t IMAM tTe
regular public examination shall be entitled to
receive from each teacher applying for such ex-
animation the sum of fifty cents
SEC. A. Whenever, upon personal examina-
ton of schools, the Superintendent of any town
shall become satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt,
that teacher to whom a certificate has been
granted, is incompetent to teach or govern his
school properly, or setting an evil example be-
fore his school, the Superintendent is hereby
empowered in his discretion to revoke the GER
tificate heretofore granted to such teacher by
filing in the town clerks Office of such town a
statement in writing of his having made such
revocation and delivering copy thereof to the
prudential committee and also to the teacher
whose certificate is revoked and every
teachers certificate that shall have been duly
revoked pursuant to the provisions of this sec
ton, shall Immediately, upon the filing of such
revocation, become thereafter null and void and
of no effect, and such teachers contract with
the school district shall become void therefiom,
and it shall not be lawful for the prudential
committee to pay such teacher for any services
thereafter performed as teacher.
SEC 5. The division of the public money re-
quired by section seventy-one Of chapter twen-
ty of the compiled statutes to be made between
the several school districts, in each town on the
first day of March, annually, shall hereafter be
made on the last Tuesday in March in each
year.
SEC. G. That portion of the public money
which is now by law required to be divided an
nualy to the respective districts in each town
in proportion to each number of their scholars
between four and eighteen years of age, shall
hereafter, be divided 10 such districts in proper
ton to the average daily attendance of the schol-
ars of such districts (who are between the ages
nf four and twenty Vpnrl uDnn the romnor
school in such districts during the preceding
school year; such average daily attendance to
be ascertained from the record thereof to be
kept in the registers of such schools as is pre-
scribed in this act, by adding together the mum
Der of DAYS of actual attendance of each lega
scholar, as shown by the record, and dividing
the sum, or aggregate attendance, by the num-
ber of days the school has been kept during
during the year, the quotient to be considered
the average daily attendance required.
SEC. I. The Secretary of the Board of Edu
cation is hereby required to prescribe blank
forms for school register, conveniently ar
ranged for keeping daily record of the atten
dance of children upon the schools, and con
tanning printed interrogatories addressed tC
teachers, and to district clerks, for the procure
ment of such statistical information as the boarC
of education may seek to obtain in each year
and in the month of January of each year, thu
secretary shall procure and furnish to the tow
clerk in each town in the State, sufficien
number of such registers 10 supply each dis
trict clerk in said district with one register fo
each school in his district for the ensuing schoo
year. And it is hereby made the duty of eacl
town clerk to receive such registers for his town
and Immediately forward by mail TO the Secre
tary his receipt therefor and, on failure to re
ceiye such registers by the first day of Februa