Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1858-12-17

ruitry IN eacn year, the town clerk shall
immediately notify the Secretary thereof,
who shall supply the deficiency forthwith.
And it is made the duty of each district
clerk, during the first week in March an
nually, TO procure of The town clerk reg
lister for each school in his district. and be
responsible for the safe keeping thereof
SEC. s. 1t is hereby made the duty of
every teacher of common school, to pro-
cure from the clerk of the district in which
he shall teach, a school register, and there
in keep a true record of the daily attend
ance Of each scholar who may attend such
school, while under his instruction, in ac-
cordance with the form prescribed in such
register, and at the close OF his school shall
enter in sttch register correct answers TO all
statistical inquiries therein addressed to
teachers, and return such register to the
district clerk previous to the receipt Of his
wages rs such teacher And il is hereby
made the duty of each district clerk to
comply with all the requirements made OF
him in the register or registers of his dis
trict. in reference TO the statistics Of his
district and make oath to the correctness of
his returns before a justice of the peace of
the county in which he resides, and file said
register or registers in the office of the
town clerk. on or before the twenty first
day Of March in each year and no por-
ton of the public money in any town shall
be distributed to any district whose school
register or registers shall not be properly
filed ont aud filed in the town clerks office,
pursuant to the provisions Of this act.
SEC. 9. The time, not 10 exceed two
days, actually spent by any teacher of a
common school in attendance upon the
teachers institute, held pursuant to law, in
the county in which such teacher shall be
employed, during the time for which such
teacher is engaged to teach such school,
shall be considered as time lawfully ex-
pended by such teacher in the service of
the district by which he is employed, and
in the legitimate performance of his con
tract as teacher.
/ SEC. 10. The chairman of the pruden-
tal committee of the various districts COM
posing the Union district, and The member
OF the prudential committee of any school
district first elected, shall be consid the
chairman thereof: ProUided that whenev-
cr such Union district shall BE- formed OF an
even number of districts, there shall be
added to said committee one person, resi-
dent IN such Union district. who shall be
chosen annually at any legal meeting ol
said Union district duly warned for that
purpose, and who shall hold his office foi
eosrv. year tl,ereailerr and until another shall
be chosen.
Sac. H. The Board of Education i,
hereby directed to select, or procure to be
selected, a list of grammars, Biographies,
larithmptics, readers and spoilers, TO be used
in the district schools in this State, limiting
the text books in each of said branches to
ore or more, in their discretion. Such Sc
lection shall he made previous TO January
/ first, A. ID. 1859, and shall be published in
all the newspapers in the State, in said
month of January, A. d. 1859, and also
inserted in each school register. And said
/ list of books, when thus made and publish
! ed, shall become authoritative and binding
upon the Board of Education, Superin-
7 tendents and teachers until January first,
A. ID. 1864, and teachers and Superintend-
EMS shall recommend for use in the district
schools, as new books shall become neces-
sary for instruction in the branches named,
no other thar books included in said list SO
established.
SEC. u. The Secretary of the Board of
Education shall annually prepare and print
three thousand five hundred copies of his
annual report, and have the same ready for
distribution on the assembling If the legis-
lature in each year, and shall distribute the
same as follows: one copy to each town SUI
perinieudent; one copy to each principal
of high school, union school or academy
in the State the necessary copies for all
excerpt members of the legislature. TO bt
forwarded by the secretary TO the various
town clerks. and be by them distributed IN
the same manner in which the laws are
distributed.
! SEC. 49, 1t is hereby made the duty of
the trustees OF all academies and grammar
schools which have been Incorporated by
the legislature Of the State of Vermont, 10
cause their principals to return to the Sec
retary of the Board of Education, on or
b fore the first day of April in each year,
true and correct answers to such statistical
enquiries as may have been addressed to
( them by the Secretary in the month of JAN
uary previous.
SEC. ii. All aeis and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this act
are hereby repealed.
SEc. 10. This act shall take eject from
itspassage, provided that the apportionment
Of the public money to the various school
districts for the school year ending on the
last day of March, A. d. 1859, shall be
made on the last Tuesday of March A. ID.
1859, in accordance with the provisions of
the law existing at the time of the passage
of this act.
Approved November %, 1853.
No 24.-AN ACT in addition TO chapter forty
FIVE of the Compiled Statutes.
IL is hereby enacted, SC
SEC. /. In addition TO the articles now ex-
empt from attachment and levy of execution
named in chapter iorty-ive of the Compiled