Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-12-09

Us y No" Nl1"eu oy law Tor other highway
services.
Approved. November 20, 1858.
Nor 23.-An Act relating to common schools,
IL is hereby enacted, DC,
See. l. The several towns in this State shall,
at their annual March meeting, elect enc per-
son to be Superintendent of common schools
within such town, who shall hold his Office
during the school year. commencing on the first
day Of April next after his election and, when
appointed by the selectmen, during the remain
DIR 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
legal duties, and reasonable sum for his an
nual r9port to the Mlrch meeting and his ac-
counts shall be audited by the Court auditor Of
the County in which he resides, and when APP
proved. shall be paid ont Of the State Treasury
upon the order OF the various County clerks,
WAC arc hereby authorized to draw orders there
for bat no order shah BE-. drawn by any Coun-
ty clerk for the amount thus allowed to any
Superintendent 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 shall receive compensation
for his services while visiting schools for u num-
Der of days greater than twice the number of
schools in the town for which he acts
Sc. 2. Tne statistical returus required by law
to be made to the Secretary of the Board, by
the Town Superintendent Of schools annually
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 in directed on the receipt of
such return to forward certificate thereof to
the Superintendent making the return.
Sc. 3. Inc examination Of teachers by Town
Sdp.rintendents shall be public, and heIy lin
some pubic place after due notice given pursu-
ant to L.w, IN the months of May and Novem-
b,r in each year, and citizens generally invited
10 attend; and no examination of teachers shall
b. held at any other time or in any other man
ner excaptin the discraton Of the Superinten-
dent, and FOR the accumulation of teachers
prevented by sickness or other unavoidable Cir
clmstauces from attending at the ygular public
ex.mnlti,n and any Superintendent examin-
ing teachers at any other time than the regular
public examination shall be entitled to receive
from each teacher applying for such examina-
ton the sum Of fifty cents.
SIC. t. Whenever, upon personal examna-
ton of schoJls, the Sup ,rintendent of any town
shall bacoma satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt,
that u 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, tho Superintendent is hereby
empowered in his discretion to revoke the certi
fclto heretofore granted to such teacher by
filing in the town clerks office Of such town
statement in writing of his having made such a
revocation and delivering copy thereof to the
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who's, certificate is so revoked and every teach
cr's certificate that shall have been duly revoked
pursuant to the provisions of this section, shall
INN ,dat4ly, upon the filing of sach revocation,
become thereafter null and void and of no effect,
and slch teacher contract with the school dis
trict shall become void therefrJm, and it shall
not be lawful for the. prudential committee to
pay sLch teacher for any services thereafter per-
formed as teacher.
Sc. 5. The division of the public money re.
quired by section venty-one OF chapter twenty
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
m,sle 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 the number of their scholars
between four and eighteen years of age, shall
hereafter, BE- divided to such districts in proper
ti,n to the average daily attendance of the
sch liars Of such districts (who are between the
az, OF fDnr and twenty years. upon the COM
m m scho,l in such districts during the preced"
ng school year; sach average daily attendance
to be asccrtaincd from the record thereof to be
kept in the registers of such schools as is pre-
scribed in this act, by adding together the nun.
Der OF days Of actual attendance of each legal
scholar, as shown by the record, and dividing
the sam, or aggrogt Ute attendance by the num-
b!r Of days the school has boon kept during the
yt.tr, the quotient to be considered the average
daily attendance required
Sec. +. The Secretary of the Board of Educa.
ii m is hereby required to prescribe blank forms
for school register. conveniently arranged foi
keeping u daily record OF the attendance Of
children upon the schools. and containing print
cd intcrrogltories addressed to teachers, and t.
district clerks, for the procurement Of such sta
tistical information as the Board of Education
may seek to obtain in each year: and in the
month of January of each year, the Secretary
shall procure and furnish to the town clerk il
each town in the State, a sufficient number Of
such registers to supply each district clerk il
said district with one register for each school ii
his district for the ensuing school year. Ant
it IS hereby made the duty of each town clerk
to receive such registers for his town, and i'm
,ditt;ly forward by mail to the Secretary hi,
receipt therefor; and, on failure to receive suci
registers by the first day of February in each
year, the town clerk shall Immediately notify
the Secretary thereof, who shall supply the de
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.elch district clerk, d ring the first week ii
Mlrch annually. t. procure Of the town clerk ;
register FIR elcl school in his district, and b.
responsible for the slfl keeping thereof.
Sec. s. 1t is hereby mtde the duty of ever,
teLchrr Of common school, before he comInen
CA his school, to procure from the clerk of thu
district in which he shall teach, n school regis
ter, aud ther in keep a true record of the dali
attendance Of each scholar who may attend sucl
school, while under his instruction, in accord
ancs with the form prsscribed in such register
and ut the close of his school shall enter in sal
register correct answers to all statistical inqui
ries addressed To- teachers, and return such reg
lister to the district clerk previous to the receip
of his wages as such teacher. And it is herob
to made the duty Of each district clerk to compl,
with all the requirements made of him IN tn
register or registers Of his district, in referenc
to tho statistics of his district, AMI make oat
to the correctness of his raturns before justc
of the peac, Of the county in which he resides
and fill such register OF registers Ia the Office q
the town clerk on or before the twenty fir
day OF March in each year; and no portion {
the public money in any town shall be dstrit
utsd to any district who's, school register or rec
listers shall not be properly filled out and file
in the town clerks Office, pursuant to the PR
visions of this act.
Sec o. The time, not to exceed two day
actually spent by any teacher of commo
school in attendance upon the teachers inst