Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-12-10

daily attendance of each scholar who
may attend such school, while under his
instruction, in accordance with the form
prescribed in such register, and at the
close of his school shall enter in said |
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
as such teacher And it 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 district,
in reference to the statistics of his dis
trict, and make oath to the correctness
of his returns before 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-frst day of March in each year
and no portion Of the public money in
any town shall be distributed to any dis
trict whose school register or registers
shall not be properly filed out and filed
in the town clerks office, pursuant to the
provisions of this act.
SEC. g.. The time, not to exceed two
days, actually spent by any teacher of
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 law
fully expended by such teacher in the
service of the district by which he is
employed, and in the legitimate perform
ance of his contract as teacher.
SEC. 10. The chairman of the pru-
Dental committee of the various districts
composing the Union district, shall to-
gether constitute the prudential commit
tee of the Union district, and the mem
Der of the prudential committee of any
school district first elected, shall be con-
sidered the chairman thereof: Provided,
, that whenever such Union district shall
be formed of an even number of districts,
| there shall be added, to said committee
} one person, resident in such Union dis
2 trict, who shall be chosen annually at
: any legal meeting Of said Union district
b.. duly warned for that purpose, and who
b shall hold his Office for one year there
after, and until another shall be chosen.
5 SEC. IL. The Board of Education
: is hereby directed to select, or procure
e to be selected, list of grammars, geo.
o graphies, arithmetics, readers, and spell.
: lers, to be ased in the district schools in
this State, limiting the text books il
c each of said branches to one or more, in
e their discretion. Such selection shall
! be made previous to January first, A. D
Il 1859, and shall be published in all the
st newspapers in the State, in said month
II of January, A. D. 1859, and also insert,
h ed in each shool register. And said lis
of books, when thus made and published
ic shall become authoritative and binding
10 upon the Board of Education, Superin
re tendents and teachers until January first
to A. D. 1864, and teachers and superin
N tendents shall recommend for use in tn
III district schools, as new books shall be
in come necessary for instruction in tn
j. branches named, no other than books in
is cluded in said list so established.
Id SEC. u. The Secretary of the Boar
ol of Education shall annually prepare an
lg print three thousand five hundred copie
d of his annual report, and have the sam
rd ready for distribution on the assemblin
OF of the legislature in each year, and sha
cl' distribute the same as follows one COP
Us to each town superintendent one cop
AZ to each district clerk and one copy
ne each principal Of a high school, unto
ne school or academy in the State; the ne
PIT cessary copies for all, except membe,
NJ of the legislature, to be forwarded b
the secretary to the various town clerk
and be by them distributed in the san
rd manner in which the laws are distribu
re- ed.
En- Sec. Is. 1t is hereby made the d
ty of the trustees of all academies al
ID grammar schools which have been inco
hS porated by the legislature of the Sta
IN of Vermont, TO cause their principals
Gu return to the Secretary of the Board
as Education, on or before the first day
Do April in each year, true and correct a
OF swers TO ouch statistical enquiries
Try may have been addressed to them by Il
"n Secretary in the month of January pr
I'll vious.
ply SEC. IA. All acts and parts of az
lin inconsistent with the provisions of Il