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

week In March annually, to procure of the
town clerk register for each school in his dis
trict, and be responsible for the safe keeping
thereof
SEC. s. 1t is hereby made the duty of every
teacher of n common school, before he COM
mences his school, to procure from the clerk of
the district in which he shall teach, a school
register, and therein keep n true record of the
daily attendance of each scholar who may at
tend such school, while under his instruction, in
accordance with the form prescribed in such
register, and at the close of his school shall
ter in said register correct answers to all statis-
teal inquiries therein addressed to teachers, and
return such register to the district clerk previ
Gus 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 dis
trict, in reference to the statistics of his district
and make oath to the correctness of his returns
before justice of the peace of the county in
which he resides, and file such register or reg
listers in the Office of the town clerk, on or be-
fore the twenty-first day of March in each year !;
and no portion of the public money in any town
shall be distributed to any district 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
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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 cx-
pended by such teacher in the service of the
district by which he is employed, and in the le-
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i'V'Huot vi 'he Pruuehlal committee OF any
sehool eiStrict 1rst elected snail he considered
the chairman thereof; Iforided, 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
district who shall be chosen annually at any lc-
gal meeting of said Union district duly warned
for that purpose, and who shall hold his Office
ior one year thereafter, and until another shall
be chosen.
SEC. IL. The Board of Education is hereby
directed to select, or procure to be selected, a
list of grammars, Biographies, arithmelics,
readers, and spoilers. to be used in the district
schools in this State. limiting the text books in
each of said branches to one or more, in their
discretion. Such selection shall be made pre-
vious to January first, A. ID. 1859, and shall be
published i'll all the newspapers in the State, in
said month of January, \. ID. 1859, and also
inserted in each school register And said list
of books, when thus made and published, shall
become authoritative and binding upon the
Board OF Education. Superintendents and teach
crs until January first. \. ID. 1864, and teachers
and superinendents shall recommend for use
in the district schools, as new books shall be-
come necessary for instruction in the branches
named, no other than books included in said
list SO established.
SIC. 10. The Secretary of the Board of Ed
%o"'i"" ,h"i annual, prepare and print three
thousah9 i've huhurcu copies OF ms annual re-
port, anu il"se ine same read! ior dlStriouuon
year. and shall distribute the same as follows :;
one copy to each town superintendent; one
copy to each district clerk and one copy to
each principal OF high school, union school,
or academy in the Statei the necessary copies
for all, except members of the legislature, TO be
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 ID: 1t is HEREBY made the duty of the
trustees OF all academies and grammar schools
which have beenincorporated by the legislature
pals to return to the Secretary of the Board of
Education. on or before the first dav of Anr;
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statistical Inquiries as NAV have been addressed
to them BY the Secretary in the month of jan
uary previous.
SEC II. All acts and parts of acts inconsis-
tent with the provisions OF this act are hereby
repealed.
SEC. 10. This act shall take effect from its
passage, 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, Nov. %, 1858.
the compiled statutes.
II is bereJu enacted dc
SEC. /. In addition to the articles now ex
empt from attachment and levy or execution
named IN chapter forty-lve of the Compiled
Statutes, Shall be included live poultry not ex-
eeeding in amount or value the sum of ten dol
lars, shall be hereafter exempt.
SEC. =. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, Nov. 20, 1903.