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town shall become satisfied beyond reason
able doubt, that a teacher to whom certifi-
cate has been granted, is incompetent to
teach or govern his school properly, or set
ting an evil example before his school, the
Superintendent is hereby empowered in his
discretion to revoke the certificate thereto
fore granted to such teacher by filing in the
town clerks Office Of such town statement
i'll writing of his having made such revoca-
ton, and delivering a copy thereof to the pru
Dental committee and also tc the tea'her
whose certificate is so revoked; ~" every
teachers certificate that shan nave peen
duly revoked pursuant to t,e provisions Oh
this section, shall immeAateiy' upon the nj
ing of such revoc"Hoh' occOhe thereafter
null and void -hd of no effect, and such
teachers co.,ract with the school district
shall tscome void therefrom, and it shall
noe be lawful for the prudential committee
to pay such teacher for any services thereaf-
ter performed as teacher.
Sec. 8. The division of the public money
required by section seyenty-one of chapter
twenty of the compiled statutes to be made
town on the "' first day iSh2 nrd dnirtrets IN each
shall hereafter be made on the last Iuesuay
in March in each year.
SEC. 6. That portion of the public mon
cy which is now by law required to be divid-
ed annually, 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 proportion to the average
daily attendance of the scholars of such dis
tricts (who are between the ages of four and
twenty years. upon the common school in
such districts during the preceding school
year; such average daily attendance to be
ascertaincd from the record thereof to be
kept in the registers Of such schools as is
prescribed in this act, by adding together
the number of days of actual attendance of
each legal scholar, as shown by the record,
and dividing the sum, or aggregate attend
ance, by the number of days the school has
been kept during the year, the quotient to
be considered the average daily attendance
required.
SEC. I. The Secretary of the Board of
Education is hereby required to prescribe
blank forms for a school register, convenient
ly arranged for keeping Il daily record of the
attendance Of children upon the schools, and
printed interrogatories addressed
to teachers, and to district clerks, for the
procurement of such statistical 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 in each town in
the State, sufficient number of such registers
to supply each district clerk in said district
with one register for each school in his dis
trict for the ensuing school year. And it is
hereby made the duty of each town clerk to
receive such registers for his town, and i'm
forward by mail to the Secretary
his receipt therefor; and, on failure to re-
ceive such registers by the first day of Febru-
nry in each year, the town clerk shall imme-
diately notify the Secretary thereof, who shall
supply the deficiency forthwith And 1t is
made the duty of each district clerk during
the first week in March annually, to procure
Of the town clerk register for each school
in his district, and be responsible for the
safe keeping thereof.
SEC. 8. 1t is hereby made the duty of
every teacher of common school, before he
his school. to procure from the
,lars &c th" 1;o+";". :" Which ho shall toach,
school register, and therein keep true
record OF tho daily attendance of each schol-
II who may attend such school, while under
MS instruction, in accordance with the form
prescribed in such register, and at the close
If his school shall enter in said register cor
'ect answers to all statistical inquiries there
n 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
70 comply with all the requirements made
Jf him III the register or registers OF his dis
.rct, in reference to the statistics Of his dis
.rct, and make oath to the correctness of his
returns before ii justice of the peace of the
county in which he resides, and file said re-
Iistor or registers in the Office of the town
clerk, Oh or before the twenty-frst day of
March in each year; and no portion of the
public money in any town shall be distribut-
I'd to any district whose school register or
registers snail not be properly filled out and
lied in the town clerks Office, pursuant to
The provisions of this act.
Sec. 9. The time not to exceed two days,
actually spent by any teacher OF a common
school in attendance upon the teachers insti-
,ute, held pursuant to law, in the county in
which such teacher shall be employed, dur
ns the time for which such teacher is en-
gagged to teach such school. shall be consider
I'd us time lawfully expended by such teacher
in the service of the district by which he is
employed, and in the Legitimate performance
)f his contract as teacher,
Seh. 10. The chairmen of the prudential
of the various districts composing
the Union district, shall together constitute
the prudential committee of the Union dis
trict and the member of the prudential COM
mittee of any school district first elected,
shall be considered the chairman thereof
Prouided, 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 legal meeting
Of said Union district duly warned for that
purpose, and who shall hold his Office for
one year thereafter, and until another shall
be chosen.
SEC. H. The Board of Education is here
by directed to select, or procure to be select
ed, list of grammars, biographies, arith-
metics, 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 Sc
lection shall be made previous to January
first, A. D. 1859, and shall be published in
all the newspapers in the State, in said
month of January, A. d. 1859, and also in
serted 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
teachers until January first, A. D., 1864.
and teachers and superintendents shall re-
for use in the district schools, as
new books shall become necessary tor instruc-
ton in the branches named. no other than
books included in said list 50 established,
SEC. II. 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 of the legis-
lature in each year, and shall distribute the
same as follows: one copy to each town su-
perintendent; one copy to each district clerk;
and one copy to each principal of high
school, union school or academy in the State;
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 Is. 1t is hereby made the duty of
the trustees of all academies and grammar
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