Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-12-03

ol Jays greater IMAM tW.cc the uulnOtl ol
schools in the town for which he acts.
SIC. ?. The statistical returns required by
law to be mado to the Secretary Of the Board
by the Town Superintendent Of schools an
nually on or before the first day of Scptcm.
Der, shall hereafter be made and returned &c
the Secretary on or before the first day Of
April Of each year. and the Secretary is di
rccted on the receipt of such return, TO for
ward certificate thereof TO the Supcrintcn
dent making the return.
SEC. 3. The examination OF teachers by
Town Superintcndcuts shall be public, anC
held in some public place after due notice
given pursuan. TO law, in the months of MAY
and November in each year, and citizens gen
orally invited 20 attend and no examination
Of teachers shall be held at any other time OF
in any other manner except in the discretion
of the Superintendent, and for the accommo-
dation of teachers prevented by sickness on
other unavoidable circumstances from attend
ing at the regular public examination and
any Superintendent examining teachers at any
other time than the regular public examine
ton shall be entitled TO receive from each
teacher applying for such examination the
sum Of fifty cents.
SEC. 4. Whenever, upon personal cXamina-
ton Of schools, the Superintendent Of any
town shall become satisfied beyond a reasona-
bic doubt that a teacher 10 whom cortih-
cate has been granted, is incompetent TO teach
or govern his school properly, or setting an
evil example before his school, the Supcrin-
tcndcnt is hereby empowered in bis discre-
sion to revoke the certificate heretofore grant
ed TO such teacher by filing in the town clerk S
Office Of such town a statement in writing OF
his having made such revocation and deliver
ing a copy thercofto the prudential commit
tee and also to the teacher whose certificate
is so revoked and every teachers certificate
that shall have been duly revoked pursuant
to the provisions of this section, shall immc-
datcy, upon the filing Of such revocation,
bccomc thereafter null and void and of no
effect, and such teachers contract with tho
school district shall become void theroirom.
and it shall not be lawful for the prudential
committee to pay such teacher for any scrvi-
ccs thereafter performed as teacher.
SIC. 3. Tho division of the public money
required by section scvcnty-onc 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 made ON the last Tuesday
in March in each year.
Src g. That portion of the public money
which is now by law required to be divided
annually. to the respective districts in each
town, in proportion 20 the number of their
scholars between four and eighteen years OF
age, shall hereafter, be divided to such dis
trcts in proportion to the average daily at
tendance of the scholars of such districts who
are between the ages Of four and twelve years
upon the common school in such district.
during the preceding school year; such aver
age daily attendance to be asccrtaincd from
the record thereof to be kept in the registers
of such schools as is prescribed in this act, b,
adding together the number Of days of actual
attendance Of each legal scholar, as shown by
the record. and dividing the sum,or aggregate
attendance, by the number of days the schoo
has been kept during the year, the quohcn
to be considered the average daily attendance
required.
SEC 7. The Secretary of the Board Of Ed
ucation is hereby required to prescribe blanl
forms for a school register, conveniently ar
ragned for keeping daily record of the at
tendance of children upon tho schools, an,
containing printed intcrrogatorics addrrssc'
to teachers, and to district clcrks, for the pro
curement of such statistical information as tn
! board Of education may seek to obtain in cacl
I year and in the month of January of Gael
year, the secretary shall procure and furnis
to the town clerk in each town in the State,
sufficient number of such registers to suppl
each district clerk in said district with ON
register for each school in his district for tn
ensuing school year And il is hereby mad
the duty of each town clerk to receive sue
registers for his town. and Immediately foi
ward by mail to the Secretary his receipt there
for and, on failure to receive such register
by the first day of February in each year, tn
town clerk shall Immediately notify the Sc,
rotary thereof, who shall supply the defcicl
cy forthwith. And it is made the duty
each district clerk during the first week
March annually, to procure of the town clcr
a register for each school in his district, AN
be responsible for the safe keeping thereof.
SEC. g. II is hereby made the duty of ever
teacher of common school, before he con
mcnccs his school, TO procure from the clcr
of the district in which he shall teach, a sch0,
register, and therein keep true record Of IA
daily attendance of each scholar who may a
tend such school, while under his instruction
in accordance with tho form prescribed in sue
register, and at the close of his school sha
enter in said register correct answers to a
statistical inquiries therein addressed to teact
ers, and return such register to the distri'
clerk previous to the receipt Of his wages O
such teacher. And it is hereby made the dut
of each district clerk to comply with all tn
requirements made of him in the register {
registers Of his district, in reference to Il
statistics OF his district. and make oath TO Il
correctness of his returns before a justice
the peace of the county in which he reside
and file said register or registers IN the Off,
of the town clerk, on or before the twenty. fin
day of March in each year and no portion
the public money in any town shall be distr
buted TO any district whose school register
3 registers shall not be properly filled out al
! filed in the town clerks office, pursuant
, the provisions of this act.
{ SEC .. The time, not to exceed two DAY
! actually spent by any teacher of comm,
school in attendance upon the teachers inst
5 tute, held pursuant to law, in the county
2 which such teacher shall be employed, duril
the time for which such teacher is engaged
teach such school, shall be considered as tin
j lawfully expended by such teacher in the sc
c vice of the district by which he is employe
q and in the legitimate performance of his co
4 tract as teacher.