Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-12-13
Laws of Vermont, session of 1866.
DESIGNATED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR
PUBLICATION IN THE NEWSPAPERS.

the StdteQf Vermont
SEC. |. The Orange County Grammar School
at Randolph Centre IL hereby constituted and
established a Normal school for the State of
Vermont, for the term of five years, and the
present trustees of said grammar school and
their successors are constituted trustees of said
Normal school.
SEC. O. Ii shall be the duty of the Board OF
Education TO nominate a principal teacher for
the school and no person not so nominated shall
be employed as such principal, but the princi-
pal when nominated and employed shall be al
lowed To select his ASSISTANTS and to provide for
the discipline of the school,
SEC. 3. The Board of Education shall ar.
range two courses of study for the school and
wholly control the examinations for admission
and graduation, and shall have power to grant
certificates in the cases aud with the effects
hereinafter mentioned, and to revoke the same
Tor cause shown, and in manner to be by them
established, One course of study shall include
all the branches required by law to be taught in
the common schools of Vermont the other
course shall include all contained in the first
course and higher branches; and shall require
for its completion at least one full year Of study;
and certificates of graduation shall be granted to
all who pass the required examination in the
first course or both courses.
SEC 4. The certificates of graduation from
the lower course shall have the effect of licenses
TO teach in the common schools of the State for
five years from the date thereof, and certificates
of graduation from the higher course shall have
fifteen years from the date thereof.
SEC. 8. The Board of Education at its first
meeting after the passage OF this act, and at each
of its annual meetings thereafter shall designate
one Gifts members whose duty it shall be, to-
gether with the Secretary of the Board to attend
the examinations for graduation, and determine
who shall receive certificates and also to visit
the school at least twice year on other oCCa-
slons and Tor such attendance and visits such
member shall receive such compensation as is or
snail De allowed for attending the stated meet
ings of the Board.
SEC. 6. The Board of Education shall in their
annual report state the condition of the school,
the terms of admission TO it and of graduation
from it, and the time of commencement of its
sessions; and they shall cause to be printed on
the cover of the school registers, a statement of
the terms of admission and graduation and time
of the commencement of the sessions.
SEC. Z. The Board of Education may Consid-
er similar proposals from other academies in the
State, and establish not exceeding one normal
school in each congressional district, and ar
range for them courses of study, conduct, exami-
nations, give certificates, nominate teachers,
and generally exercise over them the same su-
pervlslOn as provided in this act. And the
trustees of such academies as may be designated
as State normal schools, shall be respectively
trustees of such normal schools, and have the
same powers and rights as the trustees of the
normal school hereby established; provided that
the State normal school hereby established, and
such Others as the Board of Education may es-
IdbISu1 may DC SeJaDlAsDtu ana maintained
without any expense TO the State excepting the
payment of the Board of Education for their
services.
/. SEC. s. This act shall not apply to OR be
binding upon the Orange County Grammar
School until the trustees thereof shall in writing
notify the Secretary of State of their acceptance
of the same.
SEC. 9. This act shall take effect from its
passage.
Approved, Nov Il, 1866
Nor Am act in addition to Section seven of
Chapter twenty two of the General Statutes,
relating to Text Books prescribed for use of
the District Schools of this State.
II Is hereby enacted, dc.
SEC. /. The list of grammars, Biographies
arlthmetics, readers and spoilers, which have
been selected by the Board of Education under
the act of the Legislature, approved November
% 1858, TO be used in the school districts of this
state, with sueh limitations of text books, in
each of said branches, the said board have
seen nit to prescribe under said act, such selec-
non having been made prior to the first day of
January 1859, and having been published in all
the newspapers in the State, in the month of
January 1889, and also inserted in each school
register, and also the geography and history of
Vermont selected by the Board of Education,
under the act approved November 80, 1862, shall
be and remain authoritative and binding upon
the Board of Education, superintendent and
teachers until November /, 1858, and teachers
and superintendent shall recommend for use in
the district schools as new books shall become
necessary, for instruction in the branches named
no other than the books included in said list so
established.
SEC. ?. The Board of Education are hereby
au horned, and it is made their duty, on or be-
fore July l. 1857 and on or before said date every
fifth year thereafter, to select list of such
grammars, Biographies, arithmetics. histories of
this State, and The United States, philosophers
algebras, readers and spoilers, not exceeding
one book of kind in each branch, as they shall
deem best suited for instru ton and Use III the
district schools i'll this State, in each of said
branches; and shall cause the list so selected to
be published in all the newspapers published in
the State, during the month Of January next
following the making of such selection; and
also to be inserted in each school register issued
after one year from the making OF such seleC-
ton; which list so selected shall be and remain
authoritative and binding upon the Board of Ed
uCatiOn, superintendent and teachers for and
during five years from after November /, 1868,
and each five years thereafter and superintend-
| entsand teachers shall recommend for use in
! the district schools as new books shall become
necessary for instruction in the branches nsiueu
no other than the books inc uded in said list so
selected and published.
SEC. 3. The authority herein granted for the
revision of the list of school books, is hereby so
limited that the Board of Education shall not at
any revision after 1863 cause to be changed the
same kind of book oftener than once in five
years; and when any change of books is con-
templated by the said Board under the prOVis-
ions of this act, they shall request the promi-
pent teachers throughout the State to examine
the different text books in the branches under
cunsderat zion, and to furnish to the Board their
opinions in writing; and when any change is
recommended by the Board, they shall in the
next annu Il report after such recOmm sndation,
publish the reasons which governed their action
together with such opinions of teachers as
shall have [beenl furnished them as herein pro-
vided.
SEC. 4. If at any time the publishers of any
of the text books recommended by the said
Board, shall charge any exhOrbitant price there
for, for any cause any such books shall fail to
accomplish the end for which they were recon-
mended, it shall be the duty of the said Board
to report through the Governor of the Legisls-
ture such facts, recommending such action there
on as in their judgment is required.
SEC s.. When any change is recommended by
the Board as herein provided, it shall be only
gradual change, not involving any extra ex-
pense to the pupil of the school of the State,
and the direction given by abe Board shall be.
that new books hereafter purchased new CHS
ses are formed, shall be those by them selected
and prescribed.
Sec. 8. Whenever ane xchaDge of books shall
be made, under the provisions of this act, it
it shall be upon conditions with the publishers
of any new books adopted, that they shall re-
ceive all the books in the hands of book dealers
in this State, in good condition, discontinued by
dealers the full trade value therefor, and shall
scholars in the State discontinued by the Board
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