Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-12-10

county, commencing on the third Tuesday il
March, on the third and fourth tuesdays IN July
| and on the third Tuesday In November IN eaci
| year, at convenient places to be designated bl
| the supervisor of schools, notice OF winch exam
nations shall be published in all the newspapers
of the county at least two weeks prior thereto
SEC. Ak. Such examinations shall be both
written and oral, and shall be CONQUERED by the
supervisor of schools; but ii supervisor IS pre-
vented by sickness from attending an exaInlna-
ton, he may designate person to conduct
such examination, and may afterward grant GER
tihcates upon the examination papers and the
report of the person who conducted the examine
ton.
| SEC 48. lie a supervisor of schools IS unable
to make the designation, or seasonabiy issue the
certificates, provided for IN the pIeceaIng sec
tion such designation may be made and such
certificates issued by the superintendent OF edu,
cation with the same effect as II done by SAID
supervisor.
SEC. 40. The superintendent of education
shall prepare for each public examination ques-
tions to be used in the written examination,
which shall be the same in all counties; and he
shall transmit the same to the supervisors IN
sealed packages. which shall be opened by the
supervisors In the presence of the applicants at
the commencement of the examination
Sec. 80. The superintendent OF education
shall fix the standard of correctness winch shall
be reached in written examination to entltle the
applicant to certificate; and all examination
papers shall be preserved in the Office OF the
supervisor for at least one year. and be subject
to the inspection of the superintendent OF educa-
ton.
Sec. 81 A person who reaches the required
standard in the written examinations and passes
oral examination to the satisfaction OF the
supervisor. and gives such evidence OF good
moral character and of ability to govern as the
supervisor may require, shall receive a certIfi-
cate of qualification of the grade to which he
may be entitled; but no certificate shall be
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Sec. 3d. A supervisor of schools may issue
certificates of three grades, which shall be
granted under the restrictions applicable to each
as hereinafter provided.
SEC. So A certificate of the first grade shall
be granted only to one who has taught success
fully forty weeks, and shall be license to teach
for five years from its date. Such certificate
may be based IN part upon an examination III
such higher branches of English study may
be designated by the superintendent OF educa-
ton, and such certificate may be renewed at the
discretion OF the county. supervisor tor the pc.
Rod of five years, provided the holder thereof
shall have taught one hundred weeks IN the pub
lie schools of the state during the five years pre-
ceding the renewal of such certificate.
SEC 81. A certificate of the second grade
shall be granted only to one who has taught sue
cessfully twelve weeks, and shall be a license to
teach for two years from its date. No examlna-
ton except in the branches required by law to
be taught in the common schools shall be re-
quired to entitle person to certificate OF the
second or third grade.
Sec. 3d. A certificate of the third grade shall
be a license to teach for specified time not ex-
ceeding one year, and may, in the discretion OF
the supervisor, be limited to the teaching OF a
particular school. A person who has twice
taken a certificate of the third grade, and who
has taught at least twelve weeks, shall not at
terward be given certificate of that grade.
SEC. 90. A supervisor may also issue a spe-
cial certificate upon private examination, which
shall be good until the next public examination,
to a person who was unavoidably prevented by
SIcE MI mi attending a
public examination or to person employed by
a district which, IN consequence OF some un-
foreseen event and without fault on its part, Is
without licensed teacher to commence Its
school, But before granting such certificate.
the supervisor shall be fully satisfied of the ex-
istence of the grounds upon which the appliea-
ton is made.
SEC. 81. A graduate of any college whose
course of study is approved by the superintend-
emit of education, who has taught in the public
schools of the state twenty-fou weeks, may re-
ceive from the supervisor of schools of the
county where such person last taught, without
examination, certificate of the first grade ii,
in the Judgment of the supervisor, such person
has fully proved his ability to instruct and gov
ern.
SEC So. A certificate of the first grade is
sued by the supervisor of one county may, upon
application in person by the holder thereof,
without an examination be made valid IN
other county by an endorsement thereon to that
effect by the supervisor of such other county;
and the certificate endorsed shall, for the re-
mainder OF its term, have the same effect IN
such other county as If originally issued in such
county.
SEC 80. A person who has held supervisors
certificates of the first grade for ten successive
years, and has during that time taught two hum
bred weeks In the public schools of the state,
may at the end of such time be granted the GER
tifcate provided for in section forty three in the
same manner and with the same effect.
SEC. 60. A teacher holding state certifi-
cate shall notify the supervisor of the county IN
which he is TO teach before commencing his
school that he holds such certificate, and shall
submit the same to the inspection of the super
visor request
Sec. 61 A supervisor of schools may revoke
the county certificate, annul for his county the
normal school certificate, of a teacher whom he
finds TO be Incompetent to teach or govern his
school, to be setting evil example before
it; and on annulling normal school certifi-
cate he shall report the matter to the board of
trustees of such school for their further action.
SEC. 81. The revocation annulment of
certificate shall be in writing, and copy thereof
shall be given to the prudential committee and
to the teacher; and from the time of the deliy-
cry of such copies, or from the time such action
is to take effect, in cases arising under section
thirty three of this act the contract between the
district and sneh teacher shall be void.
SEC. 63. The supervisor of schools shall keep
a complete record of the name. age and residence
of each person licensed by him, and of the date
and grade of each certificate issued, and of each
instrument revoking or annulling certificate.
SEC. 81. All certificates in force at the time
of the passage of this act shall be valid until
their expiration, unless revoked annulled as
provided by law.
SEC. IS. The superintendent of education
shall procure the printing of the questions pre-
pared for written examinations and the cost of
such printing shall be allowed as a part of his
expenses. The advertising and other necessary
expenses of public examination of teachers
shall be paid by the supervisor, and be repaid
him upon the settlement of his account.
CHAPTER 4.
School Districts.
I. ORGANIZATION
SEC. &c. When the inhabitants of a town
cannot be conveniently accommodated in one
school district, such town shall, at meeting
warned for that purpose, divide the town into
several districts, and determine their limits
SEC. 81. Adjoining towns may, by concurrent
votes, form a school district comprising parts of
such towns. A district SO formed shall be called
a fractional district and shall be held to belong
to the town and county in which the school
house is located. If the school-house is located
upon the dividing line between towns, such dis
trict shall be held to belong to the town having
plurality of the children of school age in the
district, and to the county in which such town is
ituated.
SEC 68. A town shall number its school dis
tricts, and the districts shall be designated by
their respective numbers; and the numbers and
descriptions of said DISTRICTS and alterations af-
terward made in their limits, shall be recorded
in the office of the town clerk.
SEC. 90. When it is necessary to organize
school district, three voters of the proposed dis
trict may apply In writing to the selectmen of
the town in which such district is located or If
the district contains parts of two or more towns,
to the selectInen of either town; and the select
men shall call meeting in such district by
posting up a notice thereof, specifying the time,
place and business of the meeting, in two of the
most public places in such district, at least seven
days before the time therein specified. One of
the selectmen shall preside in the meeting until
moderator and clerk are chosen, when the dis
trict shall be held to be organized.
SEC. TO- The selectmen of town, the APP
plication of three voters in an adjoining unorgan-
lied town gore, may divide such town or gore
into many school districts as may be needed,
and number such districts, and organize them in
the manner provided in the preceding section
The selectmen acting under this section shall
cause their proceedings to be recorded in the
Office of the clerk of the county in which such
town or gore is situated, andIreceive reasonable
compensation from the petitioners.
SEC. II. A school district, leg lily organized.
shall be body polite and corporate, with the
powers of corporation for maintaining schools
in such district and by it's corporate name may
sue and be sued, and may take, hold and con-
vey personal and real estate.
SEC. 70. A town. by vote in town meeting