Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-04-05

essary shall not be referred to the school
ply sicians for such treatment except ths
school physician be the regular family
physician of such pupil. but shall be re-
ferred to the regular family physician OF
such pupil through the parents or guard
dian.
Section g. The school committee shall
cause to be referred to a school physician
for eXaminati and diagnosis every child
returning to a school without certificate
from the board of health or family physi-
clan after absence on account of illness or
from unknown cause; and every child in
the schools under its Jurisdiction who
shows signs OF being in ill health or of
suffering from infectious or contagious
diseases. unless he is at once excluded
from school by the teacher; except that
in case of schools in remote and isolated
situations, the school committee may
make such other arrangements as may
best carry out the purposes of this act.
Section 8. The school committee shall
cause notice of disease or defects, if any,
from which any child is found to be
suffering to be sent home to his parents
or guardian. Whenever n child shows
symptoms of smallpox, scarlet fever,
measles, chicken pox. tuberculosis, diph-
liberia or Influenza. tonsilitis. whooping
cough, mumps scabies or trachomo he
shall be sent home Immediately or as
soon as safe and proper conveyance can
be found and the board of health and
superintendent of schools shall ut once
be notified.
Section G. The school committee of
every city or town shall cause, every
child in the public schools to be sepa-
at least once in every school year to
ascertain whether he is suffering from
defective sight or hearing or from any
other disability or defect tending to pre-
vent his receiving the full benefit of his
school work, or requiring a modification
of the school work in order to prevent
injury to the child or to secure the best
educational results. Tests of sight and
hearing shall be made by the teachers or
by the school physicians. The committee
shall cause notice of any defect or dis
ability requiring treatment to be sent to
the parent or guardian of the child, and
shall require a physical record of each
child to be kept in such form as the state
superintendent of public schools shall
prescribe after consultation With the
state board of health.
Section /. The state superintendent of
public schools shall prescribe after con-
sult2tion with the state board of health
the directions for tests of sight and hear
ing, and shall prescribe and furnish to
the school committees suitable rules of
instruction, test cards, blanks, record
books and other useful appliances for
carrying out the purposes of this act.
The state superintendent Of public schools
may expend during the year nineteen
hundred and nine a sum not greater than
five hundred dollars for the purpose of
supplying the material required for this
act. G-.f-
Section s. Expenses which a city or
town may incur by virtue of the author
ity herein vested in the school committee
shall not exceed the amount appropriated
for that purpose in cities by the city
council and in towns by town meeting.
The appropriation shall precede any ex-
penditule of any Indebtedness which may
be incurred under this act and the sum
appropriated shall be deemed sufficient
appropriation in the municipality where
it is made. Such appropriation need not
specify to what section of the act it shall
apply and may be voted as a total appro-
priation to be applied in carrying oat the
nf nnt
Section g. The provisions of this act
shall apply only to cities and towns haV
ing a population of less than forty tho,f-
sand inhabtants.-tA approved March l6D
Chapter "a.
An Act to amend Section eighty-iive of
Chapter fifteen of the Revised Statutes.
relating to the payment for teachers
Section IS. Every teacher of public
hereby amended by striking out the
words between the word school in line
seven and the word properly" in line
eight and inserting in place thereof the
following: Teachers may be paid for
their services at the close of each school
month. but no teacher shall receive final
payment for services for any term until
the register herein described so that said
section. when amended, shall read as
follows:
Section IS. Every teacher of a public
school shall keep register thereof con-
tanning the names of all scholars who
enter the school, their ages, the dates CT
each scholars entering and leaving. the
number of days during which each at
tended, the length. of the school, the
teachers wages. list of textbooks used,
and all other facts required by the blank
forms furnished him. Such register shall
at ali times be open to the inspection of
the school committee. and be returned
to them ut the close of the school.
Teachers may be paid for their services
at the close of each school month, hut no
services for any term until the register
herein described. properly filed, COM
pleted and signed, is deposited with the
school 1om n, or with With the person
proved March 49,
Chapter rs.
An Act amending and additional to Chap
ter sixty of the Revised Statutes,
relating to Marriage and the Registra-
tiOn of Vital Statistics.
Section Section four of chapter sixty
one of the Revised Statutes is hereby
amended by adding thereto the words.
Persons who are non-residentS of the
state intending TO be married in this
state. shall have their intentions of mar
riage recorded. in the office of the clel
of the. town in which they propose to
have the marriage solemniZed. and the
clerk may, upon request, issue his c.rtifi-
cate on the same day in which he records
the intentions of marriage of non-resi-
dents, but no person shall marry any
couple before he has received the certifi-
cate issued by the town or city clerk so
that said section, as amended shall read
as follows:
Section 4. Residents of the state in
tending to be joined in marriage shall
cause notice of their intentions to be
recorded in the Office of the clerk of the
town in which each resides at least five
days before a certificate of such inten-
tions is granted; and IL one only of the
parties resides in the state, they shall
cause notice of their intentions to be
recorded in the office of the clerk of the
town in which such party resides. at
least five days before such certificate is
granted; and the book in which such
record is made. shall be labeled on the
outside of its cover, Record of intentions
of marriage and be kept open to public
inspection in the office of the clerk; and
if there is no such clerk in the place of
their residence, the like entry shall be
made with the clerk of an adjoining town.
Persons who are non-residehts Of the
state, intending to be married In this
state, shall have their intentions of mar
riage recorded in the Office of the clerk
of the town in which they propose to
have the marriage solemniZed, and the
clerk may, upon request, issue his certif-
cate on the same day in which he records
the intentions of marriage of non-resi-
dents, but no person shall marry any
couple before he has received the certifi-
cate issued by the town or city clerk
Ton .,f ,Eas. An-