The Mount Holly news., 1919-12-30

respondents were notified that anSWt
should be made within ten days aftt
proof of service of the petition upo
the respondents. No formal answer
: however, to the charges contained i
: the petition, was forthcoming. The re
spondents were again notified by tn
Commissioner of Education that a
, opportunity would be given to them, j
, sot desired, to deny the charges con
tanned in the petition. In reply unde
date of December 16, 1919, there cam
the following letter:
Dec. Is, 1919.
"Mr. John Enright,
Commissioner of Education,
Trenton, N. J..
Dear SIR
AT Board meeting held on Monday
evening, December 13, 1919, it was de
cided, insomuch as the State Depart
ment is fully conversant with the facts
of this matter, it is not worth while fol-
the Board Of Education to take any
further action.
Yours respectfully
Jos. b. Lamb, Dist. Clerk
Board of Education, N. Hanover Twp.
Opportunity having been given for
denial of the facts set forth in the pc
tition and no denial having been made
by the Board of Education or by /. Ed
ward Harrison, it must be assumed
that the allegations of the petition are
true, namely, that false statement
was made by Joseph B. Lamb, district
clerk of the Board of Education of
North Hanover township, when he
certified to the County Superintendent
on blank forms provided by the Com
missioner of Education that for the
year ending June both, 1917, Edith N
Harrison and Dorothy Harrison,
daughters as aforesaid of said l Edward
Harrison, attended the High school at
Trenton, and that there was paid for
their tuition at the High school in
Trenton the sum of $50 and for their
transportation the sum of $40, a total
of $130 paid to said l. Edward Harrison
for tuition and transportation for his
children for the year ending June 3Oth
1917; and that a false statement was
made by Joseph B. Lamb, district
clerk as aforesaid, when he certified
that there was paid for the said l. Ed
ward Harrison the sum of $40 for the
tuition of his said daughters at the
Trenton High school and $40 for their
transportation, total of $l4O for tut
tion and transportation for said child
rem for the year ending June 3Oth.
1918.
The petition shows that the child
rem of said l. Edward Harrison did not
attend the High school at Trenton dur
ing the two years mentioned. 1t does
not appear that said children attended
any high school in New Jersey during
that time. Certain it is that they did
not attend the Trenton High school.
The undeniable facts in the case there
fore are that the district clerk of the
Board of Education of North Hanover
township certified to the County Su-
perintendent of Burlington county
that during the year ending June Both,
1917, there was paid for the tuition of
the children of l. Edward Harrison the
sum OF $50 and for their transportation
to the Trenton High school the sum of
$40; also that in the year ending June
oOth, 1918, there was paid for the atten-
dance OF said children at the Trenton
High school the sum OF $40 for tuition
and $40 for transportation.
1T is also an undeniable fact there
was paid to the said l. Edward Harri-
son for his children during the two
years above mentioned a total
sum of s270. 1t is moreover fact that
the County Superintendent in making
his apportionment apportioned to the
North Hanover Township school dis
trict three-fourths of the cost of trans
pertation for each of the years above
mentioned, amounting for the two
years above mentioned to the sum o.
$105, and that said County Superin
tendent apportioned for the tuition o.
each child for each of said years the
sum of S25, or total for the two year.
of $780, A total of $2O5 was thus ap
portioned to the North Hanover town
ship school district for tuition ant
transportation for the two years men
toned for the children of 1. Edward
Harrison.
: "Article 9, Section 119 p. L. 1876
, provides as follows: ANY child VIII,
shall have completed the course O
: study pursued in the schools in th
, district, in which he or she shall reside
may, with the consent of the Board @
1 Education Of said district and of tn
I Board of Education of a district il
n which he or she shall desire to atten
: school, be admitted to school of high
h ler grade in said last mentioned dis
i trict. Said Board of Education sha
q determine the amount to be paid fc
i the education of such child, and tb
|. Board of Education OF the district i
!. which snch child shall reside sha
l. issue an order for said amount, signe
: by the president and district clerk {
# secretary of the Board of Education i
,e favor of the custodian of the school di
,e trict in which such child shall atten
,e school, which order shall be paid b
le the custodian of school moneys of IL
IS aforementioned district out of an
Sc school moneys in his hands availab
IS for the current expenses Of said di
Il. trict."
1.-The above law clearly provides Il
manner in which payment shall
's' made for tuition, when such tuition
furnished outside the school district,
which the child resides. Payment
to be made to the custodian of {
p school district to which the child
I'M sent. There is no provision anywh
rs in the law for the payment of tniti
81 -, to the parent or guardian of the chi
Payment by a Board OF Education /