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Delinquent may be committed.

Jury trial.

Schools for

dren.

to prosecute such offender before any officer having cognizance of such offence.

No. 182-§ 4. If any person convicted of the offence herein prohibited, shall not immediately pay the penalty incurred, with the costs of conviction, or give security, to the satisfaction of the officer before whom such conviction shall be had, for the payment of the said penalty and costs within twenty days thereafter, he shall be committed by warrant to the common jail of the county, until the same be paid, or for such term, not exceeding thirty days, as shall be specified in such warrant.

No. 183-5. It shall and may be lawful for any person who may be complained of for a violation of the provisions of this act, to demand of such magistrate that he may be tried by a jury. Upon such demand, it shall be the duty of such officer to issue a venire to the proper officer, commanding him to summon the same number of jurors, and in the same manner, and the said court shall proceed to empannel a jury for the trial of said cause, in the same manner and subject to all the rules and regulations prescribed in the act providing for the trials by jury in courts of special sessions.

No. 184-147. A school for colored children may be escolored chil- tablished in any city or town of this state, with approbation of the commissioners or town superintendent of such city or town, which shall be under the charge of the trustees of the district in which such school shall be kept; and in places where no school districts exist, or where from any cause it may be expedient, such school may be placed in charge of trustees to be appointed by the commissioners or town superintendent of common schools of the town or city, and if there be none, to be appointed by the state superintendent. Returns shall be made by the trustees of such schools to the town superintendent at the same time and in the same manner as now provided by law in relation to districts; and they shall particularly specify the number of colored children over five and under sixteen years of age, attending such school from different districts, naming such districts respectively, and the number from each. The town superintendent shall apportion and pay over to the trustees of such schools, a portion of the money received by them annually, in the same manner as now provided by law in respect to school districts, allowing to such schools the proper proportion for each child. over five and under sixteen years, who shall have been instructed in such school at least four months by a teacher duly licensed, and shall deduct such proportion from the amount that would have been apportioned to the district to which such child belongs; and in his report to the state superintend

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ent, the town superintendent shall specially designate the schools for colored children in his town or city.

Forms to be

distributed.

No. 185- 148. The state superintendent may cause to be printed a sufficient number of forms of reports by trustees of printed and school districts and town superintendents and of lists of pupils attending schools, and cause them to be transmitted to the several county clerks, for the use of those officers and of teachers of schools; and he shall cause title second of chapter fifteen and part first of the Revised Statutes to be printed, and shall insert therein all acts and parts of acts which have been passed by the legislature, connected with the subjects of the said title, which are now in force; and where any provisions of the said title have been altered by the subsequent acts, such provisions shall be varied so as to make them conformable to such alterations; but the original numbers of the sections shall be indicated in such mode as he shall judge proper, except as herein amended or altered. Copies of the said title so amended shall be transmitted to the town superintendent, and all other officers charged with the performance of any duty under its provisions, with such explanations and instructions as may be deemed expedient.

Instructions

No. 186-§ 149. The superintendent of common schools is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be printed in a for executpamphlet form, as many copies of this act and of the forms ing this act. necessary to be used under its provisions as he may deem sufficient for the information of the trustees of common schools and to cause the same to be distributed for that purpose.

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No. 187-§ 150. All such provisions of law as are repugnant Laws repugto or inconsistent with the provisions of this title, are hereby nant, &c., to repealed; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed 480 of the as to impair or affect any of the local provisions respecting the organization and management of schools in any of the incorporated cities or villages or towns of this state, except as the same are affected by the next preceding section of this act.

Laws of '47,

repealed.

INDEX

TO THE

STATUTES RELATING TO COMMON SCHOOLS.

The figures relate to the several sections as numbered.

A.

Alteration of School Districts.

Without consent of trustees when to take effect,..

Annual Meeting of School Districts.

Provision for holding,

When omitted, special meeting may be called and how,
When superintendent may order meeting,
When trustees may fix day for,......

....

No.

70

90

91

92

93

Powers of inhabitants when lawfully assembled, 87, 96, 98, 99,

109, 158

Proceedings of, not invalidated by defective notice unless wil

ful and fraudulent,..

94

Notice of, how to be given and what to contain,..79, 89, 106, 107
Appeals from proceedings of, to superintendent, .
District librarian to be chosen at,....

Qualifications of voters at,

....

157

87

84 to 86

Annual Reports.

Of superintendent, what to contain,..

Of town superintendent of common schools, to be made be

tween 1st July and 1st August,.

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Of trustee of separate neighborhood,....
Of trustees of colored schools,

Of county clerks,...

...

Forms of, to be transmitted to trustees, &c., by superinten

No.

147

184

169

12, 185

dent,..... Proceedings and penalties in case of neglect of town superintendents to make,..

Penalty for trustees making false report,.

45, 47, 48

Public money not to be apportioned to districts from which no sufficient annual report shall have been received..........

For schools may be purchased,.

148

38

87

Apparatus.

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Increase of school moneys when and how to be apportioned,..
Proceedings when census is defective,...

Proceedings on erection or division of towns,...
To be certified to comptroller and county clerks,...
Library fund to be annually apportioned, amount of, and how

to be appropriated,....

When and how to be apportioned by town superintendents among the several districts,

6

7

8

9

10

11

161

33

Conditions of apportionment and when to be withheld, 35, 36, 38 To be equitably adjusted by town superintendents in case of alteration or formation of districts after date of annual report, ... Disposition of moneys uncalled for in the hands of town superintendents for one and two years,

... 40, 41

..... 42, 43

To be directed by superintendent in certain cases of accidental omission or non-compliance with law,.

Arms and Accoutrements.

When and to what extent exempt from warrants of collect

39

398 (note.)

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