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to annex to such list a Warrant, directed to the Collector of the school section, for the collection of the several sums mentioned in such list: Provided always, that any school-rate imposed by Trustees, according to this Act, may be made payable monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, or yearly, as they may think expedient.

Proviso: Such rate-bill to be payable monthly, quarterly, halfyearly, or yearly. To apply to the Township Council at their discretion for the raising of school moneys,

Ninthly. To apply to the Municipality of the Township, or employ their own lawful authority, as they may judge expedient, for the raising and collecting of all sums authorized in the manner hereinbefore provided, to be collected from the freeholders and householders of such section, by rate, according to the valuation of taxa. ble property, as expressed in the Assessor or Collector's Roll; and the Township Clerk or other officer having possession of such roll, is hereby required to allow any one of the Trustees, or their authorized Collector, to make a copy of such roll, as far as it shall relate to their school section.

Tenthly. To exempt wholly or in part, from the payment of school rates, such indigent persons as they shall think proper, and the amount of the same shall be a charge upon the other rateable inhabitants of the school section, and shall not be deducted from the salary of a Teacher.

Eleventhly. To sue for and recover by their name of office, the amounts of school rates or subscriptions due from persons residing without the limits of their school section, and making default of payment.

Duty of Town ship Clerk or other officer in certain cases.

To exempt indigent persons.

Teacher's salary not to be lessened thereby.

To sue defaulters residing out of the school sec

tion.

To notify and fix the place of the annual school meeting.

To call special

Twelfthly. To appoint the place of each annual school meeting, and to cause notices to be posted in at least three public places of such section, at least six days before the time of holding such meeting; to call and give like notice of any special meeting of meetings. the freeholders or householders of such section, for the filling up of any vacancy in the Trustee Corporation, occasioned by death, removal, or any other cause whatever, or for the selection of a new school site, or for any other school purpose, as they may think proper; to specify the object or objects of such meeting; which meeting shall be organized, and its proceedings.

Mode of conduct ing special meet

be

Copy of the pro-
ceedings to
sent to the local
Superintendentof

ings recorded in the same manner, as those of an annual school meeting; and a copy of them, in like manner, shall be transmitted to the Local Superintendent: Provided always, that in case of a vacancy in the office of any of the Trustees, during the period for which they shall have been respectively elected, the person or persons chosen to fill such vacancy, shall hold office only for the unexpired term.

schools.

Continuance

in

office of persons elected to fill vacancies.

To admit persons from 5 to 21 years of age to attend the school, · on certain conditions

Thirteenthly. To permit all residents in such section between the ages of five and twenty-one years of age, to attend the school, so long as their conduct shall be agreeable to the rules of such school, and fees or rates required to be paid on their behalf, are duly discharged: Provided always, that this requirement shall not extend to the children of persons in whose behalf a separate school shall have been established, according to the nineteenth section of this act."

so long as the

Exception in certain cases.

To visit the school &c.

Fourteenthly. To visit the school from time, and see that it is conducted according

regulations authorized by law.

To prohibit improper, and provide proper books for the school.

to

the

Fifteenthly. To see that no authorized books are used in the school, but that the pupils are duly sup plied with an uniform series of text books, sanctioned and recommended according to law; and to procure, annually, for the benefit of their school section, some periodical devoted to education.

To be personally responsible in the case of refusing or neglecting to exercise corporate powers for the fulfilment of contracts

Sixteenthly. To exercise all the corporate powers yested in them by this Act, for the fulfilment of any contract or agreement made by them; and in case any of the Trustees shall wilfully neglect or refuse to exercise such powers, he or they shall be personally responsible for the fulfilment of such contract or agreement.

To appoint a Librarian, and provide for the establishment

Seventeenthly. To appoint a Librarian, and to take such steps as they may judge expedient, and as may be authorized according to law, for the establishment, safe-keeping, and proper management of a school library, whenever provision shall have been made and carried into effect for the establishment of school libraries.

and support of a school library.

To ascertain the number of resident children of school age.

To read the school

report at the an

nual school meet

ing.

Proceeding in case the financial ac

count is not satis factory to the

Eighteenthly. To ascertain the number of children between the ages of five and sixteen years residing in their section on the thirty-first day of December in each year; and to cause to be prepared and read at the annual meeting of their section, their annual school report for the year then terminating, which report shall include, among other things prescribed by law, a full and detailed account of the receipts and expenditures of all school moneys received and expended in behalf of such section, for any purpose whatsoever, during such year; and if such account shall not be satisfactory to a majority of the freeholders or householders present at such meeting, then a majority of the said freeholders or householders shall appoint one person, and the Trustees shall appoint another; and the two arbitrators thus appointed shall examine the said account, and their decision respecting it shall be final: or, if the two arbitrators thus appointed shall not be able to agree, they shall select a third, and the decision of the majority of the arbitrators so chosen shall be final; and such arbitrators, or a majority of them, shall have authority to collect, or cause to be collected, whatever sum or sums may be awarded against any person or persons by them, in the same manner and under the same regulations as those according to which Trustees are authorized by the twelfth section of this Act to collect school rates; and the sum or sums thus collected shall be expended in the same manner as are other moneys for the Common School purposes of such section.

majority of the

meeting.

To prepare and

transmit. before

the 15th January,

the annual school report to the local Superintendentof Schools.

Nineteenthly. To prepare and transmit, or cause to be prepared and transmitted annually, before the fifteenth day of January, a report to the Local Superintendent; which report shall be signed by the majority of the Trustees, and made according to a form provided by the Chief Superintendent of Schools, and shall specify: 1st.—The whole time the school in their section shall have been kept by a qualified Teacher during Time of keeping the year ending the thirty-first day of the previous December.

Amount of moneys received, and from what

sources, and how expended.

Contents of such report: the school open.

2ndly.—The amount of moneys received from the school fund, from local rates or contributions, and from other sources, distinguishing the same; and

Number of resident children of

School age.

Attendance of pupils in winter and summer.

Average attend-
both winter

ance,
and summer.

Branches taught, &c., text-books used, public examinations, visits, lectures, &c.

the manner in which all such moneys have been expended.

3rdly. The whole number of children residing in the school section, over the age of five years, and under the age of sixteen; the number of children and young persons taught in the school in winter and summer, distinguishing the sexes, and those who are over and under sixteen years of age; the average attendance of pupils in both winter and

summer.

4thly. The branches of education taught in the school; the number of pupils in each branch; the text-books used; the number of public school examinations, lectures, and visits, and by whom, and such other information respecting the school premises, and library, as may be required in the form of a report provided by the Chief Superintendent of Schools.

Penalty of signing a false report by a Trustee; or of keeping a false register and making false returns by a Teacher.

XIII. And be it enacted, That every Trustee of a Common School who shall knowingly sign a false report, and every Teacher of a Common School who shall keep a false school register, or make a false return, with the view of obtaining a larger sum than the just proportion of school moneys coming to such Common School, shall, for each offence, forfeit to the Common School Fund of the Township, the sum of five pounds, and may be prosecuted before any such Justice of the Peace, by any person whatever, and convicted on the oath of any one credible witness other than the prosecutor, and if convicted, the said penalty shall, if not forthwith paid, be levied with costs, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, under warrant of such Justice, and paid over by him to the said Common School Fund, or the said offender shall be liable to be tried and punished for the misdemeanor.

Foreign books to be used only in certain cases.

XIV. And be it enacted, That no foreign books in the English branches of education shall be used in any Model or Common School, without the express permission of the Council of Public Instruction; nor shall any pupil in any such School be required to read or study in or from any gious rights pro- religious book, or join in any exercise of devo tion or religion, which shall be objected to by his

Parental and reli

tected.

or her parents or guardians : Provided always, that, within this limitation, pupils shall be allowed to receive such religious instruction as their parents and guardians shall desire, according to the general regulations which shall be provided according to law.

II. COMMON SCHOOL TEACHERS, AND THEIR DUTIES.

A qualified
Teacher defined.

XV. And be it enacted, That no Teacher shall be deemed a qualified Teacher within the meaning of this Act, who shall not, at the time of his engaging with the Trustees, and applying for payment from the School Fund, hold a Certificate of qualification, as hereinafter provided by this Act; Provided always, that Certificates of qualification given by Proviso: local Superintendents, shall be in force until the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.

of

XVI. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty Duties of Teachers every Teacher of a Common School,

Firstly. To teach diligently and faithfully all the branches required to be taught in the School, accord

To act according to law and agree

ment.

ing to the terms of his engagement with the Trustees, and according to the provisions of this Act.

To maintain discipline.

Secondly. To keep the daily, weekly, and monthly To keepregisters or quarterly registers of the School; to maintain proper order and discipline therein, according to the forms and regulations which shall be provided according to law; also to keep a Visitors' book (which the Trustees shall cause to be provided for that purpose,) and he shall enter therein the visits made to his school, and shall present such book to cach Visitor, and request him to make such remarks as may have been suggested by such visit.

Thirdly. To have, at the end of each quarter, a

To keep a Visitors' book, &c.

To have quarterly examinations, &c.

public examination of his school, of which he shall give due notice, through the pupils, to their parents and guardians, and the Trustees of the school, and of which he shall also give due notice to any School Visitors who shall reside in or adjacent to such school section.

Fourthly. To furnish to the Local or Chief Super- To give informaintendent of Schools, when desired, any information which it may be in his power to give respecting any

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tion to the Local or Chief Superintendent

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