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ARTICLE VIII.—Children, Parents and Guardians.

SEC. 1. No pupil will be admitted under six years of age,
nor unless decently and comfortably clothed.

SEC. 2. Pupils ought to enter promptly at the beginning of
each term.

SEC, 3. No part of the book fee will be returned in case of
the dismissal, expulsion, or voluntary withdrawal of any
pupil. With the consent of the Commissioners, pupils may
be transferred from one school to another during the term.

SEC. 4. Any pupil who may be prevented by protracted
sickness—say one month—from attending school during the
term, for which payment has been made in advance, shall be
entitled to a proportionate deduction in the book fee of the
succeeding term.

SEC. 5. Parents and guardians are expected to require
punctual attendance of their children or wards at school; to
keep them well and comfortably clothed, so that the school
will always present a respectable appearance. They are
expressly required, on no account, to interfere with teachers
in the discharge of their duties, but to lodge all complaints
before the Commissioner of the District, by whom they will
be attended to.

SEC. 6. Parents and guardians must exercise strict vigi-
lance over their children or wards, and prevent them from
defacing, destroying, or losing any of the books belonging to
the Public Schools, and see that all books and stationery are
returned when the child leaves school. Parents will be
required to replace or pay for all books retained, destroyed or
lost; they will be held responsible and required to pay for
all damages done by their children or wards to school houses,
school furniture, trees, fences, &c.

SEC. 9. Smoking, chewing tobacco, carrying fire arms or
other dangerous weapons, either in the school house or on the
premises, are strictly forbidden.

SEC. 10. No pupil shall be received into school unless pro-
perly vaccinated.

See Appendix.

ARTICLE IX.—The Government of Schools.

SEC. 1. The system of instruction and the text books shall
be uniform throughout the State, and shall embrace the fol-
lowing branches, viz: Orthography, Reading, Writing,
Arithmetic, Geography, History, English Grammar, Book-
keeping, Algebra, Natural Philosophy and such other
branches as the Commissioner, with the consent of the Board
may select. Each pupil must pursue the prescribed course of
study.