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WORCESTER COUNTY.

Shall report
annually.

SEC, 6. And be it enacted, That the trustees of each district
shall make a true and full report annually to the board of pri-
mary education, at their first meeting after the first day of
June, the whole number of children educated at their school
the past year, the period that each has gone, and the price
paid for the tuition of each scholar, designating the proper
subjects of the free school fund, and the condition of their
district generally, and the school-house of said district.

Case of

vacancy.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted. That in the event any vacancy
shall occur from resignation, death, removal out of the school
district, refusal to serve, the remaining member or members of
the board shall have the right to fill such vacancy until the
next election of trustees.

On report
of trustees.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That when any district board of
trustees, shall have organized as herein required and shall
have apprized the board of primary education of their organi-
zation, and shall have reported the condition of their district,

Specifying.

stating whether or not they have a convenient school-house,
whether a new one is necessary, or what repairs may be re-
quired, the board of primary education are hereby authorized
and empowered to allow, to be paid as the commissioners shall
direct, for purchasing, building, renting and repairing any
school-house, such a sum of money, put of the amount appor-
tioned to that particular district, as in their judgment may be

Payment
authorized.

proper and expedient, and they are also authorized and re-
quired to allow to every teacher, whose account shall be
prove. n by the affidavit of the teacher aforesaid, and signed by
the trustees of the district, or a majority of them, a sum not
exceeding eighty cents per month, for each scholar he may
bave taught, that was properly entitled to the benefit of the
free school fund, so far as the funds apportioned to that parti-
cular district may go, and no further.

Authority
to provide
school-
bouses.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the board of primary educa-
tion, are hereby authorized and required to purchase, or have
built, or rent as soon as may be consistently with the provi-
sions herein after named, a school-house in each school dis-

Appropria-
tion $1,000
annually.

trict, and for that purpose, shall expend, not exceeding one
thousand dollars annually until said object is effected ; Pro-
vided however, they shall not exceed in any one year, including

Limit
$2,500
altogether.

all other expenditures authorized by this act, the sum of two
thousand five hundred dollars.

More than
one school
authorized.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That if any one or more of the
said school districts be found so populous as to require more
than one school-bouse, or in case a school-house and teacher
cannot be procured in any district for the accommodation and
convenience of the pupils of the said district or districts, and
there should be at the time therein erected any academy or