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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

Additional
teachers.

3. Whenever a school numbers over sixty children,
an assistant teacher shall be employed, and then for
every additional forty children, one additional teacher
shall be appointed; and the board of county school
commissioners shall direct the division of the pupils so
as to form a graded school.

Public exami-
nation.

4. Public examinations shall be held in each school,
once in each term, of which due notice shall be given,
that parents and others interested in public education
may attend.

Hours.

5. Schools shall be kept open each week day except
Saturday, for six hours, and the hours for teaching
shall be regulated by the several school district boards.

Disturbing
school.

6. Any person who shall disturb any district school
in session, shall, upon conviction thereof before a jus-

Penalty.

tice of the peace, forfeit and pay twenty dollars, to be
collected as other fines, and to be paid to the school
district board for the benefit of the school house dis-
trict, or said offender shall be imprisoned until the
penalty and costs be paid, not exceeding, however,
thirty days.

School year.

7. The school year shall be divided into four terms,
which shall be designated the fall term, winter term,
spring term, and summer term, and the time of the
beginning and closing each term shall be regulated by

Proviso.

the board of county school commissioners, provided
that the financial reports of the schools of the state
shall be made up and rendered to the thirtieth day of
September, inclusive of each and every year, and pro-

Proviso.

vided, further, that there shall be no change in, or
encroachment upon the holidays and vacation set forth
and established in the following paragraph. The

Vacation and
holidays.

month of August shall be vacation throughout the
whole state, and the following days shall be hollidays,
viz : thanksgiving day, from Christmas eve to the first
day of January inclusive, Washington's birth day, the
fourth day of July, from the Friday before caster to
the Monday after easier inclusive, and the Monday of
whitsuntide, and the remaining month of the vacation
shall be fixed and designated by the board of county