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PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. [ART. 27.

Id s 9.
Terms

45. 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 beginning and closing each term shall be
regulated by 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, provided further, that there shall be no

Holidays.

change in or encroachment upon the holidays and vacations set
forth and established in the following paragraph. The month of
August shall be vacation throughout the whole State, and the fol-
lowing days shall be holidays, viz.: Thanksgiving day, from Christ-
mas Eve to the first day of January inclusive, Washington's birth-
day, the fourth of July, from the Friday before Easter to the Mon-
day after Easter inclusive, and the Monday of Whitsuntide; and
the remaining month of \acation shall be fixed and designated by
the board of county school commissioners, to subserve the con-
venience and advantage of their respective counties. In case it
may be necessary to open school for a fraction of a term, it shall
close at the end of the term, and all accounts shall be settled at the
meeting of the board of county school commissioners held at the
close of the term.

TEACHERS.

Id c 8, s 1.
Qualifications

46. No person shall be employed as a teacher under this law
unless such person shall hold a certificate of qualification issued by
the examiner of the county in which he or she proposes to teach, or
from the principal of the State normal school a diploma as graduate
of said normal school, or certificate from the State board of educa-
tion, as hereinbefore provided.

Id s 2.
Removal.

4 7. Teachers shall be appointed by the board of district school
trustees, and may be removed at any time said board may think
proper, after thirty days' notice given to the teacher in writing.

1874, c. 463, c 8,
s 3
Reports.

48. Teachers shall enter in their quarterly reports an accurate
account of the attendance of pupils, of textbooks used, and branches
taught, and such other statistics as may be required, and make due
returns thereof to the board of county school commissioners at the
end of each term; and no teacher shall be entitled to receive pay-
ment for services until the quarterly report, properly filled up and
completed, be so returned. The quarterly reports shall be filed by
the board of county school commissioners for the purpose of making
the annual return to the State board of education

1872, c 377, c. 8,
s 4
Charges against.

49. The board of county school commissioners shall examine
any charge preferred against the moral character of any teacher
within their county; they shall give the teacher reasonable notice
of the charge in writing, and an opportunity to defend himself, and
if the charge be sustained they shall annul the teacher's certificate,
and shall give notice thereof to the State board of education; pro-
vided, that an appeal shall lie to the State board of education, whose
decision shall be final.