E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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pupil or pupils for immorality, for continued insubordination,
or other improper conduct; and they shall admit
no child in any of the schools under their charge,
under the age of five years, or over the age of seventeen,
unless in such cases as in their judgment this rule ought
to be dispensed with; they shall oblige the teacher in
each of their respective schools, or the principal, if
there be more than one employed to keep a register of
the names and ages of all the scholars, distinguishing
the sex who have from time to time attended the
school; and they shall, on or about the first day of
December, in each and every year, furnish the president
of the board of school commissioners with a statement
of the number of pupils, males and females, that
have attended the school or schools within their respective
districts during the year ending on the last day of
November; they shall, at the same time, state the
number of children in their respective districts entitled
to a portion of the general school fund for the ensuing
year, and furnish all items of expense of each school
teachers' salaries, books, stationery, fuel, &c., and at
the same time make such observations relative to the
practical operation of the system in their respective districts,
as in their judgment they may think proper.
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SEC. 17. And be it enacted,
That whenever it shall
happen that the amount levied in addition to the State
appropriations, be not sufficient to keep the schools in
successful operation during the year, the trustees of the
school or schools, in the several districts, may at their
discretion, levy on the parents or guardians of the children
attending the school, to supply the deficiency,
but in no instance shall the amount levied for any single
pupil exceed the sum of one dollar per quarter;
but in making the levy aforesaid, the trustees or commissioners
shall regard the condition of the parents, and
whenever in their judgment, the parents or guardians
are unable to pay, they shall admit their children free.
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In case
levy,
&c., be insufficient,
trustees
may levy
on parents.
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SEC. 18. And
be it enacted, That each school commissioner
shall have full power to sell any school house
or lot, in the election district from which he may be
appointed, and give a good and valid deed for the same,
whenever the public interest of the school district in
which such school house or lot may be situated may
require it; Provided, such sale be authorised by the
legal voters of said school district; and the trustees
shall appropriate the proceeds of said sale to the purchase
of another lot, or to the building of another school
house, or make such other disposition of it as the legal
voters of said school district may determine; but the
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School
commissioner
empowered to
sell school
house, &c.
Proviso.
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