WILLIAM GRASON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1838.

quired and shall have apprized the. board of primary
education of their organization, and shall have report-

CHAP. 371.

ed the condition of their district, stating whether or

not they have a convenient school house, whether a
new one is necessary, or what repairs may be required,
the board of primary education are hereby authorised
and empowered to alow, to be paid as the commission-

ers shall direct, for purchasing, building, renting and
repairing any school house, such a sum of money, out
of the amount, apportioned to that particular district,
as in their judgement may be proper and expedient,

Specifying.

and they, are also authorised and required to allow to
every teacher, whose account shall be proven 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 schol-
lar he may have taught, that was properly entitled to
the benefit of the free school fund, so far as the funds
apportioned to that particular district may go, and no
further.

Payment authoris-

ed.

Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the board of primary
education, are hereby authorised and required to pur-

chase, or have built, or rent as soon as may be con-

sistently with the provisions hereinafter named, a school
house in each school district, and for that purpose

Authority to pro-

vide school houses.

shall expend, not exceeding one thousand dollars an-
nually until said object is effected; provided however,

Appropriation
$ 1, 000 annually

they shall not exceed in any one year, including all
other expenditures authorised by this act, the sum of
two thousand live hundred dollars.

Limit $2, 500 alto-

gether.

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 house, 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 he at
the time therein erected any academy or school house,
then and in that case, the trustees of said district or

More than school

authorised.

districts shall have full power to contract with the

trustees of such academy or the proprietors of such

school, for the admission into and instruction of such
of the primary school pupils, as the said trustees of
every district so circumstanced as above, shall think
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