public schools of such county, of the fulfilment of the duties of their office by members of the school committees of all the towns and cities, and of the circumstances of the several school districts in regard to teachers, pupils, books, apparatus, and methods of education, to enable him to furnish all information desired for the report of the board required in section three.

SECT. 7. He shall send the blank forms of inquiry, the school registers, the annual report of the board, and his own annual report, to the clerks of the several towns and cities as soon as may be after they are ready for distribution.

SECT. 8. He shall receive from the treasury, in quarterly payments an annual salary of two thousand dollars, and his necessary travelling expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties after they have been audited and approved by the board; and all postages and other necessary expenses arising in his office, shall be paid out of the treasury in the same manner as those of the different departments of the government.

make inquiry,

Resolves, 1857,

SECT. 9. The board may appoint one or more suitable agents to visit Board may apthe several towns and cities for the purpose of inquiring into the condi- point agents to tion of the schools, conferring with teachers and committees, lecturing &c. upon subjects connected with education, and in general of giving and 22. receiving information upon subjects connected with education, in the See 1862, 212. same manner as the secretary might do if he were present.

board, how paid.

SECT. 10. The incidental expenses of the board, and the expenses of Expenses of the members thereof incurred in the discharge of their official duties, 1838, 55. shall be paid out of the treasury, their accounts being first audited and allowed.

SECT. 11. The assistant librarian of the state library shall act when Clerk. necessary as clerk of the board.

1849, 155, § 1.

tutes, meetings

SECTION 1. When the board of education is satisfied that fifty Teachers' institeachers of public schools desire to unite in forming a teachers' institute, of: it shall, by a committee of its body, or by its secretary, or in case of his 1846, 99, § 1. inability by such person as it may delegate, appoint and give notice of 1849, 62. a time and place for such meeting, and make suitable arrangements

therefor.

1848, 10.

§§ 2, 3.

Resolves, 1850,

SECT. 2. To defray the necessary expenses and charges, and procure expenses of, teachers and lecturers for such institutes, the governor may draw his 1846,93, § four. warrant upon the treasurer for a sum not exceeding three thousand 1834,300,58,4. 1736.292 dollars per annum, to be taken from that portion of the income of the 65. school fund not apportioned for distribution to the several cities and towns for the support of public schools.

length of, and
expense.
1846, 99, § 2.

SECT. 3. The board may determine the length of time during which a teachers' institute shall remain in session, and what portion, not exeding three hundred and fifty dollars, of the sum provided for in the 1849, 62 preceding section shall be appropriated to meet the expenses of any

1852, 216.

When meetings held, county associations to re

ceive $50 a year.
(R.) Repeal and

1848, 301, § 1.

substitute. 1864, 58.

To be paid on

certificate, &c.

such institute; and the board, its secretary, or any person by it duly appointed, may draw upon the treasurer therefor.

SECT. 4. (R.) [When a county association of teachers and others holds semi-annual meetings, of not less than two days each, for the express purpose of promoting the interests of public schools, it shall receive fifty dollars a year from the commonwealth.]

SECT. 5. (R.) [Upon the certificate under oath of the president and secretary of such association to the governor that two semi-annual meetings have been held in accordance with the provisions of the pre(R.), Repeal and ceding section, he shall draw his warrant in favor of such association 1864, 58. for the sum aforesaid.]

1848, 301, § 2.

substitute.

School fund, how invested. In

come only to be

used.

R. S. 11, §§ 13,

14.

SECTION 1. The present school fund of this commonwealth, together with such additions as may be made thereto, shall constitute a permanent fund, to be invested by the treasurer with the approbation of the governor and council, and called the "Massachusetts School Fund"; 1854, 300, §§ 2, 3, the principal of which shall not be diminished, and the income of which, including the interest on notes and bonds taken for sales of Maine lands and belonging to said fund, shall be appropriated as hereinafter provided.

1854, 333.

Income, how distributed;

See 1865, 142. 1866, 208. 1869, 168. 1870, 45.

SECT. 2. One-half of the annual income of said fund shall be appor1854, 200, $52,3. tioned and distributed for the support of public schools without a specific appropriation. All money appropriated for other educational purposes, unless otherwise provided by the act appropriating the same, shall be paid from the other half of said income so long as it shall be sufficient for that purpose. If insufficient, the excess of such appropriations in any year shall be paid from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. If the income in any year exceeds such appropriations for the year, the surplus shall be added to the principal of said fund.

how apportioned for

schools.

not entitled to share.

R. S. 23, §§ 66, 67.

1846, 223. § 5.

SECT. 3. The income of the school fund appropriated by the preceding section to the support of public schools, which may have accrued When towns are upon the first day of June of each year, shall be apportioned by the secretary and treasurer, and on the tenth day of July be paid over by the treasurer to the treasurers of the several towns and cities for the use of the public schools, according to the number of persons therein 3. between the ages of five and fifteen years, ascertained and certified as provided in sections three and four of chapter forty. But no such ap portionment shall be made to a town or city which has not complied with the provisions of sections five and six of said chapter, or which h: not raised by taxation for the support of schools during the school yes embraced in the last annual returns, including only wages and board of

1849, 117, §§ 2, See 1867, 98.

teachers, fuel for the schools, and care of fires and school-rooms, a sum not less than one dollar and fifty cents for each person between the ages of five and fifteen years belonging to said town or city on the first day of May of said school year.

by towns, how

SECT. 4. The income of the school fund received by the several Income received cities and towns shall be applied by the school committees thereof to applied." the support of the public schools therein, but said committees may, if they see fit, appropriate therefrom any sum, not exceeding twenty-five per cent. of the same, to the purchase of books of reference, maps, and apparatus for the use of said schools.

for Indians.

Account to be

1838, 154.

35.

SECT. 5. (R.) [On the first day of January annually, there shall be Appropriations paid out of the income of said school fund as follows, viz.: One hundred dollars to the treasurer of the Marshpee Indians, to be applied rendered. under his direction to the support of public schools among said Indians; RS. 23, § 68. one hundred and sixty-five dollars to the selectmen of the district of 1853, 186, §§ 1, 2. Marshpee, under the provisions of chapter thirty-five of the Resolves of Resolves, 1855, the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five; sixty dollars to the [Marshpee made trustee of the Gay Head Indians; sixty dollars to the guardian of the 1870, 298.j Indians of Christiantown and Chippequiddic; and twenty dollars to the treasurer of the Herring Pond Indians; to be applied by them in like manner to the support of public schools among said Indians; and an annual account of the appropriations of said money shall be rendered to the governor and council.]

INDIAN SCHOOL FUND.

a town by.

(R.) Repeal and

substitute.

1870, 850.

fund, how ap

1862, 83.
substitute.

SECT. 6. (R.) [The income of the school fund for Indians, derived Indian school from the surplus revenue of the United States, shall be paid annually plied, &c. in the month of March for public school purposes as follows, viz.: to 1857, 85, § 7. the treasurer of the district of Marshpee, sixty dollars; to the guardian (R.) Repeal and of the Christiantown and Chippequiddic Indians, seventy-two dollars, 1870, 350. one-half thereof for the benefit of said Christiantown and Chippequiddic Indians, and the other half for the benefit of the Gay Head Indians; and to the treasurer of the Herring Pond Indians, eighteen dollars.]

TODD NORMAL SCHOOL FUND.

SECT. 7. The income of the Todd fund shall be paid by the treasurer Todd fund, how of the commonwealth on the warrant of the governor to the board of applied. 1850, 63, 88. education, to be by them applied to specific objects in connection with 1862, 83. the normal schools not provided for by legislative appropriation.

established.

SECTION 1. (R.) [To aid in qualifying principal teachers for the Scholarships high schools of the commonwealth, forty-eight state scholarships are 1853, 193, § 1. established.]

Arrangement

of sections and classes for scholarships. 1853, 193, § 2.

Candidates for
scholarships,
how recom-
mended.
Qualifications.
Vacancies, how
filled.
1853, 193, § 3.
See 1864, 218.

Additional scholars. Character of candidates. 1853, 193, § 4.

Time and place of selection.

1853, 193, § 5. See 1864, 218.

Place of education, how selected.

Scholar to receive $100 annually. 1853, 193, § 6.

Vacancies, how filled.

1853, 193, § 7.

Scholar attending normal

school, allowance

to;
1853, 193, § 8.
See 1864, 218.

to teach or refund.

1853, 193, § 9.

SECT. 2. (R.) [The sections and classes of sections, and the order in which they are entitled to scholarships as now arranged by the board of education, shall continue until the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one, at which time, and at the expiration of every ten years thereafter, the board shall arrange the senatorial districts into four classes of ten sections each, and each of said classes shall, once in four years, in such alternate order as the board, at the time of the formation of the classes, by lot designates, be entitled to one scholarship for each of its sections. The secretary of the board shall through the mail notify the school committee of each town or city of the year its class is entitled to scholarships.]

SECT. 3. (R.) [The school committees of the towns and cities in each class, may in the year in which their class is entitled to scholarships recommend as candidates therefor, young men, inhabitants of their town or city, who shall furnish the board of education with the certified opinion of said committee and of a competent teacher, that they will be fitted for college at the succeeding commencement; and said board, together with the senator if he resides within any section of such class, shall select from such candidates one scholar from each section, whom by personal examination they judge the most deserving and likely to become useful as a teacher. If any section presents no such suitable candidate, the place may be filled by the board from the candidates of the other sections of the same class, and if from a deficiency of proper candidates less than ten scholars are selected from a class, the board may, after a careful examination by themselves as to scholarship, complete the number from the state at large.]

SECT. 4. (R.) [If, after the selection of ten scholars from any class of sections, other candidates from such class recommended as aforesaid are considered by the board as possessing the requisite qualifications, the board may select therefrom two additional scholars, and in default of such candidates may select such additional scholars from the state at large in the manner provided in the preceding section. All candidates shall be persons of irreproachable moral character, free from any considerable defect of sight or hearing, and of good health and constitution.] SECT. 5. (R.) [The selections for scholarships required to be made by the board and by the senators within the respective sections, shall be made at a meeting held annually at the office of the secretary of the board, at such time in the month of March as the board appoints, of which the secretary shall give notice. The selections to be made by the board alone may be made at the same or at any other time during the year.] SECT. 6. (R.) [Any scholar so selected may be educated at any college established by law in this commonwealth which he and his friends may select; and the board shall at the end of each collegiate year, not exceeding four, upon his producing a certificate from the president of his college that he has been faithful in his studies, exemplary in his deportment, and ranks in scholarship among the first half of his class, pay to him one hundred dollars.]

SECT. 7. (R.) [Selections to fill vacancies occurring in such scholarships may be made by the board in like manner as original selections; and the board shall take all measures necessary for that purpose.]

SECT. 8. (R.) [Any such scholar after leaving college may attend a State normal school, and for each term not exceeding two during which he attends such school, he shall, upon producing a certificate of such attendance and of the faithful and exemplary performance of his duties there from the principal master thereof, be paid by the board of education, from any unexpended balance of the funds provided by section ten of this chapter, the sum of twenty-five dollars.]

SECT. 9. (R.) [Every person who has received aid in the manner provided by this chapter, shall teach in the public schools of the com

monwealth the same term of time that he has received such aid; and if, being in competent health, he fails so to teach, unless he satisfies the board that such failure has arisen from inability to find employment, he shall pay to the treasurer at the rate of one hundred dollars a year for the time of such failure, with interest thereon from the time of graduation; and the treasurer may recover the amount in an action at law.] SECT. 10. (R.) [Forty-eight hundred dollars annually from the in- Appropriations. come of the school fund not appropriated to public schools, and all such See $8. sums as the treasurer recovers under the preceding section, are appropriated to accomplish the purposes of this chapter under the direction of the board of education.]

1853, 193, § 10. See 1864, 218.

5.

to determine location of school-house.

months in a year.

R. S. 23, § 1.

SECTION 1. In every town there shall be kept, for at least six months Each town to in each year, at the expense of said town, by a teacher or teachers of have school six competent ability and good morals, a sufficient number of schools for Branches taught. the instruction of all the children who may legally attend public school 1859, 56, 1. therein, in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, 1859, 2 1858, 5, $$ 1, 2. arithmetic, the history of the United States, and good behavior. Alge- See 1862, 7. bra, vocal music, drawing, physiology, and hygiene shall be taught by 1870, 248. lectures or otherwise, in all the public schools in which the school 1876 3 committee deem it expedient.

towns of 500

SECT. 2. Every town may, and every town containing five hundred High schools in families or householders shall, besides the schools prescribed in the pre- families. ceding section, maintain a school to be kept by a master of competent Branches taught. See 1866, 208, § 2. ability and good morals, who, in addition to the branches of learning 1868, 226.