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Fuel, one year,
461 00
Care of Schools
425 00
Repair of School Buildings,
.
.
90 50
$ 4,818 50
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Schools.
Teachers.
Average attendance.
Salary.
High School
M. Hammond
60
$950
Assistant
Miss Sweetser
..
294
Grammar School
Miss K. E. Coburn
45
336
Under Primary
S. E. Pratt
39
252
Lynde Street Primary
M. M. Gilman
50
252
Vinton Street 66
G. F. Treadwell
40
252
Highland Mixed
M. L. Charles
39
306
Upham Street Mixed
C. Merson
30
306
Green Street
A. M. Skinner
42
306
Lynde Street Intermediate . ..
L. Atkins
37
294
Vinton Street 66
. .
J. L. Cril
48
294
We cannot close this Report without a word to you in your position of parents and guardians ; not in the form or spirit of official dictation, but as coming from those who partake in a measure of your responsibilities, and in a degree appreciate your hopes and fears respecting your children. You will allow us to say that, from close observation of the working of the law of influence, as we see it in its effects, we are constrained to infer that by far the largest portion of good found in our schools, their progress and success, is traceable, not so much to good and competent teachers, as to the sentiments and efforts at home ; and while we would not detract from that which is docile and obedient, on the part of the larger portion of the pu- pils, so likewise we trace much of the insubordination, the res- tiveness under authority, the indifference to, or dislike to study, the insensibility to what may be their future, to an impression on the mind of such pupils that all these evils may find, if not a justification, at least a palliation from those whose first duty
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as parents should be to guard their children from such expecta- tions.
The family is the primary and divinely constituted educator. Its gentleness, or its harshness ; its wise and constant counsels or its feeble remonstrances ; its firm requirements in what is right, or its weak and vacillating indulgence in wrong, - are all modes by which the child is fitted to be good and useful, or bad and injurious in life. These processes and efforts are car- ried to the school, -the good to be made better, -the bad seldom to be reformed.
The teacher cannot take the place of the parent. The first work upon the young mind must be done by her who gave it birth. We would that it might always be for good. It may, from a mistaken view of obligations, be a work of wrong, from which there will be no possible recovery. Be then solicitous to know to whom the budding and expanding thoughts of your children are committed. Visit the schoolroom, watch with a parent's anxiety the work and influence of every hour ; see that the teacher is one who employs every faculty of mind and heart to awaken, bring out, and give direction to new thoughts ; who is trying to lead your child onward and upward in all that is progressive in mind or good in heart. Then, and not till then, shall we have all our schools, as some already are, places whose inner work is a pleasurable attraction rather than a wearisome and repulsive monotony.
J. B. SANFORD, .
J. B. RICHMOND,
T. W. CHADBOURNE, School Committee.
SCHOOL REGULATIONS.
SECTION 1. The schools shall be opened from the first Monday in April to the close of the year, at 9 A. M. and 2 P. M. The sessions shall be three hours each, except from the first Monday in December to the first Monday in February, when the afternoon sessions shall be open- ed at 2 and closed at 4} P. M. The afternoon session may close earlier in stormy weather, if deemed advisable by the Teacher, or if , very stormy, the afternoon session may be omitted. Teachers have the privilege and right to detain pupils a reasonable time beyond the reg- ular hours, either for purposes of discipline, or to make up deficiencies.
SECT. 2. The vacations shall be as follows : One week, commenc- ing on Monday preceding the first Monday in June ; five weeks, from the first Monday in August; one week, commencing on Monday pre- ceding the Annual Thanksgiving ; and one week, commencing on Mon- day preceding the first Monday in March. Fourth of July, Twenty- second of February, and Christmas Day, shall all be holidays; and none other shall be allowed, except by the consent of the Committee.
SECT. 3. All pupils must be five years of age before entering the public schools. Alphabet scholars admitted only at the beginning of a term.
SECT. 4. Teachers are required to be in their schoolrooms five min- utes before the opening of the school, and the pupils shall be in their seats, and the exercises of the school shall commence and close, punctu- ally at the prescribed hours.
SECT. 5. The schools shall be opened in the morning by devotional exercises, in which the scholars are required to unite.
SECT. 6. Teachers themselves shall hear all recitations, and in case of inability from sickness, or other cause, to attend any regular school session, notice shall at once be given to the Chairman, who alone shall fill the vacancy pro tempore ; and no regular school session shall be omitted without the express permission of the Chairman.
SECT. 7. Each pupil shall have a recess of at least ten minutes at every session. In stormy weather, pupils may devote a part of the time to indoor exercises, at the discretion of the Teacher. Each sex shall have a separate recess, or recess together when the Teacher shall see fit.
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SECT. 8. Pupils shall not be dismissed (Alphabet classes excepted) before the close of the school, without a written request for the same, from the parent or guardian; or admitted, if fifteen minutes tardy, without a similar excuse. Parents, also the Committee, shall be notified of frequent and repeated cases of absence, or tardiness, or applications to be dismissed.
SECT. 9. Pupils absent a whole or a part of a term from the regular school exercises; or not present at the examinations appointed by the Committee, except in cases of sickness, death, or urgent necessity, shall be liable to lose their connection with their class; and on their return will be required to bring a permit from the Committee.
SECT. 10. Pupils must furnish themselves with such text-books as are authorized by the Committee. In case of refusal or neglect, the Committee will procure the same, and notify the Town Assessors, that the value may be collected from the parent or guardian. Books furnished to indigent scholars shall be considered the property of the school, and be retained when the pupil is discharged. No text-book shall be introduced without the approval of the Committec.
SECT. 11. Instructors shall aim at such school discipline as should be exercised by a kind, judicious, and faithful parent in his family, and shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good order can be preserved by milder measures. Each Teacher shall govern his or her school, and be the administrator of all necessary discipline, except in cases of flagrant and repeated misconduct, when the case shall be re- ported immediately to the Committee, who shall prescribe such penalties as they may deem essential to the welfare of the school.
SECT. 12. º " The several School Teachers shall faithfully keep the Register furnished them, and make due return thereof to the School Com- mittee, and no Teacher shall be entitled to receive payment for services until the Register properly filled up and completed, be so returned."
SECT. 13. Teachers are required to report all damages to school property ; and any scholar who shall be found guilty of defacing or in any way injuring the schoolhouses, or school furniture, or the out- buildings or fences, shall be subject to such penalty as the Committee may deem proper and necessary.
SECT. 14. It shall be the duty of the Teachers to see that such of these Regulations as come within their province are rigidly enforced ; and to give due attention to the manners and morals of their pupils.
[* Sce GENERAL STATUTES, chap. 40, sect. 18.]
BY-LAWS
OF THE
TOWN OF MELROSE,
ACCEPTED BY THE TOWN,
NOV. 6, 1860, AND REVISED, NOV. 9, 1865.
BOSTON: ANDREW W. HASKELL, 4 WASHINGTON STREET. 1866.
BY-LAWS.
BY-LAWS OF THE TOWN OF MELROSE, reported by a Committee appointed at a meeting of the town, held September 20, 1860, and accepted by the town, at a meet- ing duly called, November 6, A. D., 1860, and duly approved by the Superior Court for the County of Middlesex, begun and holden at Cambridge, in said Middlesex, on the second Monday of December, being the tenth day of said month, Anno Domini, 1860, and duly entered upon the Records of said Court, March 20, A. D., 1861.
The annual Town Meetings shall be held Annual Meet- on the last Monday of March, when the ings.
annual Appropriations of money, for the current expenses of the town, shall be made.
After the Annual Appropriations shall Appropriations. have been made, no money shall be raised,
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for any purpose, at any subsequent meeting during the year, or any vote passed involv- ing the payment of money, or the creation of a town debt, except the same shall be fully set forth in the Warrant calling such meeting.
Warrants for Town Meetings, how served.
A copy of every Warrant for a Town Meeting, shall be posted up at every Meet- ing House, and every Railroad Depot in the town, seven days at least before the time set for the meeting ; and a printed copy of the same shall be left at every dwelling house in the town before the time set for the meeting.
Leaving loaded teams in front of houses not his own.
Any person who shall leave any loaded team, or other vehicle, for the conveyance of freight of any kind, in any of the streets or lanes of this town, in front of any house, not his own, for the space of more than one hour, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars.
Bonfires on town and pri- vate lands, &c.
Whoever shall kindle any bonfire or other fire on the highways or lands belonging to this town, or on any other lands, streets or ways, not his own, without permission from the Selectmen or from the owners of said
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streets, ways, or lands, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding ten dollars for each offense.
No person shall throw snow-balls, stones, Throwing snow- or other missiles, nor coast on any sled, nor &c. Games, balls, stones, take hold or ride upon any carriage, not his tuous noises, making tumul- own, without leave, nor play at any game &c. of ball, foot-ball, or other game, in any public street, nor unnecessarily make any tumultuous or alarming noise in the street or sidewalks, to the annoyance of pas- sengers, nor by noise otherwise disturb the quiet of any person or persons, by day or by night, under a penalty of not more than five dollars for each and every offense.
No building shall be removed over any Removal of public street, without the written permit of buildings. the Selectmen first obtained, provided that the Selectmen shall in no case grant a per- mit for the removal of any building, which, in its removal, will cause the injury or destruction of any trees or shrubs, the property of individuals, whether in the street or otherwise, unless the written con- sent of the owner of said property shall first be had.
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Throwing ashes, offal, &c., Whoever shall put, or cause to be put, in into the streets any of the streets or upon the lands belonging without license
from Surveyor, to the town, any ashes, manure, compost, &c. dirt, offal, or rubbish of any kind, without license from the Surveyor of highways or Selectmen, and leave the same to remain there, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not more than ten dollars for each offense.
Appointment of Police officers, There shall be annually appointed in the and their duties, month of March, by the Selectmen, one or more suitable and efficient persons, as Police officers, who shall hold their office for one year, and until others are appointed in their stead, unless sooner removed by the Select- men, whose duty it shall be to superintend the Police of the town, and to notice all offenses against the By-Laws of the town, and Laws of the Commonwealth, and to cause prosecutions to be commenced of all offenders against the same.
Extract from the General Statutes of Massa- chusetts, Chap. 161, Sect. 83.
Whoever wilfully and maliciously enters any orchard, nursery, garden, or cranberry meadow, and takes away, mutilates, or destroys any tree, shrub or vine, or steals, takes, and carries away, any fruit or flower, without the consent of the owner thereof,
Stealing from orchards, &c. Mutilating trees, &c.
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shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the House of Correction not exceeding three months.
Chap. 161, Sect. 66.
Whoever wilfully and maliciously breaks Injury to monu- down, injures, removes or destroys, any ments, mile- stones or boards, defacing monument erected for the purpose of desig- inscriptions, or nating the boundaries of a city or town, or removal of posts or rails, &c. of a tract or lot of land, or any tree marked for that purpose, or so breaks down, injures, removes, or destroys any mile-stone, mile- board, or guide-board, erected upon a high- way or public way, turnpike or railroad, or wilfully or maliciously defaces or alters the inscription on any such stone or board, or breaks, destroys, or removes,. any post, or railing, or posts, erected on any bridge, sidewalk, street, highway, court, or passage, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
Chap. 161, Sect. 67.
Whoever wilfully and maliciously, or wan- Defacing public tonly and without cause, destroys, defaces, fences, furni- buildings, mars, or injures, any school-house, church, belonging to, ture or property or other building erected or used for the &c.
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purposes of education or religious instruc- tion, or for the general diffusion of knowl- edge, or any of the out-buildings, fences, wells, or appurtenances, of such school- house, church, or other buildings, or any furniture, apparatus, or other property, be- longing to, or connected with, such school- house, church, or other building, shall be punished by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year.
Chap. 165, Sect. 20.
Profanity, curs- ing, &c.
Whoever, having arrived at the age of discretion, profanely curses or swears, shall, on conviction before any Justice of the Peace or Police Court, be punished by fine, not exceeding five dollars, nor less than one dollar; but no prosecution shall be com- menced after twenty days from the com- mission of the offense.
Chap. 165, Sect. 21.
Interrupting or disturbing reli- Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs gious worship. any assembly of people met for the worship of God, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding thirty days, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
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