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shall be placed not less that five feet in the ground and sup- ported by filling around them with earth, well stamped ; that the wires for transmitting electricity shall in no case be at- tached to such posts at points nearer than twenty feet to the ground, nor in such a manner as to interfere with any trees growing in such streets or ways, and that said town of Ran- dolph shall have the right, free of cost, to attach a bar or other fixture to each of said poles for the support of a fire alarm, the same to be attached either above or below said Company's wires, as the Selectmen shall direct ; and that in erecting and maintaining such lines of electric wires the growth of trees standing in such streets shall not be interfered with ; and also to the condition that said corporation shall be subject to all liabilities and restrictions imposed by the provisions of the Statutes of said Commonwealth, and further conditions are : that the works are to be constructed and ready for operation within eight months from date of franchise.
That the plant shall be located in the Town of Randolph, and shall cost not less than fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars.
That the aforesaid Randolph and Holbrook Light and Pow- er Company shall give a bond in the penal sum of five thou- sand ($5,000) dollars that they will comply with all the re- quirements of the franchise.
PETER B. HAND, JOHN B. THAYER, MICHAEL J. DALY,
Selectmen of Randolph.
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF RANDOLPH.
1889-90.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
The School Committee respectfully submit to the citizens of Randolph the following report, which embraces a brief re- view of the work attempted, the changes made, and the pro- gress of the schools during the year, and a few suggestions as to future changes ; also an account of the expenditures of the past school-year and recommendations of appropriations for the ensuing year.
There never has been a time in the history of our country when the public schools have received so much earnest, thoughtful consideration as during the past few years.
There never was a time when the demand for schools afford- ing an opportunity for so wide a scope of attainments for the pupils, under the management of efficient, enthusiastic teach- ers, was so great as the present.
It is of the utmost importance that we meet this demand, by keeping the schools of our town up to a high standard of excellence. This has been the thought that has influenced your committee in the performance of their duties during the past year, and the results have been very gratifying. We believe that more and better work was accomplished up to the time of the Christmas holidays than ever before in the same time. Since then the prevalence of " la grippe," fol- lowed by diphtheria, caused such a falling off in the attend- ance that it was impossible to do regular work in the school- room.
A meeting of the committee was held on the last Friday in January, when it was decided to close all the schools in the town for three weeks, to resume work on the 24th day of February ; thus what promised to be a very successful year's work was seriously interrupted, but we hope by extra effort
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on the part of both teachers and pupils to accomplish good results before the closing of the school-year in June.
Both teachers and committee have for some time seen the necessity for more uniformity in the work throughout the schools, and during the long vacation, the committee con- sulted Messrs. West and Belcher, who consented to prepare a course of study adapted to the work in all the grades.
This, of course, placed a considerable amount of extra work on these gentlemen, which they cheerfully performed gratuitously during their vacation. This graded course was adopted and printed by the committee, and placed in the hands of the several teachers in September, who find it of great assistance in establishing uniform work. The com- mittee take this occasion to publicly thank Mr. West and Mr. Belcher for performing this additional work so willingly.
The Normal Music System, introduced last year, has been most thoroughly tried this present year, the services of Prof. Meisner being continued. The advancement of the children in this very useful accomplishment, of reading music at sight, has been very satisfactory.
The committee felt that drawing was not receiving its proper attention, more from a want of a systematic course than from any other reason. After due investigation, they decided to introduce Prang's Course in Drawing as being the best and most suitable for the schools of Randolph.
In order to assist the teachers in understanding and teach- ing the work more readily, Miss Ellen P. Henry was selected to take the course of instruction in the Normal class and in- struct the other teachers. This plan has been followed, and we believe much better work in this branch will be the re- sult. We desire to compliment Miss Henry upon the faithful manner in which she has performed this extra work.
The law of the Commonwealth compels the teaching of drawing in all our public schools, at an expense of $244.74 to the town of Randolph. Music, although not a mandatory study, is now taught in a great majority of towns in this
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State, and in all well regulated schools you will find vocal music has its place. We have paid Mr. Meisner, our music teacher, $334.75, which will explain why the committee have exceeded their appropriations $322.56 in the aggregate.
By the law of the Commonwealth, every pupil is now sup- plied at the public expense, with all needed appliances for school work. This is, to an extent, an extra burden upon the public, but we believe it is more than compensated by the increase of facilities for doing good school work. In Oc- tober the teachers of Norfolk County held a convention. As Mr. Joseph Belcher was the president of this organization, the teachers and committee thought it would be pleasant to have this meeting in Randolph. The trustees of the First Congregational Church gave the use of their audience-room for the meeting, and the trustees of Stetson High School the use of their hall for the collation.
The meeting was well attended, and extremely interesting and instructive.
The only permanent change in the corps of teachers was occasioned by the resignation of Miss Driscoll, and the selec- tion of Miss Kate Kiley to fill the place as temporary teacher. Several of the corps have. on account of sickness, been obliged to leave their schools for a time, their places being filled by substitutes procured by the committee.
We would advise more of the graduates of our High School to prepare themselves for the work of teaching by taking the course of instruction in one of our State Normal Schools.
On the 30th day of January, 1890, Lemuel Pope, Inspec- tor of Public Buildings, visited Randolph, inspected the Pres- cott School Building and found it in a very ill-ventilated condition. Ile has ordered improvements to be made, sub- ject to the approval of the Mass. District Police. These im- provements will cost at least $500.00, which sum we shall place in permanent repairs.
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During the summer vacation, Prescott School Building was shingled and painted, and repairs were made in the rooms ; several new desks were placed in the room occupied by Mr. West, and repairs were made in the room occupied by Miss Driscoll. At the North Grammar School Building, the room occupied by Miss Henry was furnished with single desks and chairs, which greatly improves the appearance of the room. The West Corner School has been supplied with water during the present year at an expense of $53.18.
We must again remind the parents of the pupils in our schools, that their duties and responsibilities do not cease with furnishing money and children for the schools. They should visit the schools, form the acquaintance of the teach- ers, examine for themselves, and see how pupils are treated in the school-room. Parents and guardians of these pupils ever remember these schools are your schools, these pupils are your children ; work in harmony with both teachers and committee, thereby securing the best possible good of each child.
By the enumeration under the charge of the committee, there were in this town on the 1st day of May, 1889, six hun- dred and forty children between five and fifteen years of age, an increase of ten compared with the census of 1888. To support the schools for the ensuing year the committee have made the following estimates :
For teaching
$6740 00
Fuel
360 00
Care of rooms
450 00
Miscellaneous and Incidentals
325 00
Permanent repairs
500 00
Books and supplies
800 00
Special Instruction in Music and Drawing ·
500 00
$9675 00
Estimated amount for schools from all sources 794 68
$8880 32
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Statement of Attendance, 1889-90.
SCHOOLS.
TEACHERS.
Whole No. Enrolled.
Average membership.
Averageattendance.
Per cent of attendance.
No. over 15 years of age.
| No. between 8 and 14.
No. under 5.
Not absent during year.
High.
Hugh J. Molloy,
82
78
73
93
35
18
0
May Fitch,
May L. Knowlton.
Prescott Grammar.
Thomas H. West,
54 47
44
94
7 30
0
1
Isabel G. Driscoll,
54 49
43
88
1 53
0
0
Kate E. Sheridan,
36 34
30
88
0 36 0
0
Mary A. Molloy,
38 37
35
95
0 37
0
2
Prescott Primary.
Mary E. Wren,
36 34
31
91
0
19
0
0
Kittie R. Molloy,
33
32
30
94
0
3
0
0
Sarah J. McGaughey,
52 51
47
92
0
0
2
6
North Grammar.
Joseph Belcher,
60 543
572 94
46
0
1
Ellen P. Henry,
37 34
31
91
0 37
0
2
North Primary.
Emma D. Stetson,
36
,33
30
90
0 36
0
0
Clara A. Tolman.
35
34
37
99
0
1
3
0
Ungraded.
No. 1.
Minnie W. Corliss,
33
24
21
87
32
1
1
No. 2.
Sara C. Belcher,
45
36
31
85
0 30
1
0
No. 4.
Rose M. Brady,
25
21
19
90
0
14
1
4
No. 6.
Hannah F. Hoye,
40|37
34
91
0
20
1
3
3
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The " Roll of Honor " as prepared by the teachers : - NOT ABSENT DURING THE YEAR.
Mabel Hayden,
Mabel DeForest.
Wade Belcher,
Willie Foley,
Josie Burrell,
Maggie Forest,
Laura Burrell,
Jennie Good,
Alice Brady,
Grace M. Hill,
Frank Clark,
Charles Keliher,
Herbert M. Chase,
Daniel Howard,
Frank Dolan,
Frank Martin,
J. Edward Devine,
Clara T. Mann,
Carrie A. Devine,
Wesley C. Poole.
Fanny Devine,
Lilla Pratt,
Bessie DeForrest,
Albert C. Wilde.
NOT ABSENT TWO TERMS.
Emma Anderson,
Nicholas Moore,
Bessie Burke,
Mary Kingsley,
Lillie Bracken,
Waldo E. Mann,
Ralph K. Corlis,
Tersa Pope,
Thomas Good,
Shirley E. Roberts
Cornelius Good,
Joseph F. Purcell,
Kittie Good,
Hattie Stetson,
John Gaynor,
Walter E. Scanlon,
M. Lizzie Jones,
Clifton J. Thompson.
Eugene Kingsley,
NOT ABSENT ONE TERM.
Mary E. Alden,
Isaac R. Mann,
Harry H. Amadon,
John McGaughey,
Charley A. Boyd,
Charles McMahon,
Charles Barrett,
Nellie McGerigle,
Arthur Beal,
Nellie Moore,
Mamie Brady, Willie McLaughlin,
Maggie Barrett,
Ralph Mann,
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Florence Baker,
Bertha Mann,
Annie Curran,
Joseph O. Conners, Ida L. Orth,
Charles Campbell,
Nellie V. Pope,
James Connors, Joseph Clark, Willie Campagna,
Chester L. Paine,
Percy H. Payne,
Leo Denehey,
Isabel Perry,
Lizzie Dolan,
Annie C. Paine,
Alice Dumphy,
William Pulson,
Thomas Dunn,
Ethel Roberts.
Willie F. Eddy.
Mary Shirley,
Bessie Fardy,
Hannah B. Scanlon,
Nellie Forest.
Annie Schraut,
Kittie . F. Goers,
Georg Schraut.
Orville Howard,
Kittie Smith,
Charles Hill,
Maurice Scanlon,
Elmer E. Holbrook,
Bernie H. Scanlon,
Leroy C. Holbrook,
Benjie Stetson,
John Haney,
Robert W. Lenox,
Mabel G. Hayden,
Edith M. Thompson,
Flossie P. Holbrook,
George Thatcher,
Alice E. Hill,
Gordon R. Thayer,
Grace E. Holbrook,
Gertrude J. Thayer,
Hattie L. Hickey.
Gertrude F. Thayer,
John Kelliher,
Maggie Uniac,
Edith Knight,
Thomas Uniac,
Katie Mclellan,
Annie Welch.
William Morrisey,
EXPENDITURES FOR SCHOOLS. For Teaching.
Thomas H. West, 1 year
$1,000 00
Joseph Belcher,
1,000 00
Isabella G. Driscoll )
.
390 72
Kate Kiley
.
50 00
Ellen P. Henry
400 00
50
Kate E. Sheridan . $399 00 .
Mary A. Molloy
380 00
Emma D. Stetson
354 50
Sara C. Belcher
400 00
Mary E. Wren
380 00
Kittie R. Molloy
361 00
Sarah J. McCaughey
354 50
Minnie W. Corliss
342 00
Rose Mary Brady
304 00
Clara A. Tolman
304 00
Hannah F. Hoye
316 50
$6736 22
Special Instruction in Music and Drawing.
Paid Prof. M. W. Misener
$334 75
Prang E'uca'al Co., material for drawing 143 14
Siver, Burdett & Co.
101 60
$579 49
Care of Rooms.
Paid Mrs. Margaret Reilly, care of rooms
$31 30
66 66 66 66
31 25
Galen Hollis,
66 66
.
33 33
Herbert C. Wilbur
66
5 00
Mrs. Rose Stetson,
66
66
5 00
Mrs. Maragaret Reilly, care and lighting
16 18
66 66 66 labor cleaning rooms
15 00
Mrs. Julia Connor,
15 00
Mrs. James Reilly,
15 00
Thomas Reilly, for labor
7 00
Mrs. Lewis T. Stetson, for cleaning school
5 00
Mrs. M. Reilly, care and lighting
21 84
James Barry, cleaning and labor
9 00
Mrs. M. Reilly, care and lighting
21 44
.
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22 64
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Galen Hollis, care of school rooms .
$33 33
Rose Stetson. 66 5 00
Herbert C. Wilbur, care and cleaning, broom
10 40
Mrs. M. Reilly, care of rooms
25 04
66
·
25 04
כי
66 extra labor .
2 00
Galen Hollis, care of rooms
33 34
Rose Stetson, 66 66
10 00
James Barry,
1 year 20 00
$449 43
Fuel for Schools.
Paid Dan'l Leahy, 2 cds. wood, Prescott school
$10 00
66 sawing and splitting ·
5 00
Daniel B. White, 3 tons of coal
19 50
Thomas Reilly, sawing and split'ng wood
3 75
Daniel Leahy, wood and labor
10 00
51 tons of coal for Public
Schools
280 50
Thomas Reilly, sawing and splitting wood
3 25
Benjie Stetson, preparing wood
1 50
Daniel Leahy, wood for schools
· .
17 50
Edwin M. Mann, wood .
·
9 00
$360 00
School Supplies.
Paid J. L. Hammett, merchandise .
$7 95
Thorp, Adams & Co., 10 gro. pencils
9 50
New England News Co., slates
7 20
John B. Wren, 5 gro. drawing pencils
12 50
Geo. S. Perry, supplies
36 70
Harper Bros., 66 17 64
Boston School Supply Co., supplies
89 44
66
4 96
A. G. Whitcomb, desks and chairs 190 00
6.
31 30
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A. S. Barnes & Co. 55 84
Boston School Supply Co.
2 63
Silver, Burdett & Co.
4 00
F. M. Ambrose
26 20
Geo. S. Perry
19 40
Wm. H. Claflin
11 58
Thompson, Brown & Co.
9 00
Thomas Hall
5 00
Dan'l Huxford, grade papers for schools 57 20
Ivison, Blakeman & Co. 10 80
Ginn & Co., merchandise
15 92
Leach, Shewell & Sanborn
95 55
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.
8 50
Geo. S. Perry
97 50
John B. Wren, school supplies
7 84
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.
27 50
Edward C. Babb & Co.
19 50
William Ware & Co.
18 75
Silver, Burdett & Co.
1 60
Van Antwerp, Bragg & Co.
88 45
William H. Claflin & Co.
10 85
Geo. S. Perry
46 30
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
1 40
Warren P. Adams
2 13
J. L. Hammett
3 94
D. C. Heath & Co.
92
D. Appleton & Co., 2 bills
7 35
Clark, Maynard & Co. £
1 80
D. C. Heath & Co., 2 bills
11 14
Ginn & Co.
11 25
D. Appleton & Co.
19 01
Allyn & Bacon
1 05
John B. Wren, cash paid, supplies .
2 05
D. Appleton & Co. 8 96
Carl Schoenhof
1 88
$1,088 68
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Miscellaneous and Incidental Expenses.
Paid John B. Wren, expenses purchasing sup- plies for 2 yrs. $13 60
John B. Wren, postage and stationery 3 97
J. B. Lippincott, Prize Dictionary, Im- provement Fair 10 50
L. M. Eldridge, tuning piano 2 00
Charles Cole, labor and loam, No. Gram. 5 25
Geo. W. Pollock, swivel Chair
4 50
Edward A. Perry, labor
3 25
Dennis Fox, labor, Prescott School
7 00
Edward A. Perry, stock and labor
6 25
John B. Wren, taking census of school children 20 00
James E. Blanch, carriage hire
4 00
Andrew E. Hayes, use of well for 2 years
6 00
Nathaniel Noyes, labor, No. Gram. School Morrison M. Alden, for lumber
15 12
8 37
Colin Boyd, care church for Convention
6 00
Deborah M. Jones, use of well 1 yr., 1 term
4 00.
John P. Rooney, 1-2 yr. Truant Officer .
10 00
Thomas Farrell, care Stetson Hall for Convention
10 00
Geo. W. Pollock, window curtains for schools 18 00
Charles A. Wales, labor and supplies 45 64
Daniel H. Huxford, 500 Deportment cards 4 50
Edward A. Perry, labor .
2 00
Galen Hollis, services as Truant Officer
15 00
Daniel H. Huxford, Annual Advertiser
10 00
Mrs. Lawrence Hayes, use of well 1 year Thomas Dolan, cash paid postage and sundry bills, labor .
3 00
13 85
Frank J. Donahoe, services as Truant Officer 8 33
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Colin Boyd, care Committee Room 6 00
Andrew J. Gove, Express bill, etc. 39 05
Henry M. White, supplies 1 10
Horace B. Libby, tables for Convention
15 92
$324 20
Permanent Repairs.
Paid J. B. Rhines, shingles, nails and stock N. H. Tirrell, painting Prescott school house
$293 22
169 00
E. W. Campagna, shingling
140 23
66 repairing Tower Hill
school house 20 66
N. H. Tirrell, painting and setting glass . 28 09
S. B. Woodman, labor and material Tower Hill School 33 13
Randolph Water Works, West Corner school-house 29 22
Charles A. Wales, labor and stock, West Corner school-house 23 96
Edward A. Perry, labor and material for closets
34 78
$772 29
Recapitulation.
Paid for teaching
$6,736 22
Fuel
360 00
Care of rooms
449 43
Miscellaneous and Incidental
324 20
Permanent Repairs 772 29
Books and supplies for all schools . 1,088 68
Special Instruction in Music and Drawing 579 49
$10,310 31
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Funds Applicable to Schools.
Amount Appropriated by the Town
$8,780 27
Received from State School Fund Revenue
345 55
State School Fund . ·
175 42
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Dog Fund
539 26
" Coddington Fund
80 00
66
.. Cash returned by School Com- . mittee, sale of shingles 67 25
$9,987 75
Total expenses of schools
$10,310 31
Funds from all sources . 9,987 75
Excess
$322 56
All of which is respectfully submitted.
T. T. CUSHMAN, JOHN B. WREN, THOMAS DOLAN,
RANDOLPH, March, 1890.
School Committee.
STETSON SCHOOL FUND.
The trustees of the Stetson School Fund respectfully sub- mit to the citizens of Randolph the following annual report :
The Stetson Fund remains invested as follows : -
10 shares Hide and Leather National Bank (par), $1,000 00 ·
10 shares Eliot National Bank (par), 1,000 00
10 shares Webster National Bank (par), . 1,000 00
10 shares Shoe and Leather National Bank (par), 1,000 00
10 shares Exchange National Bank (par), 1,000 00
10 shares Boylston National Bank (par), 1,000 00
10 shares Tremont National Bank (par), 1,000 00
10 shares Old Boston National Bank (par), 1,000 00
13 shares Shawmut National Bank (par), 1,300 00
13 shares Randolph National Bank (par), 1,300 00
THE TURNER FUND.
The Turner Fund, the income from which is devoted to the purchase of medals. consists of one (1) City of Minneapolis Bond, $1,000 00.
The Treasurer's account of receipts and expenditures is appended.
The school-year of 1888 and 1889 closed with the gradua- tion exercises on Friday, June 21, in Stetson Hall.
Diplomas were awarded the following pupils, whose names are arranged according to rank for the entire course :
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FOUR YEARS' COURSE.
Latin.
English.
Helen Augusta Belcher,
Katherine Josephine Reilley,
James Edward Molloy,
Kate Teresa Sullivan,
Jennie Gertrude Whalin,
Ethel Marion Paine,
Jennie Florence White,
Charles Alden,
Annie Clark Knight.
Lillian Jane Sloan.
TWO YEARS' COURSE.
May Adeline Powderly. Charles Alton Payne,
Margaret Alice Reilley.
Elmer Bradford Paine,
Patrick Francis Clark, Edward De Witt Page.
The Turner Medals were presented to Helen Augusta Bel- cher, valedictorian, and James E. Molloy, salutatorian.
At the close of the year, Miss Bertha G. Young resigned her position to accept a more lucrative one in Winchester, Mass. The trustees take this opportunity to express their ap- preciation of Miss Young as a teacher, their complete satisfac- tion with her work, and their regret that they were compelled to lose her services.
To fill the vacancy caused by Miss Young's resignation, the trustees elected Miss May L. Knowlton of Woburn, Mass., who is a graduate of the Woburn High School and Wellesley College, had assisted at the latter institution, and was highly recommended.
The present school-year opened on Tuesday, Sept. 3, with Hugh J. Molloy, A. M., Mary R. Fitch, A. B., and May L. Knowlton, A. B .. as teachers. The trustees know from their own observation and from the opinions expressed by those acquainted with the school and its work that the standard as to scholarship and deportment was never better, and feel that great credit is due the teachers for so satisfactory a state of affairs. They are convinced that economy in appropriations which necessitates the loss of a competent teacher. is not econ- omy, and that when a teacher can be retained by a moderate
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increase of salary the school should not lose the services of a tried and worthy instructor ; moreover, the services of such a teacher should be as valuable to Randolph as to any other town, and Randolph should not be one of those towns which, through false ideas of economy, make their schools training- schools for the benefit of other places which value experience and success in a teacher.
Eighty-two pupils were enrolled Sept. 3, forty eight of whom took the classical course and the remainder the Eng- lish. The entering class numbered thirty-four - fourteen from the Prescott district and twenty from the North - four- teen of whom took the classical course. The teachers are able to speak more favorably of the pupils who take the classical course than of the others, because, as a rule, the pupils who have previously done well and who intend to work well choose the classical course. Any one who will visit the school or watch the progress of the present pupils and the graduates will con- clude that the greatest advantages are afforded by the classi- cal studies.
It has been the rule for the past three years that no pupil shall be promoted or allowed to graduate whose average mark for the year in any study falls below fifty per cent. Re- ports are made up from the daily recitations and bi-monthly examinations and sent to the parents to be examined, signed and returned. These reports will always indicate the charac- ter of the pupil's work, and an unsatisfactory mark in lessons or deportment should call attention to the fact that the pupil must improve or promotion will be denied. There is no school, however good, in which it is not necessary to resort to some such rule in order to check laziness and neglect of work, and to keep the great number of pupils up to good work.
During the year a Bourne Piano was purchased for school and hall use at a cost of three hundred dollars ; it is a good investment, since if we consider the rental of the piano for- merly used and the money obtained by letting this one for
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use in the hall it will be seen that the first cost will soon be saved and a good rate of interest on the money obtained.
The hall and school-rooms have been inspected recently by Mr. Lemuel Pope, State Inspector of Factories and Public Buildings, and he has directed the trustees to make certain changes and improvements ; a portion of his letter to the trustees will explain the matter :
" You are hereby notified that it appears to me, after a careful inspection, that further and different sanitary pro- visions and means of ventilation than those now provided are required in said building in order to conform to the provisions of Chapter 149 of the Acts of the Legislature of the year 1888. And you are hereby directed to provide better and additional means of ventilation in said building by means of brick or metallic flues or ducts aided by heat or mechanical means. You will also remove or change the construction of the sanitary appliances connected with said building so as to greatly improve their condition. The outside doors of the school part of said building will not be locked while the school is in session, except in such manner as to be readily opened without the use of a key. All of which is to be done subject to the approval of this department."
It will be seen from this that work must be done at once, which will necessitate an unusual appropriation of money, as the directions of the State officials must be complied with.
A year ago the trustees asked for an appropriation, in order that the building might be painted within and without. The necessity is still greater this year, and delay in such a matter will surely occasion the expenditure of a larger sum in the end.
To continue the work of the school as at present, the trustees ask the town to appropriate the sum of twenty-two hundred dollars, and in addition to this whatever sum may be needed to make the required changes and improvements in the building and the school-rooms.
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Until this year the trustees have been paid a share of the corporation taxes, amounting generally to almost two hun- dred dollars, on the grounds that Stetson High School was a corporation.
The present board of trustees have accepted the money from year to year, as they knew of no reason why they should not, and supposed that when the arrangement was made the parties to it were acquainted with the circum- stances.
This year the tax commissioner has paid the money to the town, causing a depreciation of about two hundred dollars in the estimated income of the school; the matter may be plainly put by saying that the town has received more and the trustees less than was expected. As the money has al- ways been in reality the town's, inasmuch as it was used for school purposes, and as the direct appropriation has always been less by this amount, the trustees feel that to the regular appropriation of two thousand dollars, this amount, which has been simply turned into a different town account, should be added, as the school is not managed so loosely that so large a sum can be deducted without occasioning a corresponding loss. And therefore the trustees respectfully ask the town to appropriate the sum of two thousand two hundred dollars, (the regular appropriation of two thousand and two hundred in place of the amount turned over to the general town treas- ury for regular expenses).
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