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Carl R. Ringdahl.
Charles E. Dyer
Winifred J. Roberts.
Adelaide R. Edmands.
Alice G. Sartwell.
Charlotte Cordelia Eldridge.
John J. A. Seitz.
Isaac Edward Sexton.
Emma Goldthwaite Fenton.
Michael F. Shea.
Charles Joseph Fulton. Arthur Hall Goodwin.
Hubbard Vaughan Smith.
Heathe I. Gregory.
Etta M. Thorpe.
Nora Frances Hallissy.
Charles Augustus Waterman.
Frank R. Wheelock.
William F. Willmann.
Harry Garner Hooper.
Lester H. Jackson.
Alfred William Woods. Fritz R. Zoeller.
Martha L. Haugh. Ida C. Hilt.
Carrie A. Smith.
Hortense May Estes.
273
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
HIGHLAND SCHOOL.
GRADUATES.
Rose A. Blackall. Bella M. Bland.
Maggie V. V. Herrick.
Bessie E. Howe.
E. Louise Hunter. Josephine H. James.
Fred K. Jones.
George T. Jones.
Horace R. Brown.
William W. Lea.
Ethel F. Browne.
Portia Lowe.
Mabelle F. Bryant.
Ida M. Lynam.
Josephine R. Burke.
Lizzie E. Marshall.
Lillian I. Cameron.
Joseph K. McRae.
Horace A. Cammon.
Emma E. Mills.
Ruth P Capen.
Charles H. Munger
Alvan W. Clark.
Franklin N. Parsons.
Harry V. Clark.
Albert L. Pearson.
Frank E. Cleveland.
Annie S. Peter.
Eva M. Colesworthy.
Maud K. Phinney.
Wilbur J. Pierce.
John J. Comey. James W. Cronan.
Frank J. Pushee.
George B. Curtis.
Harry N. Robbins.
William R. Davis.
Florence A. Russell.
William E. Dillon.
Arthur L. Ryan.
Caroline V. Sargent.
Lenora F. Downs.
Helen W. Skinner.
Percy C. Smith.
Ethel H. Sparrow.
Vivian L. Stevens.
Effie M. Fife.
Mabel P. Foster.
Constance E. Freethy.
Moses A. Gunsenhiser. Ruth M. Harmon.
Harry T. Hartwell.
Maud R. Tousey. Agnes K. Wallace. Clara L. Weitze.
Robert R. White.
Florence Young.
Henry W. S. Downs.
John K. Duhig.
Laura M. Eastman. Esther Ericson. Irwin S. Felt.
Bertha W. Studley. Edna F. Thresher.
Mabel F. Bossey. Sadie B. Bradshaw. Estelle Bray. Mae E. Brock.
274
ANNUAL REPORTS.
CHARLES G. POPE SCHOOL.
GRADUATES.
Cornelius E. Ahern.
Florence E. Mitchell.
Carl F. Ashton.
John H. Murphy.
Fred H. Ashton.
William O. Packard.
Ellen G. Bowen.
Walter H. Pearson.
George H. Carter.
Jennie E. Perry.
William J. Casey.
Joseph P. Phillips.
Edith G. Cross.
Marion Pitman.
Grace L. Doherty.
John W. Quinlan.
Bernard D. Elkins.
Jennie L. Ray.
Annie E. Foley.
Annie L. Regan.
Albert E. Gordon.
Percy E. Roffe.
James T. Heshion.
Margaret G. Rooney.
John Higgens.
Annie E. Sharkey.
Maria G. Kelly.
Walter K. Smith.
Edward P. Lovering.
Thomas M. A. Sweeney.
Forrest S. Lunt.
Lillian J. Trenholm.
Mary Y. Martin.
Albert W. Wormwood.
Albert J. Meserve, Jr.
275
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
TABLE 33 .- TEACHERS IN SERVICE DECEMBER, 1894.
1COLLEGE GRADUATE. 2NORMAL SCHOOL GRADUATE. 3SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE.
HIGH SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
George L. Baxter
Principal
$2,400
1867
Frank M. Hawes I
Sub-Master
2,000
1879
Charles T. Murray I
Junior Sub-Master
1,600
1887
Sarah W. Fox
Assistant
1,200
1868
Frances W. Kaan 2
850
1882
Eudora Morey 2
850
1882
M. Isabel Goldthwaite I
800
1893
Grace A. Tuttle 2
800
1893
Mrs. Lena Gilbert
800
1893
Helen H. Wadsworth I
66
800
1893
Carrie A. Marsh I
800
1894
Florence H. Paul I
800
1894
Florence K. Bailey I
800
1894
Nellie S. Bakeman I
750
1894
BELL SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
F. W. Shattuck I
Principal
$1,800
1890
May E. Berry 3
IX
675
1880
Emma F. Schuch 3
VIII
600
1874
Mary A. Bradford
VII
600
1888
Nellie S. Dickey
VII
600
1889
Vyra L. Tozier 2
VI
600
1892
Mabel T. Totman
VI
600
1892
Mary S. Rinn 3
600
1889
Ada F. Fernald 2
V
600
1893
Anna L. Alger 2
IV
600
1891
Edith J. Holden 2
III
600
1893
Martha E. Daniels 3
II
600
1891
Eliza L. Schuch 3
I
600
1882
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276
ANNUAL REPORTS.
EDGERLY SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Charles E. Brainard
Principal
$1,800
1889
Clara B. Cutler
IX
675
1892
Annie L. Dimpsey
VIII
600
1891
Mary E. Richardson
VII
600
1893
Gertrude L. Gardner 2
VII
600
1889
Mabel C. Mansfield 2.
VI
600
1893
Helen P. Bennett 2
VI
600
1890
Carrie Alma Colton 2 .
V
600
1893
Gertrude C. Mason 2 .
IV
600
1893
Alice M. Dearing
III
600
1890
Lillian Nealley 2
II
600
1882
Clara M. Bagley
I
600
1873
Martha M. Power
I
600
1891
FORSTER SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Fred C . Baldwin I .
Principal
$1,800
1893
Elizabeth A. Page 2
.
IX
675
1893
Mrs. Cora F. Sanborn 2
IX
675
1893
Mary E. Bunton
· VIII
600
1894
Ella F. Gould
VII
600
1882
Lizzie Frances Clement
VI
600
1884
Lucy K. Hatch 2
V
600
1892
Alice A. Batchelor
IV
600
1877
Ursula M. Willard
III
400
1894
Luetta M. Wescott 2
III
600
1892
Annie S. Gage 3
II
600
1883
Grace Shorey 2
I
500
1892
Harriet A. Brown 2
I
600
1890
277
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
HIGHLAND SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
George E. Nichols I
Principal
$1,800
1877
M. Alice Paul 3 .
IX
675
1879
Jennie S. Wescott 2
IX
675
1892
Mabel A. Jepson 2
VIII
600
1892
Mrs. M. J. Bryant
VIII
600
1894
Annie R. Cox 2 .
600
1883
Grace M. Clarke 2
VI
600
1893
jennie C. Frazier 2
V
600
1887
Sarah E. Pray 3
IV
600
1878
Alice L. Hayward
III
500
1893
Jennie M. Horner 3
II
600
1888
Gertrude Friend 2
I
600
1893
Katherine E. Hourahan 2
I
500
1892
KNAPP SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
John S. Emerson 2
Principal
$1.800
1894
Abby C. Hunt
IX
675
1873
Emma Frye 2
VIII
600
1891
Clara B. Parkhurst 2
VII
600
1889
Nellie A. Hamblin 2
VI
600
1882
Clara B. Sackett 2
V
600
1891
Annie E. Robinson 3
IV
600
1876
Nellie F. Sheridan 3
IV
600
1888
Abbie A. Gurney 2
III
600
1888
Grace M. White 3
II
600
1893
L. Gertrude Allen 3
II
600
1884
Minnie A. Perry 2
I
600
1891
Lucia Alger 2
I
600
1889
278
ANNUAL REPORTS.
MORSE SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Miss Mina J. Wendell
Principal
$1,700
1882
Genevieve Allen .
IX
675
1894
Pauline S. Downes
VİII
600
1872
Lennie W. Bartlett
VII
600
1893
Addie E. Wentworth 2
VII
600
1893
Adelaide F. Eaton
VI
600
1894
Charlotte Duguid .
600
1894
Mary A. Haley .
V
600
1867
Lizzie E. Hill 2 .
IV
600
1891
Helen M. Mead 2
III
600
1893
Ella P. McLeod
II
600
1888
Annabel M. Perry 3
I
600
1891
POPE SCHOOL.
NÁME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
George M. Wadsworth I
Principal
$1,800
1891
Florence A. Chaney
IX
675
1892
Harriet M. Clark 2
VIII
600
1893
Alice I. Norcross
VII
600
1885
Frances A. Wilder
VI
600
1874
Lizzie W. Parkhurst
600
1885
Carrie E. Cobb
V
600
1887
Jeannette M. Billings
IV
600
1892
Annie G. Sheridan 2
1V
600
1886
Charlotte S. Buck 2
III
600
1894
Lillian C. Albee
II
600
1888
Lydia E. Morrill 3
I
600
1892
Maizie E. Blaikie 3
I
600
1891
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
PRESCOTT SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
.
Samuel A. Johnson I
Principal
$1,800
1893
Anna M. Bates 2
IX
700
1874
Adelaide Reed 2
VIII
650
1877
E. M. Cate
VII
600
1882
A. A. Anderson .
VI
600
1878
Amelia I. Sears 2
VI
600
1873
Catherine T. Brown
V
600
1868
Grace L. Shaw
V
600
1892
Clara Taylor 3
IV
600
1871
Sarah E. Pratt 2
III
600
1877
E. M. Plummer .
II
600
1877
Louise E. Pratt 3
III
600
1889
Sarah W. Turner 2
I
600
1893
BINGHAM SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Harry F. Hathaway 2, Principal
VII
VI
$1,000
1890
Carrie E. Fay I
.
.
V
600
1894
Harriet M. Ward 2
IV
600
1894
Maude L. Kent
III
600
1893
Ruby A. Johnson 2
II
600
1892
Belle J. Tifft 2
I
600
1892
Mabel E. Mansir 3
I
350
1891
V
600
1889
Elizabeth J. O'Neil 2
.
280
ANNUAL REPORTS.
GLINES SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Mary E. Northup, Principal
VIII
$1,000
1878
Mary E. Stiles 2
VII
675
1883
M. Frances Guptill
VI
600
1869
Nellie A. Boynton 2
V
600
1891
Margaret A. Orr 2
IV
600
1891
Mary A. Goddard
III
600
1893
Florence E. Baxter 3
II
500
1891
Emma Burckes 3
I
600
1890
BURNS SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Laura }. Brooks, Principal
IV
$675
1883
Minnie S. Turner 3
III
600
1885
Annie L. Brown
II
600
1885
Florence M. Hamlin 3
I
600
1889
CUMMINGS SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Lydia J. Page 3, Principal
IV
$675
1869
Fannie L. Gwynn 2
III
600
1886
Lena B. Blaikie 3
II
500
1893
Margaret L. Martin
I
400
1893
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
DAVIS SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Mrs. L. A. Burns, 2, Principal
IV
$675
1882
Annie J. Richardson
III
600
1889
Carrie T. Lincoln 3
.
II
500
1893
Priscilla A. Merritt 2 .
I
600
1885
.
DURELL SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Nora F. Byard 3, Principal
IV
$675
1884
Grace Bosworth 2
III
600
1894
Edith I .. Hunnewell 2
II
350
1894
Mary Winslow
I
600
1893
FRANKLIN SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Harriet A. Hills 3, Principal
VI
$675
1874
Jennie A. Chapman 2 .
VII
600
1894
Anna C. Damon 2
V
600
1879
Caroline S. Plimpton
II
600
1859
.
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282
ANNUAL REPORTS.
LINCOLN SCHOOL.
NAME.
. Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Grace Emerson 2, Principal
VII
VI
$700
1892
Flora A. Burgess 2
.
V IV
600
1894
Charlotte F. Mott
III
II
600
1886
Eliza H. Lunt
I
600
1890
BENNETT SCHOOL.
NAME
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Mary B. Smith, Principal .
III
$675
1885
Isadore E. Taylor 3 .
II
600
1883
Miriam Cavanagh 3 .
I
400
1893
JACKSON SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of. Service.
Annie E. McCarty 3, Principal
III
$675
1880
Annie E. Crimmings 3
.
II
600
1884
Annie L. Savage 2
I
.
600
1873
283
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
PROSPECT HILL SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Helen Tincker 2, Principal Blanche Seabury 2
V Kg
$800 500
1872
1892
BEECH STREET SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Ella M. Coops, Principal
Florence B. Ashley 3 .
III I
$625 600
1892
1887
CEDAR STREET SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Lizzie A. Davies, Principal
M. E. Lacy 3
IV II I
III
$625 500
1893 1890
HARVARD SCHOOL.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
Grace B. Tibbetts
I
$500
1890
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
NAME.
Grade.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
MUSIC.
S. Henry Hadley
9-6
$1,333+ 800*
1869
Mrs. Gish Garwood
5-1
1891
DRAWING.
Augusta L. Balch
9-1
900*
1891
SEWING.
Mrs. Charlotte M. Coffin
7-4
600
1888
Mary L. Boyd
7 -4
600
1888
PHYSICAL TRAINING.
Blanche A. Bemis
9-1
600*
1894
*For three days' service. [For four days' service,
ASSISTANTS IN SERVICE DECEMBER, 1894.
NAME.
School.
Salary.
Beginning of Service.
A. Maude Emerson 3 .
Morse
$425
1890
Florence S. Farnham
Glines
200
1893
Mary H. Joyce 2
Highland
425
1891
Alice E. Morang 3
Burns
200
1893
Minerva L. Mills 3
Davis
200
1893
Frances M. Seymour 3
Prescott
425
1890
Emma L. Ward 2
Lincoln
425
1893
Ida B. Mason 3 .
Substitute
500
1893
Marjorie B. Hall 3
Lincoln
1894
Ethel Trask .
Highland
1893
H. Belle White 3
Cummings
1894
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SCHOOL, DEPARTMENT.
34. - AMENDMENTS TO THE RULES
OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, ADOPTED SINCE 1891.
CHAPTER I.
Section 2. (Additional.) To the list of Standing Committees is added one " on the English High School."
CHAPTER IV.
Section 3. (Additional.) The Committee on Finance shall ex- amine and approve the pay-rolls of all bills passed by the Board.
Section II. (Additional.) The Committee on Salaries shall ex- amine the pay-rolls of salaries of all persons in the service of the School Committee and approve such as are found correct.
CHAPTER VI.
Section I. Changed so that Teachers and Truant Officers are to be elected at the April meeting of the Board.
Section 7. The district committees may at their discretion appoint assistant teachers in the primary and grammar schools having an average of over 56 pupils.
Assistant teachers in primary and grammar grades, without experi- ence or Normal training, are paid for the
First year
. Nothing
Second year
$200
Third year
275
Fourth year
350
Fifth and subsequent years .
425
Normal school graduates acting as assistants in primary or grammar grades are paid for the
First year .
8275
Second year
350
Third and subsequent years
425
286
ANNUAL REPORTS.
An experience of at least 30 weeks shall be required to constitute a year's work.
Section 7. When an assistant who is not a Normal graduate be- comes a regular teacher during the first or second year of service she shall receive $300
During the third year of service
350
During the fourth year of service 400
During the fifth or any subsequent year of service 500
When an assistant who is a Normal graduate becomes a regular teacher during the first or second year of service she shall receive
During the third year of service . $350
425
During the fourth or any subsequent year of service 500
No assistant shall receive the maximum salary of $600 as a regular teacher until she has served at least one year in the latter capacity.
Section 8. Salaried assistants shall receive no increase of pay for substituting.
In determining the pay of assistants or substitutes a single year at a Normal school shall be considered equivalent to a year of teaching experience.
In determining the pay of a substitute or of a regular teacher, graduation at a Normal school shall be considered equivalent to a year of teaching experience.
Section 9. Form of teacher's certificate of election.
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1 SEAL. 1
CITY OF SOMERVILLE.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
.189 .
NI
At a meeting of the Board of School Committee held 189 , you were elected a teacher in the School, under the General Regulations of the Public Schools of Somerville, for the year ending June 30, 189 , at an annual salary of. dollars.
Should you decide to leave the service of the City before the end of the period for which you have been elected, a four weeks' notice of your intention will be expected.
Please fill the blanks below, affix your signature, detach the paper along the perforated line, and send it to the Secretary of the Board. If not received by him within ten days from date, the position will be considered vacant.
Respectfully,
Secretary of the Board of School Committee.
To the Board of School Committee of the City of Somerville :
Gentlemen, - I accept the position of teacher in the School, to which I was elected on the day of 189 , under the Gen- eral Regulations of the Public Schools of Somerville, for the year ending June 30, 189 , at an annual salary of. dollars.
It is my present expectation to continue in the service of the City to the end of the period for which I have been elected.
Signature,
288
ANNUAL REPORTS.
AMENDMENTS TO THE GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
CHAPTER I.
Section 3. April 19 is substituted for Fast Day as a school holiday.
Section 5. The Superintendent, at his discretion, may dismiss the schools when the weather is unsuitable.
The number 5 - 5 will be struck twice on the fire-alarm bells to indicate the omission of the next session of the schools, as follows : -
High Schools. - From April to November at 7. From November to April at 7.30.
Primary Schools. - At 8.05, 11.45, or 1. During November, December and January at 12.45 instead of 1.
Grammar Schools. - At 8.15, 11.45, or 1.15. During November, December and January at 1 instead of 1.15.
The morning signal shall be for the omission of the morning session only.
CHAPTER II.
Section 9. (Additional.) Principals of schools containing the Ninth grade shall be known as " Supervising Principals." They shall perform all the duties of principals as set forth elsewhere in these regulations. In addition to these duties they shall, at the request of the Superintendent, instruct classes, examine and grade pupils, and supervise the instruction of teachers in their own schools and in all other schools which are tributary to them.
Whenever a school is tributary to two or more higher schools it shall be under the charge of the Senior Supervising Principal, unless otherwise ordered by the District Committee.
Supervising Principals shall teach at least 12 hours per week, not ess than 10 of which shall be in the highest grade.
Chapter V. The Middlesex County Truant School at Chelmsford is made the place of detention for truants by change in the city ordinances.
Chapter VI. is rendered nugatory by a change in the city ordinances.
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35 .- MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL LEGISLATION OF 1893 AND 1894.
1893.
CHAPTER 108. - Resolve to provide for the codification of certain statutes which the inspection department of the district police is required to enforce.
Attention is called to these points : -
1. Section 7, chapter 48, of the Public Statutes, which appears among the school laws as published in 1892, is not in force.
2. The provisions of sections 24, 25, and 70, chapter 508, of the Acts of 1894, do not appear in the school laws as published in 1892. These sections read as follows : -
Section 24. No person shall employ or permit to be employed a minor under 14 years of age, or over, who cannot read and write in the English language, and who resides in a city or town in this Com- monwealth wherein public evening schools are maintained, and is not a regular attendant of a day school, or has not attained an attendance of 70 per cent. or more of the yearly session of the evening school.
Section 25. Whenever it appears that the labor of any minor who would be debarred from employment under section 24 of this Act, is necessary for the support of the family to which said minor belongs, or for his own support, the school committee of said city or town may in the exercise of their discretion, issue a permit authorizing the em- ployment of such minor within such time or times as they may fix : provided, such minor makes application to said school committee, or some person duly authorized by said committee, for such a permit before the opening of the yearly session of the evening school of said city or town ; and the provisions of said section 24 shall not apply to such minor so long as said permit is in force ; provided, also, that if such minor has been prevented by sickness or injury from attending said evening school, as provided in said section, the school committee shall issue to such minor the permit provided for in this section, upon the presentation of the following blank properly filled and signed : -
290
ANNUAL REPORTS.
To the School Committee of the
I hereby certify that I have attended from to that said was sick or injured with
; and that said
was not in suitable physical condition to attend evening school for the term of days. (Signed) (Dated)
Section 70. Any person who employs or permits to be employed a minor in violation of the provisions of section 24 of this Act, shall for each offence forfeit not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for the use of the evening schools of such city or town.
3. The age and schooling certificate required by chapter 508 of the Acts of 1894 must certify to an attendance of 30 weeks instead of 20 weeks, as required by the law of 1888.
CHAPTER 208 .- An Act authorizing cities and towns to provide free evening lectures.
Section I. The school committees of cities and towns maintain- ing free evening schools are hereby authorized to employ competent persons to deliver lectures on the natural sciences, history and kindred subjects, in such places as said committees may provide.
Section 2. Said committees are hereby authorized to provide cards or pamphlets giving the titles and names of authors of books of reference, contained in the local public libraries, on the subject-matter of said lectures.
1894.
CHAPTER 151. An Act relating to' vivisection and dissection in the public schools.
Section I. No teacher or other person employed in any public school of this Commonwealth shall, in the presence of any scholar in said school or any child or minor there present, practise vivisection, nor, in such presence, exhibit any animal upon which vivisection has been practised.
Section 2. Dissection of dead animals or of any portions thereof, in the public schools of this Commonwealth, shall in no instance be for the purpose of exhibition, but shall be confined to the classroom
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and to the presence of pupils engaged in the study to be illustrated by such dissection.
Section 3. Any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.
CHAPTER 188 .- An Act relating to school attendance and truancy.
Section I. Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and, in cities and towns where industrial training is taught, between the ages of eight and fifteen years, shall annually cause such child to attend some public day school in the city or town in which he resides, for at least 30 weeks if the schools are kept open that length of time, with an allowance of two weeks' time for absences not excused by the superintendent of schools or the school committee ; such period of attendance shall begin within the first month of the Fall term of school, and for each five days of absence of any such child thereafter, in excess of the above allowance, before the completion of the required annual attendance of 30 weeks, the person having such child under his control shall, upon the complaint of the school committee or any truant officer, forfeit to the use of the public schools of such city or town a sum not exceeding twenty dollars ; but if such child has attended for a like period of time a private day school approved by the school committee of such city or town, or if such child has been otherwise instructed for a like period of time in the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or has already acquired the branches of learning required by law to be taught in the public schools, or if his physical or mental condition is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable, such penalty shall not be incurred.
Section 2. (This repeals everything inconsistent with section 1.) The provisions of section 1 of this Act have been incorporated in section 1 of chapter 498, Acts of 1894. In the codification the words " cities and towns where industrial training is taught" are omitted from the second and third lines, and in their stead are the words " every city and town where opportunity is furnished, in connection with the regular work of the public schools, for gratuitous instruction in the use of tools or in manual training, or for industrial education in any form, a child." In all other respects the language remains un- changed.
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ANNUAL REPORTS.
CHAPTER 320 .- An Act relating to instruction in the use of tools and in cooking in public schools.
This Act provides that the use of tools and the art of cooking shall be taught, by lectures or otherwise, in all the public schools in which the school committee deem it expedient, and that wherever such in- struction is given the tools, implements and materials required for such instruction may be purchased by the school committee at the expense of the city or town, and loaned to pupils, free of charge, sub- ject to such rules as the committee may prescribe.
CHAPTER 471 .- An Act to provide for manual training in cities and towns of more than twenty thousand inhabitants.
After the first day of September in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, every city of twenty thousand or more inhabitants shall maintain as part of its High School system the teaching of manual training. The course to be pursued in said instruction shall be sub- ject to the approval of the State Board of Education.
CHAPTER 515 .- An Act relative to vaccination.
Section 2 of this Act provides that " all children who shall present a certificate signed by a regular practising physician that they are unfit subjects for vaccination shall not be subject to the provisions of section nine of chapter forty-seven of the Public Statutes excluding unvacci- nated children from public schools."
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
36. - RULES FOR SCHOOL JANITORS
ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC PROPERTY, 1894.
1. It shall be the duty of janitors to open and close their build- ings every school day during the year.
2. To sweep the entries and stairways daily, after the last session of the school ; the rooms, by Wednesday night, and again on Saturday of each week. The yards, out-houses, and basement are to be kept clean and in good order. The sanitaries flushed every day and left clean at night. Dust the furniture daily ; the windows, blinds, walls and ceilings as often as necessary to keep them free from dust.
3. To clean the doors, wainscoting, and all other wood work, in- cluding seats and desks, during the summer vacation. The windows shall be thoroughly cleaned, outside and inside, three times in each year ; once in the month of May, August, and October. The tran- soms, windows, and other glass inside of the building must be kept clean. The ink-wells shall be cleaned five times in each year, once in the months of August, November, February and May, and once at the request of the Principal, or five times in each year other than those stated above, at the request of the Principal.
4. To build fires when necessary, in season to have the rooms warmed to such temperature as the school committee shall direct at the time for opening the schools. Where stoves are used, fuel sufficient for the day must be carried to the several rooms.
5. To use the fuel economically. To screen the ashes and use the screenings on the fires.
6. To remove the ashes and all other debris from the cellars in order that the ashes and debris can be collected by the city once a week.
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