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Every town may, and every town containing five hundred families or house- holders shall, besides the schools prescribed in the preceding section, maintain a school to be kept by a master of competent ability and good morals, who, in addition to the branches of learning before mentioned, shall give instruction in general history, bookkeeping, surveying, geometry, natural philosophy, chem- istry, botany, the civil polity of this Commonwealth and of the United States, and the Latin language. Such last-mentioned school shall be kept for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the town ten months at least, exclusive of vacations, in each year, and at such convenient place, or alternately at such places in the town, as the legal voters at their annual meeting determine. And in every town containing four thousand inhabitants, the teacher or teachers of the schools required by this section shall, in addition to the branches of instruction before required, be competent to give instruction in the Greek and French languages, astronomy, geology, rhetoric, logic, intellectual and moral science, and political economy.
It will be seen that Latin is required by law, while French is not required. It will be seen also that bookkeeping, survey- ing, chemistry, and the civil polity of this Commonwealth and of the United States, all required studies, have not been pur- sued in our High School.
The High School has sometimes suffered from the admission of poorly prepared scholars. The examinations should be con- ducted more rigidly in future.
The claims of this school to public regard have been so often and so earnestly presented, that we deem it hardly necessary to dwell upon the subject here. The law requires that every town containing four thousand inhabitants shall establish and maintain a High School. That such a school should be prop- erly maintained, and liberally provided for, is evident. Some- what of the old prejudice against High Schools, we are sorry to say, still lingers among us. We trust to see it soon entirely removed.
Not one of the least important uses of the High School is
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the helping to prepare persons to become teachers. In deter- mining the fitness of candidates for the office of teacher, four considerations have recently had much weight with the Com- mittee : 1. Whether the applicants are inhabitants of Quincy. 2. Whether they need the money. 3. Whether they are graduates of a Normal School. 4. Whether they are gradu- ates of our High School .*
XIX. EXPENSES OF THE SCHOOLS.
At the monthly meeting of the School Committee, held December 2, 1863, a petition was received from the school teachers, - excepting those of the West District, over whose salaries the General Committee have at present no jurisdiction, - praying for an increase of salary, and giving their reasons therefor. They asked that from the first of October, 1863, they be paid at the following rates : --
Principal of High School,
Per annum. $ 1,250
Former rate. $1,100
Principals of Grammar Schools, 66
800
700
Assistants "
66
275
176
Teachers of Intermediate Schools,
300
264
Primary 66
250
220
66
" Mixed
66 300
242 & 220
Also that expenses incurred in the care of school buildings should be paid by the Town.
This petition was seconded by fifty-five tax-payers of Quincy. ;
* See page 32, for names of High School scholars.
+ The following, most of which was incorporated in the original draft of this Report, is here appended as a Minority Report.
Several points in the above petition need explanation. It may be said by some that the salaries of the Principal and of the Assistant of the High School are large enough already ; and also that the Assistants of the Gram- mar Schools have asked for a disproportionate increase. I would therefore state, -
1. That when the present Principal of the High School was first engaged.
12
Assistant "
450
400
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The Committee appointed a special meeting to consider the bject of an increase of salaries. There was a general desire increase some of the salaries, and especially those of the male teachers ; but some of the members felt unwilling to ake any considerable advance without special sanction of the own. It was stated, and generally understood, that the hool Committee derive their power directly from the Legis- ture ; and can pay the teachers at what rate they please. here was an unwillingness, however, to make great use of this wer. It was finally voted to pay the teachers, from January 1864, at the following rates : -
Per annum.
Principal of High School,
$ 1,100
Assistant «
4:00
Principals "
Grammar Schools,
750
Assistants "
264
Teachers
Intermediate “
308
Primary
264
Teacher 66 Germantown Mixed School,
286
Neck
264
salary was fixed at $1,000 per annum. On the 3d of August, 1862, he ceived an invitation to take charge of the Salem High School, with a salary $ 1,500. The School Committee of Quincy, greatly desiring his farther 'vices, agreed to pay him at the rate of $ 1,250 per annum if he would re- in. He consented. The next Board, however, reduced his salary to $ 1,100. now asks that it be restored to $ 1,250. I state these facts, without com- ent, in order to remove whatever misapprehension may have existed with gard to the subject. Independently of these peculiar circumstances, I am clined to think that Quincy ought not to pay, at present, more than $ 1,100 her High School Principal.
2. Miss Burgess, the First Assistant of the High School engaged after its tablishment, was paid at the rate of $ 500 per anuum. Her successor has ver received but $ 400. She now asks for $ 450.
3. When the Grammar School Assistants were first engaged, they received ly $ 176 per annum. A salary so disproportionately small was, I think, nerally understood to be but a temporary arrangement, and these Assistants w desire to rank between the Intermediate and the Primary Teachers, in int of salary.
JOHN D. WELLS.
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In regard to the care of rooms, it was thought inexpedient to charge the existing arrangement at present, on account of a supposed vote of the Town that the several teachers should bear the expense thus incurred. The only recorded vote of the Town concerning this matter was passed March 2, 1858. It is as follows : -
" Voted, that the teachers in the several schools be required to have the fires built in the several schoolhouses without extra expense to the Town."
We dislike this custom. Other salaricd persons have not such additional burden laid upon them. And we ask that, in future, the Town will pay for the entire care of the school- rooms.
It will be proper to present some estimate of the necessary expenses for the next school year. We have carefully con- sidered the matter, and remembering that the fuel for the schools this year has cost $ 862.86, at the rate of nine and a half dollars per ton ; and that it may cost still more, and can hardly cost much less, next year; we would suggest that the Town appropriate the sum of eleven thousand dollars ($ 11,000) for teaching and fuel for the next year.
xx. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
A few other matters claim our attention, which we must dis- pose of briefly.
We would express our disapproval of the district system. Most of the Districts have, of late, wisely declined to choose Prudential Committees. All the schools of the town ought to have the same advantages ; ought to be restricted to the same privileges. This cannot be readily brought about unless one Committee have the exclusive charge of them all.
We wish that parents would visit the schools oftener than
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hey do. Both teachers and pupils are stimulated and encour- ged by frequent visits. And besides, if parents wish to ascer- ain the real condition of a school, they will best attain that nd by visiting it, not on exhibition and examination days only, ut on ordinary working days.
If all parents would determine to visit the schools where their hildren attend, regularly, twice, or even once, a year, the good ffect would, we doubt not, speedily become apparent.
Citizens of Quincy ! We ask you to exert yourselves more han you have ever done before, in behalf of your schools. We sk you to keep in mind the exceeding importance - the in- reased importance in this time of war - of a good education or the children of this town, who, in the course of a few years, re to manage the affairs of the Town, and are to have their hare in the government of their country. Upon their intel- igence depends, almost altogether, the well-being of the Town ; lepends, in some measure, the prosperity of the Nation.
We ask you, also, to second the efforts of the teachers which ve, as your agents, have selected for these children. To those who think that the teacher's work is easy, we simply say, "Go ind try it for a single day." It is not casy. There are few professions, or occupations of any kind, in which the labor is nore wearing to body and mind; few professions or occupa- ions in which those engaged in them need greater outside en- couragement and assistance; few professions or occupations n which one's whole bearing and action are more severely scrutinized.
We say to you, therefore, do all you can to aid and en- courage your teachers. They are helping you to rear up your children. Give them kind words. Consult with them frequently und freely with regard to those in whom you are mutually in- erested. And pay them well. Neglect all your other public affairs, straiten all your other employés, if you will ; but, look- ing after the best interests of your schools, pay your school
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teachers liberally. Get the best you can ; and, when got, give them enough to live on comfortably ; enough to lay up for the future.
JOHN D. WELLS, Chairman. WILLIAM B. DUGGAN, EBENEZER ADAMS, J. G. B. HEATH, JOSEPH W. ROBERTSON, JOHN CHAMBERLIN.
February, 1864.
GENERAL TABLE.
Whole number of children between five and fifteen years of age in the Town, May 1, 1863,. Number May 1, 1862. 1,417
Increase . .
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Names of Schools.
Names of Teachers.
Whole number Av. attendance Whole number Av. attendance Av. attendance Summer Term. Summer Term. Winter Term .* Winter Term .* for the year .*
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mr. Granville B. Putnam, Principal ...
80
783
65
63}
71
ADAMS SCHOOLS. South District.
Grammar.
Intermediate ..
Miss A. A. Holbrook.
59
44
60
49
464
Primary, No. 1.
Mrs. F. E. Whicher.
Primary, No. 2 ..
Miss V. Richards ...
50
44
15
41
4%
Primary, No. 3 ..
Miss L. M. JJillson.
80
63
76
05
64
Primary, No. 4.
Miss H. A. French ..
66
43
60
46
445
CODDINGTON SCHOOLS. Centre District.
§ Mr. L. P. Forbush, Principal ...
75
69
74
67
Miss Louise Burrell, Assistant ....
Intermediate ..
Miss M. A. Prescott ...
51
43
43
39
41
Primary, No. 1.
Miss Mary S. Thayer .
52
44
59
52
48
Primary, No. 2 ..
Miss Julia E. Underwood ..
71
50
44
47
WASHINGTON SCHOOLS. Point District.
Mr. Edward I. Comins, Principal .........
15
63%
63%
635
Intermediate.
Miss M. A. Holbrook.
61
485
67
473
48
Primary ..
Miss C. A. Thomas. ...
75
04
55
47
552
WILLARD SCHOOLS. West District.
Grammar .. Intermediate.
Mr. S. Dewing, Jr ...
52
44
57
4S
46
Miss Caroline D. Fuller
65
48
58
45++
47-
.
..
-
..
86
78
85
72
75
Miss S. V. Wilde, Assistant ..
.
..
94
..
...
Grammar ..
·
Grammar.
Miss L. R. Clements, Assistant ..
.
1,470
Miss N. Maria Dow, Assistant ....
Mr. George M. Gage, Principal ...
48
43
453
Primary, No. 1 ....
Miss Ellen F. Nightingale ..... ....
52
13
46
44%
Primary, No. 2 ... Primary, No. 3 .... .... .. . ... .
Miss M. A. Davis ..
56
43++ 42
50
423
421
QUINCY SCHOOLS. North District.
Mr. Alfred Bunker.
45
34
51
39
361
Grammar ...
Miss Susan M. Cummings
43
24+
49
26+
25++-
Primary ..
CRANE SCHOOL. Germantown.
Miss D. A. French ..
21
18
25
22
20
NECK SCHOOL.
Miss Susie G. Baxter
34
273
33
203
27}
..
60
48
60 50
54
51
45-
Primary, No. 4 ...
Miss M. A. Spear.
52
.. .
.
* Computed to February 1, 1864.
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Miss E. A. Newcomb.
CATALOGUE OF PUPILS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
FIRST CLASS.
Ellen B. Churchill, M. Emma Duggan, Emma A. French, Emily C. I. Glover, Sarah W. Glover, Helen M. Porter,
Mary E. Sargent, S. Adelaide Souther, Eliza C. Sheahan, Josephine M. Wright, John F. Mundy.
SECOND CLASS.
Mary A. H. Baxter, Lizzie F. Cole, Ida Edwards, Mary E. Hardwick, Emma F. Russell,
Wyman E. Abercrombie, John Coyle, Patrick John O'Neil, Walter S. Randall.
THIRD CLASS.
Helen F. Barter, Henrietta K. Baxter, Mary P. Butters, " Saviah H. Bradford, Mary E. Dinegan, Mary S. French, Abbie I. Hails, Jerusha C. Keating, * Marietta H. Ladd, Maggie T. Mundy, Clara S. Newcomb, Mary Perkins, Mary L. Pope,
Emma M. Savil, Emma A. Severance, Mary Sheahan, Angeline Spear, Louisa M. Trask,
A. Gertrude White, Joseph E. Arcy, William T. Averill, Ensign E. Fellows, W. Parker Johnson, John A. Newcomb, William H. Sampson, Joseph M. Sheahan.
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FOURTH CLASS.
Avelina F. Adams, Rebecca P. Basley,
Mary F. Baxter,
Lizzie F. Dearborn,
M. Lizzie Furnald,
Ellen Garrity,
Mary J. Garrity, Julia A. Gray,
Emma T. Hersey,
Louisa J. Hersey,
Madeline O. Hayden,
· Ada E. Locke,
· Lizzie Locke. Mary Marsh, Abbie F. Munroe,
Lucy F. Packard,
Anna L. Thayer, · Ella W. Vinal,
Lucy C. Wilde, Mary H. Wilson, Cora I. Young, Samuel Bass, Arthur E. Baxter, Peter J. Donoher, * George W. Eaton, John P. Hill, William F. Johnson,
Henry P. Keating,
Harrison C. Kingman,
George H. Mitchell,
William H. Mitchell, Joseph A. Simpson, · Joseph A. Taylor, James Thompson, * Andrew W. Turner.
* Left at close of Summer Term.
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RULES AND REGULATIONS.
CHAPTER I.
ORGANIZATION.
SECTION 1. The first meeting of the Board shall be on the Wednesday following the second Monday in March, when a Chairman and Secretary shall be chosen by ballot.
SECT. 2. There shall be appointed at the same meeting six Sub-Committees.
CHAPTER II.
CHAIRMAN.
SECTION 1. The Chairman shall take the chair precisely at the hour appointed for the meeting of the Board ; he shall call the members to order, and on the appearance of a quorum shall cause the minutes of the preceding meeting to be read, and pro- ceed to business. In the absence of the Chairman, the Board shall choose a Chairman pro tempore.
SECT. 2. The Chairman shall call a special meeting of the Board whenever he may deem it necessary, or when requested by any member.
CHAPTER III.
DUTIES OF THE SECRETARY.
SECTION 1. The Secretary shall have charge of the records of the Board, and shall have them present at each meeting. In
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the absence of the Secretary the Board shall choose a Secretary pro tempore.
SECT. 2. He shall keep a fair and true record of the doings of the Board, and preserve, or cause to be preserved, files of the documents and communications belonging to the Board.
SECT. 3. He shall prepare the Annual Returns required by the Acts of the Legislature, and transmit them to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, in order to secure the Town's portion of the School Fund.
SECT. 4. He shall notify all meetings, inform Teachers of their appointment, give such other notices as the Board may require, and perform all other duties appropriate to his office.
SECT. 5. If the term of office of the Secretary as a member of this Board shall expire with the year, the Board at its last meeting shall appoint a Secretary pro tempore, who shall notify the remaining members, and those newly elected, of the time and place of the first meeting for the new year.
CHAPTER IV.
DUTIES OF THE BOARD.
SECTION 1. There shall be a meeting of the Board on the first Wednesday of each month at three o'clock P. M.
SECT. 2. Four members shall constitute a quorum to do business.
SECT. 3. The Board shall examine all the schools semi-an- nually ; once at the close of the Summer Term, and the second time, at the close of the Winter Term.
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CHAPTER V.
DUTIES OF SUB-COMMITTEES.
SECTION 1. The Sub-Committees shall visit their respective schools once a month in accordance with the Statutes of the Commonwealth, for the purpose of satisfying themselves as to the condition of the schools, the fidelity of the Teachers, the course of instruction pursued, the discipline preserved, the pro- ficiency of the scholars, and generally concerning the welfare of the schools ; and they shall also at all times observe the condi- tion of the school buildings and furniture, and make all repairs required for their preservation and use.
SECT. 2. The Sub-Committees shall give their advice to the instructors on any emergency, and adjust any difficulty which may have occurred between the instructors and parents and guardians of pupils, or between the instructors themselves rela- tive to the government or instruction of the school. An appeal, however, may be made to the whole Board by any citizen or instructor.
SECT. 3. The several Sub-Committees shall approve all bills of Teachers in the schools committed to their charge, and all bills for necessary repairs and fuel, incidental requirements, and other charges authorized by the Board.
CHAPTER VI.
TEACHERS.
SECTION 1. The annual election of teachers shall be held on the Friday following the third Monday in March. All ap- pointments and re-appointments shall be made by ballot.
SECT. 2. All examinations and elections of Teachers, except the annual election, shall be made at such time or times as the
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Committee may determine, and notice thereof shall be given, and applications received, in such manner as the Board may direct.
SECT. 3. The examination of candidates for Teachers shall be made by the Board at such time and place as they may prescribe.
SECT. 4. No Teacher shall be removed from office except at a meeting of the Board called for that purpose.
CHAPTER VII.
GENERAL REGULATIONS OF THE SCHOOLS.
SECTION 1. All Teachers in the public schools are required to make themselves familiar with these Regulations; and the least violation of any one of them shall be considered a fair ground of complaint against any Teacher.
SECT. 2. The morning exercises of all the schools shall commence with reading the Bible, and it is recommended that the reading be followed by prayer.
SECT. 3. The Teachers shall devote themselves earnestly and exclusively to the duties of the schoolroom during the school term and school hours established by the Committee, and no absence shall be allowable, except for sickness, without pre- vious notice to the Sub-Committee and permission obtained.
SECT. 4. When a Teacher is absent on account of sickness for more than a week, the bill shall not be allowed for the time of absence, except by a special vote of the Board, and no Sub- stitute shall be employed for more than one day at a time, without the approbation of the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 5. Teachers shall have the privilege of taking one half day in each term to visit any school or schools in town. They shall also have the privilege of taking one day in the year to visit the High School.
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SECT. 6. It shall be the duty of the Teachers to see that he fires are made in time to warm their respective schoolrooms before the appointed hour for opening their schools ; and also o keep the schoolrooms, entries, and out-houses in a neat con- lition.
SECT. 7. No pupil or other person shall cut, deface, defile, or otherwise injure the school buildings or furniture thereof, or he fences, trees, shrubbery, or any other property thereto be- onging ; and any pupil or other person suspected of being guilty of such an offence, shall be reported forthwith, by the Teacher, o the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 8. For violent or pointed opposition to his authority n any particular instance, a Teacher may exclude a child from school for the time being; and thereupon shall inform the parent or guardian of the child, and shall apply to the Sub- Committee for advice and direction. The Sub-Committee may prescribe any temporary exclusion which may be desirable, and uch scholar shall be admitted to no other school without the rote of the Board, and the Sub-Committee shall report all such ases at the meeting of the Board next following the expulsion ; and no permament expulsion shall be made except by the Board.
SECT. 9. Tardiness shall be subject to such penalty as in each case the Teacher may think proper. Pupils detained at home must, on returning to school, bring an excuse for such detention ; and every pupil, wishing on any day to be dismissed before the close of the session, must assign satisfactory reasons therefor, and obtain the consent of the Teacher. Teachers hav- ing charge of pupils who are habitually truant shall, with the approval of their respective Sub-Committees, report their names, residences, and the names of their parents or guardians, to the Truant Officers of the town.
SECT. 10. The Teachers of all the schools shall be required to fill up with accuracy the blanks prepared for school returns, and to hand the same to their respective Sub-Committees, duly
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signed, at the close of the school year, and accompany them . with such suggestions in writing as may seem to deserve the attention of the Committee, and to be for the welfare of their schools.
SECT. 11. Children not less than five years of age may be · admitted into the Primary Department without an examination.
SECT. 12. No child shall be admitted into any Primary School after the first three weeks of each term without the writ- ten permission of the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 13 .* No pupil shall be admitted into any school with- out first exhibiting to the Teacher a physician's written certifi- cate of vaccination.
SECT. 14. Every scholar in the Primary Schools shall be provided with a slate, and shall employ the time not otherwise occupied, in drawing, printing, or writing.
SECT. 15. No child living in one district shall be allowed to attend school in another district, unless by the consent of the respective Sub-Committees of the schools of said districts.
SECT. 16. The several schools, except the High School, shall commence at 9 o'clock A. M. and 2 P. M., from April to September, and at 9 o'clock A. M., and 1} P. M., from Sep- tember to April ; provided, however, that other hours may be substituted by the respective Sub-Committees when the conven- ience of pupils and parents may render it expedient, subject to the approval of the Board. These hours shall not be altered without permission of the Sub-Committees.
SECT. 17. No Principal shall on any account leave his school in charge of his Assistant without special permission of the Sub- Committee.
SECT. 18. The doors of the several schoolhouses and school- rooms shall be opened, and the Teachers shall be present for the reception of the scholars, at least ten minutes before the time fixcd for the schools to begin. The Teachers shall require
* See page 23.
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the scholars to be in their seats, and shall commence and close the exercises of the schools punctually at the prescribed hours.
SECT. 19. There shall be a recess of fifteen minutes in length during each half day ; and no pupil in any school shall be deprived of his full recess, though he may - for punish- ment - not to be allowed to take it at the regular time withe the school.
SECT. 20. In addition to the usual recesses, there shall be, in all the Primary Schools, two intermissions of study, of five minutes each, in each half day ; the first intermission to take place midway between the opening of school and the recess ; and the second intermission midway between the recess and the close of the session.
SECT. 21. The "school year shall commence on the first Monday in April, and end on the day next preceding the first Monday in April following.
SECT. 22. There shall be the following holidays and vaca- tions : - Every Saturday in the year; the 22d of February ; Fast Day ; the first day of May; the fourth day of July ; Thanksgiving week ; Christmas day ; New Year's day ; five weeks preceding the first Monday in September ; and the two weeks immediately preceding the first Monday in April; - and the Chairman of the Board is authorized to suspend the schools on such public occasions as he may think proper, not exceeding three days in the year. No other holidays shall be allowed except by special vote of the Board ; and no school shall be suspended on any other occasion, except for special and important reasons relating to a particular school, and then only by express per- mission of the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 23. No subscription or contribution, for any purpose whatever, shall be introduced into any public school. No per- son whatever shall read to the pupils in any school, or post upon the walls of any school building or fences of the same, any ad- vertisement. Nor shall any agent or other person be permitted
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to enter any school for the purpose of exhibiting either to Teacher or pupil any new book or article of apparatus.
SECT. 24. The schoolhouses shall not be opened or used for any other purpose than the regular instruction of the public schools, except under the direction of the Sub-Committees re- spectively.
SECT. 25. No Teacher shall make any purchase at the expense of the Town, without first obtaining the consent of the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 26. The books used and the studies pursued in all the public schools shall be such and such only as may be authorized by the Board. *
SECT. 27. In teaching Arithmetic to the several classes, every teacher shall be at liberty to employ such books as he shall deem useful, for the purpose of affording illustrations and examples ; but such books shall not be used to the exclusion or neglect of the prescribed text-books ; nor shall the pupils be required to furnish themselves with any books but the text- books.
SECT. 28. It shall be the duty of the Teachers of the Grammar Schools, and also of the East District school, to keep or cause to be kept in a book provided for that purpose, the character of the lesson required of cach pupil ; also to note in the same the tardiness or absence and the deportment of each pupil. It shall also be the duty of these Teachers at the close of every month to send to the parents or guardians of each pupil, on cards prepared for the purpose, a copy of the record of said pupil, as it shall have been entered on the said book for the month preceding, and the pupil shall return said card with his parent's or guardian's name indorsed upon it, at the session next following that on which it was presented.
* The Committee have not been able to prepare a satisfactory list of text- books in season for this Report. Such a list will, however, be presented to the Teachers at the beginning of the next school year.
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SECT. 29. Singing shall be taught and practised, daily, in all the schools.
SECT. 30. There shall be daily exercises in Gymnastics in all the schools.
CHAPTER VIII.
HIGH SCHOOL.
SECTION 1. The examination of candidates for admission to the High School, to be conducted by the Board, shall take place in the second week of the Spring vacation, and at such other time as the Board may order.
SECT. 2. The Principal of each Grammar School or Mixed School shall notify those members of his own first class to whom he can give a certificate of good moral character and presumed literary qualifications, to appear at the High School at 9 o'clock of the day appointed, when they shall present their certificates to the Chairman of the Board. No books, manuals, private explanations, or communication by one pupil to another will be allowed.
SECT. 3. Candidates shall be examined in all the studies pursued in the Grammar Schools of the Town, and a thorough knowledge of such studies shall ·be indispensable to admission.
SECT. 4. Pupils coming into town subsequently to the ex- amination, and such other applicants as for reasons satisfactory to the Board did not appear at the High School on the regular day for examination, may be admitted if they are found quali- fied in the studies required for admission, and also in the studies of the classes they propose to join.
SECT. 5. There shall be one daily session of this school commencing at 9 o'clock and ending at 2 o'clock, from Septem- ber 1st to April 1st, and beginning at 8 o'clock and ending at 1 o'clock, from April 1st to September 1st.
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SECT. 6. The holidays and vacations allowed to this school shall be the same as are allowed to the other schools of the Town.
SECT. 7. The time allowed each day for recess shall be thirty minutes, the recess to be given in such portions as in the judgment of the Principal shall be best for the pupils.
SECT. 8. It shall be the duty of the Principal to keep, or cause to be kept, in a book provided for that purpose, the character of the lesson required of each pupil, also to note in the same the deportment, tardiness, or absence of each pupil. It shall also be the duty of the Principal, at the close of every month, to send to the parents or guardians of each pupil of the third and fourth classes, on cards prepared for the purpose, a copy of the record of said pupil as it shall have been entered on the said book for the month preceding, and the pupil shall return said card, with his parent's or guardian's name indorsed upon it, at the session next following that on which it was pre- sented.
SECT. 9. Any pupils who through neglect or idleness shall render, in the course of three months, less than seventy-five per cent. of perfect lessons upon the whole number of lessons required, shall be reported to the Sub-Committee.
SECT. 10. No pupil shall be required to study more than two hours out of school.
SECT. 11. Every pupil who shall have completed a three years' course of study in this school shall receive a Diploma.
SECT. 12. Any pupil who shall exhibit habitual disobedi- ence to the rules of the school, or who shall be known to be guilty of habitual immoralities, or habitual rudeness or impro- priety of manners, shall be reported by the Principal to the Sub-Committee.
REPORT OF THE
CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN :
The Annual Report of the condition and services of the Fire Department, for the past year, are herewith presented. On the 6th of November last a careful examination of all the buildings und apparatus connected with the Department was made by the Engineers ; we found everything in complete order, showing unmistakably that the officers have been faithful in the dis- charge of their duties. With the exception of the Granite Engine House, the buildings were in good condition. Repairs vere made on it to the amount of $ 63.91.
The total amount of bills examined and approved by the Board, for the past year, amount to $ 310.42. The members ttached to the different companies, with one exception, have performed their duties promptly. The rolls present more mem- ers than could have been expected, owing to the numbers who have enrolled themselves in the Army or Navy. And the re- ult has been that the ex-firemen of Quincy have shown them- elves to be the bravest of the brave, sacrificing in several nstances life itself, in support of " Old Glory." The following s a list of the engines and hook and ladder companies.
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NIAGARA, No. 1.
Captain, Richard Newcomb - with 51 members.
TIGER, No. 2. Captain,* George Curtis - with 47 members.
GRANITE, No. 3.
Captain, Chester Douglass - with 55 members.
VULTURE, No. 4.
Captain, Joseph O. Amesbury - with 56 members.
FIREMAN'S AID, No. 1.
Hook and Ladder.
Captain, Abram M. Alpough - with 31 members.
A schedule of the number of fires in town the past year, and at which the Department performed efficient service, is annexed.
July 15, 1863, barn on Adams Street, owned by Eleazer Frederick. Loss $ 2,000.00; cause of fire unknown.
August 9, 1863, barn on Braintree Turnpike, owned by William Pray. Loss, 200.00; cause of fire unknown.
October 12, 1863, barn in West District, on the James Hall estate, owned by Harriet Hall ; cause of fire unknown.
November 27, 1863, two barns at Squantum, owned by John R. Pratt. Loss $ 1,500.00 ; cause of fire accidental.
November 30, 1863, store on Hancock Street, owned by Louis Congdon ; cause of fire accidental.
December 25, 1863, dwelling-house on Mount Pleasant, owned by Henry H. Faxon. Loss $ 200.00; cause of fire unknown.
* Resigned, and Hosea B. Ellis chosen.
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In conclusion, I would recommend to the citizens residing in the Centre District to have built one or more reservoirs, in con- venient places, for protection in case of fire. The benefits to be derived are incalculable, and in parts of the town where they are now located their usefulness has been repeatedly proved.
All of which is most respectfully submitted.
JOSEPH G. BRACKETT, Chief Engineer. EBENEZER CLEVERLY, J. MADISON GLOVER, SAMUEL AMES, JOHN CHAMBERLIN,
Assistant Engineers.
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