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Selected List for 1899.
Pupils Whose Rank in Each Study Averaged A.
Mary Collins Pitman,
Ellen D. Bergin,
Olive Kate Pitman,
Lucy C. Jameson,
Addie Linda Phillips,
Mildred Munsey,
Sadie E. Goodwin, Mildred Crosman Breed,
Horace C. Holden,
Hannah Harris,
Bessie Louise Butterworth, Gladys M. Randall,
Mary Louise Steadman, Marion Munsey,
Margaret L. Shorey.
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Roll of Honor for 1899.
Pupils who have been neither Absent nor Tardy during the School Year ending June, 1899.
Roy Elwood Crane, Herbert Earnscliffe Cahoon,
John Arthur Finnegan, Jennie Winslow Carey, Florence Ethel Marsh, George D. Gambley, Florence R. Lampard, Edna Jane Leadbetter, Gladys Cahoon,
Ethel Cochran, Mildred Munsey,
Peter Olson,
Ralph Heman Stevens,
J. Umber Curtis, Walter A. Ryer, George Thorndike Poor, Irvin Kinsley Hussey, Dorothy Lord Martin.
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Phillips Medals Given to Pupils of the High School.
Gold Medal, for Superior Scholarship, Olive Kate Pitman.
Silver Medal, for Excellence in English Composition and Declamation, Addie Linda Phillips.
Honorable Mention, Mary Collins Pitman.
For Superior Deportment :
Two Silver Medals, Bessie B. Hussey, Elizabeth S. Stevens. Medal Reinscribed, Emma L. Brown.
Certificates, Bertha I. Brown, Addie L. Phillips, Elizabeth Ryan, Maud H. Ashton, Susie Stone, Warren Sleeper, Anna F. Willey, Mira M. Southworth.
Calendar for School Year, 1900.
Winter Term begins Jan. I ; ends Feb. 23. Spring Term begins March 5; ends April 27. Summer Term begins May 7; ends June 29. Fall Term begins Sept. 4 ; ends Dec. 21, 1900. Winter Term begins Dec. 31, 1900; ends Feb. 21, 1901.
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Holidays for the School Year.
Washington's Birthday. Patriot's Day, April 19. Memorial Day. Seventeenth of June. Labor Day, Sept. 3.
Thanksgiving Recess, from noon of the day before, to morn- ing of Monday following Thanksgiving Day.
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Corps of Teachers, January, 1900.
Name.
School.
Date of Appointment.
Harold C. Childs .. A. Lillian Rideout ...
High
Sept. 1898. .
High
Sept. 1893.
Mabel E. Ingalls
High.
Sept. 1894
Charles A. Bean
High
Sept. 1899.
Ellen M. Dewing. . ..
Grade VIII
Jan. 1894
Elizabeth J. Hadley ..
Grade VII
Sept. 1880-Dec. 1872
M. H. Fernald.
Grade VI
Sept. 1888.
Frances A. Gould .
Grade V.
Sept. 1888.
Mabel S. Knight
Grades IV & V ..
Nov. 1894
Isabelle M. Hutt. ..
Grade IV.
Sept. 1894-Jan. 1892
Emma J. Machon.
Essex St., Grades II & III
April 1880.
May E. Jackson
Essex St., Grade I. .
Nov. 1894
Caro G. Graydon ..
Pine St., Grades II & III .. Pine St., Grade I
Sept. 1899.
Charlotte Bain.
Sept. 1897
Mabel F. Verry
April 1896.
Emily P. Ellis
Jan. 1895
Edith A. Farnum
Sept. 1897
Edith S. Gardner ..
Sept. 1894.
Louise C. Stanley . ..
Jan. 1888.
Elizabeth A. Bill. ..
Redington St., Grade IV .. Redington St., Gr. II, III Redington St., Grade I ... Beach, Grades I, II, III ... Farms, Grades I, II, III . ..
Music and Drawing. .. Jan. 1890
Phillips -
[Date of appointment to present position is given in Roman type. If the teacher has previously served in other schools in town the earliest date of such appointment is stated in italics.]
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School Statistics, 1899.
.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
Number of sittings
any one time.
Number enrolled Sept. 1S99
Average age (years, months)
Average number of pupils
Average number of pupils
during spring term.
Average number of pupils
during summer term.
during fall term.
winter term.
spring term.
Average attendance during
summer term.
Average attendance during fall term.
Per cent. of attendance.
PHILLIPS SCHOOL :
(High ·
79
78
79
15 9,62 4 62
54 9.74
57
58 7 51 2 71 3 96
Grade VIII
4S
44
44 14 3.45 5
40 5 36 5 42 5 42 9 39 2
34 41 5
96
Grade VII .
4S
48
47 13 4 46 S
45 5
¡44
46 6
41 S
41 S 39 9,46 2 93
Grade VI
4S
50
48
II 7 49 S 4S 3.43 S 38 3 45 2 45 37 3 36 9 93
Grades V and VI
50
50
13 12 6 49 5
48 5 36
44
6 44 7 45 7 45 29 6 90 94
Grade IV
54
47
47 9 5 54 8 51 6 49 5 44 6:51 5 47 7 47 I 43 5
Essex St., Grades II and III
50
49
53 S 2 51
50 46 5 47 5,46
46 5 42 S 46 3
94 93 95
Essex St., Grade I .
46
39
45 5 9 39 5
41
34 9,38 3 38 5 39 .3 31 8 36
Pine St., Grades I1 and III
45
47
46
S
40
40 35 5
41 32 5.26
41 5 34 9 30 4'39 4 37 6 91 17 4 29 6 26 5 21 So S7
Redington St., Grade IV
50
50
50
9
. .
.
· .
. 39 2
Redington St., Grades II and III
4S
46
45
7 6 39 4
41 7:42 2
39 5,38 9 42 6 91
Redington St., Grade I
32
21
21
5 5|28
31
30 5 IS 6 24 3 27 S 27 2 16 9 90
Beach, Grades I, II, III .
45
25
26
7 6,27
27
26 S 24 1 25 3 26 2 25 9 23 2
96
Farms, Grades I, II, III
26
25
30
6
21
21
20
21
16
19
19
2I
90
1
49 48 9 46 3 46 4,46 5,
Grade V
48
50
51 II 2 53 4
45 7 45
Pine St., Grade I
50
2S
26
6 II 31
Average number of pupils
Average attendance during
Average attendance during
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
44 7 . 43 7.36
Largest number of pupils at
during winter term.
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Course of Study
First Year.
Reading and Language-Common words and easy sentences from the board, reading from books as soon as practicable, with phonetic analysis and synthesis. Objective lessons from familiar objects, correction of errors in use of language, memorizing of poems. Three or four first readers.
Spelling-From the reading lessons.
Writing-On paper, "Natural System " of vertical writing. Arithmetic-Numbers through 10, fractional parts, Roman numerals, use of objects, lines, etc.
Nature Study -Familiar objects about home, at school, out of doors, domestic animals, well-known birds, common insects, flowers, plants, etc. Use of Boyden's Outlines. Music and Drawing - As directed by special teacher.
Second Year.
Reading and Language -First year's work continued, with as many second readers as practicable.
Spelling - Oral and written spelling, from reading and other lessons, of not more than twenty words a week. Writing-Copying of exercises from the board, writing of selections from reading books and from dictation.
Arithmetic -Numbers through 25, Roman numerals, original concrete problems by the pupils, fractional parts.
Nature Study -Familiar objects, dwellings, school-room, streets, buildings, neighborhood, village, city, cardinal points, horizon, earth, land, air, etc. Use of Boyden's Outlines. Music and Drawing - As directed by special teacher.
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Third Year.
Reading and Language- As many third readers as practi- cable. Phonetic analysis. Historical stories, stories of the holidays.
Spelling - Same as second year.
Writing-Same as second year. Use of writing books.
Arithmetic-Numbers through 100, use of common meas- ures Roman numerals, written arithmetic, "four operations" with no multiplier or divisor above "twelve," writing and reading numbers through thousands, fractional parts.
Nature Study-Our town, our State, position, boundaries, plans and maps, land and water in town and State; parts of animals, plants, etc. Use of Boyden's Outlines. External parts of human body, hygiene, taught orally.
Music and Drawing-As directed by special teacher.
Fourth Year.
Reading-As many fourth readers as practicable. King's Geographical Reader, Fables and Folk-stories, Stories of American History. Phonetic analysis.
Spelling -Not more than twenty words from reading, geogra- phy, etc.
Language-First part of Sheldon's Language Lessons. Writ- ing. Copy-book 2, and on paper.
Arithmetic -Mental arithmetic, written arithmetic, addition and subtraction up to millions, multiplication and division by numbers of not more than three figures for multiplier and divisor; United States money ; denominate numbers, elementary work with simple examples.
Geography and Nature Study-Study from globes in hands of pupils, the world as a whole, form, size, motions, hemi- spheres, zones, seasons, animals, plants, people, races, civilization, continents, oceans, position, form, size, etc., North America, United States, Massachusetts. Natural Elementary Geography, Boyden's Outlines.
Physiology-Reading of Child's Health Primer, talks on hygiene.
Music and Drawing-As directed by special teacher.
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Fifth Year.
Reading- As many fifth readers as practicable. Hans Ander- sen, The Beginner's American History, King of the Golden River, Cyr's Fourth Reader, phonetic analysis, supplemen- tary reading.
Spelling - Same as year before.
Writing -From copy books and on paper.
Language- Tarbell's Lessons in Language, selections from the poets.
Arithmetic -Notation and numeration of whole and fractional numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of decimals through thousandths. Tables of denominate numbers, reduction ascending and descending, simple. fac- toring.
Geography and Nature Study-The continents, form, size, extent, North America, United States, with special geogra- phy of New England and Massachusetts, map drawing. Natural Elementary Geography and Boyden's Outlines. Physiology - Brand's Physiology.
Music and Drawing - As directed by special teacher.
Sixth Year.
Reading - Hiawatha, King's Geographical Reader, with other supplementary reading, phonetic analysis.
Spelling - Same as year before.
Writing -From copy books and on paper.
Language- Mary Hyde's Lessons, Part III, letter writing, composition writing, declamations, selections from the poets. Arithmetic - Fractions, common and decimal, denominate num- bers finished, simple examples in percentage and interest. Geography and Nature Study-Finish North America, the United States, New England, Canada and West Indies, South America, map drawing. Natural Advanced Geogra- phy and Boyden's Outlines.
Physiology - Skeleton and process of digestion, hygiene, effects of alcohol and narcotics.
History - Discoveries and settlements, abstracts on famous men. Music and Drawing - As directed by special teacher.
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Seventh Year.
Reading -Tanglewood Tales, Sharp Eyes, with other supple- mentary reading.
Spelling - Same as year before.
Writing -From copy books.
Language -Mary Hyde's Lessons, Part IV, composition writ- ing, bills, advertisements and telegrams, letters, declama- tions, selections from the poets.
Arithmetic -Measurements, percentage and interest.
Geography and Nature Study - Europe and Asia, map draw-
ing. Natural Advanced Geography and Boyden's Outlines. Physiology -Muscles, respiration, circulation, effects of alcohol and narcotics, hygiene.
History-Growth of the Colonies through the French and In- dian Wars, Revolutionary Period, United States to the close of War of 1812. Abstracts on famous men.
Music and Drawing - As directed by special teacher.
Eighth Year.
Reading -Masterpieces in English Literature and other supple- mentary reading.
Spelling - Same as year before.
Writing-From copy books.
Language-Grammar, written work, composition writing, declamations, selections from the poets.
Arithmetic -Percentage, banking, stocks and bonds, simple proportion, square root, simple work in mensuration, reviews.
Geography and Nature Study-Study of earth forms com- pleted and reviewed topically. Natural Advanced Geogra- phy, Boyden's Outlines.
Physiology -Nervous system, special senses, hygiene reviewed topically.
History + Completed to date and reviewed topically.
Music and Drawing - As directed by special teacher.
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Course of Study .- Swampscott High School.
First Year Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
English .
4 hours
Geometry
4 hours
French I
4 hours
English History . 3 hours
Drawing
2 hours
Elementary Physics
Second Year Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
English . 4 hours
Algebra .
4 hours
Civil Government
3 hours
Botany and
4 hours
Drawing
I hour
Junior Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
English . 3 hours
Ancient History .
3 hours
Latin I, or
French I, or
4 hours
Physics .
4 hours
Stenography .
3 hours
Advanced Bookkeeping
· 3 hours
(*For those who have had two years in a foreign language.)
Senior Class.
REQUIRED STUDIES.
English . 3 hours
Mediæval and Modern His-
tory 3 hours Economics 3 hours
Latin II or IV, or -
French II, or
4 hours
Stenography 3*
Foreign language (con.) . 4 hours
*To count as 5.
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
Chemistry . 4 hours
Mathematics
5 hours
Astronomy
Geology 4 hours
Typewriting 3* *5 hours
German II (con.)
Latin I or III, * or )
French I,* or
4 hours
German I*
German I (begun)
ELECTIVE STUDIES.
per week
per week
Latin I . 4 hours
Bookkeeping and
. 4 hours
Latin I (con.) 4 hours
French I (con.) . 4 hours
Physical Geography
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Classical Course.
FIRST YEAR CLASS.
per week
English .
4 hours
English .
4 hours
Latin
4 hours
Latin
·
4 hours
Geometry
4 hours
Greek
4 hours
English History
3 hours
Algebra
4 hours
Drawing
2 hours
Geometry
I or 2 hours
JUNIOR CLASS.
SENIOR CLASS.
English .
3 hours
English
3 hours
Ancient History .
3 hours
Latin
4 hours
Latin
4 hours
Greek
4 hours
Greek
4 hours
French . 4 hours
French
4 hours
Mathematics
5 hours
Each pupil is required to take all the " Required Studies " and as many hours of ." Elective Studies " as will make fifteen hours of prepared lessons per week. Pupils able and wishing to take more than fifteen hours per week, may do so on approval of the teachers.
The choice of electives must have the approval of the teachers, and no class will be made in any study unless a large enough number of pupils elect it. Each foreign language is to be studied at least two years, before another is substituted.
For pupils preparing for higher schools and colleges, such changes in the course of study as are necessary may be made to meet the requirements for admission to such institutions.
Declamations and compositions are required of all pupils.
The standing of the pupils is marked : A-excellent, B- good, C-passable, D - unsatisfactory, E - poor. An average of C is required for promotion, though D may be allowed in a single study. A mark of E in any study prevents promotion.
Respectfully submitted,
FRANK E. INGALLS, ELDRIDGE F. SMALL, EDWIN M. BAILEY, School Committee.
SECONB YEAR CLASS.
per week
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Rules and Regulations of Swampscott Schools.
School Session.
SECTION I. The session of the High School shall begin at 8.45 and close at 1.30.
The morning session of the Grammar grades shall begin at 8.45 and close at 11.30. Afternoon session shall begin at 1.30 and close at 3.30.
The morning session of the Primary Schools shall begin at 8.45 and close at 11.45. Afternoon session shall begin at 1.30 and close at 3.30.
Teachers.
SECT. 2. All the school rooms shall be opened, and the Principal and Teachers shall be present therein, both morning and afternoon, at least fifteen minutes before the time fixed for the session to begin. The pupils shall be in their seats, and the exercises of the school shall commence and close punctually at the prescribed hours. Every pupil entering the school room after the hour of opening, whether bringing an excuse or not, shall be considered tardy, and so marked in the register.
SECT. 3. The morning session shall commence with reading from the Bible by the teachers, and any other devotional exer- cises as they may deem proper.
SECT. 4. The teachers are required to obey faithfully the following statute of the Commonwealth : " It shall be the duty of all instructors of youth to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of piety and justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love of their country, humanity, and universal benevo- lence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which a republican consti-
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tution is founded ; and it shall be the duty of such instructors to endeavor to lead their pupils, as their ages and capacities will admit, into a clear understanding of the tendency of the above mentioned virtues, to preserve and perfect a republican consti- tution, and secure the blessings of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices." (Pub. Stat. chap. 44, sect. 15.)
SECT. 5. Teachers shall practice such discipline in their schools as would be exercised by a judicious parent in a family, and shall avoid corporal punishment in all cases where good order can be preserved by milder means; but when corporal punishment shall be deemed necessary, it may be resorted to, and a record thereof, with the cause, nature, and amount of punish- ment, shall be made and kept for examination.
SECT. 6. For violent opposition or open rebellion, the teacher may dismiss the pupil from school, and shall then immediately inform the parent or guardian of such pupil, and on the same day shall apply to the Committee for advice and direction.
SECT. 7. Teachers may have one day in each term for the purpose of visiting schools, and teachers desiring to attend the meetings of the State and County Teachers' Association may dismiss for that purpose.
SECT. 8. When, by reason of sickness or other cause, a teacher is unable to be at school, the Committee must at once be notified, that a substitute may be provided.
SECT. 9. The teacher shall see that the school rooms are clean, and that entries, yards and out-buildings are kept in good condition ; they may command the services of the janitors in executing this requirement. They shall also see that the win- dows in their respective school rooms and entries are closed, and the doors locked at the close of the exercises for each day. Teachers shall make such rules as are necessary and reasonable for good order and neatness on the school premises.
SECT. 10. No person shall be permitted to enter a school for the purpose of promoting the sale of any article whatever; nor
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shall teachers allow notices to be given, advertisements, circulars or other printed matter to be distributed, or any like interference with the ordinary and regular course of instruction in the school.
Pupils.
SECT. II. No child shall be admitted into any of the public schools without a permit ; and no child shall be entitled to receive such permit until satisfactory evidence be given that the State law as to vaccination has been observed.
SECT. 12. Children shall be admitted to the Primary Schools upon furnishing satisfactory proof that they are qualified to go on with some class in the same; and if unable to read shall be admitted not later than four weeks after the beginning of the Fall and Summer terms.
SECT. 13. Every pupil shall be required to attend school as constantly as possible, and in case of tardiness or absence to bring a written excuse from his or her parent or guardian. No scholar shall be dismissed during school hours except upon presentation of a similar request.
SECT. 14. No scholar shall be allowed to leave the school during a session, or before dismissal of the school, except on account of sickness or some pressing emergency, of which the teacher is to judge ; and a written or personal request from the parent or guardian shall be required where the necessity is not evident.
SECT. 15. Teachers shall require scholars to pay proper attention to personal cleanliness.
SECT. 16. Any pupil who is guilty of marking, cutting, defacing, or in any way injuring any of the school-houses or the out-buildings, or the trees belonging to them, shall repair the same, or be amenable to the law.
SECT. 17. All pupils are strictly forbidden to climb on any tree, fence, railing, ladder, etc., about the school-house, or to throw stones, snow-balls, or other missiles, about the neighbor- hood of the school-house, or to use any profane or indelicate language.
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SECT. 18. Any pupil misappropriating, injuring or destroying any of the text books or supplies loaned him or her by the Town, shall subject his or her parents or guardian to payment for the article so misappropriated, injured or destroyed.
SECT. 19. Reports of each pupil's work in all grades above Grade II shall be made from time to time to the parent or guard- ian ; in such reports, as well as all records kept by the teacher, ranking, when resorted to, shall not be by percentages, but as follows: A for excellent, B for good, C for passable, D for poor, and E for bad.
Janitors.
SECT. 20. The duties of the janitors of the different school- houses shall be as follows : To sweep and carefully dust all the rooms twice every week, airing the rooms while sweeping, and keep the basement clean and in good order at all times; to clean the house, washing the floors thoroughly three times each year, viz. : in August, December and April; to wash all windows twice each year, in August and April; to wash and clean the water-closets as often as necessary ; to shovel the snow and keep the paths safe in winter; to keep the doors and windows closed and locked when the school is not in session; to report forthwith to the teacher and committee any injuries done to the school- house, out-buildings, trees or fences ; to build fires when needed, and have the rooms warm-67º to 70º F .- at the time for open- ing the school, and to give proper attention when required, during the day ; to take general care and superintendence of the school- house and grounds to the satisfaction of the Committee. No extra payment shall be allowed for any of the above duties.
Storm Signal.
SECT. 21. In case of severe storms the Lynn "No School" signal is adopted. This signal is 22. The morning signal is rung at 7.45 A. M. and the one for afternoon at 12.45 P. M.
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Extracts from Public Statutes Relating to School Legislation.
CHAPTER 498-An Act in Relation to the Attendance of Children in Schools.
SECTION I. Every person having under his control a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, and in 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 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, and such attendance shall continue for at least thirty weeks of the school year, if the schools are kept open for 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 absence of any such child thereafter, in excess of the above allowance, before the completion of the required annual attendance of thirty 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 penalties shall not be incurred.
SECT 2. For the purposes of the preceding section, School Committees shall approve a private school only when the teaching in all the studies required by law is in the English language, and when they are satisfied that such teaching equals in thoroughness and efficiency the teaching in the public schools in the same locality, and that equal progress is made by the pupils therein, in the studies required by law, with that made during the same time in the public schools; but they shall not refuse to approve a private school on account of the religious teaching therein.
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SECT. 3. The truant officers and the School Committee of the several cities and towns shall vigilantly inquire into all cases of neglect of duty prescribed in section one, and ascertain the reasons, if any, therefor ; and such truant officers or any of them, shall, when so directed by the School Committee, prosecute in the name of the city or town any person liable to the penalty provided for in said section. Police, district and municipal courts, trial justices and judges of the probate court shall have jurisdiction within their respective counties of the offences described in section one.
Penalty for Disturbing Schools.
" Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs a school or other assemby of people met for a lawful purpose, shall be punished by imprisonment in the jail not exceeding thirty days, or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars."-Pub. Stat., sect. 23, chap. 207.
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