Education Acts Compilation.

commie may sohoois 8 P " 1877, No. 2i, sec. 74

committee to have eXcatfo'n'ai 1 matters in school distriot. committee may schoolhouses, &c. ibid, sec. 75 Maj appoint eac Ibid, sec. 7b Board may acquire sites for schoolhouses, &c. ibid, sec. 77 be a M D tatiuhed may ibid, sec. 78 Certificates of obWnabie 6 Ibid, sec. 79

Committee may provide schoolhouses, &c. Ibid, sec. 75

Ma) appoint teachers of sewing. Ibid, sec. 76

Board may acquire sites for schoolhouses, &o. Ibid, sec. 77

Savings-banks may be established. Ibid, sec. 78

Certificates of attendance obtainable. Ibid, sec. 79

Powers and Duties of School Committees. 124. (1.) In every school district it shall be lawful for the Committee, with the express sanction previously obtained of the Board of the district in which such school district is situated, to establish one or more public schools. 5 (2.) Subject to the general supervision and control of the Board, an d to inspection by an Inspector, as herein provided, the Committee shall have the management of educational matters within the school district. 125. Every Committee may, with the sanction of the Board of 10 the district within which the school district is, previously obtained, provide by building or otherwise schoolhouses, and may improve, enlarge, and fit up any such schoolhouses, and supply school apparatus and everything necessary for the efficiency of the schools provided by them; and such proportion of the cost of providing, 15 fitting up, improving, and keeping in repair such schoolhouses as may be prescribed by such Board shall be defrayed by the Committee out of the School Fund, and the remainder (if any) of such cost shall be defrayed by the Board of the district within which the school is situated by and out of any moneys at their disposal. 20 126. The Committee from time to time, with the approval | c Board, appoint teachers of sewing for any school under its 1 control. 127. On the application of the Committee, the Board of the ~ i ■ i . ' . , . district may select, purchase, lease, or acquire a suitable site or sites 25 for a schoolhouse; and the Board, if it shall so think fit, shall require that the whole or any portion of the cost of such purchase shall be defrayed by the School Committee out of the School Fund. 128 - Tne Committee, with the approval of the Board, may establish savings-banks for the use of children attending the school. 30 Good-attendance Certificates. 129. (1.) At, every public school certificates shall be obtainable, to De called " good-attendance certificates," and such certificates shall De 0I " f wo classes, (a.) For any child of school age attending a public school in 35 the district, who, for a period of tw 7 elve months, has been present every time the school was open, both in the morning and afternoon : (b.) For any such child who for a like period has not been absent from such school more than five times in all. 40 (2.) Such certificates shall be obtainable by all children of school age attending a public school, and be signed and issued by the Chairman of the Committee, or in such other mode as the Committee may direct. (3.) Any child attending a public school who has been absent 45 from such school by reason only of the observance of any fast or other day set apart for strict religious observance by the religious body of which such child is a member, shall, notwithstanding such absence, be deemed to have been present as above provided. But in each such case satisfactory evidence shall be given by the parent or 50

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