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STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, May 25, 1847.

Laid on the table, and 800 copies ordered to be printed for the use of the Legislature, and 50 additional copies for the use of the Warden of the Maine State Prison.

DANIEL T. PIKE, Secretary.

TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE.

No. 4.]

[HOUSE.

STATE OF MAINE.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND

FORTY-SEVEN.

AN ACT additional in relation to public schools.

Be it enacted by the Senate aad House of Representa

tives in Legislature assembled, as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter seventeen of the revised stat2 utes, shall be amended by striking out, in the eleventh 3 section, the word "selectmen" and inserting instead 4 thereof the words "superintending school committee." SEC. 2. The same chapter shall be amended, in 2 section twelve, by adding thereto the following words: 3 "but no superintending school committee shall be 4 entitled to receive any compensation for services, un5 til they shall have furnished to the selectmen, satisfac

6 tory evidence, that they have made the full and com7 plete returns required by law, to the secretary of 8 state."

SEC. 3. The same chapter shall be amended, in 2 section twenty-eight, by adding thereto the following 3 words: "fifthly, to raise money for the support of 4 schools within the district, in addition to that raised by 5 the town, and to be appropriated as if raised by the 6 town: provided, that the tax for the money so raised 7 shall be assessed only upon the property of persons 8 resident in the district, and that the amount so raised 9 shall not exceed one half of the amount received by 10 the district from the money raised by the town." And 11 the same section shall be further amended, by adding 12 thereto the following words: "sixthly, to join with 13 one or more other school districts, for the purpose 14 uniting the more advanced scholars in each district in 15 one school. And when any districts shall so deter16 mine, they may appropriate such a proportion of the 17 school money of each district, as the scholars attending 18 the school aforesaid, would be entitled to draw, per 19 capita."

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SEC. 4. The same chapter shall be further amend 2 ed by striking out the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth

3 sections, and inserting instead thereof the following: 4 "any school district, at a regular meeting, may deter5 mine what proportion of their school money shall be 6 used for the support of a school to be taught by a 7 female; and their agent shall expend the same accord8 ingly. But in the case of a disagreement in any 9 district on that point, not more than one third of 10 their money shall be expended for a school taught by 11 a female, without the written assent of the superin12 tending school committee."

SEC. 5. The same chapter shall be amended in 2 section forty-two, by striking out the word "select3 men" and inserting instead thereof the word "assess4 ors," and by adding to the end of said section the 5 following: "and in case said agents fail to make the 6 returns aforesaid, the assessors as soon as may be 7 thereafter, shall make or cause to be made an enu8 meration of the persons aforesaid in such districts."

SEC. 6. The same chapter shall be amended by 2 striking out section forty-three, and inserting instead 3 thereof the following: "every person employed as a 4 school master shall be a citizen of the United States, 5 and shall present to the superintending school com6 mittee of the town where the school is to be kept, a

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