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NEW JERSEY SCHOOL LAW, 
 
 WITH 
 
 Notes, Blanks and Forms 
 
 FOR THE USE AND GOVERNMENT OF 
 
 SCHOOL OFFICERS, 
 
 PREPARED BY THE 
 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, 
 
 OF THE ^ 
 
 
 To be Preserved and Delivered by Each Officer to His Successor. 
 
 TRENTON, N. J. : 
 JOHN L. MURPHY, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER. 
 
 1881. 
 
L-07.52.1 
 
THE SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 REVISION 1874, WITH AMENDMENTS. 
 
 An Act to Establish a System of Public Instruction. 
 
 A. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly state Board, 
 
 o / TIT T mi i i j how composed. 
 
 of the State of .New Jersey, That the general supervision 
 and control of public instruction in the State of New Jersey 
 shall be vested in a state board of education, which board 
 shall consist of the trustees of the school fund, the trustees 
 of the state normal school, appointed as hereafter provided, 
 together with the treasurer thereof. 
 
 la. A quorum of the state board of education shall con- Quorum, 
 sist of eight members.* 
 
 2. The state board of education shall have power, and it Powers and 
 
 duties. 
 
 shall be their duty : . 
 
 I. To frame and modify at pleasure such by-laws as may 
 be deemed expedient for their own government, not incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this act, and to prescribe and 
 cause to be enforced all rules and regulations necessary for 
 carrying into effect the school laws of this state ; 
 
 II. To consider the necessities of the public schools, and 
 recommend to the legislature, from time to time, such 
 additions and amendments to the laws as are deemed 
 necessary for perfecting the school system of the state ; 
 
 III. To appoint the state superintendent of public in- 
 struction ; 
 
 IV. To appoint the county superintendents of the several 
 counties of the state, subject to the approval of the board 
 of chosen freeholders of the several counties at their first 
 meeting after the appointments .by the state board ; but in 
 
 *By act of March 2d, 1875. 
 
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 [See sec. 19a.] 
 
 Compensation . 
 
 Annual report. 
 
 all cases where no action is taken by any board of chosen 
 freeholders, approving or disapproving, then the appoint- 
 ments made by the state board shall be valid without such 
 approval ; 
 
 V. To prescribe all rules and regulations for holding 
 teachers' institutes ; 
 
 VI. To order all necessary repairs to the grounds, build- 
 ings and furniture of the state normal school, and to keep 
 said buildings and furniture insured, and the comptroller 
 shall draw warrants for the payment of the same, upon the 
 certificate of the president of said board ; 
 
 VII. To authorize the payment by the state treasurer, 
 upon the warrant of the state comptroller, of all the neces- 
 sary incidental expenses incurred by the state superintend- 
 ent in the performance of his official duties ; 
 
 VIII. To decide all appeals from the decision of the state 
 superintendent of public instruction. 
 
 3. The members of the board shall receive no compensa- 
 tion for their services, but the state treasurer shall pay the 
 necessary expenses of the said members, upon the warrant 
 of the state comptroller. 
 
 4. The board shall report annually to the legislature in 
 regard to all matters committed to their care. 
 
 B. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 
 
 state superin- 5. The state superintendent of public instruction shall 
 elected, term of be elected by the state board of education, by ballot, and 
 
 rwflR/>/i oolditr * 
 
 shall hold office during the pleasure of the board, not to 
 exceed the term of three years, receiving annually a salary 
 of three* thousand dollars ; provided, that nothing herein 
 contained shall prevent his re-election. 
 
 6. He shall be required to have his office in the state 
 house, at Trenton. 
 
 7. It shall be his duty to carry out the instructions of 
 the board, and to enforce all rules and regulations pre- 
 scribed by them. 
 
 *By act of March 16th, 1876. 
 
 office, salary. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Location of 
 office. 
 
 To carry out 
 instructions of 
 State Board. 
 
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 8. He shall be. ex officio, secretary of the board of educa- officer ex 
 
 * . officio. 
 
 tion, president of the state association of school superin- 
 tendents, and a member of the state board of examiners, 
 and of all county and city boards of examiners. 
 
 9. He shall have the supervision of all the schools of SggSJj" 1011 f 
 the state receiving any part of the state appropriation, 
 
 and shall be the general adviser and assistant of the 
 county superintendents ; he shall, from time to time, as 
 he shall deem for the interests of the schools, address cir- 
 cular letters to said superintendents, giving advice as to 
 the best manner of conducting schools, constructing school 
 houses, furnishing the same, and procuring competent 
 teachers. 
 
 10. The state superintendent, under the direction of the Apportionment 
 
 i i < i i 11 . of school mon- 
 
 trustees of the school fund, shall apportion to the several eys. [See sec. 
 counties the state school moneys to which each may be 
 entitled, which apportionment shall be made in the ratio 
 of the number of children between the ages of five and 
 eighteen in the said counties, as ascertained by the last 
 annual report of the state superintendent ; he shall furnish 
 to the state comptroller, and to the county superintendent 
 and the county collector of each county, an abstract of 
 such apportionment, and shall draw his order on the state 
 comptroller for the amount to which each county is enti- 
 tled, in favor of the county collector of said county. 
 
 11. He shall have power, and it shall be his duty, to power of with- 
 
 _. _ J ' holding school 
 
 direct and cause the county superintendent of any county, moneys. [See 
 
 * J J ' sections 18a, 26 
 
 or any board of trustees or other school officers, to with- and 92.] 
 hold from any officer or district, or teacher, that part of 
 the state appropriation derived from the revenue of the 
 state, until such officer, district or teacher shall have com- 
 plied with the provisions of this act and its supplements 
 relating to his, its or their duties, and with all the rules 
 and regulations made in pursuance thereof by the state 
 board of education ; he shall forbid the payment of said 
 part of the state appropriation to any district in which the 
 school or schools have not been kept according to law, or 
 in which a public school has not been kept for at least [seesec. 77. j 
 [nine] months during the year next preceding the demand 
 for payment. 
 
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 Blanks and 
 forms, how fur 
 nished. 
 
 To decide dis- 
 putes. 
 
 To collect 
 books and ap- 
 paratus. 
 
 To preserve 
 school docu- 
 ments. 
 
 Office seal. 
 
 Annual report. 
 
 12. He shall prepare, and cause to be printed, suitable 
 forms for making all reports and conducting all necessary 
 proceedings under the school laws of this state, and shall 
 transmit them to the local school officers and teachers ; he 
 shall cause all school laws to be printed in pamphlet form, 
 and shall annex thereto forms for making reports and con- 
 ducting school business. 
 
 13. He shall decide, subject to appeal to the state board 
 of education, and without cost to the parties, all controver- 
 sies or disputes that may arise under the school laws of the 
 state or under the rules and regulations prescribed by the 
 state board of education ; the facts of which controversies 
 or disputes shall be made known to him by written state- 
 ments by the parties thereto, verified by oath or affirm- 
 ation, if required, and accompanied by certified copies of 
 all documents necessary to a full understanding of the 
 question in dispute ; and his decision shall be binding 
 until a different decision shall be given by the state board 
 of education. 
 
 14. He shall preserve in his office such school books, 
 apparatus, maps, charts, works on education, plans for 
 school buildings, and other articles of interest to school 
 officers or teachers, as may be secured without expense to 
 the state. 
 
 15. He shall file all school reports of this state and of 
 other states which may be sent to his office, and shall keep 
 a record of all the acts connected with his official duties, 
 and preserve copies of all the decisions given by him. 
 
 16. He shall provide a seal, with suitable device, for use 
 in his office, by which all his official acts and decisions may 
 be authenticated. 
 
 17. He shall report to the state board of education, at 
 its annual meeting in December of each year, a statement 
 of the condition of the public schools and of all the educa- 
 tional institutions receiving support from the state, which 
 report shall contain full statistical tables of all items con- 
 nected with the cause of education that may be of interest 
 to the school officers or people of the state, together with 
 such plans and suggestions for the improvement of the 
 
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 schools and the advancement of public instruction in the 
 state as he shall deem expedient. 
 
 18. He shall, at the expiration of his term of office, geijver prop-^ 
 deliver to his successor his official seal, together with all sor - 
 property, books and documents, maps, records, reports and 
 
 other papers belonging to his office, or which may have 
 been received by him for the use of his office. 
 
 18a. He shall (unless the state board of education shall, hoidfng f s Si 
 for good cause shown, otherwise direct), have power, and SSioS' ii S6 26 
 it shall be his duty, to direct and cause the county collector and92 -J 
 of any county to withhold from any county superintendent 
 any portion of his salary until he has fully complied with 
 the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, or 
 any of its supplements, relating to his duties ; and (unless 
 the state board of education shall, for good cause shown, 
 otherwise direct,) it shall be his duty to direct and cause the 
 county superintendent of any county, or any board of trus- 
 tees or school officers, to withhold from any officer or dis- 
 trict, or teacher, that part of the state appropriation 
 derived from the revenue of the state, until such officer, 
 district or teacher shall have complied with the provisions 
 of the act to which this is a supplement, or any of its sup- 
 plements, relating to his, its or their duties, and with all 
 the rules and regulations made in pursuance of any of these 
 acts by the state board of education ; and by and with the 
 advice and consent of the state board of education, he shall 
 have power, and it shall be his duty, to suspend or revoke 
 the license of any teacher when the county superintendent 
 shall make formal report that such teacher does not possess 
 the attainments or qualifications which are essential to his 
 office, or that the school or department of a school, under 
 the charge of such teacher, is suffering from his or her 
 incompetency, or from his or her failure or inability to 
 govern or instruct the children who are under his or her 
 care. 
 
 C. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 19. The state board of education shall appoint for each county super- 
 
 rr intendent, how 
 
 county one person, as provided in the fourth provision of appointed. 
 
8 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 section two, of suitable attainments, as the county superin- 
 tendent of the public schools for that county, who shall 
 hold office during the pleasure of the board, not to exceed 
 
 Proviso. the term of three years ; provided, that nothing herein con- 
 
 tained shall prevent his re-appointment. 
 
 19a - Tlie state board of education shall appoint the 
 county superintendents of the several counties in the state, 
 subject to the approval of the board of chosen freeholders 
 of the several counties ; but in all cases where a month 
 elapses and no action is taken by any board of chosen free- 
 holders approving or disapproving, then the appointments 
 made by the state board shall be valid without such 
 approval. 
 
 20. The yearly salary of the county superintendent shall 
 be at the rate of ten cents for each child in the county 
 between the ages of five and eighteen, as ascertained from 
 the last annual report of the state superintendent, which 
 salary shall be paid by the county collector, on the warrant 
 
 Proviso. O f the state superintendent ; provided, that the salary shall 
 
 in no case be less than five hundred dollars, nor more than 
 
 Proviso. twelve hundred dollars ; and, provided, that in case any 
 
 city shall have a city superintendent of schools, who is not 
 also the county superintendent, the children belonging to 
 such city shall not be counted in determining the salary of 
 the county superintendent, and the supervision of the 
 schools of said city, which would otherwise belong to the 
 county superintendent, shall devolve upon the city super- 
 intendent. 
 
 Expenses of 20a. In order to enable county superintendents of schools- 
 
 county Super- ' 
 
 intendents. to discharge their duties with greater efficiency, they shall 
 
 receive annually, in addition to the salary now allowed 
 them, such sums as they may need to pay the actual 
 expenses incurred by them in the performance of their 
 official duties, which sums shall be paid by the collector of 
 the county, on the order of the state superintendent of pub- 
 Proviso. lie instruction ; provided, that no such order shall be given 
 
 in favor of any county superintendent until such county 
 superintendent shall have furnished the state board of 
 education a certified statement, under oath, by items, of the 
 
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 expenses he has incurred, and that, during the year for 
 which such order is drawn, he has performed faithfully all 
 the duties imposed by the school law and by the regulations 
 of the state board of education ; and provided further, that Proviso, 
 in no case shall the expenses aforesaid exceed three hun- 
 dred dollars annually; and after the passage of this act 
 the salaries received by the county superintendents shall salary. 
 be determined by the school census report for the year 
 eighteen hundred and seventy. 
 Sections 21 and 22.* 
 
 23. He shall issue orders on the county collector in favor gjjJj 
 
 of each township collector and of each city treasurer, for j^e orders. [See 
 that portion of the state appropriation to which said town- 
 ship or city is entitled ; and shall file with each township 
 collector and the clerk of each school district in any town- 
 ship, a copy of the apportionment of the township school 
 funds made by him for said township, within twenty days 
 after making said apportionment. 
 
 24. He shall examine and license teachers, fix the bound- ^sTn 8 ? change 
 aries of school districts, divide and unite districts, form district bounds, 
 new districts, provide for graded schools, and discharge 
 
 other duties of general supervision and superintendence 
 over the public schools of the county, in accordance with 
 the regulations prescribed from time to time by the state 
 board of education ; but no school district shall hereafter 
 be formed which shall contain less than seventy-five chil- 
 dren between five and eighteen years of age; and each 
 incorporated city or town shall hereafter constitute but one 
 school district for all school purposes, and such consolidated 
 district shall hold all the property and be liable for all the 
 lawful debts of the district so consolidated. 
 
 25. He shall have power, and it shall be his duty, to Appointment 
 
 J ' of trustees. 
 
 appoint trustees for any district which, for any cause, fails 
 to elect at the regular time; to appoint trustees to fill 
 vacancies ; to appoint the first trustees for any new dis- 
 trict ; provided, however, _ that when a new district is 
 organized, such of the trustees of the old district as reside 
 within the limits of the new one shall be trustees of the 
 
 *The provisions of sections 21 and 22 are contained in section 81. 
 
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 new one, and the vacancy in the old district shall be filled 
 by his appointment.* 
 
 26 ' He shal1 have P ower to withhold that part of the 
 ffsa st&te appropriation derived from the revenue of the state, 
 from any district in which the inhabitants fail to provide 
 a suitable school building and outhouses, or in which the 
 existing buildings shall be pronounced by him and a ma- 
 jority of the trustees unfit for use ; and for that purpose 
 he may serve a notice on the township collector to with- 
 hold the payment of the same from such district. 
 
 of PP 8tudent n for ^' ^ shall be the duty of the county superintendent, at 
 conege lUrGl sucn ^ me aD( ^ pl ace as tne state superintendent may ap- 
 point, to examine such candidates for state scholarships at 
 the agricultural college, as may present themselves, and 
 the candidates shall be subjected to such examination as 
 the faculty of the said college and the state superintendent 
 shall prescribe ; and the candidates who shall receive cer- 
 tificates of appointment to the agricultural college in any 
 one county, shall be those who obtain, on such examina- 
 tion, the highest average for scholarship ; and the number 
 of certificates thus granted shall in no case exceed the 
 number of state scholarships to which such county is en- 
 titled. 
 
 TO give advice. 28. In all controversies arising under the school law the 
 opinion and advice of the county superintendent shall first 
 be sought, and from him appeal may be made, if necessary, 
 to the state superintendent of public instruction. 
 
 tion of^sSwoi ^' ^ e countlV an( ^ c * tv superintendents shall together 
 superintend- constitute an association, to be called "The State Associa- 
 
 ents. 
 
 tion of School Superintendents," which association shall 
 meet annually, at such times and places as the state board 
 of education may appoint, and at such other times as they 
 may agree upon. 
 
 b n count re and ^* -^ acn coun ty superintendent, and each city superin- 
 tendents 6 " 11 " tendent, on or before the first of October of each year, 
 i shall make an annual report to the state superintendent, 
 in the manner and form prescribed by him ; which report 
 
 *The office of trustee is not vacated by an unaccepted resignation. Townsend v. 
 Trustees, <c.,12Vr. 312. 
 
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 shall specifically set forth any and all such facts within his 
 purview as touch and describe the location and capacity of 
 each school healthfully to accommodate the pupils in 
 attendance, to the end that a full observation may be de- 
 duced, favorable or otherwise, as to an ample supply of 
 sittings, suitability of conveniences, eligibility of position, 
 attention to ventilation, and as to all such other pertinent 
 subjects as may clearly and fully. exhibit the sanitary con- 
 dition of the public schools under his official inspection. 
 
 D. SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 
 
 31. An annual meeting for the election of school trustees Trustees, when 
 
 ana now 
 
 shall be held in each district on the Tuesday of the week elected, 
 following the annual town meeting, at the district school 
 house, if there be one, and, if there be none, at a place to be 
 designated by the district clerk, who shall post notices 
 thereof, specifying the day, time, object and place of such 
 meeting, in at least three public places in the district, one 
 of which shall be at the school house, if there be one, at 
 least ten days previous to the time of meeting ; the voters 
 shall be legal voters of the district, and a plurality of votes 
 shall elect ; and no person shall be eligible to the office of 
 trustee unless he is a resident in the district ; and further, 
 no person shall be eligible to the office of school trustee 
 unless he or she can read and write ; but women who are 
 residents in the district, and over the age of twenty-one 
 years, shall also be eligible to the office of school trustee, 
 and may hold such office, and perform the duties of the 
 same, when duly elected by the legal voters of the district; 
 provided, that the term of office of any trustee which would Proviso 
 otherwise expire on the first or second day of July in any 
 year, shall expire on the Tuesday of the week following the 
 -annual town meeting of the same year.* 
 
 31a. The township boards of trustees of the several town- Meetings of 
 ships of this state shall meet semi-annually, at such times boards, P 
 and places as the county superintendent may appoint. 
 
 32. In all districts in which elections have been previ- 
 
 *Act of February 21st, 1882. This act also repeals all special acts relating to dis- 
 tricts in townships inconsistent with the provisions of sections 31 a^nd 36. 
 
12 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 ously held, one trustee shall be elected for the term of three 
 years, and if there are vacancies to be filled a sufficient 
 number shall be elected to fill them for the unexpired terms. 
 
 lew dSricts ^' ^ u new districts acting under trustees appointed by 
 the county superintendent, three trustees shall be elected 
 for one, two and three years, respectively.* 
 
 SJyiteSS*' 34 - Each board of trustees shall, within ten days after 
 the annual election, meet at the school house, or at some 
 other convenient place, and proceed to elect one of their 
 number clerk of the board, who shall be known and referred 
 to as " district clerk ;" and on their failure to do so the 
 county superintendent shall appoint said clerk. 
 
 Set ae?ic* Dis " ^' ^- e s ^ a ^ recor d> m a suitable book, all proceeding* 
 of the board, and of the annual school meetings, and of 
 special school meetings, and pay out, by orders on the 
 township collectors, in the manner prescribed by law, all 
 school moneys of the district received from the state, 
 township or district ; he shall keep a correct and detailed 
 account of all expenditures of school moneys in his district,, 
 and report the same to the county superintendent, and also- 
 to the township committee ; at each annual school meeting 
 he shall present his record book and his accounts for public- 
 inspection, and shall make a statement of the financial 
 condition of the district and of the action of the trustees. 
 
 school census. 36. He shall take annually, or the board shall cause to- 
 be taken, during the month of May, an exact census of all 
 children residing in the district between the ages of five 
 and eighteen, not including the children who may be 
 inmates of poorhouses, asylums or almshouses, and shall 
 specify the names and ages of such children, and the 
 names of their parents or guardians (all children who may 
 be absent from home, attending colleges, boarding schools 
 and private seminaries of learning, shall be included 
 in the census list of the city, town or district in which 
 their parents or guardians reside, and not be taken by 
 the district clerk of the city, town or district where they 
 may be attending such institutions of learning) ; and that 
 he, or the person authorized to take the same, shall 
 
 *Balance of section repealed by act of March 14th, 1879. 
 
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 make a full report thereof, verified by him under oath or oath 
 affirmation, that the same is correct and true to the best of w.] 
 his knowledge and belief, on the blanks furnished for that 
 purpose, to the county superintendent, on or before the 
 first day of September next after his appointment, and keep 
 a copy of the same for the use of the school trustees, and 
 shall receive for his services such compensation as the 
 board of trustees may allow.* 
 
 36a. From and after the passage of this act, in all cities 
 wherein there now are, or may hereafter be, school boards, in cities - 
 boards of education, or boards of school trustees, the 
 enumeration and census of the children of school age in 
 such cities shall be made and taken annually, on or before 
 the first day of June, by the clerk or secretary of said 
 boards, or by such other person or persons as may be 
 appointed by said boards for such purposes, and a report 
 thereof, duly attested by affidavit as correct, filed with the 
 board of education or school trustees, who shall procure 
 the same to be reported to the county superintendents of 
 their respective counties/)* 
 
 366. The enumeration and census so as aforesaid made census, how 
 and taken, shall contain the name in full and age of each 
 child, and the name and residences of their parents, and the 
 person or persons making the said census and reporting 
 the same shall be entitled to such price, not less than 
 three nor more than five cents, as may be fixed by the said Fee for each 
 
 , . , , ame. 
 
 school boards, t 
 
 37. He shall keep the school buildings in repair; he Fuel and sup- 
 shall provide the necessary fuel, and obtain for the schools ^ 
 
 such supplies of crayons for blackboards, for the use of the 
 pupils, as are necessary in carrying out the course of study 
 prescribed therein ; which repairs and supplies shall be paid 
 for out of the moneys raised by the district. 
 
 38. Every school district shall be known by the name Name and 
 and number assigned to it by the county superintendent, S?c? er 
 in accordance with the general regulations of the state 
 
 board of education, and the trustees thereof shall be a body 
 corporate, to be called and known by the name of " The 
 
 *Act of February 21st, 1882. 
 tAct of March 10th, 1880. 
 
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 Power of trus- 
 tees. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Trustees of School District Number , in the County 
 
 of ," and shall be capable of suing and being sued 
 
 in all courts and places whatever, and of purchasing, hold- 
 ing and conveying real and personal property for the use 
 and benefit of the schools of such district, and may have a 
 corporate seal.* 
 
 39. The board of trustees of any school district shall 
 have power, and it shall be their duty : 
 
 I. To employ and dismiss teachers, janitors, mechanics 
 and laborers, and to fix, alter, allow and order paid their 
 salaries and compensations ;f 
 
 II. To make and enforce rules and regulations, not in 
 conflict with the general regulations of the state board of 
 education, for the government of schools, pupils and teachers; 
 
 III. To erect, enlarge, repair or improve school build- 
 ings, and purchase, lease, mortgage or sell school lots or 
 school houses; to borrow money with or without mort- 
 gage, and to raise money by taxation for any such pur- 
 pose, or to pay debts incurred therefor, or for the current 
 expenses of any schools; provided, that for any 'such acts 
 they shall have the previous authority of a vote of the 
 district ; 
 
 IV. To rent, furnish and repair school buildings, and 
 keep the same insured ; 
 
 V. To purchase personal property, and to receive, lease 
 and hold in fee, in trust for their district, any and all real 
 or personal property, for the benefit of the schools thereof ; 
 
 VI. To enforce the regulations prescribed by the state 
 board of education, and, in connection with the county 
 superintendent, to prescribe the course of study to be pur- 
 sued, and a uniform series of text-books to be used in the 
 school or schools under their charge ; 
 
 VII. To suspend or expel pupils from school ; 
 
 VIII. To provide books for indigent children ; 
 
 *The action must be brought against the district by its corporate name, and not 
 against the trustees in their individual names, with description appended of 
 " Trustees, &c." Sprout v. Smith, 11 Vr. 314. The trustees of a school district, in 
 their corporate capacity, are not liable to be sued in a justice's or district court. 
 Townsend v. Trustees, &c., 12 Vr. 312; Trustees, &c., v. Stacker, 13 Vr. 115. 
 
 fThe employment of teachers by school corporations is an act judicial in its 
 character, and should be done at a meeting of the trustees, of which all shonld 
 have notice and have opportunity to participate in. Tmcnsend v. Trustees, &c., 12 
 Vr. 312. 
 
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 IX. To require all pupils to be furnished with suitable 
 books, as a condition of membership in the school ; 
 
 X. To require every teacher to keep a state school 
 register ; 
 
 XI. To call a special meeting of the legal voters of the 
 district at any time when, in the judgment of said trustees, 
 the interests of the school may require it, which meeting 
 shall be called in the manner provided in section eighty- 
 [six] of this act for calling the annual district meeting, and 
 no business shall be transacted at such special meeting 
 except such as has been set forth in the notices by which 
 said meeting was called ; * 
 
 XII. To permit a school house to be used for other than 
 school purposes, when a majority of the trustees present 
 shall so agree at a meeting regularly called for that pur- 
 pose; 
 
 XIII. To make an annual report, on or before the first 
 of September, to the county superintendent, in the manner 
 and form prescribed by the state superintendent of public 
 instruction. 
 
 40. The district trustees of each township shall together Meetings of 
 constitute an association, to be called " The Township boards of trus- 
 
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 Board of Trustees ; " said board shall meet at such times 3ia.j 
 and places as the county superintendent may appoint, for 
 the purpose of hearing from him communications and sug- 
 gestions in regard to the management of the schools, and of 
 submitting to him questions for advice or opinion relating 
 to the same. 
 
 E. TEACHERS. 
 
 41. Every teacher of a public school shall keep a school school register, 
 register in the manner provided therefor, and no salary 
 
 shall be paid to such teacher until said register is exhibited 
 to the district clerk or other officer authorized to make 
 payment, and until said officer finds, by examination, that 
 
 *A special meeting of the legal voters of a school district, duly called, may vote 
 to raise money for school purposes, although such appropriation has been refused 
 at the annual meeting. State, Trustees, &c. t v. Lewis, 6 Vr. 377. Special meetings of 
 the voters of a school district cannot be called unless ordered by the board of 
 trustees regularly convened. Bogert v. Tmstees, &c., 14 Vr. . 
 
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 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 School register 
 left with Dis- 
 trict Clerk. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Teachers' cer- 
 tificate. 
 
 School month 
 and holidays. 
 
 the register has been properly kept for the time for which 
 salary is demanded, and enters upon the register a certifi- 
 cate to that effect.* 
 
 42. Every teacher who shall leave a school before the 
 close of the school year shall, at the time of leaving, make 
 to the county superintendent a report of the school for all 
 that portion of the current school year that the school has 
 been in his or her charge, and shall, at the same time, give 
 a duplicate of said report, and surrender the school register 
 to the district clerk ; and any teacher who may be teaching 
 any school at the close of the school year shall, in his or 
 her annual report, include all the statistics from the school 
 register for the entire school year, notwithstanding any 
 previous report for a part of the year ; no school money 
 shall be paid to any teacher for the l|st month of his or her 
 services, until the report herein required shall have been 
 made and received, and the register exhibited ; provided, 
 that in graded schools, in which there are more teachers 
 than one, the principal teacher alone shall be responsible 
 for the school report and register. 
 
 43. No teacher shall be entitled to any salary unless 
 such teacher shall be the holder of a proper teacher's cer- 
 tificate in full force and effect. 
 
 44. In every contract, whether written or verbal, be- 
 tween any teacher and board of trustees, a school month 
 shall be construed and taken to be twenty school days, or 
 four weeks of five school days each ; and no teacher shall 
 be required to teach school on Christmas day, the first day 
 of January, the fourth day of July, and such days of fast- 
 ing or thanksgiving as may be appointed by the president 
 of the United States or the governor of this state ; and no 
 deduction from the teacher's time or wages shall be made 
 by reason of the fact that a school day happens to be one 
 of the days referred to in this section ; any contract made 
 in violation of this section shall have no force or effect as 
 against the teacher. 
 
 * A school teacher who has rendered services according to the requirements of 
 the school law, and is refused compensation out of the fund specially provided for 
 that purpose, is entitled to a mandamus to compel the proper officers to perform 
 their duty, and to make payment of what is justly due. Apgar v. School Trustees, 
 dec., 5 Vr. 308. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 17 
 
 45. Every teacher shall have power to hold every pupil 
 accountable in school, for any disorderly conduct on the pupils, 
 way to or from school, or on the play grounds of the 
 school, or during recess, and to suspend from school any 
 pupil for good cause ; provided, that such suspension shall Provi8 - 
 be reported by the teacher to the trustees as soon as prac- 
 ticable ; and if such action is not sustained by them, the 
 teacher may appeal to the county superintendent, whose 
 decision shall be final. 
 
 46. In case of the dismissal of any teacher before the Dismissal of 
 
 * teacher. 
 
 expiration of any contract entered into between such 
 teacher and trustees, the teacher shall have the right of 
 appeal to the county superintendent, and if the county 
 superintendent shall decide that the removal was made 
 without good cause, said teacher shall be entitled to com- 
 pensation for the full time for which the contract was 
 made ; but it shall be optional with the trustees whether 
 he or she shall or shall not teach for the unexpired term. 
 
 F. PUPILS. 
 
 47. The pupils of the public schools shall comply with Pupils to sub- 
 
 , r mil to author- 
 
 the regulations established in pursuance of law for the gov- ity of teacher. 
 ernment of such schools ; shall pursue the course of study 
 and use the series of text-books prescribed by the trus- 
 tees and county superintendent, and shall submit to the 
 authority of the teacher ; continued and willful disobedi- 
 ence, or open defiance of the authority of the teacher, the 
 use of habitual profanity or obscene language, shall consti- 
 tute good cause for suspension or expulsion from school ; 
 any pupil who shall in any way cut, deface or otherwise 
 injure any school-house, fences or outbuildings thereof, 
 shall be liable to suspension and punishment, and the 
 parents of such pupil shall be liable for damages to the 
 amount of injury, on complaint of the teacher, the amount 
 to be determined by the trustees, and collected by the dis- 
 trict clerk, by an action in debt therefor, in any court 
 having jurisdiction, in his name as district clerk, together 
 with the costs of said action. 
 
18 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 G. BOARDS OF EXAMINERS. 
 
 ^8. There shall be a state board of examiners, consisting 
 of the state superintendent of public instruction and the 
 principal of the state normal school ; they shall have power, 
 and it shall be their duty, to hold examinations of teachers, 
 and to grant state certificates, or revoke the same, under 
 such rules and regulations as the state board of education 
 may prescribe ; and a certificate thus granted shall entitle 
 the holder, without further examination, to teach in any 
 part of the state, so long as the certificate remains valid 
 by the terms thereof, and in any school not of a higher 
 grade than that for which the certificate represents him as- 
 qualified, 
 county Boards 49. There shall be in each county a county board of 
 
 of Examiners. * 
 
 examiners, which shall be composed of the county super- 
 intendent, who shall, ex-officio, be chairman, and of a num- 
 ber of teachers, not to exceed three, to be appointed by 
 him, who shall hold office for one year from the time of 
 their respective appointments ; but no person shall be ap- 
 pointed as county examiner unless he holds either a state 
 or a first grade county certificate ; the county superintend- 
 ent shall fill vacancies that occur from absence or other 
 causes,- but if he cannot find any teacher in his county 
 qualified, under the provisions of this section, willing to 
 serve, he shall conduct the examination himself; the board 
 shall meet at such times and places as may be designated 
 by the chairman, and shall hold a session at least as often 
 as once in every three months, and at the place and during 
 the session of any teachers' institute held in the county ; 
 each member of the board, except the county superintend- 
 ent, shall be paid for his services, in addition to his travel- 
 ing expenses, a sum not exceeding three dollars for each 
 session of said board, to be paid by the county collector on 
 Proviso. the order of the county superintendent ; provided, that this 
 
 compensation shall be paid only for the regular quarterly 
 examinations; and that whenever said board shall hold 
 sessions at any other time, no compensation shall be 
 allowed from the county ; but in cases of such special 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 19 
 
 examinations, said board may charge each applicant an 
 examination "fee not exceeding two dollars ; the county 
 board of examiners shall have power to conduct exami- 
 nations and to grant certificates of different grades, in 
 accordance with the general regulations on the subject 
 prescribed by the state board of education, and the high- 
 est grade of certificate thus granted shall entitle the holder, 
 without further examination, to teach in any part of the 
 state so long as this certificate remains valid, and in any 
 school not of a higher grade than that for which the 
 certificate represents the holder as qualified ; any county 
 certificate lower than the highest grade will only entitle 
 the holder to teach a school of a corresponding grade in 
 the county, for which such certificate was granted. 
 
 50. In every city having a board of education governed citywards of 
 by special laws, there shall be a city board of examiners, 
 
 to consist of such members as said board of education of 
 that city may appoint ; said examiners shall have power, 
 subject to such rules and regulations as may be prescribed 
 by the city board of education, to grant certificates of 
 qualification, which shall be valid for all schools of that 
 city ; and no teacher shall be employed in any of the 
 schools of that city unless possessing such certificate, or a 
 state certificate, nor in any school of a higher grade than 
 that for which said certificate represents the holder to be 
 qualified ; any city board of examiners may recognize the 
 certificates of any other city, and, without examination, 
 issue to the holders certificates of a corresponding grade. 
 
 H. SCHOOLS. 
 State Normal School. 
 
 51. There shall be a normal school, or seminary, for the Normal schoo 
 training and education of teachers in the art of instruct- 
 ing and governing the common schools of this state, the 
 
 object of which normal school or seminary shall be the 
 training and education of its pupils in such branches of 
 knowledge, and such methods of teaching and governing, 
 as will qualify them for teachers of our common schools. 
 
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 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Trustees how 52. There shall be a board of trustees of said normal 
 
 appointed. 
 
 school, to consist of two trustees from each congressional 
 district ; the trustees already appointed shall continue in 
 office severally for the terms for which they have been 
 appointed, namely, seven whose terms expire in eighteen 
 hundred and seventy-four, and seven whose terms expire 
 in eighteen hundred and seventy-five ; and annually there- 
 after, in the place of those whose terms are about to expire, 
 the governor shall nominate, and by and with the advice 
 and consent of the senate shall appoint, one trustee of said 
 school from each congressional district, to hold office sever- 
 ally for the term of two years and until their successors are 
 appointed, so that there shall always be two trustees from 
 each congressional district; and in case of any vacancy by 
 death, resignation or otherwise, a successor for the unex- 
 pired term shall in like manner be appointed ; the state 
 superintendent of public instruction shall be, ex officio, a 
 member of said board of trustees. 
 
 52a. A quorum of the board of trustees of the state 
 normal school shall consist of six members.* 
 
 compensation. 53. The said trustees shall receive no compensation for 
 their services, but the expenses necessarily incurred by 
 them in the discharge of their duties shall be defrayed out 
 of the funds hereinafter appropriated for the support of said 
 school. 
 
 54. To the said board of trustees shall be committed the 
 control and use of the buildings and grounds owned and 
 used by the state for the use of the normal school, the 
 application of the funds for the support thereof, the appoint- 
 ment of teachers and the power of removing the same, the 
 power to prescribe the studies and exercises of the school 
 and rules for its management ; to grant diplomas ; to 
 appoint some suitable person treasurer of the board, and to 
 frame and modify, at pleasure, such by-laws as they may 
 deem necessary for their own government ; and they shall 
 report annually to the legislature their own doings and the 
 progress and condition of the school. 
 
 55. The number of pupils shall not exceed three for each 
 
 Supervision of 
 Normal School. 
 
 Number of 
 pupils. 
 
 *By act of March 2d, 1875. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 21 
 
 member of the senate and general assembly, and each 
 county shall be entitled to fill three times as many seats in 
 the school as it has representatives in the legislature ; the 
 applicants shall give, on admission, a written declaration, 
 signed with their own hands, that their object in seeking 
 admission to the school is to qualify themselves for the 
 employment of public school teachers, and that it is their 
 intention to engage in that employment in this state for at 
 least two years. 
 
 55a. The applicants for admission to the normal school scholarship 
 shall give, on admission, a written obligation, signed by 
 their own hands, that their object in seeking admission to 
 the school is to qualify themselves for the employment of 
 public school teachers, and that it is their intention to 
 engage in that employment in this state for at least two 
 years, or refund to the state the cost of their tuition ; and, 
 in addition to the annual sum appropriated to the support 
 of the normal school, there is hereby appropriated annually 
 the sum of five thousand dollars, to be paid out of the 
 treasury of the state in like manner, which shall constitute 
 a scholarship fund, to be applied as follows : there shall be 
 fifty scholarships of one hundred dollars each, two of which 
 shall be allotted to each county, to be competed for by the 
 pupils in the normal school from that county, and the 
 remainder shall be open to free competition by pupils in 
 the normal school from the state at large ; the competitive 
 examinations above mentioned shall be conducted by the 
 principal of the state normal school and his assistants; 
 provided, that scholarships shall be awarded to those pupils proviso, 
 only who shall first enter into a satisfactory bond to the 
 treasurer of the state, obligating themselves to teach in the 
 public schools of this state for the term of five consecutive 
 years, or to refund the amount paid them upon a failure 
 to do so from any cause save continued sickness or death ; 
 provided, that until such system of scholarships shall be Proviso, 
 perfected by the board of trustees of the state normal 
 school, said scholar's life fund shall be paid toward and for 
 such purposes connected with the state normal school and 
 boarding-house property belonging to the state as, in the 
 
22 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 judgment of said trustees, will be for the best interest of 
 the state and the advantage of the cause of education. 
 
 mmed h wad ~ ^. At the opening of each term of the normal school, 
 the principal, with his assistants, shall proceed to examine 
 applicants, and to admit to the school such as appear to be 
 possessed of the proper qualification, to the number to which 
 each county may be entitled. 
 
 vacancies, how 57. In case any county is not fully represented, addi- 
 tional candidates may be admitted from other counties, on 
 sustaining the requisite examination. 
 
 appointed h w ^8- ^e board * trustees shall appoint and procure the 
 number of teachers which may be necessary to carry out, 
 in the best and highest sense, the purposes and designs of 
 this act, and shall furnish for the use of the pupils the 
 necessary apparatus and text-books, so far as the funds 
 hereafter to be named and appropriated for the support of 
 the school will allow ; and the tuition in the normal school 
 shall be gratuitous. 
 
 Model school. 59. The board of trustees are authorized to maintain a 
 model school, under permanent teachers, in which the 
 pupils of the normal school shall have opportunity to 
 observe and practice the modes of instruction and disci- 
 pline inculcated in the normal school, and in which pupils 
 may be prepared for the normal school. 
 
 Appropriation. 60. For the support of the normal school, and to carry 
 out the purpose and designs of this act, there is appropri- 
 ated hereby the annual sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to 
 be paid out of the treasury of the state upon the warrant 
 of the comptroller. 
 
 school year for 60a. The school year, so far as regards the state normal 
 
 Normal School. J 
 
 school, shall hereafter terminate on the last day of June. 
 
 Graded Schools. 
 Graded schools, 61. Any two or more districts, by a majority vote of the 
 
 howestab- J n a j A - j 
 
 inhabitants at a meeting regularly called or advertised 
 by the county superintendent, or superintendents of the 
 county or counties in which said districts are situated, may 
 cause to be established and maintained a graded school, 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 23 
 
 which shall bo entitled, according to the number of chil- 
 dren in attendance, to its proper share of the state appro- 
 priation and of the township school taxes belonging to the 
 districts which have caused said graded school to be 
 erected ; and a school thus established shall be governed 
 by a joint board, combined of the trustees of the combining 
 districts, and subject to such regulations as they may 
 prescribe. 
 
 District Schools. 
 
 62. The inhabitants of every school district shall be suitable schooJ 
 
 * ^ ^ buildings re- 
 
 required to provide a suitable school building and out- quired, 
 houses for the accommodation of their children ; and in 
 case such buildings are not provided, or those already in 
 use shall be pronounced by the county superintendent and 
 a majority of the trustees of said district unfit for the pur- 
 poses for which they are applied, such district shall be 
 deprived of the benefit of that part of the state appropria- 
 tion derived from the revenues of the state until suitable 
 buildings shall be erected. 
 
 63. S"o school district shall be entitled to receive any Time schools 
 
 * must be main- 
 part of the school appropriation which shall not have main- Jjj, n |j*- L See 
 
 tained a public school for at least [nine] months during 
 the then next preceding school year ; provided, that any Proviso, 
 new district, or a district in which the school is discon- 
 tinued on account of the repairing of an old or the erection 
 of a new school building, shall not be deprived of its full 
 share of the public school funds on account of the restric- 
 tions of this section. 
 
 64. The school year shall begin on the first day of Sep- school year, 
 tember and end on the last day of August. 
 
 I. REVENUE AND APPORTIONMENT. 
 
 State Appropriations. 
 65. The governor of this state, the president of the sen- Trustees of 
 
 School Fund. 
 
 ate, the speaker of the house of assembly, the attorney- 
 general, the secretary of state and the comptroller, and 
 
24 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 School Fund, 
 how consti- 
 tuted. 
 
 Money derived 
 from sale of 
 lands added to 
 School Fund. 
 
 Money derived 
 from leases 
 added to School 
 Fund. 
 
 their successors in office, be and they are hereby consti- 
 tuted and appointed trustees of the fund for the support 
 of public schools in this state, arising either from appro- 
 priations heretofore made, or which may hereafter be made 
 by law, or which may arise from the gift, grant, bequest 
 or devise of any person or persons whatsoever, which trus- 
 tees shall be known by the name, style and title of " The 
 Trustees for the Support of Public Schools ;" provided, 
 that it shall not be lawful for any teacher, trustee or trus- 
 tees to introduce into or have performed in any school 
 receiving its proportion of the public money, any religious 
 service, ceremony or forms whatsoever, except reading the 
 Bible and repeating the Lord's Prayer. 
 
 66. The public stocks and moneys heretofore appropri- 
 ated by law shall constitute the funds in the hands of the 
 trustees appointed by the foregoing section of this act, and 
 shall be held by the said trustees in trust, the interest and 
 dividends arising therefrom to be applied by the said trus- 
 tees, or a majority of them, for the support of public 
 schools in this state, in the mode now prescribed or here- 
 after to be prescribed by any act or acts of the legislature, 
 and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. 
 
 67. All moneys hereafter received from the sales and 
 rentals of the land under water belonging to this state, 
 shall be paid over to the trustees of the school funds and 
 appropriated for the support of free public schools, and 
 shall be held by them in trust for that purpose, and shall 
 be invested by the treasurer of the state, under their direc- 
 tion, in the same manner as the funds now held by them 
 are invested ; the same to constitute a part of the perma- 
 nent school fund of the state, and the interest thereof to 
 be applied to the support of public schools, in the mode 
 which now is, or hereafter may be, directed by law, and to 
 no other use or purpose whatever. 
 
 68. All leases which shall hereafter be made of lands 
 belonging to the state, now or formerly lying under water, 
 or which have been made since the sixth day of April, 
 eighteen hundred and seventy- one, shall be transferred to 
 the trustees of the school fund of this state, and become a 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 25 
 
 portion of the free school fund ; and that the annual income 
 arising from said leases shall be distributed by the said trus- 
 tees for the support of free public schools, in the same man- 
 ner that other moneys are now distributed for that purpose. 
 
 69. The fund above mentioned, together with all the investment of 
 
 , ' School Fund. 
 
 moneys which shall be received by the treasurer in pay- 
 ment of the principal or interest of the bank or turnpike 
 stock belonging to the fund for the support of free schools, 
 all the taxes which may hereafter be received into the 
 treasury from any of the banking and insurance compa- 
 nies in this state, the capital stock of which now is, or 
 hereafter may be, liable by law to be taxed, all appropri- 
 ations to said funds made or to be made by any law of 
 this state, and the amount of all gifts, grants, bequests or 
 devises hereafter made by any person or persons to the 
 said trustees for the purposes contemplated by this act, 
 shall be invested by the treasurer of this state, under the 
 direction of the said trustees, or a majority of them, in 
 the bonds of the United States or of New Jersey, or in 
 bonds secured by mortgage on land in New Jersey, the 
 interest thereof to be applied to the support of the public 
 schools, in the mode which now is or may hereafter be 
 directed by law, and to no other use or purpose whatso- 
 ever ; an account of the management of the said fund shall 
 be laid before the legislature with the annual statement of 
 the treasurer's account; and no compensation shall be paid 
 to said trustee or treasurer for any services performed in 
 pursuance of the directions of this act ; and all investments 
 of money and property belonging to said furfd now held or 
 existing in the name of " The Trustees for the Support of 
 Free Schools," are hereby and shall hereafter be vested in 
 and held, and any proceedings or action whatever relative 
 thereto may be taken, had, made and maintained by said 
 trustees, in the name of the trustees for the support of 
 public schools. 
 
 69a. The "Trustees for the Support of Public Schools " Trustees for the 
 
 , 11 11 i'ii 1-1 support of pub- 
 
 DC ana they are hereby authorized and empowered to bid lie schools may 
 
 purchase and 
 
 for and purchase any lands and premises exposed to sale hold lands and 
 
 * premises sold to 
 
 under the order and decree of any court, for the payment satisfy claim, 
 
 * * J held by them. 
 
26 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 May sell and 
 convey any 
 lands and 
 premises so 
 purchased. 
 
 Trustees au- 
 thorized to in- 
 vest income of 
 School Fun din 
 public bonds. 
 
 Loans for 
 building school 
 houses. 
 
 and satisfaction of any mortgage encumbrance thereon held 
 by the said trustees, and to take and hold the title to the 
 land and premises so purchased in and by their official 
 name, style and title, and as part of the assets of the school 
 fund of New Jersey ; provided, that said trustees shall not 
 bid a higher price for such lands and premises than shall 
 be sufficient to save the amount due upon their said mort- 
 gage encumbrance and costs, the taxed costs attending such 
 proceedings and sale, if any, to be paid by the treasurer of 
 this state out of the state funds, on warrant of the comp- 
 troller, and not out of the school fund.* 
 
 696. The said "Trustees for the Support of Public 
 Schools " be and they are hereby empowered and directed 
 to sell and convey to any purchaser any lands and premises 
 by them acquired under the provisions of this act, at such 
 time, for such prices and on such terms of payment as the 
 governor of this state for the time being shall, in writing 
 under his hand, approve, and the consideration received 
 therefor shall be assets of the school fund of this state.* 
 
 69c. Whenever in the judgment of the trustees for 
 the support of free schools of this state, or a majority of 
 them, it shall not be deemed advisable or for the best 
 interests of the school fund to invest the income of the said 
 fund in bonds secured by mortgage on land, they shall have 
 power to invest the said income or any portion thereof in 
 the bonds of the United States and of this state and of the 
 several .counties, townships, boroughs and cities of the 
 same.f 
 
 70. The treasurer of this state, under the direction of 
 " The Trustees for the Support of Public Schools," is author- 
 ized to invest the fund for the support of public schools in 
 this state, in addition to the securities mentioned in the 
 preceding section of this act, in the bonds of the several 
 school districts of this state, and in the bonds of any city 
 or municipality of this state, legally issued for the purpose 
 of building school houses, either by authority of special 
 acts of the legislature or by the consent of the inhabitants 
 of the district, as hereafter herein provided for. 
 
 * Act of April 9th, 1875. 
 t Act of March 21st, 1878. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 27 
 
 70a. The trustees for the support of public schools in Rate o 
 
 . interest. 
 
 this state, and the commissioners of the sinking fund of 
 New Jersey, be and are hereby authorized and empowered 
 to reduce the rate of interest on any loan made by them or 
 their predecessors in office, to the rate of six dollars per 
 annum for the forbearance of every one hundred dollars, 
 from and after the fourth day of July next.* 
 
 71. The treasurer of this state shall annually make and Report con 
 
 c cernin & Sc 
 
 furnish to the board of trustees for the support of public Fund, 
 schools, on the first day of the stated annual meeting of 
 the legislature, and at such other times as the majority of 
 the said trustees shall require the same, a particular state- 
 ment of the school fund, containing an account of the 
 securities belonging to said fund, with the dates of invest- 
 ment, their value, and the interest arising from each 
 denomination of securities, together with an account of the 
 moneys in the treasury belonging to said fund. 
 
 72. The secretary of state is hereby constituted and secretary, 
 appointed secretary of the said board of trustees, whose 
 
 duty it shall be to record, in a book to be kept for that 
 purpose, the proceedings of the said board, and the accounts 
 to be furnished by the treasurer as hereinbefore stated. 
 
 73. It shall be the duty of the trustees of the school Appropriation 
 fund of this state, on or before the first Monday of April to schools. U1 
 of every year, to appropriate out of the annual income of 
 
 the fund for the support of public schools the sum of one 
 hundred thousand dollars ; and if the annual income of said 
 fund shall not have been received in full, or shall be insuffi- 
 cient for that purpose, then the said trustees are hereby 
 authorized and empowered to draw for any sum necessary 
 to make up the deficiency, by warrant, signed by the 
 comptroller, upon the treasurer of the state, who is directed 
 to pay the same ; which sum, so drawn from the treasury 
 aforesaid, shall be replaced from the annual income of said 
 school fund so soon as the same shall be received.f 
 Section 74 repealed.^ 
 
 * Joint Resolution of March 27, 1878. 
 f Act of March 27th, 1878. 
 J Act of March 27th, 1878. 
 
 f Act of March 27th, 1878. f / Ti 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Teachers' In- 
 stitutes. 
 
 Section 75.* 
 
 76. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of teachers' 
 institutes, the procuring of teachers and lecturers for said 
 institutes, and other necessary expenses of the same, there 
 may be paid, annually, to the state superintendent of public 
 instruction, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars to 
 one teachers' institute. in any county, or in any two or more 
 adjoining counties of this state, the same to be paid out of 
 the state treasury on the warrant of the comptroller, upon 
 itemized accounts rendered to him by the state superinten- 
 dent of public instruction of the expenses incurred. f 
 
 Taxation. 
 
 State tax im- 
 posed. 
 
 School nine 
 months. 
 
 Township 
 school tax. 
 
 Comptroller 
 shall apportion 
 tax among 
 counties. 
 
 Transmit state- 
 ment. 
 
 77. For the purpose of maintaining free public schools 
 there shall be assessed, levied and collected annually upon 
 the taxable real and personal property in this state, as 
 exhibited by the latest abstracts of ratables from the sev- 
 eral counties, made out by the several boards of assessors, 
 and filed in the office of the comptroller of the treasury, a 
 state school tax equal to four dollars for each child in this 
 state between the ages of five and eighteen years, as exhib- 
 ited by the next preceding school census ; which tax shall 
 be assessed, levied and collected at the same time and in 
 the same manner in which other taxes are assessed, levied 
 and collected ; but if the moneys received by any township 
 from the tax imposed by this act shall not be sufficient to 
 maintain free schools for at least nine months in each year, 
 then the inhabitants thereof may raise by township tax such 
 additional amount as they may need for that purpose in the 
 same manner as such taxes have heretofore been raised. J 
 
 78. It shall be the duly of the comptroller aforesaid to 
 apportion the said tax among the several counties, in pro- 
 portion to the amount of taxable real and personal estate 
 of said counties respectively, as shown by the ratables 
 respectively as aforesaid, and it shall be his further duty 
 to transmit, on or before the first day of April of each year, 
 
 * The provisions of section 75 are contained in section 10. 
 t Act of March 25th, 1881. 
 t Act of March 16th, 1831. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 29 
 
 to the county collector of each county, a statement of the 
 amount of said tax apportioned to and payable by said 
 county, and said count/ collector shall lay said statement 
 before the board of assessors of the townships and wards 
 within his county at their next annual meeting, to appor- 
 tion the taxes among said townships and wards, and said 
 assessors shall thereupon proceed to apportion said school Duties of asses- 
 taxes as other taxes are apportioned, and to assess the same 
 according to law.* 
 
 79. It shall be the duty of the county collectors of the state tax, when 
 several counties of this state to pay to the treasurer of this p 
 
 state the quotas due from their respective counties of the 
 taxes imposed by this act, on or before the first day of 
 January, annually, next ensuing the assessment thereof. 
 
 80. Ten per centum of the full amount of money annu- state Board of 
 ally raised by virtue of the seventy-seventh section of this shaiupportion 
 act shall be known as a reserve fund, and shall be appor- among the 
 tioned among the several counties of the state, by the state 
 
 board of education, equitably and justly, according to their 
 own discretion, on or before the fifteenth day of April sub- 
 sequently to the aforesaid apportionment by the comptroller 
 of the treasury ; and it shall be the duty of the state super- 
 intendent of public instruction, on or before the tenth day 
 of January next ensuing said apportionment, to draw orders 
 on the comptroller of the treasury, and in favor of the 
 county collectors, for the payment of ninety per centum of 
 the amount of school tax paid by the counties respectively ; 
 and the said county collectors shall apply for and be entitled 
 to receive the amount of said orders as soon as the same 
 are received ; and the said superintendent shall also draw 
 his orders in favor of the respective county collectors, for 
 such portion of the reserve fund as shall have been appor- 
 tioned to the counties respectively, as aforesaid, which 
 orders shall be payable when the said reserve fund has 
 been paid by the several counties ; provided, that no por- proviso, 
 tion of said moneys shall be used for the support of secta- 
 rian schools.* 
 
 * Act of March 16th, 1881. 
 
30 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 ?ntendents uper " 81 ' It( sha11 be tbe dutv of tlie Count 7 superintendent of 
 Soneyl p among each count y to apportion annually to the districts and cities 
 StlesTn n d Sh dS of his count y tne 8tate school moneys, together with the 
 tricts. interest of the surplus revenue belonging to said county, 
 
 and such other moneys as may be raised for school pur- 
 poses upon the basis of the last-published school census ; 
 Proviso. provided, that all children residing in fractional districts, 
 
 situated in two or more adjoining townships, shall be 
 included in the census of that township in which the frac- 
 Proviso. tion containing the school house is situated ; and provided 
 
 also, that no district shall receive from all state and county 
 funds less than two hundred dollars; and that districts 
 with forty-five children or more shall not receive less than 
 three hundred and fifty dollars.* 
 state superin- 82. The state comptroller, annually, after having received 
 
 tendent to give 
 
 orders in favor from the state superintendent of public instruction a state- 
 
 of County Col- 
 lectors, ment of the apportionment of the state appropriation among 
 
 the several counties, shall draw his warrant on the state 
 treasurer in favor of the county collector of any county for 
 the portions to which said county is entitled, whenever 
 such county collector shall present an order for the same 
 drawn by the state superintendent of public instruction 
 in favor of such county. 
 
 county super- 83. The county collector of each county shall receive 
 Sve n orders in and hold in trust that part of the state appropriation 
 
 favor of Town- , , , . i i n .1 xi 
 
 ship collectors, belonging to his county, and shall pay out the same to the 
 collectors of the several townships and to the city treasurer 
 of the cities of his county, only on the orders of the county 
 
 Proviso. superintendent ; provided, that in townships where there 
 
 are less than two hundred children between the ages of five 
 and eighteen, the inhabitants may raise such a sum per 
 child as will be sufficient to maintain their schools.f 
 
 * Act of March 16th, 1881. 
 
 f(l) A county collector is not required or permitted to exercise any discretion 
 as to how much of the state appropriation the several township collectors in the 
 county are entitled to receive from him. That question as between these officers is 
 settled conclusively by the order of the county superintendent of public schools. 
 (2) The notion that a county collector can, in any case, lawfully reduce the amount 
 by setting up some counter claim, whether in his own behalf or in behalf of his 
 county, and whether against the township collector, personally, or against his 
 township, is neither justified by the language nor consistent with the policy of our 
 school laws. State, Herder, &c., v. Collector, &c., 7 Vr. 363. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 31 
 
 84. It shall be the duty of the township collector of each SS? 1 }? h C oid 
 township to receive and hold in trust all school moneys h t ?Sit. moiiey8 
 belonging to the township or to any of the districts thereof, 
 whether received from the state appropriation, from town- 
 ship or district tax, or from other sources, and to pay out 
 the same only on the orders of the district clerks of the 
 several districts of his township, which order shall specify 
 the object for which it is given, and shall be signed by at least 
 one other trustee beside said clerk, and shall be made pay- 
 able to the order of and be indorsed by the person entitled 
 to receive it, and he shall, on the order of the township 
 committee, pay over any balance of school funds remaining 
 in his hands to his successor in office, and he shall procure TO keep ac- 
 a suitable book, in which he shall keep a separate account school moneys, 
 with each school district in his township, crediting each 
 with the amounts apportioned to it by the county superin- 
 tendent, and the amount raised by tax in the district, and 
 charging each with the orders paid for said district, and 
 he shall present his accounts to be examined and settled by Report to 
 the township committee at the close of the year, a copy of committee and 
 which settlement, certified by the committee, showing the p^rimendent. 
 amounts received, the amounts expended by him for school 
 purposes during the year and the balance remaining in his 
 hands ; he shall transmit said copy within ten days to the 
 county superintendent, and another copy of the same he 
 shall file with the clerk of the township, and as compensa- 
 tion for such service the township collector shall be entitled 
 to receive three-fourths of one per pentum on all school compensation, 
 funds received and paid out by him for such purposes 
 during the year, to be paid by the township committee 
 from the funds of the township. 
 
 (1) The county collector of each county shall receive and hold in trust the state 
 appropriation for public schools belonging to his county, and pay the same to the 
 collectors of the several townships and to the city treasurers of the cities of his 
 county only on the orders of the county superintendent, and is responsible for 
 these moneys if otherwise expended. (2) School taxes are to be levied and applied 
 for the fiscal year beginning September 1st, succeeding the assessment, and not for 
 the preceding year. (3) A mandamus will be allowed for the payment of the 
 county superintendent's order for the state appropriation for public schools, where 
 the moneys have been applied for school purposes in the preceding year, beginning 
 January 1st. State ex rel. Board of Education, &c., v. Sheridan, &c., 13 Vr. 64. 
 
32 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Fractional dis- 85. All school moneys belonging to fractional districts 
 shall be held, subject to the order of the trustees, by the 
 collector of that township in which the fraction containing 
 the school house is situated. 
 
 cities and dis- 86. In addition to the tax imposed by the seventy-sev- 
 
 tricts may raise J 
 
 school tax. enth section of this act, each city and school district may 
 raise by tax such other sums of money as they may need 
 for school purposes, in the following manner, unless other- 
 wise authorized by any special act applicable to such city 
 school district : 
 
 Annual district The legal voters of such district are hereby authorized 
 
 meeting for J 
 
 ordering school an( J required to meet on the Tuesday of the week follow- 
 ing the annual town meeting, for the purpose of determin- 
 ing what additional school tax, if any, shall be levied upon 
 the district ; said meeting shall be held at some convenient 
 public place wichin the district, and notice thereof, setting 
 forth the time, place, and object of such meeting and the 
 amount of money desired to be raised, shall be given by 
 the district clerk, and set up in at least three public places 
 within the district, ten days before the day of meeting ; 
 and the said inhabitants so met, shall have power, by the 
 consent of a majority of those present, to authorize the 
 trustees of said district to purchase land for school pur- 
 poses, to build, enlarge, or repair a school-house or 
 school-houses, and to borrow money therefor, or to sell or 
 mortgage a school-house or school-houses, and to raise by 
 taxation for these purposes, or to pay a debt of the district 
 incurred for such purposes, and for the current expenses of 
 the school or schools, such sum of money as a majority of 
 the inhabitants so assembled shall agree to ; and if at such 
 meeting the trustees shall be authorized to borrow money 
 not exceeding four hundred dollars in amount, to build or 
 repair a school-house to cost less than five hundred dollars, 
 such meeting may direct that the money to pay the debt so 
 authorized to be raised by poll-tax, assessed upon the tax- 
 able inhabitants of said district, and that one hundred 
 dollars, with interest, on the amount of said borrowed 
 money remaining unpaid be so raised in each year, for a 
 period of four years; and in case any money shall be 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 33 
 
 ordered, by a vote of a majority of said meeting, to be 
 raised by taxation, the district clerk shall make out and 
 sign a certificate thereof, under oath or affirmation, that 
 the same is correct and true, and deliver the same to the 
 assessor or assessors of the township or townships in which 
 said district is situate, and to the county superintendent, 
 which said assessor or assessors shall assess on the inhabit- 
 ants of said school district and their estates, and the taxa- 
 ble property therein, in the same manner as township 
 taxes are assessed, such sum of money as shall have been 
 ordered to be raised by the said meeting, in the manner 
 aforesaid ; and said money shall be assessed, levied, and 
 collected ; and it shall be the duty of the collector or col- 
 lectors of the township or townships in which said district 
 is situate, to pay over all moneys by him or them received, 
 which shall have been assessed by virtue of such a vote of 
 a district meeting as aforesaid, on the order of the district 
 clerk of said district, to be used for the purposes directed 
 by the district meeting so held as aforesaid ; provided, that Proviso, 
 whenever any district school meeting shall be held as afore- 
 said, or at the call of the trustees, as provided in the 
 eleventh division of the thirty-ninth section of this act, it 
 shall not be lawful for such meeting to order a greater 
 sum of money to be raised by district tax than shall have 
 ben mentioned and designated in the notice of such meet- 
 ing set up in the manner required by law ; and provided Proviso. 
 further, that whenever in the judgment of the trustees of 
 any district it shall not be necessary to levy a district tax 
 for school purposes, the district clerk thereof shall not set 
 up the notices directed to be given as aforesaid.* f 
 
 86a. The several assessors and collectors of the town- compensation 
 ships and wards of this state shall be entitled to receive and collectors, 
 five cents, and no more, for each name for assessing, levying 
 and collecting district school taxes. J 
 
 * Act of March 14th, 1879. 
 
 fThe resolution acted upon must specify which object or objects mentioned in 
 this section for which the money voted is to be used. In case more than one of 
 these purposes are mentioned the resolution must specify how much money in to 
 be apportioned to each. Cochrane v. Garrdbrant, &c., 3 Vr. 444; Banr/hart \. Sulli- 
 van, 7 Vr. 89 ; Corrigan v. Duryea, 11 Vr. 266. 
 
 J Act of April 8th ,1875. 
 
 3 
 
34 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Districts may 
 issue bonds. 
 
 Bonds a lien 
 upon districts. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 for payments 
 on bonds. 
 
 87. It shall and may be lawful for the inhabitants of 
 each district, when met in conformity to the provisions of 
 the eighty-sixth section of this act, or at the call of the 
 trustees, as provided in the eleventh division of the thirty- 
 ninth section of this act; and the inhabitants so met shall 
 have power, by the consent of a majority of those present, 
 to authorize the trustees, for the purpose of purchasing 
 land for school purposes, or for the purpose of building a 
 school-house or school-houses in such district, to issue bonds 
 of the district in the corporate name of such district, in 
 such sums and in such amounts, and payable at such times 
 as the inhabitants so met may direct, with interest at the 
 rate of [six*] per cent, per annum, payable half-yearly, 
 which bonds shall be signed by the trustees of such district 
 and attested by the clerk, under the seal of the district, 
 and the bonds so issued shall be a lien upon the property 
 of the said district. f 
 
 88. The bonds of the several school districts of this state, 
 heretofore or hereafter legally issued for the purpose of 
 building school-houses, shall be a lien upon the real and 
 personal estates of the inhabitants of the said districts, as 
 well as the property of the said districts ; and the property 
 of the inhabitants as well as the property of the districts, 
 shall be liable for the payment of the same ; provided ) such 
 bonds are [six*] per centum bonds, and the interest is paya- 
 ble semi-annually, and coupons shall be attached thereto ; 
 and that in all cases copies of all papers and proceedings 
 authorizing the issuing of such bonds shall be submitted to 
 the attorney-general for his approval of the legality of the 
 same, who shall receive such compensation for the exami- 
 nation of the same as shall be fixed by the trustees for the 
 support of public schools, which sum shall be paid by the 
 districts seeking such loan. 
 
 89. Whenever any district shall order and authorize the 
 issue of bonds, for the purpose aforesaid, it shall be the 
 duty of the district clerk of such district, each and every 
 year, to issue the warrant of the district, signed by the 
 
 * By act of February 26th, 1878. 
 t Act of March 9th, 1877. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 35 
 
 trustees, and attested by the clerk under the seal of the 
 district, to the assessor or assessors of the township or 
 townships in which such district is situate, directing him to 
 assess upon the inhabitants of said school district, and their 
 estates and the taxable property therein, an amount suffi- 
 cient to pay the bond or bonds of the district, maturing in 
 such year, together with the interest accruing upon the 
 whole issue of the unpaid bonds of such district, which 
 warrant so issued as aforesaid, shall be executed in the 
 same way and manner as is provided by the eighty-sixth 
 section of this act. 
 
 90. The several townships in this state are authorized and interest on sur- 
 required to appropriate the interest of the surplus revenue appropriated 
 
 . > (, i r i -IT to schools. 
 
 received by them, and from other funds not raised by tax, 
 such sums for the support of the public schools as they 
 shall order and direct at their annual town meetings, in 
 addition to the amount received from the state appropria- 
 tion and the amount which they raise by tax. 
 
 J. MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 91. Not more than twetity dollars annually, of the school Twenty dollars 
 
 , , , , , . . . , for incidentals. 
 
 moneys received by any school district, except such as may 
 be raised within the district, shall be used for any other 
 purpose than the payment of teachers' salaries and for 
 purchasing fuel. 
 
 92. In case any school district or city shall use any of Power of with- 
 
 111 , . P , , holding school 
 
 the school money apportioned to it for any other than money, isee 
 
 J , , , sections 11, 18a 
 
 public school purposes, as these purposes are denned and and 26.] 
 limited in the ninety-first section of this act, such district 
 or city shall forfeit out of the next annual apportionment 
 a sum equal to twice the amount thus used ; and it shall 
 be the duty of the county superintendent to reapportion 
 the money thus forfeited among the other districts and 
 cities of his county; provided, the state superintendent Proviso, 
 may remit such penalty for cause.* 
 
 93. In case of the failure of any district clerk or city penalty for 
 superintendent to send his annual report to the county tric?Ser{ *" 
 
 report. 
 
 *Act of March 25th, 1881. 
 
36 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Tuition fees 
 not allowed. 
 
 Library appro- 
 priation. 
 
 Selection of 
 books. 
 
 Rules. 
 
 Corporal pun- 
 ishment forbid- 
 den. 
 
 County Super- 
 intendent au- 
 thorized to ad- 
 minister oath. 
 
 superintendent of his county in the form prescribed, on or 
 before the first of September, such county superintendent 
 shall make up his report for such district or city from the 
 last published report of the state superintendent; in 
 making up such report, however, he shall deduct one-fifth 
 from the school census ; provided, however , that all such 
 cases of delay or negligence shall be reported to the state 
 superintendent of public instruction, whose duty it shall be 
 to investigate the same, and to restore the number deducted 
 from the school census in all cases, when he receives satis- 
 factory reasons for such delay or negligence. 
 
 94. It shall not be lawful to charge tuition fees for the 
 support of public schools in this state, but that all such 
 schools shall be free to all persons over five and under 
 eighteen years of age residing within the district, so long 
 as such schools can be thus maintained with the public 
 school funds. 
 
 95. The treasurer of the state, upon the order of the 
 state superintendent of education, is hereby authorized and 
 directed to pay over the sum of twenty dollars out of any 
 money that may be in the public treasury to every public 
 school for which there shall have been raised by subscrip- 
 tion or entertainment a like sum for the same purpose, to 
 establish in such school a school library, and to procure 
 philosophical and chemical apparatus ; and the further 
 sum of ten dollars annually, upon a like order, to the said 
 public school, upon condition that there shall have been 
 raised by subscription or entertainment a like sum for such 
 year, for the purposes aforesaid.* 
 
 96. The selection of books and apparatus shall be 
 approved by the school trustees of such district. 
 
 97. The school trustees of each district shall make 
 proper rules and regulations for the man agement, use, and 
 safe keeping of such libraries. 
 
 98. No teacher shall be permitted to inflict corporal 
 punishment upon any child in any school in this state. 
 
 99. The county superintendent shall have power to 
 administer all necessary oaths or affirmations to district 
 
 * Act of April 5th, 1878. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 37 
 
 clerks and other school officers, for which he shall receive 
 no compensation. 
 
 100. All acts and parts of acts of a general character on Repealer, 
 the subject of public schools and of the normal school and 
 its appropriations passed before the twenty-first day of 
 March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, are 
 hereby declared to be repealed. 
 
 Approved March 27th, 1874. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT approved April ninth, eighteen hundred and 
 seventy-five. 
 
 1. Every parent, guardian or other person having control children shall 
 
 J r n r attend school 
 
 and charge of any child between the ages of eight and 
 
 fourteen years, shall cause such child to attend some public 
 
 or private school, at least twelve weeks in each year, six same P eriod - 
 
 weeks at least of which attendance shall be consecutive; 
 
 or to be instructed at home at least twelve weeks in each 
 
 year, in the branches of education commonly taught in the 
 
 public schools, unless the physical or mental condition of 
 
 the child is such as to render such attendance inexpedient 
 
 or impracticable. 
 
 2. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of Penal* for 
 
 F * . non-cd!npli~ 
 
 this act shall, on written notice of such failure from the ance. 
 district clerk of the school district, or the person designated 
 by the board of education of the city where such offence 
 has occurred, forfeit for the first offence, and pay to the 
 township collector or city treasurer, the sum of two dol- 
 lars ; and after such first offence, shall, for each succeeding 
 offence in the same year, forfeit and pay to the township 
 collector or city treasurer, the sum of three dollars for 
 each and every week, not exceeding twelve weeks in any 
 one year, during which they, after written notice as afore- 
 said, shall have failed to comply with the provisions of this 
 act. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the district clerk of each school Duties of the 
 district, and of some person in each city to be selected by ?f S e"ch 
 
 J district. 
 
38 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 the city board of education, to report to the township col- 
 lector of the township or city treasurer of the city where 
 the offence has occurred, the names of all parents, guar- 
 dians or other persons who fail to comply with the provi- 
 sions of this act ; and the officer to whom such report is 
 made, shall proceed to collect the penalties imposed by this 
 act, in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the county 
 in which such city, town, township or school district may 
 be situated ; the said penalties, when paid, to be added to 
 the public school money of said school district in which 
 proviso. the offence occurred ; provided, this law shall not be opera- 
 
 tive in those school districts of the state where there are 
 not sufficient accommodations to seat the children compelled 
 to attend school under the provisions of this act. 
 
 Extract from An Act concerning Disorderly Persons. 
 (Revision.) Approved April ninth, eighteen hundred 
 and seventy-five. 
 
 Persons mjur- 7. Any person who shall enter the buildings or go upon 
 
 ing school pro- J l 
 
 perty, or dis- the lands belonging to any public school district of this 
 
 turbing schools J 
 
 orieri ged dis " state or use( ^ an( ^ occupied for school purposes by any pub- 
 f lie school in this state, and shall break, injure or deface 
 such building or any part thereof, or the fences or outhouses 
 belonging to or connected with such building or lands, 
 or shall disturb the exercises of such public school, or 
 molest or give annoyance to the children attending such 
 school, or any teacher therein, shall be deemed and adjudged 
 to be a disorderly person, and may be apprehended in the 
 manner hereafter prescribed in this act, and taken before 
 any justice of the peace of the county where such person 
 may be apprehended ; and it shall be the duty of the said 
 justice to commit such disorderly person, when convicted 
 before him by the confession of the offender, or by the 
 oath or affirmation of one or more witness or witnesses, to 
 
 Penalty. the county jail of such county, there to be kept at hard 
 
 labor for any term not exceeding thirty days. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. - 39 
 
 SUPPLEMENT approved March nineteenth, eighteen hun- 
 dred and seventy-four. 
 
 Whenever the trustees of any school district in Cumber- vote to be 
 land county shall be directed or authorized to purchase In <SrtaL c & ases 
 land for school purposes, to build, enlarge, or repair, or 
 improve school buildings, or borrow, or raise money there- 
 for, or to pay debts of the district, incurred for such pur- 
 poses, or for the current expenses of the school, the vote of 
 the inhabitants so directing or authorizing the trustees shall 
 be taken by ballot. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT of an act for the Punishment of Crimes, 
 approved February seventh, eighteen hundred and sev- 
 enty-six. 
 
 If any board of chosen freeholders or any township 
 committee, or any board of aldermen or common council- 
 men, or any board of education, or any board of commis- 
 sioners of any county, township, city, town or borough, in 
 this state, or any committee or member of any such board 
 or commission, shall disburse, order or vote for the dis- 
 bursement of public moneys, in excess of the appropriation 
 respectively to any such board or committee, or shall incur 
 obligations in excess of the appropriation and limit of 
 expenditure provided by law for the purposes respectively 
 of any such board or committee, the members thereof, and 
 each member thereof thus disbursing, ordering or voting 
 for the disbursement and expenditure of public moneys, or 
 thus incurring obligations in excess of the amount appro- 
 priated and limit of expenditure as now or hereafter 
 appropriated and limited by law, shall be severally deemed 
 guilty of malfeasance in office, and on being thereof con- 
 victed, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thou- 
 sand dollars, or imprisonment at hard labor for any term 
 cot exceeding three years, or both, at the discretion of the 
 court. 
 
40 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 AN ACT concerning appropriations made by and to the 
 boards of education in cities of this state, approved 
 March ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven. 
 
 Appropria- 1. It shall be lawful for any board of education of any 
 
 tions may be . J 
 
 modified. incorporated city of this state, from time to time, to modify 
 the several appropriations made by the board, to be expended 
 under the direction of its several committees during any 
 
 Proviso. fiscal year; provided, however, that said modifications shall 
 
 not authorize any expenditure in excess of the sum appro- 
 priated for the current expenses of the department of public 
 instruction at the time when such appropriation shall have 
 been originally made. 
 
 priated a forcur- ^' ^e amount appropriated by the board of aldermen 
 r- or otner body charged with the duty of making appropria- 
 tions for defraying the current expenses of the department 
 of public instruction of any city of this state, for each suc- 
 cessive year, shall thereby become appropriated to defray 
 such current expenses and shall be used for no other pur- 
 pose whatever. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT approved March tenth, eighteen hundred and 
 
 eighty. 
 
 Trustees of 1. The trustees of the public schools, elected in each 
 
 public schools, ' 
 
 when to meet, school district in this state, shall meet ior the transaction 
 of business connected with the public schools in their 
 respective districts, on the first Tuesday after the first 
 Monday in March, June, September and December, or 
 oftener if the business of the board require it. 
 
 Bills and de- 2. All bills and demands for money expended for school 
 
 mands to be . . . , , , -. 
 
 passed on in purposes, and all contracts entered into, snail be presented 
 
 open session. l L . 
 
 and passed on in open session of the board ot school trus- 
 tees, and no bills or demands for money on that account 
 shall be paid which have not been thus passed on and 
 approved. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 41 
 
 3. It shall be unlawful for any board of school trustees unlawful for 
 
 , i P 1 , e .-i 1.1 , trustees to pay 
 
 or board ot education ot this state, to pay or disburse, out any bills or de- 
 of the school moneys under their control, any sum for the same are 
 school supplies, books, maps, charts, globes, fuel, erecting, 
 enlarging, repairing or improving school buildings and 
 grounds, and janitors' salaries, unless the person claiming 
 or receiving the said moneys shall first present to the board 
 of trustees or boards of education, a detailed bill of items 
 or demand, specifying particularly how such bill or demand 
 is made up, and the dates thereof, and the names of the 
 persons to whom the amount composing such bill or demand 
 is due ; provided, that the district clerk, as he may be Proviso, 
 authorized by the board of trustees, is empowered to pur- 
 chase for the school or schools under their control, such 
 supplies as may be necessary, and shall present an itemized 
 bill of the same, with affidavit attached, which shall be 
 acted on and paid as other bills ; and said itemized bill 
 shall be considered as satisfying all the provisions of this 
 act. 
 
 4. Any person or persons presenting any such bill or Affidavit to be 
 demand, shall make an affidavit that the goods or services, S?is. e t( 
 itemized in said bill or demand, have been delivered or 
 rendered, that no bonus has been given or received by any 
 
 person or persons with the knowledge of the deponent in 
 connection with the claim, and that the same is correct and 
 true ; provided, that the clerk of any board of trustees or Proviso. 
 board of education is hereby authorized to take said affi- 
 davit without cost. 
 
 5. Any board of school trustees or board of education, Penalty for vio- 
 who shall wilfully violate the provisions of this act, shall ll 
 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction 
 thereof, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hun- 
 dred dollars, or as the court may direct. 
 
42 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Extract from An Act concerning the protection of the public 
 health, and the record of vital facts and statistics rela- 
 ting thereto, approved March eleventh, one thousand 
 eight hundred and eighty. 
 
 10. At the enrollment of the children each year by the 
 clerk of district schools or by other proper officers in cities, 
 inquiry shall be made as to how many of the children 
 within the school age are un vaccinated, and the same shall 
 be designated by a mark on said roll, and in the case of 
 any found unvaccinated whose parents desire them to be 
 protected from small pof, but who, in the judgment of the 
 board of education or the trustees of the school district, 
 are not able to pay therefor, the school clerk or other 
 authorized person may give to said child or children a per- 
 mit to appear at the office of any regularly licensed physi- 
 cian of said school district or of said township to be 
 vaccinated, and any such physician, on the presentation of 
 such permit, with his certificate appended t-hereto that the 
 said vaccination has been by him successfully performed, 
 shall be entitled to receive from the township committee or 
 city treasurer fifty cents for every such certified case. 
 
 AN ACT for building school houses in townships, approved 
 March eleventh, eighteen hundred and eighty. 
 
 Lawfuifpr . l. From and after the passage of this act, it shall be 
 
 school district 
 
 lnd provTdT 67 lawful for an 7 school district of this state, at their annual 
 land. meeting, to vote money to build a school house, as money 
 
 is now voted for said school district under any existing law, 
 and to provide land for that purpose, not exceeding 
 acres, at such place in the said school district as the school 
 trustees thereof may designate, and for that purpose the 
 said school trustees may acquire the said land by purchase 
 Proviso. or condemnation ; provided, a majority of the taxable resi- 
 
 dents of said school district shall be present at any meeting 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 43 
 
 as aforesaid, and shall vote on any proposition presented 
 for the selection of a place and voting money as afore- 
 said. 
 
 2. It shall be lawful for such school trustees to school trustees 
 
 may enter upon 
 
 enter upon any lands and make all such preliminary exami- lands, & c . 
 nations, explorations, measurements and levelings as may be 
 necessary and proper for their purposes, doing thereby as 
 little damage as possible to the owner or owners thereof. 
 
 3. In case said school trustees cannot agree with the case C tms?e?s iu 
 owner or owners or other persons interested in any lands 
 
 which said school trustees may desire to take, use and 
 
 occupy, or from which they may desire to take or divert, Iands - 
 
 either in whole or in part, for the purposes of their build- 
 
 ing, or cannot agree with the owner or owners for the 
 
 whole or any part of any lands as to the amount of com- 
 
 pensation to be paid for such taking, use, diversion or occu- 
 
 pation or interest, it shall be lawful for any justice of the 
 
 supreme court of this state, upon application by said school 
 
 trustees, and upon two weeks' previous notice, served in 
 
 person, or by leaving at the dwelling house or usual place 
 
 of abode of such owner or owners, or in case of absence 
 
 from the state or legal disability, published in a newspaper 
 
 published nearest to the lands in question, to appoint three Justices of su- 
 
 * V i P reme Court to 
 
 disinterested commissioners, residents of the county in appoint com- 
 
 7 J missioners to 
 
 which said lands are situated, to assess and ascertain the 
 value of the lands so proposed to be taken, used and occu- land - 
 pied, which commissioners shall appoint a time and place at 
 which they shall meet to execute the duties of their 
 appointment, and shall cause two weeks' notice thereof to 
 be given to the parties interested therein, either by per- 
 sonal service or by publication in a newspaper published in 
 the county where such lands may be, at which time and 
 place the said commissioners shall meet and view the 
 premises, and hear the parties interested, and take evidence, 
 if any be offered, and for that purpose shall have power to 
 administer oaths or affirmations, and to adjourn from day 
 to day ; and in case of the refusal or failure of either or Refusal to 
 any of said commissioners to attend and perform their said a p r poirit ud * 
 duties, the said judge shall have power to appoint another 
 
44 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 or other disinterested person or persons as commissioners 
 to act in the place of such absent commissioner or commis- 
 - sioners ; and the said trustees shall make and exhibit to 
 the said commissioners at their meeting aforesaid, for the 
 
 description, 
 
 be tak f en ands to use ^ ^e P art ^ es interested, a statement and description 
 in writing, or by drawings or maps, or both, of the lands 
 by them sought to be taken or diverted as aforesaid, and of 
 the use, occupation of, and excavations upon any lands by 
 toS(Srtain ners them sought to be made ; and the said commissioners shall 
 vaiuj&c? th thereupon ascertain and assess the value and damages 
 aforesaid, and shall execute under their hands and seals, or 
 the hands and seals of a majority of them, an award to 
 said trustees of the lands, by them sought in the statements 
 and description aforesaid, stating therein the amount of 
 damages and compensation therefor by them assessed in 
 favor of such owner or owners, which award shall be by 
 them acknowledged and filed in the county clerk's office. 
 Proviso. anc [ by fa m recorded ; provided, always, that if any real 
 
 estate, the owner or owners of which shall not have given 
 his, her or their consent in writing to the diversion or to 
 the taking of said land, shall not have been ascertained 
 and paid pursuant to the directions of this act, shall be 
 injured or damaged by the diversion or diminution of any 
 said land that the owner or owners thereof may have and 
 maintain his, her or their action to recover damages for 
 such injury, which he, she or they may sustain by reason 
 of anything done under this act, as if this act had not been 
 passed. * 
 
 owner e the pay 4. Before taking possession of any such lands, or entering 
 damages d thereon for the purpose of making any excavation or occupa- 
 tion thereof, or taking any interest in land as aforesaid, the 
 said trustees shall pay or tender to such owner or owners, or, 
 in case of absence from the state or legal disability, shall 
 deposit with the clerk of the circuit court of said county the 
 &S?S5e invest va l ue aDC * damages so awarded ; and the award of said com- 
 tioi he corpora " missioners and the payment or tender or deposit as aforesaid 
 of the same, shall vest in said corporation the lands by 
 them sought, described and set forth in said statement and 
 description, in all respects the same as if the same had 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 45 
 
 been conveyed to said trustees by said owner or owners 
 under their hands and seals. 
 
 5. If either party feel aggrieved by said assessment and Parties ag- 
 
 J J grieved may 
 
 award, such party may appeal to the next or second term 
 
 of the circuit court of said county, by petition and notice 
 
 thereof served upon the opposite party two weeks prior to 
 
 such term, or published a like space in a newspaper pub- 
 
 lished nearest the lands in question, which petition and 
 
 notice so served or published shall vest in said courts full 
 
 power to hear and determine said appeal, and, if required, 
 
 they shall award a venire for a jury to come before them, 
 
 who shall hear and finally determine the issue under the 
 
 direction of the court, as in other trials by jury; and it 
 
 shall be the duty of the said jury to assess the damages to 
 
 the said lands as above mentioned, and the value of such 
 
 lands as shall be absolutely taken ; and said court shall g>u jj may or- 
 
 have power to order a struck jury, or a jury of view, or ^ e ^ try any 
 
 both, to try any such appeal, and also to order any jury 
 
 which may be empaneled and sworn to try any such appeal, 
 
 to view the premises in question during said trial : and the Right of appeal 
 
 1 /> . 1 -I/. IT n0t t0 be 
 
 right oi said trustees to appeal from and dispute the waived by ac- 
 
 . rr ceptance of 
 
 correctness of any award, shall not be waived or taken amount 
 
 J ' awarded. 
 
 -away by the paying or tendering the amount of the award 
 and taking possession of the land, or exercising the rights 
 covered by such award ; and the right of any owner of any 
 such lands or rights in like manner to appeal, shall not be 
 waived or lost by the acceptance of the amount so awarded, 
 when tendered; and upon the final determination of any 
 such appeal, the said court shall render such judgment in 
 favor of the one party and against the other, as the right 
 and justice of the case shall require, and shall award to the 
 party substantially succeeding and prevailing in said appeal, 
 his, her or their costs of said appeal against the opposite 
 party, and shall have power to enforce the judgment so 
 rendered by execution, as other judgments are enforced, 
 and also by summary proceedings and attachments for non- 
 payment thereof. 
 
46 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 AN ACT relative to Boards of Education in cities, approved 
 March twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty. 
 
 In cities of this state where the office of president of the 
 board of education, or board of directors of education 
 exists, or is created by any general or special law, such 
 president shall hereafter receive no salary or compensation 
 whatever for performing the duties of such office, but noth- 
 ing herein contained shall be deemed or taken to affect or 
 take away the salary of the present incumbent of any such 
 office. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT passed March twenty-third, eighteen hundred 
 and eighty-one. 
 
 NO child to be 1. No child between the age of five and eighteen yean* 
 
 any public of age shall be excluded from any public school in this- 
 
 state on account of his or her religion, nationality or color. 
 
 Penalty for 2. Any member of any board of trustees of any school 
 
 board of trus- J J * 
 
 6 to District, or an 7 member of any board of education in this 
 state > w h shall vote to exclude from any public school in 
 this state, any child between the age of five and eighteen 
 years of age, on account of his or her religion, nationality 
 or color, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on 
 conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred and fifty 
 dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, work-house 
 or penitentiary, of the county in which the offence is com- 
 mitted, not less than thirty days, nor more than six months,, 
 or both fine and imprisonment may be imposed in the dis- 
 cretion of the court. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 47 
 
 AN ACT providing for the establishment of schools for 
 industrial education, approved March twenty-fourth, 
 eighteen hundred and eighty-one. 
 
 WHEREAS, The establishment of well conducted and preamble, 
 liberally supported schools for the training and education 
 of pupils in industrial and mechanical pursuits, must tend 
 to supply a growing want in our community of skilled 
 mechanics, artisans and agriculturists ; and whereas it is 
 especially the duty of the state to afford good educational 
 facilities to its youth in those technical studies, which are 
 directly associated with the material prosperity of its 
 people : therefore, 
 
 1. Whenever any board of education, school committee, Governor au- 
 
 7 thorized to 
 
 or other like body, of any city, town, or township in this 
 state, shall certify to the governor that a sum of money, 
 not less than three thousand dollars, has been contributed 
 by voluntary subscriptions of citizens, or otherwise, as j.aWon trial edu ~ 
 hereinafter authorized, for the establishment in any such 
 city, town or township, of a school or schools for industrial 
 education, it shall be the duty of the said governor to 
 cause to be drawn, by warrant of the comptroller, approved 
 by himself, out of any moneys in the state treasury not 
 otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to that contrib- 
 uted by the particular locality as aforesaid for the said 
 object ; and when any such school or schools shall have 
 been established in any locality as aforesaid, there shall be 
 annually contributed by the state, in manner aforesaid, for 
 the maintenance and support thereof, a sum of money equal 
 to that contributed each year in said locality for such pur- 
 pose ; provided, however, that the moneys contributed by p rov iso. 
 the state, as aforesaid, to any locality shall not exceed in 
 any one year the sum of five thousand dollars. 
 
 2. All moneys raised and contributed as aforesaid shall Moneys raised 
 be applied under the direction of a board of trustees, organ- buted applied 
 
 ' .11 iTi i under direction 
 
 ized as hereinafter provided, to the establishment and of board of 
 
 trustees. 
 
 support of schools for the training and education of pupils 
 in industrial pursuits (including agriculture), so as to 
 
48 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 enable them to perfect themselves in the several branches 
 of industry, which require technical instruction. 
 
 and es towSips ^' ^ U J c * tv > town or township, shall have power to 
 raX^taJ to appropriate and raise by tax for the support of any such 
 port Schools. school therein, such sum of money as they may deem expe- 
 dient and just. 
 
 ?eef d hoi S- 4< Tiiere sna11 be a board of trustees of each of such 
 
 stituted. schools, which shall consist of the governor,, ex-officio, who 
 
 shall be president thereof; two persons selected by the state 
 
 board of education ; two by citizens and associations con- 
 
 tributing ; two by the board of education, school committee 
 
 or other like body of the locality where such school is 
 
 established ; and one by the common council, township 
 
 committee or other governing body thereof, if such* city, 
 
 town or township shall contribute to the maintenance of 
 
 Board o^trus- sllca school ; the said board of trustees shall have control 
 
 comroiof^ O f th e buildings and grounds owned and used by such 
 
 Fun C ds i andKen- 8cnoo l s > the application of the funds for the support thereof, 
 
 the regulation of the tuition fees, the appointment and 
 removal of teachers, the power to prescribe the studies and 
 exercises of the school and rules for its management, to 
 grant certificates of graduation, to appoint some suitable 
 person treasurer of the board, and to frame and modify at 
 pleasure such by-laws as they may deem necessary for their 
 own government; they shall report annually to the state 
 and local boards of education their own doings and the 
 progress and condition of the schools. 
 Expenses of 5. The said trustees shall receive no compensation for 
 
 trustees, how . . . ., 
 
 paid. their services, but the expenses necessarily incurred by 
 
 them in the discharge of their duties shall be paid upon 
 the approval of the governor. 
 
BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 
 
BLANKS AND FORMS FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 
 
 The following Forms have been prepared for the use of all officers 
 having duties to discharge under the School Law. Their use will 
 secure uniformity and correctness in the transaction of financial and 
 general school business. The lateral use of these Forms is in no 
 case essential to the validity of a school instrument. Any Form 
 may be used which clearly expresses the objects designed, or the 
 intention of the parties interested, and conforms in all respects to 
 the requirements of the law, but as those annexed have been pre- 
 pared with strict reference to these necessary conditions, their use is 
 recommended. The blank spaces are to be filled to meet the vary- 
 ing circumstances in each case. These Forms have been submitted 
 to and approved by the State Board of Education. 
 
 ELLIS A. APGAE, 
 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
BLANKS AND FORMS. 
 
 No. 1. Order -for County Superintendent's Salary. 
 
 No. . OFFICE OF STATE SUPERINTENDENT, \ 
 
 TRENTON, N. J., , 18 . J 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of , County Superintendent of 
 
 County,. i~do Dollars, being the amount of salary due 
 
 to , 18 . 
 
 $ . , State Superintendent. 
 
 No. 2. Order for County Superintendent's Expenses. 
 
 
 
 No. . DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, j 
 
 TRENTON, N. J., , 18 . ] 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of , County Superintendent of 
 
 County, - ^ Dollars, being the amount due for 
 
 expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties from 
 
 -, 18 , to- -, 18 . 
 
 , State Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE The amount for expenses cannot exceed $ 300. 
 
54 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 3. Order on Comptroller for the State Appropriation of 
 
 1,000. 
 
 No. 7 . DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, \ 
 
 TRENTON, N. J., , 18 . j 
 
 To the Comptroller of the State of New Jersey : 
 
 Pay to the order of the Collector of County, foo 
 
 Dollars, being the amount apportioned for the support of Public 
 Schools in said County, out of the State Appropriation of $100,000, 
 
 for the School Year beginning Sept. 1st, 18 , and ending August 
 
 31st, 18 . 
 
 -, State Superintendent. 
 
 No. 4. Order on the Comptroller for the State School Tax. 
 
 No. . DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, 
 
 TRENTON, N. J., , 18 . 
 
 To the Comptroller of the State of New Jersey : 
 
 Pay to the order of the Collector of County, loo 
 
 Dollars, being the amount apportioned for the support of Public 
 Schools in said County, out of the State School Tax, for the School 
 
 Year beginning Sept. 1st, 18 , and ending August 31st, 18 
 
 -, State Superintendent. 
 
 No. 5. Order on County Collector for State Appropriation of 
 
 $100,000. 
 
 No . OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, ) 
 
 , N. J., , 18 . J 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of the Collector of Township, rb~o 
 
 Dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the State Appropri- 
 ation of $100,000, for the support of Public Schools in said County, 
 for the School Year beginning Sept. 1st. 18 , and ending August 
 
 31st, 18 . 
 
 -, County Superintendent. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 55 
 
 No. 6. Order on County Collector for the State School Tax. 
 
 No. . OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 1 
 
 , N. J, , 18 . j 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of the Collector of Township, - 1^0 
 
 Dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the State School Tax 
 for the support of Public Schools in said County, for the School 
 
 Year beginning Sept. 1st, 18 , and ending August 31st, 18 . 
 
 $ . , County Superintendent. 
 
 No. 7. Order on County Collector for the Interest of Surplus 
 
 Revenue. 
 
 No. . OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 
 ,N.J., ,18 . 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of the Collector of - Township, 10 o 
 Dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the Interest of the 
 Surplus Revenue for the support of Public Schools in said County, 
 
 for the School Year beginning Sept. 1st, 18 , and ending August 
 
 31st, 18 . 
 
 $ . , County Superintendent. 
 
 No. 8. Order for County Examiner's Salary. 
 
 No. . OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 
 -N.J., 18 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of , County Examiner, 
 
 Dollars, being the amount due him for services rendered at the 
 
 session of the Board of County Examiners, and for traveling 
 
 expenses, in accordance with Section 49 of the School Law. 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
56 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 9. Application for State Aid to Establish a School Library. 
 
 , N. J., - - 18 . 
 
 To the State Superintendent of Public Instruction : 
 
 SIR: We, the undersigned, Trustees of School District No. 
 
 , of the Township of - , County of - , State of New 
 
 Jersey, do hereby certify, that there has been raised in our District, 
 
 by subscription [or entertainment, as the case may be], the sum of 
 
 Dollars, for the purpose of establishing a School Library 
 
 within our District, in accordance with the provisions of Section 95 
 of the Eevised School Law. And we therefore request you to send 
 an order for the amount due us from the State in accordance with 
 the further provisions of said act. 
 
 D. C.] 
 
 > Trustees. 
 
 NOTE. The first appropriation is twenty dollars, and subsequent ones ten dollars. 
 
 No. 10. Order for Library Appropriation. 
 
 No. . DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, ") 
 
 TRENTON, N. J., , IF . J 
 
 To the Comptroller of the State of New Jersey : 
 
 It having been certified to me that the sum of Dollars has 
 
 been raised by subscription [or entertainment, as the case may be], 
 in District No. , of -the County of , State of New Jer- 
 sey, in'accordance with the provisions of Section 95 of the Revised 
 
 School Law, therefore you will pay to the order of , 
 
 District Clerk of said District, the sum of Dollars, to be used 
 
 only for the purposes specified in said act. 
 
 -, State Superintendent. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 57 
 
 No. 11. Order on Township Collector for Teacher's Salary. 
 
 No. -. -N. J., - -,18 . 
 
 To - , Township Collector for the Township of , 
 
 County of , State of New Jersey : 
 
 Pay to the order of , Teacher, r^5 Dollars, 
 
 being the amount of Salary due for teaching our Public 
 
 School from - , IP , to - , 18 . 
 
 , D. C. ] Trustees of 
 , > District No. - , 
 , j County of . 
 
 I hereby certify that , the Teacher in whose favor 
 
 this order is drawn, is in possession of a Teacher's Certificate, in full 
 force and effect, and that - - has properly kept the School Reg- 
 ister as required by law, and that I have certified thereto in said 
 
 Register. 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE. Money raised by district tax can be used for such school purposes as are 
 specified at the meeting at which the money is ordered. All other school money, 
 except twepty dollars annually, which the law allows for incidental expenses, must be 
 reserved for the payment of teacher s salary and fuel bills. 
 
 Payments can only be made for the support of those schools that conform in all 
 respects to the provisions of the School Law, and to those teachers only who possess 
 certificates in full force and effect covering the time for which salary is demanded, and 
 who have kept the School Register in the manner prescribed. 
 
 The Collector should invariably refuse to pay orders until he is satisfied that all 
 these conditions have been complied with. 
 
 No. 12. Order on Township Collector for District School Tax raised 
 for other purposes than the Payment of Teacher's Salary. 
 
 To , Township Collector for the Township of , 
 
 County of , State of New Jersey : 
 
 Pay to the order of , ^ Dollars, for [here 
 
 state for what the money is to be paid] out of the funds raised by 
 District School Tax in our District, now in your hands. 
 
 , D. C. | Trustees of 
 
 , !> District No. , 
 
 , j County of . 
 
58 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 13. Financial Report of District Clerk to County 
 Superintendent. 
 
 To , County Superintendent for County : 
 
 SIR : I herewith submit the Financial Report of School District 
 No. , for the School Year ending August 31, 18 . 
 
 RECEIPTS. 
 
 Balance in hands of Collector August 31st, 18 , exclu- 
 sive of that for building purposes.... 
 
 Balance in hands of Collector August 3 1st, 18 , for 
 
 building and repairing 
 
 Apportionment from State Appropriation 
 
 Apportionment from Township School Tax 
 
 Apportionment from Surplus Revenue 
 
 Amount raised by District Tax for teachers' salaries, &c.... 
 
 Amount raised by District Tax for building and repairing.. 
 
 Amount received from other sources... 
 
 Total recei pts - 
 
 EXPENDITURES. 
 
 Amount expended for Teachers' Wages f- 
 
 Amount expended for Fuel - 
 
 Amount expended for Incidentals - 
 
 Amount expended for Building and Repairing School 
 
 House... - 
 
 Total expenditures 
 
 Balance due the District.. 
 
 I certify that the foregoing statement is correct in all respects. 
 
 -, District Clerk. 
 
 Xo. 14. Financial Report of District Clerk to Township Committee. 
 
 To the Township Committee of - - Township : 
 SIRS : [Form of Report same as No. 13]. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 59 
 
 No. 15. Financial Report of District Clerk to the People of 
 
 the District. 
 
 To the Inhabitants of School District No. : 
 
 [Form of Report same as No. 13]. 
 
 NOTE. The above report should be made at the annual school meeting held for 
 the election of Trustees. 
 
 No. 16. Annual Report of Trustees to the District. 
 
 To the Inhabitants of School District No. : 
 
 In obedience to the requirements of the School Law, we beg leave 
 to present our annual report for the past School Year [here give the 
 final report required of the Teacher in the School Register; state 
 what has been done by the Trustees during the year ; discuss school 
 matters ; make suggestions, etc., etc.] 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 , , D. C. ] Trustees o/ 
 
 , > School District 
 
 , j No. . 
 
 Dated , 18 . 
 
 NOTE. The above report should be made at the annual school meeting for the 
 election of Trustees. 
 
 No. 17. Report of District Clerk to County Superintendent of the 
 Amount of District School Tax Ordered to be Raised. 
 
 To the County Superintendent of County : 
 
 SIR : I hereby report to you, that at the annual (or a special, as 
 the case may be] meeting of the legal voters of School District No. 
 
 , of the County of , held on the day of , 
 
 18 , there was voted to be raised [write the amount in words] 
 
 dollars, as District School Tax, for the purpose of [here state the 
 object for which the money is to-be used]. 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
60 
 
 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 18. Report of Township Collector to County Superintendent 
 of the Amount of Township School Tax Ordered to be Raised. 
 
 To the County Superintendent of 
 
 County : 
 
 SIR : I hereby report to you that the amount of School Tax 
 
 voted to be raised in Township at the last annual town 
 
 meeting, held on the day of - , 18 , is [write the 
 
 amount in words] Dollars per child [or - - Dollars, as the case 
 may be]. 
 
 The Interest on Surplus Revenue to be apportioned to the Public 
 Schools of this Township is Dollars. 
 
 Dated this day of , IS . 
 
 , Township Collector. 
 
 NOTE. This report should be sent to the County Superintendent within five days 
 after the town meeting If the amount of interest on surplus revenue is not known 
 at that time, a separate report should be made of that item as soon as the amount is 
 ascertained. In some counties the surplus revenue remains as a county fund, and the 
 amount of interest must be reported by the County Collector to the County Superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 No. 19. Report of County Clerk to County Superintendent of the 
 Names and Post Office Addresses of the Township Collectors and 
 City Treasurers. 
 
 To the County Superintendent of 
 
 County : 
 
 SIR : I hereby report to you the names and addresses of the 
 newly elected Township Collectors [and City Treasurers if there be 
 any] of this County, as follows : 
 
 Names of Township or City. 
 
 Names of Collectors and City 
 Treasurers. 
 
 Address. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 -, County Clerk. 
 
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 Explanation of the manner of Keeping the School Register, as 
 shown in the Model on the preceding page. 
 
 Indicates presence all day. 
 
 Indicates presence during the forenoon only. 
 
 Indicates presence during the afternoon only. 
 
 Indicates presence during the forenoon only, but tardy. 
 
 Indicates presence during the afternoon only, but tardy. 
 
 Indicates presence all day, but tardy in the forenoon. 
 
 Indicates presence all day, but tardy in the afternoon. 
 
 Indicates presence all day, but tardy both forenoon and afternoon. 
 
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 indicate the several studies each scholar is pursuing. 
 
 No. 22. Teacher's Report to the County Superintendent when Leaving 
 a School before the end of the School Year. 
 
 Report of the Teacher of Public School , in District No. 
 
 , in the County of , for the portion of the School 
 
 Year commencing September 1st, 18 , and ending 
 
 -, 18 . 
 
 \The body of the Report same as No. %3.~\ 
 
 To , County Superintendent for County : 
 
 Being about to leave my present School, I respectfully present the 
 above record and statements as my report for the expired portion of 
 the present School Year, as required by the laws of this State; 
 which report I hereby certify has been carefully made out from the 
 records contained in the School Register. 
 
 , Teacher. 
 
 NOTE. The law requires that a duplicate of the above report shall be made to the 
 District Clerk. 
 
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66 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 25. Notice to County Superintendent of a Vacancy in Board of 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 To , County Superintendent : 
 
 SIR : You are hereby notified that a vacancy now exists in the 
 
 Board of Trustees of School District No. , in the County of 
 
 , through [here state the cause of the vacancy] which you are 
 
 requested to fill by appointment. 
 
 Dated this - - day of - , 18 . 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE. The above notice should be sent to the County Superintendent as Boon as 
 the vacancy exists. If the office of District Clerk is vacant, the notice should be sent 
 by one of the other Trustees. 
 
 No. 26. Appointment to fill a Vacancy in a Board of Trustees. 
 
 The office of one of the Trustees of School District No. , in 
 
 the County of , having become vacant through failure of the 
 
 District to elect according to law [or for any other reason}, you are 
 hereby appointed to fill such vacancy until the next annual meeting 
 for the election of Trustees in said District. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 No. 27. Appointment of a District Clerk. 
 
 To- -: 
 
 The office of District Clerk of School District No. , in the 
 
 County of , being vacant through failure of the Trustees to 
 
 elect according to law [or for any other reason], you are hereby 
 appointed to fill such vacancy until the next annual meeting for the 
 election of Trustees in said District. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
FOR SCEIOOL OFFICERS. 67 
 
 No. 28. Appointment of Trustees for a New District. 
 
 To- : 
 
 Having, on the - - day of - , 18 , formed a new 
 
 School District, to be known as School District No. , in the 
 
 County of , comprising the fDllowing territory: [here insert 
 
 the description of the District] you are hereby appointed Trustee 
 [and District Clerk, if such is the fact,} for said District until the 
 next annual meeting for the election of Trustees. 
 
 I have appointed as your associates, Messrs. and 
 
 Dated this - - day of - , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE. Where two Districts are united they each become extinct and a new District 
 is formed, and the Trustees of the extinct Districts cannot continue to act as Trustees 
 of the new one, but an entire new Board must be appointed by the County Superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 No. 29. Request for District Clerk to Call a Special School Meeting 
 for Establishing a Graded School. 
 
 To - , District Clerk of School District No. - , in 
 
 the County of : 
 
 SIR: You are hereby requested to call a special meeting of the 
 
 legal voters of your District, on the day of , 18 , 
 
 at o'clock in the noon, for the purpose of acting upon 
 
 the question of uniting with Districts Nos. - and , etc., 
 
 in establishing and maintaining a Graded School in accordance with 
 the provisions of Section 61 of the School Law. 
 
 Dated this day of - , 18 -. 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE. The above request is only to be given when there is a known desire on the 
 part of the inhabitants of the Districts thus notified to establish a Graded School. A 
 separate meeting should be held in each District proposing to unite. 
 
G8 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 30. Notice for a Special District Meeting for Considering the 
 Question of Establishing a Graded School. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of School District 
 
 No. , in the County of , that a special school meeting 
 
 will be held at , on the day of , 18 , at 
 
 o'clock in the noon, for the purpose of considering 
 
 the question of uniting with Districts Nos. and , etc., 
 
 in establishing and maintaining a Graded School, in accordance 
 with the provisions of Section 61 of the School Law. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 By order of , County Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE The above notice must be made conspicuous in several places, and posted 
 ten days previous to the time of the meeting. The Districts separately, in accordance 
 with the provisions of Section 86 can vote for, and cause to be assessed, a district tax 
 for erecting the School building, or maintaining the School. 
 
 No. 31. Notice to County Superintendent, giving the result of the 
 action of a School Meeting called for the purpose of Establishing a 
 Gh*aded School. 
 
 To , County Superintendent of County : 
 
 SIR : At a meeting of the legal voters of School District No. 
 
 , in the County of , held on the day of 
 
 , 18 , which was called pursuant to your order, the ques- 
 tion of uniting with Districts Nos. and , for the pur- 
 pose of establishing a Graded School, was decided in the- ; 
 
 voting in the affirmative, and in the negative. 
 
 Dated this - - day of - , 18 . 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 69 
 
 No. 32. Order organizing a Union School District for itie purpose of 
 Establishing a Graded School. 
 
 WHEREAS, Districts now known as School Districts, Nos. , 
 
 and , in the County of , did, in accordance 
 
 with the provisions of Section 61 of the School Law, agree to unite, 
 for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a Graded School, at 
 public meetings called by order of the County Superintendent, on 
 
 the following days, to wit: School District No. on the 
 
 day of - , 18 ; School District No. on the 
 
 day of - , 18 ; and School District No. on the 
 
 day of- ,18 . 
 
 Therefore, it is hereby ordered and made known that said districts 
 are united for the purposes set forth, to be known hereafter by the 
 name and title of . 
 
 Given under my hand this day of , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE. One copy of the above order must be furnished to each Board of Trustees 
 of the United District, and one copy retained by the County Superintendent. 
 
 No. 33. Order Organizing a School District. 
 
 It is hereby ordered and determined that the following shall 
 hereafter be the boundaries of School District, to be known as 
 District Number - , in the County of - , State of New 
 Jersey : beginning at [here describe the boundaries.] 
 
 Given under my hand this day of , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 Approved this day of , 18- 
 
 -, Secretary of State Board. 
 
 NOTE. The above order should be made out in duplicate, one copy to be retained 
 by the County Superintendent, in his office, and the other to be held by the Trustees. 
 The State Board prescribes that a map of the Districts of the County shall be drawn 
 by the County Superintendent, and sent to the State Superintendent, to be retained in 
 his office. 
 
70 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 34. Order altering the Boundaries of a School District. 
 
 It is hereby ordered and determined that the [here describe the 
 territory by sections and parts of sections], now a part of School 
 
 District No. , in the County of , is taken from said 
 
 District and attached to and made a part of School District No, 
 
 , in said County, for all School purposes whatsoever. 
 
 This order will take effect on the day of - 
 
 Given under my hand this day of , 18- 
 
 -, County Superintendent. 
 
 Approved this day of , 1 8 . 
 
 , Secretary of State Board. 
 
 No. 35. Notice by County Superintendent to the District Clerks of 
 Districts to be affected by proposed District changes. 
 
 To - , District Clerk of School District No. - , in 
 
 the County of : 
 
 You are hereby notified that I will be present at , on the 
 
 day of , 18 , o'clock in the noon, to 
 
 decide upon certain proposed alterations of the boundaries of your 
 School District. The attendance of your Board of Trustees is- 
 requested. 
 
 Dated this - - day of , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 No. 36. Notice of Meeting of Township Board of Trustees. 
 
 You are hereby notified that I will be present at - , on 
 
 the day of , 18 , at o'clock in the 
 
 noon, to meet " The Township Board of Trustees " of Town- 
 ship. The attendance of your Board of Trustees is requested. 
 
 Dated this - - day of - , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
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72 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 38. Notice to Township Collector, directing him to withhold School 
 Moneys from a Teacher. 
 
 To the Township Collector of Township : 
 
 SIR : You are hereby directed to withhold all further payment 
 of salary to , a teacher now employed in School Dis- 
 trict No. , situated in your Township, said teacher not being in 
 
 possession of a certificate [or not having kept the School Register}, as 
 is required by the School Law. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 -, County Superintendent. 
 
 No. 39. Notice to Township Collector, directing him to withhold School 
 Honeys from a District. 
 
 To the Township Collector of Township : 
 
 SIR : You are hereby directed to withhold [here state the amount 
 in words] from the school moneys apportioned to School District No. 
 
 , situated in your Township, on account of said District, [here 
 
 state the reason why the money is withheld]. 
 
 Dated this day of - , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE. All moneys withheld must be reapportioned the next year among all the 
 Districts of the Township. 
 
 No. 40. Notice of Meeting for Examination of Teachers. 
 
 Notice is hereby given that there will be a meeting of the County 
 Board of Examiners of - - County, for the examination of can- 
 didates for teachers' certificates, at - , on , the - 
 
 instant. Each applicant for a certificate should be present as early 
 
 as o'clock, A. M. 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
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FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 73 
 
 Xo. 41. Notice to Teacher Revoking his Certificate. 
 
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 To- 
 
 SIR : The certificate of qualification held by you as a Public 
 
 School Teacher in the County of , issued on the day 
 
 of , 18 , is hereby revoked, for the reason that [here state 
 
 reason why certificate is revoked]. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE. In cases where the teacher's offence is not flagrant, and the certificate re- 
 voked is freely surrendered on request of the Superintendent, none but the parties 
 immediately concerned need be apprised of the transaction. But if the teacher re- 
 fuses to deliver up his certificate, public notice of the revocation should be made in 
 the papers. All revocations of State certificates and County certificates of the first 
 grade must be made by the State Superintendent. 
 
 No. 42. Notice to District Cleric informing him of the Revocation of 
 Teacher's Certificate. 
 
 To , District Clerk of School District No. , of 
 
 the County of : 
 
 SIR : You are hereby rectified that on the day of - , 
 
 18 , I revoked the certificate of qualification held by 
 
 , a teacher in your District, for the reason that, in my opinion, 
 
 the said does not possess fche requisite qualifications 
 
 as a teacher in respect to [moral character, learning, or ability to 
 teach, as the case may be]. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , County /Superintendent. 
 
 NOTE When a teacher's certificate is revoked, a notice similar to the above should 
 also be sent the Collector of the Township in which the teacher has been engaged. 
 
74 
 
 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 43. Notice by County Superintendent of Apportionment of School 
 
 Money. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 
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 the School Year commencing September 1, 18 - . 
 Amount of State School Tax appropriated by the State, 
 Additional State Appropriation, ..... 
 Interest of Surplus Revenue, . . 
 Amount of Township School Tax, .... 
 
 Amount of District School Tax, .... 
 Number of Children according to Census of 18 - . 
 
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 Districts, Name 
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 NOTE. Copy of the above should be furnished the County Collector, each Town- 
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FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 75 
 
 No. 44. Notice for Annual Meeting for the Election of Trustees. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of School District No. 
 , in the County of , that the annual school meeting for 
 
 the election of School Trustees will be held at , on Monday, 
 
 the - - day of - , 18 , at - - o'clock M. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE The above notice must be posted in three public pi 
 of which shall be at the school house at least five days 
 meeting. The meeting must be held in the school house, i 
 
 No. 45. Notice for a Meeting of the District Be 
 
 To : 
 
 You are hereby notified that there will be a meeting of the 
 
 Board of Trustees of School District No. , on evening, 
 
 , 18 , at - o'clock, in the school house. 
 
 [Date.] District Clerk. 
 
 No. 46. Notice by District Clerk to County Superintendent of the 
 Election of Trustees. 
 
 To - , County Superintendent : 
 
 SIR : You are hereby notified that at the annual meeting in 
 School District No. -- , in the County of - , held on the 
 - day of - , 18 -- , -- was elected Trustee 
 in the place of -- , whose term had expired. 
 
 The Board of Trustees now consists of 
 
 Mr. - - , whose term expires 18 -- . 
 
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 The Trustees have elected Mr. - , District Clerk, 
 
 whose post office address is - . 
 
 -- , /Secretary of School Meeting. 
 
 NOTE. This notice should be sent to the County Superintendent as soon after the 
 election as possible. It may be sent by the District Clerk or the Secretary. 
 
76 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 47. Notice to be given by the Secretary of a District School 
 Meeting, to the Officers Elect. 
 
 You are hereby notified that at a meeting of School District No. 
 
 , in tl:t3 County of , held on the day of , 
 
 18 , you were elected Secretary of said District. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 
 
 -, Secretary of said Meeting. 
 
 No. 48. Form of Resignation. 
 
 To , County Superintendent : 
 
 I hereby resign ray office of Trustee [or District Clerk] of School 
 District No. , in the County of . 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 No. 49. Notice for the Annual District Meeting for determining what 
 District School Tax shall be assessed. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of School District No. 
 
 , in the County of , that the annual school meeting 
 
 will be held at , on the Tuesday of the week following town 
 
 meeting, being the - - day of March (or April), 18 , at 
 
 o'clock in the noon, at which meeting will be sub- 
 mitted the question of voting a tax to maintain a free Public School 
 the coming year [or to build a school house, etc]. 
 
 The amount thought to be necessary for this purpose is 
 
 dollars. 
 
 Dated this - - day of , 18 . 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE. In the above notice must be particularly specified each item of business to 
 be acted upon. For details, see Section 86, of the School Law. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 77 
 
 No. 50. Notice for a Special District Meeting for determining what 
 District School Tax shall be assessed. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of School District No. 
 
 , in the County of - , that a special school meeting will 
 
 be held at - , on the - - day of , 18 , at - 
 
 o'clock in the - noon, at which meeting will be submitted the 
 question of ordering a district school tax to \here particularly specify 
 each item of business to be acted upon]. 
 
 The amount thought to be necessary for this purpose is - 
 dollars. , "j Trustees of 
 
 , > School District 
 
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 NOTE. The authority for calling a special school meeting is given in Clause XI. of 
 Section 39 of the School Law. For detailed directions, see Section 86. 
 
 No. 51. Various Specifications of Business to be Transacted that may 
 be Inserted in any Notice for District Meeting, as they may be needed. 
 
 To authorize the Trustees to purchase land and to erect a school 
 house thereon ; 
 
 To see if the District will take measures for the repair, alteration, 
 enlarging or furnishing of the present school house ; 
 
 To appoint a committee to prepare and report a plan for such 
 erection or repair, with the probable expense of the same ; 
 
 To raise money by district tax to defray the expenses of such erec- 
 tion, alteration or repair ; 
 
 To authorize the Trustees to borrow money to defray the expenses 
 of such erection, alteration or repair, and to provide for the payment 
 of the same by ordering a district tax, [or by bonding the district, as 
 the case may be] ; 
 
 To see if the District will vote a sufficient district tax to defray the 
 expenses of maintaining a free School during the ensuing year, or 
 during months of the ensuing year ; or the issuing of bonds ; 
 
 To order a district tax for the payment of a debt of - - dollars, 
 now resting upon the school house property ; 
 
 To order the sale of the present school house property, and to 
 decide what disposition shall be made of the proceeds ; 
 
 To do any other business within the scope of the foregoing 
 propositions. 
 
78 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 52. Certificate of the amount of School Tax voted to be raised at 
 a regular School Meeting in a School District, to be delivered by the 
 District Clerk to the Township Assessor. 
 
 To , Assessor of Township, - County, State of 
 
 New Jersey : 
 
 The legal voters of School District No. , in the County of 
 
 , met at , a convenient public place within the District, 
 
 on the day ot , 18 , being the Tuesday of the week 
 
 following the annual town meeting, to determine what additional 
 school tax, if any, should be levied upon the District, and notice 
 thereof, setting forth the time, place and object of said meeting, and 
 
 specifying dollars as the amount of money thought necessary 
 
 to be raised, was given by the District Clerk, and set up at three 
 public places within the District, ten days before the meeting; and 
 the said legal voters, so met, by the consent of a majority of those 
 present, authorized the Trustees of said District [to purchase land, 
 
 etc., as the case may be], and ordered by a like vote dollars 
 
 for the purpose of [as purchasing land], and dollars for the 
 
 purpose of [as building a school house], etc., amounting in all to 
 
 dollars, which sum is not in excess of the amount thought to 
 
 be necessary, as set forth in the notices, and you are therefore directed 
 
 to assess the said sum of dollars on the inhabitants of said 
 
 School District, and their estates, and the taxable property therein, 
 pursuant to t,he statute in such case made and provided. 
 
 Dated this day of ,. 18 . 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, \ 
 County of } S 
 
 , being duly sworn on his oath, saith that he is the District 
 
 Clerk of School District No. , in the County of , and that 
 
 the above statement by him is correct and true. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me this day of , 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 79 
 
 j o . 53. Certificate of the Amount of School Tax voted to be raised at 
 a Special School Meeting in a School District, to be delivered by the 
 District Clerk to the Township Assessor. 
 
 To , Assessor of Township, County, State of 
 
 New Jersey : 
 
 Pursuant to a resolution passed at a meeting of the Trustees of 
 
 School District No. , in the County of , held on the 
 
 day of , 18 , as authorized by Subdivision 11 of Section 39 
 
 of the School Law, the legal voters of said District met at , a 
 
 convenient place within the District, on the day of , 
 
 18 , to determine [balance of form, including the affidavit, same 
 
 as form No. 52]. 
 
 Notes to Forms Nos. 52 and 53. The certificate must state which of the object or 
 objects specified in Section 86, for which the money is raised. 3 Vr. 444. If more than 
 one object is specified, the amount of money apportioned to each must be stated. 7 
 Vr. 89. 
 
 The law requires that notice of the above action should also be sent to tHe County 
 Superintendent. 
 
 No. 54. Warrant of the Amount of School Tax to be raised to meet 
 maturing bonds and accruing interest, to be delivered by ike District 
 Clerk to the Township Assessor. 
 
 To - , Assessor of Township, County, State of 
 
 New Jersey : 
 
 You are hereby directed to assess on the inhabitants of School Dis- 
 trict No. - , of the County of , and their estates and the 
 
 taxable property therein, - dollars, being dollars to 
 
 meet Bond No. , falling due on the day of , 
 
 18 , and dollars to meet accruing interest on Bonds Nos. 
 
 , , - , issued by the Trustees of said District, as authorized 
 
 by the legal voters at a meeting held on the day of , 
 
 18 , in conformity to the provisions of Section eighty six of the 
 
 School Law, (or, as the case may be, at the call of the Trustees, as 
 provided in the eleventh division of the thirty-ninth section of the 
 School Law.) 
 
 Dated this - day of , 18 . 
 
 , ] Trustees of 
 
 [L. s.] , I School District 
 
 ' Attest, , District Clerk. 
 
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FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 83 
 
 No. 58. Teacher's State Certificate First Grade. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 
 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 
 SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE 
 
 STATE CERTIFICATE. 
 
 First Grade. 
 The eminent qualifications and distinguished success of 
 
 ON, V 
 
 , as a Teacher, having been established by thorough examina- 
 tion and satisfactory testimonials, is hereby duly authorized 
 
 to teach in any part of this State. 
 
 Done at the City of Trenton, this day of , in the 
 
 year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty , 
 under the authority conferred by Section 48 of the Revised School 
 Law. 
 
 , State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 -, Principal of the State Normal School. 
 
 No. 59. Teacher's State Certificate Second Grade. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, *> 
 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, > 
 SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE. ) 
 
 STATE CERTIFICATE. 
 Second Grade. 
 
 having presented satisfactory evidence of good 
 moral character, and having passed the required examination, is 
 hereby LICENSED AS A TEACHER in the Public Schools of this State 
 for the term of TEN YEARS from date, unless this certificate is sooner 
 revoked. 
 
 Given under our hands and seals this day of 7 
 
 18. 
 
 -, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 -, Principal of the State Normal School. 
 
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 No. 60. Teacher's State Certificate Third Grade. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, ] 
 
 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, \ 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE. ) 
 
 STATE CERTIFICATE. 
 Third Grade. 
 
 , having presented satisfactory evidence of good 
 
 moral character, and having passed the required examination, is 
 hereby LICENSED AS A TEACHER in the Public Schools of this State 
 for the term of SEVEN YEARS from date, unless this certificate is 
 sooner revoked. 
 
 Given under our hands and seals this day of , 
 
 18 . 
 
 -, State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 , Principal of the State Normal School. 
 
 No. 61. Certificate of County Superintendent in Appeals. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 N. J. f -, 18- -. 
 
 To , State Superintendent of Public Instruction : 
 
 SIR : I transmit, herewith, a full and correct statement of the 
 
 facts, and the documentary evidence presented to me, in the case of 
 
 ' , vs. , together with my decision thereon, from which 
 
 appeal has been taken to the State Department. 
 
 I certify that the accompanying statement is correct to the best 
 
 of my knowledge and belief. 
 
 . , County Superintendent for County. 
 
 NOTE. The above certificate should be furnished by the County Superintendent in 
 cases of appeals, when requested by the State Superintendent. 
 
FOE SCHOOL OFFICERS. 85 
 
 No. (>2. Appeal to the State Superintendent. 
 
 To , State Superintendent of Public Instruction : 
 
 SIR : We herewith transmit a full and correct statement of the 
 
 facts in the case of vs. , together with the decision of 
 
 the County Superintendent thereon, from which decision we respect- 
 fully appeal for the following reasons : [here state the reasons for 
 making the appeal]. 
 
 We certify that the accompanying statements, together with the 
 decision of the County Superintendent, are true to the best of our 
 knowledge and belief. 
 
 No. 63. Form of Certificate Condemning a School House. 
 
 This is to certify that we, the undersigned, have this day con- 
 demned the public school house in District No. , in the 
 
 County of , as being, in its present condition, unfit for use. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , County Superintendent. 
 
 Trustees of District No. , 
 
 in the County of . 
 
 NOTE. This certificate is held by the County Superintendent, and the school house 
 remains condemned until repaired or rebuilt. 
 
 No. 64. Teacher's Report of the Suspension of a Pupil to the Trustees. 
 
 To - , District Clerk of School District No. , of 
 
 the County of : 
 
 SIR : You are hereby notified that I have this day suspended 
 from my school , for [here state the cause for suspension]. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , Teacher. 
 
 
 
 NOTE. The School Law requires every suspension to be reported to the Trustees. 
 
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 No. 65. Order of Business at a District School Meeting. 
 
 1. Choose a Chairman and Secretary. 
 
 2. Bead the notice calling the meeting. 
 
 3. Eeport of District Clerk. 
 
 4. Transaction of the business for which the meeting was called, 
 
 as set forth in the notices. 
 
 5. Miscellaneous business. 
 
 6. Adjournment. 
 
 No. 66. Minutes of District School Meeting for the Election of 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Pursuant to the following notice [here copy the notice given], the 
 
 legal voters of School District No. convened at the school 
 
 house and selected , Chairman, and , 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 The Secretary read the notice of the meeting. 
 
 Mr. , District Clerk, presented the annual report 
 
 of the Trustees, which was accepted. 
 
 On motion of Mr. , the meeting proceeded to elect 
 
 a Trustee by ballot in the place of Mr. , whose term 
 
 has expired. Mr. received a majority of all the 
 
 votes cast, and was declared by the Chairman duly elected Trustee 
 for the term of three years. 
 
 The District Clerk stated that there was a vacancy in the Board 
 
 on account of the expiration of the term of appointment of Mr. 
 
 , who, during the past year, had been appointed 
 
 Trustee by the County Superintendent to fill the vacancy caused by 
 
 the resignation of Mr. . The meeting again proceeded 
 
 to ballot and Mr. was elected Trustee for the unex- 
 
 pired term of Mr. . 
 
 On motion of Mr. the meeting adjourned. 
 
 ; Secretary. 
 
FOB SCHOOL OFFICERS. 87 
 
 No. 67. Minutes of Trustee Meeting. 
 
 Pursuant to notice given to each member, the Board of Trustees 
 of District No. 1, met in the school house on Monday evening, 
 January 3, 1881. There were present, Messrs. James Fisk, Henry 
 Jones, and Alpheus Taylor. 
 
 Henry Jones presided. 
 
 The applications of H. W. Clark, Edward Davis, and E. H. 
 Long for the position of teacher in our public school were received. 
 
 After considerable discussion relative to the qualifications of each, 
 the position was awarded to Edward Davis at a salary of one hun- 
 dred dollars per month. 
 
 The District Clerk was instructed to inform Mr. Davis of his 
 election, and request him to enter upon his duties on Monday, Jan- 
 uary 10, 1881. 
 
 The following bills were presented by the District Clerk, and 
 ordered paid out of the fijnds raised by district tax : 
 
 E. H. Jackson, four tons of coal, @ $5.00 . . $20 00 
 
 W. J. Hopkins, one cord of wood, 8 00 
 
 Jane Gibson, cleaning school house, . . . . 5 00 
 
 It was ordered that the District Clerk procure two slate black- 
 boards, each three feet by four feet, for the use of the school. 
 
 Adjourned. 
 
 ALPHEUS TAYLOR, District Clerk. 
 
 No. 68. Certificate to be attached to proceedings of a District Meeting 
 by the person acting as Secretary. 
 
 I hereby certify that the foregoing is a correct and complete 
 record of the proceedings of [the annual or special school meeting, 
 
 as the case may be], held in School District No. , in the 
 
 County of , on the day of : , 18 . 
 
 -, Secretary. 
 
 NOTE. When the District Clerk is absent, or when he does not act as Secretary of 
 the school meeting, the above certificate should be attached to the account of the 
 proceedings before it is delivered to said Clerk. 
 
88 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 69. Minutes of District School Meeting for raising District Tax. 
 
 - N. J., -, 18- -. 
 
 Pursuant to the following notice [here copy the notice given], the 
 
 legal voters of School District No. , convened at the school 
 
 house; was elected Chairman and 
 
 Secretary of the meeting. 
 
 The Chairman stated the object of the meeting and read the notice 
 which had been given. 
 
 Mr. moved that a district school tax of three 
 
 hundred dollars be voted for the purpose of maintaining a free 
 
 school ten months during the year. Mr. moved to 
 
 amend by striking out " three hundred " and inserting " four hun- 
 dred," which was agreed to, and the motion as amended was decided 
 
 in the affirmative ; voting in the affirmative, and 
 
 : in the negative. 
 
 Mr. moved that a distriet school tax of one hun- 
 dred dollars be voted for the purpose of painting the school house. 
 
 Mr. moved to amend by striking out " one hundred " 
 
 and inserting " fifty," which motion was lost. The original motion 
 was then agreed to ; - voting in the affirmative, and 
 in the negative. 
 
 On motion of Mr. , the meeting adjourned. 
 
 , Chairman. 
 
 , Secretary. 
 
 No. 70. Minutes of District School Meeting Ordering a New School 
 
 House Erected. 
 
 [Commence as in preceding form.] 
 
 The following business was transacted : 
 
 It was, upon motion, Resolved, That the comfort of the children 
 and the best interest of the District, demand the erection of a new 
 school house. 
 
 It was voted that D. S and P. V be appointed a 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 89 
 
 committee to prepare and report a plan for such new school house, 
 with an estimate of the probable expense of the same, and report 
 thereon at the next meeting. 
 
 It was voted that when this meeting adjourn it adjourn to meet 
 again on the - - day of , 18 , at - - o'clock p. M. 
 
 The Trustees were directed to give the required ten days' notice 
 of the adjourned meeting, and to set forth that the object of said 
 meeting would be the consideration of the report of the committee 
 in relation to the new school house and the ordering of the necessary 
 district tax for the erection of the same. 
 
 On motion the meeting adjourned, etc. 
 
 ADJOURNED MEETING. 
 
 [Commence in a manner similar to No. 69.] 
 
 D. S and P. V , the committee appointed therefor, 
 
 made their report of a plan for a school house, together with an 
 estimate of the expense of construction, which report was accepted 
 and ordered to be recorded, and is in the words and figures following : 
 
 [Here insert report.] 
 
 After consideration and discussion of said report, it was voted that 
 the same be adopted, and that the Trustees be directed to proceed in 
 the erection of a house in accordance with such plan. 
 
 It was voted that a district tax of dollars be assessed and 
 
 collected to defray the expense of such school house, voting 
 
 in the affirmative, and - in the negative. 
 
 NOTE. The foregoing form of minutes are given for the inexperienced. Those who 
 are familiar with such duties may adopt or vary them as may seem best. The essen- 
 tial point is, to have the proceedings of district meetings accurately recorded. Much 
 depends upon the minutes of these meetings, and hence they should be correctly kept 
 and carefully preserved. 
 
90 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 71. Minutes of District School Meeting, Ordering the Bonding 
 
 of the District. 
 
 Pursuant to the following notice [here copy the notice given], the 
 
 legal voters of School District No. , of the County of , 
 
 convened at the school house. was elected Chair- 
 man, and , Secretary of the meeting. 
 
 The Chairman stated the object of the meeting, and read the 
 notice that had been given. 
 
 The plans for a brick school house were submitted and explained 
 
 by the Trustees, as authorized at a meeting held , 
 
 18 . The Trustees stated that the probable cost of the building 
 
 would be four thousand dollars, and that five hundred dollars would 
 be required to furnish the same, and to fence and grade the grounds. 
 
 The Trustees further stated that the lot, containing half-an-acre 
 
 of ground, belonging to , and situated on the corner 
 
 of and streets, could be purchased for five hundred 
 
 dollars. This, in the judgment of the Trustees, was considered a 
 desirable site for the new building. 
 
 On motion of , the following resolutions were adopted : 
 
 1. Resolved, That the lot for school purposes, recommended by 
 the Trustees, be purchased. 
 
 2. Resolved, That a school house be erected thereon, in accord- 
 ance with the plans and specifications submitted. 
 
 3. Resolved, That for the purpose of securing the money needed 
 to purchase the lot, and to fence the same, and to erect and furnish 
 the school house, the sum of five thousand dollars be raised by 
 issuing five bonds of the District, in the corporate name of the Dis- 
 trict, in denominations of one thousand dollars each. 
 
 4. Resolved, That one bond shall be issued for one year ; one for 
 two years ; one for three years ; one for four years, and one for five 
 years, and that each year, until the last bond is paid, a tax shall be 
 levied, according to law, on the property and the inhabitants of the 
 District, sufficient to pay the bond maturing, together with the 
 accrued interest on all those then outstanding. 
 
 5. Resolved, That the Trustees be empowered to carry out the 
 provisions of the foregoing resolutions. 
 
 The vote on the resolutions stood in the affirmative, and 
 
 in the negative. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 91 
 
 No. 72. Report of Non-Attendance of Children at School. 
 
 To - , Township Collector : 
 
 You are hereby notified that the following children, between eight 
 and fourteen years of age, residing in this District, have not attended 
 school during the past year the time required by the act relative to 
 the attendance of children at school, approved April 9bh, 1875 : 
 
 has attended but months. 
 
 You are requested to impose the penalty and to collect the fine, as 
 provided in said act. 
 
 , District Clerk of District No. , 
 
 County, N. J. 
 
 NOTE. In the cities the above notice is to be sent, by some person designated by the 
 Board of Education, to the City Treasurer. 
 
 No. 73. Duties of Township Collector. 
 
 1. To notify the County Superintendent of the amount of town- 
 ehip school tax ordered, and the amount of interest on surplus 
 revenue. [Form 18.] 
 
 2. To collect all township and district school taxes. 
 
 3. To recerve and hold in trust all school moneys, and to pay out 
 "the same only upon orders drawn in accordance with forms 11 
 And 12. 
 
 4. To keep, in a book prepared for the purpose, an account with 
 -each School District. [Form 37.] 
 
 5. To make settlement with the Township Committee. [Form 20.] 
 
 6. To transmit copies of the settlement made with the Township 
 Oommittee to the County Superintendent and to the Clerk of the 
 Township. [Form 20.] 
 
92 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 74. Duties of District Clerk. 
 
 1. To prepare and to post 
 
 Notices for annual district meeting, [Form 49.] 
 
 Notices for special district meeting, [Form 50.] 
 
 and Notices for Trustee election, [Form 44.] 
 
 2. To prepare and to deliver notices for meetings of the Board of 
 Trustees. [Form 45.] 
 
 3. To act as Secretary of the Board of Trustees. [Form 67.] 
 
 4. To record, in a book provided for that purpose, all the proceed- 
 ings of trustee meetings and district meetings. [Forms Nos. 66, 67, 
 69 and 70.] 
 
 5. To keep an account of the finances of the District in a manner 
 similar to that shown in Form 37. 
 
 6. To pay out all moneys by issuing orders on the Township Col- 
 lector. [Forms 11 and 12.] 
 
 7. To make a financial report 
 
 To County Superintendent, [Form 13.] 
 
 To Township Committee. [Form 14.] 
 
 and To annual district meeting, [Form 15.] 
 
 8. To make a report of the doings of the Trustees for the year to 
 the annual district meeting for the election of Trustees. [Form 16.] 
 
 9. To take the District census. 
 
 10. To prepare and to forward the annual report to the County 
 Superintendent. 
 
 11. To notify County Superintendent and Township Assessor of 
 the amount of district school tax ordered. [Forms 17 and 52.] 
 
 12. To notify County Superintendent of the election of Trustees. 
 [Form 46.] 
 
 13. To report the non-attendance of children at school. [Form 72.] 
 
 14. To attend the meetings of the " Township Board of Trustees " 
 when convened by the County Superintendent. 
 
 15. To superintend repairs of buildings ; to buy fuel, crayons, and 
 such other articles as the Trustees may direct. 
 
 16. To deliver to his successor all records and papers belonging 
 to the District. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 93 
 
 No. 75. Form of Contract between District and Teacher. 
 
 It is hereby agreed between "The Trustees of School District 
 
 No. - , in the County of /' and , a qualified 
 
 teacher, possessing a license in full force and effect, that the said 
 is to teach the public school of said District for a term [here 
 insert the time], for the sum of dollars per month, commenc- 
 ing on the day of , 18 , and for such services, 
 
 properly rendered, the said Trustees are to pay the said - 
 monthly, the amount that may be due, according to this contract. 
 
 Dated this day of , 18 . 
 
 , 1 Trustees of School District 
 
 , > No. , in the County 
 
 J of 
 
 , Teacher. 
 
 NOTE. In case the Teacher is employed in a Graded School, the particular depart- 
 ment for which he is engaged should be specified in the contract. 
 
 No. 76. Form of a Lease. 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that A. B., of the Township of 
 
 , in the County of - , in the State of New Jersey, of the 
 
 first part, for the consideration herein mentioned, does hereby lease 
 
 unto "The Trustees of School District No. , in the County of 
 
 ," in the State aforesaid, party of the second part, and their 
 assigns, the following described parcel of land : 
 
 [here insert description of land.] 
 
 Together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belong- 
 ing: To have and to hold the same for and during the term of 
 
 years from the day of , A. D. 18 ; and 
 
 the said party of the second part, for themselves and assigns, do 
 covenant and agree to pay the said party of the first part, for said 
 premises, the annual rent of dollars. 
 
 In testimony whereof, the said parties have hereunto set their 
 
 hands and seals, this - - day of , 18 . 
 
 A. B., Lessor. 
 C. D., ] Trustees of School District 
 
 E. F., > No. , in the County of 
 
 G. H., j , State of New Jersey. 
 
94 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 77. Form of a Deed of a School House Site. 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that A. B., [and C. B. y his wife r 
 
 if married,] in the Township of , in the County of , in 
 
 the State of New Jersey, party of the first part, for and in consid- 
 eration of the sum of dollars, to them in hand paid by " The 
 
 Trustees of School District No. , in the County of ,"" 
 
 and State aforesaid, party of the second part, the receipt whereof is 
 hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant, bargain, sell, and convey to- 
 the said party of the second part, and their assigns, the following 
 described piece of land, namely : 
 
 [here insert description of land.] 
 
 Together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belong- 
 ing : To have and to hold the same to the said party of the second 
 part, and their assigns forever ; and the said party of the first part,, 
 for themselves, their heirs, executors and administrators, do covenant, 
 bargain and agree, to and with the said party of the second part, and 
 their assigns, that- at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these- 
 presents, they are well seized of the premises above conveyed, as of 
 a good, sure, perfect, absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance- 
 in the law in fee simple, and that the said lands and premises are 
 free from all incumbrances whatsoever ; and that the above bargained 
 premises, in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of 
 the second part and their assigns, against all and every person or 
 persons lawfully claiming or to claim, the whole or any part thereof, 
 the said party of the first part will forever warrant and defend. 
 
 In witness whereof, the said A. B. and C. B., his wife, party of 
 the first part, have hereunto set their hands and seals, this - 
 day of , A. D. 18 . 
 
 SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED ~| A. B. [SEAL.] 
 
 IN PRESENCE OF C. B. [SEAL.] 
 
 E. F. j 
 
 NOTE. Such deed should be duly acknowledged before a judge, commissioner of 
 deeds, master in chancery, or other officer authorized by law to take such acknowl- 
 edgment, and recorded in the office of the County Clerk. The bond and mortgage 
 given by the Trustees to secure payment of part of purchase money may be in the 
 usual forms, and for the execution of deeds, mortgages and bonds, each District should 
 have a corporate seal. Notes given for borrowed money should be in the name of the- 
 District and signed by all the Trustees as such. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 95 
 
 No. 78. Form of Contract for Building a School House. 
 
 Contract made and entered into between A. B., of the County of 
 
 , State of New Jersey, and " The Trustees of School District 
 
 No. , in the County of ," State of New Jersey. 
 
 In consideration of the sura of one dollar in hand paid, the receipt 
 
 whereof is hereby acknowledged, and of the further sum of 
 
 dollars, to be paid as hereinafter specified, the said A. B. agrees to 
 build a frame school house and to furnish the materials therefor, 
 according to the plan and specifications for the erection of said house 
 hereto appended, at such point in said District as the said Trustees 
 may designate. The said house is to be built of the best material, 
 in a substantial, workmanlike manner ; and is to be completed and 
 delivered to said Trustees, or their successors in office, free from any 
 
 lien for work done or materials furnished, by the day of 
 
 , 18 ; and in case the said house is not finished in the 
 
 time herein specified, the s^id A. B. shall forfeit and pay to the said 
 Trustees, or their successors in office, for the use of said District, the 
 
 sum of dollars, and shall also be liable for all damages that 
 
 may result to said District in consequence of such failure, and said 
 Trustees may finish the building and charge the cost of the same to- 
 the said A. B. 
 
 The said Trustees, or their successors in office, in behalf of said 
 District, hereby agree to pay the said A. B. the. sum of dol- 
 lars when the foundation of said house is finished ; and the further 
 sum of - - dollars when the building is ready for the roof; and 
 
 the remaining sum of dollars when the said house is finished 
 
 and delivered, as herein stipulated. 
 
 It is further agreed that this contract shall not be sub-let, trans- 
 ferred or assigned, without the consent of both parties. 
 
 Witness our hands this day of , 18 . 
 
 A. B., Contractor, 
 
 C. D., E. F. and G. H., Trustees. 
 
 NOTE. In building a school house, it is all important to secure a plan of the build- 
 ing, with full specifications as to its dimensions, style of architecture, number and size 
 of the windows and doors, quality of the materials to be used; what kind of roof; 
 number of coats of paint; of what material the foundation shall be constructed; its 
 depth below, and its height above the suriace of the ground ; the number and style of 
 chimneys and flues ; the provisions for ventilation ; the number of coats of plastering 
 and style of finish, and all other items in detail that may be deemed necessary. The 
 plan and specifications should be attached to the contract, and the whole filed with 
 the District Clerk. Before the building is commenced, the contract should be filed in 
 the office of the County Clerk to prevent liens. 
 
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 No. 79. Bond to be Issued for Loan from School Fund. 
 
 No. - . Bonds of School District No. . 
 
 County, N. J. 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that " The Trustees of School 
 
 District No. , in the County of ," in the State of New 
 
 Jersey, are justly indebted unto , or bearer, in the 
 
 sum of dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, 
 
 to be paid to the said , or bearer, on the day 
 
 of , 18 , at the Bank, , N. J., with interest 
 
 therefor from the date hereof, at the rate of six per cent, per annum, 
 
 payable semi-annually, on the days of and in 
 
 every year, at the bank aforesaid, on the presentation of the annexed 
 coupons, as they severally become due. 
 
 This is one of a series of coupon bonds of dollars each, 
 
 issued by the Trustees of said School District, amounting in the 
 
 aggregate to dollars, numbered from* to , both inclusive ; 
 
 and the said bonds are issued for money borrowed by said Trustees 
 for the purpose of building a school house in said School District, 
 pursuant to the statute entitled " An Act to Establish a System of 
 Public Instruction," approved March 27th, 1874, and by the consent 
 of the inhabitants of said District lawfully given, at a meeting law- 
 fully held on - , 18 . 
 
 In witness whereof, on the day of , in the year 
 
 eighteen hundred and , this bond is signed by the Trustees of 
 
 said District, and attested by the Clerk, under the seal of said Dis- 
 trict. , 
 
 Attest , District Clerk. Trustees. 
 
 [Form of Coupon to be attached to the above Bond.} 
 
 School District No. - , County of , N. J. 
 
 SCHOOL HOUSE LOAN. 
 
 Interest warrant for dollars, payable at the Bank, 
 
 , N. J., to bearer, /for six months' interest on 
 
 Bond No. . 
 
 , D. C. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 97 
 
 No. 80. Application for Loan from School Fund. 
 
 To "The Trustees for the Support of Public Schools," of the State 
 of New Jersey : 
 
 The " Trustees of School District N/umber , in the County 
 
 of ," in the State of New Jersey, ask to borrow of " The 
 
 Trustees for the support of Public Schools," the sum of dol- 
 lars, for the purpose of building a school house in the aforesaid Dis- 
 trict; and offer as security for said loan the coupon bonds of said 
 District, to the amount, at par, of said loan. Said loan and bonds 
 were authorized by the inhabitants of said District when met, upon 
 due and legal notice for that purpose, on the Tuesday of the week 
 following the annual town meeting, in the Township in which said 
 District is situate, in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
 
 eighty . The principal of said loan is to be repaid in 
 
 instalments of dollars a year; the first instalment to be 
 
 paid on the day of , one thousand eight hundred and 
 
 eighty , and then yearly thereafter, with interest from date, 
 
 at the rate of six per centum, according to the terms aforesaid. 
 
 Principal and interest payable at ; and the bonds hereby 
 
 offered are of the denomination of $ each, and are numbered 
 
 from one to both inclusive. 
 
 We submit herewith a copy of the proceedings had at said meet- 
 ing of said inhabitants, duly verified ; and a copy of the notice of 
 said meeting, with an affidavit showing when and where said notice 
 was put up. 
 
 Dated - , , N. J., , 18 . 
 
 , D. C. 1 Trustees of School District 
 
 , > Number , in the 
 
 , j County of , N. J. 
 
 NOTE. The above application should be sent to the Secretary of State, who is 
 ex officio Secretary of me Board of Trustees. 
 
98 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 No. 81. Directions given to Candidates for Certificates before being 
 
 Examined. 
 
 1. Write your name and the subject of the examination, dis- 
 tinctly, at the top of each page. 
 
 2. You need not copy the questions upon the paper, but be careful 
 to number each answer to correspond with the question. 
 
 3. Write only on one side of the paper, and do not write to the 
 left of the red marginal line. 
 
 4. If unable to answer any question, write its proper number, 
 and opposite the same write, " I cannot answer." 
 
 5. In answering questions in Arithmetic, Algebra, etc., give the 
 work as well as the answer. 
 
 6. After beginning a set of questions, do not leave the room 
 without the permission of the examiner in charge, until that exer- 
 cise is completed. 
 
 7. During the examination, avoid, with the utmost strictness, all 
 communication with other candidates, with visitors, or with any 
 one else, except the examiners, whether by talking, signs, notes or 
 otherwise. Any violation of this rule will cause your exercise to be 
 rejected. 
 
 8. Referring to text books, or to written or printed abstracts, or 
 memoranda of any kind connected with the subject of examination, 
 or having such book, abstract or memoranda in your desk or about 
 your person, will cause your exercise to be rejected. 
 
 9. As soon as one exercise is finished, hand it to the examiner in 
 attendance before beginning another. 
 
 10. Do not fold the paper containing your answers, and do not 
 tear off any portion of the sheet that may remain after you have 
 finished a set of questions, but leave the sheet whole, as the paper 
 will be preserved. 
 
 11. A special average will be given for correctness in Orthog- 
 raphy and Composition, and for legibility, order, neatness and 
 general appearance of the examination papers. 
 
 12. Be careful to preserve this card of directions and the ques- 
 tions. They will both be called for at the close of the examination. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 99 
 
 No. 82. Calendar for School Elections and Duties. 
 
 1. State Board of Education Meets on the first Thursdays of 
 February and November, and on the last Thursday of June, 
 annually. 
 
 2. Trustees of the School Fund Meet on the first Monday in 
 April, annually, and at other times when called together by the 
 Governor. 
 
 3. State Board of Examiners Meets on the Mondays preceding 
 the first Thursday of February and the last Thursday of June, 
 annually. 
 
 4. County Boards of Examiners Meet on the last Saturday of 
 February, May, November, and the last Friday of August, annually. 
 
 5. State Association of School Superintendents Meets at the call 
 of the State Superintendent. 
 
 6. School Trustees Elected on the first day of July, annually, 
 except when the first falls on Sunday, when the election is held on 
 the second day of July, and should meet on the first Tuesday after 
 the first Monday in March, June, September and December, and 
 oftener if necessary. 
 
 7. District Clerks Elected within ten days after the annual meet- 
 ing for the election of Trustees, annually. 
 
 8. Township Boards of Trustees Meet semi-annually, at such 
 times and places as the County Superintendent may appoint. 
 
 9. District Meetings for Voting District Tax Held on the Tues- 
 day of the week following town meeting, annually, or at the call of 
 the Trustees. 
 
 10. Report of the State Board of Education to the Governor On 
 or before the tenth of November,, annually. 
 
 11. Report of the State Superintendent to the State Board of Edu- 
 cation On the first Thursday in November, annually. 
 
 12. Report of County Superintendents to the State Superintend- 
 ent On or before the first of October, annually. 
 
 13. Report of District Clerks to County Superintendent On or 
 before the first of September, annually. 
 
 14. Report of Teachers to Trustees At the close of each quar- 
 ter's teaching. 
 
 15. Monthly Reports by County Superintendents To the State 
 Superintendent on the first Monday of each month. 
 
100 BLANKS AND FORMS FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 
 
 16. Financial Statement of Township Collector to Township Com- 
 mittee and County /Superintendent On or before the first of Sep- 
 tember, annually. 
 
 17. Financial Statement of District Clerks to Township Commit- 
 tee On or before the first of September, annually. 
 
 18. Financial Statement of District Clerks to the County Super- 
 intendent On or before the first of September, annually. 
 
 19. Assessor makes Returns to the Collector Within fifteen days 
 after the first Monday in September, annually. 
 
 20. Township and District School Taxes Collected and due the 
 Trustees by the first of December, annually. 
 
 21. District Census Taken between the first and the twentieth 
 days of August, annually. 
 
 22. Apportionment of State Appropriation to the Counties Made 
 by the Slate Superintendent, on or before the first Monday in April, 
 annually. 
 
 23. Apportionment of State Appropriation and Township School 
 Taxes to the Districts Made by the County Superintendent on or 
 before the first of May, annually. 
 
 24. Copy of Apportionment Made by the County Superintend- 
 ent, and furnished to each Township Collector and District Clerk 
 within twenty days after the apportionment is made. 
 
 25. State Appropriation One hundred thousand dollars paid 
 in November, and the State school tax in the month of January 
 following. 
 
 26. Visitation of Schools Each school visited by the County 
 Superintendent twice every year. 
 
 27. Agricultural College Candidates examined by the County 
 Superintendents at the quarterly examination on the last Friday 
 in August, annually. 
 
 28. /School Holidays Christmas day, first day of January, fourth 
 day of July, and such days of fasting or thanksgiving as may be 
 appointed by the President of the United States, or by the Governor 
 of this State. 
 
 29. School Year Commences on the first of September, and ends 
 on the thirty-first day of August. 
 
 30. Fiscal Year The school fiscal year of the State coincides 
 with the school year. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 Government of School Officers. 
 
 Prescribed by the State Board of Education in conformity with the act 
 entitled "An act to establish a system of Public Instruction " (Sec. 
 2, Clause 1). 
 
 I. COUNTY BOARD OF EXAMINERS. 
 
 1. The County Superintendent, together with those whom he may 
 appoint as County Examiners, will hold four stated meetings for the 
 examination of teachers during each year, in such places in the 
 county as are most convenient of access to the teachers. The first 
 examination will be held on the last Saturday in February ; the 
 second on the last Saturday in May ; the third on the last Friday 
 in August; and the fourth on the last Saturday in November. 
 
 2. He will issue certificates of three grades, to be called, respect- 
 ively, First, Second and Third Grade County Certificates. 
 
 3. Candidates for the Third Grade County Certificate are to be 
 not less than sixteen years old. No experience in teaching will be 
 required. Applicants for a Third Grade Certificate will be exam- 
 ined in Orthography, Reading, Writing, Geography, Practical 
 Arithmetic and English Grammar. The license will continue in 
 force for one year from date. 
 
 4. Candidates for the /Second Grade County Certificate are to be 
 not less than seventeen years old, with an experience in teaching of 
 not less than one year. The examination will be the same as that 
 for the Third Grade Certificate, with the addition of the History of 
 the United States, Book-keeping, and Theory and Practice of Teach- 
 ing. The license will continue in force for three years from date. 
 
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102 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 5. Candidates for the First Grade County Certificate are to be not 
 less than eighteen years old, with an experience in teaching of not 
 less than two years. The examination will be the same as that for 
 the Second Grade Certificate, with the addition of Physiology, 
 Natural Philosophy, English Composition, Algebra, the Constitution 
 of the United States, and the School Law of New Jersey. The 
 license will remain in force for five years from date. 
 
 6. Applicants for employment as special teachers to give instruction 
 in any of the subjects not prescribed in the certificates granted by 
 the State or County Boards of Examiners, may be examined by the 
 Board of Examiners in such subjects, who, when satisfied of their 
 fitness to teach in any of the branches referred to, may issue special 
 certificates to said applicants. Such certificates shall remain in force- 
 three years. 
 
 7. A new set of questions will be prepared for each County Exam- 
 ination, under the direction of the State Superintendent, and tea 
 questions will be given in each study. 
 
 II. STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS. 
 
 8. The State Board of Examiners consists of the State Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction and the Principal of the State Normal 
 School. 
 
 9. This Board will grant certificates of three grades, to be called 
 respectively, First, Second and Third Grade State Certificates, the 
 third or lowest grade ranking one degree above the highest grade 
 issued by County Board of Examiners. 
 
 10. Candidates for the Third Grade State Certificate are to be 
 not less than nineteen years old. They will be examined in the 
 following branches, to wit : Spelling, Reading, Penmanship, Book- 
 keeping, Geography, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Algebra, Geom- 
 etry, Trigonometry, History and Constitution of the United States, 
 Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Physiology, Theory 
 and Practice of Teaching, and the School Law of New Jersey. The 
 license will remain in force for seven years from date. 
 
 11. Candidates for the Second Grade State Certificate are to be 
 not less than twenty-one years of age, with an experience in teaching 
 of not less than two years. The examination will be the same as 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 103 
 
 that required for a Third Grade Certificate. The license will remain 
 in force for ten years from date. 
 
 12. Candidates for the First Grade State Certificate are to be not 
 less than twenty-five years old, with an experience in teaching of 
 not less than four years. The examination will be the same as that 
 required for the Second or Third Grade Certificate, with the addi- 
 tion of any two of the following works that each candidate may 
 choose, namely : Hart's In the School Room, Well's Graded Schools, 
 Abbott's Teacher, Barnard's American Pedagogy, Barnard's Ameri- 
 can Normal Schools, Herbert Spencer's Education, Wickersham's 
 Methods of Instruction, Wickersham's School Economy, Russel's 
 Normal Training, Jewell's School Government, Emerson and Potter's 
 School and Schoolmaster, Sheldon's Elementary Instruction, Ogden's 
 Science of Teaching, Northend's Teacher's Assistant, Northend's 
 Teacher and Parent, Sewell's Principles of Education, and Burton's 
 Culture of the Observing Faculties. Each candidate will be required 
 to draw up a plan for organizing the schools of some large city. The 
 license will be good for life. 
 
 13. All teachers who, in the judgment of the State Board of 
 Examiners, and of the local School Superintendent, have been suc- 
 cessful principals of a graded school or schools of several grades, or 
 of a city high school, for a period of ten years or more, shall receive 
 a First Grade State Certificate without examination.* 
 
 III. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS RELATING TO BOTH COUNTY AND STATE 
 
 CERTIFICATES. 
 
 14. With the exception of Reading, Vocal and Instrumental 
 Music, Elocution, Drawing and School Gymnastics, all examinations 
 are to be conducted in writing. 
 
 15. Upon each County Teacher's Certificate will be written the 
 special average in each study and the general average, each marked 
 as a percentage upon the scale of 100. 
 
 16. A special average will be given for correctness in Orthography 
 and Composition, and for neatness, order and general appearance of 
 the Examination Papers. 
 
 17. Special credit marks will be allowed for ability to teach 
 Music, Drawing, Elocution and School Gymnastics. 
 
 *By graded school is meant one having not less than five grades in charge of five teachers. 
 
104 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 18. No license will be granted to a teacher whose general average 
 falls below 70, or whose special average in any one of the studies 
 required for the Third Grade County Certificate shall be less 
 than 70. 
 
 19. All candidates are required to furnish testimonials from School 
 Trustees or other responsible persons, as to their moral character, 
 and as to the time and place in which they have taught, and their 
 success therein. 
 
 20. The Second and Third Grade County Certificates will be good 
 only for the County in which they are issued. The First Grade 
 County Certificates, and all State Certificates, will be good for all 
 parts of the State. 
 
 21. All certificates will be liable to be revoked for cause. 
 
 IV. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 22. It shall be the duty of each County Superintendent to visit 
 every school in his County at least twice in each year, and oftener if 
 practicable. 
 
 23. He shall note at such visits, in a book provided for the pur- 
 pose, to be designated " The Superintendent's Visiting Book," the 
 condition of the school buildings and out-houses, the appearance and 
 correctness of the records kept in the School Registers, the efficiency 
 of the teachers, the character, record and standing of the pupils, the 
 methods of instruction, the branches taught, the text books used, and 
 the discipline, government, and general condition of each school; 
 and from the notes thus taken he shall ascertain and report the rela- 
 tive grade of merit of each school. 
 
 24. He shall give such directions in the science, art, and methods 
 of teaching, as he may deem expedient, and shall be the official 
 adviser and constant assistant of the school officers of his county. 
 (School Law, Sec. 28.) 
 
 25. He shall distribute promptly all reports, forms, laws, circulars 
 and instructions which he may receive from, and in accordance with 
 the directions of the State Superintendent. 
 
 26. He shall take care that the decisions of the State Superin- 
 tendent, or of the State Board of Education, upon controversies 
 relating to the school laws of the State, or to the rules and regula- 
 tions prescribed by the State Board of Education, be complied with 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 105 
 
 by the parties concerned ; and in case such decisions are not com- 
 plied with, he shall inform the State Superintendent thereof, and 
 state the circumstances connected therewith. (School Law, Sec. 28.) 
 
 27. He shall carefully preserve all reports of school officers and 
 teachers, and all the examination papers of teachers examined by 
 the County Board of Examiners, and, generally, shall carry out the 
 provisions of the law " Establishing a System of Public Instruction," 
 and the rules and regulations prescribed by the State Board of Edu- 
 cation, and at the close of his official term shall deliver to his suc- 
 cessor all records, books, documents, papers, and property belonging 
 to the office. 
 
 28. No County Superintendent shall act as agent for any author, 
 publisher or bookseller, nor directly or indirectly receive any gift, 
 emolument, or reward for his influence in recommending or procur- 
 ing the use of any book, or school apparatus, or furniture of any kind 
 whatever, in any public school ; and any one who shall violate this 
 provision shall be subject to removal from office. 
 
 29. He shall meet each Township Board of Trustees at least twice 
 each year, which meetings shall be held at such times and places as 
 he may appoint. (School Law, Sec. 3 la, 40.) 
 
 30. He shall ascertain from the Township Collectors, within five 
 days after the annual town meetings, the amount of school tax 
 ordered to be assessed in each Township, and on or before the first 
 day of May of each year he shall apportion, according to law, to 
 the several Townships and School Districts of his County, all the 
 school moneys to which they are entitled for the following year, 
 whether received by State appropriation or ordered to be assessed 
 as township school tax. (School Law, Sec. 23.) 
 
 31. He shall encourage and assist in the organization and man- 
 agement of County Institutes, and labor in every practicable way 
 to elevate the standard of teaching and improve the condition of 
 tjje public schools in his County ; he, together with the City Super- 
 intendents, if any, of the cities within his County, shall organize 
 annually a Teacher's Institute in the County, the time and place for 
 holding the Institute, the instructors, and programme of exercises 
 for the same, shall be such as the County and City Superintendents 
 may agree upon, and as the State Superintendent may approve. 
 
 32. He shall inquire and ascertain whether the boundaries of the 
 School Districts in his County are definitely and plainly described, 
 
106 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 and shall keep in his office a full and correct transcript of such 
 boundaries, a map of which he shall furnish to the State Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction ; in case the boundaries of any of the- 
 School Districts are conflicting or incorrectly described, or for any 
 good reasons should be changed, he shall, upon consultation with the 
 Trustees of the Districts concerned, harmonize, describe and change 
 them, and make a report of such action to the State Board of Edu- 
 cation : and on being ratified by said Board, the boundaries and 
 descriptions so made shall bethe legal boundaries and descriptions 
 of the Districts of the County. (Sec. 24.) After the boundaries of 
 the Districts of any County shall have been definitely determined by 
 the action of the County Superintendent and the State Board of 
 Education, the County Superintendent shall proceed to renumber 
 them from number one to a number equal to the number of Districts 
 in the County, inclusive ; and no further changes shall be made 
 unless the consent of the State Board of Education shall have been 
 first obtained, as is herein provided. (School Law, Sec. 38.) 
 
 33. No contract between a Board of Trustees and a teacher shall 
 at any time be made which will be binding upon a succeeding Board 
 for a longer period than three months. 
 
 34. No changes in the boundaries of Districts, in which District 
 taxes have been ordered, shall be made between the times of order- 
 ing and assessing the same. 
 
 35. Each County Superintendent shall, upon the first Monday in 
 each month, send to the State Superintendent a brief report respect- 
 ing the condition and progress of education in his County, and the- 
 work he has performed in connection with the duties of his office. 
 
 36. At the close of their official terms, or on the vacation of their 
 office, by resignation or otherwise, should the same occur during the 
 scholastic year, all County Superintendents shall report to the State 
 Superintendent for the portion of the year that may have expired,, 
 as provided for in the 30th Section of the School Law, with refer- 
 ence to their annual reports ; and no order shall be given for their 
 last quarter's salary until such reports are received in a manner sat- 
 isfactory to the State Superintendent. 
 
 37. That in case of the failure of any County Superintendent to- 
 make his report to the State Superintendent on the first day of Sep- 
 tember, as required by law, the State Superintendent shall not give 
 to such County Superintendent any order for the payment of salary 
 
FOE SCHOOL OFFICERS. 107 
 
 for the quarter next succeeding such delinquency, except by a special 
 resolution of the State Board of Education for this purpose. 
 
 38. All changes made in the boundaries of School Districts, against 
 which no appeals are made in writing, may be approved by the State 
 Superintendent, as Secretary of the State Board. 
 
 39. County Superintendents, on granting certificates at private 
 examinations, may grant them in the usual form ; or, if they deem 
 it advisable, they may grant them to be good only until the regular 
 quarterly examination next succeeding such private examination. 
 
 40. All teachers are required to attend the annual Institute held 
 in the County in which they are teaching, except for cause satisfac- 
 tory to the County Superintendent, and no deduction shall be made 
 by Trustees from the salary of teachers for the time they are in actual 
 attendance upon said Institute. 
 
 41. No teacher shall be employed by a Board of Trustees except 
 such as hold regular teachers' certificates in full force and effect at 
 the time the engagement is made. 
 
 42. The terms of the County Superintendents, heretofore and 
 hereafter appointed, shall terminate with the School Year. 
 
 43. When it is within the knowledge of the State Superintendent 
 that a County Superintendent is not attending to the duties of his 
 office, he shall withhold from such County SuperintendentjDrders for 
 his quarterly salary until the Board shall direct such orders to be 
 drawn. 
 
 44. Normal graduates, who have completed the two years' course, 
 shall be entitled to the Third Grade State Certificate, and those who 
 have completed the three years' course shall be entitled to the Second 
 Grade State Certificate. 
 
INDEX 
 
INDEX. 
 
 THE SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Page. 
 
 Appointment to, section 27 10 
 
 BOARDS OF EXAMINERS. 
 
 City Boards of, section 50 19 
 
 County Boards of, section 49 18 
 
 Fees of County Examiners, section 49.... 18 
 
 Meetings of County Boards of, rule 1 101 
 
 State Board of, section 48 18 
 
 BONDS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 Assessment for payment of, section 89 34 
 
 Attorney-General to approve, section 88 34 
 
 Authority to issue, section 87 ,. 34 
 
 Borrow from School Fund, section 70 26 
 
 Coupon bonds, shall be, section 88 34 
 
 Interest, rate of, section 87 34 
 
 Issued, for what purposes may be, section 87 34 
 
 Lien upon entire District, section 88 34 
 
 CERTIFICATES. 
 
 Average required, rule 18 104 
 
 Branches required for county, rules 3, 4 and 5 101, 102 
 
 Branches required for State, rules 10, 11 and 12 102, 103 
 
 Life certificate without examination, rule 13 103 
 
 Normal graduates, certificates to, rule 44 107 
 
 Special credit marks, rules 16 and 17 103 
 
 Special examinations, rule 39 107 
 
 Special teachers, certificates for, rule 6 102 
 
 Teachers required to hold, section 43 16 
 
 Written examinations, rule 14 103 
 
 CITIES. 
 
 Boards of Examiners, section 50 19 
 
 Census, time of taking, section 36a 13 
 
 City Superintendents, powers of, section 20 8 
 
 Compensation for taking census, section 366 13 
 
 Current expenses, use of appropriation for, section 2 40 
 
 (111) 
 
112 INDEX. 
 
 CITIES Continued. 
 
 Exceeding appropriations, penalty for 39 
 
 Incorporated cities and towns shall form but one School District, section 24.. 9 
 
 Modifications of appropriations, section 1 40 
 
 Penalty for failure of City Superintendent to report, section 93 35 
 
 Presidents of Boards of Education, salary of 46- 
 
 Reports of City Superintendents, section 30 .' 10- 
 
 State Association of School Superintendents, section 29 10 
 
 COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE. 
 
 District Clerk, to report non-attendance, section 3 37 
 
 Penalty for non-attendance, section 2 37 
 
 Time children must attend school, section 1 37 
 
 Township Collectors to collect fine, section 3 37 
 
 CONDEMNING LAND FOR SCHOOL HOUSE. 
 
 Appeal to Circuit Court, section 5 45 
 
 Award of Commissioners to be filed, section 3 43 
 
 Commissioners to assess value, appointment of, section 3 43- 
 
 Notice to owners of appointment of Commissioners, section 3 43 
 
 Payment of award to owners, section 4 44 
 
 Power to provide land, section 1 42 
 
 Survey, power of Trustees to, section 2 43- 
 
 Vacancy in Board of Commissioners, how filled, section 3 45 
 
 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. 
 
 Prohibition, section 98 36 
 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 Agent for books, &c., shall not act as, rule 28 105 
 
 Agricultural College, appoint students to, section 27 10 
 
 Annual report, section 30 10 
 
 Appoint Trustees and District Clerks, section 25 9 
 
 Appointed by State Board of Education, section 19 7 
 
 Apportion State appropriation, section 23 9 
 
 Apportion State school tax, section 81 30 
 
 Apportion interest of surplus revenue, section 90 35 
 
 Apportionment, statement of, to be given to certain officers, section 23 9 
 
 Boundaries of Districts, fix and after, section 24 and rule 32 9, 105 
 
 Condemn school houses, power to, section 62 23- 
 
 Confirmed by Freeholders, section 19a 8 
 
 Course of study, power to prescibe, section 39, division VI 14 
 
 Decide disputes, section 28 10 
 
 Distribute blanks, &c., rule 25 104 
 
 Examiners, to appoint county, section 49 18 
 
 Examinations, power to grant special, rule 39 107 
 
 Expenses, payment of, section 20o 8 
 
 Graded schools, to call meetings to establish, section 61 22 
 
 Institutes, to assist at, rule 31 105 
 
INDEX. 113 
 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS Continued. Page. 
 
 License teachers, section 24 9 
 
 Map of District boundaries, to furnish, rule 32 105 
 
 Monthly reports, rule 35 106 
 
 Oath, power to administer, section 99 36 
 
 Orders for Examiner's salary, to draw, section 49 ^.... 18 
 
 Orders for school moneys, to draw, section 23 9 
 
 Penalty for failure to report, rule 37 106 
 
 Penalty for non-performance of duties, rule 43 107 
 
 Preserve reports, &c., rule 27 105 
 
 Record of condition of school, to keep, rule 23 104 
 
 Report to State Superintendent at close of term, rule 36 106 
 
 Salary, section 20 , 8 
 
 State Association of Superintendents, section 29 10 
 
 Term of office, section 19 and rule 42 7,107 
 
 Text-books, power to prescribe, section 39, division VI 14 
 
 Township Boards of Trustees, shall hold meetings of, sections 31a and 40... 11, 15 
 
 Township tax, ascertain amount of, rule 30 105 
 
 Withhold school moneys from Districts, section 26 10- 
 
 Visitation of schools, rule 22 104 
 
 DISTRICT CLERK. 
 
 Affidavit, authorized to take, section 4 41 
 
 Annual report to County Superintendent, section 36 ; 12 
 
 Bonds, to draw warrant for payment of, section 89 34 
 
 Census, to take, section 36 12 
 
 District tax, clerk to notify certain persons of, section 86 32 
 
 Election of, section 34 12 
 
 Financial account, to keep, section 35 12 
 
 Financial report to County Superintendent, section 35 12 
 
 Financial report to District, section 35 12 
 
 Financial report to Township Committee, section 35 12 
 
 Minutes of District meetings, section 35 1 
 
 Minutes of Trustee meetings, section 35 12 
 
 Notices of District meetings, to post, section 31 11 
 
 Orders, to issue, sections 35 and 84 12, 31 
 
 Penalty for failure to report, section 93 35 
 
 Repairs to school house, section 37 13 
 
 Report non-attendance of children, section 3 37 
 
 Supplies for school, to furnish, sections 37 and 3 13, 41 
 
 Vacancy, how filled, section 29 9- 
 
 Vaccination, to record all children in need of, section 10 42 
 
 DISTRICT SCHOOLS. 
 
 Boundaries, how fixed, section 24 and rule 32 9, 105 
 
 Buildings, how provided, section 62 23 
 
 Change of boundaries while tax is pending, rule 34 106 
 
 Kept open, how long shall be, sections 11 and 63 5, 23 
 
 Penalty for not providing suitable buildings, section 62 23 
 
114 INDEX. 
 
 DISTRICT SCHOOLS Continued. Pa ge . 
 
 School month, section 44 16 
 
 School year, section 64 23 
 
 $200 Districts, section 81 30 
 
 $350 Districts, section 81 30 
 
 DISTRICT SCHOOL TAX. 
 
 Amount, how determined, section 86 32 
 
 Annual meeting, may be ordered at, section 86 32 
 
 Assessment of, section 86 32 
 
 Bonds, payment of, section 89 34 
 
 Compensation for assessing and collecting, section 86a 33 
 
 Notice of meeting to order tax, section 86 32 
 
 Notice of tax ordered to be given by District Clerk, section 86 32 
 
 Payment to District, section 86 32 
 
 Poll tax, when authorized, section 86 32 
 
 Raised, for what purposes, section 86 32 
 
 Special meeting, may be ordered at, sections 39, division XI. and 86 15, 32 
 
 GRADED SCHOOLS. 
 
 How established, section 61 22 
 
 Trustees of, section 61 22 
 
 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 Control of moneys, section 2 .41. 47 
 
 Control of schools, section 4 48 
 
 Compensation of Trustees, section 5 48 
 
 State appropriation to, section 1 47 
 
 Subscription by citizens, section 1 47 
 
 Tax may be raised by city, section 3 48 
 
 Trustees, how appointed, section 4 48 
 
 LIBRARIES. 
 
 Amount of first payment, section 95 ?....'. 36 
 
 Amount of subsequent payments, section 95 , 36 
 
 Appropriation for, section 95... 36 
 
 Conditions on which payments are made, section 95 36 
 
 Expended for what purposes, section 95 36 
 
 Rules prescribed, section 97 36 
 
 Selection of books, section 96 36 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Cumberland County, vote by ballot in certain cases in 39 
 
 Exceeding appropriations, penalty for 39 
 
 Penalty for injuring school property, section 7 38 
 
 Repealer, section 100 37 
 
 Vaccination, District Clerk to record all children in need of, section 10 42 
 
 MODEL SCHOOL. 
 
 Object of, section 59 59 
 
INDEX. 115 
 
 NORMAL SCHOOL. Page. 
 
 Annual report, section 54 20 
 
 Application for admission, section 55a 21 
 
 Appropriation for support of, section 60 22 
 
 Certificates to graduates, rule 44 107 
 
 Compensation of Trustees, section 53 20 
 
 Course of study, how prescribed, section 54 20 
 
 Diplomas to graduates, section 54 20 
 
 Examination of applicants, section 56 22 
 
 Number of pupils, section 55 20 
 
 Object of, section 51 19 
 
 Pledge of pupils, section 55a 20 
 
 Quorum of Trustees, section 52a 20 
 
 Repairs to buildings, section 2, division VI 4 
 
 Scholarship fund, section 55a 21 
 
 School year, section 60a 22 
 
 State Superintendent member of board, section 52 20* 
 
 Supervision of, section 54 20 
 
 Teachers, how appointed, section 58 22 
 
 Text-books, Trustees to provide, section 58 22 
 
 Treasurer of/section 54 20 
 
 Trustees, how appointed, section 52 20 
 
 Tuition gratuitous, section 58 22 
 
 Vacancies, how filled, section 57 22 
 
 PUPILS. 
 
 Colored children not to be excluded, section 1 76 
 
 Comply with rules, section 47 17 
 
 by, who liable for, section 47 17 
 
 ?, how collected, section 47 17 
 
 Penalty for excluding colored children, section 2 46 
 
 Submit to teacher, section 47 17 
 
 Suspension, liable to, section 47 17 
 
 RELIGIOUS SERVICES. 
 
 Section 65 2a 
 
 SCHOOL FUND. 
 
 Apportionment of appropriation from, section 10 5- 
 
 Appropriation from income, section 73 27 
 
 Compensation of Trustees of, section 69 25 
 
 Fund, how constituted, sections 66, 67 and 68 24 
 
 Investment of, section 69 25 
 
 Loan to School District, Trustees may, section 70 26 
 
 Payment of appropriation to counties, section 82 30 
 
 Purchase land, Trustees may, section 69o 25 
 
 Rate of interest on loans from, section 70 27 
 
 Report concerning, section 71 27 
 
 Secretary of Trustees of, section 72 27 
 
 t 
 
116 INDEX. 
 
 SCHOOL FUND Continued. Page . 
 
 Sell land, Trustees may, section 696 26 
 
 Trustees of, section 65 23 
 
 United States bonds, Trustees may purchase, section 69c 26 
 
 SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 
 
 Affidavit required to bills, section 4 41 
 
 Annual report, section 39, division XIII 15 
 
 Bills shall be passed on in open session, section 2 40 
 
 Books, power to provide, section 39, division VIII 14 
 
 Borrow money, section 39, division III 14 
 
 Contract with teacher, rule 33 106 
 
 Condemn land for school house, section 1 42 
 
 Corporate name, section 38 13 
 
 Course of study, power to prescribe, section 39, division VI 14 
 
 District Clerk, election of, section 34 12 
 
 District Clerk may purchase supplies, section 3 41 
 
 Election of Trustees, section 31 11 
 
 Eligible, who are, section 31 11 
 
 Erect school houses, section 39, division III 14 
 
 Expel and suspend pupils, section 39, division VII 14 
 
 Itemized bills required, section 3 41 
 
 Meetings of Township Boards of, section 31a 11 
 
 Minutes of Trustee meetings, section 35 12 
 
 New Districts, Trustees of, section 33 12 
 
 Penalty for violating act of March 10th, 1880, section 5 41 
 
 Register, require teacher to keep, section 39, division X 15 
 
 Regular meetings of Trustees, section 1.. 40 
 
 Rent school houses, section 39, division IV 14 
 
 Repairs to school house, section 37 13 
 
 Rules for school, to prescribe, section 39, division II 14 
 
 Special meetings of Trustees, section 1 40 
 
 Special meetings of District, power to call, section 39, division XI 15 
 
 Supplies, to provide, section 37 13 
 
 Teachers, &c., to employ and dismiss, section 39, division 1 14 
 
 Term of office, section 32 11 
 
 Text- books, power to prescribe, section 39, division VI 14 
 
 Townships, Boards of, section 40 15 
 
 Use of school house for other purposes, section 39, division XII 15 
 
 Women eligible as Trustees, section 31 11 
 
 SECTARIAN SCHOOLS. 
 
 Money not to be appropriated to, section 80 29 
 
 STATE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 Section 29 10 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Amendments to school law, to recommend, section 2, division II 3 
 
 Annual report of, section 4 4 
 
INDEX. 117 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION Continued. Page. 
 
 Appeals, power to hear, section 2, division VIII 4 
 
 Apportionment of reserve fund, section 80 29 
 
 By-Laws, power to make, section 2, division I 3 
 
 Compensation of, section 3 4 
 
 County Superintendents, to appoint, section 2, division IV 3 
 
 How composed, section 1 3 
 
 Normal School, repairs to, section 2, division VI 4 
 
 Quorum of, section la 3 
 
 Rules to make effective the school law, to make, section 2, division 1 3 
 
 State Superintendent, to appoint, section 2, division III 3 
 
 State Superintendent, to approve incidental expenses of, section 2, divi- 
 sion VII 4 
 
 Teachers' Institutes, make rules for, section 2, division V 4 
 
 STATE SCHOOL TAX. 
 
 Accounts, how kept, section 84 31 
 
 Amount, how determined, section 77 28 
 
 Apportionment for collection, section 78 28 
 
 Apportionment of reserve fund, section 80 29 
 
 Apportionment by County Superintendents, section 81 30 
 
 Assessment of, section 77 , 28 
 
 Balance paid to successor by Collector, section 84 31 
 
 Collection of, section 77 28 
 
 Compensation of Township Collectors, section 84 31 
 
 Custodians of school moneys, section 84 31 
 
 Fractional Districts, custodians in, section 85 32 
 
 Incidentals, amount allowed for, section 91 35 
 
 Payment to counties, section 80 29 
 
 Penalty for misuse of school money, section 92 35 
 
 Report of Collectors to certain persons, section 84 31 
 
 Reserve fund, how determined, section 80 29 
 
 State Treasurer, payment of tax to, section 79 29 
 
 Township Collectors, payment to, section 83 30 
 
 $200 Districts, section 81 30 
 
 $350 Districts, section 81 30 
 
 STATE SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 Annual report of, section 17 6 
 
 Appeals from decision of, section 2, division VIII 4 
 
 Appeals to, section 28 10 
 
 Apportion State appropriation, section 10 5 
 
 Apportionment, statement to be given to certain persons, section 10 5 
 
 Blanks, &c., to furnish, section 12 6 
 
 Books, &c., to collect, section 14 6 
 
 Boundaries of District, to approve changes in, rule 38 107 
 
 Decide disputes, section 13 6 
 
 Deliver property to successor, section 18 7 
 
 Election of, section 5 4 
 
118 INDEX. 
 
 STATE SUPERINTENDENT Continued. Page. 
 
 Examiners, member of Boards of, section 8 5 
 
 Incidental expenses of, section 2, division VII 4 
 
 Normal School, member of Board, section 52 20 
 
 Office, location of, section 6 4 
 
 Orders for State appropriation, to draw, section 10 5 
 
 Orders for school tax, to draw, section 80 29 
 
 Reports, &c., to preserve, section 15 6- 
 
 Revoke teachers' certificates, power to, section 18a 7 
 
 Rules of State Board, to enforce, section 7 4 
 
 Salary of, section 5 4 
 
 Seal, section 16 6 
 
 Secretary of State Board, section 8 5- 
 
 State Association of Superintendents, President of, section 8 & 
 
 Supervision of schools, section 9 & 
 
 Teachers' Institutes, expenses of, section 76 28 
 
 Term of office, section 5 4 
 
 Withhold salary from certain persons, section 18a T 
 
 Withhold school money from Districts, section 11 & 
 
 SURPLUS REVENUE. 
 
 Interest to be appropriated to schools, section 90 35- 
 
 Penalty for misuse of, section 92 35- 
 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 Authority over pupils, section 45 17 
 
 Certificate, to hold a, section 43 16- 
 
 Contract with Trustees, rule 33 106- 
 
 Dismissal of, section 46 17 
 
 Holidays, section 44 16 
 
 Institute, must attend, rule 40 107 
 
 Penalty for failure to keep Register, section 41 15 
 
 Penalty for failure to make report, section 42 1& 
 
 Register, to keep, section 41 1<> 
 
 Report to County Superintendent, section 42 16- 
 
 Report to District Clerk, section 42 16- 
 
 TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. 
 
 Appropriation for, section 76 2.8- 
 
 TOWNSHIP COLLECTOR. 
 
 Accounts, how kept, section 84 31 
 
 Balance paid to successor, section 84 v---- 
 
 Compensation of, section 84 31 
 
 Custodian of school money, section 84 31 
 
 Custodian of money of fractional Districts, section 85 32: 
 
 Report to certain persons, section 84 31 
 
 TOWNSHIP TAX. 
 
 Amount to be raised, section 77 2$ 
 
 Custodian of, section 84 31 
 
 Penalty for misuse of, section 92 35- 
 
INDEX. 119 
 
 BLANKS AND FORMS. 
 
 FORMS FOR STATE SUPERINTENDENT. Page. 
 
 Order for County Superintendent's salary, No. 1 63 
 
 Order for County Superintendent's expenses, No. 2 53 
 
 Order on Comptroller for State appropriation of $100,000, No. 3 54 
 
 Order on Comptroller for State school tax, No. 4 54 
 
 Order for library appropriation, No. 10 56 
 
 Teacher's State certificate, first grade, No. 58 83 
 
 Teacher's State certificate, second grade, No. 59 83 
 
 Teacher's State certificate, third grade, No. 60 84 
 
 FORMS FOR COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 Appointment to fill a vacancy in a Board of Trustees, No. 26 66 
 
 Appointment of District Clerk, No. 27 66 
 
 Appointment of Trustees for a new District, No. 28 67 
 
 Certificate of County Superintendent in appeals, No. 61 84 
 
 Directions given to candidates for certificates before being examined, No. 81.. 98 
 
 Form of certificate condemning a school house, No. 63 85 
 
 Notice by County Superintendent to the District Clerks of Districts to be 
 
 affected by proposed District changes, No. 35 70 
 
 Notice of meeting of Township Board of Trustees, No. 36 70 
 
 Notice to Township Collector directing him to withhold school moneys from 
 
 a teacher, No. 38 72 
 
 Notice to Township Collector directing him to withhold school moneys from 
 
 a District, No. 39 72 
 
 Notice of meeting of examination of teachers, No. 40 72 
 
 Notice to teacher revoking his certificate, No. 41 > 73 
 
 Notice to District Clerk, informing him of the revocation of teacher's certifi- 
 cate, No. 42 73 
 
 Notice by County Superintendent of apportionment of school moneys, No. 43.. 74 
 
 Order on County Collector for State appropriation of $100,000, No. 5 54 
 
 Order on County Collector for State school tax, No. 6 55 
 
 Order on County Collector for interest of surplus revenue, No. 7 55 
 
 Order for County Examiner's salary, No. 8 55 
 
 Order organizing a Union School District, for the purpose of establishing a 
 
 Graded School, No. 32 69 
 
 Order organizing a School District, No. 33 69 
 
 Order altering the boundaries of a School District, No. 34 70 
 
 Request for District Clerk to call a special school meeting for establishing a 
 
 Graded School, No. 29 67 
 
 Teacher's county certificate, first grade, No. 55 80 
 
 Teacher's county certificate, second grade, No. 56 81 
 
 Teacher's eounty certificate, third grade, No. 57 82 
 
 FORMS FOR DISTRICT CLERK. 
 
 Certificate of the amount of school tax voted to be raised at a regular school 
 meeting, in a School District, to be delivered by the District Clerk to the 
 
 Township Assessor, No. 52 78 
 
120 INDEX. 
 
 FORMS FOR DISTRICT CLERK Continued. 
 
 Certificate of the amount of school tax voted to be raised at a special school 
 meeting, in a School District, to be delivered by the District Clerk to the 
 
 Township Assessor, No. 53 79> 
 
 District Clerk's account with District, No. 37 71 
 
 Duties of District Clerk, No. 74 92 
 
 Financial report of District Clerk to County Superintendent, No. 13 58 
 
 Financial report of District Clerk to Township Committee, No. 14 58 
 
 Financial report of District Clerk to people of the District, No. 15 59- 
 
 Form of resignation, No. 48 76 
 
 Minutes of Trustee meeting, No. 67 87 
 
 Notice to County Superintendent of a vacancy in Board of Trustees, No. 25, 66 
 Notice for a special District meeting for considering the question of estab- 
 lishing a Graded School, No. 30 68 
 
 Notice to County Superintendent, giving the result of the action of a school 
 
 meeting called for the purpose of establishing a Graded School, No. 31.. 68 
 
 Notice for annual meeting for the election of Trustees, No. 44 75 
 
 Notice for a meeting of the District Board of Trustees, No. 45 75 
 
 Notice by District Clerk to County Superintendent of the election of Trus- 
 tees, No. 46 75 
 
 Notice for the annual District meeting for determining what District school 
 
 tax shall be assessed, No. 49 76 
 
 Report of District Clerk to County Superintendent of the amount of District 
 
 school tax ordered to be raised, No. 17 59 
 
 Report of non-attendance of children at school, No. 72 91 
 
 Various specifications of business to be transacted that may be inserted in 
 
 any notice for District meeting, as they may be needed, No. 51 77 
 
 FORMS FOR DISTRICT TRUSTEES. 
 
 Annual report of Trustees to the District, No. 16 59 
 
 Application for State aid to establish a library, No. 9 56 
 
 Application for loan from School Fund, No. 80 97 
 
 Bonds to be issued for loan from School Fund, No. 79 96 
 
 Form of resignation, No. 48 76 
 
 Form of certificate condemning a school house, No. 63 85 
 
 Form of contract between District and teacher, No. 75 93 
 
 Form of a lease, No. 76 93 
 
 Form of a deed of a school house site, No. 77 94 
 
 Form of contract for building a school house, No. 78 95 
 
 Notice for a special District meeting for determining what District School 
 
 shall be assessed, No. 50 77 
 
 Order on Township Collector for teacher's salary. No. 11 57 
 
 Order on Township Collector for District school tax raised for other purposes 
 
 than the payment of teacher's salary, No. 12 57 
 
 Various specifications of business to be transacted that may be inserted in any 
 
 notice for District meeting, as they may be needed, No. 51 77 
 
 Warrant of the amount of school tax to be raised to meet maturing bonds 
 and accruing interest, 'to be delivered by the District Clerk to the Town- 
 ship Assessor, N. 54 79 
 
INDEX. 121 
 
 FORMS FOR TEACHERS OmtfmwA Page. 
 
 Form of contract between District and teacher, No. 75 93 
 
 Manner of keeping the School Register, No. 21 62 
 
 Teacher's report to County Superintendent, when leaving a school before the 
 
 end of the school year (see note), No. 22 63 
 
 Teacher's annual report to County Superintendent, No. 23 64 
 
 Teacher's annual report to District Clerk, No. 23 64 
 
 Teacher's quarterly report to District Clerk. No. 24 65 
 
 Teacher's report of the suspension of a pupil to the Trustees, No. 64 85 
 
 FORMS FOR TOWNSHIP COLLECTORS. 
 
 Duties of Township Collector, No. 73 91 
 
 Financial report of Township Collector to County Superintendent, No. 20.... 61 
 
 Financial report of Township Collector to Township Committee, No. 20 61 
 
 Report of Township Collector to County Superintendent of Township school 
 
 tax ordered to be raised, No. 18 60 
 
 Township Collector's account with District, No. 37 71 
 
 FORMS FOR DISTRICT SCHOOL MEETINGS. 
 
 Certificate to be attached to proceedings of a District meeting by the person 
 
 acting as Secretary, No. 68 87 
 
 Minutes of a District school meeting for the election of Trustees, No. 66 86 
 
 Minutes of District school meeting for raising District tax, No. 69 88 
 
 Minutes of District school meeting ordering a new school house erected, No. 70 88 
 
 Minutes of an adjourned District school meeting 89 
 
 Minutes of District school meeting ordering the bonding of the District, No. 71 90 
 Notice to be given by the Secretary of a District school meeting to the officers 
 
 elected, No. 47 76 
 
 Orcler of business at a District school meeting, No. 65 86 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS FORMS AND DIRECTIONS. 
 
 Appeal to the State Superintendent, No. 62 85 
 
 Calendar for school elections and duties, No. 82 99 
 
 Report of County Clerk to County Superintendent of the names and post 
 
 office addresses of the Township Collectors and City Treasurers, No. 19.. 60 
 Rules and regulations prescribed by the State Board of Education for the 
 
 government of school officers 101 
 
AMENDMENTS TO 1 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 AN ACT concerning cities of the third class. 
 
 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of 
 the State of New Jersey, That in cities of the third class 
 the term of office of members of the board of education 
 shall be for as many years as there are members of such 
 board of education elected from each ward ; and that at 
 each annual municipal election after the next succeeding 
 election, each ward shall elect one member of such 
 
 board of education. 
 
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 2. And be it enacted, That at the next succeeding 
 municipal election the members of thv board of educa- 
 tion shall be elected as heretofore, and at the first meet- 
 ing of such board of education then elected, the mem- 
 bers from each ward shall, by lot, divide themselves into 
 classes, so that the term of office of one member from 
 each ward shall expire in each succeeding year. 
 
 3. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect im- 
 mediately. 
 
 Approved February 20, 1883. 
 
 SUPPLEMENT to an act entitled " An act concerning 
 taxes," approved April fourteenth, one thousand eight 
 hundred and forty-six. 
 
 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 
 of the State of New Jersey, That hereafter there shall not 
 be assessed upon any inhabitant of this state any poll 
 tax for any of the purposes provided for in any special 
 or local law of this state in excess of the sum of one 
 dollar, any such special or local law or any general law 
 of this state to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 2. And be it enacted, That in all the counties in this 
 state where any special or local law now provides for the 
 assessment of a poll tax in excess of the sum of one 
 
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 dollar for any purpose whatever, the tax necessary for 
 such purpose shall hereafter be assessed and levied upon 
 the property in such county in- the same manner as 
 other counties are now assessed and levied. 
 
 3. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts 
 inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, and this 
 act shall take effect immediately. 
 
 Approved March 5, 1883. 
 
 AN ACT to limit the age and employment hours of labor 
 of children, minors and women, and to appoint an in- 
 spector for the enforcement of the same. 
 
 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of 
 the State of New Jersey, That after the fourth day of July, 
 one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three, no boy 
 under the age of twelve years, nor any girl under four- 
 teen years of age, shall be employed in any factory, work- 
 shop, mine, or establishment where the manufacture of 
 any goods whatever is carried on. 
 
 2. And be it enacted. That on and after the first day of 
 July, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, no 
 child between the ages of twelve and fifteen years shall 
 be employed in any factory, workshop, mine, or estab- 
 lishment where the manufacture of any kinds of goods 
 whatever is carried on, unless such child shall have at- 
 tended, within twelve months immediately preceding 
 such employment, some public day or night school, or 
 some well recognized private school ; such attendance to 
 be for five days or evenings every week during a period 
 of at least twelve consecutive weeks, which may be 
 divided into two terms of six consecutive weeks each, so 
 far as the arrangement of school terms will permit, and 
 unless such child, or his parents or guardian shall have 
 presented to the manufacturer, merchant, or other em- 
 
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 ployer seeking to employ such child, a certificate giving 
 the name of his parents or guardian, the name and 
 number of the schools attended, and the number of 
 weeks in attendance, such certificate to be signed by the 
 teacher or teachers of such child ; provided, that in case 
 the age of the child be not known, such teacher shall 
 certify that the age given is the true age, to the best of 
 his or her knowledge and belief ; provided, that in case of 
 orphan children, where necessity may seem to require, 
 the guardian or others having charge of the same may, 
 upon application to the inspector provided for in this 
 act, receive from him a permit for the employment of 
 such child or children, under such regulations as the 
 said inspector may prescribe. 
 
 3. And be it enacted, That no child or children under 
 the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any fac- 
 tory, workshop, mill, or establishment where the manu- 
 facture of any kind of goods is carried on, for a longer 
 period than an average of ten hours in a day, or sixty 
 hours in a week. 
 
 4. And be it enacted, That every manufacturer, mer- 
 chant, or other employer employing any person contrary 
 to the provisions of this act, or who shall be guilty of any 
 violation hereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
 upon conviction be fined for each offence, in a sum of not 
 less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, and 
 in default of payment of the same, shall be imprisoned 
 in the county jail for not less than thirty nor more than 
 ninety days, and that every head of a family, parent or 
 guardian, who knowingly permits the employment of 
 such children shall be likewise subject to a fine of not 
 more than twenty-five nor less than ten dollars, for every 
 child so employed, and for each offence, and in default 
 of such payment, shall be imprisoned in the county jail 
 for a period of not less than ten days nor more than 
 twenty days; a certificate of the age of the minor, made 
 by him or her, and by his or her parent or guardian, at 
 the time of employment, shall be conclusive evidence of 
 
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 the age of such minor, upon any trial for the violation 
 of this act; provided, that the provisions in this act, in 
 relation to the hours of employment, shall not apply to 
 or affect any person engaged in preserving perishable 
 goods in fruit-canning establishments. 
 
 5. And be it enacted, That the governor shall, immedi- 
 ately after the passage of this bill, appoint, with the ad- 
 vice and consent of the senate, some suitable person, 
 who shall be a resident and citizen of this state, as in- 
 spector, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars per year, 
 to be paid monthly, whose term of office shall be for 
 three years; the said inspector shall be empowered to 
 visit and inspect, at all reasonable hours, and as often^as 
 practicable, the factories, workshops, mines and other 
 establishments in the state where the manufacture or 
 sale of any kind of goods is carried on, and to report to 
 the governor of this state on or before the thirty-first 
 day of October, in each year; it shall also be the duty 
 of said inspector to enforce the provisions of this act, 
 and prosecute all violations of the same in any recorders' 
 courts of cities, and justices of the peace, or other courts 
 of competent jurisdiction in the state. 
 
 6. And be it enacted, That all necessary expenses in- 
 curred by said inspector, in the discharge of his duty, 
 shall be paid from the funds of the state, upon the pre- 
 sentation of proper vouchers of the same ; provided, that 
 not more than five hundred dollars shall be expended 
 by him in any one year. 
 
 7. And be it enacted, That all fines collected under this 
 act shall enure to the benefit of the school fund of the 
 district where the offence has been committed. 
 
 8. And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts 
 inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby 
 repealed, and that this act shall take effect immedi- 
 ately. 
 
 Approved March 5, 1883. 
 
AMENDMENTS TO SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 S.upplement approved March tenth, eighteen hundred 
 and eighty-three. 
 
 AN ACT regulating the number of school trustees to be 
 elected in the respective school districts of this state, 
 being a supplement to an act entitled "An -act to 
 establish a system of public instruction," approved 
 March seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and 
 seventy-four. 
 
 1. BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and General Assembly 
 of the State of New Jersey, That whenever it shall appear 
 by the annual school census that there are five hundred 
 (500) or more children of legal school age in any school 
 district having but three trustees, then it shall be lawful 
 for the legal voters of the said district at their next 
 annual meeting for the election of school trustees, to 
 determine by a majority vote of those present whether 
 the number of school trustees shall or shall not be 
 increased to six (6). 
 
 2. And be it enacted, That in case it be decided to in- 
 crease the number of school trustees in any such school 
 district to six, then the said legal voters shall proceed to 
 elect in the manner in which school trustees are now 
 elected, three additional trustees, one to hold office for 
 one year, one for two years and one for three years, and 
 annually thereafter trustees shall be elected for the terms 
 of three years to fill the places of those whose terms 
 expire. 
 
 3. And be it enacted, That in case it be decided not to 
 increase the number of school trustees, the vote shall be 
 binding upon the district for that year only. 
 
 4. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 
 district clerk in districts coming within the provisions 
 of the first section of this act, in his notices of the 
 annual meetings for the election of school trustees, to 
 insert a notice that there are within the district five 
 hundred (500) or more children of legal school age, and 
 
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 that it will be determined at said annual meeting 
 whether the board of school trustees shall consist of 
 three or six ; provided, that in case it shall be deter- 
 mined at any such meeting not to increase the number 
 to six, then the clerk of said district shall not again 
 insert such notice unless directed so to do by a vote of 
 the trustees ; provided further, that no vote shall be taken 
 upon this subject unless public notice shall have been 
 given as herein provided for. 
 
 5. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts in- 
 consistent with the provisions of this act be and the 
 same are hereby repealed. 
 
 6. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect 
 immediately. 
 
 Amendment passed March twenty-third, eighteen 
 hundred and eighty-three. 
 
 1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 
 of the State of New Jersey, That section twenty-six of the 
 act entitled "An act to establish a system of public 
 instruction " [Revision], approved March twenty-seventh, 
 one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, be and 
 the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 26. And be it enacted, That he shall have power to 
 withhold that part of the state appropriation derived 
 from the revenue of the state from any district in which 
 the inhabitants fail to provide a suitable school building 
 and outhouses ; provided, that no building of two or 
 more stories, used for the purpose of public instruction, 
 in which any of the doors, at places of exit, are so con- 
 structed as to open inwardly, shall be considered a suit- 
 able school building within the meaning of this section.