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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 83

(4.) Powers and Duties of School Committees

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(4.) Powers and Duties of School Committees.

74. In every school district it shall be lawful for the Committee,

Committee [unclear: ma] establish [unclear: publi] schools.

with the express sanction previously obtained of the Board of the district in which such school district is situated, to establish one or more public schools.
Subject to the general supervision and control of the Board,

Committee to have management of educational matters in [unclear: schc] district. Committee [unclear: ma] provide school-houses, &c.

and to inspection by an Inspector, as herein provided, the Committee shall have the management of educational matters within the school district.

75. Every Committee may, with the sanction of the Board of the district within which the school district is, previously obtained, provide by building or otherwise schoolhouses, and may improve, enlarge, and fit up any such schoolhouses, and supply school apparatus and everything necessary for the efficiency of the schools provided by them; and such proportion of the cost of providing, fitting up, improving, and keeping in repair such page 24 schoolhouses as may be prescribed by such Board shall be defrayed by the Committee out of the School Fund, and the remainder (if any) of such cost shall be defrayed by the Board of the district within which the school is situated by and out of any moneys at their disposal.

May appoint teachers of [unclear: sewing.]

76. The Committee may from time to time, with the approval of the Board, appoint teachers of sewing for any school under its control.

[unclear: Board may cquire] sites [unclear: or] school-[unclear: houses,] &c.

77. On the application of the Committee, the Board of the district may select, purchase, lease, or acquire a suitable site or sites for a schoolhouse; and the Board, if it shall so think fit, shall require that the whole or any portion of the cost of such purchase shall be defrayed by the School Committee out of the School Fund.

Savings banks [unclear: lay] be [unclear: stablished.]

78. The Committee, with the approval of the Board, may establish savings banks for the use of children attending the school.

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