OF
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BOOKBINDING CO.
LAWS OF MAINE
RELATING TO
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
1913
Compiled by the State Superintendent and printed agree-
ably to An Act approved March 13, 1889
WATERVILLE
SENTINEL PUBLISHING COMPANY
1913
This pamphlet will be sent free on application to the State Superin-
tendent of Public Schools, Augusta, Maine.
CONTENTS
PAGES
Education of Youth (Chap. 15, R. S. 1903 as amended) 3-47
Location of Schools 3-6
Duties of Towns 6-10
Admission to Schools 10
Certificate of Municipal Officers •• n
Election of Superintending School Committees 11-12
Power and Duties of Superintending School Committees
and Superintendents • • . 12-16
Superintendence of Schools through the Union of Towns.. 16-19
Compulsory Education I9~23
Instruction in Secondary Schools 23-33
Duties and Qualifications of Instructors •'• 33~34
School Holidays 34~35
Teachers' Associations • • 35-36
Schools in Plantations and Unorganized Townships 36-38
State Superintendent of Public Schools 39-41
Normal Schools and Madawaska Training School 41-43
Instruction for the Blind • • 44
Penal Provisions Affecting Schools 44~45
State School Funds 45-47
Funds from Sale of Timberlands (Chap. 7, Sec. 65, R. S. 1903).. 47
Instruction in Forestry (Chap. 7, Sec. 65, R. S. 1903) 47
Maine School for the Deaf (Chap. 446, P. & S. 1897) 47-48
Summer Training Schools and Distribution of Educational Docu-
ments ( Chap. 188, Res. 1901 ).....' 40
Care and Education of the Feeble Minded (Chap, 44, P. L. 1907
as amended) 49-52
Steam Plants in Public Buildings (Chap. 82, P. L. 1907) 52-54
Local History and Local Geography in the Public Schools
(Chap. 88, P. L. 1907 as amended) ' 55-56
State Superintendent of Public Schools (Chap. 171, P. L. 1907
as amended) 56
Flags for Schools (Chap. 182 P. L. 1907) 57
Flag of the State of Maine (Chap. 19, P. L. 1909) 57
Welfare of School Children (Chap. 31, P. L. 1909) 58
Secondary Instruction for Youths resident in Unorganized Town-
ships (Chap. 62, P. L. 1909) 58-59
Improvement of Free High Schools (Chap. 71, P. L. 1909) 59-61
Appointment of School Physicians (Chap. 73, P. L. 1909) 61-63
School Buildings (Chap. 88, P. L. 1909 as amended) 63-64
Safeguarding of Schools against Danger from Fire (Chap. 100,
P. L. 1909) 64
293247
PAGES
Protection of Life in Buildings used for Public Purposes (Chap.
28, Sec. 37, R. S. 1903 as amended) 64-65
Common School Fund (Chap. 177, P. L. 1909) 65-66
Equalization of School Privileges (Chap. 198, P. L. 1909 as
amended) 66-67
Employment of Women and Children in Manufacturing or Me-
chanical Establishments (Chap. 40, Sees. 48-54, R. S. 1903) 67-73
Encouragement of Industrial Education (Chap. 188, P. L. 1911,
as amended) 74-~6
Jurats of Town Officers on Returns (Chap. 15, P. L. 1913) 77
Secret Societies in the Public Schools (Chap. 34, P. L. 1913) 77
State Certification of all Teachers < f Public Schools (Chap. 58
P. L. 1913) •• 77-79
Pensions for Teachers of Long Service (Chap. 75, P. L. 1913) 79-8t
LAWS OF MAINE
RELATING TO
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
1913
Being Chapter 15, Revised Statutes of 1903, (and subsequent
amendments thereto) together with certain other parts of the
Revised Statutes and those PubSc Laws of 1905, 1907, 1909,
1911, and 1913, governing the management of all public schools
except those in districts organized with special powers by acts
of Legislature.
(Enactments of 1913 are 'effective July n, 1913.)
CHAPTER 15
EDUCATION OF YOUTH.
LOCATION OF SCHOOLS.
SEC. i. The school districts in all towns in the state are
abolished. Provided, however, that school districts organized
with special powers by act of the legislature may retain such
organization and special powers ; but said districts shall annually bygactZof
on or before the first day of June, by their agents, trustees or 1893, c. 216,
directors, submit to the school committees of their several towns
estimates of the amounts required for the maintenance of the
schools therein, other than free high schools, for the ensuing __how
school year, and shall be entitled to such portion of the common
school funds of the town as said committees shall determine, be
which sum shall not be less than is necessary for the mainte-
nance of their schools for a period equal to that of the other
schools of the town; and provided further, that the corporate
powers of every school district shall continue so far as the same
may be necessary for meeting its liabilities and enforcing its
rights ; and any property held in trust by any school district by Si
virtue of a gift, devise or bequest for the benefits of said district q
shall continue to be held and used according to the terms thereof,
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
No change
in location of
any school
legally es-
tablished.
1893, c. 216,
§3.
1901, c. 203.
— towns may
determine
number and
location on
recommen-
dation of
school com-
mittee.
— operation
of schools
with few
scholars may
be suspended.
1903, c. 66.
1913, c. 148.
— superin-
tendent shall
procure con-
veyance for
scholars.
1907, c. 90.
— committee
may author-
ize board
instead of
providing
conveyance.
Towns may
lay out
school house
lots in cer-
tain cases.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 57.
1901, c. 211,
II.
— damages,
how ap-
praised.
SEC. 2. The location of any school -legally established prior
to March seventeen, eighteen hundred and ninety-three con-
tinues unchanged, notwithstanding the district is abolished; but
any town at its annual meeting, or at a meeting called for the
purpose, may determine the number and location of its schools,
and may discontinue them or change their location; but such
discontinuance or change of location shall be made only on the
written recommendation of the superintending school committee,
and on conditions proper to preserve the just rights and priv-
ileges of the inhabitants for whose benefits such schools were
established; provided, however, that in case any school shall
hereafter have too few scholars for its profitable maintenance,
the superintending school committee may suspend the operation
of such school for not more than one year unless otherwise
instructed by the town, but any public school failing to maintain
an average attendance for any school year, of at least eight
pupils, shall be and hereby is suspended, unless the town in
which said school is located shall by vote, at the annual meeting,
or at a meeting called for that purpose, after the said commit-
tee shall have made a written recommendation to that effect,
instruct its superintending school committee to maintain said
school. The superintendent of schools in each town shall pro-
cure the conveyance of all common school pupils residing in
his town, a part or the whole of the distance, to and from the
nearest suitable school, for the number of weeks for which
schools are maintained in each year, when such pupils reside
at such distance from the said school as in the judgment of the
superintending school committee shall render such conveyance
necessary. Provided, however, that the superintending school
committee may authorize the superintendent of schools, to pay
the board of any pupil or pupils at a suitable place near any
established school instead of providing conveyance for said
pupil or pupils, when in their judgment it may be done at an
equal or less expense than by conveyance.
SEC. 3. When a location for the erection or removal of a
schoolhouse and requisite buildings has been legally designated,
by vote of town at any town meeting called for that purpose
and the owner thereof refuses to sell, or, in the opinion of
the municipal officers, asks an unreasonable price for it, or
resides without the state and has no authorized agent or attor-
ney therein, they may lay out a schoolhouse lot, not exceeding
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
three acres, and appraise the damages therefor; and on payment ~"how paid-
or tender of such damages, or if such owner does not reside in
the state, upon depositing such damages in the treasury of such
town for his use, the town designating it may take such lot to
be held and used for the purpose aforesaid; and when such revert to
schoolhouse has ceased to be thereon for two years, said lot occupied "o
. . A two years.
reverts to the owner, his heirs or assigns. And any town or
city may take real estate for the enlargement or extension of
any location designated for the erection or removal of a school- j^
house and requisite buildings and playgrounds, as herein pro-
vided; but no real estate shall be so taken within fifty feet of a f*J5ot wtt&.
dwelling-house, and all schoolhouse lots and playgrounds that
require fencing shall be fenced by the town or city.
SEC. 4. If the owner is aggrieved at the location of the lot,
or the damages awarded, he may apply to the county commis- lusuc. 11,
sioners within six months, who may change the location and IQOI', c. 211,
assess the damages. If the damages are increased, or the loca-
tion changed, such town or district shall pay the damages and
costs ; otherwise the costs shall be paid by the applicant.
SEC. 5. If any town or school district, by its officers or by a f0ctg°elro°-use
committee, has designated, located and described a lot upon ^us loca"
which to erect, move or repair a schoolhouse, and from mi stake —how re-
or omission has failed to comply with the law, whereby such a^d^adT1
location has been rendered invalid, three legal voters and tax-Ras.', c. n,
§ 59
payers thereof may apply in writing to the selectmen of said
town, and have the lot, so designated or described, re-appraised
by them.
SEC. 6. The selectmen of any town to whom such appli-
cation has been made, shall forthwith give not less than seven
nor more than twenty days' notice to the clerk of said town or
district and to the owner of such real estate, or to the persons
having the same in charge, of the time and place by them fixed
for such hearing, and shall, after examination and hearing of
all interested, appraise the lot as set out and affix a fair value
thereon, exclusive of improvements made by said district or
town, either by buildings or otherwise; and shall, as soon as
practicable, notify the town or district clerk, and the persons
interested in said estate who had been notified as hereinbefore
provided, of the sum at which said lots had been appraised.
SCHOOL, LAWS OF MAINE).
Sum how
assessed and
collected.
R. 8., c. 11,
Tender to be
allowed in
payment.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 62.
Either party
may appeal.
R. S., c. 11,
§63.
Improve-
ments inure
to town or
district,
R. S., c. 11,
§64.
Tax not
affected by
error in
location.
R. S., c. 11,
§65.
Plan to be
approved by
committee.
R. S., c. 11,
§66.
SEC. 7. The sum fixed as the value of said lot shall be
assessed, collected and paid over as other school money.
SEC. 8. Any sum which has been tendered and is in the
hands or under the control of the persons owning or having
charge of such land, shall be allowed in payment of said
appraisal.
SEC. 9. If the town or district, or persons owning or having
charge of the land on which such location is made, are dissatis-
fied with such appraisal, either party may within ten days appeal
to the county commissioners of the county in which the land
lies, by filing a copy of the proceedings and a claim of appeal
with said commissioners, and the determination of a majority
of said commissioners not residents of said town, shall be final.
SEC. 10. When any school district or town has erected or
moved a building upon such lot or in any way improved the
same, such improvement shall inure to the benefit of such town
or district, and the same may be as completely occupied and
controlled by such town or district as it would have been if
such location had been in strict conformity to law.
SEC. ii. The legality of a tax assessed to build, repair or
move a schoolhouse and to pay for a lot, shall not be affected by
any mistake or error in the designation or location thereof.
*SEC. 12. A plan for the erection or reconstruction of a
schoolhouse voted by a town, shall first be approved by the
superintending school committee and in case no special build-
ing committee has been chosen by the town, said superintending
school committee shall have charge of said erection or recon-
struction; provided, hozuever, that they may if they see fit,
delegate said power and duty to the superintendent of schools.
Towns to
raise money
for schools.
R. S., c. 11,
§6.
1903, c. 165.
1907, c. 111.
1909, c. 128.
DUTIES OF TOWNS.
**SEC. 13. Every town shall raise and expend, annually, for
the support of common schools therein, exclusive of the income
of any corporate school fund, or of any grant from the revenue
or fund from the state, or of any voluntary donation, devise or
bequest, or of any forfeiture accruing to the use of schools, not
* See also An Act relative to School Buildings, Chap.
** See also Section 6 of Chapter 177, P. L., 1909.
?, P. L., 1909.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
less than eighty cents for each inhabitant, according to the
census by which representatives to the legislature were last
apportioned, under penalty of forfeiting not less than twice nor
more than four times the amount of its deficiency, and all
moneys provided by towns, or apportioned by the state for the
support of common schools, shall be expended for the mainte
nance of common schools established and controlled by the
. . — does not
towns by which said moneys are provided, or to which said annul pro-
moneys are apportioned ; but nothing in this section shall be so of^}^ment
construed as to annul, or render void, the provisions made in J^Jg^; 48>
section eighteen of this chapter for the establishment and main- § l-
tenance of union schools by adjoining towns.
SEC. 14. All towns incorporated since seventeen hundred by towns11"
and eighty-eight, not formerly parts of other towns, which f ail accounf'for
to account for the permanent school fund arising from sale
lease of school lands in said towns, shall annually raise and
expend for the maintenance of common schools not less than
forty-five dollars in addition to the amount required by law to
be raised and expended for the support of said schools.
SEC. 15. No money appropriated by law for public schools ^JjJUJjJ how
shall be paid from the treasury of any town, except upon writ-jjj^j*
ten order of its municipal officers ; and no such order shall be F^f;1 c- llf
drawn by said officers except upon presentation of a properly §9£ 5' c' 48'
avouched bill of items said bill of items having first been ap-
proved by a majority of members of the superintending school ed
committee and certified by the superintendent of schools. The
unexpended balance of all moneys raised by towns, or received
from the state, for the payment of wages and board of teachers,
fuel, janitors' services, conveyance or tuition and board of
scholars, shall be credited to the school resources for the year
following that in which said unexpended balance occurred. This
clause, relating to unexpended balances shall not apply to cities.
SEC. 16. When the governor and council have reason to school fund
believe that a town has neglected to raise and expend the school tobe'with?*
money required by law, or to employ teachers certified as re- delinquent
towns.
quired by law, or to have instruction given in the subjects pre-R- s., c. 11,
scribed by law, or to provide suitable textbooks in the subjects }%&> c- <£.
lyOo, c. 4oj
prescribed by law, or faithfully to expend the school money re- 19^9 c 5Q
ceived from the state, or in any way, to comply with the law 1913>> c- lgi-
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Same aggre-
gate annual
length of
terms.
1893, c. 216,
§5.
1909, c. 29.
Union
schools
may be
maintained
by adjoining
towns.
1893, c. 216,
§6.
— manage-
ment of such
schools.
Towns shall
expend
school fund.
1905, c. 48,
§ 4.
prescribing the duties of towns in relation to public schools, they
shall direct the treasurer of state to withhold from the appor-
tionment of state school funds made to that town such amount
as they may deem expedient and the amount so withheld shall
not be paid until such town shall satisfy said governor and coun-
cil that it has expended the full amount of school money as re-
quired by law and that it has complied in all ways with the
law prescribing the duties of towns in relation to public schools,
and whenever such town shall fail, within the year for which
the apportionment is made, so to satisfy the governor and council
the said amount withholden shall be forfeited and shall be added
to the permanent school fund for the year next succeeding.
SEC. 17. The school moneys of every town shall be so ex-
pended as to give as nearly as practicable the same aggregate
annual length of terms in all its schools, and every town shall
make provision for the maintenance of all its schools for not
less than twenty-six weeks annually. Any town failing to
maintain its schools as provided in this section, shall be debarred
from drawing its state school moneys, till it shall have made
suitable provisions for so maintaining them thereafter.
SEC. 18. Adjoining towns, upon the written recommenda-
tion of the school committee of said towns, may by concurrent
action maintain union schools for the benefit of parts of said
towns constituting on March one, eighteen hundred and ninety-
four, union school districts, or may establish such schools, and
shall contribute to their support each in proportion to the num-
ber of scholars in each of said towns attending such schools.
Said school shall be under the management of the school com-
mittee of the town in which their schoolhouses are located.
*SEC. 19. Towns shall expend the entire amount of the
school fund and mill tax received from the state, together with
the amounts arising from the eighty cents per capita, as pro-
vided in section thirteen of said chapter fifteen and the funds
arising from the various sources enumerated in the first four
lines of section thirteen of said chapter and the funds arising
from the provisions of section fourteen of said chapter, for
the payment of teachers' wages and board, fuel, janitors' ser-
vices, conveyance of scholars and tuition and board of scholars,
* See also Section 6, Chapter 177, P. L., 1909.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
as provided in section two and section fifty of said chapter fif-__ghallpro_
teen and shall provide school books, apparatus and appliances
for the use of pupils in the public schools, including all free high
schools, at the expense of said town; and shall also pay f or fglv, c. 260.
the necessary repairs of school buildings and insurance on same,
if any, improvement and maintenance of school yards and play-
grounds out of a sum or sums of money raised and appropriated
for that purpose which shall be assessed like other money and
shall be in addition to and independent of the amount which
towns are required by law to raise, assess and expend for the
support of common schools; provided, however, that any parent
or guardian of any pupil in the public schools may, at his own
expense, procure for the separate and exclusive use of such
pupil, the text-books required to be used in such schools and
no second hand books shall be purchased for the use of any
school; any person violating this provision shall forfeit not handbooks,
exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered in an action of
debt by any school officer or person aggrieved.
SEC. 20. School committees shall make such rules and regu- Digtribution
lations not repugnant to law, as they deem proper, for the dis- j|^900^ ®*c
tribution and preservation of school books and appliances fur- § 2-
nished at the expense of the town.
SEC. 21. When a pupil in the public schools loses, destroys,
or unnecessarily injures any such school book or appliance, f ur-
nished such pupil at the expense of said town, his parent orftes'., c. 11,
guardian shall be notified, and if the loss or damage is not made
good to the satisfaction of such committee within a reasonable
time, they shall report the case to the assessors, who shall
include in the next town tax of the delinquent parent or guar-
dian the value of the book or appliance so lost, destroyed or
injured, to be assessed and collected as other town taxes.
*SEC. 22. Any city or town may, in addition to the sumEvening
raised for the support of the common schools, raise and appro- i889?Lc! 246.
priate money for the support of evening schools, which shall
admit persons of any age, shall teach only the elementary
branches, and shall be under the direction and supervision of
the superintending school committee.
* See also An Act for the encouragement of Industrial Education,
Chapter 1 88, P. L,., 191 1.
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SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINS.
Instruction
in industrial
or mechani-
cal drawing.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 11.
Manual
training
schools.
1901, c. 234,
§ § 1, 5.
*SEC. 23. Any city or town may annually make provision
for free instruction in industrial or mechanical drawing, to per-
sons over fifteen years of age, either in day or evening schools,
under direction of the superintending school committee.
*SEc. 24. Any city or town may, in addition to the sum
raised for the support of the common schools, raise and appro-
priate money for the support of manual training schools and
may receive gifts and bequests for the use, maintenance and
support of such schools.
Direction,
rules and
regulations
of such
schools.
1901, c. 234,
§ §2,3,4.
Scholars at
light stations,
fog warn Lag
stations, or
life saving
stations.
1893, c. 199.
1911, c. 161.
School age.
1893, c. 162.
— attendance.
1911, c. 22.
ADMISSION TO SCHOOLS.
SEC. 25. Such schools shall be under the control, direction
and supervision of the superintending school committee, and
shall admit such persons between the ages of six and twenty-
one years, and shall give such courses of instruction as said
committee may determine. Pupils in such schools shall be sub-
ject to the same conditions, rules and regulations as provided
for public schools.
SEC. 26. Persons between the ages of five and twenty-one
years living at any light station, fog warning station, or life
saving station shall be admitted to any public school in the
state without paying tuition ; such scholars shall be entitled to all
privileges and benefits, and be subject to the same conditions,
rules and regulations as scholars residing in the town in which
they attend school.
SEC. 27. The age of pupils allowed to attend the public
schools of the state is hereby fixed between the ages of five
and twenty-one and every child between the said ages shall
have the right to attend the public schools in the town in which
his parent or guardian has a legal residence, subject to such
reasonable regulations as to the numbers and qualifications of
pupils to be admitted to the respective schools and as to other
school matters as the school committee shall from time to time
prescribe.
SCHOOL, LAWS OF MAINE. II
CERTIFICATE OF MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.
SEC. 28. The assessors or municipal officers of each town, Annual
shall, on or before the first day of each May, make to the state returns to
superintendent of public schools, a certificate, under oath, em- intendenter"
. , ,, R. S., c. 11,
bracing" the following items : § 13.
1909 c 91
I. The amount voted by the town for common schools at
the preceding annual meeting.
II. The amount of school moneys payable to the town from
the state treasury during the year ending with the first day of
the preceding April.
III. The amount of money actually expended for common
schools during the preceding fiscal year of the town.
IV. The amount of school moneys unexpended at the ex-
piration of the preceding fiscal year of the town.
V. Answers to such other inquiries as are presented to
secure a full and complete statement of school revenues and
expenditures.
ELECTION OF SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEES.
SEC. 29. Every town shall choose by ballot at its annual Election of a
meeting a superintending school committee of three to hold^j^com-
office as provided in the following section and shall fill vacancies \sf7' c" 327>
arising therein at each subsequent annual meeting. No person f §Si8fC85.1>
is ineligible to the office of superintending school committee, on
account of sex.
SEC. 30. School committees first chosen shall designate by Superintend-
ing school
lot a member or members to hold office for one, two and three committee,
when first
years respectively, in manner as follows ; one for one year, one ^sen, sha11
for two years and one for three years; and they shall certify §j?£ of
such designation to the town clerk to be by him recorded ; and ^g|- c- n>
thereafterwards one member shall be chosen by ballot at the |8|7' c- 327*
annual meeting of the town, to hold office for three years. Said
committee may fill vacancies occurring between annual meet- —vacancies:
ings, and the term of office of any member of the committee so —no member
chosen shall expire at the next annual meeting. No member employed to
teach in his
of the superintending school committee of any town shall be°wnt°wn.
employed as teacher in any public school in said town.
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Sections 29
and 30 shall
not apply to
certain cities.
1897, c. 327,
§3.
Penalty for
neglect to
choose com-
mittee.
R. S., c. 11,
§20.
Committee
shall serve
without pay.
—compensa-
tion of
superin-
tendent.
R. S., c. 11,
§92.
1897, c. 327,
§2.
SEC. 31. The provisions of the two preceding sections shall
not apply to cities whose charters specify the methods of elec-
tion and term of office of a superintending school committee or
board of education ; nor to towns, cities and incorporated dis-
tricts authorized by private and special laws to choose school
committees other than those herein provided for.
SEC. 32. A town failing to elect members of the superintend-
ing school committee as required by law, forfeits not less than
thirty, nor more than two hundred dollars.
SEC. 33. Superintending school committees shall serve with-
out pay, unless otherwise voted by the town, but the superin-
tendent shall receive for his services such sum as the town shall
annually vote therefor, which sum shall in no case be less than
two dollars a day for every day of actual service and necessary
traveling expenses.
Management
of schools
devolves
upon super-
intending
school com-
mittee.
1897, c. 332.
1903, c. 100.
— discharge
of superin-
tendent.
1911, c. 173.
1913, c. 78.
Duties.
R. S., c. 11,
§87.
1903, c. 184.
1905, c. 48,
§5.
POWER AND DUTIES OF SUPERINTENDING SCHOOL COMMITTEES
AND SUPERINTENDENTS.
SEC. 34. The management of the schools and the custody
and care, including repairs and insurance on school buildings,
of all school property in every town, shall devolve upon the su-
perintending school committee which shall annually, and as
often as a vacancy shall occur, elect a superintendent of schools
who shall not be a member of the committee. After due notice
and investigation the superintending school committee may for
cause discharge a superinendent of schools and after protracted
absence from duty on the part of said superintendent may de-
clare a vacancy in his office. This section, so far as it relates
to the manner of the election or employment of superintend-
ents of schools shall not apply to cities, nor to towns authorized
by special laws to employ or choose superintendents in manner
otherwise than as herein provided.
SEC. 35. Superintending school committees shall perform
the following duties :
I. Direct the general course of instruction, and select a uni-
form system of text-books, due notice of which shall be given;
no text-books thus introduced, shall be changed for five years
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 13
unless by vote of the town ; any person violating this provision Direct the
shall forfeit not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered ^™cle^°tn
in an action of debt by any school officer or person aggrieved. text-books-
And when said committee have made such selection of school
books, they may contract, under section nineteen, with the pub-
lishers for the purchase and delivery thereof; make such rules
as they deem effectual for their preservation and return; ,or, if
they are kept for sale, may regulate the sale and appoint an
agent to keep and sell them, and fix the retail price, which shall
be marked on the title page of each book.
II. They shall make provision for the instruction of all^™^ion
pupils in schools supported by public money or under state con- o^v and01"
trol, in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the i885?nce'267,
effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the "
human system.
III. After due notice and investigation they shall dismiss May dismiss
. . J teacher for
any teacher, although having the requisite certificate, who proves sufficient
unfit to teach, or whose services they deem unprofitable to the
school; and give to said teacher a certificate of dismissal and
of the reasons therefor, a copy of which they shall retain, and
such dismissal shall not deprive the teacher of compensation for
previous services.
IV. Expel any obstinately disobedient and disorderly scholar, scholars,
after a proper investigation of his behavior, if found necessary
for the peace and usefulness of the school ; and restore him on
satisfactory evidence of his repentance and amendment.
V. Exclude, if they deem it expedient, any person not vac-Exclude
cinated, although otherwise entitled to admission. va^cinXed*
VI. Prescribe the sum, on payment of which persons of thePrescribe
required age, resident on territory, the jurisdiction of which has paSSin°cer-
been ceded to the United States, included in or surrounded bytaincases-
the town, may attend school in the town.
VII. Determine what description of scholars shall attend Classify
each school, classify them, and transfer them from school tos°
school where more than one school is kept at the same time.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Supt. of
schools sec-
retary of
committee.
1895, c. 120.
1897, c. 332.
1903, c. 184.
1905, c. 48,
§6.
1913, c. 112.
Shall appoint
times and
places for
examina-
tions.
Qualifica-
tions of
teachers.
Certificates
to be given.
SEC. 36. The superintendent of schools in every town shall
be, ex-officio, secretary of the superintending school committee.
He shall keep a permanent record of all its votes, orders and
proceedings, he shall place all orders for materials and sup-
plies purchased by vote of the committee and shall be its agent
in keeping all financial records and accounts. He shall issue
vouchers showing the correctness of bills contracted on ac-
count of school appropriations, but such bills shall not be al-
lowed for payment by the municipal officers of towns unless
they shall have been approved by a majority of the members of
the superintending school committee. He shall perform such
duties not herein enumerated as said committee shall direct.
*/. He shall appoint suitable times and places for the exam-
ination of candidates proposing to teach in town, and shall give
notice thereof by posting the same in two or more public places
within the town at least three weeks before the time of said
examination, or by the publication of said notice for a like time
in one or more newspapers having the largest circulation in the
county. Five days constitute the school week, and four weeks
a school month.
*//. On satisfactory evidence that a candidate possesses a
good moral cliaracter and a temper and disposition suitable for
an instructor of youth', he shall examine him in reading, spelling,
English grammar, geography, history, arithmetic, civil govern-
ment, bookkeeping, and physiology with special reference to the
effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the
human system; and the elements of the natural sciences, espe-
cially as applied to agriculture, and such other branches as the
superintending school committee desire to introduce into public
schools, and particularly into the school for which he is exam-
ined; also as to his capacity for the government thereof.
*///. He shall give to each candidate found competent, a cer-
tificate that he is qualified to govern said school and instruct in
the branches above named, and such other branches as may be
necessary to be taught therein, or he may render valid by in-
dorsement any graded certificates issued to teachers by normal
school principals. No certificate shall be granted any person to
teach in the public schools of the state, who has not passed a
*Non-effective after Sept. 1, 1914 by provisions of An Act to pro-
vide for the State certification of all teachers of public schools,
Chapter 58, P. L., 1913.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 15
satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special
reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and nar-
cotics upon the human system.
IV. He shall employ teachers, subject to the approval of the teaacher?P °
superintending school committee.
V. He shall return under oath to the school committee, in School
census.
April annually, a certified list of the names and ages of all per- isp, c. 216,
sons in his town from five to twenty-one years, corrected to the^j-. c- n.
first day of said month, leaving out of said enumeration all per-
sons coming from other places to attend any college or academy,
or to labor in any factory, or at any manufacturing or other
business.
SKC. 37. He shall annually make returns to the state super- Return to
intendent of public schools, of the number of persons between Ltendenteof
the ages of five and twenty-one vears, together with a certified 1897, c! 289.
* 1911, c. 121.
list of the names and ages of such persons, corrected to the first
day of April preceding the time of making said returns, and
give full and complete answers to the inquiries contained in the
blank forms furnished him by law ; certify that such statement
is true and correct, according to his best knowledge and belief;
and transmit it to the office of the state superintendent on or
before the first day of each May. He shall also furnish such
other information relating to the public schools as the said
superintendent shall at any time require of him. When the
state superintendent of schools on examination of the census
returns of any town is of the opinion that the census has been
inaccurately taken he shall make statement thereof to the gov-
ernor and council who may require the census of such town to
be retaken and returned and, if they think necessary, they may __census may
for this purpose appoint persons to perform this service andtoblqmi
such persons so appointed shall take the same oath, perform the re
same service and receive the same compensation out of the
same fund as the person or persons who took the school census
in the first instance; and the school fund distributable in pro-
portion to the enumeration of scholars shall be distributed on
the corrected returns.
i6
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Annual
returns of
supt. of
schools.
R. S., c. 11,
§88.
1895, c. 120.
1905, c 48,
§ 7.
1913, c. 4.
Shall
examine
schools.
1893, c. 216,
§8.
1895, c. 120.
— annual
report.
R.S., c. 11,
§87.
1893, c. 216,
§8.
SEC. 38. He shall, on or before the first day of August
nineteen hundred and fourteen and annually thereafter, make
under oath a full and complete return of all educational statis-
tics for the year ending July first next preceding, and any town
that shall fail, through its school officers, to make the return
required by this section shall be liable to the provisions of
section sixteen of chapter fifteen of the Revised Statutes.
SEC. 39. He shall examine the schools and inquire into the
regulations and discipline thereof, and the proficiency of the
scholars, for which purpose he shall visit each school at least
twice each term. At the annual town meeting, he shall make a
written report of the condition of the schools for the past year,
the proficiency made by the pupils, and the success attending the
modes of instruction and government thereof, and transmit a
copy to the state superintendent of public schools.
Two or
more towns
may unite
in the em-
ployment of
a superin-
tendent.
1897, c. 296,
1907, c. 55.
1909, c. 122.
— proviso,
number of
schools.
1911, c. 92.
SUPERINTENDENCE 0? SCHOOLS THROUGH THE UNION OF TOWNS.
SEC. 40. The school committees of two or more towns, hav-
ing under their care and custody an aggregate of not less than
twenty, nor more than fifty schools, may unite in the employ-
ment of a superintendent of schools, provided they have been so
authorized by a vote of their towns at the regular town meet-
ings, or special town meetings called for that purpose. Pro-
vided further that such union shall not take effect until the
state superintendent of public schools shall have approved the
certificate of union as hereinafter provided. But the committee
of any town dissatisfied with the decision of the state superin-
tendent may appeal to the governor and council who shall make
the final decision relative thereto. Provided further in any case
where it shall appear to the state superintendent of public
schools, upon the representation of the school committees of
certain towns that, owing to geographical situation or other
reasons it is to the advantage of the state and of the said towns
that a union shall include fewer than twenty or more than fifty
schools said state superintendent of public schools shall have
authority to approve the certificate of such union, and a union
so formed shall, except for the number of schools, be governed
by the conditions herein prescribed for unions of towns. A
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINS. I/
union of towns formed under the provisions of this section
shall upon its first organization continue for a period of at least
three years unless sooner dissolved by a two-thirds vote of the
joint committee, but after the expiration of said three-year
period any of the towns forming said union may at its annual
meeting withdraw from said union and the remaining members
may continue a union in accordance with the conditions herein —continuance
oi a union.
prescribed as to the number of schools and upon the approval isis, c. 145.
of a new certificate of union by the state superintendent of
public schools. The joint committee of any union of towns ;^mnsgsion
may admit to said union any town or towns which have voted to committee.
join the said union; but such admission shall be subject to the
conditions herein prescribed as to the number of schools and
upon the approval of a new certificate of union by the state su-
perintendent of public schools.
SEC. 41. The school committees of the towns comprising a School com-
union shall form a joint committee, and for the purposes of this ^ch
section and the four following sections, said joint committee j
shall be held to be the agents of each town comprising the union.
Said joint committee shall meet annually at a day and place
agreed upon by the chairman of the committees of the several §8|7' c> 296
towns comprising the union, and shall organize by the choice of
a chairman and a secretary. They shall determine the relative —duties.
4. t £ J 1_ 1 J • 1 1907' n" 101'
amount of service to be performed by the superintendent in each § i.
1909 c 12^
town, including the minimum number of visits to be made each 1913! c! iss!
term to each school, fix his salary, apportion the amounts
thereof to be paid by the several towns, which amount shall be
certified to the treasurers of said towns respectively and to the
state superintendent of schools, together with the amounts appor-
tioned to each town; provided that the amounts so certified
shall be in proportion to the amount of service performed in
the several towns. They shall choose by ballot a superintend-
ent of schools for a term not exceeding five years, but the period
of such election shall not exceed that for which the union of
towns has been authorized. Towns may
SEC. 42. I. The chairman and secretary of said joint com- ?pmpensfa°-r
mittee shall, upon the election of a superintendent of schools as mtSndfentper"
provided by section forty-one of this chapter, certify under f-?.'1 c' 296'
oath to the state superintendent of schools upon the forms
i8
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
— state aid.
1907, c. 101,
§2.
1909, c. 146.
— appropri-
ation out of
state school
funds.
1911, c. 191.
Aid to super-
intendents
having over
fifty schools
under their
care or
custody.
1909, c. 120.
Appropria-
tion by each
town for sal-
ary of super-
intendent.
1897, c. 296,
§4.
1907, c. 101,
§3.
1913, c. 138.
1913, c. 145.
Conference
of superin-
tendents.
1913, c. 138.
prescribed by him all facts relative to said union and employ-
ment of a superintendent. Annually upon the first day of April
and whenever a new superintendent is chosen said chairman and
secretary shall make return of a similar certificate. Upon
approval of said certificate the superintendent so employed shall
on presentation of proper vouchers receive monthly out of the
sum appropriated for superintendence of towns comprising
school unions and out of any moneys in the treasury not other-
wise appropriated a sum equal to twice the aggregate sum paid
by the towns comprising the union, provided that the amount
so paid for the benefit of a single union of towns shall not
exceed eight hundred dollars in one year, and provided further
that the annual appropriation for payments under this act shall
be deducted from state school funds.
II. Whenever the chairman and secretary of school com-
mittees of towns and cities having under their care and custody
an aggregate of more than fifty schools, shall certify under
oath to the state superintendent of schools, the form of certifi-
cate to be determined by said state superintendent, that a super-
intendent of schools has been employed by them for one year,
and the salary that he has received, then upon the approval of
said certificate by the state superintendent of schools and pre-
sentation to the governor and council, a warrant shall be drawn
upon the treasurer of the state for the payment to the treasurer
of that town or city, of a sum equal to three-fifths the amount
expended by said town or city for said superintendence, pro-
vided that the amount so paid for the benefit of a single town
or city shall not exceed eight hundred dollars in one year.
SEC. 43. I. The towns uniting for the purpose of employ-
ing a superintendent of schools shall appropriate for his salary
their proportion of the sum paid said superintendent ; and the
amount to be paid by each town shall be determined by dividing
the entire sum expended for superintendence among the towns
comprising the union in the proportion of the service performed
in each town.
II. The state superintendent of schools shall annually hold
a conference for the instruction of superintendents serving
under the provisions of sections forty to forty-two inclusive
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
of this chapter and he shall be authorized to expend not to
exceed five hundred dollars out of the appropriation for the
superintendence of towns comprising school unions to assist
in defraying the mileage expenses of those superintendents
who live remote from the place of such conference, but no su-
perintendent shall be entitled to any part of such expenses
unless he shall regularly attend all of its sessions.
SEC. 44. Persons employed to serve as superintendents of Qualifica-
tions of
schools under section f ortv-one and section fortv-two shall super-
intendents.
hold state certificates of superintendence grade which shall be J897' c- 296-
issued upon such examination as may be prescribed by the i9^9' c- 120>
state superintendent of public schools and they shall devote |939' c' 122>
their entire time to superintendence, in the towns comprising 191o> °' 138'
the union, provided, however, that they may, without violation
of the provisions of this section, perform such educational ser-
vice outside of the towns of their unions as may be performed
with the approval of the state superintendent of schools and
with the consent of the committees employing them. The
powers and duties of said superintendents shall be the same as
those prescribed for town superintendents in this chapter.
SEC. 45. No town shall receive state aid under section forty- state aid
two unless its appropriation and expenditure for superintend- wSheld.
ence have been exclusive of the amount required by law for § 7. '
1905, c. 48,
common school purposes. If any part of the money raised by §g8g c 122
the town or union of towns, or paid to them by the state for § 4- '
superintendence, is expended for any other purposes than those
provided for in said section, then each person so misappropri-
ating said money shall forfeit double the sum so misapplied, to
be recovered in an action of debt, in the name and to the use of
the town, by any inhabitant thereof; and no town or union of
towns shall receive further aid under said section until the
amount so misapplied has been raised and expended for super-
intendence by such town or union of towns.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
Towns may
SEC. 46. Towns may make such by-laws, not repugnant to iawsecon-
law, concerning habitual truants, and children between six and tTu^tl
seventeen years of age not attending school, without any regular § 21." °
20
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINS.
ipproval.
Violation of
by-laws.
R, S., c. 11,
§22.
Truant
children
may be
placed in
suitable
institutions.
R. S., c. 11,
§23.
Children be-
tween certain
ages must
attend school
unless ex-
cused by
committee.
1899, c. 80,
§ 1.
1901, c. 185,
§ 1.
1903, c. 140.
1905, c. 48,
§9.
1909, c. 57.
— committee
may exclude
certain chil-
dren.
and lawful occupation, and growing up in ignorance, as are most
conducive to their welfare and the good order of society; and
may annex a suitable penalty, not exceeding twenty dollars, for
any breach thereof ; but such by-laws must be first approved by
a judge of the supreme judicial court.
. SEC. 47. Truant officers elected as provided in section fifty-
one shall alone make complaints for violations of said by-laws,
and shall execute the judgments of the magistrate.
SEC. 48. Said magistrate, in place of fine, may order chil-
dren proved to be growing up in truancy, and without the
benefit of the education provided for them by law, to be placed
for such periods as he thinks expedient, in the institution of in-
struction, house of reformation, or other suitable situation
provided for the purpose under section forty-six.
SEC. 49. Every child between the seventh and fifteenth an-
versaries of his birth and every child between the fifteenth and
seventeenth anniversaries who cannot read at sight and write
legible simple sentences in the English language shall attend
some public day school during the time such school is in session,
and an absence therefrom of one-half day or more shall be
deemed a violation of this requirement ; provided that necessary
absence may be excused by the superintending school committee
or superintendent of schools or teachers acting by direction of
either ; provided also, that such attendance shall not be required
if the child obtained equivalent instruction, for a like period of
time, in an approved private school or in any other manner
approved by the superintending school committee ; provided,
further, that children shall not be credited with attendance at a
private school until a certificate showing their names, residence
and attendance at such school signed by the person or persons
having such school in charge, shall be filed with the school
officials of the town in which said children reside ; and provided,
further, that the superintending school committee may exclude
from the public schools any child whose physical or mental con-
dition makes it inexpedient for him to attend. All persons
having children under their control shall cause them to attend
school as provided in this section, and for every neglect of such
duty shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dol-
lars or shall be imprisoned not exceeding thirty days.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 21
SEC. 50. Children living remote from any public school in
the town in which they reside may be allowed to attend the pub-
lie schools, other than a high school approved as provided in t^j
section sixty- three, in an adjoining town, under such regulations S9 agre<
and on such terms as the school committees of said towns agree § I.9' c'
upon and prescribe, and the school committee of the town in
which such children reside shall pay the sum agreed upon, out
of the appropriations of money raised in said town for school
purposes. Except as above provided, a child attending a public
school, other than a high school approved as provided in section —tuition.
sixty-three, in a town in which his parent or legal guardian does
not reside, after having obtained the consent of the school com-
mittee of such town, shall pay, as tuition, a sum equal to the
average expense of each scholar in such school.
SEC. 51. The superintending school committee of every inTsSI
committees
city and town shall annually elect one or more persons, to be shall elect
• . /v .,,... .. truant officers.
designated truant officers, who shall inquire into all cases of 1899, c. so,
neglect of the duties prescribed in section forty-nine and ascer- i9os, c. 48,
tain the reasons therefor and shall promptly report the same to }W £• 238.
said superintending school committee, and such truant officers 1913> c- 79-
or any of them shall, when so directed by the school committee
or superintendent in writing, prosecute in the name of the state
any person neglecting to perform the duties prescribed in said— duties.
section, by promptly entering a complaint before a magistrate ;
and said officer shall, when notified by any teacher that any
pupil is irregular in attendance, arrest and take such pupil to
school when found truant; and further such officers shall en-
force the provisions of sections one hundred eighteen to one
hundred twenty, inclusive, of this chapter. Truant officers,
when so directed in writing by the superintendent of schools or
the superintending school committee of their respective towns lishmeats-
may visit the manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile and other
business establishments in their several cities and towns during
the hours in which the public schools of such city or town are
in session, and ascertain whetber any minors under the age of
fifteen years are employed therein, and shall report in writing
any cases of such employment to the superintendent of schools
or the superintending school committee of their city or town
and if employed therein contrary to the provisions of chapter
22
SCHOOL LAWS OP MAINE.
— compen-
sation.
— neglect of
duty .
Habitual
truant shall
be admon-
ished and
punished .
1899, c. 80,
§4.
1901, c. 185,
§2.
1913, c. 1.
Penalty for
abetting
truancy.
1899, c. 80,
§ 5.
1905, c. 48,
§11.
forty, shall also report in writing such illegal employment to the
commissioner of labor. The owner, superintendent, overseer or
agent of all manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other bus-
iness establishments, upon request shall produce for the inspec-
tion of such truant officers all certified copies of records of
birth and baptism, passports and age and schooling certificates
required to be kept on file in such establishments under chapter
forty of the revised statutes. Superintending school committees
shall elect truant officers at their first .meeting after the annual
meeting of the town; they shall fill any vacancies occurring
during the year and they shall have authority to fix the com-
pensation of said officers and said compensation shall be paid
from the appropriation made for the salaries of municipal offi-
cers. Any truant officer neglecting any duty required of him
under the provisions of this chapter shall be liable to a fine of
not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars and any town fail-
ing through its superintending school committee to meet said
provisions shall be liable to the provisions of section sixteen
of this chapter.
SEC. 52. If a child without sufficient excuse, shall be habit-
ually and wilfully absent from school or shall fail without
such excuse to attend school for five day sessions or for ten
half-day sessions within any period of six months, he shall be
deemed an habitual truant, and the superintending school com-
mittee shall notify him and any person under whose control
he may be that unless he conforms to section forty-nine, the
provisions of the two following sections will be enforced against
them; and if thereafter such child continues irregular in attend-
ance, the truant officers or any of them shall, when so directed
by the school committee or superintendent in writing, enforce
said provisions by complaint.
SEC. 53. Any person having control of a child, who is an
habitual truant, as defined in the foregoing section, and being
in any way responsible for such truancy, and any person who
induces a child to absent himself from school, or harbors or
conceals such child when he is absent, shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding twenty dollars or shall be imprisoned not
exceeding thirty days.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 23
SEC. 54. On complaint of the truant officer an habitual tru- Habitual
ant, if a boy, may be committed to the State School for Boys,
or if a girl/ to the State Industrial School for Girls, or to any
truant school that may hereafter be established. Police or
municipal courts and trial justices shall have jurisdiction of such 1905,' c/4S,
complaint and of the offenses described in sections forty-nine,
fifty-one and fifty- three. All warrants issued by said courts or Truant
orncers may
trial justices upon such complaint, or for an offense committed ^^
under said sections and all legal processes issued by said courts
or trial justices for the purpose of carrying into effect the pro-
visions of this section and of said sections numbered forty-nine,
fifty-one and fifty-three, may be directed to and executed by the
truant officer, or either of the truant officers, of the town where
the offense is committed. All fines, collected under said two
last named sections, shall be paid to the treasurer of the city or
town in which the offense is committed, for the support of the
public schools therein.
^INSTRUCTION IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
SEC. 55. Xo town shall receive state aid for the maintenance f^high ^
of a free high school unless its appropriation and expenditure R^*'. n.
for such school has been exclusive of the amounts required by 1901', c. 197,
law for common school purposes. ion, c. 109.
SEC. s6. Any town may establish and maintain not exceed- ^
3 J Free high
ing two free high schools; and in such case shall receive the schools,
town may
same state aid as if the expenditures of both schols had been ^t|bli«h po-
made for one. Two or more adjoining towns may unite in
establishing and maintaining a free high school, and both shall
receive the same state aid as if such school had been maintained sc
by one town. Any town may, in addition to the sums raised f or o~f '
r , . , . . A tending second-
the support of high and common schools, raise and appropriate a arv schools.
, 1909, c. 148.
sum for the payment of conveyance of pupils attending second-
ary schools, said sum to be expended under the direction of the
superintending school committee. Towns shall receive in trust
and faithfully expend gifts and bequests made to aid in the
* See also An Act for the improvement of Free High Schools, Chap-
ter 71, P. L., 1909. and An Act additional to Chapter 71, P. L., 1909,
Chapter 196, P. L., 1909.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
— funds
received .
— penalty for
misapplying
money ap-
propriated
by state.
Inhabitants
of any sec-
tion of a
town may
maintain
free high
school.
1893, c. 216,
§7.
—officers,
how chosen,
powers and
duties.
maintenance of free high schools, and shall receive aid in such
cases to the same extent and on the same conditions as if such
schools had been established and maintained by taxation; and
any town shall receive such state aid on any expenditure for a
free high school or schools, made from the funds or proceeds
of the real estate of an academy or incorporated institution of
learning, surrendered or transferred to such town for educa-
tional purpose; but if any part of the money so paid by the
state, is expended for any other purpose than the support of
such free high schools, as provided by this section, then each
person so misapplying said money forfeits double the sum so
misapplied, to be recovered in an action of debt, in the name
and to the use of the town, by any inhabitant thereof; and no
town shall receive further support from the state for any free
high school, until the amount so received, but misapplied, has
been raised and expended for such free high schools by such
town.
SEC. 57. The inhabitants of any section of a town which
fails or neglects to provide for the maintenance of free high
schools, may organize a free high school precinct in the man-
ner hereinafter provided, and may establish and maintain a fnee
high school therein, and receive state aid the same as the town
might have done; provided, that no more than two such free
high schools shall be established in any town, and -that the
amount of aid extended to the precincts in any town shall not
exceed the sum that the town might have received. On petition
of any five voters resident in said section, reciting the limits of
the precinct proposed, the municipal officers of the town shall
call a meeting of the voters within said limits by causing notices,
specifying the time, place and purposes of said meeting, to be
posted in two or more conspicuous places within said limits
seven days before the time appointed. Said meeting shall choose
a moderator and a clerk who shall be sworn, and shall, by a
majority vote of those present and voting, determine whether
said precinct shall be organized. It shall choose an agent who
shall be duly sworn. Such precinct may continue its organiza-
tion from year to year by the holding of meetings called in
the manner aforesaid, so long as the town shall neglect or refuse
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 25
to support free high schools. Sections of adjoining towns may Actions of
organize as herein provided, and unite in the support of such j££^izmay
schools. But no more than two such precincts shall exist at the Precmcts-
same time in any town.
SEC. 58. Any town, precinct or union of towns or precincts, Location.
voting to establish a free high school as herein provided, may § 30." c
locate the same permanently, or vote that the terms thereof be
held alternately in such places within the town or towns, pre-
cinct or precincts, as may be selected, and as may accept said
school. The town or precinct, in which said school is thus held, _gchool.
shall supply appropriate equipments, and furnish and warm a
suitable building for the same; provided that any schoolhouse
vvithin such town or precinct may be used for such free high
school, when not required for ordinary school purposes.
SEC. 59. The course of study in the free high schools, shall Course of
embrace the ordinary English academic studies which are taught
. . embrace.
in secondary schools, especially the natural sciences in their R. s., c. 11,
application to mechanics, manufactures and agriculture; but the i897« c- 299-
ancient or modern languages and music shall not be taught
therein except by direction of the superintending school com-
mittees having supervision thereof. Such schools, when estab-
lished by any town or union of towns, shall be free to all the
youth in such town or towns who have such scholastic attain-
ments as will fit them to attend such schools with profit, and
the superintendent, or superintending school committee, having
supervision thereof shall make such examination of candidates
for admission to said schools as they consider necessary.
When such school is established by any precinct or union
precincts, it shall be free in the same manner to the scholars preciacts
within such precincts, and open also to scholars passing the
required examination from without sucii precincts, but within
the towns in which said precincts are situated, on payment to
the agent of the precinct in which such school is located, of such
tuition, to be fixed by the superintending school committee or
committees having supervision of the same, as is equivalent to
the cost a scholar of maintaining such school, after deducting
the aid extended by the state. Whenever in the judgment of
,« ,. . may admit
the superintending school committees having the supervision of pupils fr
any free high school or schools, the number of pupils in thetown-
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SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Free high
schools
subject to
school laws.
— how man-
aged, estab-
lished by
towns.
— es cablished
by a union
of towns.
— established
by a precinct.
— established
by precincts
in different
towns.
Towns may
raise money
to maintain
free high
schools.
R. S., c. 11,
§33.
Provisions
for pupils
in towns
having no
free high
schools.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 34.
1899, c. 6.
1905, c. 48,
§ 13.
1911, c. 88.
same may be increased without detriment, scholars from with-
out the towns directly interested in such school or schools, may
be admitted to the same on passing the required examination
and paying such tuition as may be fixed by such committee, to
the treasurer of the town in which the school is kept, when the
school is maintained by a town or union of towns, or to the
agent of the precinct in which the school is kept, when such
school is maintained by a precinct or union of precincts.
SEC. 60. Free high schools, established and maintained un-
der the foregoing provisions, are subject to the laws relating to
common schools, so far as applicable, except as otherwise pro-
vided. When established and maintained by a town, they shall
be under the supervision and entire management of the super-
intending school committee of such town. When established
and maintained by a union of towns, such school shall be under
the supervision and entire management of the school commit-
tees of such towns, who constitute a joint board for that pur-
pose. When established and maintained by any precinct, such
school shall be under the supervision of the superintending
committee of such town, or of the state superintendent, when
the precinct so elects, and under the financial management of
the agent of the precinct, who, in connection with said commit-
tee or superintendent, shall employ teachers for the same.
When established and maintained by precincts composed of sec-
tions of adjoining towns, such school shall be under the super-
vision of the superintending school committee of such towns,
who constitute a joint board for that purpose, and under the
financial management of the agents of both precincts, who, in
connection with said committees, shall employ the teachers.
SEC. 61. Towns and precincts may raise money for estab-
lishing and maintaining free high schools, and erecting buildings
and providing equipments for the same, in the same manner as
for supporting common schools and erecting schoolhouses.
SEC. 62. Any town which does not maintain a free high
school of standard grade may, from year to year, authorize its
superintending school committee to contract with and pay the
superintending school committee of any adjoining town or the
trustees of any academy located within such town or in an ad-
joining town, for the tuition of scholars within said town in the
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 27
studies contemplated by the seven preceding sections. When
such contract has been made with the trustees of an academy
a joint committee for the selection of teachers and the arrange-
ment of the course of study in such academy shall include the
superintending school committees of the contracting towns with
an equal number of members of the board of trustees of such
academy when such academy has less than ten thousand dollars
endowment. The expenditure of any town for tuition as Pr°-__towns
vided in this section shall be subject to the same conditions and
shall entitle such town to the same state aid as if it had made
such expenditure for a free high school.
SEC. 63. Any youth who resides with a parent or guardian
in any town which does not support and maintain a standard supporting
secondary school, may attend any approved secondary school to school?,
f , , may attend
which he may gam entrance by permission of those having in other
charge thereof, provided the said youth shall attend a school or 1903, c. 68,
schools whose courses are approved by the state superintendent i|07, c. 73.
of schools, and in such case the tuition of said youth, not to 1913' c- $7-
exceed thirty dollars annually for any one youth, shall be paid
by the town in which he resides as aforesaid, and said tuition
so paid, shall be made a part of the high school fund of the
town receiving the same; and towns shall raise annually, as
other school moneys are raised, a sum sufficient to pay such
tuition charges, provided, however, that no youth shall be
entitled to free tuition under the provisions of this section unless
he shall have satisfactorily passed an examination in common —examination,
school branches, said examination having been given under the
direction of the superintendent of schools of the town wherein
such youth resides, on papers procured from the state superin-
tendent of public schools, or unless such youth shall have satis-
factorily completed a standard common school course of study o7nou'rlestlon
which has been approved by the state superintendent of public
schools; except that any youth who has satisfactorily completed
the course of a B or C class high school, as provided by chapter
seventy-one of the public laws of nineteen hundred nine, shall
be entitled to his free tuition as hereinbefore provided for the
completion of the four years of a standard secondary course
without the examination herein prescribed, provided, further,
that such free tuition privilege shall continue only so long as
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SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE:.
Return* to
be made.
1903, o. 68,
§2.
1900, c. 112.
— partial
reimburse-
ment.
Superintend-
ents of
schools shall
make annual
return to
state super-
intendent.
R. S., c. 11,
§35.
1901, c. 197,
§2.
1909, c. 28.
— state
superintend-
ent to certify
amounts to
which towns
are entitled.
— penalty for
defrauding
the state.
said youth shall maintain a satisfactory standard of deportment
and scholarship. It shall be the duty of superintendents of
schools to issue certificates of free tuition privilege to persons
who may be entitled to free tuition under the provisions of this
section.
SEC. 64. When any town shall have been required to pay
and has paid tuition as aforesaid the superintending school com-
mittee of such town shall make a return under oath to the state
superintendent of public schools before the first day of Septem-
ber for the preceding school year, stating the name of each youth
for whom tuition has been paid, the amount paid for each, and
the name and location of the school which each has attended
and thereupon shall be paid, annually in the month of Decem-
ber, from the state treasury out of the appropriation for the
support of free high schools, to each town paying tuition and
making return as aforesaid, a sum equal to two-thirds of the
amount thus paid by such town not exceeding five hundred dol-
lars.
SEC. 65. Superintendents shall, annually, before the first
day of July, make returns under oath to the state superintendent,
on blanks prepared and sent out by him, of the amount appro-
priated and the amount expended by each town or precinct for
instruction in such free high schools during the current year ;
also of the amount appropriated and the amount expended for
common school purposes by each town maintaining the same ;
the number of weeks during which such schools have been
taught; the wages paid each teacher; the number of pupils reg-
istered; the average attendance; the number of pupils in each
branch of study pursued, and the amount received for tuition.
If the state superintendent is satisfied that the provisions of
sections fifty-five to six-two have been complied with, he shall
certify to the governor and council the sum which each town
or precinct is entitled to receive from the state. Any town or
precinct, dissatisfied with his decision, may appeal to the gov-
ernor and council and the governor and council shall issue a
certificate to the treasurer of the town or agent of the precinct,
for such amount as they adjudge such town or precinct entitled
to receive from the state treasury. Any person connected with
the management of such free high schools, either as teacher,
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 29
agent or superintendent, who in any way aids or abets in de-
frauding the state into the payment in support of said schools
of more than is contemplated by this chapter, shall forfeit not
less than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county
jail not less than one year.
SEC. 66. When a free high school precinct votes to raise High school
precinct
money for establishing and maintaining a free high school, its taxes, how
clerk shall forthwith, or within the time prescribed by the pre- collected.^
cinct, certify the amount thereof to the assessors of the town, §g7|. ^ ^
and the time when it must be raised ; and within sixty days
after receiving such certificate they shall assess it as they do
town taxes, on the polls and estates of the residents and owners
in the precinct at the time of raising said money, whether wholly
in their towrn or not, and on the non-resident real estate in the
precinct. They shall then make their warrant in due form of
law, directed to any collector of their town if any, if npt to a
constable, requiring him to levy and collect such tax and pay it
to the town treasurer within the time limited ii} the warrant;
and they shall give a certificate of the assessment to such treas-
urer, and may abate such taxes as in the case of town taxes.
SEC. 67. The assessors may include in their assessment such Assessors
sum over and above the sum committed to them to assess, not to assess
exceeding five per cent, thereof, as a fractional division renders Svertay'
necessary, and certify that fact to the town treasurer. § 76." °
SEC. 68. The town treasurer shall pay the expense of assess- Expense of
ing and collecting any free high school precinct tax out of the how paid.
money of the precinct, upon the order of the selectmen. §77.'
SEC. 69. Section thirty-one of chapter ten, and all other sec-
tions relating to the same subject apply to taxes assessed by or
for free high school precincts, so far as applicable; but the gJ^^J^
precinct and not the town is liable.
SEC. 70. The collector or constable, and the town treasurer, dutieTof ad
or treasurer and collector, if one person is both, each have the theirCcom-
pensation.
same powers and are subject to the same duties and obligations R. s., c. 11,
in relation to free high school precinct taxes, as to town taxes ;
and they and the assessors shall be allowed by the precinct for
their services, a compensation proportionate to what they receive
from the town for similar services.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Money at
disposal of
agent.
R. S., c. 11,
§80.
Trustees of
academies,
etc., may
surrender
property to
establish
free high
schools.
R. S., c. 11,
§36.
Property,
how con-
veyed.
R. S., c. 11,
§37.
Income of
property,
how applied.
R. S., c. 11,
§38.
1913, c. 70.
-ciualifi ca-
tion of
pupils, how
determined.
Tuition to be
paid by non-
residents.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 39.
SEC. 71. The money so raised and- paid shall be at the dis-
posal of the precinct agent, to be by him expended as provided
in section sixty.
SEC. 72. The trustees of any academy or other corporation
formed for educational purposes may by a majority vote of
such of said trustees as reside in the state, surrender the whole,
or any part of the property belonging thereto, to the municipal
officers of any town, or the trustees of any school fund in any
town in which said academy or corporation is situated, for turn-
ing the same into a free high school as hereinafter provided,
and said municipal officers or trustees, for the time being, shall
be a board of trustees to take and hold said property for main-
taining a free high school ; and upon receiving said property,
they shall use proper diligence to make the same produce in-
come for the support of said free high school.
SEC. -73. When such vote is so passed, the treasurer of said
trustees shall convey, assign and deliver to the municipal officers
of said town, or the trustees of such fund, all property belong-
ing to said academy or corporation for the purposes indicated
by the preceding section.
SEC. 74. The municipality accepting the property in trust, as
named in section seventy-two, shall apply the income thereof
towards the support of a free high school to be kept within said
municipality, within the requirements of the laws relating to
the establishment and maintenance of free high schools, and
provide suitable accommodations for the same, and the super7
intending school committee in said municipality shall determine
the qualifications necessary to entitle any applicant to enter or
attend said free high school, and no one shall attend it without
certificate of said officers to that effect.
SEC. 75. All scholars residing within the municipality afore-
said, having such certificate, may attend said school without
tuition fee, and all scholars not residents of said municipality,
may attend said school upon such terms and conditions as said
superintending school committee may impose.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 31
SEC. 76. Whenever it shall be made to appear to the gov- Academies
ernor and council, from returns made as herein provided, that jjj
any incorporated academy in the state is prepared to give in- Jo
struction equivalent to that required by law to be given in free hi
high schools, that the pupils attending the said academy, are annual
stipend.
qualified to receive such instruction, and that the teachers in 1001, c. us,
the said academy have the qualifications fitting them to give in- i?p7, c. 102,
struction in secondary school studies, such academy shall be
entitled to receive annually from the state a sum not exceeding
five hundred dollars in case it maintains an English secondary
school course of study as prescribed by the state superintendent
of public schools, or a sum not exceeding seven hundred and
— mamtam-
.
fifty dollars in case it maintains in addition to an English
course, a college preparatory course, or a sum not exceeding one course.
thousand dollars in case it maintains an English course, a col- _maintain_
lege preparatory course and a training course for teachers, {Jon^ tiln-
provided the courses of study herein named shall be subject tom'
the approval of the state superintendent of public schools, and
provided that the amount paid by the state to any academy
under this section shall be expended by the said academy for
instruction during the year for which payment is made, and
shall not exceed the total income of the said academy from all
other sources; and provided further, that in addition to the i
amount received from the state, a sum equal thereto shall be
expended for instruction and maintenance of the academy dur-
ing said year; and provided further, that every academy receiv- _ rovide
ing money from the state under this section shall provide
instruction as contemplated by this section for not less than
thirty weeks in each year; and provided further, that no acad-
emy shall be credited with maintaining a course of study under
this section unless the said academy shall have an average of
not less than twelve students in said course.
SEC. 77. The governor and council may draw warrants on How pay
the treasurer of state for the payment annually to the legal rep- ^mad?*11
resentatives of such academies, as shall be entitled to receive §92.lf c' 148>
money from the state under the preceding section, at the times
and in the manner provided by law for the payment of money
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Conditions of
state aid.
1901, c. 148,
§3.
1913, c. 70.
Incorpora-
tion.
1901, c. 148,
§4. -^
1907, c. 91.
Attendance.
1901, c. 148,
§5.
1907, c. 102,
§2.
Income.
1901, c. 148,
§6.
1907, c. 78.
1909, c. 102,
§2.
Institutions
receiving
state aid
shall make
report to
state super-
intendent.
1897, c. 246.
1901, c. 148,
§7.
in aid of free high schools, the amounts to which they shall be
severally entitled thereunder; provided, that no payment shall
be made to any academy until the state superintendent of pub-
lic schools shall have certified to the governor and council all
the facts which by law are made necessary to entitle an academy
to receive money from the state under the preceding section.
SEC. 78. No town shall receive state aid under the provisions
of section sixty-two of this chapter if a free high school of
standard grade is maintained in such town.
SEC. 79. No academy shall receive state aid under section
seventy-six unless incorporated prior to May one, nineteen hun-
dred and seven.
SEC. 80. No academy shall receive state aid under section
seventy-six unless the average attendance in said academy for
the year preceding or for five years next preceding shall exceed
thirty students, and no academy shall receive to exceed five
hundred dollars unless the average attendance in said academy
for the year preceding shall exceed sixty students.
*SEC. 81. No academy shall receive state aid under section
seventy-six if said academy has an annual income from invested
funds exceeding sixteen hundred dollars, and no academy shall
receive state aid to exceed five hundred dollars in any given
year provided the said academy has an annual income from
invested funds exceeding one thousand dollars.
SEC. 82. Every educational institution receiving state aid,
and the officers and teachers of every academy receiving money
from the state under the six preceding sections, shall annually,
on or before the first day of January, report to the state super-
intendent of public schools the total and average attendance, an
itemized account of all the moneys received and expended dur-
ing the preceding year, the number of instructors, number and
length of terms, with attendance for each, and answer such
other questions as he shall require, and shall make such further
report to him as he may from time to time require. Such
reports shall be published in the annual report of the state
superintendent of public schools. Every such educational insti-
* See also An Act for the encouragement of Industrial Education,
Chapter 188, P. L., 1911.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 33
tution failing to comply with the above requirements shall for-
feit whatever aid or assistance it would otherwise receive from
the state. Wherever in sections seventy-six to eighty-two i
sive, the word "academy" occurs, it shall be construed
, , . ,. or institute."
include seminary or institute.
DUTIES AND QUALIFICATIONS OF INSTRUCTORS.
SEC. 83. Presidents of colleges are removable at the pleas- o/
ure of the trustees and overseers, whose concurrence is neces-
sary for their election. fits'. c'n'
SEC. 84. No officer of a college shall receive as perquisites Fees for
any fees for a diploma or medical degree conferred by such Regse,ec'. 11,
college, but such fees shall be paid into the college treasury.
SEC. 85. Every teacher of a public school shall keep a regis-
ter thereof, containing the names of all the scholars who enter gsg16^ n
the school, their ages, the dates of each scholar's entering and § 96>
leaving, the number of days during which each attended, the
length of the school, the teacher's wages, a list of text-books
used, and all other facts required by the blank form furnished
him ; such register shall at all times be open to the inspection of
the school committee, and be returned to them at the close of
the school. Teachers may be paid for their services at the close
of each school month, but no teacher shall receive final
payment for services for any term until the register herein —payment t
described, properly filled, completed, and signed, is deposited sendees. ei
with the school committee, or with a person designated by them
to receive it.
SEC. 86. The presidents, professors and tutors of colleges, P^ofre
the preceptors and teachers of academies, and all other instruct- R^^II,
ors of youth, in public or private institutions, shall use their § 97'
best endeavors to impress on the minds of the children and
youth committed to their care and instruction, the principles of
morality and justice, and a sacred regard for truth; love of
country, humanity and a universal benevolence ; sobriety, indus-
try and frugality ; chastity, moderation and temperance ; and all
other virtues which ornament human society ; and to lead those
under their care, as their ages and capacity admit, into a par-
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— kindness
to birds
and animals
shall be
taught.
1891, c. 29.
Forfeitures
for teaching
without a
certificate.
R. S., c. 11,
§98.
1889, c. 225.
ticular understanding of the tendency of such virtues to pre-
serve and perfect a republican constitution, secure the blessings
of liberty, and to promote their future happiness; and the
tendency of the opposite vices, to slavery, degradation and ruin ;
all teachers in the public schools of the state shall devote not
less than ten minutes of each week of the school term, to teach-
ing to the children under their charge, the principles of kindness
to birds and animals. -
*SEC. 87. Whoever teaches a public school without first ob^
taming a certificate from the superintendent of schools of the
town, forfeits not exceeding the sum contracted for his daily
wages, for each day he so teaches, and is barred from receiving
pay therefor; and no certificate shall be valid for more than one
year, without the approval of the superintendent of schools
annually endorsed thereon.
School
holidays.
1901, c. 202.
1905, c. 48,
§ U.
1907, c. 48,
1909, c. 190,
1911, c. 23.
1913, c. 195.
— proviso
regarding
Arbor day.
— proviso
regarding
Lincoln day.
SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.
SEC. 88. The following days shall be observed as school
holidays, namely: Washington's birthday, February twenty-
two; Patriot's day, April nineteen; Memorial day, May thirty;
Independence day, July four; Labor day, first Monday in
September; Columbus day, October twelve; Christmas day,
December twenty-five; Thanksgiving and Arbor day, as ap-
pointed by the governor and council. Provided, however, that
Arbor day, shall not be recognized as a school holiday unless
observed by teacher and pupils for the purpose for which it is
designated by the governor and council. And provided, further,
that Lincoln day shall be observed by devoting some part of
the day to the study of the life and character of Abraham
Lincoln. All teachers of public schools in the state may close
their schools and draw pay the same as if their schools had been
in session on any of the following days: Patriot's day, April
nineteen; Memorial day, May thirty; Independence day, July
four; Labor day, first Monday in September: Christmas day,
* Non-effective after Sept. I, 1914, by provisions of An Act to provide
for the state certification of all teachers of public schools. Chapter =;8,
P. L., 1:913.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 35
December twenty-five; Thanksgiving day, as appointed by the
governor and council. When any one of the above named
holidays falls on a Sunday, the Monday following shall
be observed as a school holiday, with all the privileges
applying to any of the days above named. In addition
to the foregoing each of the days hereinafter named
— days to be
shall, upon vote of the superintending school committee of any Jote^su" e?n
town, be observed by teachers and pupils of the public schools ^Sj}1^.
of said town by an exercise appropriate thereto, such exercise mittee-
to be held during such paft of the school session as the teacher
of each school may designate. The exercises so held shall aim
to impress on the minds of the youth the important lessons of
character and good citizenship to be learned from the lives of
American leaders and heroes and from a contemplation of
their own duties and obligations to the community, state and
nation of which they constitute a part. In the absence of any
vote of the superintending school committee said days, herein-
after designated, shall be observed as legal school holidays with
the closing of schools. The days thus designated for school
observance upon vote of the superintending school committee
of any town shall be as follows : Washington's birthday, Feb-
ruary twenty-two; Columbus day, October twelve.
TEACHERS' ASSOCIATIONS.
SEC 89. Whenever not less than thirty of the teachers and
school officers of any county shall have formed an association andCs8!ooi
under rules of government approved by the state superintendent
of public schools, for the purpose of mutual improvement in the isss, c. 273,
§ !•
science and art of teaching, and of creating popular interest in, 1893, c. 283.
and diffusing a knowledge of the best method's of improving our— ^y how
public school system, by the holding of conventions at least once
every year under the supervision of the state superintendent, the
state shall defray the necessary expenses attending the holding hc^pSd!8'
of such convention for which purpose the sum of one thousand
dollars is hereby annually appropriated to be deducted and set
aside therefor by the treasurer of state from the annual school
fund of the state; provided, however, that no more than two— proviso.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE;.
Teachers
may suspend
schools dur-
ing conven-
tions.
1885, c. 273,
§2.
Certificates
showing
attendance
must be
presented.
Governor to
draw war-
rants to pay
1885, c. 273,
§3.
1909, c. 30.
such associations shall be formed in any county, and that the
expenses as aforesaid of no more than two conventions of any
such association in any year shall be defrayed by the state.
SEC. 90. Teachers of public schools may suspend their
schools for not more than two days in any year during the ses-
sions of such conventions within their counties and also for not
more than two days in any year during the sessions of any state
teachers' convention approved by the state superintendent of
public schools, unless otherwise directed in writing by the school
officers, and attend said conventions without forfeiture of pay
for the time of such attendance, provided they shall present to
the officers employing them, certificates signed by the secretaries
of such conventions and countersigned by the state superin-
tendent of public schools, showing such attendance.
SEC. 91. The governor and council may draw warrants on
the treasurer of state for the payment of bills for the expenses
provided for in section eighty-nine, when such bills shall have
been approved by the state superintendent of public schools,
provided, however, that no bills shall be so paid except those for
advertising such conventions, and for services and actual travel-
ing expenses of speakers and lecturers not residing in the coun-
ties in which such conventions are held.
Powers of
plantations
to maintain
schools.
R. 8., c. 11,
§99.
1889, c. 211.
School
moneys of
plantations,
how ex-
pended.
1885, c. 281.
SCHOOLS IN PLANTATIONS AND UNORGANIZED TOWNSHIPS.
SEC. 92. Plantations have the same powers and liabilities as
towns for electing superintending school committees, superin-
tendents of schools, treasurers and collectors, and for raising,
assessing and collecting school money, to be apportioned and
expended as in towns. The assessors of plantations may take
a census of the inhabitants thereof, at the expense of the planta-
tion, and when so taken, the money raised therein for schools
shall be upon the basis of such census and not upon the census
of the state.
SEC. 93. All moneys due plantations from the state treasury
for school purposes, shall be paid to the treasurers of such plan-
tations, under the same conditions as in case of towns, and the
same shall be expended by such plantations, under the same
restrictions and limitations as are required of towns.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 37
SEC. 94. Whenever in any unorganized township in the state ff
there shall be two or more children between the ages of five and
twenty-one years, the state superintendent of public schools shall $323 EJT
cause an enumeration of said children to be made, and returned §8f9' c<
to him, and shall provide for the schooling of said children,
either by establishing a school in the township, or by sending the
children to schools in adjoining towns or plantations, or both,
as shall by him be deemed expedient. In case any of said chil-
dren are, by the state superintendent, sent to schools in adjoin-*
ing towns or plantations, said children so sent shall have the
same rights in such school as children resident in said town or
plantation. Provided, however, that in case the interest on the how paid. '
1903, c. 128,
reserve fund in any unorganized township together with the § i-
1909, c. 87f
amount arising from the per capita tax called for in this section, § 1.
is not sufficient to provide schooling for the children of said
township for at least twenty-six weeks in a year the remainder
of the expense shall be paid from the fund appropriated by sec-
tion ninety-seven. Provided, further, that no money shall be
expended under this section for the benefit of any township
until the inhabitants of said township shall have been assessed
by the duly appointed agent therefor the sum of forty cents for
each of said inhabitants resident therein on the first day of
April, and said agent shall have made return of such assessment
to the state superintendent of schools.*
SEC. 95. The state superintendent of public schools shall HOW cost of
schooling
certify to the governor and council the number and residences shall be paid.
1899, c. 89,
of the children enumerated and schooled, as provided in the § 2.
preceding section, together with the cost of schooling said chil- § l-
dren, and the governor and council shall direct the treasurer of
state to pay the state superintendent of public schools so much
of the interest on the reserved land fund of the township in
which said children reside as, added to the amount received
from the inhabitants of the township from the per capita tax,
shall pay the expense of said school. The state superintendent
of public schools shall pay to the treasurer of any town or plan-
tation in which he may school any of said children, such amount
* See also Chapter 62, P. L. 1909, An Act to extend the privileges of
secondary instruction to youths resident in Unorganized Townships.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Agents, ap-
pointment
and duties of.
1899, c. 89,
§3.
1901, c. 206,
§2.
1911, c. 24.
— authority
of agents.
1903, c. 128,
§2.
iy com-
pel attend-
ance.
1909, c. 87,
§2.
— school
books, how
supplied.
Appropria-
tion.
1903, c. 128,
§3.
1905, c. 45.
1909, c. 87,
§3.
1911, c. 29.
1913, c. 162.
for each scholar as shall be his proportional part of the cost of
the school to which he is sent.
SEC. 96. The state superintendent of public schools may
appoint agents for the several townships in which schools shall
be established under section ninety-four, who shall, under the
direction of the state superintendent, enumerate the pupils,
assess and collect the per capita tax, employ the teacher and
attend to all necessary details in connection with said schools;
for which purpose the state superintendent is hereby authorized
to expend annually from the appropriation for the support of
schools in unorganized townships a sum not exceeding two
thousand two hundred dollars. Said agents in the collection of
the per capita tax aforesaid, shall have the same powers and
may use the same methods as collectors of taxes in towns are
authorized to exercise and use for the collecting of personal and
poll taxes committed to them; said agents may act as truant
officers in their several townships, and may in their discretion
compel the regular daily attendance at school of every child in
their townships between the seventh and seventeenth anniver-
saries of his birth by arresting and taking to school any child
when absent therefrom, and any parent or guardian of any such
child or children, wilfully refusing to allow said children under
his control to attend school, or opposing said agent in arresting
and taking said children to school, may be prosecuted by said
agent in the name of the state before the nearest trial justice,
and if found guilty shall forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty
dollars for the use of the schools in the township wherein said
children are resident, or shall be imprisoned for not exceeding
thirty days. The state superintendent may supply school books
for the schools established under said sections under such con-
ditions as to the purchase and care thereof as he may deem
proper.
SEC. 97. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
the three preceding sections, there is hereby appropriated the
sum of twenty-three thousand dollars annually, which sum shall
be deducted and set aside therefor by the treasurer of state from
the annual school funds of the state.
SCHOOI, LAWS OF MAINE. 39
*STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
SEC. 98. The governor with the advice and consent of t
council shall appoint a state superintendent of public schools, ^f
who shall continue in office three years, or during the pleasure |897%. 237.
of the executive ; vacancies shall be filled by a new appointment
for a like term.
SEC. 99. An office shall be provided for him at the seat of office at:the
government, where he shall preserve all school reports of this R-JU c. n,
state and of other states which he may receive, the returns from
the various towns, and institutions of learning and such books,
apparatus, maps, charts, works on education, plans for school
buildings, models, and other articles of interest to school officers
and teachers as may be procured without expense to the state.
SEC. 100. In addition to the duties elsewhere specifically Duties.
±v. D.| C. 11,
imposed on him his duties are as follows :
I. To exercise a general supervision of all the public schools J^ISf0186
and to advise and direct the town committees and superin- 0verIthe1°n
tendents in the discharge of their duties, by circular letters andsc
personal conference, devoting all his time to the duties of his
office.
II. To obtain information as to the school systems of other Obtain in*
' formation
states and countries, and the condition and progress of public JJJgJJj}"18
school education throughout the world; to disseminate this in-systems-
formation, with such practical hints upon the conduct of schools,
improved systems of instruction, and the true theory of educa- Resolves,
tion as observation and investigation convince him to be im- 1901!
portant, by public addresses, circulars and articles prepared for
the press, and by outlines, suggestions and directions concerning
the management, discipline and methods employed in teaching,
prepared for and distributed among the teachers of the schools
and school officers of the state; and to do all in his power to
awaken and sustain an interest in education among the people,
and to stimulate teachers to well-directed efforts in their work.
III. To take such measures as he deems necessary to secure state edu- •?
cational con-
the holding of a state educational convention once each year, ventions-
* See also Chapter 171, P. L. 1907, as amended, An Act relating to the
State Superintendent of Public Schools.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Summer
training
schools.
Resolves of
1895, 1897,
1899, 1901.
Publish
abstract of
proceedings.
Issue copies
of school
laws and
circulars of
information.
1889, c.'307.
Prescribe
studies to be
taught.
Furnish rec-
ord books
to school
officers.
1897, c. 273.
Assume
control of
schools
maintained
by gifts so
conditioned.
1901, c. 135.
with a view of bringing together the. teachers, school commit-
tees, school superintendents, and friends of education, for con-
sultation with reference to the interest of public schools and the
most approved method of instruction.
*IV. To encourage the formation of county teachers' asso-
ciations, approve rules of government therefor, and to supervise
the conduct oi conventions held by such associations. He shall
also conduct summer training schools for teachers, whenever
provision is made by the legislature for holding such schools.
V. To prepare and cause to be printed and distributed such
portions of the proceedings of state institutes or teachers' con-
ventions as he deems important in the furtherance of education.
VI. Biennially, as soon as practicable after the adjournment
of the legislature, to compile and distribute, in pamphlet form,
to the municipal and school officers of the several towns, three
thousand copies of the amended school laws of the state ; and to
prepare and issue thus biennially, such circulars of information
and advice to school officers, relating to new school enactments,
as he shall deem necessary for the intelligent and effectual
enforcement of such enactments.
VII. To prescribe the studies to be taught in the common
schools, reserving to town committees the right to prescribe
additional studies.
VIII. To furnish to the school officers of each town, proper
blank books in which shall be kept complete and itemized rec-
ords of all matters relating to moneys appropriated, received
and expended for schools, which said books shall remain the
property of the state.
IX. To assume the control and management of all free pub-
lic schools established and maintained by gifts or bequests, when
said gifts or bequests are conditioned upon said state superin-
tendent assuming such control and management; and he shall
carry out the provisions upon which such gifts or bequests are
conditioned, when said conditions are approved by the governor
and council.
See Chapter 188, Res. 1901.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 41
X. To perform all duties imposed upon him by any charter Perform
duties im-
or charters granted by the legislature to educational institutions p^ed^y
in the state. *901' ™'272-
XI. Annually, to report to the governor and council the
result of his inquiries and investigations, and the facts obtained
from the school returns, with such suggestions and recom-
mendations as in his judgment will best promote the improve-
ment of public schools.
SEC. 101. The state superintendent shall prepare and feu>
nish to the town officers such blanks as he deems proper to J?wnf return-
secure the fiscal returns required in section twenty-eight. HeRgss*meii,
shall return to the treasurer of state on the first day of July
annually, a list of such towns as have made such fiscal returns ;
and no school moneys shall be paid by the treasurer of state to
any town, so long as it neglects to make such returns.
SEC. 1 02. He shall prepare and print blank forms for all Blanks for
annual school
other returns required by law, or deemed by him necessary, retuma.
and shall, on the first day of each March, forward to the super- § ios.
1913t c. 99.
intendents of schools of the several towns, blanks for the an-
nual school return as provided by section thirty-seven, and shall,
on the first day of each May, forward to said superintendents
blanks for the returns required by section thirty-eight.
SEC. 103. He shall, on the first day of each June, notify Notify de-
the school committee of any town whose returns were not re- committees;
ceived at his office in May, and shall, annually, ascertain on treasurer of
state number
the first day of July the number of children between five and °[is1^°°1
twenty-one years of age, in the towns from which returns are^g- c- 11-
received, and furnish a list thereof to the treasurer of state.
(Sections 104, 105, 106, 107 and 108 are repealed by the pro-
visions of Chapter- 58, P. L. 1913, An Act to provide for the
state certification of all teachers of public schools.)
NORMAL SCHOOLS AND MADAWASKA TRAINING SCHOOL.
SEC. 109. The northern normal school at Farmington, the
eastern normal school at Castine, the western normal school
Gorham, the Washington state normal school at Machias, and^cated.
the Aroostook county normal school at Presque Isle, shall be yj?'c 211
conducted for the purposes and upon the principles herein set 1913> c- 108-
forth.
SCHOOL LAWS Otf MAINE.
Their
objects.
Course of
study.
Art of
school man-
agement.
Christianity
and morality
to be taught
without sec-
tarianism.
Principals
of normal
schools or
normal de-
partments
to forward
statistics
of students
therein to
state super-
intendent.
Course of
study.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 108
1895, c.75.
Diplomas to
be issued.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 109.
Applicants
for admis-
sion, quali-
fications of.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 110.
1909, c. 27.
I. They shall be thoroughly devoted, to the training of teach-
ers for their professional labors.
II. The course of study shall include the common English
branches in thorough reviews, and such of the higher branches
as are especially adapted to prepare teachers to conduct the
mental, moral and physical education of their pupils.
III. The art of school management, including the best meth-
ods of government and instruction, shall have a prominent place
in the daily exercises of said schools.
IV. Said schools, while teaching the fundamental truths of
Christianity, and the great principles of morality, recognized by
law, shall be free from all denominational teachings, and open
to persons of different religious connections on terms of
equality.
V. The principals of the normal schools and of all other
schools in which normal departments are supported, wholly or
in part, by the state, shall keep a register containing the names
of all students entering such schools or departments, the date of
entering and leaving, their ages, number of days' attendance,
the length of the term, a list of text-books used, and all other
information required in the blanks furnished by the state super-
intendent. Such register and blanks shall be returned to said
superintendent by the first day of each December, and the in-
formation so furnished shall appear in his annual report, for the
use of the legislature.
SEC. no. The course of study shall occupy two years with
suitable vacations; and with the terms of admission shall be
arranged by said superintendent, subject to the approval of the
governor and council. The trustees may arrange for a course
of study, occupying three or four years, for such students as
elect to pursue the same.
SEC. in. Any student who completes the course of study
prescribed, and otherwise complies with the regulations of the
school, shall receive a diploma certifying the same.
SEC. 112. Applicants for admission shall be sixteen years of
age if females, and seventeen if males, and shall signify their
intention to become teachers and come under obligation to teach
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE 43
in this state for at least one year, and if they receive a diploma,
two years after they have graduated; on these conditions they
shall be received without charge for tuition.
SEC. 113. Said schools on and after July fifteen, nineteen no^r c
hundred thirteen, shall be under the direction of a board of pointment,
five trustees, four of whom shall be appointed by the governor R^s., c. 11,
with the advice and consent of the council, for terms of one, J^jjs, c. 11^
two, three and four years respectively, and the trustees thereaf- 1913> c- 109t
ter appointed shall hold office for four years and not more
than two of the four appointive members shall be of the same
political party. The state superintendent of public schools is,
by virtue of his office, a member of the said board of normal
school trustees. Said board shall have charge of the general
interests of said schools ; shall see that the affairs thereof are
conducted as required by law and by such by-laws as the board
adopt; employ teachers and lecturers for the same; and, annu — annual
financial
ally, on the first dav of December lay before the governor statement to
governor
and council, for the information of the legislature, a financial and council,
statement, furnishing an accurate detailed account of the re-
ceipts and expenditures for the school year preceding.
SEC. 114. The trustees of state normal schools shall main- Madawaska
tain for not less than eight months annually, the Madawaska scho^Lg
1887 c 82
Training School, at Fort Kent, for the purpose of training
persons to teach in the common schools of Madawaska territory,
so called, which school shall be under their control and direc-
tion, in the same manner and to the same extent as the other
state normal schools.
SEC. 115. For the support of the five normal schools and
the Madawaska Training School, the sum of eighty-five thous-
and dollars is appropriated for the year nineteen hundred and Rs,^'. 11,
thirteen and the sum of eighty-five thousand dollars is annually i897,'c. 308.
1903, c. 219.
appropriated thereafter to be expended under the direction of iQ09, c. 106.
1911, c. 186.
said trustees, which sum the treasurer of state shall deduct for 1913- c- 45-
said purpose from any school money raised for the support of
common schools. The governor and council may from time to
time, as they think proper, draw warrants therefor on said
treasurer in favor of said trustees.
44
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Blind chil-
dren may
be educated
at Perkins
Institute.
1899, c. 2.
— proviso.
1913, c. 46.
— expenses
shall be
paid by
state.
— proviso.
INSTRUCTION FOR THE -BLIND.
SEC. 116. Upon the request of the parents or guardians, the
governor may, with the approval of the council, send such blind
children as he may deem fit subjects for education, for a term
not exceeding ten years, and thereafter in the discretion of the
governor and council, in the case of any pupil, to the Perkins
Institute for the blind at South Boston, Massachusetts, pro-
vided, however, that when the authorities in charge of said
Perkins Institute for the Blind shall refuse for any reason, to
admit such blind children to said institute then the governor
may, with the approval of the council, send such children so
refused to any institution for the blind wherever located. In
the exercise of the discretionary power conferred by this sec-
tion, no distinction shall be made on account of the wealth or
poverty of the parents or guardians of such children. No such
pupils shall be withdrawn from such institution except with
the consent of the proper authorities thereof or of the governor;
and the sums necessary for the support and instruction of such
pupils in such institution, including all traveling expenses of
such pupils attending such institution shall be paid by the state ;
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be held
to prevent the voluntary payment of the whole or any part of
such sums by the parents or guardians of such pupils.
Forfeiture,
how recov-
ered and ap-
gropriated.
. S., c. 11,
§ 113.
— neglect to
expend
money.
Penalty for
disturbing
schools.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 114.
PENAL PROVISIONS AFFECTING SCHOOLS.
SEC. 117. Forfeitures under this chapter, not otherwise pro-
vided for, may be recovered by indictment, and shall be paid
into the treasury of the town where they occurred, for the sup-
port of schools, therein, in addition to the amount required by
law to be raised; but costs of prosecution shall be paid into the
county treasury ; any town neglecting for one year, so to expend
such money, forfeits an equal sum to any person suing therefor
in an action of debt.
SEC. 118. Whoever, whether a scholar or not, enters any
schoolhouse or other place of instruction, during or out O'f
school hours, while the teacher or any pupil is present, and wil-
fully interrupts or disturbs the teacher or pupils by loud speak-
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 45
ing, rude or indecent behavior, signs or gestures, or wilfully
interrupts a school by prowling about the building, making
noises, throwing missiles at the schoolhouse, or in any way dis-
turbing the school, forfeits not less than two, or more than
twenty dollars, to be recovered as aforesaid, or on complaint.
SEC. 119. If a minor injures or aids in injuring any school- gSSn^
house, outbuilding, utensils or appurtenances belonging thereto ; Rabge; c. llt
defaces the walls, benches, seats or other parts of said buildings §
by marks, cuts or otherwise, or injures or destroys any school
property belonging to a town, such town by a truant officer
thereof, may recover of his parent or guardian, in an action of ^^J»
debt, double the damage occasioned thereby.
SEC. 120. Whoever defaces the walls, benches, seats, black- Penalty for
boards or other parts of any schoolhouse or outbuildings be- school
houses.
longing thereto, by obscene pictures, language, marks or de- R.^, c. n,
scriptions, shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars, on complaint
made within one year.
SEC. 121. If an innholder, confectioner, or keeper of a shop, innhoidera,
boarding house, or liyery stable, gives credit for food, drink or keepers
and others,
horse or carriage hire, to any pupil of a college or literary 1°***-
tution in violation of its rules he forfeits a sum equal to the
amount so credited, whether it has been paid or not, to be recov* § 125-
ered in an action of debt by the treasurer of such institution;
half to its use, and half to the town where it is located; and no
person shall be licensed by the municipal officers for any of said
employments, if it appears that within the preceding year he
had given credit contrary to the provisions hereof.
STATE SCHOOL FUNDS.
SEC. 122. The treasurer of state shall keep a separate Permanent
account of all moneys received from sales of lands appropriated R^0,1^!!,'
for the support of schools or from notes taken therefor, and of 1903%. 228.
any other moneys appropriated for the same purpose ; and such
sum shall constitute a permanent school fund, which may be
put at interest as the legislature directs. A sum equal to six per
cent of the amount of such fund, and one-half the sum received
by the state from the tax on the franchises of savings banks,
46
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Treasurer to
apportion
school funds.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 118.
See § § 13, 37.
— basis
when returns
are not
received.
— school
funds not
to be paid
until re-
turns are
made.
Mill tax.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 119.
1907, c. Ill,
§2.
How as-
sessed and
collected.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 120.
How dis-
tributed.
R. S., c. 11,
§ 121.
and one-half the sum assessed upon the deposits of trust and
banking companies, shall be annually appropriated to the sup-
port of common schools, and distributed among the several
towns according to the number of children therein between five
and twenty-one years of age.
SEC. 123. The treasurer shall, immediately after the first
day of July, apportion to the towns all the state school funds
for the year, according to the list of children furnished by the
state superintendent of public schools, as provided in section one
hundred and three. The number of scholars belonging to a
town from which either the school committee or the municipal
authorities have failed to make the returns required by law,
shall be reckoned by taking the number used as the basis of the
last apportionment, and deducting all scholars set off to other
towns, or incorporated into a new town within a year, and one-
tenth of the remainder, and the residue shall be the basis of the
new apportionment. Immediately after making the apportion-
ment, the treasurer shall notify each town of its proportion,
which shall not be paid to any town until its returns, both com-
mon school and fiscal, are made to the state superintendent of
public schools, nor so long as any state tax assessed upon such
town remains unpaid.
*$EC. 124. A tax of one and one-half mills on a dollar shall
annually be assessed upon all the property in the state according
to the valuation thereof, and shall be known as the mill tax for
the support of common schools.
SEC. 125. This tax shall be assessed and collected in the
same manner as other state taxes, and be paid into the state
treasury and designated as the school mill fund.
tSEC. 126. This fund shall be distributed by the treasurer of
state on the first day of January, annually, to the several cities,
towns and plantations according to the number of scholars
therein, as the same shall appear from the official return made
to the state superintendent of public schools for the preceding
year.
* See also Chapter 177, P. L. 1909, An Act relating to the Common
School Fund and the means of providing for and distributing the same.
t See also Chapter 198, P. L. 1909, An Act for the equalization of
school privileges.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 47
SEC. 127. All of the school mill fund not distributed or
expended during the financial year, shall at its close be added
to the permanent school fund. § 122.°' llf
FUNDS FROM SALE OF TIMBER LANDS TO BE
APPLIED TO SUPPORT OF SCHOOLS.
(Chap. 7, Sec. 65, R. S. 1903.)
The money arising from the sale of timber and grass,
from trespasses on reserved lands, paid into the treasury of t
county in which the township is situated, or into the state treas-
ury, constitutes funds for school purposes, of which the income
only shall be expended and applied as is by law provided.
INSTRUCTION IN FORESTRY IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
(Chap. 7, Sec. 65, R. S. 1903.)
The forest commissioner shall take such measures as the Elementary
instruction
state superintendent of public schools and the president of the £
University of Maine may approve, for awakening an interest in \ ggi?^.' 100,
behalf of forestry in the public schools, academies and colleges § 15'
of the state and of imparting some degree of elementary instruc-
tion upon this subject therein.
MAINE SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF.
(Chapter 446, Private and Special Laws, 1897.)
SEC. i. The Maine School for the Deaf is hereby estab-
lished— to be devoted to the education and instruction of
and dumb children.
48
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE:.
Location.
Trustees,
appointment
and tenure.
Duties of
trustees.
— course of
study.
Admission
and support
of pupils.
Children
from other
states may
be admitted.
SEC. 2. Said school shall be located at Portland, in the
county of Cumberland, and the governor and council are hereby
authorized, on behalf of the state, to accept a conveyance from
the city of Portland of the school lot, building and fixtures now
used as a school for the deaf in said Portland, upon the condi-
tion that the state shall hereafter assume the entire charge,
responsibility and expense of maintaining said school.
SEC. 3. The government of said school is hereby vested in a
board of five trustees, to be appointed by the governor with the
advice and consent of the council, to hold office for a term of
five years, except, however, that the trustees first appointed
shall hold office, one for one year, one for two years, one for
three years, one for four years, and one for five years.
SEC. 4. The trustees shall have charge of the general inter-
ests of the school and see that its affairs are conducted in
accordance with law and such by-laws as they may adopt; they
may adopt by-laws which shall be valid when sanctioned by the
governor and council; they may employ a principal and such
teachers and other employees as they may deem advisable and
fix the compensation of the same, subject to the approval of the
governor and council; they may from time to time prescribe
the system of education and course of study to be pursued in
the school and shall be allowed for their services their actual
expenses and two dollars a day when actually employed.
SEC. 5. With the consent of its parent or guardian, the
trustees may admit to said school, for a term not exceeding
twelve years, any deaf or dumb child residing in this state and
not less than five years of age, who shall not be withdrawn or
discharged from said school, except with the consent of the
trustees or the governor and council, and the sums necessary for
the support and instruction of such children while attending said
school, shall be paid by the state.
SEC. 6. Deaf and dumb children residing in other states
may, at the discretion of the trustees, be admitted to said school
upon the payment by their parents or guardian of a reasonable
compensation to be fixed by the trustees.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 49
SUMMER TRAINING SCHOOLS AND THE DISTRI-
BUTION OF EDUCATIONAL DOCUMENTS.
(Chap. 1 88, Resolves 1901.)
Resolved, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars summer
be appropriated annually, from the state school fund, to defray soo in
the expenses of holding at least four summer training schools
for teachers and for the purpose of preparing and distributing
among the teachers of the schools and school officers of this
state, outlines, suggestions and directions concerning the man-
agement, discipline and methods employed in teaching, for the
purpose of promoting improved systems of instruction; said
schools to be conducted by and said documents to be prepared
and distributed under the direction of the state superintendent
of public schools. The governor and council are hereby author-
ized to draw their warrant from time to time for the expendi-
ture of said sum, upon the presentation of bills properly
avouched by said superintendent.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE CARE AND
EDUCATION OF THE FEEBLE MINDED.
(Chap. 44, P. L. 1907, as amended by Chap. 167, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. The state shall establish and maintain a school forscn0oifor
the care and education of the idiotic and feeble minded six SI0- and
years of age and upward, which shall be known as the Maine SS&to
School for Feeble Minded. All such feeble minded persons sup-
ported by towns in the state, who, in the judgment of the
municipal officers of towns or state board of charities are capa-
ble of being benefited by school instruction, shall be committed
to this institution.
SEC. 2. The governor shall, with the advice of the council Appointment
appoint five persons, all of whom shall be inhabitants of this rustees'
state and one of that number shall be a female, to be trustees of
such school.
The trustees shall be appointed as follows: The first three Tenure
to serve for two years, the other two for four years, and there-
after said trustees shall be appointed to serve for four years.
4
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Management
of school.
Destitute
subjects may
be admitted
as state
charges.
— subjects
from other
states may
be received.
Governor,
ex-officio
trustee.
Judge of
probate may
commit to
school.
1909, c. 167.
The said trustees shall have the general management and
supervision of said school and one or more of said trustees shall
visit said school as often as once each month, and said board of
trustees shall annually on or before the first day of October of
each year furnish a report to the governor and council contain-
ing a history of the school for the year and a complete state-
ment of all accounts, with all the funds, general and special,
appropriated or belonging to said school with a detailed state-
ment of disbursements.
SEC. 3. All indigent and destitute persons in this state, who
are proper subjects for said school, and have no parents, kins-
men or guardian able to provide for them, may be admitted as
state charges and all other persons in this state, who are proper
subjects for said school when parents, kinsmen or guardian
bound by the law to support such persons are able to pay, shall
pay such sum for care, education and maintenance of such per-
sons as the trustees shall determine, and such persons from
other states having no such institution and similar schools may
be received into such school when there is room for them with-
out excluding state charges, at a cost to each person or those
who are legally responsible for their maintenance at a cost of
not less than three dollars and twenty-five cents per week.
SEC. 4. The governor shall be, ex-officio, a member of the
board of trustees of said school and shall annually visit said
school.
SEC. 5. Whenever it is made to appear, upon application to
the judge of probate for any county and after due notice and
a proper hearing, that any person resident in said county or
any inmate of the Maine Industrial School for girls, the State
School for boys, the Bath Military and Naval Orphan Asylum
or any person supported by any town, is a fit subject for the
Maine School for Feeble Minded, such judge may commit such
person to said school by an order of commitment directed to
the trustees of said school for feeble minded accompanied by
a certificate of two physicians who are graduates of some
legally organized medical college and have practiced three years
in this state, that such a person is a proper subject for said
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institution. Whenever, upon such application, there is occa — compen-
sion for the judge of probate to attend a hearing on days Judge of
probate for
other than days fixed as the regular day for holding the probate services,
court, said judge of probate shall be allowed five dollars per day
for his services and expenses, which shall be paid by the county
treasurer upon the certificate of the county commissioners.
SEC. 6. Any order of committal under this act shall be sub- Order of
committal
ject to appeal in the same manner by the same persons and to subject to
the same exent that decrees of the judge of probate appointing
guardians over persons alleged to be insane or incompetent or
spendthrift, and no committal under this act shall bar habeas
corpus proceedings, but the court upon habeas corpus proceed-
ings may confirm the order of commitment whenever justice
requires. Any inmate of the Maine School for the Feeble —discharge
oi iinnat6.
Minded may be discharged by any three of the trustees or by
a justice of the supreme or superior court of the state whenever
a further detention in such school in their opinion is unneces-
sary, but any person so discharged who was under sentence of
imprisonment at the time of his commitment, the period of
which shall not have expired, shall be committed or remanded
to prison for such unexpired time.
SEC. 7. Feeble minded persons shall be admitted to the insti- Order of
tution in the following order: First, feeble minded persons;
who are now in public institutions supported entirely at public
expense; second, feeble minded persons in public institutions
not supported as aforesaid; third, feeble minded persons who
are not in any institution of the state, who have no parents,
kinsmen or guardian able to provide for them, or who are com-
mitted by a judge of probate; fourth, those residing within the
state whose parents, kinsmen or guardian bound by law to sup-
port such persons are able to pay; fifth, persons of other states
whose parents, kinsmen or guardian are willing to pay.
SEC. 8. The governor and council shall select and purchase Governor
a suitable site for said school and home and the board of trus- shaiiTeiect1
tees, as soon as appointed and organized, shall proceed as soon chase suit-
as practicable to erect thereon and properly furnish and equip
suitable buildings and structures to accomplish the objects set
forth in this act.
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Trustees
to make
rules and
regulations.
Governor
shall draw
warrant.
— accounts
of trustees
shall be
audited.
Appropria-
tion.
Compensa-
tion of
trustees.
heating
plants to be
in charge
of qualified
person.
Examined by
municipal
officers.
SEC. 9. Said trustees shall have power to make all necessary
rules and regulations as to admission to said institution and for
the government and control of said institution and its inmates,
and to do everything necessary to properly care for and educate
the feeble minded of the state.
For all bills contracted by the governor and council as afore-
said in purchasing a site the governor shall draw his warrant
tipon any money in the treasury to pay the same not otherwise
appropriated, and all bills contracted by the trustees in erecting,
repairing and equipping suitable buildings and operating the
institution shall each year be audited by the governor and coun-
cil, and the governor shall draw his warrant upon any money
m the treasury to pay the same not otherwise appropriated.
SEC. 10. A sum of money not exceeding sixty thousand dol-
lars shall be appropriated under this act to be used and ex-
pended for the purposes therein named within the next two
years.
SEC. ii. The trustees shall receive five dollars per day
when employed and actual expenses.
SEC. 12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this
act, are hereby repealed.
AN ACT REQUIRING STEAM PLANTS IN SCHOOL
BUILDINGS, CHURCHES, AND OTHER PUBLIC
BUILDINGS, TO BE IN CHARGE OF COMPETENT
PERSONS.
(Chap. 82, P. L. 1907.)
SEC. i. Whenever any school building, church, or other pub-
lic building is heated by a steam plant, located in, under or near
such building, such steam plant shall be in charge of a person
qualified as provided by this act.
SEC. 2. The municipal officers of any town or city in which
any of the buildings enumerated in the preceding section, heated
by steam, are located, shall require the person or persons con-
templating taking charge of the steam plant for such purpose,
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 53
to be first examined by them, and they shall require him to pro-
duce before them proof of his competency to have charge of
such steam plants; and unless the person so applying has been
licensed as an engineer, or has had previous experience as a
machinist, or as an engineer of a steam plant, he shall be
required to satisfy said municipal officers that he possesses the
requisite qualifications and experience to assume charge of the
particular plant which he desires permission to operate; and if
said municipal officers, after such examination, are satisfied
— officers
that the applicant possesses the requisite qualifications for such shaiHssue
work, and is of temperate habits, they, or the majority thereof,
shall issue under their hands a certificate in the following form:
STATE OF MAINE.
'City (or) Town of .................. :
Form of
This is to certify that ........... having made application certificate.
to the municipal officers of the city (or) town of ............ ,
for permission to take charge of, and operate a steam plant
located in said city (or) town, (here describe the nature of
the steam plant of which the applicant is authorized to have
charge, and its location) ; and having produced evidence of his
competency to act in said capacity, we have issued to him this
certificate as provided by chapter ......... of the public laws,
approved on the ....... day of March, nineteen hundred and
seven.5
Said certificate when issued shall be filed in the office of the Certificafo*
shall be filed.
city or town clerk, and such clerk shall issue and deliver to
said applicant a duly attested copy of such certificate, and the
copy so issued shall be posted by the holder thereof, in a con-
spicuous place in or near the room in which the boiler to be
operated is located.
SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for the municipal officers of Unlawful
. . . . .
any city or town to issue the certificate provided for by this act certificate
/ J •'to applicant
without receiving proof that the person to whom such CCTtifi-
cate is issued has had experience in such work, and is in allcatlon-
respects qualified to discharge the duties referred to in the cer-
tificate granted, and is also of temperate habits.
54
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Duty of
municipal
officers when
notice is
received of
in competency.
Penalty for
violation of
this act.
When this
act shall
take effect.
SEC. 4. Whenever the municipal officers of any town or
city receive notice in writing, signed by ten or more of the
residents thereof, stating that the person in charge of a steam
plant located in, under, or near, any school building, church, or
other public building situated in said city or town, and furnish-
ing or supplying heat for such building, is incompetent for the
discharge of such duties, or by reason of negligence, intemper-
ance, or any other cause, ought not longer to remain in charge
of such steam plant, it shall be the duty of said municipal offi-
cers to immediately suspend temporarily the authority of such
person to act in said capacity; and until the investigation herein
provided, can be made, shall cause a person qualified as pro-
vided by this act to be placed in charge of said steam plant;
and said municipal officers shall as soon thereafter as practi-
cable, cause an investigation to such complaint to be made, and
shall thereupon inquire into the habits and qualifications of the
person so complained of, and if such person is, for any reason,
found to be incompetent or unsuitable to longer remain in
charge of said steam plant, said municipal officers shall imme-
diately cause the certificate granted under the provisions of this
act, to be revoked, and notice of such revocation shall be filed
with the clerk of such city or town, and thereupon said munici-
pal officers shall, if such plant is under their control, place a
person qualified as herein provided, in charge thereof; and if
such steam plant is not in charge of such municipal officers,
they shall give the person or corporation having the control of
such steam plant, notice of their findings, and if such person or
corporation having control of such steam plant, shall, after the
receipt of such findings, neglect or refuse to cause said steam
plant to be placed in charge of some person qualified under the
provisions of this act, such person or corporation shall be sub-
ject to the penalties herein provided.
SEC. 5. Every person violating any of the provisions of this
act shall be subject to indictment, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or im-
prisonment for a term not exceeding ninety days, or both, as
the court in which such conviction is obtained, shall determine.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect the first day of September
in the year nineteen hundred seven.
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AN ACT TO ENCOURAGE THE COMPILING AND
TEACHING OF LOCAL HISTORY AND LOCAL
GEOGRAPHY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
(Chap. 88, P. L. 1907, as amended by Chap. 138, P. L. 1909,
and Chap. 159, P. L. 1911.)
SEC. i. The governor, with the advice and consent of the Governor
council, shall appoint a state historian, who shall be a member point state
historian.
of the Maine Historical Society and whose duty it shall be to
compile historical data of the state of Maine and encourage the
teaching of the same in the public schools. It shall also be his— duties
duty to encourage the compiling and publishng of town his-
tories, combined with local geography. It shall further be his
duty to examine, and when he decides that the material is suit-
able, approve histories of towns compiled as provided in section
two of this act.
SEC. 2. Whenever any town shall present to the state his- May appn)Te
torian material which he considers suitable for publication asgyjJJ1
a history of the town presenting the same, then he may approve
of the publication of a history with the local geography which
will be suitable for the use in the grammar and high school
grades of the public schools.
SEC. 3. Whenever material for a town history with local Towns pub-
geography has been approved by the state historian, and the
same has been published by the town, and provision has been stat
made for its regular use in the public schools of said town ; then
the state treasurer shall pay the town so publishing a sum not
exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars, provided that the state
shall not pay to any town, to exceed one-half the amount paid
by said town for printing and binding said histories.
SEC. 4. The superintending' school committee, and the super- Board to
compile
intendent of schools, shall elect some citizen of the town to history,
serve with them; and these persons shall constitute a board to
compile a history and the local geography of the town in which
they reside. Two or more towns may unite in compiling and— towns
publishing a history and the local geography of the towns form-
ing the union. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of
SCHOOIy LAWS OF MAINE.
— history to
be placed in
state library.
Expenses of
historian.
Publication
of historical
data.
1909, c. 138.
— availa-
bility.
1911, c. 159.
Historical
sites.
1909, c. 138.
schools to forward two copies of said history to the Maine state
library and notify the superintendent of public schools of the
title of said history.
SEC. 5. All the actual cash expenses of the said state his-
torian incurred while in the discharge of his official duties shall
be paid on the approval and order of the governor and council,
and shall not exceed five hundred dollars per annum.
SEC. 6. The state historian is authorized to expend, under
the direction of the governor and council, any portion of the
amount appropriated by this act, in the publication of historical
matter and data relating to the history of Maine, or in making
available by card catalog and otherwise historical materials in
the possession of the state.
SEC. 7. The marking of historical sites, as authorized by the
legislature, shall be under the direction of the state historian.
Salary of
state super-
intendent of
schools.
1913, c. 12.
— shall em-
ploy clerk
who may
serve as
deputy.
1909, c. 125.
— duties.
Inconsistent
acts repealed.
AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE SUPERIN-
TENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
(Chapter 171, P. L. 1907, as amended by Chapter 125, P. L.
1909, and Chapter 12, P. L. 1913.)
SEC. i. The salary of the state superintendent of schools is
hereby established at four thousand dollars per annum. He
shall receive in addition his actual cash expenses incurred in
the performance of his official duties which sum shall be paid
out of the specific appropriation for that purpose. He shall
employ a clerk, who may serve as his deputy, at a salary not
to exceed fifteen hundred dollars annually, with necessary ex-
penses when on official business within the state, and such other
clerical assistance as the governor and council may deem neces-
sary. He shall perform his official duties at the office pro-
vided for him at the seat of government and not elsewhere, not
meaning however, to prohibit him from making such necessary
journeys and performing such duties as are necessary or inci-
dental to the immediate object of such journey.
SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act
are hereby repealed.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 57
AN ACT TO PROVIDE SCHOOLS WITH FLAGS.
(Chap. 182, P. L. 1907.)
It shall be the duty of superintendents of schools to report tofu^?^dbe
the municipal officers of cities, towns and plantations all schools schoola-
within their jurisdiction without flags, and it shall be the duty
of said municipal officers to furnish flags to all such schools, to
be paid for by said municipalities. These flags are to be used
in all schools for the education of the youth of our state, to
teach them the cost, the object and principles of our govern-
ment, the great sacrifices of our forefathers, the important part
taken by the Union army in eighteen hundred sixty-one to
eighteen hundred sixty-five, and to teach them to love, honor
and respect the flag of our country that cost so much and is so
dear to every true American citizen.
SECTION ONE OF AN ACT DESIGNATING THE
OFFICIAL FLAG OF THE STATE OF MAINE AND
DESCRIBING THE SAME.
(Chapter 19, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. The flag to be known as the official flag of the state state flag,
of Maine shall be of blue, same color as the blue field in theof?cnptK
flag of the United States, and of the following dimensions and
designs: to wit, the length, or height, of the staff, to be nine
feet, including brass spear-head and ferule ; the fly of said flag
to be five feet six inches, and to be four feet four inches on
the staff; in the center of the flag there shall be embroidered in
silk the same on both sides of the flag the coat of arms of the
state of Maine, in proportionate size; the edges to be trimmed1
with knotted fringe of yellow silk, two and one-half inches
wide, a cord, with tassels, to be attached to the staff at the spear-
head, to be eight feet six inches long and composed of white
and blue silk strands.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE:.
Pupils may
be excluded
from school
until
cleansed,
cured and
disinfected.
Duty of
parents.
— penalty.
Youths in
unorganized
townships
may attend
any second-
ary school.
AN ACT RELATING TO THE WELFARE OF SCHOOL
CHILDREN.
(Chap. 31, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. When a teacher becomes aware or suspects that any
of the pupils attending his school are in a condition which ren-
ders them a source of offense or danger to the other pupils in
school on account of filthiness, or because they are the bearers
of vermin or parasites, or have an infection or contagious dis-
ease of the skin, mouth or eyes, he shall notify the superin-
tendent of schools, and when a superintendent of schools knows
or learns that any of the pupils attending any school within his
jurisdiction, are affected with any of the conditions, infections,
or diseases herein mentioned, he shall notify the parents to
cleanse the clothing and the bodies of the children and to furnish
them with the required home or medical treatment, for the
relief of their trouble, and the superintendent of schools may,
when he deems it necessary, exclude such children from the
schools temporarily or until they may be cured, cleansed and
disinfected.
SEC. 2. Parents thus notified of the condition of their chil-
dren shall forthwith have them and their clothing cleansed and
shall promptly do what is necessary, or furnish them such medi-
cal treatment as may be required, to rid the children of vermin,
parasites, or contagion ; and any parent who fails to do what is
required so that the children may return to school with as little
loss of time as is possible, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
shall be liable to a fine not to exceed five dollars for the first
offense, and not to exceed ten dollars for a second or subsequent
offense.
AN ACT TO EXTEND THE PRIVILEGES OF SEC-
ONDARY INSTRUCTION TO YOUTHS RESIDENT
IN UNORGANIZED TOWNSHIPS.
(Chap. 62, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. Any youth who resides with a parent or guardian in
any unorganized township in which schools are regularly main-
tained may attend any secondary school in the state to which he
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 59
may gain entrance by permission of those having charge thereof,
provided said school shall be of standard grade approved by
the state superintendent of public schools. In such case the_tuition
tuition of such youth not to exceed thirty dollars annually shall
be paid by the state under such provisions and regulations as
may be made by the state superintendent and approved by the
governor and council.
*AN ACT FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF FREE HIGH
SCHOOLS.
(Chap. 71, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. No school shall be regarded as a high school within Classification
the meaning of any of the provisions of chapter fifteen of the jjyjj*]^
revised statutes unless such school shall be included in the fol-
lowing classes :
Class A. This class shall include such schools as maintain class A.
at least one approved course of study through four years of
thirty-six weeks each and of standard grade, together with
approved laboratory equipment, and shall employ at least two
teachers, provided the town, precinct or union maintaining such
school shall appropriate and expend for instruction therein at
least eight hundred and fifty dollars annually exclusive of all
tuition received.
Class B. This class shall include such schools as maintain class B.
one approved course of study through at least two years of
thirty-six weeks and of standard grade together with approved
equipment, provided the town, precinct or union maintaining
such school shall appropriate and expend for instruction therein
at least five hundred dollars annually exclusive of all tuitions
received.
Class C. This class shall include such schools as maintain at class c.
least one approved course of study through four years of thirty
weeks each ; provided the town, precinct or union maintaining
such school shall appropriate and expend for instruction therein
at least four hundred and fifty dollars annually exclusive of all
tuitions received.
See also Sections 55-62, Chap. 15, R. S..
6o
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Reimburse-
ment of
towns.
Town not
obliged to
pay tuition
under sec- ^
tions 63 J ,
and 64,
chapter
15, R. S.
Schools shall
be inspected
annually.
When other
state aid •&
shall cease.
SEC. 2. A town, precinct or union maintaining a high school,
as defined in section one of this act, shall be reimbursed by the
state for two-thirds of the amount paid for instruction in such
school; but in no case shall more than five hundred dollars be
paid by the state to a town, precinct or union in any one year.
SEC. 3. A town, precinct or union maintaining a high school,
as provided in class A of section one of this act, shall not be
obliged to pay tuition under sections sixty-three and sixty- four
of chapter fifteen. A town, precinct or union maintaining a
high school, as provided in class B of section one shall not be
obliged to pay tuition under sections sixty-three and sixty-four
first two years of the course of the class B school, and for only
two years of subsequent work. A town, precinct or union main-
taining a high school, as provided in class C of section one, shall
be obliged to pay tuition for such portion of a four years course
as may be determined by the state superintendent of public
schools.
SEC. 4. All schools of secondary grade receiving state aid
shall be inspected annually under the direction of the state
superintendent of public schools, and for this purpose he shall
be authorized to expend not to exceed two thousand dollars
annually, which sum shall be paid from the state appropriation
for the support of high schools; and he shall determine what
schools are included in the classification of section one of this
act, what schools maintain the courses of study, what schools
are entitled to state aid and what schools maintain approved
courses for the reception of tuition scholars.
SEC. 5. After this act takes effect all other state aid for high
schools as provided by law shall cease.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 6l
AN ACT ADDITIONAL TO CHAPTER SEVENTY-ONE
OF THE PUBLIC LAWS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED
AND NINE, ENTITLED "AN ACT • FOR THE
IMPROVEMENT OF FREE HIGH SCHOOLS."
(Chap. 196, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. State aid to free high schools under the provisions state ajd^
of chapter seventy-one of the public laws of nineteen hundred
and nine shall be payable annually in the month of December.
AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE APPOINTMENT OF
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS.
(Chap. 73, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. The school committee of every city and town shall School
appoint one or more school physicians and shall assign one to J^S®^-
the medical inspection of not over one thousand pupils of themi
public schools within its city or town, and shall provide them
with all proper facilities for the performance of their duties
as prescribed in this act, provided, however, the said committee
has been so authorized by vote of town at regular town meeting
or at a special town meeting called for that purpose.
SEC. 2. Every school physician shall make a prompt exami- Duties>f
nation and diagnosis of all children referred to him as herein-
after provided, and such further examination of teachers, jani-
tors and school buildings as in his opinion the protection of the
health of the pupils may require.
SEC. 3. The pupils so examined by school physicians when JSSm treated,
treatment is necessary shall not be referred to the school phy-
sicians for such treatment except the school physician be the
regular family physician of such pupil, but shall be referred to
the regular family physician of such pupil through the parents
or guardian.
SEC. 4. The school committee shall cause to be referred to Examination
a school physician for examination and diagnosis every child afte?absence
returning to a school without a certificate from the board of o? sickness,
health or family physician after absence on account of illness or
62
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ixception.
Notice of
disease or
defects.
Examination
of sight and
hearing.
— notice to
parent or
guardian.
State super-
intendent of
schools shall
prescribe
directions
f9r tests of
sight and
hearing.
— amount to
be expended.
from unknown cause ; and every child in the schools under its
jurisdiction who shows signs of being in ill health or of suffer-
ing from infectious or contagious dseases, unless he is at once
excluded from school by the teacher; except that in case of
schools in remote and isolated situations, the school committee
may make such other arrangements as may best carry out the
purposes of this act.
SEC. 5. The school committee shall cause notice of disease
or defects, if any, from which any child is found to be suffer-
ing to be sent home to his parents or guardian. Whenever a
child shows symptoms of smallpox, scarlet fever, measles,
chicken pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria or influenza, tonsilitis,
whooping cough, mumps, scabies or trachomo, he shall be sent
home immediately or as soon as safe and proper conveyance
can be found, and the board of health and superintendent of
schools shall at once be notified.
SEC. 6. The school committee of every city or town shall
cause every child in the public schools to be separately and care-
fully tested and examined at least once in every school year to
ascertain whether he is suffering from defective sight or hear-
ing or from any other disability or defect tending to prevent
his receiving the full benefit of his school work, or requiring a
modification of the school work in order to prevent injury to
the child or to secure the best educational results. Tests of
sight and hearing shall be made by the teachers or by the school
physicians. The committee shall cause notice of any defect or
disability requiring treatment to be sent to the parent or guar-
dian of the child, and shall require a physical record of each
child, to be kept in such form as the state superintendent of
public schools shall prescribe after consultation with the state
board of health.
SEC. 7. The state superintendent of public schools shall pre-
scribe after consultation with the state board of health the
directions for tests of sight and hearing, and shall prescribe and
furnish to the school committees suitable rules of instruction,
test cards, blanks, record books and other useful appliances for
carrying out the purposes of this act. The state superintendent
of public schools may expend during the year nineteen hundred
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 63
and nine a sum not greater than five hundred dollars for the
purpose of supplying the material required for this act.
SEC. 8. Expenses which a city or town may incur by virtue mlyebee that
of the authority herein vested in the school committee shall not Sty ™ town,
exceed the amount appropriated for that purpose in cities by
the city council and in towns by a town meeting. The appro-
priation shall precede any expenditure of any indebtedness
which may be incurred under this act and the sum appropriated
shall be deemed sufficient appropriation in the municipality where
it is made. And such appropriation need not specify to what
section of the act it shall apply and may be voted as a total
appropriation to be applied in carrying out the purposes of this
act.
SEC. Q. The provisions of this act shall apply onlv to cities Applies to
cities and
and towns having a population of less than forty thousand towns
inhabitants. than ^^y
thousand
inhabitants.
AN ACT RELATIVE TO SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
(Chap. 88, P. L. 1909, as amended by Chap. 89, P. L. 1913.)
SEC. i. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent ofpiansand
public schools to procure architect's plans and specifications f or turns for"
not to exceed four room school buildings, and full detail work- buildings
ing plans therefor. Said plans and specifications shall benched by
state super-
loaned to any superintending school committee or school build- in tendent.
ing committee desiring to erect a new school building. For the
use of the state superintendent of public schools in procuring _appropri.
such plans and specifications the sum of two hundred dollars is igj^'c. 89.
hereby annually appropriated.
SEC. 2. Where the plans and specifications prepared by theplanaand
state superintendent are not used, all superintending school 2S?t?be
committees of towns in which new schoolhouses are to beapproved>
erected, shall make suitable provision for the heating, lighting
and ventilating and hygienic conditions of such buildings, and
all plans and specifications for any such proposed school build-
ings shall be submitted to and approved by the state superin-
tendent of public schools and the state board of health before
the same shall be accepted by the superintending school com-
mittee or school building committee of the town in which it is
proposed to erect such building.
SCHOOIy LAWS OF MAINE.
When school
3' In case no sPec*al building' committee has been
chosen by the town, the superintending school committee shall
construction. have charge of the erection or reconstruction of any school
building, provided that said superintending school committee
may, if they see fit, delegate said power and duty to the superin-
tendent of schools.
School
buildings
shall have
proper exits.
— kept in
repair.
stairways.
— jdoors and
windows.
— school
buildings of
more than
one story.
— when mu-
nicipal offi-
cers shall
correct
defects.
AN ACT FOR THE SAFEGUARDING OF SCHOOLS
AGAINST DANGER FROM FIRE.
(Chap. loo, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. Any building which is used in whole or in part as a
schoolhouse shall be provided with proper egresses or other
means of escape from fire sufficient for the use of all persons
therein accommodated. These egresses and means of escape
shall be kept unobstructed, in good repair and ready for use.
Stairways on the outside of the building shall have suitable
railed landings at each story above the first, accessible at each
story from doors or windows and such stairways, doors or win-
dows shall be kept clean of snow, ice and other obstructions.
In school buildings of more than one story there shall be at least
two separate means of egress by inside or outside stairway, and
each story above the first shall be supplied with means of extin-
guishing fire consisting of pails of water or other portable appa-
ratus, or of a hose attached to a suitable water supply and such
appliance shall be kept at all times ready for use and in good
condition. Upon written notification by the superintending
school committee that any school building does not meet the
specifications herein named, the municipal officers of the town
shall at once proceed to correct the defects, and any failure so
to act shall render the town liable to the provisions of section
sixteen of chapter fifteen of the revised statutes.
LAW RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF LIFE IN
BUILDINGS USED FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES.
(Chap. 28, Sec. 37, R. S. 1903, as amended by Chap. 178, P. L.
I9I30
Doors to open Section 37. Every building intended temporarily or perma-
1913, c. ITS. nently for public use, and every schoolhouse of more than
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one story in height, and every school-room therein, shall have
all doors, intended for egress, open outwards.
*AN ACT RELATING TO THE COMMON SCHOOL
FUND AND THE MEANS OF PROVIDING FOR AND
DISTRIBUTING THE SAME.
(Chap. 177, P. L. 1909.)
SEC. i. A tax of one and one-half mills on a dollar shall Assessment
of tax for
annually be assessed upon all of the property in the state accord-
ing to the valuation thereof and shall be known as the tax for
the support of the common schools.
SEC. 2. This tax shall be assessed and collected in the same HOW tax
snail be
manner as other state taxes and shall be paid into the state assessed,
treasury and designated as the common school fund.
SEC. 3. One-third of this fund shall be distributed by the HOW fund
treasurer of state on the first day of January, annually, to the distributed,
several cities, towns and plantations according to the number
of scholars therein, as the same shall appear from the official
returns made to the state superintendent of public schools for
the preceding year and the remaining two-thirds of said fund
shall be distributed by the treasurer of state on the first days of
January, annually, to the several cities, towns and plantations
according to the valuation thereof as the same shall be fixed by
the state assessors, for the preceding year.
SEC. 4. All of the said fund not distributed or expended
during the financial year, shall at its close, be added to the per- disp08ed of-
manent school fund.
SEC. 5. All moneys provided by towns, or apportioned by AH money to
the state for the support of common schools, shall be expended
for the maintenance of common schools, established and con-
trolled by the towns by which said moneys are provided, or to
which said moneys are apportioned.
SEC. 6. Sums received by any city, town or plantation from HOW money
the distribution provided by section three, shall be deemed to
raised by such city, town or plantation within the meaning
revised statutes, chapter fifteen, section thirteen, as amended.
* Additional to Sections 124, 125, 126 and 127, Chap. 15, R. S., 1903.
5
66
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
This act not
to affect
certain pro-
visions of
the revised
statutes.
SEC. 7. The passage of this act shall in no wise affect the
provisions of sections one hundred twenty-four, one hundred
twenty-five, one hundred twenty-six and one hundred twenty-
seven of chapter fifteen of the revised statutes, or of section
two of chapter one hundred and eleven of the public laws of
nineteen hundred and seven.
School
equalization
fund set
aside.
1913, c. 182.
1911, c. 192.
— rate
determined.
1913, c. 182.
Method of
distribution.
1911, c. 192.
AN ACT FOR THE EQUALIZATION OF SCHOOL
PRIVILEGES.
(Chap. 198, P. L. 1909, as amended by Chap. 192, P. L. 1911
and Chap. 182, P. L. 1913.)
SEC. i. The treasurer of state shall immediately after the
first day of July, nineteen hundred thirteen, and annually there-
after deduct the sum of forty thousand dollars from the state
school funds and the same shall be set aside and denominated
the school equalization fund which shall be used in the manner
hereinafter designated for the purpose of aiding those towns
wherein a rate of taxation considerably in excess of the average
rate for the state fails to produce a school revenue sufficient to
secure a reasonable standard of educational efficiency ; provided,
that the rate of taxation hereinbefore named for the purposes
of this act shall be reckoned on the basis of the amount actually
raised by taxation by the town for the support of common
schools, exclusive of any amounts received from the state.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of
public schools to cause a special investigation to be made of
the educational facilities of such towns as are included under
section one of this act and, whenever it appears to the state
superintendent that any town should receive special aid or
encouragement for the purpose of raising the standard of quali-
fications of common school teachers or of increasing the length
of the school year or otherwise adding to the efficiency of the
common schools he shall issue to the governor and council a
recommendation relative thereto and the governor and council
shall have authority to draw a warrant in the favor of the
treasurer of said town for the payment from the equalization
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 67
fund of a sum which shall be expended under the direction of
the superintending school committee of said town in accordance
with the recommendation as made by the state superintendent
of public schools and within the purposes of this act. The
state superintendent of public schools shall be authorized
expend for the special investigation of educational facilities
herein provided a sum not to exceed two thousand dollars which
shall be deducted from the equalization fund and he shall
annually publish in his printed report a complete statement rela-
tive to all disbursements as provided in this act.
SEC. 3. All of the school equalization fund not distributed Fun^d
nor expended during the financial year shall at its close
added to the permanent school fund.
LAWS RELATING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF
WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN MANUFACTURING OR
MECHANICAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THIS STATE.
(Sees. 48 to 54, Chapter 40, R. S. 1903.)
Section 48. No female minor under eighteen years of age, Hours of labor
no male minor under sixteen years of age, and no woman shall women in
be employed in laboring in any manufacturing or mechanical establish-111
establishment in the state, more than ten hours in any one
day, except when it is necessary to make repairs to prevent
the interruption of the ordinary running of the machinery, or
when a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made
for the sole purpose of making a shorter day's work for one
day of the week; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed _fift eight
fifty-eight in a week; and no male person sixteen years of age houra a week<
and over shall be so employed as above, more than ten hours a
day during minority, unless he voluntarily contracts to do so
with the consent of his parents, or one of them, if any, or guar-
dian and in such case he shall receive extra compensation for
his services; provided, hozvever, that any female of eighteen
years of age or over, may lawfully contract for such labor for
any number of hours in excess of ten hours a day, not exceeding
six hours in any one week, or sixty hours in any one year,
68 SCHOOI, LAWS OF MAINE;.
receiving additional compensation the-refor; but during her mi-
nority, the consent of her parents, or one of them, or guardian,
sha11 be first obtained. Nothing in this section shall apply to
any manufacturing establishment or business, the materials and
w™ichCare°f products of which are perishable and require immediate labor
ignl^fe. thereon, to prevent decay thereof or damage thereto.
Section 49. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place
shTnpolt in every room where such persons are employed, a notice
hours of labor, printed in plain, large type, stating the number of hours' work
required of them on each day of the week, the exact time for
commencing work in the morning, stopping at noon for dinner,
commencing after dinner, and stopping at night; form of such
^otS °f printed notice shall be furnished by the commissioner of labor,
ion, c. 143. an(j sjiajj ke approved by the attorney general. And the em-
ployment of any such person for a longer time in any day than
—employment that so stated, shall be deemed a violation of the preceding see-
the deemed tion, unless it appears that such employment is to make up for
violation. . , - , , .
time lost on some previous clay of the same week, in conse-
quence of the stopping of machinery upon which such person
was employed or dependent for employment.
vS£t»nfor Section 50. Whoever, either for himself, or as superintend-
1887, c. 139. ent, overseer or agent of another, employs or has in his em-
ployment any person in violation of the provisions of section
forty-eight, and every parent or guardian who permits any
minor to be so employed, shall be punished by a fine of not less
than twenty-five, nor more than fifty dollars for each offense,
—certificate A certificate of the age of a minor made by him and by his
gu£dian °' parent or guardian at the time of his employment, shall be con-
evidence elusive evidence of his age in behalf of the hirer, upon any
prosecution for a violation of the provisions of section forty-
— penalty eight. Whoever falsely makes and utters such a certificate with
for false .
certificate. an intention to evade the provisions of this chapter relating to
the employment of minors, shall be subject to a fine of one
hundred dollars.
Employers Section 51. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in any
w5h em- ' manufacturing or mechanical business, may contract with adult
ployees, that . . .......
a week's or minor employes to give one week s notice of intention on
notice to
ouit work, such employe s part, to quit such employment under a penalty
shall be given. ' J
1887, c. 139. forfeiture of one week's wages. In such case, the employer
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 69
shall be required to give a like notice of intention to discharge'
the employe; and on failure, shall pay to such employe, a sum
equal to one week's wages. No such forfeiture shall be
enforced when the leaving or discharge of the employe is for
a reasonable cause. Provided, however, that the enforcement
of the penalty aforesaid, shall not prevent either party from
recovering damages for a breach of the contract of hire.
Section 52. No child under fourteen years of age shall be fourteen e
. years of
employed or allowed to work in or in connection with any man- age, not to
ufacturinef or mechanical establishment. It shall be unlawful «* manufac-
turing estab-
for any person, firm or corporation to employ for wages or hire Jjj£ments,
any child under fourteen years of age in any manufacturing, J|gJ- £• ^
mechanical, mercantile or other business establishment, or in
any telephone or telegraph office; or in the delivery and trans-
mission of telephone or telegraph messages during the hours
that the public schools of the town or city in which he resides
are in session. Whoever, either for himself, or as superintend-
ent, overseer or agent of another, employs or has in his employ"
any child in violation of the provisions of this section, and
every parent or guardian who allows any child to be so em-
ployed shall be punished by a fine not less than one dollar nor
exceeding fifty dollars for each offense.
Section 53. No child over fourteen years of age and under Conditions
under which
sixteen years of age shall be employed or allowed to work in any a child
J between the
manufacturing or mechanical establishment until he, or some ages of 14
and 16 years
one in his behalf, shall have produced and presented to the maybe
employed.
owner, superintendent, overseer or agent of such establishment, J|jg» c. 46^
a certified copy of the town clerk's record of the birth of such
child, or a certified copy of his baptismal record showing the
date of his birth; or his passport showing the date of his birth;
or an age and schooling certificate duly issued to him as herein-
after provided. No such child between his fourteenth and fif-— between
fourteenth
teenth birthdays shall be employed or allowed to work in any a
manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other business estab-
lishment, or in any telephone or telegraph office; or in the de-
livery and transmission of telephone or telegraph messages dur-
ing the hours in which the public schools of the city or town
in which he resides are in session, until he shall have produced
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— between '
fifteenth and
sixteenth
birthdays.
— employer
shall keep
on file record
of child
employed.
— blank em-
ployment
certificates.
—certificate
to be re-
turned to
child on
leaving em-
ployment.
— duty of
commis-
sioner of
labor to
examine
certificates.
1911, c. 143.
— penalty for
violation of
this section.
and presented to the owner, superintendent, overseer or agent of
such establishment an age and schooling certificate duly issued
to him as hereinafter provided. No such child between his fif-
teenth and sixteenth birthdays shall be employed or allowed to
work in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment during
the hours in which the public schools of the city or town in
which he resides are in session, until he shall have produced and
presented to the owner, superintendent, overseer or agent of
such establishment an age and schooling certificate duly issued
to him as hereinafter provided. The employer shall keep on file
such birth record, baptismal record, passport or age and school-
ing certificate in duplicate containing the name of such child,
the name of his parents, guardian or custodian, and such data
as may be required by the commissioner of labor. Blank em-
ployment certificates, in form approved by the attorney general,
shall be furnished by the commissioner of labor. One of such
certificates shall be delivered to such child and the other be
immediately forwarded to the office of said commissioner of
labor to be kept on file by him. When such child leaves such
employment, the employer shall return to such child the copy
of the town record, baptismal record, passport or age and
schooling certificate furnished by him as aforesaid, and shall
immediately notify said inspector that such child has left his
employ. The commissioner of labor or any of his assistants,
may demand of any employer or corporation the names of all
children under sixteen years of age in his employ in the sev-
eral cities and towns of the state, and may require that the
birth record, baptismal record, passport or age and schooling
certificate of such children shall be produced for his inspection,,
and the failure to produce the same shall be prima facie evi-
dence that the employment of such child is illegal. Whoever,
either for himself, or as superintendent, overseer or agent of
another, employs or has in his employment any child in viola-
tion of the provisions of this section, and every parent or guar-
dian who allows any child to be so employed shall be punished
by a fine of not less than one nor more than fifty dollars for
each offense.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 71
Section 54. Age and schooling certificates may be issued
the superintendent of schools of the city or town in which
child resides, or some person designated and authorized
writing by the school committee, and such age and schooling Jjg-jj |j- 257.
certificate when duly issued shall excuse such child from attend- —excuses
from school
ance at public school; but no person shall issue such certificate attendance^
to any minor then in or about to enter his employment, or the
employment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member,
stockholder, officer or employee. The person who issues the
certificate in accordance with the provisions of this section is
hereby empowered to administer the oath provided' for therein,
but no fee shall be charged therefor.
Section 55. An age and schooling certificate shall not
issued until the child applying therefor, or some person in his
behalf, shall furnish satisfactory evidence of the age of the
child, which evidence shall be a certified copy of the town clerk's age?! child
record of the birth of said child, or a certified copy of his bap-?907™c?46.'
tismal record, showing the date of his birth, or a passport show-
ing the date of his birth, or other document satisfactory to the
superintendent of schools or the person authorized to issue such
age and schooling certificates; nor until such child has demon- _nor tm
strated his ability to read at sight and write simple sentences in
the English language, and perform simple arithmetical
lems involving the fundamental processes of addition, subtrac-
tion, multiplication and division, such educational test to be pre-
pared and furnished by the superintendent of schools or the
school committee of each city and town in the state ; or has fur-
nished a certificate to that effect signed by any teacher in any
of the public schools of the city or town in which such child
resides, or by the principal of any approved private school.
The superintendent of schools, or the person authorized to issue
. —certificate of
such age and schooling certificates, may require, in doubtful g^icJSnednay
cases, a certificate from the school physician, or, in case there is 1913« c- 87-
no school physician, from the medical officer of the board of
health certifying that the child is physically able to perform the
work which it intends to do; said certificate must be signed
Dy the child in the presence of the examining physician. The
state factory inspector, his deputy or agent, may require a
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE:.
Attorney
general shall
prepare and
furnish
form of
certificates.
1907, c. 46.
1909, c. 257.
similar certificate, in doubtful cases, of 'minors employed under
an age and schooling certificate.
Section 56. The form of the age and schooling certificate
provided for in section fifty-three of this act shall be prepared
and furnished to the superintendent of schools or the school
committee of the cities and towns by the attorney general and
shall be substantially as follows:
Form of
certificate.
AGE AND SCHOOLING CERTIFICATE.
Revised Statutes, Chapter forty, Section fifty-three.
This certifies that I am the , father, mother,
guardian or custodian, of , name of child, and
that he was born at , name of city or town, in the
state, or county, of on the .... day of
in the year and that at, his or her, last birthday
he was .... years old.
City or town and date.
: ,Signature of parent,
guardian or custodian.
Then personally appeared before me the above named,
name of person signing, and having produced for my inspec-
tion the record passport of said child, made oath
that the foregoing certificate by him or her, signed is
true to the best of 'his or her, knowledge and belief.
Having no sufficient reason to doubt that he is
of the age therein certified, I hereby approve the foregoing cer-
tificate of name of child ; whose signature, written in
my presence, appears below ; whose height is feet and
inches ; complexion is fair or dark ; hair is
color. I hereby certify that he has satisfac-
torily demonstrated , his or her, ability to read at
sight and to write legible simple sentences in the English lan-
guage, and to employ the fundamental principles of arithmetic,
according to the test supplied by the local superintendent of
public schools; that he has presented us a certificate to that
effect signed by the principal a teacher of some public school in
said town, or that he has presented a certificate signed by the
principal of an evening school in said town to the effect that he,
said child is a regular attendant in said evening school.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 73
This certificate belongs to , name of child,
and is to be surrendered to , him or her, whenever
he leaves the service of the employer holding the same, but if
not claimed by said minor within thirty days from the time
when he leaves such employment, it shall be returned
to the superintendent of schools, or to the person by whom it is
issued.
Signature of child.
Signature of person authorized to issue and
approve, with official character or authority.
City and town and date.
Whoever, being authorized to sign the foregoing age and Penaity fc
schooling certificate, or whoever signing any certified copy of
a town clerk's record of births, or certified copy of a child's p?piSent-
baptismal record, shall knowingly certify to any false statement SSe°cdn- "
therein, and any parent or guardian who presents, or who per- statement,
mits or allows any child under his control to present, to any
employer, owner, superintendent, overseer or agent as required
under section fifty-three, any certified copy of birth or baptismal
record, or passport, or age and schooling certificate containing
any false statements as to the date of birth or age of such child,
knowing them to be false, shall be punished by a fine of not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each
offense.
Section 57. Nothing in the nine preceding sections shall apply to es-
* tablishmenta,
apply to any manufacturing establishment or business, the ma-
terials and products of which are perishable and require imme- p
diate labor thereon, to prevent decay thereof or damage there- H^ J; 357.
to. Provided, however, the employment of children therein _provigo.
shall be under the supervision of said inspector who shall on
complaint investigate the sanitary conditions, hours of labor and
other conditions detrimental to children, and if in his judgment
he finds detrimental conditions to exist, he may in conjunction
with the municipal officers of the town or city in which the com-
plaint is made, prohibit the employment of children therein
until such conditions are removed.
74
SCHOOIv LAWS OF MAINE.
State super-
intendent
shall inves-
tigate, advise
and aid in
matter of
industrial
education.
Industrial
courses shall
be introduced
into state
normal
schools.
— expendi-
ture.
1913, c. 37.
Aid to towns
for courses in
elementary
schools.
— amount.
AN ACT FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUS-
TRIAL EDUCATION.
(Chap. 1 88, P. L. 1911, as amended by Chap. 37, P. L. 1913.)
SEC. i. The state superintendent of public schools shall be
charged with the duty of extending the' investigation of meth-
ods of industrial education, he shall advise and aid in the intro-
duction of industrial courses into free high schools and acad-
emies aided by the state and shall report on all special schools
in which industrial education is carried on. It shall be his
duty to inspect the courses of study offered in such free high
schools and academies and he shall have authority to approve
such courses in all schools aided by the state.
SEC. 2. The trustees of the state normal schools shall cause
to be introduced into all of the said normal schools such courses
in manual arts, domestic science and agriculture as will enable
their graduates to teach elementary courses in those subjects
in the rural and grade schools. In not more than one of said
schools the course in manual training shall be so extended as
to offer opportunity to persons desiring to qualify as special
teachers of that branch, and in not more than one the course
in domestic science shall be so extended as to offer similar
opportunity to persons desiring to qualify as special teachers
thereof. For the two special courses thus offered the trustees
are authorized to expend annually not to exceed six thousand
dollars, which shall be additional to other sums appropriated
for the support of said normal schools and which the treasurer
of state shall deduct from any funds raised for the support of
common schools.
SEC. 3, Whenever the superintendent of schools of any
town shall certify under oath to the state superintendent of pub-
lic schools according to form prescribed by the state superin-
tendent, that instruction in manual training or domestic science
nas been provided pupils of elementary schools for the year pre-
ceding, then upon approval of such certificate of the state super-
intendent of schools state aid shall be paid to the amount of
two-thirds the total salary paid each teacher, provided that the
amount so paid by the state for the employment of any one
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 75
instructor shall not exceed eight hundred dollars in one year
and provided further that the appropriation made by the town
for this purpose shall be exclusive of any other sum received
from the state for the support of common schools and of the
minimum requirement raised by the town as prescribed by sec-
tion thirteen of chapter fifteen of the revised statutes as amend-
ed, and provided further that the course of study, equipment —approval,
and qualifications of instructors shall have been approved by the
state superintendent of public schools.
SEC. 4. The superintending school committee having charge Aid for
of any free high school or the trustees of any incorporated Sco^dar?
academy may provide for instruction therein in the principles scl
of agriculture and the domestic and mechanic arts. Whenever
it shall be made to appear to the governor and council, from
returns made as herein provided, that in any free high school
or academy instruction has been furnished during the preceding
year in the principles of agriculture, the mechanic arts or do-
mestic science the said governor and council shall direct the
treasurer of state to pay to the town supporting such free high
school or to the treasurer of such academy in addition to other —amount,
state aid if any, a sum equal to two-thirds the total expenditure
for instruction in each of said courses, provided, however, that
no school shall receive a total in excess of five hundred dollars
in any one year for the support of said courses, and provided
that state aid shall not be allowed for any course which has an
average attendance of less than twelve students and provided
further that such aid shall not be granted unless the course of
study, equipment and qualifications of instructors shall first _approval.
have been approved by the state superintendent of public
schools.
SEC. 5. Chapter one hundred and two of the public laws of chapter 102,
nineteen hundred and nine is hereby repealed. repealed909'
SEC. 6. Whenever the superintending school committee of Aid to towns
any town shall have maintained during the school year an even-
ing school as provided by section twenty-two of the revised scl
statutes said town shall be reimbursed by the state a sum equal
to two-thirds the amount paid for instruction in such evening
school provided there shall have been offered, in addition to
76
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Establish-
ment of
industrial
schools.
— support.
state aid.
— amount.
Appropri-
ation.
1913, c. 37.
— reports.
the subjects elsewhere prescribed for evening schools, courses
in free hand or mechanical drawing, domestic science or manual
training or the elements of the trades.
SEC. 7. The superintending school committee of any town
when authorized by vote of the town shall establish and main-
tain as a part of the public school system of such town a gen-
eral industrial school for the teaching of agriculture, household
science, the mechanic arts and the trades. Such general in-
dustrial schools shall be open to pupils who have completed the
elementary school course or who have attained the age of fif-
teen years. The authority and duties of the superintending
school committee and of the superintendent of schools in rela-
tion to such industrial schools shall be the same as in the case
of the common and high schools, but the support of such schools
shall be derived from funds raised in addition to any sums
appropriated for the support of common and high schools.
Whenever it shall be made to appear to the governor and coun-
cil that any town has provided instruction in the trades and
industries in a general industrial school maintained therein for
a period of thirty-six weeks during the school year, and em-
ploying at least one teacher whose work is devoted exclusively
to such instruction and having an average attendance of at least
twenty pupils the governor and council shall direct the treas-
urer of state to pay to the treasurer of such town a sum equal
to two-thirds the total amount spent for instruction in said
school provided that not more than two thousand dollars shall
be paid by the state to any one town in any year.
SEC. 8. For the purposes of this act there shall be de-
ducted annually by the treasurer of state from the school and
mill fund the sum of forty thousand dollars and any of this
amount so deducted that is not apportioned during the financial
year shall at its close be added to the permanent school fund.
All reports required under this act shall be filed annually with
the state superintendent of public schools on or before the first
day of July and state aid shall be payable during the month of
December next succeeding.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 77
AN ACT TO SAVE TOWN OFFICERS THE EXPENSE
OF JURATS UPON CERTAIN RETURNS.
(Chap. 15, P. L. 1913.)
Section I. Town or municipal officers, who have been duly Town officers
sworn to the faithful performance of their duty, shall not be to t
required to make oath or affirm to any report, account or state- made 'to state.
ment to be filed with any of the state departments.
Section 2. Any acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, a?terepe1aed.
are hereby repealed.
AN ACT TO PREVENT THE ORGANIZATION OR
EXISTENCE OF SECRET SOCIETIES IN THE PUB-
LIC SCHOOLS.
(Chap. 34, P. L. 1913-)
Pupils
Section i. It shall be unlawful for any pupil of any public,
elementary or secondary school to participate in or be a member
of any secret fraternity or secret society whatsoever that is in
any degree a school organization.
Section 2. Superintending school committees are hereby gu erintend
authorized to enforce the provisions of this act and to expel
or otherwise discipline any pupil for failure or refusal to
comply with its provisions. of this act.
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE STATE CERTIFICA-
TION OF ALL TEACHERS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
(Chap. 58, P. L. 1913.)
Section i. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of
public schools to cause to be held at least once each year at such
times and at such places as he may designate, public examination
of candidates for the position of teachers in the public schools.
Section 2. The examination herein provided for shall test Tests re<iuired-
the professional as well as the scholastic abilities of the candi- — «amin-
ation by
dates and shall be conducted by such persons or agents and i
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
— notice shall
be given.
Certificates
shall be signed
by state
superin-
tendent.
— proviso.
— certificates
may be pro-
bationary or
permanent.
— certificates
may be
granted
without ex-
amination to
graduates of
colleges and
Maine state
normal schools,
— certificates
may be granted
to persons
holding state
certificates
from other
states.
— certificates
may be
revoked.
List of per-
sons certified
shall be kept.
Persons not
holding state
certificates
shall not be
employed.
;xception.
such manner as the state superintendent may determine. Due
public notices of the times, places and other conditions of the
examination shall be given.
Section 3. Certificates of qualification signed by the state
superintendent of public schools shall be granted to all candi-
dates who pass satisfactory examinations in such branches as
are required or permitted by law to be taught in the public
schools and who in other respects fulfil the proper require-
ments, provided, however, that no person unless he is seven-
teen years of age and has completed a standard high school or
academy course shall be eligible for a certificate. Such certifi-
cate shall be either probationary or permanent and shall indi-
cate the grade of schools which the person named therein is
qualified to teach. Provided, however, that the certificate may
be granted without the examination herein prescribed to gradu-
ates of colleges and Maine state normal schools, or of other nor-
mal training schools having a two years' course for graduates of
high schools or academies, and to teachers of two years' service
and satisfactory fitness, on the presentation of such evidence of
fitness and under such special conditions as the state superin-
tendent of public schools may prescribe. Provided, further, that
certificates may, under the rules prescribed by the state super-
intendent, be granted to persons holding state certificates
granted by authority of other states. Provided, further, that
any certificate granted under this or any preceding act may for
sufficient cause be revoked and annulled.
Section 4. A list of persons so certificated shall be kept in
the office of the state superintendent of public schools and
copies of the same with such information as may be desired
shall be sent to school committees and superintendents upon
their request.
Section 5. No person shall be employed to teach in any
school under the supervision and control of any local school
board of any city, town or plantation of this state, after Sep-
tember one, nineteen hundred and fourteen, who does not hold
a state certificate as herein provided. Provided, however, that
any person not holding a state certificate may be granted not
more than one temporary non-renewable teaching permit for a
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 79
period not to exceed one year, such permit to be issued upon
examination by the superintendent of schools of the town in
vvhich such person is employed and the form of such permit
shall be prepared by the state superintendent of public schools
and shall be furnished by him upon application of the superin-
tendent of schools of any town. No person shall be eligible to
a teaching permit unless he shall meet the requirements of sec-
tion three in relation to age and educational preparation. Pro-
vided, further, that all state certificates heretofore granted
shall continue in force in accordance with the terms stated
therein.
Section 6. Whoever teaches a public school without first penalty for
obtaining a state teachers' certificate or a temporary teaching J^JfcS^of
permit as herein provided, forfeits not exceeding the sum con-thlsact<
tracted for his daily wages, for each day he so teaches and is
barred from receiving pay therefor.
Section 7. For the necessary expenses of carrying out the Appropriation
provisions of this act there may be annually expended the sum out provisions
of one thousand dollars, which sum the treasurer of state shall
deduct for said purpose from any school money raised for the
support of common schools.
Section 8. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the inconsistent
f , . acts repealed.
provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE EFFICIENCY OF THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF MAINE BY RETIRING
TEACHERS OF LONG SERVICE WITH PENSIONS.
(Chap. 75, P. L. 1913.)
Section i. Any person of either sex who, on September Teachers who
thirtieth, nineteen hundred thirteen, or thereafter, shall have £fai£ut\ve
reached the age of sixty years and who for thirty-five years $25o!°n °f
shall have been engaged in teaching as his principal occupation,
and who shall have been employed as a teacher in the public
schools, or in such other schools within this state as are sup-
ported wholly or at least three-fifths by state or town appro-
priation and are under public management and control, twenty
8o
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
—proviso.
Teachers who
may receive
an annual
pension of
$200.
Teachers who
may receive
an annual
pension of
$150.
Teachers who
may receive
half pension.
years of which employment, including, the fifteen years imme-
diately preceding retirement, shall have been in this state, and
who shall be retired by his employer or shall voluntarily retire
from active service after completion of the school year next
preceding the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred
thirteen, shall, on his formal application, receive from the state
for the remainder of his life an annual pension of two hun-
dred and fifty dollars; provided, however, that after the thir-
tieth day of September, nineteen hundred thirteen, no such
employment as teacher within this state shall be included in its
provisions unless the teacher shall hold a state teachers' certifi-
cate issued under the authority of the state superintendent of
public schools.
Section 2. Any person of either sex who, on September
thirtieth, nineteen hundred thirteen, or thereafter, shall have
reached the age of sixty years and who for thirty years shall
have been engaged in teaching as his principal occupation and
who shall have in all other respects met the requirements of
section one of this act shall, on his formal application, receive
from the state for the remainder of his life an annual pension
of two hundred dollars.
Section 3. Any person of either sex, who, on September
thirtieth, nineteen hundred thirteen, or thereafter, shall have
reached the age of sixty years and who for twenty-five years
shall have been engaged in teaching as his principal occupation,
and who shall have in all other respects met the requirements of
section one of this act shall, on his formal application, receive
from the state for the remainder of his life an annual pension
of one hundred and fifty dollars.
Section 4. Any person who otherwise meets the require-
ments of the preceding sections of this act, but shall have re-
tired or shall have been retired prior to the school year next
preceding the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred
thirteen, shall be entitled to receive a pension under the pro-
visions of this act except that the amount of the pension
allowed to such person shall be one-half any amount designated
under the foregoing sections.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 8l
Section 5. For the purposes of this act the sum of
thousand dollars is appropriated for the year nineteen hundred p*1""011 fund
thirteen and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is annually
appropriated thereafter, which sum the treasurer of state shall
deduct for said purposes out of the school and mill fund and
the sum so appropriated and deducted shall be denominated
the school pension fund.
Section 6. The state superintendent of public schools, on state super-
or before the thirtieth day of September, nineteen hundred schools shall
formulate
thirteen, shall formulate rules and regulations for carrying into rules.
effect the provisions of this act.
Section 7. On or before the thirty-first day of December, g
nineteen hundred and thirteen, and quarterly thereafter, the
state superintendent of public schools shall certify to the gov-
ernor and council the names of the persons who are entitled to to pensions'
pensions under the provisions of this act and the amounts
thereof, and the governor and council shall draw warrants on
the treasurer of state for payments from the said school pen-
sion fund in favor of said persons for said amounts. The pay-
ments of any pension shall be suspended whenever the person —payments
to whom said pension has been granted resumes teaching in any suspended.
private or public school.
Section 8. All pensions granted or payable under the pro- Pensions are
. . , , . exempt from
visions of this act shall be and are hereby made exempt from levy, etc.
levy and sale by virtue of an execution and from all process
and proceeding to enjoin and recover the same by or on behalf
of any creditor or person having or asserting any claim against,
or debt or liability of a teacher or pensioner.
Section 9. All of the said school pension fund not distrib- FneJxR?n,<?!d
luna snail be
uted or expended for any financial year, shall, on the first day gjjf1 to scbo01
of July next following, be added to the permanent school fund.
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 83
INDEX.
A.
Section. Page.
Abetting truancy 53 22
Academies, aid to 76 31
attendance at 80 32
courses at 76 31
income of 81 32
incorporation of 79 32
payments to 77 31
reports of 82 32
towns providing free tuition in 78 32
trustees of 72 30
Academy property 72 30
conveyance of 73 30
income of 74 30
Adjoining towns, attendance in 50 21
support of high schools in 56 23
Admission to schools 25 10
of towns by joint committee 40 17
Admittance to Home for Feeble Minded 7 61
School for Deaf 6 48
Age certificates 64 71
of employment 52 69
school 27 10
Agents of Schools in Unorganized Townships 96 38
Annual pensions for teachers 1 79
report of State Superintendent 100 41
returns of Municipal Officers 28 11
Superintendents 37 15
Appeal by owner of lot 4 5
either party from appraisal 9 6
Applicants for Normal Schools 112 42
Apportionment of school funds 123 44
school funds 1 65
Appointment of Clerk or Deputy 1 56
State Superintendent 98 39
school physicians 1 61
Appraisement of damages 3 4
notice of 6 5
Appropriation for Home for Feeble Minded 10 52
Medical Inspection 8 63
Normal Schools 115 43
plans for school buildings 1 63
Salaries of Union Superintendents 43 18
Schools in Unorganized Townships 97
Summer Schools 49
Teachers' Examinations 7 79
pensions 5 81
Approval of bills 36 14
plans 12 6
for new buildings 1 63
Arbor Day 88 34
Arrest of truants 54 23
Assessment of sum for lot 7 6
Assessors, duties of 28 11
Associations, teachers' 89 35
expenses of 89 36
Attendance, compulsory school 49 20
hitfh schools 75 30
iicud.-niics
public schools 27 10
84
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
B.
Section. Page.
Balance unexpended 15 7
of mill fund 127 47
Blanks for common school returns 102 41
fiscal returns 101 41
Blind, instruction for 116 44
Board of Trustees Normal Schools 113 43
report of 113 43
pupils 2 4
Boilers, steam, in school buildings 1 52
Books, change of 35 12
distribution of 20 9
exclusive use of 19 g
for schools in unorganized townships 96 38
loss of 21 9
purchase of 35 13
second hand .' 19 9
towns shall provide 19 9
uniform system of 35 12
Buildings, plans for 1 63
plans for 12 6
Business establishments may be visited 51 21
c.
Castine Normal School 109 41
Census, school, return of , 36 15
may be retaken 37 15
unorganized townships 92 36
Certificates, age and schooling 56 72
attendance at conventions 90 36
engineers' 2 53
granting of 36 14
schooling 56 72
superintendance grade 44 19
teachers' 1 77
failure to secure 87 , 34
failure to secure 6 79
grades of 78
Change of location of schools 2 4
Child labor 48 67
illegal 48 67
Christmas Day
Circulars of information 100
Cities, certain, having Charters 31 12
Classes of free high school 59
Classification of scholars 35
Clerks to State Superintendent
Collectors, powers and duties of
College preparatory course 76
presidents
Columbus Day
Committee approves plans
arrange terms of office 30
election of
members of shall not teach 30
powers and duties of
serve without pay
vacancies in 30
Commitment of truants 54
to Home for Feeble Minded
Common school funds
assessment of 125
law of 1909 1 65
studies 100 40
returns 102
tuition
Compensation of superintendent
Compulsory education 46
unorganized townships 96 38
school age 46 19
school age 49 20
Condition of school children 1 58
Conference of superintendents 42
Construction of school buildings 3 64
Continuance of school unions 40 17
Contract with school committee 62 26
trustees of academy 62 26
SCHOOL LAWS OK MAINE.
8=;
Section. Page.
Control of schools maintained by gifts 100 40
Conventions State 100 39
Conveyance of academy property 73 30
common school pupils 2 4
secondary school pupils 66
Cost of schooling In unorganized townships 95 37
Corporate powers of school district 1
County teachers' associations 89 35
formation of 100 40
Courses of study, selection of 35 12
at academies 76 31
at normal schools 109 42
at normal schools 110 42
in free high schools 59 25
Credit to students ' 121 45
D.
Dates of returns, census 37 15
common school 38 16
fiscal 28 11
Damages laying out lots 3 4
Days to be observed as school holidays 88 34
Deaf, Maine school for 1 47
Defacing of school buildings 120 45
Delinquent towns 16 7
Deputy to State Superintendent 1 56
Description of flag of Maine 1 57
Destruction of school property 119 45
Diplomas at Normal Schools Ill 42
Discharge of superintendent 34 12
Discontinuance of schools 2 4
Dismissal of teacher 35 13
Disposal of truants 48 20
Districts, school abolished 1 3
corporate powers of 1 . 3
organized by legislative act 1 3
Disturbing schools, penalty for 118 44
Domestic Science, aid for courses in 3 74
Doors to open outward 37 64
Dumb children, education of 6 45
Duties of State Superintendent 100 39
superintendent and committee 34 12
towns 13 6
Drawing, industrial or mechanical 23 10
E.
Election of School Committees 29 11
Superintendent 34 12
Superintendent of Union of Towns 40 16
Truant Officers 51 21
Employment of Children, illegal 48 67
Minors, illegal 48 67
Teachers 36 15
Women, illegal 48 67
Encouragement of Industrial Education 1 74
Compiling local History and Geography 1 55
English Course in Academies 76 31
Equalization of School Privileges 1 66
Establisment of Free High Schools 56 23
Union Schools 18 8
Evening Schools 22 9
aid to towns maintaining 6
Examination of pupils entering Secondary Schools 63 27
pupils, medical 4 61
schools 39 16
teachers 36 14
teachers 1 77
Exclusion by committee 49 20
of scholars not vaccinated 35 13
Excused by committee, attendance 49 20
86
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Section. Page.
Expenditure by towns failing to account for permanent school
fund 14 7
of school fund 19 g
of school money 13 7
of school money of plantations 93 36
Expenses of clerk or deputy 1 53
State Superintendent 1 5(5
teachers' conventions 91 33
Expulsion of scholars 35 13
F.
Failure of towns to account for permanent school fund 14 7
to perform duties 16 7
Farmington Normal School , 109 41
Feeble Minded, education of 1 49
Fees for degrees 84 33
Females, employment of 48 67
Fifty Schools, aid to superintendents having under their care
more than 42 18
Fire protection in schools 1 64
Flag of Maine 1 57
Flags on public schools ^ 1 57
Fog warning stations, scholars at 26 10
Forestry, instruction in 65 47
Fraternities, secret 1 77
Free High Schools, classification of 1 59
courses of study in 59 25
establishment of 56 23
improvement of 1 59
inspection of 4 60
location of 58 25
management of 60 26
money for 61 26
precincts 57 24
precincts, taxes of 66 29
reimbursement for 2 60
returns of 65 28
state aid to 1 59
to be free 59 25
Fund, permanent school, failure to account for 14
equalization 1 66
Funds, free high school 56 22
from sale of timber lands 17
permanent school 122 45
school 122 45
G.
General Industrial Schools 7 76
Geography and history, teaching of 55
Gorham Normal School 109
Grades of teachers' certificates
H.
Habitual truants 52 22
Hearing, examination of
on location of lot 6
High Schools, classification of
courses of study in
establishment of 56
improvement of
inspection of 4. 60
location of
management of 60
money for 61 26
precincts
precinct, taxes for 66
returns for 65
state aid to
to be free 59
Historian, State
Historical sites 7
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE. 87
Section. Page.
Histories, town 3 55
History and geography, compiling and teaching of 1 55
Holidays, school 88 34
Home for Feeble Minded 1 49
Hygiene, instruction in 85 13
I.
Illegal employment of minors 2 67
Improvement of free high schools 1 59
Improvements on lots 10 6
Income of academies 81 32
Incorporation of academies 79 32
Independence Day ,.. 88 34
Industrial Education, encouragement of 1 74
Injury to school buildings 119 45
Inspection, medical 1 61
of free high schools , 4 60
of steam plants 2 52
Institution! for truants 54 23
Instruction for blind 116 44
in forestry 65 47
in secondary schools 65 23
Instructor* for youth, duties of 86 33
Inure to town, improvements 10 6
J.
Joint committee of union towns 41 17
Jurats on returns of town officers 1 77
K.
Kindness to birds and animals 86 34
L.
Labor, child 48 67
Day 88 34
Laws, publication of school 100 40
Length of terms 17 8
Life saving stations, scholars at 26 10
Light stations, scholars at 26 10
Lincoln Day 88 34
List of approved candidates for teachers' certificates 4 78
porsons of school age 37 15
Local history and peopraphy 1
Location of free high schools 58 25
schools 2 4
sc-hool from dwelling houses 5
schoolhouse lots 3 4
schoolhouse lots, erroneous 5 5
Lots, schoolhouse 3 4
erroneous location 5 6
M.
Machias Normal School , . 109 41
Madawaska Training School 114 43
Maine School for Deaf 1 47
State Flag 1 57
Management of schools 34
Manual Training, aid for courses In 3 74
schools 24 10
direction of 25 10
Manufacturing plants, may be visited by truant officers 51
Medical Inspection
Memorial Day
Mill tax 124 46
88
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Mill tax
assessment of 125
Mill fund, distribution of |. 126 46
distribution of 65
Minimum school year 17 g
Minors, employment of 48 67
Money for free high schools 61 ?6
for schools 13
how paid by town 15
Municipal officers, duties of, 28 11
N.
Neglect of duty by truant officers 51 22
towns 16 7
to choose committee 32 12
Normal School trustees 113 43
Normal Schools 109 41
appropriation for 115 43
industrial courses in 74
Notice of appraisement 6 5
teachers' examinations 2 78
Notification of delinquent committees 103 41
o.
Office of State Superintendent 99 39
Official flag of l^Iaine 1 57
Operation of schools having too few scholars 2 4
Organization of secret societies 1 77
P.
Patriot's Day 88 34
Payments to academies 77 31
to free high schools 1 59
Penal provisions affecting schools , . . 117 44
Penalty for disturbing schools 118 44
Pensions, teachers' 1 79
Per capita expenditure 19 8
tax, unorganized townships 94 37
Perkins Institute 116 44
Permanent school fund 122 45
failure to account for 14 7
Physical condition of school children 1 58
Physicians, school 1 61
Physiology, instruction in 35 13
Plantations and unorganized townships, schools in 92 36
Plans for school buildings 1 63
to be approved by committee 12 6
Precinct, agent, money at disposal of 71 30
free high school 24
formation of 57 24
management of 60 26
to be free 59 25
taxes 66 29
assessment of 67 29
assessment of without authority 69 29
Presque Isle Normal School 109 41
Principals of Normal Schools 109
Privileges, secondary school in unorganized townships
Proceedings of conventions 100
Property, destruction of school 119
Protection of life in buildings used for public purposes
schools from fire 1
Pupils from out of town in free high schools 59
Presidents of colleges 83
Q.
Qualifications of Normal School applicants 112
teachers 36
superintendents of union of towns 44 19
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
R.
Section. Page.
Raj sing money for schools 13 6
Record books 100 40
Registers, teachers' 85 33
Reimbursement for free high schools 2 60
tuition paid 64 28
J moval of schoolbouse 3 4
Report, annual of State Superintendent 100 41
of Normal School trustees 113 43
to town meeting 39 16
Reports of academies 82 32
Reserved land fund 95
Returns, annual of municipal officers
of Superintendent of Schools 37
to State Superintendent .
blanks for common school 102 41
for fiscal 101
of academies
of free high schools 65
of tuition payments
of union superintendents
Reversion of lot to owner
s.
Safeguarding schools against danger of fire 64
Salary of union superintendents
Sale of timber lands, funds from
Scholars at light stations, etc
classification of
exclusion of
expulsion of
School age
compulsory
list of persons of £?
books in unorganized townships
books (see text-books)
buildings, defacing of .- *>
Injury to "9
plans for * «»
School census f 2
may be retaken
for deaf $1
for feeble minded ^ JJ
funds - no
distribution of
expenditure of J?
holidays JJ
laws 1K 7
money, how paid by towns "? '
of plantations '
withheld 6{
physicians 51
Schooling certificates 22 9
Schools evening • • jg
fifty, superintendents of more than.... **
in plantations and unorganized townships
in unorganized townships, agents for •*»
Normal and training ••• • ™
appropriation for 1«[ «
summer 49
appropriation for ^ Q
Second hand books / ' V V L\" 58
Secondary instruction, unorganized townships 23
schools, instruction in ^ 7T
Secret societies 28 H
Selectmen, duties of 35 33
Services of teachers 6 62
Sight, examination of 7 66
Sites, historical 76 31
State aid, academies 55 23
free high schools M 24
bavin* "or;' than 'fifty' schools ". . 42 1|
union of towns 45 19
withheld
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE.
Section. Page.
educational conventions .................................. 100 39
historian ................................................. 1 55
school fund ............................................. 122 45
superintendent of schools ........"" ......................... 98 39
annual report of ............... 100 41
appointment of ................. 98 39
clerk of ........................ 1 56
deputy ......................... 1 56
duties of ...................... 100 39
investigate industrial education.. 1 74
office of ........................ 99 39
salary of ....................... 1 56
Statistics of normal schools ................................... 109 42
Steam plants in school buildings .............................. 1 52
Students, credit to ............................................
Studies in common schools — . . ............................... 100 40
Summer training schools ...................................... 100 40
appropriation for ....................
Superintendence grade certificate ............................... 44
of schools through the union of towns ......... 40
Superintendent, compensation of ............................... 33 12
discharge of .................................. 34 12
election of ....................................
powers and duties of .........................
Superintending school committee, arrange terms ................. 30 11
election of .................. 29 11
member of shall not teach .... 30
powers and duties of ........ 34
secretary of ................. 36 14
serve without pay ...........
vacancies in ................. 30 11
Suspension of school ...........................................
schools for conventions ..........................
T.
Tax, mill, assessment of ............... . ....................... *
for school purposes .................................
not affected by error in location of school ........ t ........
Teacher, dismissal of .........................................
Teachers, employment of ......................................
payment for services of .............................
qualifications of .....................................
Teachers' associations .........................................
certificates .........................................
certificates .........................................
failure to secure .......................
failure to secure ......................
grades of .............................
examinations .......................................
appropriation for .......... ........... « y
pensions
registers ...........................................
Tender to be allowed in payment of lot ......................... »
Terms, length of .............................................. xi
Tests for sight and hearing .............. ...................... <
Text-books, change of .........................................
.distribution of ....................................
exclusive use of ...................................
loss of and damage to ............................. J
purchase of .......................................
^ £
*~
second hand
town shall provide
uniform system of
Thanksgiving Day ................................ 55
T°Wn ohffice°rsenot YequiVed" to 'take 'oath' to returns! \ '. 1
Towns delinquent .......................... • ................... fi
duties of .............................................. £ OR
providing free tuition in academy ...................... «*
Training course for teachers in academies ...................... TJ
school, Madawaska .......... • • • • • ....................
appropriation for ................
Transportation of pupils „ . ^^ • - — '-"- 56 23
Truancy ...............................................
abetting ..............................................
SCHOOL LAWS OF MAINE;.
Section. Page.
Truant officers 47 20
election of 51 21
compensation of 51 22
duties of 51 21
in • unorganized townships 96 38
neglect of duty by 51 22
Truants, arrest of 54 23
disposal of 48 20
institutions for 54 23
Treasurer of State to apportion school money 123 46
to be furnished with number of persons of
school age 103 41
Trustees of academies 72 30
normal schools 113 43
school for deaf 3 47
school for feeble minded 2 49
Tuition in common schools 50 21
secondary schools 62 26
returns 64 28
u.
Unexpended balance 15 7
of mill fund 127 47
Union of towns to elect superintendent 40 16
approval of 40 16
continuance of 40 17
formation of 41
joint committees of 41 17
schools 18 8
management of
superintendents, appropriation for salaries of
compensation of 17
conference of 42
election of 41 17
qualifications of
Unorganized townships, schools in
appropriation for 97
secondary instruction in 1 58
V.
Vaccinated, exclusion of scholars not 35 13
w.
Washington Normal School 109 41
Washington's Birthday
Welfare of school children 58
Wtihholding of State aid
Women, employment of
Y.
Year, minimum school • • 17 8
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