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No. I.
LEGAL PROVISIONS FOR THE EDUCATION OF THE FEOPLE IN MASSACHUSETTS.
The Legislature of Massachusetts, by an act approved 18th March 1839, has ordained as follows: §1. Every town containing fifty families or householders, shall maintain, at its own charges, one school, for the instruction of children, by a competent teacher or teachers, in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and good behaviour. The school shall be kept open during six months in every year; or if the town shall support two or more schools, the terms of them all shall be equivalent to six months.
§2. If the town contain 100 families or householders, the school or schools shall be kept for twelve months in each year.
§3. If it contain 150 families, two such schools shall be kept for nine months each.
§4. If it contain 500 families, two such schools shall be kept for twelve months each.
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- Notes on the United States of North America during a Phrenological Visit in 1838–39–40 , pp. 353 - 368Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010