but it is the plan of the Board to require at the end of a certain definite period an examination in some branch in addition to those taken at the first examination. 7. Examinations will be held in and for any town upon invitation of the visitors. Applicants who succeed will receive State Certificates, and the record of all, whether successful or not, who are expecting or intending to teach in the town will be given to the Examining Committee. This record is given, however, only in the cases of those who could be legally called be fore the Town Board for examination. Places of holding examinations and names of holders of certificates are given on pages 54–56. G. S. sec. 2220 Account of appropriation for SEC. 11. The State Board of Education shall keep an account of the money drawn and paid out for school lischool libraries braries and philosophical apparatus pursuant to chapter x, and apparatus. and the Comptroller shall annually audit such account. The annual appropriation is $5000. The amounts drawn since 1856 are given on page 217, and the report for year 1886-7 on page 206. G. S. sec. 2099. SEC. 12. The Board is authorized to expend such sum Expenses and as may be necessary to perform the duties and execute the account; orders powers conferred upon it, and shall semi-annually file with how signed. the Comptroller a certified account of all State moneys received and expended during the preceding half year, which account shall be audited by the Comptroller. All orders for drawing any State money shall be signed by the Secretary and countersigned by a committee of the Board duly authorized thereto. For fiscal year see General Statutes, sec. 375. Instruction, Employment and Attendance of Children. The persons and officers mentioned or referred to in this chapter who have duties and powers in connection with instruction, attendance and employment are as follows: 1. Parents. (a) To cause children between 8 and 16 to attend (1) Regularly, sec. 21. (2) In public schools, sec. 21. (3) During terms and hours while public schools are in session, sec. 21. (4) Excuses for failure are enumerated below: (b) Must furnish employers with certificates of age, sec. 25. (c) Penalty for (1) failure to cause children to attend, sec. 22. (2) false statements, secs. 25, 28. 2. Persons having the Care of Children. All the provisions relating to parents apply. 3. Employers. (a) Must not employ children, (1) Between 13 and 14 unless they have attended 60 days within previous 12 months, secs. 26, 21. (2) Between 8 and 13 unless they have attended 120 days within previous 12 months, secs. 26, 21. (b) Must not employ children under 13 in certain industries, sec. 25. (c) Must obtain certificate of attendance and age, secs. 25, 27. (d) Penalty for violation of (a) sec. 26. (b) sec. 25. 3. Teachers. (a) Must keep registers, sec. 151. (6) May furnish certificates of age, sec. 25. (c) May furnish certificates of attendance, sec. 27. 4. State Board of Education. (a) May appoint an agent to enforce attendance, sec. 7. (6) Must appoint agents to prevent illegal employment who may enforce attendance, sec. 8. (c) Secretary and agents may inspect, (1) Registers of private schools, sec. 23. (2) Certificates of attendance, sec. 27. 5. Selectmen. (a) Must inspect families and bind out neglected children, sec. 30. (6) May appoint committees, janitors, and others, to be special constables, sec. 38. 6. School Visitors. (a) Must enforce laws relating to employment, sec. 8. (6) Must inspect factories and ascertain whether all provisions of this chapter are observed, sec. 29. (c) May give certificate of attendance, sec. 27. 7. Town Committees, Boards of Education. Must enforce laws relating to employment. Sec. 8. In general the provisions relating to school visitors apply. 8. District Committees. May give certificates of attendance, sec. 27. The following are the main provisions of the law: G. S. sec. 2102. educated. SEC. 21. All parents and those who have the care of Children to be children shall bring them up in some honest and lawful calling or employment, and instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, spelling, writing, English grammar, geography, and arithmetic ; Parents and school. And every parent or other person having control of guardians must any child over eight and under sixteen years of age, send children to whose physical or mental condition is not such as to render its instruction inexpedient or impracticable, shall cause such child to attend a public day school regularly during the hours and terms while the public schools in the district wherein such child resides are in session, or to elsewhere receive thorough instruction during said hours and terms in the studies taught in said public schools. 1887, ch. clxv. But children under thirteen years of age who have attended school twenty-four weeks of the preceding twelve months, and children between thirteen and fourteen who have attended school twelve weeks of the preceding twelve months, and children over fourteen years of age, shall not be subject to the requirements of this section while lawfully employed to labor at home or elsewhere. But this section shall not be construed to exempt any child who is enrolled as a member of a school from any rule concerning irregularity of attendance which has been enacted or may be enacted by the town school committee, board of visitors, or board of education having control of the school. G. S. sec. 2103. Penalty. 1887, ch. cxlv. Excuses. SEC. 22. Each week's failure on the part of any person to comply with the provisions of the preceding section shall be a distinct offense, punishable with a fine not exceeding five dollars. Said penalty shall not be incurred when it appears that the child is destitute of clothing suitable for attending school, and the parent or person having control of such child is unable to provide such clothing, or its mental or physical condition is such as to render its instruction inexpedient or impracticable. All offenses concerning the same child shall be charged in separate counts, joined in one complaint. When a complaint conComplaint. tains more than one count the court may give sentence on one or more counts and suspend sentence on the remaining counts. If at the end of twelve weeks from the date of the sentence it shall appear that the child concerned has attended school regularly during that time, then judgment on such remaining counts shall not be executed. Procedure. Attendance at Register. SEC. 23. Attendance of children at a school other than G. S. sec. 2104. a public school shall not be regarded as compliance with 1887, ch. cxlvi. the provisions of the laws of the State requiring parents private schools, and other persons having control of children to cause when sufficient. them to attend school, unless the teachers or persons having control of such school shall keep a register of attendance in form and manner prescribed by the State board of education for the public schools, which register shall at all times during school hours be open to the inspection of the secretary and agents of the State board of education, and shall make such reports and returns concerning the school under their charge to the secretary of the State board of education as are required from the school visitors concerning the public schools, except that no report concerning expenses shall be required; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of the State board of education to furnish to the teachers or persons having charge of any school, on their request, such registers and blanks for returns as may be necessary, for compliance with the provisions of this section. SEC. 24. No child under thirteen years of age shall be G. S. sec. 1753. employed in any mechanical, mercantile, or manufactur- Employment of ing establishment. children under 13. G. S. sec. 1754. Penalty. Certificates. SEC. 25. Any person acting for himself, or as agent in any way whatever of any mechanical, mercantile, or manufacturing establishment who shall employ or authorize or permit to be employed in such establishment any child, in violation of the preceding section, shall be fined not more than sixty dollars, and every week of such illegal employment shall be a distinct offense, provided that no person shall be punished under this section for the employment of any child when at the time of such employment the employer shall demand and thereafter during such employment keep on file the certificate of any town clerk, or of the teacher of the school where such child last attended, stating that such child is more than thirteen years of age, or a like certificate of the parent or guardian of such child in such cases only where there is no record of the child's age in the office of the town clerk, and such child has not attended school in this State. parent or guardian who shall sign any certificate that his child or ward is more than thirteen years of age when in fact such child or ward is under thirteen years of age shall be fined not more than sixty dollars. Any G. S. sec. 2105. Employment of child under 14, who has not attended legal SEC. 26. No child under fourteen years of age, who has resided in the United States nine months, shall be employed to labor, unless such child shall have attended a day school in which instruction has been regularly and thoroughly given in the branches of education required in the public schools during at least twelve weeks, or sixty full school days of the twelve months next preceding any month in time. which such child shall be so employed, nor unless six weeks at least of this attendance have been consecutive. Any person who shall employ a child contrary to the provisions of this section shall be fined not more than sixty dollars. Penalty. G. S. sec. 2106. Certificate of school attendance. SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of every parent, or other person having control of a child under fourteen years of age, to furnish the employer of such child a certificate signed by the teacher, school visitor, or committee of the school which the child attended, showing that the child has attended school as required by the preceding section. The employer of any such child shall require such certificate, shall keep it at his place of business during the time the child is in his employment, and shall show the same when demanded, during the usual business hours, to any school visitor of the town where the child is employed, or to the secretary or agent of the State board of education. Said certificate shall be evidence that the child has attended school as the law requires. Evidence. G. S. sec. 2107. Penalty for SEC. 28. Any parent or any person having control of a child, who, with intent to evade the provisions of this false statement. chapter, shall make any false statement concerning the age of such child, or the time such child has resided in the United States, or shall instruct such child to make any such false statement, shall be fined not more than seven dollars, or be imprisoned not more than thirty days. G. S. sec. 2108. Inspection of factories by school visitors. SEC. 29. The school visitors in every town shall, once or more in every year, examine into the situation of the children employed in all its manufacturing establishments, and ascertain whether all the provisions of this chapter are duly observed, and report all violations thereof to one of the grand jurors of the town. G. S. sec. 2109. Selectmen may bind out neg lected children. SEC. 30. The selectmen, in every town, shall inspect the conduct of the heads of families, and if they find any who neglect the education of the children under their care, may admonish them to attend to their duty; and if they continue negligent, whereby the children grow rude, stubborn, and unruly, they shall, with the advice of a justice of the peace, take such children from those who have the charge of them, and bind them out to some proper master, or to some charitable institution or society incorporated in this State for the care and instruction of such children, males till twenty-one, and females till eighteen years of age, that they may be properly educated, and brought up in some lawful calling. Attendance and employment involve the following points: (1) Who may attend. (2) Who must attend. (3) Possible attendances. (4) How long and when children must attend. |