| John Gorham Palfrey - 1860 - 684 pages
...concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion* and the capital laws of the country." Selectmen were further empowered, "with consent of any Court or the Magistrate, to put forth apprentices... | |
| Myron Oliver Allen - 1860 - 224 pages
...concerning the calling and the implement of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country." They were also required to see that the young were brought up to some trade or useful occupation ;... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1861 - 682 pages
...concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion* and the capital laws of the country." Selectmen were further empowered, "with consent of any Court or the Magistrate, to put forth apprentices... | |
| John Gorham Palfrey - 1865 - 680 pages
...concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion* and the capital laws of the country." Selectmen were further empowered, "with consent of any Court or the Magistrate, to put forth apprentices... | |
| United States. Bureau of Education - 1897 - 1436 pages
...sec to it that all parents and masters of children should see that they should be able to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country, on pain of fine to the disobedient and even the removal of children from their own families. The statute... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 906 pages
...in Massachusetts authority to see that parents and masters secured to children " ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country," and it was far in advance of the spirit of secular education of to-day. The same conscience dictated... | |
| 1877 - 824 pages
...in Massachusetts authority to see that parents and masters secured to children "ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country," and it was far in advance of the spirit of secular education of to-day. The same conscience dictated... | |
| William Dodge Herrick - 1878 - 612 pages
...concerning their calling and employment of their children, especially of their ability to read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country." Selectmen were also authorized with " consent of any court or the magistrate, to put forth apprentices,... | |
| 1902 - 724 pages
...Colony authorized the selectmen of the various towns to find out the ability of children " To read and understand the principles of religion and the Capital laws of the Country." Under this law, towns by their selectmen, or by special committees, frequently examined the children.... | |
| 1893 - 848 pages
...have the oversight of a certain number of families. They are to see that the children can read and understand the principles of religion and the capital laws of the country, and that they are put to some useful work. Those Puritan ministers were not after all as black as they... | |
| |