RELATING TO COMMON SCHOOLS, WITH COMMENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS, AND A DIGEST OF DECISIONS. PREPARED BY AND UNDER THE DIRECTION OF VICTOR M. RICE, SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. ALBANY : WEED, PARSONS AND COMPANY. 1868. PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX ANG 1913 MEM AOBK L THIS VOLUME BELONGS TO THE LIBRARY OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO WHICH IT IS SENT, IT IS TO ́DË KEPT, HOWEVER, IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DISTRICT CLERK, AND DELIVERED BY HIM TO ANY TAXABLE INHABITANT OR VOTER OF THE DISTRICTS TO BE RETAINED NOT EXCEEDING THREE DAYS; EXCEPT THAT, WHEN ANY ANNUAL, SPECIAL OR ADJOURNED DISTRICT MEETING IS TO TAKE PLACE WITHIN FIVE DAYS, THIS BOOK IS NOT TO BE DELIVERED TO ANY INHABITANT, BUT MUST BE RETAINED BY THE CLERK AND PRODUCED BY HIM AT SUCH MEETING FOR CONSULTATION BY THE VOTERS. WHEN SENT TO ANY SCHOOL OFFICER, HE HOLDS THE SAME ONLY IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY, AND MUST DELIVER IT, ON THE EXPIRATION OF HIS TERM, TO HIS SUCCESSOR IN OFFICE. MEM AOBK PREFACE. THE Legislature of 1864 directed the Superintendent of Public Instruction to cause the school laws to be published, with comments, forms and instructions for the information and guidance of school officers and the people generally, but no appropriation was made to pay the expense of their publication until April, 1866. This omission on the part of the Legislature, with a desire on my part that these laws should be perfected in a few important details, and that all the schools should be free, before so considerable an expense should be incurred for a work intended to be a permanent guide, has delayed their publication until this time. The act of 1864, in which the provisions of the school laws are classified under separate titles and articles, bringing together all those upon the same subject, was an improvement upon any former school act. This volume contains that act, as subsequently amended, in the same order of tiles, articles and sections which it has in the statute book. The comments, explanations and forms will, therefore, be readily referred to and understood. An attempt has been made to compress them within as brief a space as was consistent with full statement and clear illustration. It is hoped |