...also at the public expense ; then elects a School Committee of three, five, or seven persons, 'to ' have the general charge and superintendence of all the public ' schools in the town.' The members of this last important committee are entitled to one dollar a day for their...

...shall, at the annual March or April meeting, choose a School Committee, consisting of not less than five persons, who shall have the general charge and superintendence of all the public schools in said town; and it shall bo the duty of said committee, to visit the schools in said town, which are kept through...

...shall, at the annual March or April meeting, choose a School Committee, consisting of not less than live persons, who shall have the general charge and superintendence of all the public schools in said town; and it shall be the duty of said committee, to visit the schools in said town, which are kept through...

...shall be assessed and collected in like manner as other town taxes are by law assessed and collected. SEc. 5. Be it further enacted, That each town in this...seven persons, who shall have the general charge and superintendance of all the public schools in said town, whichare supported at the expense thereof....

...meeting thereof, for the choice of town officers, choose by written or printed ballots Town to elect a school committee, consisting of three, five, or...expense thereof: Provided, that any town, containing Proviso wher« , , . , , .L , , " , ,,. 4000inhabitlour thousand inhabitants, and upwards, may choose...

...Town in Massachusetts is required, at its annual meeting', to choose by ballot a School Committee, who shall have the general charge and superintendence of all the public schools. The leading duties of this Committee are three fold : They are to require full and satisfactory evidence...

...town taxes. S 10. The inhabitants of every town shall, at their annual meeting, choose, by written ballots, a school committee, consisting of three,...charge and superintendence of all the public schools in such town. s II. In any town, containing five hundred families, and in which a school shall be kept...

...colored children nearest their residences. The law provides that the School Committee of every town " shall have the general charge and superintendence of all the public schools in such town ;" and also, that " the School Committee shall determine the number and qualifications of...

...general, are de3 fined by statutes, and therein it is expressly declared that the School Committee " shall have the general charge and superintendence of all the public schools.'' Prior to the statute of 1854, hereinafter mentioned, the City Council had no control over them; they...

...taxes. " Sec. 10. The inhabitants of every town shall, at their annual meeting, choose, by written ballots, a school committee, consisting of three,...charge and superintendence of all the public schools in such town." About the time, but shortly before the date, of the Revised Statutes, (1836,) a new impulse,...