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COMMON WEALTH OF MASSACHU's ETTs.
In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty-seven.
AN ACT,
To provide for the Instruction of Youth.
SEC. I. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the
authority of the same, That each town or district
within this Commonwealth, containing fifty families,
or householders, shall be provided with a teacher,
or teachers, of good morals, to instruct children in
orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, ge-
ography, arithmetic, and good behaviour, for such
term of time as shall be equivalent to six months for
one school in each year: and every town or district,
containing one hundred families or householders,
shall be provided with such teacher or teachers, for
such term of time as shall be equivalent to twelve
months for one school in each year: and every town
or district, containing one hundred and fifty families or
householders, shall be provided with such teacher or
teachers, as shall be equivalent to eighteen months,
for one school in each year. And every city, town,
or district, containing five hundred families or house-
holders, shall be provided with such teacher or
teachers, for such term of time as shall be equiva-
lent to twenty-four months, for one school in a year,

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and shall also be provided with a master of good
morals, competent to instruct, in addition to the
branches of learning aforesaid, the history of the
United States, book-keeping by single entry, geome-
try, surveying, and algebra, and shall employ such
master to instruct a school, in such city, town, or dis-
trict, for the benefit of all the inhabitants thereof,
at least ten months in each year, exclusive of vaca-
tions, in such convenient place, or alternately at such
places in such city, town, or district, as the said in-
habitants, at their meeting in March, or April, annu-
ally, shall determine; and in every city or town,
containing four thousand inhabitants, such masters
shall be competent to instruct, in addition to all the
foregoing branches, the Latin and Greek languages,
history, rhetoric, and logic. -
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the several
towns and districts in this Commonwealth, be, and
they hereby are authorized and empowered, in town
meetings to be called for that purpose, to determine
and define the limits of school districts, within their
towns and districts, respectively: Provided, that
nothing contained in this act, shall be so construed,
as to prevent any town from carrying into effect the
provisions of this act, in their corporate capacity,
and not in school districts, if said town shall so de-
termine. ... "
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be,
and it hereby is, made the duty of the President,
Professors, and Tutors, of the University at Cam-
bridge, and of the several Colleges in this Common-
wealth, Preceptors and Teachers of Academies, and
all other Instructors of Youth, to take diligent care,
and to exert their best endeavors to impress on the
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minds of children and youth, committed to their
care and instruction, the principles of piety, justice,
and sacred regard to truth, love to their country, hu-
manity, and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry,
and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance,
and those other virtues which are the ornament of
human society, and the basis upon which the Re-
publican Constitution is founded. And it shall be
the duty of such Instructors, to endeavor to lead
those under their care, as their ages and capacity
will admit, into a particular understanding of the ten-
dency of the above-mentioned virtues, to preserve
and perfect a Republican Constitution, and to secure
the blessings of Liberty, as well as to promote their
future happiness, and the tendency of the opposite
vices to slavery and ruin. And it shall be the duty
of the resident Minister of the Gospel, the Select-
men, and School Committees, in the several towns in
this Commonwealth, to exercise their influence, and
use their best endeavors, that the youth of their
respective towns and districts do regularly attend
the Schools established and supported as aforesaid,
for their instruction.
SEc. 4. Be it further enacted, That the several
towns in this Commonwealth are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed, at their annual meetings
for the choice of town offieers, or at any regular
meeting called for that purpose, to vote and raise
such sums of money for the support of the schools
aforesaid, as they shall judge necessary for that
purpose, which sums so voted to be raised, 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
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in this Commonwealth, shall at the annual meeting
thereof, for the choice of town officers, choose by
written or printed ballots, a School Committee, con-
sisting of three, five, or seven persons, who shall
have the general charge and superintendence of all
the public schools in said town, which are supported
at the expense thereof. Provided, That any town
containing four thousand inhabitants, and upwards,
may choose an additional number, not exceeding
five; and it shall be the duty of said committee to
require full and satisfactory evidence of the good
moral character of all instructors, who may be em-
ployed in the several schools in said town, and to
satisfy themselves, by personal examination or other-
wise, of their literary qualifications and capacity for
the government of schools; and no instructor shall
be entitled to receive any compensation for his or
her service, in the instruction of any of the schools
aforesaid, without first obtaining from said committee
a certificate of his or her qualifications as aforesaid;
and it shall furthermore be the duty of said commit-
tee to determine the number and qualifieations of the
scholars to be admitted into the school kept for the
use of the whole town as aforesaid; to visit such
school at least quarter yearly, for the purpose of
making a careful examination thereof, and of seeing
that the scholars are properly supplied with books ;
and they shall, at such examination, inquire into the
regulation and discipline of such schools, and the
habits and proficiency of the scholars therein; and
said committee, or some one or more of them, shall
visit each of the district schools in said town, for the
purposes aforesaid, on some day during the first or
second week of the commencement thereof, and also
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on some day during the two last weeks of the same ;
and also all the schools kept by said town, once a,
month for the purpose aforementioned, without giv-
ing previous notice thereof to the instructors.
SEc. 6. Be it further enacted, That each town in
this Commonwealth, which is or may be divided
into school districts, at their annual meeting afore-
said, shall, in addition to the committee aforegaid,
choose a committee for each school district in said
town, consisting of one person, who shall be a resi-
dent in the district for which he shall be chosen,
and be called the Prudential Committee thereof,
whose duty it shall be to keep the school house of
such district in good order, at the expense of such
district; and in case there be no school house, to
provide a suitable place for the school of the dis-
trict, at the expense thereof; to provide fuel, and
all things necessary for the comfort of the scholars
therein; to select and contract with a school teach-
er for his own district, and to give such informa-
tion and assistance to the said School Committee,
as may be necessary to aid them in the discharge
of the duties required of them by this act: Pro-
vided, that in any town in this Commonwealth,
which shall so determine, the members of said Pru-
dential Committee may be chosen in the several
school districts to which they respectively belong,
in such manner as said district may decide.
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, That the School
Committee of each town shall direct and determine
the class books to be used in the respective class-
es, in all the several schools kept by said town;
and the scholars sent to such schools shall be Sup-
plied by their parents, masters, or guardians, with
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the books prescribed for their classes; and the
School Committee of each town shall procure, at
the expense of the town, and to be paid for out of
the town treasury, a sufficient supply of such class
books for all the schools aforesaid, and give no-
tice of the place or places where such books may
be obtained; and such books shall be supplied to
such scholars at such prices as merely to reimburse
to the town the expense of the same ; and in case
any scholars shall not have been furnished by their
parent, master, or guardian, with the requisite
books, all such scholars shall be supplied there-
with by the School Committee, at the expense of
the town; and the School Committee shall give
notice, in writing, to the assessors of the town, of
the names of the scholars so supplied by them
with books, of the books so furnished, the prices of
the same, and the names of the parents, masters,
or guardians who ought to have supplied the same ;
and said assessors shall add the amount of the
books, so supplied, to the next annual tax of the
parents, masters, or guardians, who ought to have
supplied the same ; and the amount so added, shall
be levied, collected, and paid into the town treas-
ury, in the same manner as the public taxes: Pro-
vided however, that in case such assessors shall be
of opinion that any of such parents, masters, or
guardians are not able, and cannot afford to pay the
whole expense of the books so supplied on their ac-
count respectively, such parents, masters, or guar-
dians, shall be exonerated from the payment of the
whole or part of such expense, and the said asses-
sors shall omit to add the amount of such books, or
shall add only a part thereof to the annual tax of
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such parent, master or guardian, according to the
proportion of such expense, which such parent, mas-
ter or guardian shall, in their opinion, be able and
can afford to pay: Provided nevertheless, that in cases
where children are already supplied with books,
which shall not be considered by the committee as
being extremely faulty, in comparison with others
which might be obtained,and which may be possessed
in such numbers as to admit of the proper and con-
venient classification of the school, then, and in that
case, the committee shall not direct the purchase of
new books, without first obtaining the consent of the
parents, masters or guardians of a majority of the
children, so already provided for, under the term of
two years from the passing of this act, unless such
books become so worn as to be unfit for use : Pro-
vided also, that said committee shall never direct any
school books to be purchased or used in any of the
schools under their superintendence, which are cal-
culated to favor any particular religious sect or tenet.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, That the School
Committee, in the city of Boston, and in the several
towns in this Commonwealth, be, and they hereby
are required, to make and return a report to the
Secretary of the Commonwealth, on of before the
first Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and on
the first Monday of June of every year thereafter,
the amount of money paid by such city or town.
during the year ending on the first day of May pre-
ceding the time of making said report, for the in-
struction of the schools kept by said city or town;
the number of school districts into which said city or
town is divided, the aggregate number of months
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that the several schools were kept by such city or
town in said year, and what portion thereof was
kept by male, and what by female teachers; the
whole number of pupils who have attended any of
the schools kept by such city or town during said
year; the number of academies and private schools;
the number of pupils in the academies and private
schools, who have not attended any school kept by
such city or town during said year; the estimated
amount of the compensation paid to the instructors
of academies and private schools during said year;
and whether there are any, and what number of
persons, over fourteen and under twenty-one years
of age, who are unable to read or write.
SEc. 9. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the
duty of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
twenty-eight, and every year thereafter, to furnish
to each city and town a blank form of return, in
manner following, viz.:-
[Form omitted.]
Sec. 10. Be it further enacted, That the inhab-
itants of the several school districts, within any
town, which hath already, or which shall hereafter
define the limits of such districts, qualified to vote
in town affairs, be, and they hereby are empowered,
at any meeting called in the manner hereinafter
provided, to raise money for erecting or repairing a
school house in their respective districts, or to pur-
chase, or hire, any house or building, to be used as
a school house, and also to purchase land for a school
house to stand upon, and for the accommodation of
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the same ; to determine in what part of said district
such school house shall stand; to choose a commit”
tee to superintend the building, repairing or pur-
chasing of such school house; to choose a clerk,
who shall be sworn faithfully to discharge the duties
of his office, and whose duty it shall be to make a
fair record of all votes passed at any meeting of said
district, and to certify the same when required, and
shall hold such office until another person shall be
chosen and sworn in his room; also to raise money
at any such meeting, to procure necessary utensils
for their respective school houses, to be certified as
aforesaid, and assessed in manner as is hereinafter
provided : Provided however, that any town may
carry into effect the provisions of this section, in
their corporate capacity, and at the expense of the
town, and may at any legal meeting raise and assess
taxes, and adopt all necessary and proper measures
for providing school houses and sites thereof, for the
several school districts in such town,
SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, That for the pur.
poses aforesaid, every person shall be taxed in the
district in which he lives for all the estate he holds
in the town, being under his own actual improvement,
and all other of his real estate, in the same town,
shall be taxed in the district in which it is included;
and lands where the owner thereof lives without the
town, shall be taxed in such district as the assessors,
having regard to the local situation thereof, shall
appoint; and it shall be the duty of the assessors,
before they assess a tax for any district, to deter.
mine in which district such lands respectively shall
be taxed, and to certify in writing their determina-
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tion to the clerk of the town, who shall record the
same ; and such land, while owned by any person
residing without the limits of the town, shall be
taxed in such districts, until the town shall be dis-
tricted anew. Provided however, that all the lands
within any town owned by the same person not liv-
ing therein, shall be taxed in one and the same dis-
trict; and the assessors shall assess, in the same
manner as town taxes are assessed, on the polls
and estates of the inhabitants comprising any school
districts defined as aforesaid, and on lands in said
town belonging to persons living out of the same,
which the assessors shall have directed to be tax-
ed in such district, all monies voted to be raised by
the inhabitants of such district for the purposes
aforesaid, in thirty days after the clerk of the dis-
trict shall certify to said assessors the sum voted
by the district, to be raised as aforesaid; and it shall
be the duty of said assessors to make a warrant in
due form of law, directed to one of the collectors of
the town to which such district belongs, requiring
and empowering said collector to levy and collect
the tax so assessed, and to pay the same within a
time to be limited in said warrant, to the Treasurer
of the town, to whom a certificate of the assessment
shall be made by the assessors, and the money so col-
lected and paid shall be at the disposal of the com-
mittee of the district, to be by them applied to the
building or repairing of a school house, or to the pur-
chase of a house or building, to be used as a school
house, or to the purchase of land for the site of a
school house, as herein provided for, in the district
to which such committee shall belong; and such
collector, in collecting such tax, shall have the same
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powers, and be holden to proceed in the same man-
ner, as is by law provided in collecting town taxes.
Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, That the Treasur-
er of any town, to whom a certificate of the assess-
ment of a district tax shall be transmitted as afore-
said, shall have the same authority to enforce the
collection and payment of the money so assessed
and certified, as if the same had been voted to be
raised by the town, for the town's use ; and the
Treasurer and Collector shall be paid the same
commissions on the money collected and paid for the
use of a school district aforesaid; and the assess-
ors, for assessing said tax, shall be allowed by the
district the same sum for each and every day while
employed in assessing the same as is allowed and
paid by the town for similar purposes.
SEc. 13. Be it further enacted, That the assess-
ors of the several towns and districts in this Com-
monwealth, be, and they are hereby vested with the
same powers to remit sums of money assessed on
the inhabitants of every school district, for the pur-
pose of purchasing, building, hiring, repairing, or fur-
nishing school houses, as they have to remit any
sums of money assessed on the inhabitants of any
town or district, for defraying town or district ex-
penses.
SEc. 14. Be it further enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the Selectmen of the several towns, di-
vided into school districts as aforesaid, upon applica-
tion made to them in writing by three or more free-
holders resident within any school district in their
respective towns, “ or if there be not so many free-
holders resident in such district, then any three of
the inhabitants thereof, who pay taxes,” to issue
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their warrant directed to one of the persons making
such application, requiring him to warn the inhabi-
tants of such district qualified to vote in town affairs,
to meet at such time and place in the same district,
as the Selectmen shall in their warrant appoint; and
the warning aforesaid shall be, by notifying person-
ally every person in the district, qualified to vote in
town affairs, or by leaving at his last and usual place
of abode a written or printed notification, expressing
therein, the time, place and purpose of the meeting,
seven days at least, before the time appointed for
holding the same. Provided however, that any school
district, at any regular meeting thereof, warned as
aforesaid, having an article in the warrant of the
Selectmen, for that purpose, shall have power to
prescribe the mode of warning all future meetings
of such district, and the mode so prescribed shall be
legal until altered by such district at a subsequent
meeting thereof; and any vote to raise money for
any of the purposes aforesaid, passed by a majority
of the inhabitants of a school district, present at a
district meeting, warned and held as aforesaid, shall
be obligatory on the inhabitants of said school dis-
trict, to be assessed, levied, and collected, in the
manner herein provided.
Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, That if the in-
habitants of any school district cannot agree where
to erect or place a school house for the accommo-
dation of the same, the Selectmen of the town to
which such district belongs, upon application made
to them by the committee of the district, for build-
ing or placing a school house, are hereby authorized
and empowered to determine the place, where a
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school house for the accommodation of the district,
shall be placed or erected.
SEc. 16. Be it further enacted, That whenever a
meeting of the inhabitants of any school district,
within this Commonwealth, shall be called for the
purpose of raising money as aforesaid, and a majority
of the voters present are opposed to the raising of
money for any of the purposes contemplated in the
warrant for calling such meeting, it shall be lawful
for any five or more of the freeholders, who are in-
habitants of said school district, or if there be not so
many freeholders resident in such district, then any
five of the inhabitants thereof, who pay taxes, to
make application in writing to the Selectmen of the
town in which such school district is situated, re-
questing them to insert in their warrant for calling
the next town meeting, an article requiring the opin-
ion of the town relative to the expediency of raising
such monies as are proposed in the warrant for said
district meeting; and if the majority of the voters
present in said town meeting, shall think the raising
of any of the sums proposed in said warrant, to be
necessary and expedient, they shall grant such sum
or sums as they shall think necessary for the pur-
poses contemplated, and the same shall be assessed
on the polls and estates of the inhabitants of said
district, and collected and paid over in the manner
herein provided.
Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, That each and
every school district in this Commonwealth is here-
by made a body corporate, so far as to bring and
maintain any action, on any agreement made with
any person or persons for the non-performance
thereof, or for any damage done to their school
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houses, or other property, and shall be liable to
have any action brought and maintained against
them, for the non-performance of any contract made
by them; and said corporation shall have power to
take, and hold, in fee simple, or otherwise, any es-
tate, real or personal, which has been, or may be
given, by any person or persons, for the purpose of
supporting a school or schools in said district, and to
apply the same for the purposes aforesaid; and may
prosecute and defend any suit or suits relative to the
same; and every member of any school district shall
and may be admitted as a competent witness, and
his deposition be used in the same manner as inhab-
itants of towns, districts, precincts, or parishes, or
religious societies, are by law now admitted, and
their depositions taken and used. -
Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this
act contained, shall be so construed as to affect the
right of any corporation, heretofore, or which may
be hereafter, established in any city, town, or dis-
trict, in this Commonwealth, to manage any es-
tate, or funds given or obtained for the purpose
of supporting schools therein, or in any wise to
affect any such estate or funds, given or obtained,
for the purpose aforesaid, but such corporate pow-
ers, and such estate and funds shall be, and remain,
as if this act had never passed. -
SEc. 19. Be it further enacted, That any town in
this Commonwealth, which shall refuse or neglect,
at their annual meeting, for the choice of town offi-
cers, to vote and raise money for the support of
schools, as provided for in this act, and to choose a
School Committee to superintend said schools, or, if
said town is divided into school districts, Prudential
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Committees in the several districts in said town, for
the purpose herein before mentioned, every such
town shall forfeit and pay for refusing or neglect-
ing to vote and raise money as aforesaid, upon con-
viction thereof, a sum equal to twice the highest
sum, which such town had ever voted to raise for
the support of schools therein; and for refusing or
neglecting to choose either of the committees afore-
said, on conviction thereof, a sum of not more than
two hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dol-
lars, to be recovered by information, or indictment,
in the Supreme Judicial Court, or Court of Common
Pleas, when holden in, and for the county, within
which such town is situated; and the money so re-
covered shall be paid into the Treasury of said
County, one fourth thereof for the use of said Coun-
ty, and three fourths thereof shall be paid by the
said Treasurer to the School Committee of such
town, if any such committee exist, if not, to the Se-
lectmen of such town, for the support of schools
therein; and every such School Committee, or
Board of Selectmen, who shall receive notice from
the Treasurer of the County, in which they reside,
of any money being holden by him for the purpose
aforesaid, shall forthwith receive, apportion, and ap-
propriate the same to the support of schools in such
town, in the same way and manner it should have
been appropriated, if it had been raised by such
town, pursuant to the provisions of this act.
Sec. 20. Be it further enacted, That the Secretary
of this Commonwealth be instructed to transmit to
the Town Clerk of each and every town in the
Commonwealth, as soon as conveniently may be, a
sufficient number of printed copies of this act, to
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supply each school district with one copy; and it
shall be the duty of said Town Clerks to deliver to
the Prudential Committee of each district one copy,
for the use and benefit of the district, *
[Sec. 21—Repeals the statutes of 1789, chap.
19—1796, chap. 66–1802, chap. 11–1811, chap.
24–1814, chap. 142—1817, chap. 14–1821, chap.
99–1823, chap. 111—and 1825, chap. 170, re-
spectively.] “t e
[Approved by the Governor, March 10, 1827.]
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BY-LAWS OF GROTON,
IN RELATION TO SCHOOLS.
ARTICLE I.
The Town is divided into fourteen School Dis-
tricts, designated by the numerical denominations,
and included within the boundaries, following, viz.
No. 1 comprizes the southerly section of the cen-
tre of the Town; extending on the great County
road northerly to the brook between Dr. Amos
Bancroft's and Kimball Danforth's; south-easterly to
the brook issuing from Cady's Pond; easterly to the
forks of the roads near Capt. Jonas Gilsons, and
midway between the houses of David Torrey and
Nehemiah Whitman; southerly midway between
the houses of Rufus Moors and Asahel Farnsworth,
and on the Harvard road to Russell's lane, excluding
Curtis Lawrence's house; and westerly to the mid-
dle of Broad-meadow.
No. 2 extends from Russell's lane on the road
towards Harvard, to the forks southerly of William
Burgess'; easterly to Snake-hill, and including Cur-
tis Lawrence's house; from the forks of the roads
southerly of William Bancroft's house, by Levi
Stone's to Harvard road; by Benjamin Moors’ to
the guide post at Lunenburgh road; and by Charles
Warren's and Capt. Thomas Farnsworth's to Page's
bridge.
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No. 3 comprizes Farmer's Row, and extends
from the limits of No. 2, on the south to the Gratu-
ity road on the north, and from Nashua River on
the west to the limits of Nos. 1 and 14 on the east,
No. 4 comprehends all that part of the town
on the westerly side of the Nashua river.
No. 5 includes the great County road from the
milestone northerly of Oliver Sheple's, to the bridge
at Emery's Mills; the Hollis road from the forks
northerly of Francis Champney's to where the Nod
road crosses, and all inhabitants between these roads
including Capt. Joseph D. Nutting; the Dunstable
road to the height of land between Walter Shat-
tuck's and Cornelius Mahony's; the road by James
Sheple's to Martin's Pond, and including Naomi Far-
well.
No. 6 extends on the Hollis road from the lim-
its of No. 5, to Jewetts bridge over Nashua river;
and all the inhabitants of the town living easterly of
that road, and northerly of the Dunstable road, cal-
led Chiccabee Row. t
No. 7 includes all the inhabitants living on Chic-
cabee Row from the limits of No. 5. to Dunstable
line, and Timothy Blood's house southerly thereof.
No. 8 is bounded northerly by the limits of No.
7. easterly by Dunstable, Tyngsborough, and West-
ford lines; southerly by a line drawn from Westford
line in Snake-meadow near Oliver Wright's over the
ford way at Whitney's Pond, and between the hous-
es of Zadock Woods, and the Widow Catharine
Woods to Baddacook brook; and westerly by said
brook and Baddacook pond, and by the small brook
westerly of the house, where Joseph Bennett lately
lived.
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No. 9 is bounded by No. 1 on the west, No. 7
on the north, No. 8 on the east, and extends south-
erly so far as to include the houses of Nehemiah
Whitman, Bulkley Ames, Esq. Capt. Thomas Blood
and the Green Place, near Whitney's pond.
No. 10 is bounded westerly by No. 1, northerly
by No. 9, easterly by a line from the old Saw-mill
Place near Whitney's pond to Rocky-hill near to-
bacco-pipe-plain, and southerly by a line from
Rocky-hill through Long-pond to the small pond
southerly of Rufus Moors'.
No. 11 is bounded northerly by a line from the
road on the west side of snake-hill at the limits of
No. 2, over said hill, and rocky-hill to Littleton line
at the great County road; easterly and southerly
by Littleton and Harvard lines, and westerly by a
line from the west side of Snake-hill crossing the
Lunenburgh road midway between Moses Day's
house, and the forks at Sandy-pond, to Harvard
line. \
No. 12 is bounded easterly by No. 11, northerly
by No. 2, and includes all the inhabitants southerly
and westerly of these limits to Harvard and Shirley
lines.
No. 13 is bounded northerly on No. 8, westerly
on No. 10, southerly on No. 11, and easterly on
Westford and Littleton lines.
No. 14 comprises the northerly section of the
central part of the town; extending on the great
County road from the brook between Dr. Amos
Bancroft’s and Kimball Danforth’s to the milestone
northerly of Oliver Sheple's; on the road towards
Farmers' Row midway between the great County
road and the Hon. Samuel Dana's : on the old road
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farther north to a place called the pool; and on
the Hollis and Dunstable road to the guide-post at
the road leading to Capt. Peter Nutting's.
ARTICLE II.
The Scholars belonging to any school-district
shall not be debarred from attending school in any
other district. º
ARTICLE III.
The inhabitants of the several school districts,
qualified by laws to vote in town affairs, shall meet
annually on the Wednesday next after the first
Tuesday in March, at such hours and places as the
clerks thereof shall in their warrants or notifications
for such meetings appoint; and each district shall
choose a clerk, who shall be sworn to the faithful
discharge of his duty, and a Prudential Committee,
(unless the town shall have chosen one) and transact
any other business pertaining to the district, which
shall have been inserted in the warrant or notifica-
tion for such meeting.
And other meetings of the districts may be holden
for the transaction of any business pertaining to
them, whenever the Prudential Committee, or any
three legal voters in a district shall request the
clerk thereof to call a meeting.
ARTICLE IV.
It shall be the duty of the clerk of each district,
besides the duties required of him by the law of
the Commonwealth to take a census of the child-
21
ren in his district, on the first day of September
annually, viz. males between the ages of four and
twenty-one years, and females between the ages of
four and eighteen, and make a fair schedule thereof,
with the heads of families, to which they respec-
tively belong, which he shall record on the district
Book of Records, and deliver an attested copy
thereof to the selectmen, on or before the first day
of October next ensuing the taking thereof
ARTICLE W.
The Selectmen shall annually in the month of Oc-
tober, apportion the money, raised by the town for
the support of schools, among the several school
districts in proportion to the number of children be-
longing to each, according to the census thereof; and
on or before the first day of November, shall depos-
ite in the town clerk's office, a copy of such appor-
tionment; and the town clerk shall within ten days
thereafter, transmit to the prudential committee of
each district, a certified statement of the sum appor-
tioned to his district.
ARTICLE WI.
The prudential committees shall expend at least
two thirds of the sums apportioned to their districts
respectively in the support of winter schools to be
taught by masters, and the remainder in summer
Schools to be taught by mistresses, within one year
next after the apportionment, such masters having
been first approved and recommended according to
law by the town's school committee. And the pru-
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dential committees shall give seasonable notice to
the town's committee of the times of commencing
and ending the several schools, that they may be
visited and inspected according to law.
The foregoing By-laws, having been reported by a
Committee chosen for the purpose, the Inhabitants of
Groton, in legal Town meeting, assembled May 5th,
.A. D. 1828, having heard and considered the same,
Voted, to accept the same, and ordered one hundred
copies thereof, with the Statute of the Commonwealth to
provide for the instruction of youth, to be printed for
the use of the Town. \
Attest, CALEB BUTLER, Town Clerk.

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