Circular of the Superintendent of Common Schools, to Supervisors, County Treasurers, Commissioners of Common Schools and Trustees of School Districts: Containing "An Act to Amend Title Second of Chapter Fifteen of the First Part of the Revised Statutes, Relating to Common Schools" : Passed May 3, 1839 : with Instructions for Its Execution, and Regulations Concerning Appeals |
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Page 21 - Heports, 114. A public officer who is required by law to act in certain cases, according to his judgment or opinion, and subject to penalties for his neglect, is not liable to a party for an omission arising from a mistake or want of skill, if acting in good faith. Seaman vs.
Page 24 - When any proceeding of a district meeting is appealed from, and when the inhabitants of a district generally are interested in the matter of the appeal, and in all cases where an inhabitant might be an appellant had the decision or proceeding been the opposite of that which was made or had, any one or more of such inhabitants may answer the appeal, with or without the trustees.
Page 5 - Whenever the share of school moneys or any portion thereof, apportioned to any town or school district, or any money to which a town or school district would have been entitled, shall be lost, in consequence of any wilful neglect of official duty by any school commissioner, town clerk, trustees or clerks of school districts, the officer...
Page 19 - ... board at the house of any of the inhabitants, he will allow whatever sum may be agreed on per week for such board, to be applied to his wages, and will give an order on the trustees for the amount, to the person with whom he boards : and the trustees may then accept such order from the inhabitants, as payment to that extent upon his tuition bill, and deduct it from the amount to be paid the teacher, after having paid him the whole of the public money. It is strongly recommended that all contracts...
Page 5 - ... district, as the case may be, for the use of the common schools therein, the sum of ten dollars for each such neglect or refusal, which penalty shall be sued for and collected by the supervisor of the town, and paid over to the proper officers, to be distributed for the benefit of the common...
Page 24 - So far as the parties concur in a statement, no oath will be required to it. But all facts, maps, or papers, not agreed upon by them and evidenced by their signature on both sides, must be verified by oath.
Page 5 - ... dollars for each such neglect or refusal, which penalty shall be sued for and collected by the supervisor of the town, and paid over to the proper officers, to be distributed for the benefit of the common schools in the town or district to which such penalty belongs ; and when the share of school...
Page 10 - Town Superintendents of common schools, and trustees and clerks of school districts, refusing or wilfully neglecting to make any report, or to perform any other duty required by law, or by regulations or decisions made under the authority of any statute, shall severally forfeit to their town, or to their district, as the case may be, for the use of the common schools therein, the sum of ten dollars for each such neglect or refusal, which penalty shall be sued for and...
Page 6 - The sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars of the income mentioned in the preceding section, shall be annually distributed to the support of common schools, in like manner and upon the like conditions as the school moneys are now or shall be hereafter distributed...
Page 23 - Such service must be made within thirty days after the making of the decision, or the performance of the act complained of : or within that time, after the knowledge of the cause of complaint came to the appellant, or some satisfactory excuse must be rendered for the delay.