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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt:...the district, or unless the town has directed the school visitors to employ the teachers,' employ one or more qualified teachers;4 Shall provide suitable schoolrooms;5 And furnish the same with fuel properly prepared; Visit the schools, by one or more of their number, twice at least during each term; Shall, when the scholars are not properly supplied with books, and their parents are too poor to furnish 1 Vacancies filled by board of school visitors. Sec. 128. Must be a resident of the district. Sec. 124. 'Secs. 114,121, 160. » Secs. 43, 78,132. 4 Committee can remove teachers when they think it for the interest of the school, but both in appointing and removing teachers they are subject to the control and direction of the district. 33 Conn., 304. They can employ teachers for a time extending beyond their own term of office. 36 Conn., 282. See last paragraph of this Section. A contract for the hiring of a teacher, made by two of three members of a district committee, is valid where the third member either authorized them beforehand or consented to it afterwards. 46 Conn., 400. 5 Sec. 132. When the district has a proper schoolhouse, the committeecannot provide another school elsewhere. 28 Conn., 333. them, provide the same, the cost thereof to be included in the incidental expenses of the term; Shall suspend during pleasure, or expel from school for the term, all pupils found guilty, on full hearing, of incorrigibly bad conduct;1 And shall give such information and assistance to the school visitors of the town as they may require.' i895,ch.crai. No committee of any school district of this state elected under the provisions of section 124 of this compilation shall employ any teacher or teachers, or do any other business for said district for a longer per...