Contributors Proceedings in case fund is insufficient to pay annuities. capacity shall be determined by the attending physician and one sent by the board of trustees, and the annuity shall cease when the incapacity ceases. SEC. 6. Any teacher who shall be dismissed before having served ten years shall receive back all the money which such teacher may have contributed to the fund herein provided for; but if dismissed after ten years and before having served twenty years, shall receive only two thirds of the amount so contributed; and after twenty years only one third of the amount so contributed. SEC. 7. In case said fund should be insufficient to pay the annuities provided for in sections 4 and 5 of this act, the board of trustees shall make a ratable distribution thereof among the teachers who may be entitled to annuities under the provisions of this act. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 587. Passed June 15, AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 64 OF THE GENERAL Of the attendance of chil It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The school committee of the city of Providence dren in the pub- shall divide the school year into two school terms of approxi lic schools of city of Provi dence. mately equal length; and every person having under his control a child between the ages of seven and fifteen years residing in said city shall cause such child to regularly attend some public day school in said city for at least the whole of one of such terms in each year, subject to the same penalty and the same provisos as are specified in section 1 of Chapter 64 of the General Laws; and, in said city, attend ance as aforesaid shall be required under all the provisions of Chapter 64 of the General Laws in the place and stead of the attendance for eighty full school days specified in said section 1 of said chapter. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 593. 1898. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER THE SCHOOL COM- Passed June 2, It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Provision for of children. the education residents of Providence, in R. I. Normal ing. SECTION 1. The school committee of the city of Providence is hereby authorized and empowered to contract from time to time with the board of trustees of the Rhode Island normal school for the education of children residing in the school buildcity of Providence, in schools maintained in the Rhode Island normal school building and controlled by said board of trustees, upon such terms and conditions as may be mutually agreed upon by said school committee and said board of trustees. SEC. 2. All expenditures of money by said school committee made necessary by any contract made in pursuance of the authority hereby granted shall be made out of the appropriations made by the city council of the city of Providence for the support of public schools. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Expense of how and by said education whom to be paid. Passed March 3, 1899. Members of CHAPTER 620. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF SECTION 6, CHAPTER 61 OF THE It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Section 6, Chapter 61 of the General Laws, "Of teachers," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 6. No member of the school committee of any town, or trustee of any school district, shall, so long as he continues in said office of member of the school committee or trustee of school district, be eligible or employed to teach as principal or assistant in any school supported entirely or in part by the public money, within the town where said member of the school committee or trustee resides." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. INDEX. Abatement of taxes, when and how made, 50. Absentees, provisions and arrangements for, 69. of school moneys, penalty for neglect to deliver to successor, 72. Acts of incorporation, public acts, 14. Additions to district, liable how far, 48. Admission to R. I. School for Deaf, by trustees, 83. Advanced school provided for, 46. Advertisement of sale of property for taxes, 24, 26. Aid, collector of taxes may require, 28. Alcohol, instruction as to effect of, upon human system, 55. to appoint special constables under truant law, 66. when to be held, 44. Apparatus, appropriation for, 36, 104. applications therefor to be recorded, 37. Appeals from condemnation proceedings, 54. to school commissioner, 61. Apportionment of property where district is divided, 48. when to be made, 56. of State appropriation for libraries, 32. for public schools, 36. Appraisal of land for schoolhouse, how made, 54. Appropriation, State, for apparatus and reference books, 36, 104. for evening schools, 37. for graded schools, 105, 107. for high schools, 106, 107. for lectures and teachers' institutes, 64. for libraries, 32. for public schools, 35. for travelling expenses of pupils of Normal school, 64, 100. to School of Design, 78. town, for libraries, 17, 19. Arbor Day, programme for, 35. to be a legal holiday, 92, 100. Assessing and collecting poll taxes, 22. Assessment of tax, errors in, how corrected, 50. notice of, 49. when ordered by school commissioner, 49. Assessors of taxes, compensation of, 29. Associate districts, how formed, 46. organization of, 46. powers of, 46. public money how paid to, 47. Attendance at school of non-residents, how reckoned, 52. rules for, made by school committee, 55. Beneficiaries at School of Design, 78. blind, deaf, and imbecile, 81, 98. bills for, how paid, 82, 108. Bequests and legacies to libraries, how treated, 20. Blanks and registers to be provided, 33. for school census, 41. for report of school committee, 58. Blind, imbecile, and deaf children, education of, 81, 98. Board of Education, State, 31. constitution of, 31. duties of, 31, 32, 37, 63, 78, 107, 108. how divided, 31. |