PUBLIC LAWS. CHAPTER 304. uary 31, 1896. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 55 OF THE GENERAL Passed JanLAWS, OF THE POWERS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS." It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Every school district deciding to elect three trustee under the provisions of Chapter 55 of the General Laws, may at its annual meeting for the election of school district officers elect one of such trustees for a term of three years, one for a term of two years and one for a term of one year; and annually thereafter shall be elected one trustee to serve for the term of three years. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby annulled. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on and after February 1st, 1896. of the election of trustees of school dis tricts. CHAPTER 322. 29, 1896. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 85 OF THE GENERAL Passed April It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 85 of the General Laws is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Deaf, blind or imbecile child ren may be ap pointed state beneficiaries to tions. "SECTION 1. The governor, on recommendation of the state board of education, upon application of the parent or certain institu- guardian, may appoint any deaf, blind or imbecile child, being a legal resident of this state, who shall appear to said board to be a fit subject for education, as a state beneficiary at any suitable institution or school now established, or that may be established, either within or without the state, for such period as he may determine, within the limit of ten years : Provided, that he may, upon the special recommendation of the state board of education, extend the period, and that he shall have the power to revoke any appointment at any time for cause." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 332. Passed May 13, AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AND IN ADDITION TO CHAP- Who may attend the R. I. Institute for the Deaf. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. All children of parents, or under the control of guardians or other persons, legal residents of this state, between the ages of three and twenty years, whose hearing or speech, or both, are so defective as to make it inexpedient or impracticable to attend the public schools to advantage, not being mentally or otherwise incapable, may attend the Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf, without charge, under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees of said institute may establish. SEC. 2. Every person having under his control any such dren to attend said institute. child between the ages of seven and eighteen years, shall Certain chilcause such child to attend school at said institute for such period of time or such prescribed course, in each individual case, as may be deemed expedient by the board of trustees and for any neglect of such duty the person so offending shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars: Provided, that Exceptions. if the person so charged, shall prove to the satisfaction of said board that the child has received or is receiving, under private or other instruction, an education suitable to his condition, in the judgment of said board, then such penalty shall not be incurred: provided further, that no child shall be removed to said institution or taken from the custody of its parent or guardian except as a day scholar unless such parent or guardian is an improper person to have such custody, and the supreme court in its appellate division shall have jurisdiction in habeas corpus to examine into and revise all findings of said board of trustees under this act. SEC. 3. Any child having attended said institute a time or course prescribed by said board, upon leaving the institute shall be entitled to receive a certificate of his proficiency from said board. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 334, AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 165 OF THE GENERAL Passed May 13, 1896. LAWS. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: ignated. SECTION 1. Section 8 of Chapter 166 of the General Laws Arbor day desis hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 8. The twenty-second day of February (as Washington's birthday), the first Wednesday of April (as State election day), the thirtieth day of May (as Memorial day), the fourth day of July (as Independence day), the first Monday of September (as Labor day), the twenty-fifth day of December (as Christmas day), the second Friday in May (as Arbor day), and each of said days in every year, the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November in the year eighteen hundred ninety-six and in every second year thereafter (as National election day), or when either of the said days falls on the first day of the week, then the day following it, the first day of every week (commonly called Sunday), and such other days as the governor or general assembly of this state, or the president or the congress of the United States, shall appoint as holidays for any purpose, days of thanksgiving, or days of solemn fast, shall be holidays." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. CHAPTER 419. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 63 OF THE GENERAL It is enacted by the general assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Section 5 of Chapter 63 of the General Laws is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 5. The trustees of the Normal School may pay to each pupil who shall reside within the State and not within five miles of said school, who shall have been duly admitted thereto, and who shall have attended the regular sessions of said school and complied with the regulations thereof during the term next preceding such payments, not exceeding ten dollars for each quarter year for travelling expenses; but such payments in the aggregate for such travelling expenses shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars in any one year, and shall be made to the respective pupils entitled to the same in proportion to the distance they may reside from said school." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 420. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 65 OF THE GENERAL Passed Oct. 2, It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: tions 9 and 10. SECTION 1. Sections 9 and 10 of Chapter 65 of the General Repeal of secLaws are hereby repealed. SEC. 2. In the city of Providence, the school committee of said city shall hereafter employ the superintendent and teachers, have charge and custody of all school buildings and school property, manage and regulate the schools, and draw all orders for payment of their expenses from the money appropriated by the city council for the support of public schools: Provided, however, that the city council of said city shall have the expenditure of all sums appropriated for the purchase of land for school purposes or for the improvement of the same or for the construction or repair of school buildings. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Powers of school commit tee of Provi dence. |