No. 116. It shall be the duty of the trustees of school districts to procure, for the use of their district, two bound blank books, from time to time, as shall be necessary, in one of which the accounts of all moneys received and paid by the trustees, and a statement of all movable property belonging to the district, shall be entered at large, and signed by such trustees, at or before each annual meeting in such district; in the other of the said books the teachers shall enter the names of the scholars attending school, and the number of days they shall have respectively attended, and also the days on which such school shall have been inspected by the [school commissioner]; which entries shall be verified by the oath or affirmation of the teachers. The said books shall be preserved by the trustees as the property of the district, and shall be delivered to their successors. [Sec. 104, chap. 480 of 1847.]

The account to be entered by the trustees should specify every sum of money received by them, or any one of them, in his official capacity, from the supervisor, or on tax lists or rate bills, giving the date when and the source whence received. On the opposite page they should credit themselves with every expenditure and payment, specifying particularly when, and to whom paid, and for what purpose, and referring to a proper voucher, which should be filed and delivered to their

successors.

On another page they should make an accurate inventory of all the movable property belonging to the district, such as the library of the district, stating the number of volumes and their condition, and giving a catalogue of the books, wherever a general reference cannot properly be made, as to the 1st, 2d, 3d, &c., series of the Harper Library, or Nos. 1, 2, 3, &c., of the Harper Library or Family Library, &c., &c., and the furniture, appendages and apparatus of the school room, specifying each article. The whole to be followed by a certificate in the following form: We, the subscribers, trustees of District No. in the town of Trenton, do hereby certify that the preceding, from page to page inclusive, contains a true and accurate account of all the moneys received by us for the use of said district, and of the expenditures thereof, and a correct statement and inventory of all the movable property belonging to said district.

The teacher's list, to be kept in the second book named, is the basis прок which rate bills are made out, and by which the sums to be paid by parents are to be ascertained. Among the first duties of the trustees will be that of placing the book in the hands of the teacher, and directing him to keep the list daily, and accurately.

The teacher will write the name of each scholar on the list, the first day he enters school, and note his attendance every day during the term. The trustees should inform him that unless the roll is correctly and faithfully kept, and handed to them duly verified at the close of the school, he will not be entitled to call on them for his wages; for his list, so verified, is the only legal authority upon which to issue their warrant. The roll may be in the following form:

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DAILY AND WEEKLY ROLL.

ATTENDANCE OF PUPILS IN THE DISTRICT SCHOOL OF DISTRICT NO.

Ruled and kept in this manner, each page will serve for a month, or whole term. When the teacher is furnished with a blank book not ruled, he should rule it with care, and he may find it convenient to extend the ruling so that each page will contain blanks for as many days and weeks as there shall be in the term for which he is employed,

At the close of the term, a list should be made out by the teacher, containing the names of all the pupils, with the date of their entrance, and the number of days' attendance in full, as follows, viz:

A list of the scholars who attended the district school of District during the quarter or term commencing

No. the

in the town of
day of

185

and the number of days they respectively attended the same.

V. M. Rice, Jr., .... Fourteen and half (144) days.

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This list should be made by inserting the name of the pupil the first day of his entrance; and the whole number of days' attendance be inserted, at the close of the term, from the daily and weekly roll. At the end of this list, the following oath or affirmation should he written:

A. B., being duly sworn (or affirmed), deposes that the foregoing is a true and accurate list of the names of the scholars who attended the district school of District No.

in the town of

, during the and ending

This affidavit, or affirmation, may be certified by a justice of the peace, or commissioner of deeds, judge of any court of record, county clerk or school commissioner to have been taken before him.

An abstract of the list must also be made by the teacher for the use of the trustees, at the end of each term, showing the results exhibited under the following heads, in the following form:

Abstract of the attendance of scholars at the district school of District No. in the town of , during the term commencing the

day of

185, and ending the day of

Of scholars who attended one month and less than two months,

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two months and less than four

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four months and less than six
six months and less than eight
eight months and less than ten
ten months and less than twelve
twelve months,

The teacher should sign this abstract and deliver it to the trustees.

As few terms of any common school will be longer than six months, the above form extends beyond what most teachers will require. At the close of the year, the trustees will add together and condense these term abstracts into one, for the whole year; and then the form beyond six months, and up to twelve, may be used. In adding up the term abstracts, if John Thompson's name appears on two or more terms, his whole time must be stated in the yearly abstract of the trustees. That is, if John Thompson attend, during the first term, two months, during the second term, three months, during the third term, four months, he must be computed among the scholars enumerated on the line "eight months and less than ten." Care should be taken not to enumerate the same scholar more than once in the abstract for the year.

It should be borne in mind that the teacher cannot be required to buy the lists, and the book for his daily and weekly roll and for the final summary roll for the term. It is the duty of the trustees to furnish [CODE.]

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