VOLUNTOWN, J. N. Lewis, *A. E. Bitgood, Dr. C. O. Maine, Ezra Briggs Charles Barber;-Wm. B. Ray, (Pendleton Hill.)

WALLINGFORD, Rev. W. C. Richmond, *H. L. Hall, H. S. Hall, Dr. Henry Davis, L. M. Hubbard, C. D. Yale.

WARREN, N. B. Strong, *Rev. W. S. Colton and four others.

WASHINGTON, Orestes Hickox, *Earle Buckingham, Chas. Beach;-*G. C. Whittlesey, (New Preston,) Ralph Buckingham and Thornton Sperry, (Marbledale.) WATERBURY, J. W. Webster, *Greene Kendrick, Rev. F. T. Russell, Rev. Dr. J. Anderson, *Rev. Lawrence Walsh, E. L. Frisbie, D. B. Hamilton.

WATERFORD, (all A. V.) H. A. Smith, (New London,) J. W. Manwaring, Rev. E. Darrow, F. J. Stanton ;-Rev. A. B. Tefft and H. O. Woodworth, (New London.) WATERTOWN, C. M. Noble, *T. P. Baldwin, *Rev. J. Stoddard, *Dr. W. S. Munger, Rev. S. K. Smith, Dr. A. M. Hungerford.

WESTBROOK, O. H. Norris, *D. A. Wright, *E. C. Stevens, B. F. Bushnell, J. H. De Wolf, E. A. Hill.

WEST HARTFORD, Henry Talcott, (Elmwood,) *W. H. Hall, Rev. M. N. Morris, Samuel Whitman, Franklin Sisson;-S. J. Bestor, (Hartford.)

WESTON, J. R. Nichols, *D. L. Rowland, A. S. Jarvis;-Lester Fanton and H. A. Ogden, (Westport,) one vacancy.

WESTPORT, J. D. Elwood, *Rev. A. N. Lewis, J. S. Sherwood, H. W. Lyon, Rev. J. R. Williams, Wm. C. Hull.

WETHERSFIELD, James Standish, *M. S. Griswold, R. A. Robbins, John Welles, Wm. Talcott, H. A. Deming.

WILLINGTON, C. D. Rider, L. W. Holt, Rev. C. W. Potter.

WILTON, *Wm. Sturges;—*J. B. Hurlburt, (Norwalk,) D. G. Betts, S. E. Ogden; -S. M. Comstock, (Weston,) J. F. Hubbell, (Cannon's Station.)

WINCHESTER, (all A. V.) Rev. A. Goodenough;-G. M. Carrington, (West Winsted,) Rev. T. M. Miles, T. M. Clark and C. A. Bristol, (Winsted.)

WINDHAM, *J. M. Johnson ;-*G. W. Melony, *M. L. Tryon, *J. E. Hayden, J. M. Hall, Rev. F. L. DeBruycker and Albert Barrows, (Willimantic,) E. H. Holmes, Jr., (South W.,) H. W. Avery, (South Meriden.)

WINDSOR, E. S. Clapp, *Rev. R. H. Tuttle, Rev. G. C. Wilson, A. H. Ellsworth ; -Dr. R. E. Ensign and H. L. Soper, (Poquonock.)

WINDSOR LOCKS, *Dr. S. R. Burnap, Rev. M. F. Kelley, Rev. S. H. Allen, Joseph Reed, A. B. Stockwell, B. M. Douglass.

WOLCOTT, Henry Minor;-*F. L. Nichols, (Box 752, Waterbury,) A. N. Lane, H. B. Carter, L. P. Alcott, Rev. Chas. E. Upson.

WOODBRIDGE, (Westville P. O.) *W. H. Warner, *E. W. Judge, *H. F. Merwin, M. E. Baldwin, C. P. Augur, E. L. Sperry.

WOODBURY, James Huntington, *N. M. Strong, Rev. J. L. R. Wyckoff, Dr. H. W. Shove, W. V. Rood, W. J. Clark, D. C. Somers;-R. B. Judson, (Minortown,) C. H. Percy, (Hotchkissville.)

WOODSTOCK, Oscar Fisher, (West W.,) *Monroe Ide and N. E. Morse, (East W.,) *George Bugbee, (Eastford,) *W. W. Webber;-S. M. Fenner and L. J. Wells, (South W.,) J. M. Perrin, (West W.,) Ebenezer Bishop, (North W.)

+ Deceased.

LAWS OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT,

CONCERNING

EDUCATION.

GENERAL STATUTES, REVISION OF 1875, TITLE XI, WITH AMENDMENTS PREVIOUS
TO JANUARY, 1879.

CHAPTER I.

INSTRUCTION OF CHILDREN.

SEC. 1. All parents, and those who have the care of children, shall bring them up in some honest and lawful calling or employment; and shall instruct them or cause them to be instructed in reading, writing, English grammar, geography, and arithmetic. And every parent, guardian, or other person having control and charge of any child between eight and four

teen years of age, shall cause such child to attend some public

or private day school at least three months in each year, six weeks at least of which attendance shall be consecutive; or to be instructed at home at least three months in each year in the branches of education required to be taught in the public schools; unless the physical or mental condition of the child is such as to render such attendance or instruction inexpedient or impracticable.

1813. 1849.

1650. and guardians.

1821. Duty of par nts

1872.

Employing children without

having them in

structed.

SEC. 2. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be 1842, 1869. 1877. employed by any person to labor in any business, unless such child shall have attended some public or private day school, where instruction was given by a teacher qualified to instruct in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography and arithmetic, at least sixty days of the twelve months next preceding any month in which such child shall be so employed; and any person who shall employ any child contrary to the provisions of this section shall forfeit one hundred dollars to the state for each offence.

1871. Children discharged from

SEC. 3. Every parent, guardian, or other person having control and charge of any child, between eight and fourteen must be sent to years of age, who has been temporarily discharged from em

employment to

go to school.

school.

1650.

1869. Informing offi

cers.

1650. Fenalties.

1871.

1842. School Visitors to inspect factories.

1869. State agent.

1821.

men.

1650.

1868.

ployment in any business, in order to be afforded an opportunity to receive instruction or schooling, shall send such child to some public or private day school for the period for which such child may have been so discharged; unless the physical or mental condition of the child is such as to render such attendance inexpedient or impracticable.

SEC. 4. State's Attorneys in their respective counties, and grand jurors in their respective towns, shall inquire after aud make presentment of all offences against the provisions of the preceding sections; and any person who shall violate any provision of the first or third section, shall be fined five dollars, for the use of the town in which he resides, for every week, (not exceeding thirteen weeks in any one year), during which he shall have failed to comply with any of said provisions.

SEC. 5. The School Visitors in every town shall, once or more in every year, examine into the situation of the children employed in all its manufacturing establishments, and ascertain whether all the provisions of this Chapter are duly observed, and report all violations thereof to one of the grand jurors of the town.

SEC. 6. The State Board of Education may take such action as it may deem proper to secure the due observance of all the provisions of this Chapter, and may appoint an agent for that purpose.

SEC. 7. The selectmen, in every town, shall inspect the conDuties of select- duct of the heads of families, and if they find any who neglect the education of the children under their care, may admonish them to attend to their duty; and if they continue to be negligent, whereby the children grow rude, stubborn and unruly, they shall, with the advice of a justice of the peace, take such children from their parents, or those who have the charge of them, and bind them out to some proper master, or to some charitable institution or society incorporated in this State for the care and instruction of such children, males till twentyone, and females till eighteen years of age, that they may be properly educated, and brought up in some lawful calling.

Town regulations respecting

vagrant chil

SEC. 8. Each city and town may make regulations concern- 1865. ing habitual truants from school, and any children wandering truants, and about its streets or public places, having no lawful occupation, dren. or business, nor attending school, and growing up in ignorance, between the ages of seven and sixteen years; and such bylaws, also, respecting such children, as shall conduce to their welfare and to public order, imposing suitable penalties, not exceeding twenty dollars for any one breach thereof; but no such town by-laws shall be valid, until approved by the Superior Court in any county.

1865. Who may prose

prosecutions.

SEC. 9. Every town, and the mayor and aldermen of every city, having such by-laws, shall annually appoint three or cute. more persons, who alone shall be authorized to prosecute for Jurisdiction of violations thereof. All warrants issued upon such prosecutions shall be returnable before any justice of the peace, or judge of the City or Police Court, of the town or city; who shall receive such compensation as the city or town shall determine. Sections 10 and 11 are superseded by the following act, approved March 14, 1877.

SEC. 1. The police in any city, and bailiffs, constables, sheriffs, and deputy sheriffs, in their respective precincts, shall arrest all boys between eight and sixteen years of age, who habitually wander or loiter about the streets or public places, or anywhere beyond the proper control of their parents or guardians, during the usual school hours of the school term; and may stop any boy under sixteen years of age during such hours, and ascertain whether he be a truant from school; and if he be, shall send him to such school.

SEC. 2. Any boy arrested the third time under the provisions of the preceding section, shall be taken, if not immediately returned to school, before the judge of the criminal or police court, or any justice of the peace in the city, borough, or town where such arrest is made; and if it shall appear that such boy has no lawful occupation, or is not attending school, or is growing up in habits of idleness or immorality, or is an habitual truant, he may be committed to any institution of instruction or correction, or house of reformation in said city, borough, or town, or, with the approval of the selectmen, to the State reform school, for not more than three years.

1869. Warrant and hearing.

Fees.

1869. Suspending judgment.

1269. Arrest of vagrant girls.

SEC. 3. Officers other than policemen of cities shall receive for making the arrests required by the preceding sections, such fees, not exceeding the fees allowed by the statutes for making other arrests, as may be allowed by the selectmen of the town in which such arrests are made; but unless a warrant was issued by a judge of the criminal or police court or by a justice of the peace, the officer shall, before receiving his fees, present to the selectmen of the town a written statement showing the name of each boy arrested, the day on which the arrest was made, and, if the boy was returned to school, the name or number of the school to which he was so returned.

SEC. 4. Sections ten and eleven of chapter one, title eleven, of the general statute, are hereby repealed; and the provisions of sections twelve, thirteen and fourteen of said chapter and title, shall apply to this act.

SEC. 12. In all cases arising under the provisions of the two preceding sections, a proper warrant shall be issued by the judge of the criminal court of the city, or by a justice of the peace in the borough or town, where such arrest is made; and the father, if living, or if not, the mother or guardian of such boy, shall be notified, if such parent or guardian can be found, of the day and time of hearing. The fees of the judge or justice shall be two dollars for such hearing; and all expenses shall be paid by the city, borough, or town in and for which he exercises such jurisdiction.

SEC. 13. After the hearing in any such case, such judge or justice of the peace may, at his discretion, indefinitely sus pend the rendition of judgment.

SEC. 14. Upon the request of the parent or guardian of any girl between eight and fifteen years of age, a warrant may be issued for her arrest in the same manner and on the same conditions as is provided in the preceding sections with respect to boys; and thereupon the same proceedings may be had, as are above provided, except that said girls may be committed to the Connecticut Industrial School for Girls.