Establishment
Keene Normal
School.

Contract with city of Keene.

Keene.

On or before May 1, 1909, the gov- 157:1, laws 1909. ernor and council and the board of trustees of the State Normal School shall organize as a joint board for the location and establishment of a normal school in Keene.

Said board is hereby authorized to 157:2, laws 1909. receive aid in money, property or other valuable effects, for the benefit of said school from any and all individuals or municipal or other corporations. Said board is authorized to purchase or acquire such lands as it may deem best, consistent with the amount or means appropriated or otherwise obtained for such purposes. And in the purchase or acquisition of lands and the buildings thereon, if any, said board is authorized and directed to procure a good and suitable deed of conveyance in the name of the state and a proper instrument of sale of all such library, school furniture and apparatus therein as may be acquired.

No money shall be expended under the 157:3, laws 1909. provisions of this act until the union school district in said city shall have agreed in writing through its duly authorized officials with the duly authorized officials acting for the state, to co-operate with said school in the maintenance of model and practice schools, for a term of years, in such manner as shall meet with the approval of said trustees, and said district is hereby authorized to enter into such contract.

Appropriation for establishment.

Government.

Contracts with

Keene.

A sum not to exceed ten thousand 157:4, laws 1909. dollars ($10,000) is hereby appropriated for the purposes of sections 1 and 2 of this act and the governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for all or any part of said amount upon any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, said sum to be used in connection with any other money or moneys that may be secured from any other source for the aforementioned purposes.

Said school when established shall be 157:5, laws 1909. under the direction of the board of trustees of the state normal school now established, and said board shall be styled The Board of Trustees of the New Hampshire Normal Schools. All provisions of chapter 95 of the Public Statutes and the amendments thereto, not inconsistent herewith, relating to the organization, government and maintenance of the normal school mentioned therein and all the duties imposed or prescribed thereby for the trustees, teachers or pupils and the superintendent of public instruction shall apply to and be observed in the organization, government and maintenance of the normal school established under this

act.

The Board of Trustees of the New 157:6, laws 1909. towns other than Hampshire Normal Schools is hereby auPlymouth or thorized to contract with any city or town in the vicinity of either of the normal schools for the maintenance of practice schools therein in connection with said normal schools and may provide for the payment of such portion of the compensation of the supervising teachers

Maintenance.

None shall attend without consent of board.

Vaccination.

Infectious diseases.

employed in said practice schools as they
may deem just and equitable.

Any city or town is hereby authorized 157:7, laws 1909. to enter into such contract as is provided by either section 3 or section 6 of this act; also any city or town is authorized to make such gifts as it may determine for the establishment or maintenance of said school.

[The sums of nineteen thousand dollars Chapters 41 and ($19,000) and twenty-one thousand dol- 43, laws of 1913. lars ($21,000) were appropriated for the years 1913-14 and 1914-15, respectively.]

XII.

SCHOLARS.

No person shall attend school, or send P. S. 93:1.
a scholar to the school, in any district
of which he is not an inhabitant, with-
out the consent of the district or of the
school board.

No child shall attend any public, P. S. 93:2, as
parochial, or private school unless he has amended by 19,
laws 1901, and
been vaccinated or has had the smallpox, 90, laws 1909.
and this section shall be enforced by the
board of health, except in the case of a
child who has submitted to the process
of vaccination not less than three times,
or who holds the certificate of the local
board of health that he is an unfit sud-
ject for vaccination. Said board of
health shall issue such certificate upon
the advice of a registered physician ap-
proved by said board of health.

No parent or guardian, person or per- 16:7, laws 1901. sons having the custody of any child,

shall permit such child, if infected with
any communicable disease, or has been
exposed to such, to attend any public
or private school.

Any person who knowingly violates 16:9, laws 1901.
any provision of this chapter, or any reg-
ulation established by authority of this
chapter, shall be punished by a fine of
ten dollars for each offense.

Any scholar may be dismissed from P. S. 93:3.
school by the school board for gross mis-
conduct, or for neglect or refusal to con-
form to the reasonable rules of the
school; and he shall not attend the school
until restored by the school board.

No scholar who shall have been as P. S. 93:4.
signed to a particular school by the
school board shall attend any other
school in the district until assigned
thereto.

If any scholar, after notice, shall at- P. S. 93:5.
tend or visit a school which he has no
right to attend, or shall interrupt or
disturb the same, he shall be fined for
the first offense five dollars, and for any
subsequent offense ten dollars, or be im-
prisoned not exceeding thirty days.

Districts may make by-laws, not re- P. S. 93:6.
pugnant to law, concerning habitual
truants and children between the ages
of six and sixteen years not attending
school and not having a regular and
lawful occupation, and to compel the
attendance of such children at school,
and may annex penalties for the breach
thereof not exceeding ten dollars for
each offense.

Persons having custody of children must cause them to attend school.

[The department will furnish an article drawn by the attorney-general for insertion in the school warrant upon application.]

and 221, laws

Every person having the custody and P. S. 93:14, as control of a child between the ages of amended by 61, laws 1901, 13, eight and fourteen years, or of a child laws 1903, 139 under the age of sixteen years, unless laws of 1911, such child shall have completed the course of 1913. of study prescribed for the elementary schools, residing in a school district in which a public school is annually taught, shall cause such child to attend the public school all the time such school is in session, unless the child shall be excused by the school board of the district because his physical or mental condition is such as to prevent his attendance at school for the period required, or because he was instructed in the English language in a private school approved by the school board for a number of weeks equal to that in which the public schools were in session in the common English branches, or, having acquired those branches, in other more advanced studies. Any person who does not comply with the requirements of this section shall be fined ten dollars for the first offense and twenty dollars for every subsequent offense, for the use of the district; provided, however, that any person having the custody and control of a child may apply to the state superintendent of public instruction for relief whenever such person deems it to be against the moral or physical welfare of such child to attend the particular school required by law, and thereupon,