this particular, and to use such means as they may deem best calculated to ensure an attention to it.

IV.

As the mode of instruction adopted by this institution renders the appointment of monitors necessary, the teachers are requested to select none for that station, but those who are distinguished for their exemplary deportment and attention to their studies. The monitors are to hold their offices only during good behaviour. The children are ordered to respect and obey them.

V.

To encourage and stimulate the monitors to a faithful performance of their duties, the teachers shall be directed to distribute to them weekly tickets of approbation, if their conduct has rendered them worthy of it. The monitors shall wait on the school committees at the end of every three weeks, and exhibit the ticket or tickets they have earned. On such exhibitions the school committees shall distribute the following rewards; to each monitor producing one ticket of approbation in the course of three weeks, three cents: to each monitor producing two tickets for the same space of time, seven cents: and to every one holding three tickets, one shilling.

VI.

When any child, during his stay in the school, has behaved in such a manner as to merit the approbation of the Trustees, he shall be furnished, on his leaving the school, with a certificate expressive of such approbation.

VII.

The Trustees being impressed with a belief, that important advantages will result to the children of this institution, from a due observance of the sabbath, or first day of the week, direct, that all the scholars be ordered to attend on the morning of that day, at the school to which they may belong, and that they there be divided into classes, and proceed under the charge of a monitor, to such places of public worship, as may be designated by their parents or guardians.

VIII.

The monitors shall be responsible for the attendance of their respective classes at the place of public worship to which they may belong: and shall, on the following day, report the delinquents, if any, to the teachers, who shall report the same to the school committees.

IX.

In the future admission of children to either of the schools, it shall be made an indispensable condition, that the regulations with respect to the attendance of public worship, shall be strictly assented to on the part of the applicant.

X.

The afternoon of the third day in each week, (Tuesday) shall be appropriated to the instruction of the children at their respective schools, in the principles of the Christian religion; and in order that they may be educated in the peculiar tenets of the denominations to which they respectively belong, the several churches, with which they are

connected, shall be respectfully invited to send suitable persons to catechise, and otherwise so to instruct them.

XI.

A portion of the scriptures shall be read in each of the schools by the first class twice a day, at the opening in the morning, and at the close in the evening.

DUTIES OF THE TEACHERS.

I.

It shall be the duty of the teacher in every school, under the care of the Free-School Society of New-York, with the assistance of his monitors, to keep a book, in which he shall enter, in alphabetical order, the name of each child admitted into the school; and opposite the name of each child, he shall insert, in distinct columns, marked for that purpose, the time when such child was admitted and discharged, and the time when he or she was advanced in any of the different branches of learning taught in these schools. He shall immediately make due entry of all the children now in school, specifying, in the proper columns, the present state of their learning; and shall carefully note the degree of learning possessed by those hereafter admitted, at the time of their admission. And he shall make a report in writing to the Trustees once in three months, namely, at their stated meetings, in July, October, January, and April, of the number

of children admitted and discharged in the preceding three months, and also of the number who have been advanced in each of the branches of tuition mentioned in such literary register.

II.

Every teacher shall also keep in another book, prepared for that purpose, an alphabetical list of all the children belonging to the school under his care, their age, place of residence, native place, what parents, parents' occupation, by whom recommended, when admitted, when discharged, their general character, and finally their destination, when this can be ascertained.

III.

The teachers shall pay particular attention to the regulations prescribed under the head of rules for the government of the schools.

IV.

The teacher of school No. 1, shall assist the secretary in recording the minutes of the proceedings of the society, and of the Trustees.

V.

Every teacher shall make a return weekly to the school committee of No. 1, of the number of children in the school under his care, and of the number admitted and discharged in the preceding week.