CHAPTER CXLVI.

An Act concerning Schools.

SECTION 1. Attendance of children at a school other than a public school shall not be regarded as compliance with the provisions of the laws of the State requiring parents and other persons having control of children to cause them to attend school, unless the teachers or persons having control of such school shall keep a register of attendance in form and manner prescribed by the State Board of Education for the public schools, which register shall at all times during school hours be open to the inspection of the secretary and agents of the State Board of Education, and shall make such reports and returns concerning the schools under their charge to the secretary of the State Board of Education as are required from the school visitors concerning the public schools, except that no report concerning expenses shall be required.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the State Board of Education to furnish to the teachers or persons having charge of any school, on their request, such registers and blanks for returns as may be necessary for compliance with the provisions of the preceding section.

The following Special Acts were passed:

[63.]

Incorporating the Wapping School Society of South Windsor. Resolved by this Assembly:

SECTION 1. That so much of the territory of the town of South Windsor as constituted the Wapping School Society till said school society was abolished by act of the general assembly, 1855, to-wit: the territory of the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth school districts of said town, and that part of the tenth school district which lies in said town and that part of the Oakland school district of the town of Manchester which lies in said town of South Windsor, with the inhabitants thereof, be and are hereby made and constituted a body politic and corporate for the purpose hereinafter named, to be known as the Wapping School Society of South Windsor.

SEC. 2. Said school society shall have power to establish and maintain a school of higher grade within its limits, and for such

purpose may purchase, receive, hold, and convey any property, build and repair school houses, lay taxes for the purpose herein named, and make contracts and adopt regulations for the management of such schools.

SEC. 3. The legal voters of said school society shall be the legal voters of said town of South Windsor residing in the districts and parts of districts above named, and the taxable property of said school society shall be the taxable property of the school districts and parts of school districts constituting said school society.

SEC. 4. The annual meeting of said school society shall be held in the month of June; at said meeting there shall be chosen by ballot a committee of three persons, residents of the society, a clerk, who shall be sworn, a treasurer and a collector, who shall hold their respective offices until the next annual meeting and until others are chosen and qualified. Said officers shall have the same duties and powers as are by law imposed on such officers of school districts.

SEC. 5. The school visitors of the town of South Windsor shall have the same duties and powers concerning the school of said school society as are imposed on school visitors concerning high schools by the statutes concerning education.

SEC. 6. The school visitors and selectmen of the town of South Windsor as a joint board shall at their meeting on the second Tuesday of July in each year, include in their estimate of the cost of the public schools of the town the cost of maintaining a school of higher grade in said school society and shall fix the amount which in their judgment will be sufficient to pay the wages of teachers, including their board and sufficient for fuel and incidental expenses of said school for at least thirty weeks, and shall notify the committee of said school society of the amount so fixed, and said amount shall be paid by the town to said school society in the same manner and on the same conditions as are by law prescribed for such payments to school districts; and the selectmen shall draw orders on the town treasurer for such payments in favor of said school society.

SEC. 7. The Treasurer of the State, upon the order of the secretary of the state board of education, shall make payments to said school society for the purchase of a school library, maps, globes, and any proper philosophical or chemical apparatus on the same terms and conditions as are provided by law for pay

ments for such purposes to school districts and town high schools.

SEC. 8. The first meeting of said Wapping School Society shall be held on the tenth day of March, 1887;* notice of the time and place of said meeting shall be given by Seth Vinton, W. W. Green, and Oliver Clark of South Windsor, or any two of them, by posting a notice on the public sign post in said Wapping School Society at least five days before the time of said meeting, at which meeting officers shall be chosen, who shall hold their offices till the annual meeting of said school society to be held in June, 1888.

[84.]

Authorizing the West Middle School District of Hartford to issue Bonds.

Resolved by this Assembly:

SECTION 1. That the West Middle School District of the town of Hartford, by the name aforesaid, be and the said district hereby is authorized and empowered to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bearing interest at no greater rate than four per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, the principal of said bonds to be payable at some certain time or times within twenty-five years from the date thereof; and the funds raised on said bonds shall be used and expended to pay the indebtedness of said district, and to take up and pay off the present outstanding bonds against said district, as the time of payment on the same shall mature, according to the terms and conditions thereof.

SEC. 2. The treasurer of said district is hereby authorized and empowered, with the avails of said new bonds, to pay at par, and cancel and redeem, all of the present outstanding bonds of said district which have become or shall hereafter become redeemable by the terms of their issue; and he shall give notice to all holders of said outstanding bonds of the calling in, proposed payment, redemption, and cancellation, and time of payment of the same, by publishing such notice in two newspapers published in the city of Hartford, for at least sixty days prior to the time fixed by him in such notice for the payment and redemption of said bonds; and, upon the publication of such notice, in the manner hereinbefore provided, the interest on said outstanding bonds shall cease, from

* See [170].

and after the day named, by said treasurer in said notice, for the payment of said bonds.

SEC. 3. Said West Middle School District shall, within four months after the passage of this resolution, at a legal meeting called for that purpose, prescribe and determine, subject to the foregoing limitations, the several and aggregate amounts of such bonds, the form, conditions, and reservations of the same, the rate of interest to be paid thereon, not exceeding the amount aforesaid, the times and places of paying said interest and principal, and the time and manner in which said bonds may be called in, redeemed, and interest thereon made to terminate, and the person or persons who shall execute the same for and on behalf of said district; and such bonds, when executed in the manner so prescribed, and issued and delivered by said district, or by its officer or officers, agent or agents, duly appointed by said district, shall be obligatory upon said district, and upon the inhabitants. thereof, according to the tenor and purport of the same.

[103.]

An Act making an Appropriation toward Supplying the Deficiency in the Principal of the School Fund.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

The comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his order on the treasurer in favor of the commissioner of the school fund for the sum of eight thousand dollars, towards supplying the deficiency in the principal of the school fund, and for the purposes of the same, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

[134.]

Validating votes passed at a meeting of the Sixth School District of the Town of Killingly.

Resolved by this Assembly:

That all votes passed at a meeting of the sixth school district of the town of Killingly, held on the sixth day of July, 1885, be and they are hereby validated and confirmed.

[153.]

Authorizing the Center School District of Norwalk to issue Bonds.

Resolved by this Assembly:

SECTION 1. That the Center School District of the town of Norwalk, in the county of Fairfield, is hereby authorized to issue bonds or notes to an amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, payable at some time or times not exceeding twenty years from the date thereof, with or without an option to pay at an earlier date, bearing semi-annual interest at no greater rate than five per cent. per annum, the proceeds thereof to be applied exclusively in payment of the present floating indebtedness of said district.

SEC. 2. Said Center School District may prescribe, subject to the foregoing limitations, the several and aggregate amounts of said bonds or notes, their form, rate of interest, the times and places of paying the principal and the interest and the person or persons who shall execute the same for and in behalf of said district, and may provide for the negotiation of the same; and such bonds or notes, when executed in the manner so prescribed and issued and delivered by said district by its officers or agents duly authorized thereunto by said district, shall be obligatory on said district and upon the inhabitants thereof, according to the tenor and purport of the same.

[170.]

Concerning the Wapping School Society, of South Windsor.

Resolved by this Assembly:

That the first meeting of the Wapping School Society provided for in section eight of house joint resolution number thirty-nine, passed by the general assembly at the January session, 1887, to be held on the twentieth day of April, 1887. Notice of the time and place of said meeting shall be given by Seth Vinton, W. W. Green, and Oliver Clark of South Windsor, or any two of them, by posting a notice on the public sign post in said Wapping School Society at least five days before the time of said meeting, at which meeting officers shall be chosen who shall hold their offices till the annual meeting of said school society to be held in June, 1888.