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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW. The following is the Public School Law of one thousand nine hundred and five, as amended by the General Assembly of one thousand nine hundred and seven, one thousand nine hundred and nine, and one thousand nine hundred and eleven. Each division of the law is preceded by a succinct summary and contains explanatory notes, the whole being followed by decisions bearing on its interpretation. I. APPLICATION OF CHAPTER. 4020. This Chapter Not Applicable To Certain Schools; Such Schools Regulated. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any township, city or town now levying a special tax for schools and operating under special laws or charters, or to schools operating under section forty-seven, chapter one hundred and ninety-nine, Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine. School districts in any city or town now operating under section forty-seven, chapter one hundred and ninety-nine, Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine, are hereby continued, and all vacancies in the school committees therein shall be filled by the county board of education. If such districts comprise a township, there shall not be appointed township school committeemen for such township, and all apportionments shall be made directly to the committee of such districts. The superintendent and treasurer of all such schools receiving any part of the public-school fund shall be required to make to the State Superintendent and the county superintendent such reports as these officers shall demand and as are made by other public schools to them, and shall be under the general supervision of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 1001, c. 4, s. 73; 1903, c. 435, s. 25. [This section requires the proper officers of town...