SCHOOL LAW. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVEN. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUTH. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That each town or district within this Commonwealth, containing fifty families, or house holders, shall be provided with a teacher or teachers, of good morals, to instruct children in orthography, reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic, and good behavior, for such term of time as shall be equivalent to six months for one school in each year and every town or district containing one hundred families or house holders, shall be provided with such teacher or teachers, for such term of time as shall be equivalent to eighteen months |