Annual Report of the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Indiana

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Page 25 - ... the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not...
Page 42 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than ten...
Page 34 - In 1914 the law established a State board of truancy consisting of the State superintendent of public instruction, a member of the State board of education, and the secretary of the State board of charities.
Page 4 - Returned by the Auditor of State, with above certificate, and transmitted to Secretary of State for publication, upon the order of the Board of Commissioners of Public Printing and Binding. BB JOHNSON, Secretary to the Governor. Filed in the office...
Page 25 - ... when notified to do so. Refusal of parents or guardians to free their children or wards of vermin or to bathe and cleanse them, making them fit to go to school, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars and imprisonment for ten days or both. And if the refusal or neglect of parents or guardians to bathe and cleanse their children or wards makes it necessary, then the truant officer, upon order of the school authorities, shall have it done, the cost to be paid by the school authorities...
Page 115 - ... commissioners for the purpose of securing for use in the common schools of the State of Indiana of a series of text books, defining the duties of certain officers therein named with reference thereto, making appropriations therefor, defining certain felonies and misdemeanors, providing penalties for the • violation of the provisions of said act, repealing all laws in conflict therewith and declaring an emergency...
Page 26 - Michigan enact that there shall be taught in every year in every public school in Michigan the principal modes by which each of the dangerous communicable diseases are spread, and the best methods for the restriction and prevention of each of such diseases.
Page 19 - Knowledge and learning generally diffused throughout a community, being essential to the preservation of a free government, it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to encourage, by all suitable means, moral, intellectual, scientific and agricultural improvement, and to provide by law for a general and uniform system of common schools, wherein tuition shall be without charge, and equally open to all.
Page 361 - That the proceeds of said lands, whether from sale or by direct appropriation in kind, shall be applied, exclusively, as far as necessary, to the purpose of reclaiming said lands by means of the levees and drains aforesaid.
Page 266 - Very ready we are to say of a book, " How good this is — that's exactly what I think ! " But the right feeling is, " How strange that is ! I never thought of that before, and yet I see it is true ; or if I do not now, I hope I shall, spme day." But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

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