Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island, Volumes 16-191861 |
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... North Providence ,. Smithfield , Cumberland , Scituate ,. Foster , $ 10,609 83 2,246 10 4,119 29 2,536 07 $ 50,000 00 4,500 00 4,500 00 $ 4,955 36 267 00 $ 65,565 19 366 00 $ 2,150 00 $ 299 20 7,018 10 11,434 49 6,991 22 5,000 00 2,240 ...
... North Providence ,. Smithfield , Cumberland , Scituate ,. Foster , $ 10,609 83 2,246 10 4,119 29 2,536 07 $ 50,000 00 4,500 00 4,500 00 $ 4,955 36 267 00 $ 65,565 19 366 00 $ 2,150 00 $ 299 20 7,018 10 11,434 49 6,991 22 5,000 00 2,240 ...
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... North Kingstown , 1,255 60 450 00 195 56 $ 323 72 258 03 2,482 91 2,244 19 $ 60 00 450 00 1,160 74 1,247 27 Exeter , Charlestown , Hopkinton , Richmond , 898 52 216 10 29 07 56 91 1,490 22 1,247 06 216 10 929 65 519 20 123 59 57 20 38 ...
... North Kingstown , 1,255 60 450 00 195 56 $ 323 72 258 03 2,482 91 2,244 19 $ 60 00 450 00 1,160 74 1,247 27 Exeter , Charlestown , Hopkinton , Richmond , 898 52 216 10 29 07 56 91 1,490 22 1,247 06 216 10 929 65 519 20 123 59 57 20 38 ...
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... North Providence ,. Cranston , ... Johnston , ...... Scituate , 27818 12 125 7352 6617 12 125 3 Foster , Glocester , Burrillville ,. Smithfield , Cumberland , Totals , NEWPORT COUNTY . Jamestown , New Shoreham , Newport , Middletown ...
... North Providence ,. Cranston , ... Johnston , ...... Scituate , 27818 12 125 7352 6617 12 125 3 Foster , Glocester , Burrillville ,. Smithfield , Cumberland , Totals , NEWPORT COUNTY . Jamestown , New Shoreham , Newport , Middletown ...
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... north latitude . 8. When it is 12 M. in Paris , what time is it in Providence ? 9. Name the political divisions of Europe , and their capitals . 10. Give the boundaries of North Carolina , and name and des cribe its rivers . Grammar . 1 ...
... north latitude . 8. When it is 12 M. in Paris , what time is it in Providence ? 9. Name the political divisions of Europe , and their capitals . 10. Give the boundaries of North Carolina , and name and des cribe its rivers . Grammar . 1 ...
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... , 11 50 Sweeping , 285 40 Making fires , 178 48 Cleaning , 194 82 Evening School , 55 18 New School House , $ 13,729 07 1,972 96 10 COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . NORTH PROVIDENCE . SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT . COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . 73.
... , 11 50 Sweeping , 285 40 Making fires , 178 48 Cleaning , 194 82 Evening School , 55 18 New School House , $ 13,729 07 1,972 96 10 COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . NORTH PROVIDENCE . SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT . COMMISSIONER'S REPORT . 73.
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Page 14 - We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured. We seek...
Page 11 - The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter be, by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
Page 14 - For the purpose of public instruction, we hold every man subject to taxation, in proportion to his property, and we look not to the question, whether he, himself, have, or have not, children to be benefited by the education for which he pays. We regard it as a wise and liberal system of police, by which property, and life, and the peace of society are secured.
Page 13 - It is ordered that the selectmen of every town, in the several precincts and quarters where they dwell, shall have a vigilant eye over their brethren and neighbors, to see first that none of them shall suffer so much barbarism in any of their families, as not to endeavor to teach, by themselves or others, their children and apprentices, so much learning, as may enable them perfectly to read the English tongue, and knowledge of the capital laws: upon penalty of twenty shillings for each neglect therein.
Page 13 - Forasmuch as the maintenance of good literature doth much tend to the advancement of the weal and flourishing state of societies and republics, this Court doth therefore order, that in whatever township in this government, consisting of fifty families or upwards, any meet man shall be obtained to teach a grammar school, such township shall allow at least twelve pounds, to be raised by rate on all the inhabitants.
Page 99 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 175 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
Page 12 - Open the doors of the school-house to all the children in the land. Let no man have the excuse of poverty for not educating his own offspring. Place the means of education within his reach, and if they remain in ignorance, be it his own reproach. If one object of the expenditure of your revenue be protection against crime, you could not devise a better or cheaper means of obtaining it. Other nations spend their money in providing means for its detection and punishment, but it is the principle of...
Page 13 - Education, to accomplish the ends of good government, should be universally diffused. Open the doors of the school-house to all the children in the land. Let no man have the excuse of poverty for not educating his own offspring. Place the means of education within his reach, and if they remain in ignorance, be it his own reproach.
Page 12 - I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct ; that in this way they may- be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing.