1866/67 public laws – Ch.14 Sec.8
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CHAPTER XIV. AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE INCORPORATED TOWNS AND CITIES TO ESTABLISH SYSTEMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of Lue Board of school commissioners of every town or city, to number the white children of the corporation between the ages of 6und 21, and as soon as they receive a statement of the amount of money appropriated for schools for any one year, to provide first for primary schools for all the. children who need them, and if, after such provision, there be other finds, they may be used for schools of higher grade, and all the white children of the corporation, between the ages of 6 and 21, shall be entitled to attend the publie schools which they are qualified to ent.r: Provided, That the grades in the schoo] shall regularly ascend, and the school commissioners shall be required to establish the lowest first, and next the schools of the next higher grade, and so on upward,