...regulation and discipline of the schools, and the habits and proficiency of the scholars therein. SECT. 27. The school committee shall require the daily reading of some portion of the Bible in the common English version ; but shall never direct any school books calculated to favor the tenets...

...Schools ; A Bill concerning Religious Services in Public Schools. Be it enacted, tec. : — Sect. 1. The school committee shall require the daily reading...or guardian shall declare that he has conscientious scniples against allowing him to read therefrom, nor shall they ever direct any school books calculated...

...service, the Mayor and Aldermen shall, after one week's public notice, elect a new board by ballot. 2. The School Committee shall require the daily reading of some portion of the Bible in the common English version, in the public schools. 3. They arc to furnish the Assessors with the...

...religion our country depends on them for its true national greatness" (Ibid. p. 144). Provisions J " The school committee shall require the daily reading of some portion of against secta- " the Bible in the common English version, but shall never direct any school nanism....

...be assessed and collected in like manner as other town taxes." Revised Statutes, xxiii. § 23. — " The school committee shall require the daily reading of some portion of the Bible in the common English version ; but shall never direct any school books, calculated to favour the tenets...

...portion of the Bible, without written note or oral comment, 'ch°°'*' . , 1 sectarian books ex • in the public schools, but they shall require no scholar to read from cimi^d. any particular version, whose parent or guardian shall declare "*-'c-5" that he has conscientious...

...and which probably conforms substantially to the legal requirements of other Slates, is this : — " The School Committee shall require the daily reading...written note or oral comment, in the public schools, but the}' shall require no scholar to read from any particular version, whose parent or guardian shall...

...SALEM REGULATION. Morning exercises in all the schools shall commence with the reading by the teacher of some portion of the Bible, without written note or oral comment; bat no pupil shall be required to read from any particular version whose parent or guardian shall state...

...is the standard of religion and morality, and consequently one of the general statues declares that "the school committee shall require the daily reading of some portion of the Bible." One of America's greatest statesmen has said: "Moral habits cannot be safely trusted on any other foundation...

...requirement has beeu modified so аз to admit of change by a vote of twothirds. In 1802, the da'ly reading of some portion of the Bible without written note or oral comment was enjoined on all public schools, but no scholar could be required to read from any particular version...