Annual Report of the Board of EducationProvidence Press Company, Printers to the State, 1871 - Education |
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Page 17 - SEC. 11. No superintendent or school committee •of any town, or any person officially connected with the government or direction of the public schools, shall receive any private fee, gratuity, donation or compensation in any manner whatsoever for promoting the sale or the exchange of any...
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Page 39 - The diffusion of knowledge, as well as of virtue, among the people, being essential to the preservation of their rights and liberties, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to promote public schools, and to adopt all means which they may deem necessary and proper to secure to the people the advantages and opportunities of education.
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