...the people, to promote this important object, the legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty, to require the several towns to make suitable...for the support and maintenance of public schools." — Const, art. 8. This requirement of the constitution can only be rendered effectual by the enacting...

...of the people, te promote this important object, the legislature is authorized, and it shall be its duty, to require the several towns to make suitable...for the support and maintenance of public schools." 3* (29) In 1821, the legislature imposed a semi-annual tax of one half of one per cent upon all the...

...the people, to promote this important object the legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty, to require the several towns to make suitable...expense, for the support and maintenance of public schools."f Under this general authority an act was passed in that State giving to school committees...

...Maine demands that the towns — the whole State being divided into districts called towns — shall make suitable provision at their own expense for the support and maintenance of public schools. And so on, through all the list of New States even down to Texas, whose constitution declares that "a general...

...the people ; to promote this important object, the legislature are authorized, and it shall be their duty, to require the several towns to make suitable...shall further be their duty, to encourage and suitably to endow, from time to time, as the circumstances of the people may authorize, all academies, colleges,...

...Maine it is demanded that the towns—the whole country is divided into what are called towns—shall make suitable provision at their own expense for the support and maintenance of public schools. Some of these constitutional enactments are most magniloquently worded, but not always with precise...

...it is demanded that the towns — the whole country is divided into what are called towns — shall make suitable provision at their own expense for the support and maintenance of public schools. Some of these constitutional enactments are most magniloquently worded, but not always with precise...

...several towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies, within this state, to make adequate provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality : Provided, notwithstanding, that the several...

...several towns, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies, within this State, to make adequate provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers, of piety, religion, and morality" (Const, of NH, part 1, art. 6). about the same...

...several towns, parishes, bodies corporate or religious societies within this State to make adequate provision, at their own expense, for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality." (Ib., Art. VI.) § 19. It is further "provided,...