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" That where any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families, or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the masters thereof being able to instruct youths, so far as they may be fitted, for the university, and if any town neglect... "
The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut: Including East Windsor, South ... - Page 446
by Henry Reed Stiles - 1859 - 922 pages
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Sermons Preached at the Annual Election

1820 - 590 pages
...be fitted for the University : and if any town neglect the performance hereof, above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...such school, till they shall perform this order." See Ancient Charters, and Colony and Province Laws of Massachusetts Bay. Page 186, Chap. 88. in the...
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Letters to the Hon. William Prescott, LL.D., on the Free Schools of New ...

James Gordon Carter - 1824 - 230 pages
...be fitted for the University ; and if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...such school, till they shall perform this order."* To insure the object of the law, 2 * Colony Laws, Chap. 78. - WrtHl Mt the penalty was afterwards increased...
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American Annals of Education, Volume 1

1826 - 788 pages
...may be fitted for the University; and if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...such school, till they shall perform this order.'* To insure the object of the law, the penalty was afterwards increased to ten, and finally to twenty...
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American Annals of Education, Volume 1

1826 - 782 pages
...be fitted for the University j and if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...such school, till they shall perform this order.*» To insure the object of the law, the penalty was afterwards increased to ten, and finally to twenty...
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The North American Review, Volume 44

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 594 pages
...be fitted for the University ; and if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...such school, till they shall perform this order." Thus, before the Massachusetts Colony was twenty years old, the outline of its system of universal...
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The New York Review, Volumes 1-10

1842 - 576 pages
...be fitted for the university, and if any town neglect the performance hereof, above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum, to...such school, till they shall perform this order." We cannot forbear stopping for a moment to commend the sagacity and wisdom of the men who engrafted...
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Prize Essay and Lectures, Delivered Before the American Institute ..., Volume 19

American Institute of Instruction - 1848 - 174 pages
...be fitted for the university ; and if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...next such school till they shall perform this order." Here, then, we have the first legislative enactment providing for universal education by general taxation,...
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Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House

Michigan. Legislature - 1850 - 574 pages
...be fitted for the University; and if any town neglect the performance hereof above on» year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...next such school till they shall perform this order." In 1828, Congress first authorized .the Governor and Council of the territo.iy to take charge of section...
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Stryker's American Register and Magazine, Volume 1

1848 - 622 pages
...be fitted for the university ; and if any town neglect the performance hereof, above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum, to...such school, till they shall perform this order." In 1789, all previous laws on the subject were revised and condensed in an Act with the following preamble...
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Memoirs, Speeches and Writings of Robert Rantoul, Jr

Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - 1854 - 890 pages
...be fitted for the university ; and if any town neglect the performance hereof above one year, then every such town shall pay five pounds per annum to...such school, till they shall perform this order." The religious qualifications of teachers were not overlooked. " Forasmuch as it greatly concerns the welfare...
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