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Where it becomes necessary to borrow money by bond issue for school purposes, the following form will be found useful, because it indicates the procedure necessary to the issue, is clear concerning purposes and terms, and states the security and the necessary dates : In the matter of the issuance of bonds of the Trenton […]

The Teacher Stands in Place of the Parent, and while a pupil is under his care, has in the absence of statute or other regulation to the contrary, the same authority as the parent has at home of correcting him by confinement or whipping, or at least such part of the parents’ authority as is […]

Following is a careful digest of the laws governing the rights and duties of directors, teachers, pupils and parents. School Management.—In most of the states the management of the public or common schools is placed by statute under the exclusive control of directors, trustees, committees, or boards of education. District and Township Unit Systems.-The schools […]

The Constitution requires that a census of the United States shall be taken every ten years. The first census was taken in 1790 under the super-vision of the President; subsequent censuses, to and including that of 1840, were taken under the supervision of the Secretary of State. In 1849 the supervision of the census was […]

The Civil Service Act, as it is commonly called, or the “Act to Regulate and Improve the Civil Service of the United States,” as it is officially designated, was passed in January, 1883. It provides for the appointment of three commissioners, a chief examiner, a secretary, and other employes, and makes it the duty of […]

The adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution swept away the last barrier to the full vote of the women in state and national elections, and it is estimated that nearly twenty-nine million women were thus made eligible to vote. Failure to Pay Poll Tax excludes from voting in Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Mississippi, […]

Naturalization, or citizenship, is governed by national law, which provides that no alien shall be naturalized until after five years’ residence. Suffrage, or the right to vote, while conferred on women by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution, is, nevertheless, governed, as to qualifications, by the laws of the different States. A Naturalized Citizen […]

The right to make a will is a legal right, not a natural. Its enforcement depends wholly upon the law. All living men have a natural right to manage or dispose of property acquired by their own efforts ; but when the brain and the hand no longer operate, this right ceases, and the disposal […]