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Excerpt from Report of a Committee of the Town of Groton, Appointed in November, 1855, to Consider the Expediency of Establishing a High School
The laws of the Commonwealth require every town con taining five hundred families or householders to maintain a school or schools, in which, in addition to the branches of learning usually taught, instruction shall be given by com petent teachers, in the history of the United States, book keeping, surveying, geometry, and algebra. Such schools are to be kept for the benefit of all the inhabitants of the town, ten months at least in each year, exclusive of vaca tions, under a penalty, in case of neglect, of forfeiting a sum equal to twice the highest sum which has ever before been voted for the support of schools.
Groton now contains five hundred and seventy families and as these provisions of law are consequently applicable to us, we might very properly refer to them as conclusive in regard to the duty of the town.
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