Excerpt from The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Relating to the Public Schools, With the Alterations and Amendments, to 1876 Soon after the publication of the General Statutes, Mr. Bout well published as a part of the Twenty-fourth Report of the Secretary of the Board, the school laws as then just revised, with a valuable commentary. This report gave valuable aid to the teachers and to all persons having the supervision of the schools. The edition becoming exhausted, a pamphlet edi tion of the school laws was published in 1867, embracing all the amendments made up to the time of publication, without note or comment, except that references to the early amend ments, to the Acts and Resolves previous to the General Stat utes, and to the decisions of the supreme court, were noted in the margin. Although a large edition was printed, it is now exhausted; moreover, numerous and important changes in the laws have been made in the interim, making it difficult to ascertain the state of the laws in many important particulars, so that there is an urgent demand for another revised edition. To meet this demand is the main business of this Report. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.