SECT. VI. AT every of these schools shall be taught reading,
writing, and common arithmetick, and the books which shall be used
therein for instructing the children to read shall be such as will at
the same time make them acquainted with Graecian, Roman, English, and
American history. At these schools all the free children, male and
female, resident within the respective hundred, shall be intitled to
receive tuition gratis, for the term of three years, and as much
longer, at their private expence, as their parents, guardians or
friends, shall think proper.
SECT. VII. OVER ten of these schools (or such other number
nearest thereto, as the number of hundreds in the county will admit,
without fractional divisions) an overseer shall be appointed annually
by the Aldermen at their first meeting, eminent for his learning,
integrity, and fidelity to the commonwealth, whose business and duty
it shall be, from time to time, to appoint a teacher to each school,
who shall give assurance of fidelity to the commonwealth, and to
remove him as he shall see cause; to visit every school once in every
half year at the least, to examine the schollars; see that any
general plan of reading and instruction recommended by the visiters
of William and Mary College shall be observed; and to superintend the
conduct of the teacher in every thing relative to his school.
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