SECT. XI. THE said overseers shall forthwith proceed to have a
house of brick or stone, for the said grammar school, with necessary
offices, built on the said lands, which grammer school-house shall
contain a room for the school, a hall to dine in, four rooms for a
master and usher, and ten or twelve lodging rooms for the scholars.
SECT. XII. TO each of the said grammar schools shall be allowed
out of the public treasury, the sum of pounds, out of which shall be
paid by the Treasurer, on warrant from the Auditors, to the
proprietors or tenants of the lands located, the value of their
several interests as fixed by the jury, and the balance thereof shall
be delivered to the said overseers to defray the expence of the said
buildings.
SECT. XIII. IN these grammar schools shall be taught the Latin
and Greek languages, English grammar, geography, and the higher part
of numerical arithmetick, to wit, vulgar and decimal fractions, and
the extraction of the square and cube roots.
SECT. XIV. A visiter from each county constituting the district
shall be appointed, by the overseers, for the county, in the month of
October annually, either from their own body or from their county at
large, which visiters or the greater part of them, meeting together
at the said grammar school on the first Monday in November, if fair,
and if not, then on the next fair day, excluding Sunday, shall have
power to choose their own Rector, who shall call and preside at
future meetings, to employ from time to time a master, and if
necessary, an usher, for the said school, to remove them at their
will, and to settle the price of tuition to be paid by the scholars.
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