OF

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION

AND

PRIMARY SCHOOL LAW

OF

MICHIGAN,

WITH EXPLANATORY NOTES, FORMS, REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS;
A DIGEST OF DECISIONS; A DETAILED HISTORY OF PUBLIC
INSTRUCTION AND THE LAWS RELATING THERETO;

THE HISTORY OF AND LAWS RELATING

TO INCORPORATED INSTITUTIONS

OF LEARNING, &c. &c.

TO SCHOOL OFFICERS.

This Document is transmitted to each County Clerk and County Treasurer, and to each Township Clerk for the use of the Township Library, and an additional copy to the latter, for the use of the Township Board of School Inspectors. One copy is also transmitted to each of the school district officers, viz: the Moderator, Director and Assessor, for their use while in office-to be delivered up to their successors at the expiration of their term.

NOTE. On page 1 an error occurs in relation to the subdivision of lands. The smallest is forty acres.

CONTENTS.

PARTI.

Origin, Progress, and present Condition of Public Instruction in Michigan,-

Congressional and Territorial Legislation from 1785 to 1836,....

1

State Legislation relating to Public Instruction, from 1836 to 1852, embracing the His-

tory and Condition of the University; Governors' Messages; Reports of Legislative

Committees; Reports of Superintendents; Boards of Regents, and Boards of Visit-

ors; Condition of Incorporated Literary Institutions; the State Normal School, and

the Primary Schools,....
........1 to 212, 261 to 205

Summary of Debates on Education in the Convention to Revise the Constitution, with

the Article as adopted and ratified by the People, with a Comparison between the

First and Revised Constitutions,. . . . . .

......212 to 261

.296 to 306

Sketch of the Public Schools of the City of Detroit...

Thirteenth Annual Report of Regents, with the Report of the Medical Faculty, and

Course of Studies in the Medical Department of the University,...........306 to 312

Memoir of Dr. Pitcher, embracing an Epitome of the Transactions of the Regents,

with some Reasons for the adoption of their more important Measures, from 1837

to June 30, 1851, prepared by order of the Board of Regents,............312 to 328

Memorial of Alvah Bradish, for establishment of a Department of Fine Arts in the

University,.

..328 to 336

PART II.

The Primary School Law of Michigan, with Notes, Forms and Instructions for conduct-

ing proceedings,.

Districts,.

District Meetings,.

District Officers-their powers and duties,.

Moderator,.

Assessor.

Director,.

District Board,.

Township Board of School Inspectors,.

Duties of Township Clerk,...

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