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It was voted in May, 1825, that
Messrs. Edward Cutter,
Chester Adams, and
Rev. Henry Jackson of the trustees have charge of the
Milk Row and
Winter Hill schools; that
Miss Charlotte Wayne be employed at the former, and
Miss Eliza Wayne at the latter, to teach twenty weeks, at $4.00 per week; and that
Miss Sarah Perry be engaged for school No. 4 for the same time, at $3.17 per week.
Mr. (
James)
Russell was empowered to secure a teacher for ward 5, at $3.00 per week.
Voted that schools without the Neck be no longer permitted to be closed on the afternoon of Wednesday, and that five and one-half days services each week be required of the instructors.
October 4, the president,
L. M. Parker, reported that he and
Captain Cutter had visited the school at Milk Row on Friday last.
Fifty-two scholars were present out of a membership of seventy-five.
The same date it was voted that schools in wards 3 and 6 be provided with a master the ensuing winter by
Messrs. Cutter,
Adams, and
Jackson, and that
Messrs Parker and
Russell attend to that duty for wards 4 and 5. October 6 Miss Perry's school was examined, also
Miss Cutter's (ward 5). October 14 the Winter Hill school was examined.
Number enrolled, thirty-five boys and twenty-three girls; present, seventeen and eighteen respectively.
There were present of the trustees
Messrs. Adams,
Jackson,
Cutter, and
Pool. Remarks were made by several of these gentlemen, and the exercises were closed by an address to the Throne of Grace by
Rev. Mr. Jackson.
Mr. Joshua O. Colburn was employed to teach the winter school at ward 3 five months, to begin the first Tuesday in November, at $30 per month;
Mr. John Parker, of
Chelmsford, was engaged for the ward 6 school, at $32, from November 15;
Philemon R. Russell, Jr., received the appointment to ward 4, at $27; and
Bowan A. Tufts for ward 5, at $26, both to begin
