Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . authorizing boards of schooldirectors to select sites for school houses was defeated, and thisimportant feature w-as first secured in the act of 1867. Schoolboards were given the power to borrow money, to buy and sellproperty, sue and be sued, etc. Sub-districts were idea of dividing the township into parts, each containing oneschool controlled by a local committee, had been borrowed fromthe school systems of New York and New England. The minimumschool term was lengthened to four months. The superintendentwas authorized
Pennsylvania, colonial and federal : a history, 1608-1903 . authorizing boards of schooldirectors to select sites for school houses was defeated, and thisimportant feature w-as first secured in the act of 1867. Schoolboards were given the power to borrow money, to buy and sellproperty, sue and be sued, etc. Sub-districts were idea of dividing the township into parts, each containing oneschool controlled by a local committee, had been borrowed fromthe school systems of New York and New England. The minimumschool term was lengthened to four months. The superintendentwas authorized to prepare a work on school architecture, andalso to appoint a deputy, with to act in his absence or dur- 48 The Educational System ing a vacancy. Orthograpliy, reading, writing, grammar, geog-raphy and arithmetic were directed to be taught in every directors were empowered to require instruction in addi-tional branches, and to select the text-books to be used, all othersbeing prohibited for the sake of uniformity. But the provision. Alexander James Dallas Author; editor; statesman; secretary of thecommonwealth 1791-1801 ; United States districtattorney 1801-1814; secretary of the UnitedStates Treasury 1814-1816 which afterward caused most discussion was that creating theoffice of county superintendent. In this Pennsylvania followedthe lead of New York, where the county superintendency hadbeen in successful operation from 1841 to 1847, ^vhen the officewas abolished. (The office was subsequently restored and stillexists under the name of county school commissioner.) County Superintendency.—On May 10, 1854, the state super-intendent forwarded copies of the amended school law (approved 3—4 49 Pennsylvania Colonial and Federal ]\Iay 8) to the commissioners of the various counties, and in anofficial circular he drew attention to the creation of the office ofcounty superintendent as the most important feature of the the creation of this office an
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