Education. 87 



remove the schoolhouse near Peter Ripley's where it should best 

 accommodate them, provided they did it at their own expense. 



The further demands of Cohasset received recognition in 1730, 

 for although the town refused to build a schoolhouse there, it 

 allowed Cohasset to draw out of the town treasury the whole of 

 what it paid towards the building of a schoolhouse in 1721-22 

 (the one near Peter Ripley's, now removed to Great Plain), pro- 

 vided the same should be applied to building a schoolhouse in 

 Cohasset; and in 1734 £10 additional for this purpose was 

 granted to Cohasset. 



For a few years following 1730 Cohasset and Great Plain were 

 allowed to draw out their proportion of the school money, but the 

 town did not settle upon a definite arrangement for the keeping 

 of " the school in different portions of the town " until 1734, at 

 the time of the grant of the additional £10 just mentioned to 

 Cohasset. In 1734 it was voted, " to have a school the year en- 

 suing, and but one," and " that the school should be kept in three 

 places in said town the year ensuing, viz. : — at the school-house 

 in the town part so called ; at the school-house in the Great 

 Plain ; and in the precinct of Cohasset ; and the time the school 

 shall be kept in each of those places shall be proportioned ac- 

 cording to what the inhabitants and estates in each of those parts 

 pay towards the support of the same." This arrangement con- 

 tinued without essential variation until 1752, the town having 

 refused, in 1738, to have two schools. 



In 1752 a still further growth must be noted. Now for the 

 first time two schools were established. It was voted, "to have 

 one grammar and one writing and reading school within the town 

 the year ensuing. The grammar school to be kept in the North 

 school-house the whole of the year, and the writing and reading 

 school to be kept seven months within the said year in the school- 

 house in the east precinct [Cohasset] and four months in the 

 school-house in the south parish." 



Continuing upon this plan through this and the three succeed- 

 ing years, in 1756 Cohasset was permitted " to draw their full 

 proportion of the money raised for the support of schools in lieu 

 of the seven months' time" above-mentioned; and in 1757 the 

 arrangement was further modified by a vote that the schools 

 should be regulated the same as in 1752, " only that there be one 

 kept 5 months in the year on the plain in the north parish, and 

 that each precinct draw their just proportion of money raised for 

 the support of the schools." 



No further change from this modified plan was made until 

 1763, when the following vote was passed : — 



" Voted, that the inhabitants of each parish should draw their just pro- 

 portion of money raised the year ensuing for the use of the schools and 

 improve the same as they shall determine by a major vote of their inhabi- 

 tants aforesaid, and that the Grammar school should be kept in the north 

 parish." 



