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18 refuses to pay for such tuition, it shall be liable therefor in an action 



19 of contract to the city or town, or cities and towns, maintaining the 



20 school which the pupil, with the approval of the said board, 



21 attended. 



REIMBURSEMENT. 



1 SECTION 8. Independent industrial, agricultural and household 



2 arts schools shall, as long as they are approved by the board of 



3 education as to organization, control, location, equipment, courses 



4 of study, qualifications of teachers, methods of instruction, conditions 



5 of admission, employment of pupils and expenditures of money, 



6 constitute approved local or district independent vocational schools. 



7 Cities and towns maintaining such approved local or district inde- 



8 pendent vocational schools shall receive reimbursement as provided 



9 for in sections nine and ten of this act. 



1 SECTION 9. 1. The commonwealth, in order to aid in the mainte- 



2 nance of approved local or district independent industrial and house- 



3 hold arts schools and of independent agricultural schools consisting 



4 of other than agricultural departments in high schools, shall, as pro- 



5 vided for in this act, pay annually from the treasury to cities and 



towns maintaining such schools an amount equal to one-half the sum 

 7 to be known as the net maintenance sum. Such net maintenance sum 

 S shall consist of the total sum raised by local taxation and expended 

 9 for the maintenance of such a school, less the amount, for the same 



10 period, of tuition claims, paid or unpaid, and receipts from the work 



11 of pupils or the sale of products. 



12 2. Cities and towns maintaining approved local or district inde- 



13 pendent agricultural schools consisting only of agricultural depart- 



14 ments in high schools shall be reimbursed by the commonwealth, as 



15 provided , for in this act, only to the extent of two-thirds of the 



16 salary paid to the instructors in such agricultural departments : pro- 



17 vided, that the total amount of money expended by the common- 



18 wealth in the reimbursement of such cities and towns for the salaries 



19 of such instructors for any given year shall not exceed ten thousand 



20 dollars. 



21 3. Cities and towns that have paid claims for tuition in approved 



22 local or district independent vocational schools shall be reimbursed 



23 by the commonwealth, as provided for in this act, to the extent of 



24 one-half the sum expended by such cities and towns in payment of 



25 such claims. 



1 SECTION 10. On or before the first Wednesday of January of each 



2 year the board of education shall present to the legislature a state- 



3 ment of the amount expended previous to the preceding first day 



4 of December by cities and towns in the maintenance of approved 



