1878.
SCHOOL AGENT'S CENSUS RETURN.
District No. 4

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School Agent's Census Return, 1878.
By Sections 60 and 61, of Chapter 11, of the Revised Statutes, as amended by Act approved February 23,
1876, every School Agent is required to make to the Assessors and Superintending School Committee, in the
month of April annually, under oath, certified lists "of the children in his district between four and twenty-
one years of age, as they existed on the first day of said month, exclusive of those coming from other places,
where they belong, to attend any college or academy, or to labor in any factory therein." Agents will please
notice that it is not enough to give the NUMBER of scholars in their several districts, but a LIST OF THEIR NAMES
is required by law.

I hereby certify, under oath, that the following is a correct list of the names of the scholars belonging to
this District, between the ages of four and twenty-one years, as they existed on the first day of April, 1878.

(Signed,) Wm. A. Rice Agent of District 4
Town of Cranberry Isles

Personally appeared William A. Rice and made oath to the above Certificate,
Before me, William P Preble Justice of the Peace in ___________

April 19, 1878

NAMES AGES
Loring E Rice 16
Carrie E Rice 18
Sophia A Rice 13
Herbert A Rice 9
Seth H Rice 6
Walter L Fernald 20
R H B Fernald 18
A C Fernald, Jr 17
Cora M Fernald 8
Gilbert A Rice 7
Cora A Richardson 9
Eugene P Stanley 19
Hettie M Gilley 18
Laura A Gilley 15
Mary E Gilley 11
John Pung 19
Sarah P Smallidge 8
Ida K Smallidge 7
Augusta A Smallidge 4
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