Chap. 0103 An Act to provide for the furnishing of free text-books and school supplies to the pupils of the public schools.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The school committee of every city and town shall purchase, at the expense of such city or town, text-books and other school supplies used in the public schools ; and said text-books and supplies shall be loaned to the pupils of said public schools free of charge, subject to such rules and regulations as to care and custody as the school committee may prescribe.
Section 2. Pupils supplied with text-books at the time of the passage of this act shall not be supplied with similar books by the committee until needed.
Section 3. This act shall take effect upon the first day of August eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
Approved March 22,1884.