be in regular and consecutive attendance at public school beginning on the day following the receipt of the notice. Please give me immediate notice should the parent fail to perform his duty in accordance therewith.

did not begin attendance at the public school on the date stated in formal notice, nor has been in attendance since.

SIR-You are hereby notified that the following named children in this city (or village) are not in regular attendance at the public schools. By the provisions of Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1905, as amended, you are hereby requested to investigate these cases of truancy or non-attendance at school, as is provided in said act.

to begin regular

of age and under sixteen years, and under your control, is not attending the public schools as is required by Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1905, as amended. You are hereby notified to cause said and consecutive attendance at the public school on the day following the receipt of this notice at nine o'clock at the .... school, and you are further notified that said child must be in regular and consecutive attendance during the remainder of the school year.

Respectfully,

Served

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FORM NO. 40.

Truant Officer.

Notice to commissioner of schools, by teacher, of deaf children not in attendance

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SIR-You are hereby notified that the following named children, residents of district No. township of have such defective hearing that they cannot be taught in the public schools, and are not attending schools for the deaf.

Notice of commissioner or truant officer to superintendent of State School for the

Deaf.

[See section 252.]

Michigan,

Superintendent of School for the Deaf, Flint, Michigan:

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SIR-You are hereby notified that the following named children in the districts and townships specified have such defective hearing that they cannot be taught successfully in the public schools, and are not attending any institution for deaf children.

You are hereby notified that a child seven years of age and under eighteen years, and under your legal control, is reported to me,as having such defective hearing as makes it impossible for such child to be instructed in the public schools, and that said child is not attending any school for the deaf as is required by Act No. 48 of the Public Acts of 1907. It is your duty and you are hereby directed to send such child to a day school for the deaf or to the State School for the Deaf at Flint, or some other school for the deaf, in accordance with the provisions of said act.

Served

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Yours respectfully,

Truant Officer.

FORM NO. 43.

Notice to truant officer of blind children not in attendance at State School for

SIR-You are hereby notified that the following named children under your jurisdiction, between the ages of seven and nineteen years, and who by reason of defective eyesight are unable to receive instruction in the public schools, are not in attendance at the Michigan School for the Blind. Under authority of Act No. 116 of the Public Acts of 1907, you are hereby requested to investigate these cases and report to the Superintendent of the School for the Blind at Lansing at the earliest possible date the facts in regard to these children.

NAME OF CHILD. NAME OF PARENT.

ADDRESS.

DISTRICT, TOWNSHIP OR CITY.

Very respectfully,

County Commissioner of Schools or Superintendent of School for the Blind.

FORM No. 44.

Notice to truant officer to proceed against the parent.

SIR-You are hereby notified that the following named children between the ages of seven and nineteen years are not in attendance at the State School for the Blind in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 116 of the Public Acts of 1907, and you are hereby directed to proceed against the parent or guardian of such children under the provisions of Act No. 200 of the Public Acts of 1905 as amended.