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RECOMMENDATION THAT SCHOOL BE ESTABLISHED.

The Beverly Commission on Industrial Education, if your Honorable Board approves of the plans set forth above, desires to recommend to the Mayor and City Council of Beverly that immediate action be taken to establish a school for machinists along the lines indicated. It is thought best to have the industrial school for machinists in session whenever the factory is in operation. This would mean that the school would be in session practically twelve months in the year. It seems desirable, therefore, that the school year should begin July 1st.
The Beverly Commission on Industrial Education is desirous of having this school in operation July 1, 1909, or as soon there- after as possible. Any advice or assistance from your Honorable Board will be gratefully received by this commission, which respectfully submits this report for your consideration.
The Beverly Commission on Industrial Education: George H. Vose, Chairman; Adelbert L. Safford, Secretary; Clifford B. Bray; Samuel Cole; Albert W. Dodge; James B. Dow; Annie M. Kilham; Charles A. King; Walter H. Naylor; Beverly, Mass., May 10, 1909.

On May 18, 1909, Alderman James A; Torrey introduced the following order in the Board of Aldermen:

CITY OF BEVERLY
Board of Aldermen, May 18, 1909.

Ordered, That an Independent Industrial School be and is hereby established in Beverly in accordance with Chapter 505 of the Acts of 1906, as supplemented by Chapter 572 of the Acts of 1908, for the purpose of instructing youths between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one years in day or evening classes in the machinist's trade or in such other industrial trades or occupations as shall be deemed expedient by the Board of Trustees of said Industrial School, and also for the purpose of instructing any persons already employed in the industries in evening classes in such industrial trades or occupations as shall be deemed expedient by the Board of Trustees of said Industrial School.

The management and control of the Beverly Independent Industrial School and of all property pertaining to the same shall be vested in a Board of Trustees, consisting of his Honor the Mayor of Beverly, five members of the Beverly School Committee to be designated each year by the chairman of the School Committee, one or more citizens of Beverly appointed for a term of three years by his Honor the Mayor, as follows: Each proprietor of an industry who shall provide facilities satisfactory to the Board of Trustees for the practice work of pupils of the School shall be represented by one member of the Board of Trustees nominated by the proprietor of the industry and appointed by the Mayor.

The Board of Trustees of the Beverly Independent Industrial School shall be authorized to accept the co-operation of the School Committee, and to occupy and use school property with the permission of the School Committee and to enter into such arrangements of co-operation with proprietors of the various industries as the Board of Trustees shall deem expedient.

The Board of Trustees shall be authorized to elect a secretary and executive officer and all other necessary officers and teachers and to fix their salaries.
The Board of Trustees shall conduct all the affairs of the Beverly Independent Industrial School in such a manner as to receive the approval of the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial Education and. to entitle the City of Beverly to be reimbursed by the Commonwealth for such portion of the cost of maintenance of the Industrial School as is provided by the laws of the Commonwealth.

This order passed both branches without amendment, and was signed June 26, 1909.

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