Roney v. School District of Scranton

Opinion

by Handley, J.

It was agreed in this case that the city of Scranton is a municipal corporation, * * * created as such by act of Assembly, and that it contains more than three thousand inhabitants, and under tbe act of 1867, is entitled to a city superintendent of schools ; that the board of school directors are authorized and empoweied to elect such superintendent for the term of three years as provided in the act of 1867. By the act of 1862 the school year is required to commence on the first Monday of June in each year, and under the act of 1867 the board of directors or controllers…