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Contract, Direct Payment, Lease

From the book The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law, about Contract, Direct Payment, Lease (1): No school of any denomination or sect is entitled to public moneys for its support, either by contract for the education of students therein or by direct payment from the government.614 A school conducted by the Catholic Church in which religious instruction is given to Catholic children is a sectarian institution within the constitutional provision against using public funds for sectarian purposes; but public school money expended for such a school conducted by this school district could not be recovered by suit against the school officers.615 Also, a school maintained as a charity under direction of trustees elected by the town where they must be of a certain religion, is not entitled to public moneys.616 But the lease of a part of a parochial school building or the basement of a church for public school purposed does not violate the law.617 In the States of Maine, Iowa, Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, and Texas, the reading of the King James Bible and the singing of hymns and saying prayers have been held not sectarian.618 But in Wisconsin, the court ruled the other way.619

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Notes and References

1. Charles M. Scanlan, The Clergyman’s Hand-book of Law. The Law of Church and Grave (1909), Benziger Brothers, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago

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• Religion
• Church