§ 2. The sum of ten thousand dollars shall, after the present year, be annually paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the comptroller, to the superintendent of common schools, from the revenue of the literature fund, for the maintenance and support of the school so established, for five years, and until otherwise directed by law.

3. The said school shall be under the supervision, management and government of the superintendent of common schools and the regents of the university. The said superintendent and regents shall from time to time, make all needful rules and regulations, to fix the number and compensation of teachers and others to be employed therein, to prescribe the preliminary examination and the terms and conditions on which pupils shall be received and instructed therein, the number of pupils from the respective cities and counties, conforming as nearly as may be to the ratio of population, to fix the location of the said school, and the terms and conditions on which the grounds and buildings therefor shall be rented, if the same shall not be provided by the corporation of the city of Albany, and to provide in all things for the good government and management of the said school. They shall appoint a board consisting of five persons, of whom the said superintendent shall be one, who shall constitute an executive committee for the care, management and government of the said school under the rules and regulations prescribed as aforesaid, whose duty it shall be from time to time to make full and detailed reports to the said superintendent and regents, and among other things to recommend the rules and regulations which they deem necessary and proper for the said school.

S4. The superintendent and regents shall annually transmit to the legislature a full account of their proceedings and expenditures of money under this act, together with a detailed report by said executive committee of the progress, condition and prospects of the school.

§ 1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller to the order of the state superintendent of common schools, from the general fund, a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars per year for the support and education of ten Indian youth in the State Normal School.

§ 2. The selection of such youth shall be made by the state superintendent of common schools from the several Indian tribes located within the state; and in making such selection, due regard shall be had to a just participation in the privileges of this act by each of the said several tribes, and if practicable, reference shall also be had to the population of each of said tribes in determining such selection.

§3. Such youths shall not be under sixteen years of age, nor shall any of such youths be supported or educated at said Normal School for a period exceeding three years.

§ 4. The executive committee of the State Normal School shall be the guardians of such Indian youths, during the period of their connection with the school, and shall pay their necessary expenses, not exceeding one hundred dollars per year for each pupil to be defrayed out of the money appropriated by the first section of this act.

§ 5. The Indian pupils selected in pursuance of this act, and attending said Normal School, shall enjoy the same privileges of every kind, as the other pupils attending said school, including the payment of travelling expenses, not exceeding ten dollars to each pupil.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.

[Laws of 1847, Chap. 361.]

AN ACT for the establishment of teachers' institutes.

Passed November 13, 1847, "three-fifths being present."

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the order of the several county treasurers of this state, the several sums of money hereinafter mentioned, not exceeding sixty dollars annually to any one county, from the income of the United States deposite fund, to be expended for the use and benefit of teachers' institutes as hereinafter provided.

§ 2. Whenever a majority of town superintendents of common schools in any county in this state unite in a recommendation, and file with the county clerk thereof a certificate, signifying their desire that a teacher's institute should be organized in such county, for the instruction and improvement of common school teachers for such county, it shall thereupon be the duty of such clerk forthwith to appoint three town superintendents of the county, and notify them of their appointment, to constitute an advisory committee, to make the necessary arrangements for organizing and managing such institute, and such clerk shall also immediately give such public notice in such manner as he may deem most proper to the teachers of common schools of the county, and to others who may desire to become such, specifying a time and place when and where the teachers may meet and form such institute.

§ 3. Whenever any institute shall have been organized as herein provided, it shall be the duty of said committee, and they shall have power to secure two or more suitable persons to lecture before such institute upon subjects pertaining to common school teaching and discipline, and various educational subjects which may be deemed calculated to qualify common school teachers, and to elevate the profession of teaching and to improve common schools; and said committee shall keep an accurate account in items, of the necessary expenses of such institute in procuring said lecturers, and otherwise, and shall verify said account by affidavit, and deliver the same to the county treasurer, to be audited by and filed with him when application shall be made to such treasurer, as hereinafter provided.

§ 4. Whenever any county treasurer shall receive satisfactory evidence that not less than fifty, or in counties of under thirty thousand population, then not less than thirty teachers and individuals intending to become teachers of common schools within one year, shall have been in regular attendance on the instructions and lectures of the institute in the county during at least, ten working days, he shall audit and allow the account which shall be presented to him by the committee as aforesaid, and shall pay over to said committee the amount so audited and allowed, not exceeding sixty dollars in any one year, to be disbursed by said committee in paying the expenses incurred by the institute as aforesaid.

§ 5. Every such committee shall annually transmit to the state superintendent of common schools, a catalogue of the names of all persons who shall have attended such institute, with such other statistical information and within such time as may be prescribed by said state superintendent.

§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

LIBRARY MONEYS.

[Laws of 1851. Chap, 425.]

AN ACT to amend the act entitled, "An act to establish free schools throughout the State."

Passed July 9, 1851.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The Act entitled, "An act to establish free schools throughout the State," passed April 12, 1851, shall not be so construed as to prevent or prohibit the distribution and application of library money, in the manner heretofore prescribed by law.

$ 2. Nothing in this act contained, shall be so construed as to require the board of supervisors of each county, to raise a sum of money for library purposes, equal to the sum which it will receive from the state.

3. This act shall take effect immediately.

WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY.

[Laws of 1851. Chap. 449.]

AN ACT to authorize the Superintendent of Common Schools to purchase Webster's Unabridged Dictionary for the Common School Districts of this State.

Passed July 9, 1851.

The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The state superintendent of common schools shall cause notice to be given, by circular, to one or more of the trustees of the several school districts in this state, on or before the first day of December next, which circular shall state the terms, and the funds out of which the same is to be paid; that Websters Unabridged Dictionary will be purchased by him, for each of the school districts in this state, entitled to participate in the distribution of public moneys for the support of common schools: provided such district shall notify the town superintendent of common schools of their respective towns, in writing, to be signed by a majority of the trustees of any school district that said Dictionary is wanted by the district giving such notice: such notice to be delivered to such town superintendent before the first day of January next.

§ 2. The town superintendent of common schools in each of the towns in this state, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of January next, make out and deliver to the county clerk, a complete list of all the school districts in their several towns: stating the number of such districts, and shall annex to the number of each desiring to purchase Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, that such district desires to purchase said dictionary, and shall file a copy of such list in the office of the town clerk of their respective towns, on or before the fifteenth day of January next.

§ 3. The county clerk of each of the several counties of this State, shall transmit such lists on or before the first day of February next, to the state superintendent of common schools.

4. The state superintendent of common schools is authorized to purchase of the publishers of Webster's Quarto Unabridged Dictiouary, such number of said work as shall be sufficient to supply all the said school districts in the state which shall be found reported upon such lists as desire to purchase the same; such Dictionaries shall be the latest edition of Webster's Quarto Unabridged Dictionary, print ed on superior paper, well bound

in leather, and in all respects perfect; the price to be paid shall not exceed four dollars per volome; and shall be paid for out of the public monies which shall be apportioned to the several school districts of the state for which the same shall be purchased, one half thereof in the year 1852 and one half thereof in the year 1853, and the contract for such purchase of the said publishers shall provide for such terms of payment, and the number of Dictionaries so purchased shall be delivered to the state superintendent of common schools, before the first day of April, 1852, and shall be by him delivered to the town superintendent of common schools of the respective towns, before the first day of May, 1852.

§ 5. The said town superintendent shall deliver such Dictionary to the trustees of each of the said several districts in their respective towns for which they shall be purchased as soon thereafter as shall be practicable, and shall retain in his hands the sum of two dollars out of the library monies apportioned to such districts in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and such sum out of the library monies, to be apportioned to such district in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-three, as shall be sufficient to pay the balance of the purchase price of such Dictionary, not exceeding the sum of two dollars, and shall deposite the same immediately thereafter with the treasurer of their respective counties, and take a receipt for the same and deliver such receipt to the county clerk of their respective counties, to be forwarded by such county clerk to the state superintendent of common schools.

§ 6. The monies so deposited with the treasurers of the respective counties shall be subject to the order of the state superintendent of common schools, and shall be by him received and paid to the publishers of said Dictionaries upon his contract for the same.

§ 7. Such dictionary shall be kept in the libraries of the librarians of the several school districts of this state, during the time there shall be no school taught in said district, and subject to the same rules that are applicable to other books in school district libraries; and during the time a school shall be taught therein the said dictionary shall be under the control of the teacher for the time being, and be kept and used in said school.

PROCEEDINGS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS UNDER ACT OF 1849.

[Laws of 1851. Chap. 500.]

AN ACT to legalize the acts of the several School Districts of the State, providing for the support of Common Schools.

Passed July 10, 1851.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

31 All the acts of the several school districts of this state, providing for the raising of moneys by tax, for the support of common schools therein, during the years, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and prior to the first day of May, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one; and all the acts of the trustees of said districts, providing for the raising of moneys by tax, for the support of common schools in said districts, for the term of four months during each of said years, prior to the first day of May, 1851, so far as the same are in accordance with the act of March 26, 1849, entitled "An act establishing free schools throughout the state," and the acts amendatory thereof, are hereby declared legal and valid.

§ 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to affect any suits which have been commenced against any trustee, or other officers of said districts, during said years, nor affect or impair any rights of action now existing. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately..

ERRATUM.

Page 342, Paragraph VII "Annual Report of Trustees," in the 4th Jine substitute "§ 116, (No. 186") for "§ 115, (No. 137")

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TO TRUSTEES AND TOWN SUPERINTENDENTS.

This volume is to be regarded as the property of the district or town to which it is sent, and of the Trustees or Town Superintendent in their official capacity: and is to be delivered, at the expiration of their official term, to their successors in office. When not required for present use by the trustees, it should be deposited with the District Clerk.

"THE END.