The Common School System of the State of New York: Comprising the Several General Laws Relating to Common Schools, Together with Full Expositions, Instructions and Forms ... To which is Prefixed a Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress and Present Outline of the System |
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... necessary , employ teachers , apply the funds of the district , and levy taxes on the inhabitants , for such further sums as might be required for the sup- port of the school and the education of indigent children . None of these sug ...
... necessary , employ teachers , apply the funds of the district , and levy taxes on the inhabitants , for such further sums as might be required for the sup- port of the school and the education of indigent children . None of these sug ...
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... necessary for the space occupied by these ex- tracts from this admirable report : shadowing forth as it does , the great features of that system of public instruction subsequently adopted , and successfully car- ried into execution ...
... necessary for the space occupied by these ex- tracts from this admirable report : shadowing forth as it does , the great features of that system of public instruction subsequently adopted , and successfully car- ried into execution ...
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... necessary requisites , it is difficult to form any certain es- timate from them . Taking , however , the most correct and full returns for a criterion , it would appear that there are within the state about five thousand districts in ...
... necessary requisites , it is difficult to form any certain es- timate from them . Taking , however , the most correct and full returns for a criterion , it would appear that there are within the state about five thousand districts in ...
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... necessary , a new act was passed in 1814. This act was also found on trial to be imperfect , and in the following year it underwent sundry amendments . Since that time , the system founded on the act of 1814 and the amendments of 1815 ...
... necessary , a new act was passed in 1814. This act was also found on trial to be imperfect , and in the following year it underwent sundry amendments . Since that time , the system founded on the act of 1814 and the amendments of 1815 ...
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... necessary , will involve as much expense as ought now to be incurred . But they fondly anticipate the time when the means of the state will be commensurate with the public spirit of its legislature , and when such an institution will be ...
... necessary , will involve as much expense as ought now to be incurred . But they fondly anticipate the time when the means of the state will be commensurate with the public spirit of its legislature , and when such an institution will be ...
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academies alteration annual meeting annual report applied appointed apportionment appropriated assessment roll attending authorized board of education board of supervisors certificate chap city of Hudson clerk Clyde High School collected collector colored children commissioners of common common council common school fund county clerk county treasurer deem district library district meeting district number district school dollars duly duty elected entitled establishment expenses free schools hereby improve instruction legislature levied liable librarian library money manner moneys received necessary notice number of children paid person Poughkeepsie preceding prescribed proper public money pupils purchase qualified raised rate bill rate-bill regulations repair residing respect Schenectady School Dec school districts school houses school moneys specified superintendent of common support of common tax list taxable inhabitants thereafter therein thereof tion town of Trenton town superintendent trict vacancy village vote wages ward warrant whole number
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Page 365 - At any meeting of the board of trustees a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time...
Page 64 - The capital of the common school fund, the capital of the literature fund, and the capital of the United States deposit fund, shall be respectively preserved inviolate. The revenue of the said common school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools; the revenue of the said literature fund shall be applied to * As amended November 3.
Page 373 - The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the order of any one or more of the school commissioners, such sum of money as the commissioner of education shall certify to be due to them for expenses in holding a teachers...
Page 102 - November succeeding such election, execute to the supervisor of his town and file with the town clerk, a bond with one or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the said...
Page 283 - To record the proceedings of all meetings, of the voters of his district in a book to be provided for that purpose by the district, and to enter therein true copies of all reports made by the trustees to the school commissioner.
Page 283 - To keep and preserve all records, books and papers belonging to his office and to deliver the same to his successor. For a refusal or neglect so to do, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for the benefit of the schools of the district, to be recovered by the trustees.
Page 347 - ... shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the facts therein set forth ; and such...
Page 263 - All arms and accoutrements required by law to be kept by any person; all wearing apparel of every person or family; 5.
Page 171 - America in the sum of dollars ($ ), for the payment of which we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, successors, and assigns, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Witness our hands and seals this day of , 19...
Page 208 - In the fifth column the value of taxable rents reserved and chargeable upon lands within the tax district, estimated at a principal sum, the interest of which, at the legal rate per annum, shall produce a sum equal to such annual rents and if payable in any other thing except money the value of the rents in money to be ascertained by...