iv Chapter 800 of the laws of 1886, on page 97 was, by the addition of section 15, made to apply to New York city. Chapter 291 of the laws of 1887, on page 99, makes important changes in relation to the filling of State Scholarships at Cornell University. Chapter 27 of the laws of 1875, as amended by chapter 289 of the laws of 1887, on page 108, designates the days to be observed as holidays. On page 133 is a reference to the act providing for a normal and training school at Oneonta. Chapter 335 of the laws of 1887 on page 138, requires trustees to give to teachers a written memorandum of the terms of employment and requires that teachers' wages shall be paid at least as often as at the end of each month. Chapter 538 of the laws of 1887, on page 138, requires suitable and convenient water-closets for schools. Chapter 540 of the laws of 1887, on page 139, authorizes evening schools in cities and union free school districts for instruction in industrial drawing. Chapter 672 of the laws of 1887, on page 140, provides for the distribution of the Code of Public Instruction. Chapter 675 of the laws of 1887, on page 141, provides for architects' plans for school buildings. Chapter 710 of the laws of 1887, on page 142, provides for the future printing and distribution of the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. On page 143, etc., will be found the rules governing appeals to the Department of Public Instruction. A. S. Drakes Superintendent. CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL ACT. CHAP. 555. AN ACT to revise and consolidate the General Acts relating to Public Instruction. PASSED May 2, 1864; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: TITLE I. OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, HIS ent; his and term *SECTION 1. The office of state superintendent of pub- State sulic instruction is continued and the term of said office perintend shall be three years, commencing hereafter on the seventh election day of April. Such superintendent shall be elected by of office joint ballot of the senate and assembly on the second Wednesday of February next preceding the expiration of the term of the then incumbent of said office, and on the second Wednesday of February next after the occurrence of any vacancy in the office. *As amended by sec. 1, chap. 75, Laws of 1883, and by sec. 1, chap. 591, Laws of 1886. TITLE 1. Deputy superin tendent. Vacancy. Salary. Clerk hire. Seal. Copies of papers on file under seal to be evidence. Superintendent's duties. Superintendent's general supervision. * 2. He shall appoint a deputy; and in case of a vacancy in the office of superintendent, the deputy may perform all the duties of the office until the day hereinbefore fixed for the commencement of the term of said office. In case the office of both superintendent and deputy shall be vacant, the governor shall appoint some person to perform the duties of the office until the superintendent shall be elected and his term of office commence, as herein before provided. §3. The superintendent's office shall continue to be in the state hall, and maintained at the expense of the state. + 4. His salary shall be five thousand dollars a year, payable quarterly, by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller. 5. He may appoint as many clerks as he may deem necessary, but the compensation of such clerks shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of nine thousand dollars in any one year, and shall be payable monthly by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, and the certificate of the superintendent. § 6. The seal of the superintendent, of which a description and impression are now on file in the office of the secretary of state, shall continue to be his official seal, and when necessary, may be renewed from time to time. Copies of all papers deposited or filed in the superintendent's office, and of all acts, orders and decisions made by him, and of the drafts or machine copies of his official letters, may be authenticated under the said seal, and when so authenticated, shall be evidence equally with and in like manner as the originals. 8 7. The superintendent shall be ex-officio a trustee of ex-officio Cornell University and of the New York State Asylum for Idiots, and a regent of the University of the State of New York. He shall also have general supervision over the state normal schools at Brockport, Buffalo, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo, Oswego and Potsdam, and over any other state normal school, which may hereafter be established; and he shall provide for the education of the Indian children of the state, as required by chapter seventy-one of the laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-six. § 8. The institution for the instruction of the deaf and for deaf dumb, the New York institution for the blind, and all Institution *As amended by sec. 2, chap. 75, Laws of 1883. TITLE 1. and dumb, other similar institutions, incorporated, or that may be hereafter incorporated, shall be subject to the visitation blind, etc. of the superintendent of public instruction, and it shall be his duty: tendent's 1. To inquire, from time to time, into the expenditures superinof each institution, and the systems of instruction pursued duties. therein, respectively. 2. To visit and inspect the schools belonging thereto, and the lodgings and accommodations of the pupils. 3. To ascertain, by a comparison with other similar institutions, whether any improvements in instruction and discipline can be made; and for that purpose to appoint, from time to time, suitable persons to visit the schools. 4. To suggest to the directors of such institution and to the legislature such improvements as he shall judge expedient. tendent to nually. admission. 5. To make an annual report to the legislature on all Superinthe matters before enumerated, and particularly as to the report ancondition of the schools, the improvement of the pupils, and their treatment in respect to board and lodging. Terms of *g 9. All deaf and dumb persons resident in this state and upwards of twelve years of age, who shall have been resident in this state for three years immediately preceding the application, or, if a minor, whose parent or parents, or, if an orphan, whose nearest friend shall have been resident in this state for three years immediately preceding the application, shall be eligible to appointment as state pupils in one of the deaf and dumb institutions of this state, authorized by law to receive such pupils; and all blind persons of suitable age and similar qualifications shall be elegible to appointment to the institutions for the blind. in the city of New York or in the village of Batavia, as follows: All such as are residents of the counties of New York, Kings, Queens, Suffolk and Richmond shall be sent to the institution for the blind in the city of New York; those who reside in other counties of the state shall be sent to the institution for the blind in the village of Batavia. All such appointments, with the exception of those to the institution for the blind in the village of Batavia, shall be made by the superintendent of public instruction upon application, and in those cases in which, in his opinion, the parents or guardians of the applicants *As amended by sec. 4, chap. 567, Laws of 1875, and by sec. 1, chap. 615, Laws of 1886. NOTE. See chap. 166, Laws of 1870. TITLE 1. State pupils; are able to bear a portion of the expense, he may impose conditions whereby some proportionate share of expense of educating and clothing such pupils shall be paid by their parents, guardians, or friends, in such manner and at such times as the superintendent shall designate, which conditions he may modify from time to time, if he shall deem it expedient to do so. § 10. Each pupil so received into either of the institucommodations aforesaid shall be provided with board, lodging and tion, com- tuition; and the directors of the institution shall receive for each pupil so provided for, the sum of pensation, etc. struction. dollars per annum, in quarterly payments, to be paid by the treasurer of the state, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the treasurer of said institution, on his presenting a bill showing the actual time and number of such pupils attending the institution, and which bill shall be signed by the president and secretary of the institution, and verified by Term of in their oaths. The regular term of instruction for such pupils shall be five years; but the superintendent of public instruction may, in his discretion, extend the term of any pupil for a period not exceeding three years. The pupils provided for in this and the preceding section of this title shall be designated state pupils; and all the existing provisions of law applicable to state pupils now in said institutions shall apply to pupils herein provided for. Time of § 11. The superintendent of public instruction may admission. make such regulations and give such directions to parents and guardians, in relation to the admission of pupils into either of the above named institutions, as will prevent pupils entering the same at irregular periods. School visitor. Superin 12. The superintendent may, in his discretion, appoint persons to visit and examine all or any of the common schools in the county wherein such persons reside, and to report to him all such matters respecting their condition and management, and the means of improving them, as he shall prescribe; but no allowance or compensation shall be made to such visitors for their services or expenses. § 13. So often as he can, consistently with his other tendent to duties, he shall visit such of the common schools of the state as he shall see fit, and inquire into their course of instruction, management and discipline, and advise and encourage the pupils, teachers and officers thereof. common schools. |