CHAP. 71. bound out tice or either of them, with the consent of any justice of the 1856. peace, or any of the aldermen of the city, or any trustee May be of the incorporated village where he may be, in the same as apprenmanner, for the same periods, and subject to the same provisions in all respects, as are contained in the first article and fourth title of the eighth chapter, and second part of the Revised Statutes, with respect to children whose parents have become chargeable on any city or town. Expenses, frayed. § 4. The expenses of providing and maintaining such place for the reception, clothing, support and instruction how deof such children shall be defrayed in the same manner as charges for the support of paupers chargeable upon such city or village; and the corporate authorities of every city and village shall certify to the board of supervisors of the county, at their annual meetings, the amount necessary for said purposes, which amount the said supervisor shall cause to be levied and collected as part of the taxes for the support of the poor, chargeable to such city or village. officers. § 5. It shall be the duty of all police officers and con- Duty of stables, who shall find any child in the condition described police in the first section of this act, to make complaint to a justice of the peace, as provided in the said section. § 6. The fees of justices, for services performed under this act, shall be the same as allowed by law in cases of vagrancy, and shall be paid by the city or village in which they were rendered. 7. This act shall take effect immediately.* Fees. CHAP. 71. AN ACT to facilitate education and civilization among the Indians residing in this state. PASSED April 1, 1856; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The superintendent of public instruction Duty of shall be charged with providing the means of education intendent for all the Indian children in the state. He shall cause instruc the super of public to be ascertained the condition of the various bands in the tion. *This act, though unrepealed, would seem to be superseded by chapter 421, Laws of 1874. CHAP. 71. 1856. state in respect to education; he shall establish schools in such places, and of such character and description as he shall deem necessary; he shall employ superintendents for such schools, and shall, with the concurrence of the comptroller and secretary of state, cause to be erected, where necessary, convenient buildings for their accommodation. Indians to co-operate. Indian title to be protected. Children to lic money. § 2. In the discharge of the duties imposed by this act, the said superintendent shall endeavor to secure the cooperation of all the several bands of Indians, and for this purpose, shall visit, by himself or his authorized agent, all the reservations where they reside, lay the matter before them in public assembly, inviting them to assist either by appropriating their public moneys to this object, or by setting apart lands and erecting suitable buildings, or by furnishing labor or materials for such buildings, or in any other way which he or they may suggest as most effectual for the promotion of this object. §3. In any contract which may be entered into with said Indians, for the use or occupancy of any land for school grounds, sites or buildings, care shall be taken to protect the title of the Indians to their lands, and to reserve to the state the right to remove or otherwise dispose of all improvements made at the expense of the state. 4. The Indian children in the state, between the ages draw pub- of four and twenty-one years, shall be entitled to draw public money the same as white children. The superintendent shall cause an annual enumeration of said Indian children to be made, and shall see that the public money, to which they are ratably entitled, is devoted exclusively to their education. Enumeration. propriated. § 5. To carry into effect the provisions of this act, the $5.000 ap- sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of the surplus income of the United States deposit fund, to be paid by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, from time to time, to the order of the superintendent of public instruction. Vouchers 6. The superintendent shall take and file in his office, to be taken Vouchers and receipts for all the expenditures made under and filed. this act, subject to the inspection of the joint committee to examine the accounts of the auditor and treasurer; and shall annually report to the legislature all his doings, by virtue of the authority vested in him; and for this purpose said superintendent may require full and detailed reports, in such form as he may prescribe, from those having the immediate supervision of any Indian schools in this state. 7. This act shall effect immediately. CHAP. 438. 1860. CHAP. 438. AN ACT to encourage and provide for a general vaccination in this state. PASSED April 16, 1860, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: been vac excluded SECTION 1. The trustees of the several common school Children districts in this state, and the proper local boards of com- not having mon school government in the several cities of the state, cinated are hereby directed and empowered, under the provisions may be hereinafter set forth, to exclude from the benefits of the from the common schools therein any child or any person who has schools. not been vaccinated, and until such time when said child or person shall become vaccinated. common resolution out provis section. § 2. The said trustees or local board may adopt a reso-Trustees lution to carry into effect the power conferred by the first may adopt section hereof; and whenever they shall do so they shall to carry thereupon give at least ten days' notice thereof, by posting ions of first the same in two or more public or conspicuous places within the limits of their school government, and shall, in said notice advertise due provision for the vaccination of any child or person of suitable age, who may desire to attend the common school, and whose parents or guardians are unable to procure vaccination for them or for the children of suitable age of such parents, as by reason of poverty may be exempted from taxation in such school districts. children. 3. The said trustees or board may, in their or its dis- Trustees cretion, appoint some competent physician and fix the may ap compensation for his services, the duty of which physician point physhall be to ascertain the number of children or persons in vaccinate the school district or subdivision of city school government, being of an age suitable to attend the common school, who have not been already vaccinated, and also to furnish to the said trustees or said board a list of the names of all such children or persons. It shall also be the duty of said physician to provide himself with good and reliable vaccine virus wherewith to vaccinate such of the number of CHAP. 761. 1866. children or persons aforesaid as have not been vaccinated according as the trustees or board shall direct, and to Physician thereupon give certificates of vaccination when required, certificates which certificate shall be evidence thereof, for the puration. poses of *of a compliance with section first hereof. to give of vaccin 84. The necessary expenses incurred by the provisions Expenses. of this act shall be included and collected in the annual tax bill of the district, town, village or city, as may be proper, according to law. Reports of trustees. 85. The trustees of the several school districts of this state are hereby required, to include in their annual report, the number in their several districts between the ages of five and twenty-one years, who are vaccinated and the number unvaccinated. Stockholders to be taxed on value of CHAP. 761. AN ACT authorizing the taxation of stockholders of banks, and the surplus funds of savings banks. PASSED April 23, 1866. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No tax shall hereafter be assessed upon the capital of any bank or banking association organized under the authority of this state, or of the United States, but the shares at stockholders in such banks and banking associations shall place of business of be assessed and taxed on the value of their shares of stock banks, therein; said shares shall be included in the valuation of the personal property of such stockholder, in the assessment of taxes at the place, town or ward where such bank or banking association is located, and not elsewhere, whether the said stockholders reside in said place, town or ward or not, but not at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individuals in this state. And in making such assessment there shall also be deducted from the value of such shares such suni as is of banks to in the same proportion to such value as is the assessed value of the real estate of the bank or banking associa tion, and in which any portion of their capital is invested, in which said shares are held, to the whole amount of Real estate be taxed. *So in the original. NOTE.-Section 7 of this act repealed by sec. 56, chap. 371, Laws of 1875. the capital stock of said bank or banking association. And provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be held or construed to exempt from taxation the real estate held or owned by any such bank or banking association; but the same shall be subject to state, county, municipal and other taxation to the same extent and rate and in the same manner as other real estate is taxed. CHAP. 761. 1866. bankers to amount of partners. 82. Every individual banker doing banking business Individual under the laws of this state is hereby required to declare declare upon oath before the assessor the amount of capital inves- capital and ted in such banking business, and each one hundred dol- shares of lars of such capital for the purpose of this act, and for the purpose of taxation shall be held and regarded as one individual share in such banking business, and such shares are hereby declared to be personal property. If such banker have partners he shall declare upon oath before the asses sor the number of shares held by each of them in such banking business, ascertained as above provided, and the shares so held by any partner shall be included in the valuation of his taxable property in the assessment of all taxes levied in the town, school district or ward where such individual banker is located, and not elsewhere; and such individual banker shall pay the same and make the amount so paid a charge in the accounts with such partners; and if such individual banker have no partners he shall be held to be sole owner of all the shares in such business of banking, and the same shall be included in the valuation of his personal property in the assessment of all taxes levied in the town, school district or ward where his bank is located, and not elsewhere. List of the residences of stock holders to be kept. 83. There shall be kept at all times in the office where the business of such bank or banking associations, organ- names and ized under the authority of this state or of the United States, shall be transacted, a full and correct list of the names and residences of all the stockholders therein, and of the number of shares held by each; and such list shall be subject to the inspection of the officers authorized to assess taxes during the business hours of each day in which business may be legally transacted. § 4. Sections ten and eleven of chapter ninety-seven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five are hereby repealed. er's tax, 5. When the owner of stock in any bank or banking Non-resi association, organized under the laws of this State or of dent bank the United States, shall not reside in the same place how colwhere the bank or banking association is located, the lected. |