Certificate of redemption to be furnished. 1049. Upon such redemption, as provided for in the two preceding sections, the said collector of assessments and arrears shall give to the person redeeming, a certificate under his hand and seal, stating the payment, the year in which the sale was made, and showing what land such payment is intended to redeem, and such certificate shall be evidence of such redemption. Lost certificate; delivery of lease in case of. § 1050. Whenever any certificate given by the collector of assessments and arrears, as in this title provided, of lands sold shall be lost, the said comptroller may receive evidence of such loss, and on satisfactory proof of the fact may execute and deliver a lease to such person or persons who shall appear entitled thereto of the lands and tenements described in the certificate, and may also, in his discretion, require a bond of indemnity to The City of New York. Each certificate shall be registered in the record of sales to be kept in the bureau of said collector of assessments and arrears, and no transfer of such certificate shall be valid until registered in said book. Bills of arrears of taxes and assessments to be furnished when requested. § 1051. The collector of assessments and arrears, upon the requisition of any person, shall furnish a bill of all arrears of taxes, and of taxes with the water rents added on any lot or lots due prior to the first of June, then last past, and of assessments which are due and payable, including the amount necessary to redeem it or them, if it or they have been sold for any arrears of assessments, taxes or water rents and be yet redeemable; and upon the payment of the said bill (which shall be called a "bill of arrears of assessments, taxes and water rents and for redemption"), his receipt thereon, countersigned by the comptroller, shall be conclusive evidence of such payment. The comptroller shall cause to be kept a duplicate account of amounts so collected, and the certificate of the collector of assessments and arrears, countersigned by the comptroller, that there are no such liens on said lot or lots, shall forever free the said lot or lots from all liens of taxes, or for taxes with water rates added, or for rents of water added to the taxes prior to the first of June then last passed, and for all assessments due and payable prior to the date of the said receipt or certificate, and from all liens in consequence of sales for assessments, taxes, or water rents, or for all of them, when the time allowed by law for redemption had not expired at the date or time of said payment or certificate. Id.; fees for searches. § 1052. Fees for the searches to be paid into the city treasury shall be included in the bills mentioned in the preceding section, and also charges for certificates, which shall be given by said collector of assessments and arrears, respecting lots on which there may be no arrears when searches are required; the said fees to be regulated by ordinance of the board of aldermen. Complete record of sales to be kept. S1053. There shall be kept in the office of the collector of assessments and arrears a record of all sales made for taxes, assessments and water rents, which record shall show the amount of the tax, the assessment and the water rents, a description of the premises sold, the date of the sale, the name of the person to whom sold, the term of years for which such property was sold, time of the delivery of the lease, to whom delivered, and when the same shall expire. Affidavits of publication of necessary notices to be preserved. $1054. It shall be the duty of the collector of assessments and arrears to procure, preserve and register in his office, affidavits of the publication of all the notices by this title required to be published, and such affidavits shall be presumptive proof of such publication in all the courts of this state. CHAPTER XVIII. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. Title 1. The public schools and their management. Title 3. The normal college. Title 4. General provisions. V A TITLE I. The Public Schools and Their Management. Board of education; property under its care and control; in what name suits brought. 1055. The title to all property, real and personal, now or that may hereafter be acquired for school or educational purposes, except the State Normal School at Jamaica, and also the title to all property, real and personal, purchased for school or educational purposes with any school moneys, whether derived from the issue of bonds or raised by taxation in The City of New York, shall be vested in The City of New York, as constituted by this act, but shall be under the care and control of the board of education as provided in this act, for the purposes of public education, recreation and other public uses. Suits in relation to such property shall be brought in the name of the said board of education. The said city of New York shall have power to take and hold any property, real or personal, devised or bequeathed or transmitted to it for the purposes of education in said city; but such property shall be under the care and control of the board of education as provided by this act, for the purposes of public education, recreation and other public uses in said city. School age of children. § 1056. The schools of the said city under the management and control of the board of education shall be free to all persons over four and under twenty-one years of age residing in said city, but under such regulations not in conflict with the general school law of the state, as the board of education shall prescribe, provided, however, that no child under six years of age shall be received in said schools except in kindergarten classes. Board of education; succeeds to trusts of public school society. § 1057. All the trusts held by or vested in the public school society of The City of New York, as heretofore organized and existing in compliance with the provisions of an act entitled, "An act relative to common schools in the city of New York," passed the fourth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, which have not been conveyed by the said society, and all the rights, powers and duties of said society, which yet remained therein, shall continue and be vested in the board of education of The City of New York, which board is, and shall be held to be the lawful successors of said society in the execution of every trust. Board of education succeeds to duties and powers of former boards, etc. § 1058. Subject to the provisions of this act, and so far as is consistent therewith, the board of education of The City of New York, as created by the terms and provisions of this act, shall be subject to all the duties, possess all the rights and exercise all the powers respectively held by the board of education, the school boards of the several boroughs and the inspectors of common schools on the day when this act takes effect, excepting such duties, rights and powers as shall devolve upon the local school boards as provided in this act. The powers, duties and functions of all the school boards in the several boroughs within The City of New York, as they have heretofore been constituted, shall cease and determine, and their offices shall be abolished, on the first Monday of February, nineteen hundred and two, and the board of education, as constituted by this act, shall thereupon succeed to such powers, and become subject to such functions and duties as provided by this act. Money to conduct schools to be raised by taxation. 1059. The board of estimate and apportionment and the board of aldermen of The City of New York may raise and collect by tax, on the estates, real and personal, liable to taxation in said city, such sum of money as may be necessary to provide for the conduct of the schools as called for by the budget adopted by the said board of estimate and apportionment and the said board of aldermen pursuant to the provisions of this act. Special and general school funds; all moneys to be administered by board of education. § 1060. All moneys raised for educational purposes in The City of New York shall be raised in two funds, to be known as the special school fund and the general school fund, respectively. The general school fund shall consist of all moneys raised for the payment of salaries of the city superintendent, associate city superintendents and district superintendents, members of the board of examiners, attendance officers, lecturers and all members of the supervising and teaching staff, throughout all boroughs, in conformity with section ten hundred and ninety-one of this act. The special school fund shall contain and embrace all moneys raised for educational purposes not comprised in the general school fund. It shall be the duty of the board of estimate and apportionment and of the board of aldermen to indicate in the budget in raising the special school fund the respective amounts thereof which shall be available for use in the several boroughs. The general school fund shall be raised in bulk, and for the city at large. The board of education shall have power to administer and shall administer all moneys appropriated or available for educational purposes in the city of New York. Board of education; how constituted; president; vacancies; members to serve without pay. § 1061. There shall be in The City of New York as constituted by this act, a board of education, which shall have the management and control of the public schools and of the public school system of the city, subject only to the general statutes of the state relating to public schools and public school instruction, and to the provisions of this act. The board of education of The City of New York shall consist of forty-six members, twenty-two being residents of the borough of Manhattan; four of the borough of The Bronx; fourteen of the borough of Brooklyn; four of the borough of Queens, and two of the borough of Richmond. The members of the board of education shall be appointed by the mayor and hold office for the term of five years. On the first Monday of February, in the year nineteen hundred and two, and in every year thereafter, the said board. of education shall organize by electing one of its members as president of the board, who shall preside at its meetings, and shall have the same power to vote thereat as any other member, but who shall not have the power of veto. Any vacancy in the office of members of the board of education, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by appointment by the mayor for the unexpired term, subject to the provisions as to the residence of such members hereinbefore set forth. On the third Monday of January, nineteen hundred and two, the mayor shall appoint members of the board of education to serve until the dates hereinafter specified, namely: In the borough of Manhattan, five members |