STANDING COMMITTEES

OF THE

Board of Education.

1. Finance Committee.

James G. King, Jr.,
Jeremiah E. Cary,
Robert Thompson, Jr.

2. Auditing Committee.

Abel T. Edgerton,
Jay Jarvis,

Edmund Hurry.

3. Committee to examine the Reports of the several Schools entitled to a proportion of the School Money, and to make an apportionment thereof.

Timothy Daly,

William S. Duke,

Thomas Gilmartin.

4. Committee on Applications for new Schools.

James Cruikshank,

George J. Cornell,

Henry Shaw.

5. Committee on Buildings and Repairs.

John McLean,

Philip Collins,

David Tappen.

6. Committee on Printing.

Gerardus Boyce,

Richard Lawrence,

Abraham Bell.

7. Committee on Examination of School Books. Horace Greeley,

William A. Walters, M. D.,

John M. Seaman.

8. Committee to prepare the Annual Report.

Joseph S. Bosworth,

Horace Greeley,

J. H. Hobart Haws.

9. Committee on Evening Free Schools.

Edward B. Fellows,

Justus S. Redfield,

Charles J. Dodge,

John D. Russ, M. D.,
Erastus C. Benedict.

10. Committee to examine the Accounts in the Clerk's Office.

William D. Murphy,
George H Purser,

James W. Beekman.

11. Executive Committee for the Care, Management and Government of the Free Academy.

Robert Kelly,

Joseph S. Bosworth,

William T. Pinkney,

Samuel A. Crapo,

Thomas Denny.

12. Committee for Visitation of the Schools in the First District, comprising the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th and 6th Wards.

John D. Russ, M. D.,

Nehemiah Miller,

Erastus C. Benedict.

13. Committee for Visitation of the Schools in the Second District, comprising the 7th, 10th, 13th and 11th Wards.

Justus S. Redfield,

Timothy Daly,

William S. Duke.

14. Committee for Visitation of the Schools in the Third District, comprising the 14th, 8th, 9th, 15th and 17th Wards.

George J. Cornell,
Jeremiah E. Cary,

J. H. Hobart Haws.

15. Committee for Visitation of the Schools in the Fourth District, comprising the 16th, 18th and 12th Wards.

James Cruikshank,
James W. Beekman,
George H. Purser.

BY-LAWS

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.

Adopted June 20th, 1849.

First.-Regular meetings shall be held on the third Wednesday of every month, at 5 o'clock, P. M., at the Special Term Court Room of the Supreme Court, or at such other place as may be designated by the Board.

Second. At the first regular meeting after the annual election of Commissioners, the Board shall be organized by the election of a President and Clerk.

Third. The roll shall be called precisely at the time appointed for meeting.

Fourth.-The President shall annually, on or before the first meeting next succeeding his election, appoint the following Standing Committees, to consist of three members each; a portion of each Committee shall be composed of newly elected Commissioners, and a portion also of those elected the preceding year: