3. An account or estimate of the cost or value of the library, philosophical and chemical apparatus, and mathematical or other scientific instruments, belonging to such Academy.

4. The names of the Instructors employed in the Academy, and the compensation paid to each.

5. What amount of moneys the Board of Education has received during that year, for the support and maintenance of such Academy, and from what sources, specifying how much from each; and the particular manner and specific for which such moneys have been ex

purposes pended.

6. And such other information in relation to education in said Academy, and the measures of the Board in the management thereof, as the said Common Council or the Regents of the University of the State of New York, may from time to time require.

§ 9. The said Board of Education shall have the powers and privileges of a Corporation, so

far as to enable it to take and hold, sue for and recover, all personal property; and for any wrongful damage done to any and all personal property, the title whereof may be vested in it by virtue of this Act, or which may be entrusted to it, or confided to its care and management, and for all moneys deposited to its credit for the support and maintenance of the said Free Academy; and by appropriate suit or action, to enforce the performance of any contract or contracts lawfully made by it, or to recover just and lawful damages for the non-performance thereof.

§ 10. Nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed as to authorise the Regents of the University to pay to said Academy any money authorised by this Act, except for such students as by law and the rules and regulations of said Board of Regents in other Academies shall be entitled to participate in the distribution of the income of the literature fund.

§ 11. The sum to be expended by the said Board of Education for the erection of the buildings for the said Free Academy, shall not ex

ceed fifty thousand dollars, and the sum to be annually expended for the support of the said Free Academy shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars, to be raised by tax on the real and personal property in the city and county of New York, as hereinbefore provided for.

§ 12. At the election to be held on the first Monday of June next, for the election of school officers, the question whether such Academy shall be established, according to the provisions of this Act shall be submitted to the people. Should there be a majority of votes in its favor, it shall be the duty of the Board of Education forthwith to take measures to carry the provisions of this Act into operation; and should there be a majority of votes against it, then this Act shall be void and of no effect. The form of the ballot and manner of conducting said election, and ascertaining the result, shall be prescribed by the Common Council of the said city and county of New York.

AN ACT

To amend an Act entitled "An Act more effectually to provide for Common School Education in the City of New York," passed May 7, 1844.

Passed May 11, 1847.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The Act entitled "An Act more effectually to provide for Common School Education in the city and county of New York," passed May 7, 1844, is hereby amended in the following manner :

The eleventh section of said Act shall be amended by inserting after the words "the School of the Mechanics' Society," the words, "the School of the Society for the Reformation

of Juvenile Delinquents in the city of New York, the School of the Mechanics' Institute."

§ 2. To determine the shares of school moneys for which the School of the Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents in the city of New York, and the School for the Mechanics' Institute, shall be entitled in accordance with the general provisions of the twelfth section of the Act hereby amended, the average number of children who shall have actually attended such school without charge during the preceding year shall be ascertained by adding together the number of such children present at each morning and evening sessions of said schools and dividing the sum by four hundred and eighty; and all the provisions of said twelfth section, inconsistent with this section, are hereby repealed, so far as they affect the School of the said Society for the Reformation of Juvenile Delinquents.