a particular account of the state of the school or schools under their care, and of the moneys received and expended by them during the year, so as to exhibit a full and perfect statement of the property, funds and affairs of the said corporation.

§ 11. This Act shall take effect immediately.

AN ACT

To amend an act entitled "An act more effectually to provide for common school education in the city and county of New York, passed May 7, · 1844."

Passed April 11, 1849, "three-fifths being present.

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

§ 1. On the requisition of the Board of Education of the city and county of New York, by resolution certified by the president and clerk of said Board to have been duly passed, the comptroller of the city of New York shall deposit with the chamberlain of said city, to the credit of the Board of Education, such sum as the said resolution shall specify to be necessary to make

payments required to be made pursuant to the provisions of the act hereby amended and of the acts amending the same, and of the act entitled "An act authorising the Board of Education of the city and county of New York to establish a free academy in said city," passed May 7, 1847, and of the act entitled "An act to authorise the Board of Education of the city of New York to establish evening schools for the education of apprentices and others," passed March 25, 1848, and of the act entitled "An act to incorporate the New York society for the promotion of education among colored children," passed December 7, 1847, and of the act entitled "An act in relation to the public school society of the city of New York," passed March 4, 1848. But no such requisition shall be made oftener than once in each month.

§ 2. No requisition shall be made for moneys to be expended for any purpose not authorised, nor to a larger amount than authorised by the said acts, nor shall any of the moneys so deposited be used for or applied to any purpose not authorised by the said acts; such moneys when so deposited shall be paid by the chamberlain of

the city only upon drafts drawn on him pursuant to a resolution of the Board, signed by the president and countersigned by the clerk of the Board, payable to the order of the commissioners of common schools, or of the trustees, managers, directors, treasurers, or other authorised officers of the respective schools or societies entitled to participate in any of such moneys on an apportionment thereof for the support of common schools, or to the order of the person or persons entitled to receive the same pursuant to any of the provisions of either of the acts enumerated in the first section of this act.

§ 3. The said Board of Education shall transmit quarter yearly to the common council of said city a detailed statement in writing of the amounts of moneys deposited to the credit of said Board for the three months next preceding the date of such report, and of the manner in which and of the specific purposes for which the same have been expended, and in such statement shall give such further and particular information in relation to such expenditures as the common council shall require, which statements shall in all cases be certified by the president

and clerk of the Board to be correct and true, and when so made shall be published by the common council of said city.

§ 4. So much of the sixth, seventh, tenth, fourteenth and twentieth sections of the act hereby amended as are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and all moneys raised for any of the purposes authorised by either of the acts enumerated in the first section of this act shall be deposited and drawn and paid out only as provided by this act.

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately.