STATE OF NEW YORK

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE

SS:

In pursuance of the authority vested in me, by section 932 of the Code of Civil Procedure, I, Francis M. Hugo, Secretary of State, hereby certify that the copies of the laws contained in this volume are correct transcripts of the text of the original laws, and in accordance with such section are entitled to be read in evidence.

Given under my hand and the seal of office of the Secretary of State, at the Capitol in the City of Albany, this 5th day of July,

1916.

[L. S.]

FRANCIS M. HUGO,
Secretary of State.

The annotations in this book close with the cases reported in the following volumes:

217 New York

170 Appellate Division

93 Miscellaneous

159 New York Supplement

The Supplements will cover decisions from these points.

INTRODUCTORY

Prior to the year 1909, as appears by the report of the Board of Statutory Consolidation (1907) at page 887, " Educational matters were regulated by the Consolidated School Law, the University Law, and a large number of independent statutes relating to subjects and institutions which either directly or indirectly came within the jurisdiction of the Department of Education." The act reported to the legislature by the Board of Statutory Consolidation was enacted in 1909, being chapter 21 of that year, as chapter 16 of the Consolidated Laws and known as the "Education Law."

In the following year, by L. 1910, ch. 140, which was entitled "An act to amend the Education Law, generally," it was enacted: "Section 1. Chapter 21 of the Laws of 1909, entitled 'An act relating to education, constituting chapter 16 of the consolidated laws,' is hereby amended to read as follows:"

By this legislation the act of 1910 became the Education Law and took the place of the Education Law of 1909. To avoid ambiguity in the citation of, or reference to, the above-mentioned laws, the act of 1910, chapter 140, is cited and referred to as the "Education Law of 1910 (ch. 140)" and the act of 1909, chapter 21, is cited and referred to as the "Education Law of 1909."

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CONSOLIDATORS' GENERAL NOTE ON EDUCATION LAW

OF 1909

(Printed in their report of 1907 at p. 1154)

This chapter is the result of a careful examination of all statutes on the subject of education enacted during the one hundred and thirty years of legislation, beginning with the first chapter enacted in 1777 and ending with the last of 1907.

The law as presented herewith is a consolidation in the main of live provisions of the Consolidated School Law and the University Law, as amended, together with a large number of independent general statutes relating to institutions which are directly or indirectly under the supervision of the Education Department; also independent statutes relating to institutions, law libraries for instance, which while not directly of an educational character relate so closely to the subject as readily to fall within the general scheme of the chapter.

The schedule of repeals to the law contains all statutes which relate to the subjects treated in the body of the law heretofore repealed either specifically or by construction; or recommended for repeal because inoperative, superseded, or consolidated in the law.

Among the topics treated are school districts and school neighborhoods with their formation, dissolution and the duties and responsibilities of their officers; school taxes, bonds and moneys; trusts for schools, including gospel and school lots; fines, penalties and forfeitures; compulsory education, including that of Indians; teachers, their contracts and duties; text-books; contract system; training classes and schools with teachers' institutes; normal schools; the flag; fire drills; arbor day; physiology and hygiene; special instruction by graphic illustration; drawing and vocal music; industrial training; kindergartens; orphan schools; Indian schools and the compulsory education of Indian children; schools for the instruction of deaf-mutes and the blind; colored schools; school census; libraries; the University and regents; Cornell University; New York State School of Agriculture at St. Lawrence University. Made up as it is of independent general statutes enacted during different legislative periods and under widely different conditions, this chapter, read as a general law, necessarily presents many rough places and many incon gruities which could be eliminated by revision. Much might also be accompublished in the way of shortening and simplifying, but the Board is restricted in scope by the act which created it, and no attempt has been made to do more than to present the statute law as it exists to-day with such elimination as could be. made without the risk of revision.

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