Decisions of the Superintendent of Common Schools of the State of New York |
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DECISIONS OF THE SUPERINTENDEN New York (State) Dept of Public Instru,John a. (John Adams) 1798-1879 Dix No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 381 - ... of the most public places of such district, at least five days before the time appointed for such adjourned meeting : 4. To give the like notice of every annual district meeting : 5. To keep and preserve all records, books and papers, belonging to his...
Page 428 - In case any person shall refuse or neglect to pay the tax imposed on him, the collector shall levy the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person who ought to pay the same, or of any goods and chattels in his possession...
Page 380 - ... district, in the same manner as if the same had been authorized by a vote of...
Page 403 - Taxes for the time being, who are hereby empowered to employ all such officers or other persons, and to do all such other acts and things, as may be...
Page 118 - In other words, as the cases universally hold, a statute specifying a time within which a public officer is to perform an official act regarding the rights and duties of others is directory...
Page 383 - Every person owning or holding any real property within any school district, who shall improve and occupy the same by his agent or servant, shall, in respect to the liability of such property to taxation, be considered a taxable inhabitant of such district, in the same manner as if he actually resided therein.
Page 379 - Whenever the site of a school house shall have been changed as herein provided, the inhabitants of the district entitled to vote, lawfully assembled at any district meeting, shall have power by a majority of the votes of those present, to direct the sale of the former site or lot, and the buildings thereon, and appurtenances, or any part thereof, at such price, and upon such terms- as they shall deem...
Page 386 - ... the time therein limited, it shall and may be lawful for the trustees to renew such warrant in respect to such delinquent person ; or in case such person shall not reside within their district at the time of making out a tax list or...
Page 364 - Plans for the improvement and management of the common school fund, and for the better organization of the common schools ; and, 4. All such matters relating to his office, and to the common schools, as he shall deem expedient to communicate.
Page 263 - ... diffusing useful knowledge, and in elevating the intellectual character of the people. A vast amount of useful information might in this manner be collected where it would be easily accessible, and its influence could hardly fail to be in the highest degree salutary, by furnishing the means of improvement to those who have finished their common school education, as well as to those who have not.