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must be qualified, 113; equal rights
for, 185.
Commissioner of Education, election,

4; powers, 5; powers of Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction and
Secretary of Regents to be exer-
cised by, 5; to appoint assistants
under compulsory education law,
126; to apportion education fund,
196; to distribute library moneys,
183; to approve plans of school-
houses, 41-42; salary and expenses,
4; successors in office, term of, 4;
term of office, 4; vacancy in office,
how filled, 4; may withhold public
money for failure to comply with
compulsory education law, 126.
For other powers, see Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.
Common school fund, 12, 195.
Common schools, inspectors, 9; State
Superintendent to visit, 9. See
also School districts.

Common schools, meetings in, see

School meetings.

Compensation, see Salary.

Comptroller, may withhold payment

of moneys to counties, 11-12;
duties relating to education fund,
196.

Compulsory education, subjects to
be taught under, 120; Indian chil-
dren on reservations, 190-94; law,
full text of, 120-26.
Condemnation, schoolhouse by school
commissioner, 27; proceedings for
acquiring site, 90.
Contingent fund, established, 13;
supplementary apportionment to
be paid from, 15; money from
to be paid separate neighborhoods,

119.

Contracts, between board of educa- !
tion and teachers, 81, 107; with
other cities and districts under
compulsory education law, 125;
conveying pupils, 38-39; misde-
meanor for trustee or member of
board of education to be inter-
ested in, 83, 159; with private

institutions under compulsory edu-
cation law, 125; between school
districts for education of pupils,
106-7; copy filed with State Super-
intendent for education of pupils,
106; reports of trustees and
boards concerning districts under,
107; for tuition, districts making
to receive quota, 106.
Conveyance of pupils, 38-39.
Copies of records etc., under seal,
evidence, 9, 102.

Cornell University, State Superin-
tendent a trustee of, 9; state
scholarships in, 96–99.

Corporal punishment, see Discipline.
Corporate authorities, to raise sums

voted at special meetings for alter-
ations, improvements etc., 72;
board of education in cities and
villages to certify anticipated
expenditures to, 72; must levy tax
as certified, 72; may levy tax in
one sum or by instalments, 72;
have no power to withhold sums
certified, 72; power to borrow
money, 73.

Costs of actions against school offi-
cers, 103.

Counties, apportionment to, 13, 14.
County clerk, public money certi-
fied to, 15; to give notice of va-
cancy in office of school commis-
sioner, 25; to forward to State
Superintendent certificate of elec-
tion of school commissioners, 25;
to file oath of office of school com-
missioner, 25; school commis-
sioner to file trustees' reports and
commissioners' abstracts with, 29.
County judge, may appoint person
to distribute public money, 18;
to determine amount of costs in
certain cases, 103; to hear and
determine appeal on refusal of
district to vote tax for costs, 103-5;
may impose penalty, 29; may fill
vacancy in office of school com-
missioner, 25.

County treasurer, to be furnished with certificate of apportionment, 17; to credit fines and penalties to school moneys, 20; shall add unappropriated library money to succeeding year, 99; shall apply for public money, 15; public money certified to, 15; to furnish school commissioners with amount reported by supervisors, 16; to furnish school commissioners with amount of fines and penalties, 16; to sue bond of supervisor, 18; shall require bond of supervisor, 18; to pay amount of uncollected taxes to collector, 61.

Course of study, trustees to prescribe in common schools, 52; board of education to prescribe in union schools, 79.

Deaf and dumb, institutions for, 115-16.

Decisions of State Superintendent,

public money may be withheld for disobedience of, 11; final, 89, ΙΟΙ. See also Appeals. Declaration of voters, see Voters. Deficiency, district to vote tax for, 37.

Deputy superintendent, appoint

ment and salary, 8; to act in case of vacancy in office of State Superintendent, 8–9; chief clerk may be appointed second deputy, 181. Diplomas, indorsement by Superintendent, 10.

Discipline, trustees to prescribe rules for in common schools, 52; board of education to prescribe rules for in union schools, 79; corporal punishment, when permitted, 158. Disorderly persons, truants pro

ceeded against as, 125. Dissolution of school districts, in common school districts, by commissioners, 31; common school districts adjoining union school districts, 88; union school districts, method of procedure, 86-87.

District attorney shall report fines and penalties to boards of supervisors, 20.

District clerk, duties, 46-47; election, 36; election, section 7 of title 8 relating to not to apply to certain towns, 90; to call special election in districts of over 300, 40-41; duties in election in districts of 300, 77; to notify persons elected or appointed to office, 45; to record result of election as announced by inspectors in districts of 300, 78; to give notice of meeting, 34; to call special meeting when annual meeting is not held, 34; penalty for refusing to record names in districts of over 300, 40, 77; penalties for failure to preserve and deliver records, 47; penalties for failure to report officers elected to town clerk, 47; to keep poll list in districts of over 300, 40; removal from district, 33; duties in separate neighborhoods, 118, 119; to administer oath to teachers, 55; teachers to deliver register to, 49; term of office, 44; trustee not. eligible to office of, 44; trustees to file bond of treasurer with, 48; vacancy in office, how filled, 46; notice of appointment to fill vacancy to be filed with, 46. District meetings, see School meetings.

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District officers, election, 35-36; election in districts over 300, 39; election disputes, how decided, 41; subject to fine for refusal to serve, 46; subject to fine for wilful neglect of duty, 46; penalty for refusal to make report, 34: powers and duties, 33-36; proceedings when annual meeting not held, 34; qualifications, 44, 71-72; resignations, 47; term of office, 41, 44; length of term when elected as special meeting, 34-35; vacancies in office, 45, 46.

District quotas, 13; districts en-

titled to, 13-14.

District treasurer, how appointed in
union school districts, 70; bond, 37,
71; to receive proceeds of sale of
bonds, 47; compensation in union
school districts, 70; to pay money
only on drafts, 85; duties, 47-48;
election, 36; eligibility, 36; pay-
ment of moneys to, 47, 85; quali-
fications, 70; to receive all money
from supervisors in union schools,
22; to be paid money for teachers'
wages by supervisor, 22; term of
office, 36, 44; trustee to notify
treasurer and State Superintendent
of failure to pay money, 55-56;
trustee not eligible to office of, 44;
vacates office by failure to give
bond, 45, 71; vacancy in office of,
how filled in union school districts,
71; vacancy supplied by appoint-
ment of trustee, 45, 46.
Districts, excluded, allowance to, 14.
Drawing, free instruction to be
given, 110-11; evening schools for
instruction in, 110.

Education fund, 195-96.
Educational qualifications, office in
common school districts, 44; office
in union school districts, 72.
Employment of children, under com-
pulsory education law, 122-23; in
street trades prohibited, 174.
Employment of teachers, see Teach-

ers.

Enumeration, see Census.

Estimates, accounts and expendi-
tures, by State Superintendent, 10;
board to present estimate of ex-
penditures to annual meeting, 83;
evening schools for instruction in
drawing, 111.

Evidence, copies of, seal evidence

equal with original, 9, 102.
Examinations, in physiology and
hygiene, 109; use of school build-
ing for, 29; by school commis- ¦

sioners, 28; state certificates, 10;
for state scholarships in Cornell
University, 97.

Executive sessions, board of educa-
tion may hold, 84.
Exemptions, clerk in certain
counties, in manner of election, 90;
Brooklyn not exempt from provis-
ions of title 9, 91.
Exemptions from taxation, 60, 80,
140, 149-52; dwelling house and
land owned by religious corpora-
tions, 149; pay, bounty and pen-
sion money of soldiers and sailors
and real property purchased there-
with, 152; real property of re-
ligious, charitable and educational
corporations, 149-50.
Expenditures, vote on, 38.

Fees, see Salary and fees.
Fines and penalties, apportionment
of, 16; when apportioned by State
Superintendent, 20; refusal of
clerk to record names of voters, 40,
77; neglect of clerk to preserve
records, 47; for violation of com-
pulsory education law, 121, 123;
for the benefit of counties, 20; dis-
trict attorney to report, 20; refusal
of district clerk to deposit records
with town clerks, 32; for neglect of
district clerk to report to town
clerk officers elected, 47; for failure
of district officers to report, 34; for
neglect or refusal of district officers
to perform duties, 46; for refusal of
district officers to serve, 46; draw-
ing draft on supervisor in certain
cases, 159; entering building un-
lawfully, 159-60; altering or chang-
ing entries, forgery in third degree,
160; disobedience of fire drill law,
186; failure of teacher to attend
institute, 93-94; for failure to close
school during institute, 93-94; in
joint districts, 21; for wilful neglect
or refusal to deliver books to libra-
ries, 101; disturbing lawful meet-
ings, 158; misappropriation etc.

and falsification of accounts by public officers, 158-59; refusal to serve notice, 33; neglect of public officers, 158; neglect or refusal of officers to sue for, shall forfeit amount of, 102; attempting to prevent officers from doing duty, 157; resisting officers, 157; refusal of officers to surrender to successor, 157; to be paid to county treasurer, 20; to whom paid, 29; violation of physiology law, 109; injury to records and misappropriation by ministerial officers, 158; to be reported to school commissioner, 22-23; school commissioner to publish school books, sell furniture or receive gifts, 26; disobeying subpoena of school commissioner, 29; sued for by supervisor, 22-23, suits for, 103; making false statements in reference to taxes, 159; violating textbook law, 105; trustees for paying unqualified teacher, 49; trustees for issuing order when no money is in collector's hands, 52, 53; neglect or refusal of trustee to account, 56; for failure of trustees to care for code, 106; trustees interested in contracts, 159; illegal voting, 35-36, 40, 77; failure of district and trustee to provide waterclosets, 53, 81-82.

Fire drills, laws requiring, 185-86. Fire escapes, trustees and boards of education to provide, 53-54, 82. Fires, trustees to provide for building, 54.

Flag to be displayed on school grounds, 177-78.

Forest preserve, assessment and taxation of land in, 140.

Fuel, district to furnish, 37; board

of education to provide, 80. Furniture, district to furnish, 37; to be kept insured, 37, 79; board of education to provide, 80.

Gifts, 18-19; acceptance by state of bonds, warrants etc., from other

states, 189; board may hold for use of districts, 80; not invalid for want of competent trustee, 19; Legislature to control exclusively, 19; to libraries, 100; to libraries and other educational institutions, 190; local boards of normal schools may hold, 173; real and personal estate for use of common schools, 18-19; State Superintendent to supervise, 19; trustees to render accounting to State Superintendent, 19.

Globes, district to vote tax for, 37; trustees may purchase, 54. Gospel and school lots, supervisor to

report to State Superintendent, 19-20; State Superintendent to report in regard to, 20; supervisors made trustees of, 21; sold under certain conditions, 179. Gospel fund to be apportioned by supervisors, 179.

Graduates of normal schools, see

Normal school diplomas.

Grants, see Library moneys; School moneys.

Health and decency acts, 53, 81. High school, see Academic depart

ments.

Holidays, part of school term, 13; defined, 155; anniversary day in Brooklyn schools, 156.

Incorporated villages, see Villages. Indebtedness, see Bonded indebted

ness.

Indians, not admitted to common schools, 48; appropriation of public money for, 13, 114; not included in census, 57; enumeration of children to be taken, 114; expenditures, vouchers and receipts to be filed with State Superintendent, 114; protection to title of land, 114; may be appointed to normal schools, 172-73; on reservations, compulsory education of, 190-94; State Superintendent

to provide for education of, 9;
State Superintendent to employ
superintendent of Indian schools,
113; State Superintendent to re-
quire reports of superintendents
of Indian schools, 114; State
Superintendent to report concern-
ing, 114.

Indorsement of diplomas and state

certificates, 10.

Industrial training, 111-12; in tru-
ant schools, 125.

Inspection of schools, by school com-
missioner, 27; by State Superin-
tendent, 9, 86; by boards of edu-
cation, 84.

Inspectors, common school, State
Superintendent may appoint, 9;
compulsory education law, 126;
training class, 96.

Inspectors of election, common
school district, 36; district of
over 300, 39, 77; canvass vote, 78.
Institute conductors, State Super-
intendent to appoint, 91.
Institutes, see Summer institute;
Teachers institutes.
Insurance, board of education to
insure schoolhouse, apparatus etc.,
79; of library, 51; normal school
property, 171-72, 174; trustee to
insure school property, 37, 50-51.

Janitor, trustee to provide, 54.
Joint districts, see School districts.
Judge, see County judge.

Judgment for teachers' wages, how
satisfied, 38.

Kindergartens, free, 111; pupils en-
titled to share in public money, 17.

Labor law, act amending, 174-75.
Lanterns and slides for visual instruc-
tion, 161-63.

Laws repealed, 126-29.
Librarian, board of education to
appoint, 80; report when required,

100; shall be responsible for safety

and proper care of books, 100;
teacher to be, 100; trustee not
eligible, 44.

Libraries, school: public libraries
may take books of district libraries,
100; persons having books in pos-
session to deliver them to proper
authorities, 100; penalty for re-
fusal to deliver books, 101; when
board of education may retain
dictionaries etc., 100; gifts may
be received for, 100, 190; inspec-
tion by school commissioner, 27;
insurance, 51, 79; law, all existing
provisions applicable, 100; release
of school authorities concerning,
100; required books, 99; rules for
management, 100; shall not be
used as a public circulating library,
99; public not entitled to use of
school library, 101; to be kept in
school building, 99; state teachers
library, 181-82; board of educa-
tion may transfer to free public
library, 100, 101.

Library moneys, acts relating to,

181-83; apportionment, 13, 16,
99, 183; requirements for share
in apportionment, 99; apportioned
by school commissioner, 16; ex-
penditure, 99; gifts may be re-
ceived for, 100; to be paid by
supervisor, 22; set apart by
school commissioners, 16; tax for
raising, 37, 100; disposition of
unapportioned moneys, 99; may
be withheld from district or city
using library money for other pur-
poses, 101.

Liquors, not to be sold near school-
house, 201-2.
Literature fund, 84, 195.
Loans, charge upon counties, 12;
State Superintendent and State
Treasurer may borrow money
when counties fail to pay, 12.

Manual training in the public schools,

III-12.

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