2. If the provisions of this article are complied with at any time within one year from the date on which said moneys were withheld, the moneys so withheld shall be paid over by said commissioner of education to such district or city, otherwise forfeited to the state.

ARTICLE 24

School Census

Section 650. School census in cities of the first class. 651. School census in cities not of the first class.

652. School census in school districts.

653. Penalty for withholding information.
654. Payment of expenses.

§ 650. School census in cities of the first class. A permanent census board is hereby established in each city of the first class. Such board shall consist of the mayor, the superintendent of schools, the police commissioner or officer performing duties similar to those of a police commissioner. The mayor shall be the chairman of such board. Such board shall have power to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. Such board shall have power to appoint a secretary and such clerks and other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article and to fix the salaries of the same. Such board shall ascertain through the police force, the residences and employments of all persons between the ages of four and eighteen years residing within such cities and shall report thereon from time to time to the school authorities of such cities. Under the regulations of such board during the month of October, nineteen hundred and nine, it shall be the duty of the police commissioners in the cities of the first class to cause a census of the children of their respective cities to be taken. Thereafter such census shall be amended from day to day by the police, precinct by precinct, as changes of residence occur among the children of such cities within the ages prescribed in this article and as other persons come within the ages prescribed herein and as other persons within such ages shall become residents of such cities, so that said board shall always have on file a complete census of the names and residences of the children between such ages and of the persons in parental relation thereto. It shall be the duty of persons in parental relation to

any child residing within the limits of said cities of the first clas to report at the police station house of the precinct within which they severally reside, the following information:

1. Two weeks before any child becomes of the compulsory school age, the name of such child, its residence, the name of the person or persons in parental relation thereto, and the name and location of the school to which such child is sent as a pupil.

2. In case a child of compulsory school age is for any cause removed from one school and sent to another school, or sent to work in accordance with the labor law, all the facts in relation thereto.

3. In case the residence of a child is removed from one police precinct to another police precinct, the new residence and the other facts required in the two preceding subdivisions.

4. In case a child between the ages of four and eighteen be comes a resident of one of said cities of the first class for the first time the residence and such other facts as the census board shali require. Such census shall include all persons between the ages of four and eighteen years, the day of the month and the year of the birth of each of such persons, their respective residences by street and number, the names of their parents or guardians, such information relating to illiteracy and to the enforcement of the law relating to child labor and compulsory education as the school authorities of the state and of such cities shall require and also such further information as such authorities shall require.

§ 651. School census in cities not of the first class. A permanent census board may be established in any city not of the first class, in accordance with the provisions of this article. If a census board shall not be established in such cities, then, during the month of October, nineteen hundred and nine, and in the month of October every fourth year thereafter, the school authorities of every city, not a city of the first class, shall take a census of the children of their respective cities. Such census shall include the information required from the cities of the first class as provided in section six hundred and fifty of this chapter.

§ 652. School census in school districts. The board of trustees of every school district shall annually on the thirtieth day of August cause a census of all children between the ages of five and eighteen years to be taken in their respective school

districts. Such census shall include the information required from cities as provided in this article.

§ 653. Penalty for withholding information. A parent, guardian or other person having under his control or charge a child between the ages of four and eighteen years who withholds or refuses to give information in his possession relating to such child and required under this article, or any such parent, guardian or other person who gives false information in relation thereto, shall be liable to and punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

§ 654. Payment of expenses. The money required for the purpose of carrying this article into effect shall be paid by the cities and school districts respectively, included in the provisions of this article, but, in cities in which a permanent census board as provided under section six hundred and fifty of this chapter is not established and maintained, and in school districts, such moneys shall be paid for the services rendered in the taking of the school census on the certificate of the state commissioner of education that such census has been satisfactorily taken.

ARTICLE 25

Text-Books

Section 670. Power to designate text-books.

671. Requisites for change.

672. Penalty for violation.

673. Free text-books in union free school districts.

$670. Power to designate text-books. 1. In the several cities and union free school districts of the state, boards of education or such body or officer as perform the functions of such boards, shall designate text-books to be used in the schools under their charge.

2. In the common school districts in the state the text-books used in the schools therein shall be designated at an annual school meeting by a two-thirds vote of all the legal voters present and voting at such school meeting.

§ 671. Requisites for change. 1. When a text-book shall have been designated for use in a union free school district or city as provided in subdivision one of the preceding section, it shall not be lawful to supersede such text-book by any other

book within a period of five years from the time of such designation except upon a three-fourths vote of the board of education, or of such body or officer as performs the function of such board.

2. When a text-book shall have been designated in any common school district as provided in subdivision two of the preceding section it shall not be lawful to supersede such text-book except upon a three-fourths vote of the legal voters present and voting upon such proposition at an annual meeting of such district.

§ 672. Penalty for violation. Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for every such violation, to be sued for by any taxpayer of the school district, and recovered before any justice of the peace and when collected, to be paid to the collector or treasurer for the benefit of said school district.

§ 673. Free text-books in union free school districts. 1. The qualified voters of any union free school district present at any annual school meeting or at any special school meeting duly and legally called for that purpose, shall have power, by a majority vote, to be ascertained by taking and recording the ayes and noes, to vote a tax for the purchase of all text-books used, or to be used, in the schools of the district.

2. If such tax shall be voted it shall be the duty of the board of education of such district, within ninety days thereafter, to purchase and furnish free text-books to all the pupils attending the schools in such district. Such board of education shall have power to establish such rules and regulations concerning the use by the pupils of such text-books, and the care, preservation and custody thereof as it shall deem necessary.

ARTICLE 26

Physiology and Hygiene

Section 690. Instruction regarding nature of alcoholic drinks. 691. Enforcement of last section.

§ 690. Instruction regarding nature of alcoholic drinks. 1. The nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effects on the human system shall be taught in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, as

thoroughly as are other branches in all schools under state control, or supported wholly or in part by public money of the state, and also in all schools connected with reformatory institutions.

2. All pupils in the above-mentioned schools below the second year of the high school and above the third year of school work computing from the beginning of the lowest primary, not kindergarten, year, or in corresponding classes of ungraded schools, shall be taught and shall study this subject every year with suitable text-books in the hands of all pupils, for not less than three lessons a week for ten or more weeks, or the equivalent of the same in each year, and must pass satisfactory tests in this as in other studies before promotion to the next succeeding year's work; except that, where there are nine or more school years below the high school, the study may be omitted in all years above the eighth year and below the high school, by such pupils as have passed the required tests of the eighth year.

3. In all schools above-mentioned, all pupils in the lowest three primary, not kindergarten, school years or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools shall each year be instructed in this subject orally for not less than two lessons a week for ten weeks, or the equivalent of the same in each year, by teachers using text-books adapted for such oral instruction as a guide and standard, and such pupils must pass such tests in this as may be required in other studies before promotion to the next succeeding year's work. Nothing in this article shall be construed as prohibiting or requir ing the teaching of this subject in kindergarten schools.

4. The local school authorities shall provide needed facilities and definite time and place for this branch in the regular courses of study.

5. The text-books in the pupils' hands shall be graded to the capacities of fourth year, intermediate, grammar and high school pupils, or to corresponding classes in ungraded schools. For students below high school grade, such text-books shall give at least one-fifth their space, and for students of high school grade, shall give not less than twenty pages to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics. This subject must be treated in the text-books in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, and pages on this subject in a separate chapter at the end of the books shall not be counted in determining the minimum. No text-book on physiology not conforming to this article shall be used in the public schools.