Section 1077. Management and control of school. 1078. Powers and duties of board of trustees.

§ 1075. Establishment and corporate name. There is hereby established in the town of Cobleskill, Schoharie county, a school of agriculture to be known as the Schoharie State School of Agriculture.

§ 1076. Objects and purposes of school. Such school shall have for its objects and purposes:

1. The instruction of pupils attending such school in agriculture, mechanic arts and home making.

2. The giving of instruction throughout the state by means of schools, lectures and other university extension methods for the promotion of agricultural knowledge.

3. The conducting of investigations and experiments for the purpose of ascertaining the best methods of fertilization of fields, gardens and plantations and the best modes of tillage, farm management and improvement of live stock.

4. The printing of leaflets and the dissemination of agricultural knowledge by means of lectures and otherwise; printing and free distribution of the results of such investigations and experiments, and the publication of bulletins containing such information as may be deemed desirable and profitable in promoting the agricultural interests of the state.

§ 1077. Management and control of school. The care, management and control of the school, property and premises shall be exercised by a board of seven trustees of which the commissioner of education and the commissioner of agriculture shall be ex officio. members, with the same powers and duties as other members thereof. The other five trustees shall be appointed by the governor. At least three of the trustees so appointed shall be residents of the county of Schoharie and one of them shall be a resident of the town of Cobleskill. Trustees first appointed hereunder shall be appointed for such terms that the term of one trustee shall expire each year and their terms shall be designated by the governor in their certificates of appointment. A successor to any such trustees shall be appointed for a full term of five years. A vacancy in the office of trustee shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term. Such trustees shall serve without compensation.

§ 1078. Powers and duties of board of trustees. The board of trustees of such school shall have the general care, super

vision and control of such school and of all of its affairs, and to carry out its objects and purposes shall:

1. Employ and at pleasure remove teachers, experts, chemists and all necessary clerks and assistants;

2. Adopt rules not inconsistent with law controlling the affairs of such school and regulating the meetings and organization of such board;

3. Prescribe the course of instruction and the methods of investigation and experiments to be followed in such school.

The board of trustees shall report to the commissioner of agriculture annually, on or before the first day of December, a detailed statement of such expenditures and of the general operations of the said school of agriculture for the year ending the thirtieth day of September then next preceding, and a copy of such report shall be transmitted to the legislature. Students, bona fide residents of the state of New York for one year preceding the date of their admission, shall be entitled to free tuition. Other fees and charges, if any, in the said school of agriculture, and any moneys received from tuition paid by students not residents of the state of New York, and from the sale of products, shall be reported and forwarded monthly to the state treasurer as required by the state finance law, and may be reappropriated toward the maintenance of said school of agriculture.

NOTE. The following sections of L. 1911, ch. 852, relate to the establishment of the State School of Agriculture at Cobleskill, but are not amendatory of the Education Law.

§ 2. The governor shall appoint the members of the board of trustees of such school within twenty days after this act takes effect.

$ 3. The board of trustees may acquire in the name and for the benefit of the state, by gift, devise, grant or purchase, any lands situated within the town of Cobleskill, county of Schoharie, and within easy access of the village of Cobleskill, suitable and adapted for the purposes of such school. All deeds of conveyances, contracts of purchase or other instruments executed for the purpose of transferring the title of such lands shall be examined and approved by the attorney-general before payment of any part of the purchase price of such lands. The total amount to be paid by the state out of the moneys hereinafter appropriated for the purchase of such site shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars. The board of trustees of such school shall cause to be erected upon the lands so acquired suitable buildings for use of such school, so designed as to carry into effect the objects and purposes of such school. The state architect shall prepare the necessary plans and specifications for the erection and equipment of such buildings, and he shall possess the same powers and perform the same duties in respect to such buildings as are possessed or performed by him in respect to other buildings. The erection and equipment of such buildings shall be done by contract, except work which in the opinion of the comptroller and the state architect can be done, in whole or in part, more advantageously by the employment of labor and the purchase of materials in the open market. All expenditures under this act shall be made pursuant to estimates or pursuant to contracts, the form of which shall be prescribed by the state architect. The estimates shall

be made to the comptroller in the usual form by the board of trustees of such school. Where the work estimated for is from drawings and specifications of the state architect, the estimates shall be subject to his approval also. No item of said appropriation shall be available, except for advertising, unless a contract or contracts, or estimate or estimates therefor shall have been first made for the completion thereof within the appropriation therefor. All contracts in an amount greater than one thousand dollars shall have the performance thereof secured by sufficient bond or bonds, said bond or bonds to be approved by and filed with the comptroller. All contracts in an amount less than one thousand dollars need have no surety bond, provided payment is to be made only after the work is completed and approved. All payments on contracts shall be made on the certificate of the state architect and a voucher of the board of trustees of such school after audit by the comptroller. All original bids or proposals with abstract thereof shall accompany the copy of the contracts which is to be filed with the comptroller. Money herein appropriated shall only be advanced to the board of trustees of such school, as the work progresses, or the purchase of material is made and upon bills duly certified, rendered and audited.

§ 4. The sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Of this amount the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be payable on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and eleven, and the remaining forty thousand dollars shall be payable on the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twelve. The amount so appropriated shall be paid by the treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller drawn upon the requisition of the board of trustees of such school.

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State School of Agriculture at Morrisville Section 1090. Corporate name.

1091. Objects and purposes of school.

1092. Management and control of school.

1093. Powers and duties of board of trustees.

§ 1090. Corporate name. The school of agriculture established by chapter two hundred one of the laws of nineteen hundred and eight shall continue to be known as the New York state school of agriculture at Morrisville.

§ 1091. Objects and purposes of school. Such school shall have for its objects and purposes:

1. The elementary and practical instruction of pupils attending such school in agriculture and all allied subjects, including domestic science.

2. The giving of instruction in agriculture and agricultural science preparatory to the more advanced courses in the state college of agriculture at Cornell to which end the work shall be conformed as far as practicable with that of the last named institution and also the giving of elementary and practical instruction

for the carrying on of agricultural pursuits to such as do not desire the more advanced course.

3. The conducting of investigations and experiments in central New York for the purpose of ascertaining the best methods of fertilizing fields, gardens and plantations and the best modes of tillage and farm management and the care and improvement of live stock.

§ 1092. Management and control of school. The care, management and control of said school, property and premises shall be exercised by a board of seven trustees. The state commissioner of agriculture and the director of the New York state agricultural school at Cornell University, shall, ex officio, be members of the board of trustees. The other five trustees shall be appointed by the governor by and with the consent of the senate. At least two of such trustees shall be residents of the county of Madison. One of such trustees shall be a person recommended by the state grange, if such recommendation be made. Two of such appointed trustees shall be appointed for a term of two years each and three for a term of four years each. Upon the expiration of the terms of office of such appointed trustees their successors shall be appointed for a term of four years each. Such trustees shall serve for the terms for which they are respectively appointed and until their successors have been appointed and qualified. In case of any vacancy in the office of any trustee his successor shall be appointed for the unexpired term for which he was appointed. Such trustees shall serve without compensation as such, except that there shall be allowed to said board for clerical and other assistance that may be required in the discharge of their duties, a sum not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum, which may be paid in whole or in part to one of the appointed members of said board, to act as secretary and clerk of said board until said school shall be organized.

$ 1093. Powers and duties of board of trustees. The board of trustees so appointed by the governor shall have the general care, supervision and control of such school and all its affairs and to carry out its objects and purposes:

1. Employ and remove teachers, experts, chemists and all necessary clerks and assistants.

2. Adopt rules not inconsistent with the law controlling the affairs of such school.

3. Prescribe the course of instruction and the methods of investigation and experiments to be followed in such school.

The board of trustees shall report to the commissioner of agricul ture annually, on or before the first day of December, a detailed statement of such expenditures and of the general operations of the said school of agriculture for the year ending the thirtieth day of September then next preceding, and a copy of such report shall be transmitted to the legislature. Students bona fide residents of the state of New York for one year preceding the date of their admission shall be entitled to free tuition. Other fees and charges, if any, in the said school of agriculture, and any moneys received from tuition paid by students not residents of the state of New York, and from the sale of products, shall be reported and forwarded monthly to the state treasurer as required by the state. finance law, and may be reappropriated toward the maintenance of said school of agriculture.

State College of Forestry at Syracuse

University

L. 1911, ch. 851. AN ACT to establish a State College of Forestry at Syracuse University, and making an appropriation therefor.

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

State College of Forestry at Syracuse University Section 1. Establishment; corporate name.

2. Objects and purposes of college.

3. Management and control of college.

4. Powers and duties of boards of trustees.

5. Property acquired to belong to the state.

6. Admission to college; disposition of fees and income. 7. Time of taking effect.

There is hereby

§ 1. Establishment; corporate name. established at Syracuse University a state college of forestry, which shall be known as The New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse University.

§ 2. Objects and purposes of college. Such college shall have for its objects and purposes:

1. The conduct upon land acquired for such purpose of such experiments in forestry and forestation as the board of trustees deem most advantageous to the interests of the state and the advancement of the science of forestry.

2. The planting, raising, cutting and selling of trees and timber at such times, of such specie and quantities and in such manner