Annual report of the superintendent of common schools

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Page 38 - ... the capital of the United States deposit fund, shall be respectively preserved inviolate. The revenue of the said common school fund shall be applied to the support of common schools; the revenue of the said literature fund shall be applied to the support of academies, and the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars of the revenues of the United States deposit fund shall each year be appropriated to and made part of the capital of the said common school fund.
Page 49 - The object of the law for procuring district libraries is to diffuse information, not only, or even chiefly, among children or minors, but among adults and those who have finished common school education. The books, therefore, should be such as will be useful for circulation among the inhabitants generally. They should not be children's books, or of a juvenile character merely, or light and frivolous tales and romances, but works conveying solid information which will excite a thirst for knowledge,...
Page 143 - Instruction, at such times as shall be appointed by him, a report, in writing, containing the whole number of schools in the city and county, distinguishing the schools from which the necessary reports have been made to the board of education by the commissioners inspectors and trustees of common schools...
Page 3 - He shall submit to the legislature an annual report containing: 1. A statement of the condition of the common schools of the state, and of all other schools and institutions under his supervision, and subject to his visitation as superintendent 2.
Page 119 - County, and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of said original. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county and courts, at Buffalo, this 25th day of January, 1905.
Page 120 - April 11, 1842," or an act to amend the same, passed April 18, 1843, or an act entitled an act more effectually to provide for common school education in the city and county of New-York...
Page 48 - ... wages, or for the purchase of maps, globes or scientific apparatus in the discretion of the inhabitants of the several school districts qualified to vote therein, the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars, and for the payment of the salaries of county superintendents of common schools in...
Page 3 - An act for the support of government." II And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the superintendent aforesaid, to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the common school fund, and for the better organization of common schools...
Page 45 - Whenever a school house shall have been built or purchased for a district. the site of such school house shall not be changed, nor the building thereon be removed, as long as the district shall remain unaltered, unless by the consent, in writing, of the Town...
Page 143 - An act to extend to the city and county of New- York, the provisions of the general act in relation to common schools...

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