The Common School System of the State of New York: Comprising the Several General Laws Relating to Common Schools, Together with Full Expositions, Instructions and Forms ... To which is Prefixed a Historical Sketch of the Origin, Progress and Present Outline of the System |
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... necessary materials for a complete digest of its various provisions , as well as for the requisite adaptation of the numerous expositions , decisions , and instructions of the department , to the present state of the law , were probably ...
... necessary materials for a complete digest of its various provisions , as well as for the requisite adaptation of the numerous expositions , decisions , and instructions of the department , to the present state of the law , were probably ...
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... necessary to enumerate here . The operation , however , of that portion of the law which left it optional with the several towns to comply with its conditions and participate in its benefits , or not , as the inhabitants at their annual ...
... necessary to enumerate here . The operation , however , of that portion of the law which left it optional with the several towns to comply with its conditions and participate in its benefits , or not , as the inhabitants at their annual ...
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... necessary requisites , it is difficult to form any certain es- timate from them . Taking , however , the most correct and full returns for a criterion , it would appear that there are within the state about five thousand districts in ...
... necessary requisites , it is difficult to form any certain es- timate from them . Taking , however , the most correct and full returns for a criterion , it would appear that there are within the state about five thousand districts in ...
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... necessary , a new act was passed in 1814. This act was also found on trial to be imperfect , and in the following year it underwent sundry amendments . Since that time , the system founded on the act of 1814 and the amendments of 1815 ...
... necessary , a new act was passed in 1814. This act was also found on trial to be imperfect , and in the following year it underwent sundry amendments . Since that time , the system founded on the act of 1814 and the amendments of 1815 ...
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... necessary that every person should be able to read and write , but that he should be well instructed in the rights , privileges and duties of a citizen . Instruction should be co - extensive with universal suffrage . " The sum of ...
... necessary that every person should be able to read and write , but that he should be well instructed in the rights , privileges and duties of a citizen . Instruction should be co - extensive with universal suffrage . " The sum of ...
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academies alteration annual meeting annual report applied appointed apportionment appropriated attending authorized board of education board of supervisors certificate chap city of Hudson clerk Clyde High School collected collector colored children commissioners of common common council common school fund county clerk county treasurer deem district library district meeting district number district school dollars duly duty elected entitled establishment expenses free schools hereby improve instruction legislature levied liable librarian library money manner moneys received necessary notice number of children paid penalties person Poughkeepsie preceding prescribed proper public money pupils purchase qualified raised rate bill rate-bill regulations repair residing respect Schenectady School Dec school districts school houses school moneys specified superintendent of common support of common tax list taxable inhabitants thereafter therein thereof tion town of Trenton town superintendent trict vacancy village vote wages ward warrant whole number
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Page 359 - At any meeting of the board of trustees a majority of the trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from time to time...
Page 58 - The capital of the common school fund, the capital of the literature fund, and 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 * As amended November 3.
Page 326 - ... at a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent. per annum...
Page 40 - I do not hesitate, therefore, to recommend the establishment of schools in which they may be instructed by teachers speaking the. same language with themselves and professing the same faith.
Page 96 - November succeeding such election, execute to the supervisor of his town and file with the town clerk, a bond with one or more sufficient sureties to be approved by the said...
Page 277 - To keep and preserve all records, books and papers belonging to his office and to deliver the same to his successor. For a refusal or neglect so to do, he shall forfeit fifty dollars for the benefit of the schools of the district, to be recovered by the trustees.
Page 202 - In the fifth column the value of taxable rents reserved and chargeable upon lands within the tax district, estimated at a principal sum, the interest of which, at the legal rate per annum, shall produce a sum equal to such annual rents and if payable in any other thing except money the value of the rents in money to be ascertained by...
Page 367 - The treasurer shall pay, on the warrant of the comptroller, to the order of any one or more of the school commissioners, such sum of money as the commissioner of education shall certify to be due to them for expenses in holding a teachers...
Page 116 - If the sum of money, payable by any person named in such tax-list, shall not be paid by him or collected by such warrant within the time therein limited, it shall and may be lawful for the trustees to renew such warrant in respect to such delinquent person...
Page 131 - The fund called the SCHOOL FUND shall remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated to the support and encouragement of the public or common schools throughout the State, and for the equal benefit of all the people thereof.