are now by law invested. The public money designated as "library money," shall with other public money as provided by section thirteen of this act be paid to the city treasurer; but so much only of such library money shall be appropriated to the purchase of library books or school apparatus as may be required by the trustees of the several wards and authorized by the school board of finance as provided in section five and section six of this act. $ 18. The monies paid or payable under chapter 181, laws of eighteen hundred and forty-four, to the trustees of the several school districts of the said city before the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, shall continue to be held and disbursed by them until that time. The said trustees shall then render to the city comptroller a full and correct account of their receipts and disbursments for the previous year, and shall pay over to the city treasurer any school monies remaining in their hands. 19. The common council of the city of Williamsburgh shall provide for the payment of loans lawfully made by the several school districts, so far as the same shall not be paid by appropriations made previous to the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two. And for this purpose they shall have power to add the necessary amount to the annual taxes of said city. 20. The said common council shall have power to borrow money temporarily in anticipation of taxes for school purposes as for other purposes. 21. The board of assessors for said city for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two shall estimate the value of the real estate of said city held for school purposes in each ward, deducting therefrom the amount of indebtedness due or chargeable.upon such property on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and shall determine the ratio which said value bears to the whole assessed valuation of the real and personal property in such ward. They shall file with the city comptroller a statement of such value and ratio; and if such ratio shall vary in the several wards, the common council of said city shall gradually, at their discretion, so discriminate in levying the taxes upon the several wards, that each shall as near as may be, bear a just proportion according to its assessed valuation of the expenses of the property already purchased and erected for school purposes. 22. The board of education shall provide for taking an annual census of all the children of the on the thirty-first day of December in each year, between the ages of five and sixteen years inclusive, which enumeration with all other information now required by law of school trustees and town superintendents, they shall cause to be forwarded to the state superintendent of common schools. The expense of such enumeration shall be paid by their warrant out of monies appropriated to their use for contingent ex penses. 23. For the purposes of all acts which have been or may be passed by the legislature of this state, providing for an equal division of public money among the school districts of this state, the city of Williamsburgh shall be deemed to contain as many s hool districts as school houses. § 24. No officer elected or appointed under this act shall receive any compensation for his services, except the librarian. $25. Chapter 181, laws of eighteen hundred and forty-four, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. 26. This act shall take effect on the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, except as herein otherwise provided. WILLIAMSVILLE. [Laws of 1846, Chap. 119.] § 1. The trustees of the school district at the village of Williamsville, in the town of Amherst and county of Erie, are hereby authorized, if the inhabitants of said district shall at any regular school district meeting so direct to make thereafter, and until the said inhabitants shall in like manner other e wise direct, separate and distinct rate bills, for the payment of the wages of the teachers in the primary and higher department of the schools kept in the said district, in such manner to collect on account of scholars attending each department, such balance as may be justly due for the wages of the teacher or teachers in that department, after the application to that purpose of such share of the public moneys as shall be apportioned to each department by such trustees, by giving to each such proportion of the whole sum applicable to the payment of teachers' wages in both departments, as the number of schollars who shall have attended such department during the time for which such rate bill is to be made, shall bear to the whole number of scholars attending both of such departments during the same period. INDIAN SCHOOLS. Laws of 1846, Chap. 114; Laws of 1847, Chap. 238. AN ACT to provide for the education of children of the Onondaga Indians in the county of Onondaga, and the children of the other Indians residing in this state. Passed April 30, 1846. The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The agent of the Onondaga Indians in the county of Onondaga, appointed under the authority of this state, is hereby authorised, with the consent of the chiefs of the said tribe of Onondaga Indians, to cause to be built and furnished a good and sufficient school house on the Onondaga reservation, at an expense not exceeding three hundred dollars, for the accommodation of the Indian children residing on such reservation; and to organize a school therein, and the sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the payment of the expense of erecting and furnishing said school-house. § 2. The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars annually is hereby appropriated for the term of five years, for the payment of the wages of a teacher or teachers, and of the other expenses of maintaining such school. 5. The sums appropriated by the first and second sections of this act shall be paid from time to time to the said agent of the Onondaga Indians on his giving to the people of this state and filing with the state superintendent of common schools, a bond with satisfactory sureties, to be approved by such superintendent conditioned for the proper and faithful expenditure of all moneys paid to him, or which shall come into his hands by virtue of this act, and for the rendering to such superintendent annually in the month of October, a just and true account of all his receipts and expenditures, under the provisions of this act. $7. The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars is also hereby appropriated for the building and furnishing a school house on the lands of the St. Regis Indians, in this state; and the further sum of two hundred dollars per year, for the term of five years, is hereby appropriated for the payment of wages of a teacher of the school, to be kept in said school house, and for the payment of the other expenses of said school. The moneys appropriated by this section shall be paid from time to time to the agent of the said St. Regis Indians, on his giving to the people of this state, and filing with the state superintendent of common schools, a bond with satisfactory sureties, to be approved by such superintendent, conditioned for the proper and faithful expenditure within this state, of all moneys paid to him, and which shall come into his hands by virtue of this act, and for rendering to the said superintendent annually, in the month of October, a just and true account of all his receipts and expenditures by virtue of this act. § 8. The sums hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the income of the United States deposit fund; and the last two of the several annual paynts herein provided for, shall not be paid for the Indians residing on either 4 of the said reservations, unless the Indians on such reservation shall, before such payment in each year, pay into the hands of the persons authorised to receive and expend the moneys appropriated by this act, at least twenty per cent. of the sum authorised to be paid annually for the maintenance of the school on such reservation; nor shall any of the said annual payments excaps the first, be made unless the state superintendent of common schools shall have sad factory evilence that a school has been kept in said school house for the term of at least six months during the preceding year; such twenty per cent, shall be expended by such commissioner for the support and maintenance of the school or scheels on the reservation, occupied by the In lians paying the same. 9. The schools organize and established by virtue of this act, shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of the superintendent of common schools of the town and county where the same shall be situated. AN ACT moking appropriations for building and furnishing school houses, and providing for the education of the children of Indians, residing on the Cattaraugus ond Allegany reservations. Passed May 7, 1847, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The sun of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the balding and furnishing a school house on the Cattaragus reservation, and the like sum of three hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the building and furnishing a school have on the Allegany rervation; such school houses to be for use, accommodation and education of the Indian children residing on the said reservations. §3. The sums appropriated by this act, and all appropriations made, or that hereafter may be made for the education of the childrer of Indians residing on the Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations, shall be paid cut of the income of the United States deposite fund, to Chester How, or his succesar, on bis executing to the people of this state, and filing with the superintendent of common schools, a bond in the penalty of two thousand dollars, with such sureties as shall be approved by the said superintendent, conditioned for the faithful expenditure of, and accounting for all moneys which shall be received by him under this det; and he shall, annually, in the month of October, reader an account to the comptroller, of all receipts and expenditures by him. 4. The appropriations made for the education of Indian children re siding on said reservations, for eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and thereafter, shall not be expended by the said commissioner, until the chiefs of the Indians residing on said reservations shall pay to the said commissioner, twenty per cent. of the sums so appropriated, respectively, in each year, to be applied by him to the maintenance of the said schools; nor shall the sums appropriated be paid to the said commissioner unless the superintendent of common schools shall have satisfactory evidence that schools have been kept on the said reservations, respectively, for at least six months during the preceding year. § 5. In case the said Chester Howe shall decline to accept the trust hereby conferred, or to execute the bond hereby required, or in case of his death, inability or resignation, the comptroller of this state may appoint some fit and proper person or persons to supply such vacancy, who, upon executing the bond herein required, shall be entitled to receive and expend the money's hereby appropriated, and shall account for the same in the manner and upon the conditions herein provided. 6. The schools established under this act, shall be subject to the visitation and inspection of the county and town superintendents of common schools, of the county and town in which they shall be kept. Chap. 164, Laws of 1831, Revived by Chap. 39, Laws of 1848.] § 1. The superintendent of common schools shall in every year hereafter apportion from school moneys, the sum of eighty dollars in addition to the amount to which the county of Suffolk is now entitled by law; which sum shall be paid on the first day of February in every year on the warrant of the comptroller to the treasurer of said county. § 2. The treasurer of said county shall apply for and receive the said sum as soon as the same becomes payable, and shall hold the same subject to the order of the town superintendent of common schools of the town of Southampton, whose duty it shall be to receive and expend the same in the payment of the wages of a competent school teacher or teachers, to be by them employed in instructing the children between the ages of five and sixteen years, belonging to the Shinecock tribe of Indians residing in said town. § 3. The said town superintendent shall hereafter include in the annual report, a statement of the length of time that a school has been taught in pursuance of this act; the number of children taught in said school; the manner in which such moneys have been expended; and whether any and how much remains unexpended, and for what cause, and shall pay such balances if any, to their successors in office, to be by them expended as herein before provided. [Laws of 1851, Chap. 243.] AN ACT to provide for the education of the children of the Tuscarora Indians, in the county of Niagara. Passed June 20, 1851, "three-fifths being present." The People of the State of New-York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The sum of two hundred dollars a year, for the term of two years is hereby appropriated for the support of a school or schools to be kept for the education of the children of the Tuscarora Indians, on the Tuscarora Reservation, in the county of Niagara. § 2. The sum appropriated by first section of this act shall be paid by the treasurer on the warrant of the Comptroller, as the same may from time to time be wanted, out of the income of the United States Deposite Fund to William Mount Pleasant, on his executing and giving to the people of this State and filing with the Superintendent of common schools a bond with satisfactory sureties, to be approved by the county Judge of the county of Niagara, by an endorsement of such approval upon said bond, conditioned for the faithful expenditure of all moneys paid to him, or which shall come into his hands by virtue of this act and for rendering to said superintenden annually in the month of October, a just and true account of all his receipts and disbursements by virtue of this act. § 3. It shall be the duty of the said William Mount Pleasant to whom the money is from time to time paid by virtue of this act, to expend the same in the payment of teachers for the education of the children of the Indians on the Reservation aforesaid. [Laws of 1851, Chap. 361.] AN ACT to provide for the education of the children of the Tonawanda Indians in the county of Genesee. Passed July 1, 1851. "by a two-third vote." The People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The sum of two hundred dollars a year,for two years, is hereby appropriated for the support of a school or schools to be kept for the education of the children of the Tonawanda Indians, on the Tonawanda reservation, in the county of Genesee. § 2. The sum appropriated by the first section of this act shall be paid by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, as the same may from time to time be wanted, out of the income of the United States deposite fund, to William Parker, on his executing and giving to the people of this state and filing with the superintendent of common schools a bond with satisfactory sureties, to be approved by the county judge, of the county of Genesee, by an endorsement of such approval upon said bond, conditioned for the faithful expenditure of all moneys paid to him, or which shall come into his hands by virtue of this act, and for rendering to said superintendent annually, of the month of October, a just and true account of all his receipts and disbursements by virtue of this act. § 3. It shall be the duty of the said William Parker, to whom the mon ey is from time to time paid by virtue of this act, to expend the same in the payment of teachers for the education of the children of the Indians on the reservation aforesaid. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. DISTRICT SCHOOL JOURNAL. [Laws of 1841 Chap. 260, as amended by § 17 of Chap. 132, Laws of 1848.] §32. The superintendent of common schools, from year to year, shall be authorised to subscribe for so many copies of any periodical published at least monthly in this state, exclusively devoted to the cause of education, and not partaking of a sectarian or party character, as shall be sufficient to supply one copy to each organized school district in the state; in which periodical, the statutes relating to common schools, passed at the present, or any future session of the Legislature, and the general regulations and decis ions of the superintendent made pursuant to any law, shall be published gratuituously. The said periodical shall be sent to the clerk of each district, whose duty it shall be to cause each volume to be bound, at the expense of the district, and the same shall be preserved in the district library for the use of the district. The expense of said subscription, not exceeding twenty-eight hundred dollars annually, shall be paid out of the surplus income arising from the moneys deposited with this state, by the United States. STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. [Laws of 1844, Chap. 311.] AN ACT for the establishment of a Normal School. Passed May 7, 1844. The People of the State of New York represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. The treasurer shall pay on the warrant of the comptroller, to the order of the superintendent of common schools from that portion of the avails of the literature fund appropriated by chapter two hundred and forty one of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, to the support of academical departments for the instruction of teachers of common schools, the sum of nine thousand six hundred dollars; which sum shall be expended under the direction of the superintendent of common schools, and the regents of the university, in the establishment and support of a normal school for the instruction and practice of teachers of common schools in the science of education and in the art of teaching, to be located in the county of Albany. |