that the regulations of the board in relation thereto be observed. 6. To contract with and employ all teachers in said schools Teachers. and for sufficient cause to remove them. Teachers 7. To pay the wages of such teachers out of the money appro- wages. priated or provided by law for the support of common schools in said district, or by this act. 8. To defray the necessary contingent expenses of the board and to pay the salaries of the superintendent, librarian and treasurer. Contingent expenses. Supervison of Academy or 9. To have, in all respects, the superintendence, supervision Schools and management of the schools of said district, and to establish therein an academy or high school whenever in their judgment a school. the same is warranted by the demand for such instruction; from time to time to adopt, alter, modify and repeal, as they may deem expedient, rules and regulations for the organization, govern- Rules, etc. ment and instruction of said schools, and for the reception of pupils and their transfer from one class to another or from one school to another, and generally for their good order, prosperity and utility. school property. 10. To sell any of the school houses, lots or sites, or any of the Sale of school property now or hereafter belonging to the district when authorized to do so by a majority vote at any meeting of the voters of the district called for the purpose in the manner prescribed by section fourteen of this act, upon such terms as the board shall deem most advantageous, and the proceeds of all Proceeds of sales shall be paid to the treasurer of said district, and shall be by said board of education expended in the purchase, repairs or improvements of school-houses, sites or appurtenances, furniture or apparatus. The board of education of pupils. dent pupils § 22. The schools organized under this act shall be free to Admission all pupils between the ages of five and twenty-one years who are actual residents of said school district. shall decide all questions of residence tion. The said board may allow the children of non-residents Non-restto attend the schools of said district, and shall prescribe the rates of tuition of such non-residents, payable always in advance; provided that if such non-resident pupils, their parents or guardians, shall be liable to be taxed for the support of said schools in said district, on account of owning property therein, the School libraries. amount of any such tax paid by a non-resident pupil, his parent or guardian, during the same year in which the charge for tuition was incurred, shall be deducted from such charge for tuition. § 23. The said board of education shall be the trustees of the school district library or libraries of said district, and they shall have power to purchase, exchange, repair or dispose of any books or other property of said library or libraries; or cause it to be done, and apply the proceeds to the purchase of other books or apparatus; also to provide suitable rooms and furniAppropria- ture for said library or libraries; and further they may approfor. priate for the benefit of said library or libraries, out of the moneys annually raised in said district by the school tax, an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars, in addition to the library money received from the State. tious there District offices abolished. funds and property to bourd. § 24. Upon the organization of the board of education as herein provided, the various district offices of union free school district number one, and school districts numbers two, twenty and nine of the town of Watervliet shall be abolished, and said board of education shall settle all business of said several disTransfer of tricts then remaining unsettled; and all unexpended balances of school moneys belonging to said several districts shall, by whomsoever the same is held, be paid over to the treasurer of the said West Troy school district, to the credit of its board of education, to be expended as said board shall direct; and the title of the school-houses, sites, furniture, books, and all other school property now belonging to the said several districts, shall be vested in the said board of education of the West Troy school district, and the same or any of the property of the said board, while used or appropriated for school purposes, shall not be levied on or sold by virtue of any warrant or execution, or other process, nor be subject to taxation for any purpose whatever; and the said board of education of the West Troy school district, in its corporate capacity, shall be competent to take, hold or dispose of any real or personal estate transferred to it by grant, gift, bequest or devise, for the use of the schools of said district, whether the same be transferred in terms to said board of education by its proper style, or by any other desig nation, or to any person or persons, or corporation, for the use of said schools. Board may take and hold prop erty. report to state super statement 25. Said board of education shall make reports annually to Annual the State superintendent of public instruction, and at such other intendent. times as he may request, and shall likewise report on the first day in August in each year to the school commissioner of the third commissioner district of Albany county in the same manner and to the like effect as do trustees of school districts. The Annual said board of education shall also, between the first and fifteenth and disdays of October in each year, prepare and publish in a newspaper printed in the village of West Troy, a true and correct statement of the receipts and disbursements under the provisions of this act, for the preceding year ending August thirty-first, in which account shall be stated, under appropriate heads: 1. The money raised by the board of education and received by the treasurer of the district under the fifteenth and sixteenth sections of this act. 2. The school moneys received by the treasurer of the district from the county treasurer. 3. All other moneys received by said treasurer subject to the order of the board of education, specifying the sources from which they shall have been received. 4. The manner in which such sums of money shall have been expended, specifying the amount under cach head of expendi tures, and the person or persons to whom the money has been paid. 5. Such other information as they shall deem proper in regard to the condition of the schools under their care. of receipts burse ments. Academy or high school, ity and 1.or. of question payers. § 26. Whenever, in the opinion of the board of education, it shall become advisable to establish an academy or high school indig in connection with the school system by this act contemplated and erect a suitable building therefor, they shall cause an esti mate of the cost of a suitable site and building to be made, and shall cause the question of raising the amount required by tax Submission to be submitted to the decision of the taxable inhabitants of the to tax district qualified to vote for school officers therein, in such manner as they may deem best calculated to procure a fair expression from said taxable inhabitants. In case the tax shall be voted, the Tax in Insame may be raised in installments, the amounts of which and the times of payment shall be left optional with the board of education, and they are authorized to borrow so much of the Issue and sum voted as may be necessary, at a rate of interest not exceed bonds. stallments. sale of Provisions applicable to schoolhouses. Academy, etc., sub ject to visi tation of regents. Distribution of state moneys thereto. Distribution of state district. ing six per centum, and to issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness therefor, which shall be a charge upon the district and be paid at maturity, and which shall not be sold below par; due notice of the time and place of the sale of such bonds shall be given at least ten days prior thereto. The provisions of this section shall extend to all amounts required for building schoolhouses where the estimated cost exceeds three thousand dollars. § 27. The academy or high school authorized to be established in connection with the school system contemplated by this act, when organized, and when it has complied with the necessary requirements, shall be recognized as one of the academies of the State, subject to the visitation of the regents, and shall be enti tled to participate in the distribution of the income of the liter ture fund and other funds in the same manner and upon the same conditions as other academies of the State and the regents of the university of the State of New York shall pay annually to the board of education of the West Troy school district the distributive share of said funds to which the said academy or high school shall be entitled. § 28. Said West Troy school district shall also receive from moneys to and out of the income of the free school fund of the State, and if insufficient, the deficiency out of the said free school fund, the sum of eight hundred dollars each year for or towards the expenses of the superintendent of schools hereinbefore provided for, to be apportioned or alloted to said district by the superintendent of public instruction. Proviso as to election of officers § 29. Subsequent to the passage of this act no school officers and raising shall be elected or moneys voted or raised for school purposes within the territory embraced in said West Troy school district, except as herein provided. of moneys. Repeal. § 30. All acts or parts of acts conflicting or inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, so far as they Provigo as affect this act, but nothing in this act shall be so construed as surinten- to limit, restrain or annul the powers of the superintendent of to powers of state dent. public instruction. In all matters of dispute which shall be referred to him by appeal and which shall arise under and by virtue of this act or under and by virtue of any other act which is now, or shall hereafter be applicable to the schools, school officers or school property of or in said district, his decisions or orders shall be final and binding. § 31. This act shall take effect immediately. Chap. 882. 'AN ACT to legalize and confirm the official acts of Richard C. Cartwright, a commissioner of deeds. Accepted by the city. BECAME & law June 4, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: legalized. Section 1. The official acts of Richard C. Cartwright, a commis omcial acts sioner of deeds, appointed in and for the city of Rochester, and duly commissioned, which acts have been performed between the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and the fifteenth day of April, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, so far as such acts might be affected, impaired or questioned by reason of the expiration of the term for which he was appointed, are hereby legalized and confirmed, and made as effectual and valid as if the term of office of the said commissioner of deeds had not expired and determined. § 2. Nothing in this act contained shall affect any legal action Frovino. now pending. 3. This action shall take effect immediately. Chap. 888. AN ACT to amend sections six and ten of title seven of chapter five hundred and eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act to revise and combine in a single act all existing special and local laws affecting public interests in the city of Brooklyn," relating to collection of taxes. Accepted by the city. BECAME a law June 4, 1895, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: amended Section 1. Section six of title seven of chapter five hundred and charter eighty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled "An act to revise and combine in a single act all exist |