CIFT OF 
 
NEW JERSEY 
 
 SCHOOL LAWS 
 
 AND 
 
 Rules and Regulations 
 Prescribed by the State Board of Education 
 
 WITH 
 
 Notes, Blanks and Forms 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 USE AND GOVERNMENT OF SCHOOL OFFICERS. 
 
 191 I 
 
 PREPARED BY THE 
 COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION 
 
 TRENTON, N. J. 
 MacCrellish & Quigley, State Printers, Opposite Post Office. 
 
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CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Agricultural College, 159 
 
 Agriculture, Summer Schools for, 149 
 
 Blanks and Forms for School Officers, 199 
 
 Boards of Examiners, Article IV, 20 
 
 City School Districts, Article VI, 24 
 
 Children's Guardians, State Board of, 166 
 
 Commissioner of Education, Article II, 10 
 
 Compulsory Education, Article XV, 84 
 
 County Superintendents, Article III, 17 
 
 Crimes Act, Extracts from 164 
 
 Custodian of School Moneys, Article XVIII, 102 
 
 Detention Schools, 152 
 
 Disorderly Persons, Extracts from Law, 163 
 
 Evening Schools, Article XIII, 82 
 
 Free Lectures, 163 
 
 Industrial Schools, 145 
 
 Kindergartens, Article XII, 81 
 
 Manual Training, Article XXII, no 
 
 Summer Schools for, 149 
 
 Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, Article XXI, 109 
 
 Miscellaneous, Article XXVII, 130 
 
 Miscellaneous Laws, 145 
 
 New Jersey School for the Deaf, Article XX, 107 
 
 Pupils, Article IX, 66 
 
 Railroad Tax for Schools, 141 
 
 Rules and Regulations Prescribed by the State Board of Education, 173 
 
 Salaries of Teachers and Principals, Article XXVI, 124 
 
 School Districts, Article V, 21 
 
 School Fund, Article XVI, 90 
 
 School-Houses, Facilities and Accommodations, Article X, 71, 157, 158 
 
 School Libraries, Article XXIII, 112 
 
 State Board of Education, Article I, 7 
 
 State Normal School, Article XIX, 105 
 
 State Prison School, 150 
 
 State School Tax, Article XVII, 94 
 
 Summer Schools, 149 
 
 Teachers, Article VIII, 61 
 
 Teachers' Libraries, Article XXIV, 113 
 
 Teachers' Pensions, 66 
 
 Teachers' Retirement Fund, Article XXV, 113 
 
 Text-Books and Supplies, Article XIV, 84 
 
 Township, Incorporated Town and Borough School Districts, Article VII, 39 
 Union-Graded Schools, Article XI, 74 
 
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EXTRACTS 
 
 From the State Constitution Respecting Public Schools* 
 
 SECTION VII. 
 
 6. The fund for the support of free schools, and all money, 
 stock and other property which may hereafter be appropriated 
 for that purpose, or received into the treasury under the provision 
 of any law heretofore passed to augment the said fund, shall be 
 securely invested and remain a perpetual fund; and the income 
 thereof, except so much as it may be judged expedient to apply 
 to an increase of the capital, shall be annually appropriated to 
 the support of public free schools, for the equal benefit of all 
 the people of the state; and it shall not be competent for the 
 legislature to borrow, appropriate or use the said fund, or any 
 part thereof, for any other purpose, under any pretence what- 
 ever; the legislature shall provide for the maintenance and sup- 
 port of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for 
 the instruction of all the children in this state between the ages 
 of five and eighteen years. 
 
 ii. The legislature shall not pass private, local or special laws 
 providing for the management and support of free public schools. 
 
 (5) 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 AN ACT to establish a thorough and efficient system of 
 free public schools, and to provide for the mainte- 
 nance, support and management thereof. Approved 
 October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and 
 three. 
 
 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 
 of the State of New Jersey: 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 1. (2.) The general supervision and control of public 
 instruction shall be vested in a State Board of Educa- oJ?. 23"' 
 tion, which shall consist of eight members, not more 
 than four of whom shall be members of the same 
 political party, and not more than one of whom shall 
 be residents of any one county. Said members shall be Quaiificatons 
 
 for members. 
 
 male citizens who have resided within the State for not 
 less than five years immediately preceding the date of 
 their appointment. They shall be appointed by the Appointment. 
 Governor by and with the advice and consent of the 
 Senate, for the following terms, to commence on the 
 first day of July, nineteen hundred and eleven : one for Term, 
 one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for 
 four years, one for five years, one for six years, one for 
 seven years and one for eight years. Annually there- 
 after one member shall be appointed by the Governor 
 for a term of eight years. Vacancies shall be filled for vacancy, 
 the unexpired term. A suitable room in the State House office. 
 at Trenton shall be provided for the use of the board. 
 
 (7) 
 
8 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Meetings. 
 
 Control of 
 certain State 
 schools. 
 P. L. 1903. 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 Powers 
 enumerated. 
 Make rules 
 for carrying 
 school laws 
 into effect. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Appoint 
 county super- 
 intendents. 
 
 Rules for 
 institutes. 
 
 Decide 
 appeals. 
 
 Rules for 
 
 examinations. 
 
 Inspector of 
 "buildings. 
 P. L. 1911, 
 Chap. 231. 
 
 Inspector of 
 accounts. 
 
 Said board shall meet in the State House in Trenton 
 at such times as their rules may prescribe in each and 
 every month, and at such other times and places within 
 the State as in its judgment may be necessary. Its meet- 
 ings, as well as those of every board of education in 
 the State, shall be public and shall commence not later 
 than eight P. iM. 
 
 2. (2.) The State Board of Education shall have the 
 control and management of the State Normal Schools, 
 the New Jersey School for the Deaf, the Farnum Pre- 
 paratory School, and the Manual Training and Indus- 
 trial School for Colored Youth. 
 
 3. (3). The State Board of Education shall have 
 power : 
 
 I. To frame and modify by-laws for its own govern- 
 ment; to elect its president and other officers, and to 
 prescribe and enforce rules and regulations necessary to 
 carry into effect the school laws of this State. 
 
 II. To appoint County Superintendents of Schools, 
 and for cause to remove them. 
 
 III. To prescribe rules and regulations for holding 
 teachers' institutes. 
 
 IV. To decide appeals from the decisions of the Com- 
 missioner of Education. 
 
 V. To make and enforce rules and regulations for the 
 examination of teachers, and the granting of certificates 
 or licenses to teach. 
 
 VI. Appoint an Inspector of Buildings at a salary 
 not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum, who 
 shall devote his time during the entire twelve months 
 in the year to visiting the schools in the State and to 
 making a thorough report with regard to each. 
 
 VII. Appoint an Inspector of Accounts at a salary 
 not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum, who 
 shall devote his time during the entire twelve months in 
 the year to the examination of the accounts of the sev- 
 eral school districts. 
 
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 VIII. Prescribe a uniform and simple system of 
 bookkeeping for use in all school districts, and compel 
 all school districts to use the same. 
 
 IX. Appoint, upon application, a Supervising Prin- 
 
 cipal over the schools in two or more districts when- P rinci P als - 
 ever in its opinion it is advisable so to do, and apportion 
 the expense equitably among the districts. 
 
 X. Withhold or withdraw its approval of any second- 
 ary school whenever in its opinion its academic work, 
 location or enrollment and per capita cost of mainte- 
 nance shall not warrant its establishment or continuance. 
 
 XL Fix rates to be paid by a district for the tuition fj^' 65 of 
 of children sent from it to the schools of other districts, 
 when the districts cannot agree among themselves as to 
 the proper rate, and require any district having the 
 necessary accommodations to receive pupils from other 
 districts at rates agreed upon or which it may fix in the 
 event of disagreement. 
 
 XII. Compel the production at such time and place f t ^ nce 
 within the State as it may designate of any and all of witnesses. 
 books, papers and vouchers in any way relating to 
 
 schools or to the receipt or disbursement of school 
 moneys; compel the attendance before it or before any 
 of its committees or before the Commissioner of Edu- 
 cation or one of his assistants or before the Inspector 
 of Accounts or the Inspector of Buildings at such time 
 and place as it may designate of any member of a board 
 of education, or of any person in the employ of a board 
 of education, and suspend from office any person re- penalty. 
 fusing to attend or to submit such books, papers and 
 vouchers as he may have been directed to produce. 
 
 XIII. Issue subpoenas signed by its president and issue 
 
 * subpoenas. 
 
 secretary compelling the attendance of witnesses and 
 the production of books and papers in any part of the 
 State before it or before any of its committees or before 
 the Commissioner of Education or one of his assistants 
 cr before the Inspector of Accounts or the Inspector of 
 Buildings. 
 
10 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Compensa- 
 tion. 
 
 P. L. 1903. 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 Ibid. 
 
 4. (4.) The members of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion shall receive no compensation for their services, but 
 the State Treasurer shall, upon the warrant of the 
 State Comptroller, pay their necessary expenses. 
 
 5. (5.) The State Board of Education shall report 
 annually to the Legislature in regard to all matters com- 
 mitted to its care. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Appointment. 
 P. Iv. ign, 
 Chap. 231. 
 
 Term. 
 
 Salary. 
 
 Powers of. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Secretary of 
 State Board of 
 Education. 
 
 Assistant 
 commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Supervisor of 
 
 secondary 
 
 education. 
 
 6. (4.) A Commissioner of Education shall be ap- 
 pointed by the Governor, by and with the advice and 
 consent of the Senate, for a term of five years, com- 
 mencing July first, one thousand nine hundred and 
 eleven, and until his successor shall be appointed, at an 
 annual salary of ten thousand dollars per annum, pay- 
 able in equal monthly installments. Such commissioner 
 shall be selected without regard to whether his place 
 of residence is within or without the State of New 
 Jersey. 
 
 7. (5.) The Commissioner of Education shall, with 
 the advice and consent of the State Board of Education : 
 
 I. Designate one of the clerks in the Department of 
 Public Instruction to act as secretary of the State Board 
 of Education and to perform such services as it may 
 require. 
 
 II. Appoint four assistant commissioners of educa- 
 tion, each at an annual salary of four thousand five 
 hundred dollars, and designate one of them to act in 
 his place during his absence. 
 
 III. Designate one of such assistants to act as Super- 
 visor of Secondary Education and define his duties, 
 cause him to devote his entire time during school hours 
 to personal inspection and to conduct tests of at least 
 one-half hour each in at least three classes on each visit 
 to a high school or to a high school department. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. ii 
 
 IV. Designate one of such assistants to act as Super- 
 
 of Elementary Education and define his duties, ana education - 
 cause him to devote his entire time during school hours 
 to personal inspection. 
 
 V. Designate one of such assistants to act as Super- Supervisor of 
 
 industrial 
 
 visor of Industrial Education, including agriculture, and education. 
 define his duties, including agriculture, and to cause him 
 to devote his entire time during school hours to personal 
 inspection. 
 
 VI. Designate one of such assistants to hear all con- Designate 
 
 . . . assistant 
 
 troversies and disputes which may arise under the school to he * r . 
 
 controversies. 
 
 laws or the rules and regulations of the State Board of 
 Education or of the Commissioner of Education, sub- 
 ject, however, to a right of appeal to the State Board 
 of Education. 
 
 VII. Prescribe minimum examinations throughout Prescribe 
 
 examinations. 
 
 the State for graduation from grammar schools and for 
 admission to high schools and high school departments ; 
 confine such examinations to arithmetic, writing, spell- 
 ing, English grammar and composition, history and 
 geography, prepare or cause to be prepared questions for 
 the examinations; prescribe the times and places for 
 holding them and the rules governing them; designate 
 the persons to conduct them, and if admissible, direct 
 superintendents, principals and teachers of one district 
 to conduct them in any other. Such examinations shall 
 be open to all children of the State whether they attend 
 public or private schools. 
 
 VIII. Prescribe a minimum course of study for the Prescribe 
 elementary schools and for the high schools or for either, elementary 
 
 ....... schools. 
 
 if in his opinion it is advisable so to do. 
 
 IX. Prescribe such method as to him may seem best 
 for use in ascertaining what children are three years or 
 more below the normal. 
 
 X. Hold meetings of city and county superintendents Meetings of 
 
 . county and 
 
 at least once in each year for the discussion of school 9 itv su P er - 
 
 . mtendents. 
 
 affairs and ways and means of promoting a thorough 
 and efficient system of education. 
 
12 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Withhold 
 
 school 
 
 moneys. 
 
 Report. 
 
 Trustee of 
 school fund. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Administer 
 
 oaths. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Definition of 
 Commissioner 
 of Education. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Appeals to 
 State Board. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Office. 
 
 P. L. 1903, 
 
 special 
 
 session. 
 
 XL Direct the County Collector to withhold funds 
 received by him, from the State from any district that 
 refuses or neglects to obey the law or the rules or direc- 
 tions of the State Board of Education or the Commis- 
 sioner of Education. 
 
 XII. Report to the State Board of Education once a 
 month and at such other times as it may designate such 
 information as it may prescribe. 
 
 8. (6.) The Commissioner of Education shall be one 
 of the Trustees of the School Fund. 
 
 9. (7.) The State Board of Education, by its presid- 
 ing officer, each of its committees, by their chairmen, the 
 Commissioner of Education and each of his assistants 
 shall have authority to administer oaths and to examine 
 under oath, in any part of the State, witnesses in regard 
 to any matter pertaining to the schools and to cause the 
 examination to be reduced to writing. Any person, who, 
 having been sworn or affirmed by the presiding officer 
 of the State board, or by the chairman of any of its 
 committees, or by the commissioner, or by any one of 
 his assistants to tell the truth, and who willfully gives 
 false testimony shall be guilty of perjury. 
 
 10. (8.) Whenever in the act to which this is a sup- 
 plement, or in any act amendatory thereof or supple- 
 mental thereto, or in any other act of the Legislature the 
 words "State Superintendent of Public Instruction" are 
 used the same shall be taken to be and to mean "Com- 
 missioner of Education." 
 
 11. (9.) All appeals to the State Board of Education 
 shall be taken within thirty days after the Commissioner 
 of Education has filed his decision, and in such manner 
 as the said board may prescribe. 
 
 12. (6.) A suitable office, to be known as the Depart- 
 ment of Public Instruction, shall be provided for him in 
 the State House at Trenton. The necessary expenses 
 incurred in the Department of Public Instruction shall 
 be paid in the manner provided by law. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 13 
 
 13. (8.) The Commissioner of Education may em- 
 ploy such clerks as he may deem necessary and fix their ibid, 
 compensation, which compensation shall be payable 
 monthly on the certificate of the Commissioner of Edu- 
 cation; provided, that the compensation of said clerks Proviso. 
 shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum annually 
 appropriated therefor by the Legislature. 
 
 14. (9.) The Commissioner of Education shall be the 
 Secretary of the State Board of Education, and a mem- and member* 
 
 J ' TT 1_~ 11 of boards of 
 
 ber, ex-officio, of all boards of examiners. He shall examiners. 
 
 enforce all rules and regulations prescribed by the State 
 
 Board of Education. He shall have supervision of all supervision 
 
 . , of schools. 
 
 the schools of the state receiving any part of the state 
 appropriation. He shall, from time to time, instruct 
 County and City Superintendents as to their duties and 
 as to the best manner of conducting schools, construct- 
 ing schoolhouses and furnishing the same. 
 
 15. (10.) The Commissioner of Education shall de- 
 cide, subject to appeal to the State Board of Education 
 and without cost to the parties, all controversies and dis- 
 putes that shall arise under the school laws, or under the 
 rules and regulations of the State Board of Education. 
 The facts involved in any controversy or dispute shall, if 
 he shall so require, be made known to him by written 
 statements by the parties thereto, verified by oath or 
 affirmation, and accompanied by certified copies of all 
 documents necessary to a full understanding of the 
 question in dispute, and his decision shall be binding 
 until, upon appeal, a decision thereon shall be given 
 by the State Board of Education, (a) 
 
 (a) i. The State Superintendent having been given authority to hear and 
 determine certain matters, his determination thereupon has the conclusive 
 quality of a judgment pronounced in a legally created court of limited juris- 
 diction acting within the bounds of its authority. Thompson v. Board of 
 Education, 28 Vr. 628. 
 
 2. There is no distinction in point of conclusiveness between the decisions 
 of special tribunals and the judgments of courts of record. The difference 
 is solely in the presumption of jurisdiction. Ibid. 
 
 3. The court may, in the exercise of its discretion, refuse to interpose by 
 mandamus in a controversy cognizable by the special tribunals created by the 
 school laws of this State, where an appeal to such tribunals has not been 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Keep record 
 of decisions. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Seal. 
 
 Appoint 
 county super- 
 intendent to 
 fill vacancy. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Withhold 
 salary from 
 county super- 
 intendent. 
 Ibid. 
 
 State school 
 moneys with- 
 held for non- 
 performance 
 of duty. 
 Ibid. 
 
 16. ( 1 1 . ) The Commissioner of Education shall keep 
 a record of all his official acts and shall preserve copies 
 of all decisions made by him, and shall adopt and provide 
 an official seal. Copies of all acts, orders and decisions 
 made by him, and of all papers deposited or filed in the 
 Department of Public Instruction may be authenticated 
 under said seal, and, when so authenticated, shall be 
 evidence equally with and in like manner as the originals. 
 
 17. (12.) Whenever there shall be a vacancy in the 
 office of County Superintendent of Schools, the Com- 
 missioner of Education shall appoint, subject to the ap- 
 proval of the President of the State Board of Education, 
 a suitable person to fill such vacancy, and the person so 
 appointed shall hold office until his successor shall be 
 appointed by the State Board of Education. 
 
 18. (13.) In case a County Superintendent of. Schools 
 shall neglect or refuse to perform any duty imposed 
 upon him by this act or by the rules and regulations ot 
 the State Board of Education, the Commissioner of 
 Education shall, subject to appeal to the State Board of 
 Education, withhold from such County Superintendent 
 of Schools the order for his salary until he shall have 
 fully complied with the provisions of this act and with 
 the rules and regulations of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion relating to his duties. 
 
 19. (14.) In case a board of education, or any officer 
 thereof, or the legal voters of any school district, or any 
 board or officer of the municipality in which any such 
 school district shall be situate shall neglect or refuse to 
 
 made. Jefferson v. Board of Education, 35 Vr. 59. See Buren v. Albertson, 
 25 Vr. 72; Stockton v. Board of Education, 43 Vr. 80. 
 
 4. Special tribunals created by the statute have exclusive jurisdiction over 
 all controversies arising under such statute, and an action at law cannot be 
 maintained by a public school teacher for the purpose of contesting the 
 legality of the action of a local school board in dismissing him before the 
 term of service provided in his contract of employment has expired. Draper 
 v. Commissioners of Public Instruction, 37 Vr. 54. The State Superintend- 
 ent of Public Instruction is authorized by law to decide disputes and con- 
 troversies as to the election of members of the Board of Education of certain 
 municipalities. Du Four v. State Superintendent, 43 Vr. 371. Certiorari is 
 not the appropriate proceeding to determine the title to an office. Ibid. See 
 foot-notes to sections 82, 118 and 140. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 perform any duty imposed upon such board, officer or 
 legal voters by this act or by the rules and regulations of 
 the State Board of Education, the custodian of the 
 school moneys of such school district shall, upon notice 
 from the County Superintendent of Schools, approved 
 by the Commissioner of Education, withhold all moneys 
 received by him from the County Collector and then 
 remaining in his hands to the credit of such district, until 
 he shall receive notice from said County Superintendent 
 of Schools that said board, officer or legal voters have 
 fully complied with the provisions of this act and with 
 the rules and regulations of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation. 
 
 20. (15.) In case a teacher shall neglect or refuse to 
 perform any duty imposed upon him or her by this act 
 or by the rules and regulations of the State Board of 
 Education, the Commissioner of Education shall direct 
 the custodian of the school moneys of the school district 
 in which such teacher shall be employed, to withhold 
 from such teacher all salary due to him or her until he 
 receives notice from said Commissioner of Education 
 that such teacher has fully complied with the provisions 
 of this act and the rules and regulations of the State 
 Board of Education relating to his or her duties. 
 
 21. (16.) The Commissioner of Education, shall 
 equitably apportion to the several counties the amount moneys, 
 appropriated for the support of public schools from the Ibi(L 
 State School Fund on the basis of the aggregate num- 
 ber of days attendance of all pupils attending the public 
 schools during the year preceding that for which said 
 apportionment shall be made, and shall furnish to the 
 State Comptroller and to the several County Superin- 
 tendents of Schools and County Collectors an abstract 
 
 of such apportionment, and of the apportionment of the 
 moneys due to the several counties from the State school 
 tax and from the reserve fund, and shall draw his 
 orders on the State Comptroller and in favor of the 
 
i6 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Reports of 
 private 
 schools. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Furnish 
 blanks to 
 school 
 officers. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Oaths and 
 
 affidavits. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 County Collector of each county for the amount to 
 which such county shall be entitled. 
 
 22. (17.) The superintendent or manager of each 
 educational institution receiving support or aid from the 
 State, and the president, manager or principal of each 
 seminary, academy or private school shall report to the 
 Commissioner of Education annually, on or before 
 the first day of August, such statistics relating to such 
 institution, seminary, academy or school as said Com- 
 missioner of Education may require, and in the manner 
 and form prescribed by him; provided, that no report 
 concerning the expenses or finances of such seminary, 
 academy or private school shall be required; and pro- 
 vided further, that no report of any seminary, academy 
 or private school shall be published or made public by 
 the Commissioner of Education. 
 
 23. (18.) The Commissioner of Education shall pre- 
 pare and cause to be printed forms for making all re- 
 ports and conducting all proceedings under the school 
 laws of this State. He shall cause all school laws to 
 be printed in pamphlet form, and shall annex thereto 
 forms for making reports and conducting school busi- 
 ness, and shall distribute the same. 
 
 24. (19.) The Commissioner of Education shall pre- 
 sent to the State Board of Education annually, at its 
 meeting in December, a report of the condition of the 
 public schools and of all the educational institutions re- 
 ceiving support or aid from the State. Such report shall 
 contain full statistical tables of all items connected with 
 the cause of education that may be of interest to school 
 officers or the people of the State, together with such 
 suggestions and recommendations for the improvement 
 of the schools and the advancement of public instruction 
 as he shall deem expedient. 
 
 25. (20.) The Commissioner of Education and the 
 assistant Commissioners (a) shall, without charge, ad- 
 minister oaths and take affidavits concerning any matter 
 relating to the schools. 
 
 (a) See section 9. 
 
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 26. (21.) The Commissioner of Education shall, at 
 
 the expiration of his term of office, deliver to his succes- t. cces80r - 
 sor his official seal, together with all the property, books, 
 documents, maps, records, reports and other papers be- 
 longing to his office. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 27. (22.) The State Board of Education shall appoint 
 
 for each county a suitable person to be the County Super- indent". 
 intendent of Schools of that county, who shall hold Term of 
 office for the term of three years from the date of his 
 appointment and until his successor shall have been ap- 
 pointed as aforesaid, unless sooner removed for cause 
 by said board. No person shall be appointed as County |jj[jJJ hold 
 Superintendent of Schools unless he shall hold a State Certificate. 
 teacher's certificate. 
 
 28. (23.) The yearly salary of a County Superin- f al i7i 905 , 
 tendent of Schools shall be two thousand dollars. Such $'&& 
 salary shall be paid in equal monthly installments, and 
 
 the State Comptroller shall, on the order of the Commis- 
 sioner of Education, draw his warrant for such salary 
 on the State Treasurer in favor of such County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools. 
 
 29. (24.) A County Superintendent of Schools shall Expenses 
 receive, in addition to his salary, the actual expenses in- f^on, 
 curred by him in the performance of his official duties, I9 3> 
 which expenses shall be paid by the collector of the 
 county on the order of the Commissioner of Education ; 
 provided, that no such order shall be drawn in favor Proviso. 
 of any County Superintendent of Schools until he shall 
 
 have furnished to the State Board of Education an item- 
 ized statement, certified under oath or affirmation, of 
 the expenses he has incurred, nor unless he shall have, 
 during the period in which such expenses have been 
 2 s L 
 
i8 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Powers of 
 county super- 
 intendent. 
 Ibid. 
 Take 
 affidavits. 
 
 Issue orders 
 for school 
 moneys. 
 
 Supervise 
 schools. 
 
 Appoint 
 members of 
 board of 
 education in 
 certain cases. 
 
 incurred, faithfully performed all the duties imposed 
 upon him by this act and by the rules and regulations of 
 the State Board of Education; and provided further, 
 that in no case shall the expenses aforesaid exceed three 
 hundred and fifty dollars annually. Payment of such 
 expenses shall be made quarter-yearly. 
 
 30. (25.) A County Superintendent of Schools shall 
 have power: 
 
 I. To administer, without charge, oaths or affirma- 
 tions to teachers and school officers. 
 
 II. To issue orders on the County Collector in favor 
 of the custodian of the school moneys of the several 
 school districts in said county for that portion of the 
 State school tax, the State appropriation, and the in- 
 terest of the surplus revenue to which each of said 
 school districts shall be entitled. 
 
 III. To exercise general supervision over the public 
 schools of the county under his charge in accordance 
 with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to 
 time by the State Board of Education; to visit and 
 examine all the schools under his care; to inquire into 
 the management, methods of instruction and discipline 
 in such schools; to note the condition of the school- 
 houses, sites, buildings and appurtenances; to examine 
 the courses of study, text-books and school libraries ; to 
 advise with and counsel boards of education in relation 
 to their duties, particularly in respect to the construc- 
 tion, heating, ventilating and lighting of schoolhouses, 
 and to recommend to boards of education and teachers 
 proper studies, methods, discipline and management for 
 the schools. 
 
 IV. To appoint members of the board of education 
 for a new township, incorporated town or borough 
 school district and for any school district under his 
 supervision which shall fail to elect members at the 
 regular time. Such appointees shall serve only until the 
 next election in the district for members of the board 
 of education. 
 
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 31. (26.) Each County Superintendent of Schools 
 
 shall render annually, on or before the first of September, ] 
 to the Commissioner of Education, in the manner and 
 form prescribed by him, a report of such matters relat- 
 ing to the schools under his supervision as shall be re- 
 quired by said Commissioner of Education. 
 
 32. (27.) The superintendents, district clerks and the 
 custodians of school moneys of the several school dis- ] 
 tricts shall annually, on or before the first day of 
 August, report to the County Superintendent of Schools, 
 in the manner and form prescribed by the Commissioner 
 of Education. 
 
 33. (28.) Whenever a superintendent of schools shall f f up c e f t ; ision 
 be appointed in any city school district, the supervision fb?d ls ' 
 of the schools of such district shall devolve upon such 
 superintendent and not upon the County Superintendent 
 
 of Schools. 
 
 34. ( i . ) The Board of Chosen Freeholders' of each gt y f super- 
 
 county of this State shall provide an office of suitably 
 furnished rooms at the county seat for the use of the Chap> 232> 
 County Superintendent of Schools, in which office shall 
 be kept the school records of the county for the use of 
 the county and State Departments of Public Instruction, 
 the United States Bureau of Education and the United 
 States Commissioner of Education, said office to be kept 
 open to the public the same as other county offices. 
 
 35. (2.) A sum not exceeding six hundred dollars 
 shall be appropriated annually by said Board of Chosen ibid ndent ' 
 Freeholders and paid quarter-yearly to the County 
 Superintendent of Schools toward the expenses incurred 
 for a clerical assistant in said office. The clerical assist- 
 ant shall be selected and appointed by the County Super- 
 intendent. 
 
2O 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 BOARD OF EXAMINERS. 
 
 State ex- 
 aminers. 
 P. L. 1903. 
 special 
 session. 
 
 County ex- 
 aminers. 
 P. L. 1906, 
 p. 681. 
 
 Qualifica- 
 tions. 
 
 Vacancies. 
 Duties. 
 
 Compensa- 
 tion. 
 
 36. (29.) There shall be a State Board of Examiners, 
 consisting of the Commissioner of Education, the Prin- 
 cipals of the State Normal Schools and one person to 
 be appointed by the State Board of Education. Said 
 last-named person shall hold office for one year from 
 date of his appointment as aforesaid. The member of 
 said State Board of Examiners appointed by the State 
 Board of Education shall hold a first-grade State cer- 
 tificate, or shall be a graduate of a college or university. 
 He shall receive for his services, in addition to traveling 
 expenses, such compensation as may be fixed by the 
 State Board of Education, not to exceed ten dollars for 
 each meeting of said Board of Examiners. Said board 
 shall hold examinations of teachers, grant State certifi- 
 cates to teach and revoke the same under rules and 
 regulations prescribed by the State Board of Education. 
 
 37. (30.) There may be in each county a County 
 Board of Examiners consisting of the County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools, who shall be its chairman, and a num- 
 ber of teachers not to exceed three, to be appointed by 
 him, who shall hold office for one year from the date of 
 their respective appointments. No person shall be ap- 
 pointed as a county examiner unless he or she shall hold 
 either a state or a first-grade county certificate. The 
 County Superintendent of Schools shall fill vacancies that 
 shall occur from absence or other cause. Said County 
 Board of Examiners shall conduct examinations and 
 grant certificates to teach at such times and under such 
 rules and regulations as the State Board of Education 
 may prescribe. It shall meet at such places as may be 
 designated by the chairman. Each member of said board 
 of examiners, except the County Superintendent of 
 Schools, shall receive for his or her services, in addition 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 21 
 
 to traveling expenses, such compensation as may be fixed 
 by the State Board of Education, not to exceed twenty- 
 five dollars for each regular examination, which compen- 
 sation shall be paid by the County Collector on the order 
 of the County Superintendent of Schools ; provided, that Proviso, 
 whenever said board shall hold a special examination no 
 compensation therefor shall be paid by the County Col- 
 lector, but in such case said board may charge each appli- 
 cant for examination a fee not to exceed two dollars as 
 compensation for services for such examination. 
 
 38. (31.) If any school district shall maintain a Nor- District no 
 
 J mal school 
 
 mal School or a training school for teachers, which p 1 ^*^,, 
 school shall have been approved as to its course of study ciiap - i82 - 
 by the State Board of Education, then the diplomas or 
 certificates issued to pupils of any such school upon grad- 
 uation therefrom may be accepted by the State Board of 
 Examiners as certificates to teach valid for the schools 
 of such school district. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 39. (32.) Each township, city, incorporated town School dis- 
 
 tricts, how 
 
 and borough shall be a separate school district, but each constituted. 
 incorporated village shall remain and be a part of the 
 school district in which said incorporated village shall 
 be situate at the time of its incorporation, (a) 
 
 40- (33-) Whenever a new school district shall be J^J districts - 
 created, the children residing in said new district shall 
 continue to attend the schools in which they shall be en- 
 rolled until the end of the then current school year. In 
 case there shall be a schoolhouse in such new district in 
 which school shall be then maintained the board of edu- 
 cation of the school district from which such new district 
 
 (a) See foot-note to section 114. 
 
22 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Custodian 
 to certify 
 balance of 
 money. 
 
 Division of 
 balance. 
 
 Titles to 
 
 school 
 
 property. 
 
 Obligations 
 assumed by 
 new district. 
 
 shall have been set off shall have charge and control of 
 such school until the end of the then current school year, 
 and shall pay the salaries of the teachers, janitors and 
 other persons employed in such school until the end of 
 said year. In case there shall be any balance at the end 
 of said school year in the hands of the custodian of the 
 school moneys of the school district to the credit of the 
 school district from which said new district shall 
 have been set off, said custodian shall certify to the 
 County Superintendent of Schools the amount of such 
 balance, and what portion of such balance was received 
 from state appropriation, state school tax and interest 
 of the surplus revenue, and what portion was received 
 from district school tax. Said County Superintendent 
 of Schools, upon receipt of such notice, shall divide 
 between said districts that portion of the balance arising 
 from the state appropriation, state school tax and inter- 
 est of the surplus revenue on the basis of the aggregate 
 number of days attendance of pupils in the public schools 
 as ascertained from the last published report of the Com- 
 missioner of Education, and shall divide between said 
 districts that portion of said balance arising from dis- 
 trict school tax on the basis of the respective ratables of 
 said districts, and shall issue an order in favor of the 
 custodian of the school moneys of such new district for 
 that portion of said balance found to be due said district 
 from the district from which it shall have been set off. 
 41. (34.) In any new school district the board of 
 education, in its corporate capacity, shall become vested 
 with the title to all school property, real and personal, in 
 such district, and if, for the erection, repair or purchase 
 of any such property, there shall be an indebtedness for 
 which the board of education of the school district to- 
 which said property originally belonged shall be liable, 
 the said indebtedness shall be assumed by and become 
 the obligation of the board of education of the school 
 district which shall have become vested with the title 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 23 
 
 to such property, and upon payment of said indebted- 
 ness by the school district originally liable therefor, an 
 action may be maintained therefor by the board of edu- 
 cation so paying the said indebtedness against the board 
 of education of the school district which shall have 
 become vested with the property for which the said in- 
 debtedness was originally incurred, (a) 
 
 42. (35.) In case any municipality or any part there- ^/Yn'debted- 
 of shall have been annexed to another municipality and JJ?J; 
 there shall be within the limits of such municipality, or 
 
 such part thereof as shall have been annexed to another 
 municipality as aforesaid, any schoolhouse or property 
 formerly belonging to the board of education of the 
 school district situate in such municipality, and for the 
 erection, purchase, furnishing or repair of which there 
 shall be an indebtedness for which the board of educa- 
 tion of such school district shall be liable, the said in- 
 debtedness shall be assumed by and become the obliga- 
 tion of the board of education of the school district 
 situate in the municipality to which such municipality 
 shall have been annexed. 
 
 43. (36. ) Whenever the board of education of a school Repayment, 
 district situate in any municipality shall pay any portion 
 
 of an indebtedness existing at the time of the formation 
 of a new municipality, or at the time of the annexation 
 of such municipality, or part thereof, to another munici- 
 pality as aforesaid, which indebtedness shall have been 
 assumed by and shall have become the obligation of the 
 board of education of the school district situate in such 
 new municipality, said last-mentioned board shall repay 
 
 (a) When a new borough is formed and set off from a township and be- 
 comes a separate school district, and there is within the limits of the borough 
 a school-house belonging to the board of education of the township, and for 
 the erection of which there is an indebtedness for which said board is liable, 
 the said board is not thereby discharged from its legal liability to pay such 
 indebtedness, but on being compelled by suit and judgment at law to pay 
 the same is entitled to collect the sum so paid from the board of education 
 of the borough. McCully v. Board of Education, 34 Vr. 18; Wooley v. 
 Hendrickson, 44 Vr. 14. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Length of 
 school term. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 Proviso. 
 
 City school 
 boards. 
 P. I,. 1911, 
 Chap. 233. 
 
 Terms. 
 
 Vacancies. 
 
 to the board of education of said first-mentioned school 
 district the amount of said payment, with interest. 
 
 44. (37.) The State appropriation and the State 
 school tax shall not be apportioned in any year to any dis- 
 trict which shall not have maintained a public school for 
 at least nine months during the preceding school year ; 
 provided, that the Commissioner of Education may, for 
 good cause shown, remit said penalty; and provided 
 further, that said appropriation and said State school 
 tax shall be apportioned to a new district, or to a dis- 
 trict in which the school shall have been discontinued 
 on account of the repairing of an old or the erection of 
 a new school building. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 45. (38.) In each city, other than those cities where 
 boards of education now consist of less than nine mem- 
 bers each, the mayor or other chief executive officer of 
 said city shall, during the month of January next after 
 the passage of this act, appoint nine persons to be mem- 
 bers of the Board of Education of such school district, 
 who shall severally possess the qualifications for mem- 
 bership described in this article. In making the first 
 appointment the mayor, or the chief executive officer, 
 shall appoint three of such persons to serve for one 
 year, three for two years and three for three years, 
 and annually thereafter, during the month of January, 
 the said mayor or other chief executive officer of such 
 city shall appoint members of the said Board of Educa- 
 tion to serve for the term of three years to take the place 
 of those members whose terms shall expire with such 
 year. Any vacancy in such Board of Education shall 
 be forthwith reported by the secretary of said board 
 to the mayor or other chief executive officer, who shall, 
 within thirty days thereafter, appoint a person to fill 
 such vacancy for the unexpired term. To every such 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 25 
 
 appointee as aforesaid, said mayor or other chief exe- 
 
 cutive officer shall issue and deliver a certificate of of er ap fi po a nf- 
 
 r 
 
 appointment. The term of office of a member of the 
 
 Board of Education, except a member appointed to fill 
 
 an unexpired term, shall begin on the first day of Feb- Febary g ist s 
 
 ruary next succeeding his appointment. In any town- ^erln 6 
 
 ship, school district, incorporated under the provisions * 
 
 of article six, for the purposes named in this section, 
 
 the chairman of the township committee shall be deemed 
 
 and taken to be the chief executive officer, (a) 
 
 46. (2.) The terms of office of all members of boards 
 
 of education in school districts of cities which are affected Ibid - 
 by this act, and in districts which adopted article six of 
 the act to which this is an amendment, shall expire on 
 the thirty-first day of January next after the passage 
 of this act. 
 
 47. (41.) A member of a board of education in a city 
 
 school district shall be a citizen and resident of the LJr.i I9 3 ' 
 territory contained in said school district, and shall have 
 been such citizen and resident for at least three years 
 immediately preceding his or her becoming a member 
 of such board, and shall be able to read and write. He 
 shall not be interested, directly or indirectly, in any 
 contract with or claim against said board. 
 
 48. (42.) A member of such board of education shall, 
 before entering upon the duties of his office, take and 
 subscribe an oath before any officer authorized by law 
 to administer oaths, that he possesses the qualifications 
 to be a member of said board prescribed therefor by 
 this article, and that he will faithfully discharge the 
 duties of his said office. Said oath shall be filed with 
 the city clerk of the city.(fr) 
 
 49. (43.) A member of such board of education who Removal 
 shall fail to attend three consecutive regular meetings attendance 
 of said board without good cause may be removed by 
 
 said board. The vacancy thus created shall be filled in 
 
 (a) See section 281. 
 
 (&) See foot-note to section 94. 
 
26 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 No compen- 
 sation. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Body cor- 
 porate ; seal. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Organization 
 of board of 
 education. 
 Ibid. 
 
 May sue, 
 purchase, etc. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Condemn 
 land for 
 school 
 purposes. 
 
 School 
 property 
 vested in 
 board of 
 education. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Title to school 
 property in 
 board of 
 education. 
 IbM 
 
 the same manner as other vacancies in the board of edu- 
 cation shall be filled. 
 
 50. ( 44. ) A member of such board of education shall 
 receive no compensation for his services. 
 
 51. (45.) A board of education in a city school dis- 
 trict shall be a body corporate, and shall be known as and 
 
 called "the Board of Education of in the 
 
 county of ," and shall adopt an official seal. 
 
 52. (46.) On the day the term of office of the mem- 
 bers- first appointed or elected as provided in section 
 thirty-eight shall begin, and annually at the first regular 
 meeting of the board of education on or after the first 
 day of January, said board shall organize by electing one 
 of its members as president and another as vice-presi- 
 dent, which officers shall serve for one year and until 
 their respective successors shall be elected. 
 
 53. (47.) Such board shall, in and by its corporate 
 name, sue and be sued, purchase, lease, receive, hold and 
 sell property, real and personal, take and condemn land 
 and other property for school purposes in the manner 
 provided by law regulating the ascertainment and pay- 
 ment of compensation for property condemned or taken 
 for public use. If either party shall feel aggrieved by 
 any proceedings and award thereunder, said party may 
 appeal in the manner provided by law for appeals from 
 such proceedings and award. It shall do all acts and 
 things necessary for the lawful and proper conduct and 
 maintenance of the public schools of its school district. 
 
 54. (48.) Such boards shall succeed to and be vested 
 with all the property of every kind, and all the rights and 
 privileges, not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 act, theretofore vested in or possessed by any board of 
 education, school commissioners, or other body there- 
 tofore having charge and control of the public schools or 
 public school property of the school district or of the 
 city in which said district shall be situate. 
 
 55. (49.) The title to school property, real and per- 
 sonal, previously acquired by said school district, or by 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 27 
 
 any antecedent board of education, school commission- 
 ers, or by any other body for school purposes in said 
 school district, or in the city in which the said district 
 shall be situate, or by any body in such city, and the title 
 to all lands, buildings and other property to be hereafter 
 acquired for school purposes in said school district shall 
 vest in the board of education in said district incor- 
 porated under the provisions of this article. 
 
 56. (50.) Every such board shall have the super- 
 vision, control and management of the public schools and Ibid - 
 public school property in its district, and shall keep such 
 property insured. It shall appoint a person to be its 
 secretary, and may appoint a superintendent of schools, a secretar y- etc - 
 business manager and other officers, agents and em- 
 ployes as may be needed, and may fix their compensa- 
 tion and terms of employment, (a) but no such appoin- 
 tee, officer, agent or employe, other than the secretary, 
 
 shall be a member of said board. 
 
 57. (51.) Such board shall make, amend and repeal 
 rules, regulations and by-laws not inconsistent with this 
 act or with the rules and regulations of the State Board 
 of Education, for its own government, for the trans- 
 action of business, and for the government and manage- 
 ment of the public schools and the public school property 
 in said district, and also for the employment and dis- 
 charge of principals and teachers, (b) 
 
 58. (52.) Such board of education shall, prior to the J8S! 8 for 
 beginning of each school year, cause advertisement to lbl<L 
 
 be made under such regulations as it may provide, for 
 proposals for furnishing supplies required in the schools 
 and by said board during the ensuing year. If other 
 and further supplies shall be required during the year, 
 they shall be purchased in like manner. No contract 
 shall be entered into for the building of a new school- 
 house or for the enlarging or repairing of a school- 
 Co) See sections 253, 286, 287, 288 and 289. 
 (b) See section 7, div. VII, 116, 126 and 140. 
 
28 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Exceptions. 
 
 Bids and 
 contracts. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 Ibid. 
 
 May borrow 
 money on 
 notes. 
 Ibid. 
 
 house already erected, except after advertisement made 
 under such regulations as said board may prescribe; 
 provided, that the board may at any time order repairs 
 to school buildings to an amount not exceeding five 
 hundred dollars, and may authorize the purchase of 
 supplies to an amount not exceeding two hundred and 
 fifty dollars without advertisement. Text-books and 
 kindergarten supplies may be purchased without ad- 
 vertisement, (a) 
 
 59. (53.) No bid for building or repairing school- 
 houses or for supplies shall be accepted which does not 
 conform to the specifications furnished therefor, and all 
 contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible 
 bidder, (b) 
 
 60. (54.) Such board of education shall, as soon as 
 practicable after the close of each school year, cause to be 
 printed and published a report of the condition of the 
 public schools under its charge, of all the property under 
 its control, and an itemized account of the expenditures 
 of the board and of the finances of the district. 
 
 61. (55.) Such board may, after the first day of July 
 and before the first day of January, borrow a sum not 
 exceeding one-half of the amount appropriated for the 
 current expenses of the schools and for the repair of 
 schoolhouses under its control, and execute and deliver 
 
 (a) The Board of education, in seeking proposals for a contract, may 
 lawfully delegate to a committee of its body the duty of preparing and sub- 
 mitting the specifications for such purpose and of conducting negotiations 
 for the contract; provided, the proposals and the result of the negotiations 
 are first reported to and considered by the board before final action in award- 
 ing the contract. Kraft v. Board of Education, 38 Vr, 512. See foot-notes 
 to sections 78 and gs, division IV. 
 
 (6) i. The provisions of this section compel the board of education to 
 award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder. The board cannot de- 
 termine against the responsibility of a bidder without giving him notice and 
 an opportunity to be heard. Jacobson v. Board of Education of Elisabeth, 
 64 At I. Rep. 6og. 
 
 2. After receiving bids it is not within the power of a board of educa- 
 tion to modify the specifications by omissions and changes and award a 
 contract to a former bidder, although the lowest, to execute the work accord- 
 ing to the revised specifications, although, at a price less than the original 
 bid. Scola v. Board of Education of Montclair, 48 Vr. 73. 
 
 3. See sections 128 and 129; also Schwitzer v. Board of Education, 50 
 Vr. 342- 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 29 
 
 promissory notes therefor, and pay the amount so bor- 
 rowed, together with interest thereon, at a rate not ex- 
 ceeding six per centum per annum, (a) 
 
 62. (56.) A secretary shall be appointed by the ma- 
 jority vote of all the members of the board of education ; ] 
 he shall be paid such salary as said board shall determine, 
 and may be removed by a majority vote of all the mem- 
 bers of said board. He shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, execute and deliver to said board a 
 bond in a sum to be fixed by said board, but not less than 
 two thousand dollars, with surety or sureties to be ap- 
 proved by said board conditioned for the faithful per- 
 formance of the duties of his office. Said board may 
 accept the bond or undertaking of a trust company or 
 surety or indemnity company, and may pay the annual 
 premium or fee therefor as a current expense of said 
 board. 
 
 63. (57.) The secretary may appoint and remove 
 clerks in his office, but the number and salaries of such Ibid - 
 clerks shall be determined by the board of education. 
 
 64. (58.) The secretary shall record the proceedings |^ r e e s tary ' s 
 of the board and of its committees, and shall be the cus- Ibid - 
 todian of all securities, documents, title papers, books 
 
 of record and other papers belonging to the board under 
 such conditions as said board shall prescribe. 
 
 65. (59.) The secretary shall collect tuition fees and t s eC coif e r c y t 
 other moneys due to the board of education, except n,d. eys ' 
 moneys apportioned by the County Superintendent of 
 Schools or appropriated by the city, and shall deposit 
 
 with the custodian of the school moneys of the district Report 
 
 collections. 
 
 all moneys collected by him, and shall render monthly Ibid - 
 to the board of education a report of the receipts during 
 the preceding month. 
 
 66. (60.) The secretary shall be the general account- ff^^ 1 
 ant of the board of education, and shall preserve in his accountant, 
 office all accounts, vouchers and contracts relating to the 
 
 (a) See section 294. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Payment of 
 
 claims. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Disburse- 
 ments, how 
 made. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Claims 
 audited. 
 
 public schools. He shall examine and audit all accounts 
 and demands against said board. Every such account 
 or demand exceeding in amount the sum of five dollars, 
 except for salaries, shall be verified by affidavit. 
 
 67. (61.) No claim or demand shall be audited or 
 paid unless it shall be authorized by law and the rules of 
 the board of education and be fully itemized, nor unless 
 the amount required to pay the same shall have been 
 theretofore appropriated by said board. 
 
 68. (62.) All disbursements of the board of education 
 shall be by warrant drawn on the custodian of the school 
 moneys of the district, signed by the president of said 
 board and countersigned by the secretary. All warrants 
 drawn in accordance with the provisions of this section, 
 accompanied by itemized statements of the claims or 
 demands that have been drawn, shall be forwarded by 
 said secretary, to the comptroller, auditor or other offi- 
 cer, if there be one, authorized by law to audit claims 
 and demands against the municipality in which such 
 district shall be situate. Said comptroller, auditor or 
 other officer shall be the auditor of the school district, 
 and shall receive such compensation therefor as the 
 common council or other governing body of said munici- 
 pality shall determine, and the bonds given by such 
 Comptroller, auditor or other officer for the faithful per- 
 formance of his duty to such municipality shall be held 
 to cover the performance of his duty as auditor of the 
 school district. Such auditor shall examine and audit 
 such warrants and statements, with a view to ascertain- 
 ing whether the sum or sums are proper, and if he shall 
 find them to be correct, he shall countersign said war- 
 rants and forward them to the city treasurer, who, by 
 virtue of his office as city treasurer, shall be the cus- 
 todian of school moneys of said school district. Said 
 auditor shall, whenever he shall deem it to be for the 
 best interests of the school district, examine under oath 
 any person presenting a bill or claim against said school 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 31 
 
 district, and also examine witnesses and investigate by 
 other evidence and inquiry all the facts relating to said 
 claim which in his opinion are necessary to establish the 
 accuracy and good faith of said claim, and to ascertain 
 the school district's liability therefor. If said auditor if auditor 
 
 J in doubt. 
 
 shall have reason to believe that the claim or demand 
 for which any such warrant shall have been issued is 
 incorrect, or for any cause should not be paid, he shall 
 return such warrant and statement to the secretary of 
 the board of education, with a statement of the reasons 
 why the same should not be paid, and said secretary 
 shall correct such warrant and statement, or present 
 them to the board of education at its next meeting. If 
 said board shall find that the claim or demand for which 
 said warrant was issued is correct and just it shall, by a 
 vote of a majority of all the members of said board, 
 order that it be paid, and said auditor shall, upon receipt 
 of the warrant and statement thereof, together with a 
 statement of the action of the board of education there- 
 on, countersign the warrant and forward it to the cus- 
 todian of school moneys. Said auditor shall, whenever 
 he shall deem it necessary, examine all books, papers 
 and vouchers of the board of education, or any officer 
 thereof, and shall have free and unrestrained access to 
 them for that purpose. 
 
 69. (63.) The secretary shall report monthly to the 
 board of education the amount for which warrants shall 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 have been drawn during the preceding month, the 
 accounts against which said warrants shall have been 
 drawn and the balance to the credit of each account, and 
 shall, at the close of the fiscal year, make a full itemized 
 report of the finances of the school district. 
 
 70. (64.) Whenever a superintendent of schools shall Superintend- 
 be appointed, it shall be by a majority vote of all of the |* ls - 
 members of the board of education. He shall receive Ibid - 
 such salary as said board shall determine, which salary 
 
 shall not be reduced during his employment. He may 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Assistant 
 superin- 
 tendents. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Qualifications 
 of superin- 
 tendents. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Duties of 
 superin- 
 tendent. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 
 Appointment 
 of teachers, 
 and selection 
 of text-books. 
 Ibid. 
 
 be removed by a majority vote of all the members of 
 said board. He shall have a seat in said board and the 
 right to speak on all educational matters, but shall not 
 have the right to vote. 
 
 71. (65.) The board of education may, on the nomi- 
 nation of the Superintendent o>f Schools, appoint assist- 
 ant superintendents and shall fix their salaries. Assistant 
 superintendents may be removed by a majority vote of 
 all the members of said board. 
 
 72. (66.) No person shall hereafter be appointed 
 superintendent of schools, or assistant superintendent 
 under the provisions of this article unless he shall hold a 
 State teacher's certificate. 
 
 73. (67.) The Superintendent of Schools shall, when 
 required by the Board of Education, devote himself ex- 
 clusively to the duties of his office. He shall have gen- 
 eral supervision over the schools of the district and 
 shall examine into their condition and progress and re- 
 port thereon from time to time as directed by the Board 
 of Education. He shall have such other powers and 
 perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said 
 board. He may appoint and remove clerks in his office, 
 but the number and salaries of such clerks shall be de- 
 termined by said board. Said superintendent shall 
 render annually, on or before the first day of August, 
 to the Commissioner of Education, and in the manner 
 and form prescribed by him, a report of such matters 
 relating to the schools under his supervision as shall be 
 required by said Commissioner of Education. 
 
 74. (68.) No principal or teacher shall be appointed, 
 transferred or dismissed, nor the amount of his or her 
 salary fixed; no school term shall be determined, nor 
 shall any course of study be adopted or altered, nor text- 
 books selected, except by a majority vote of the whole 
 number of members of the board of education, (a) 
 
 (a) See sections 116 and 126. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 33 
 
 75. (69.) The superintendent of schools may, with the 
 approval of the president of the board of education, sus- 
 pend any assistant superintendent, principal or teacher, 
 and shall forthwith report such suspension to the board 
 of education, which board shall take such action for the 
 restoration or removal of such assistant superintendent, 
 principal or teacher as it shall deem proper; provided, Proviso 
 that such action shall be by a majority vote of all the 
 members of said board. 
 
 76. (70.) Wherever a business manager shall be ap- 
 
 pointed it shall be by a majority vote of all the members ] 
 of the board of education. He shall receive such salary Salary. 
 as said board shall determine. He shall, before entering Bond. 
 upon the duties of his office, execute and deliver to the 
 board of education a bond in a sum to be fixed by said 
 board, but not less than two thousand dollars, with 
 surety or sureties to be approved by said board, condi- 
 tioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his 
 office. Said board may accept the bond or undertaking 
 of a trust company, surety or indemnity company and 
 may pay the annual premium or fee therefor as a cur- 
 rent expense of said board. Said business manager may, 
 by a majority vote of all the members of the board of 
 education, be removed from office. He shall have a 
 seat in said board, and the right to speak on all matters 
 relating to his department, but shall not have the right 
 to vote. 
 
 77. (71.) The business manager shall have charge ^ n e e s s f 
 and care of the public school buildings, and all other nSdf ger ' 
 property belonging to the school district. He may ap- 
 
 point and remove clerks in his office, but the number and 
 salaries of such clerks shall be determined by the board 
 of education. 
 
 78. (72.) All plans and specifications for the erection, P1 u ans f 
 
 school-houses 
 
 improvement or repair of public schoolhouses shall be 
 drawn by or under the supervision of the business man- 
 ager, if there be one, and shall be approved by the Board 
 3SI, 
 
34 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Inspection 
 
 Board of 
 
 school 
 
 estimate. 
 
 P. L. 1907, 
 Chap. 276. 
 
 of Education. Said business manager, if there be one, 
 shall supervise the construction and repair of all school 
 buildings, and shall report monthly to the Board of 
 Education the progress of the work; provided, that re- 
 pairs not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars 
 may be ordered by the business manager, and repairs 
 not exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars may be 
 ordered by the committee of the board having charge 
 of the repair of school property, without the previous 
 order of the board, and without advertisement. The 
 business manager, if there be one, shall superintend 
 all advertisements for bids and the letting of all con- 
 tracts. He shall inspect all work done and materials 
 or supplies furnished under contract, and shall, subject 
 to the approval of the Board of Education, condemn 
 any work and reject any material or supplies which, in 
 his judgment, do not conform to the specifications con- 
 tained in the contract therefor, and shall perform such 
 other duties as may be required by the Board of Edu- 
 cation, (a) 
 
 79. (73-) In every city school district the Board of 
 Education shall appoint two of its members, and the 
 common council, board of finances or other body in such 
 city having the power to make appropriations of money 
 raised by taxes in said city, shall appoint two of its mem- 
 bers, and the four persons so appointed, together with 
 the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city, shall 
 constitute a board to be known as the "Board of School 
 Estimate" of said school district. Said appointments 
 shall be made annually during the month of January. 
 In case of any vacancy occurring in any such Board of 
 School Estimate by reason of the resignation, death or 
 removal of any member thereof, such vacancy shall be 
 immediately filled by the body which originally ap- 
 
 (a) i. The provisions of the Mechanics' I^ien law apply to school districts. 
 7 Dickinson 689. 
 
 2. See sections 128 and 129. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 35 
 
 pointed such member, appointing another of its mem- 
 bers to fill such vacancy. 
 
 The Secretary of the Board of Education shall be the Secretary. 
 Secretary of the Board of School Estimate, but shall 
 receive no compensation as such. 
 
 80. (74.) On or before the fifteenth day of May in gJSS^ b 
 each year, the Board of Education of such city school educat? f n. 
 district shall prepare and deliver to each member of said 
 
 Board of School Estimate an itemized statement of the 
 amount of money estimated to be necessary for the 
 current expenses of and for repairing and furnishing 
 the public schools of such district for the ensuing 
 school year, and also the amount which shall have been 
 apportioned to such district by the county superintend- 
 ent. 
 
 81. (75.) Between the fifteenth day of May and the Appropriations 
 first day of June in each year said Board of School Esti- ibid 1 
 mate shall fix and determine the amount of money 
 necessary to be appropriated for the use of the public 
 schools in such district for the ensuing school year, 
 exclusive of the amount which shall have been appor- 
 tioned to it by the County Superintendent of Schools. 
 Said Board of School Estimate shall, on or before the Certificates. 
 last named date, make two certificates of said amount, 
 signed by at least three of the members of said board, 
 one of which certificates shall be delivered to the board 
 of education of said school district, and the other to 
 the common council, board of finance or other body 
 in the city having the power to make appropriations 
 of moneys raised by taxes in such city. Said common A PP ropria- 
 council, board of finance or other body shall, upon 
 receipt of said notice, appropriate in the same manner 
 as other appropriations are made by it the amount so 
 certified as aforesaid, and said amount shall be assessed, 
 levied and collected in the same manner as moneys ap- 
 propriated for other purposes in such city shall be 
 assessed, levied and collected; provided, that any p rov iso. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tions for 
 land and 
 buildings. 
 P. I,. 1904, 
 Chap. 40. 
 
 Statement to 
 be given to 
 each member 
 of board of 
 estimate. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tion, how 
 made. 
 
 May borrow 
 on "school 
 bonds." 
 
 amount in excess of three- fourths of one per centum 
 of the taxable valuation of the real and personal prop- 
 erty shall be appropriated only with the concurrence 
 and consent of said common council, board of finance 
 or other body, expressed by its resolution duly passed; 
 and provided further, that if the charter of the city 
 shall limit the amount of tax or the rate of taxation 
 in such city, so that the purposes of this section can- 
 not be carried out, or shall otherwise by its terms pre- 
 vent the carrying out of said purposes, said charter 
 limitations shall be hereafter held not to apply to the 
 raising of money under the provisions of this section. 
 82. (76.) Whenever a city board of education shall 
 decide that it is necessary to raise money for the pur- 
 chase of lands for school purposes, or for erecting, en- 
 larging, repairing or furnishing a schoolhouse or school- 
 houses, it shall prepare and deliver to each member of 
 the Board of School Estimate of such school district a 
 statement of the amount of money estimated to be 
 necessary for such purpose or purposes ; said Board of 
 School Estimate shall fix and determine the amount 
 necessary for such purpose or purposes, and shall make 
 two certificates of such amount, one of which certifi- 
 cates shall be delivered to said board of education, and 
 the other to the common council, board of finance or 
 other body in the city having the power to make ap- 
 propriations of money raised by tax in such city; said 
 common council, board of finance or other body may 
 appropriate such sum or sums for such purpose or pur- 
 poses in the same manner as other appropriations are 
 made by it, and said sum or sums shall be raised, as- 
 sessed, levied and collected at the same time and 
 in the same manner as moneys appropriated for 
 other purposes in such city are raised, assessed, 
 levied and collected; or said common council, board 
 of finance or other body may appropriate and bor- 
 row such sum or sums for the purpose or purposes 
 aforesaid, and may secure the repayment of the sum or 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 37 
 
 sums so borrowed, together with interest thereon at a 
 rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, by the 
 issue of bonds in the corporate name of such city; bonds 
 so issued shall be designated "school bonds;" may be 
 registered or coupon or both, of such denominations 
 as the common council, board of finance or other board 
 may determine, and shall be made payable in not more 
 than fifty years from the date thereof; they shall be 
 sold at public or private sale and not for less than par 
 and accrued interest, and such city shall in its annual 
 tax levy raise money sufficient to pay the interest on 
 said bonds, together with at least one per centum per 
 annum of the principal thereof, to provide a sinking 
 fund for the retirement of said bonds at maturity; or 
 in lieu of providing for a sinking fund for the retire- f^ ng 
 ment of said bonds at maturity, the bonds may be so 
 issued that a stated equitable amount of them (in 
 value), having regard to other school bonds already 
 issued, shall become payable in each year, beginning 
 not more than ten years from date of the earliest issue 
 and ending in not less than forty years from such date, 
 and in such case there shall be raised by tax in each 
 year such sum of money as may be necessary to pay the 
 interest on all outstanding bonds and the principal of 
 such bonds as may mature during that year; the pro- 
 ceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be deposited with 
 the custodian of school moneys of such school district 
 and shall be paid out only on the warrants or orders 
 of the Board of Education; provided, that the total Proviso, 
 amount of bonds for the purposes named in this sec- 
 tion, including bonds theretofore issued for such pur- 
 poses, and not redeemed, shall not exceed at any one 
 time a sum equal to three per centum of the taxable 
 valuation of the real and personal property in such city ; 
 provided further, that if the charter of the city shall proviso, 
 limit the amount of indebtedness in such city, or shall by 
 its terms prevent the carrying out of the provisions of 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Township 
 committee 
 given power 
 to carry into 
 effect sections 
 73-76, P. L. 
 1911, Chap. 
 209. 
 
 Township 
 committee to 
 certify to 
 assessor 
 amount fixed 
 by board of 
 school 
 estimate. 
 Ibid. 
 
 this section, said charter provisions shall be hereafter 
 held not to apply to the issuing of bonds under the pro- 
 visions of this section, (a) 
 
 83. (i.) Whenever any township shall have accepted 
 the provisions of Article VI. of the act to which this 
 act is a supplement, as provided in section two hundred 
 and forty-three of said act, the township committee of 
 such township shall, for the purpose of carrying into 
 effect the provisions of sections seventy-three, seventy- 
 four, seventy-five and seventy-six of said act, be deemed 
 and taken to be a body having the power to make appro- 
 priations of money raised by taxes, and the president 
 or chairman of such committee shall be deemed and 
 taken to be the chief executive officer of such township. 
 
 84. (2.) The township committee of such township, 
 upon the receipt of the certificate as provided in sec- 
 tion seventy-five of the act to which this act is a supple- 
 ment, shall certify to the assessor and collector of such 
 township the amount of money fixed and determined 
 by the Board of School Estimate as necessary to be 
 appropriated for the use of the public schools in such 
 township for the ensuing school year, exclusive of the 
 amount apportioned to it by the County Superintendent 
 of Schools, and the said amount shall be assessed, 
 levied and collected in the same manner as moneys 
 appropriated for other purposes in such township shall 
 
 (a) A resolution of a board of school estimate fixing and determining the 
 amount of money necessary for the erection of a school house at the sum of 
 $175.000, "on the condition that a school building containing twenty units 
 shall be erected," is not such a determination as is required by section 76. 
 Board of Education of Montclair v. Town Council of Montclair, 47 Vr. 59. 
 
 Under section 76 of the School law, when the board of school estimate 
 has fixed and determined the amount necessary for the purchase of land 
 and erection of a school-house, it is mandatory upon the body having the 
 power to make appropriations of money raised by tax, to cause the amount 
 to be raised by tax, or to borrow the same and secure its repayment by the 
 issue of bonds. Montclair v. State Superintendent, 48 Vr. 68. 
 
 When the body having power to make appropriations of money raised 
 by tax fails to provide for the amount fixed and determined by the board 
 of school estimate, a controversy has arisen under the school laws, and 
 the remedies by appeal to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 and the State Board of Education must be exhausted before recourse is had 
 to the courts. Ibid. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 39 
 
 be assessed, levied and collected; provided, that any proviso, 
 amount in excess of three-fourths of one per centum 
 of the taxable valuation of the real and personal prop- 
 erty shall be assessed, levied and collected only with the 
 concurrence and consent of the township committee. 
 
 85. (3.) The township committee of such township, 
 upon the receipt of the certificate as provided in section 
 seventy-six of the act to which this act is a supplement, 
 may certify to the assessor and collector of such town- schooi f 
 ship the sum or sums fixed and determined by the Board ibid? 8 ' 
 of School Estimate for the purposes named in said 
 section, and the sum or sums so certified shall be 
 assessed, levied and collected at the same time and in 
 the same manner as moneys appropriated for other pur- 
 poses in said township are assessed, levied and collected ; 
 or such township committee may borrow such sum or 
 sums and may secure the repayment of the sum or sums 
 so borrowed, together with interest thereon at a rate not 
 to exceed five per centum) per annum, by the issue of 
 bonds in the corporate name of the township in the 
 manner and subject to the limitations as provided in 
 said section. Such township committee shall annually 
 certify to the assessor and collector of such township 
 the amount of money necessary to pay the principal and 
 interest on bonds falling due during the ensuing year, 
 and the amount so certified shall be assessed, levied and 
 collected at the same time and in the same manner as 
 moneys for other purposes in such township are assessed, 
 levied and collected. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 TOWNSHIP, INCORPORATED TOWN AND BOROUGH SCHOOL 
 DISTRICTS. 
 
 86- (77-) In eac h township, incorporated town and Boards of 
 borough school district, there shall be a board of educa- t chosen. 
 
 P. Iv. 1903, 
 
 tion consisting of nine members, except as hereinafter Spe 9 ial 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Vacancy. 
 
 Number of 
 trustees may 
 be reduced. 
 P. L. 1904, 
 Chap. 28. 
 
 If number 
 to be five. 
 
 If number 
 to be three. 
 
 provided; three members of such board shall be chosen 
 at each annual school meeting and shall hold office for 
 the term of three years. In case there shall be a vacancy 
 in a board of education, such vacancy shall be filled at 
 the next annual meeting after such vacancy occurs, and 
 the person elected to fill such vacancy shall be elected for 
 the unexpired term only. 
 
 87. (78.) If the board of education in any school dis- 
 trict created under thfc provisions of this article shall 
 deem it for the best interests of the schools that the num- 
 ber of members constituting said board shall be reduced, 
 the district clerk, when directed by said board, shall in- 
 sert in the call for the next annual school meeting a 
 notice that it will be determined at said meeting whether 
 the number of members of the board o<f education shall 
 be reduced to five or three. If it shall be determined at 
 said meeting to reduce the number of members of said 
 board to either five or three, the members of said board 
 then in office shall continue in office for the terms for 
 which they were severally elected, and their successors 
 shall be elected in the manner following: 
 
 I. If it shall be determined at said meeting that the 
 number of members of the board of education shall be 
 reduced to five, no election for members of said board 
 shall be held at said meeting. At the next annual school 
 meeting two members of said board shall be elected for 
 the term of three years, and at the second annual school 
 meeting held after the meeting at which it was deter- 
 mined to reduce the number of members of the board of 
 education to five, two members of said board shall be 
 elected for the term of three years and one for the term 
 of one year, and thereafter there shall be elected at each 
 annual school meeting a member or members of said 
 board, in the place of those whose terms shall have ex- 
 pired, who shall hold office for the term of three years. 
 
 II. If it shall be determined at said meeting that the 
 number of members of the board of education shall be 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 41 
 
 reduced to three, no election for members of said board 
 shall be held until the second annual school meeting held 
 after the meeting at which it was determined to reduce 
 the number of members of the board to three. At such 
 second annual school meeting there shall be elected three 
 members of said board to serve for one, two and three 
 years respectively, and thereafter one member of said 
 board shall be elected at each annual school meeting, in 
 the place of the member whose term shall have expired, 
 who shall hold office for the term of three years. 
 
 Whenever a new township, incorporated town or 
 borough school district shall be created, there shall be 
 held, at the ensuing annual school meeting, an election 
 for members of the board of education. Before pro- 
 ceeding to ballot for such members of the board of edu- 
 cation the legal voters present shall determine whether 
 the board of education shall consist of three, five or nine 
 members. If it shall be determined that the board shall 
 consist of three members, then said legal voters shall 
 elect one member to serve for the term of one year, one 
 for the term of two years, and one for the term of three 
 years. If it shall be determined that the said board shall 
 consist of five members, the said legal voters shall elect 
 one member to serve for the term of one year, two for 
 the term of two years, and two for the term of three 
 years. If it shall be determined that said board shall 
 consist of nine members, said legal voters shall elect 
 three members to serve for the term of one year, three 
 for the term of two years, and three for the term of 
 three years. Annually thereafter there shall be elected a 
 person or persons for the term of three years in the place 
 of the member or members whose terms shall have ex- 
 pired. 
 
 88. (79.) An annual meeting for the election of mem- 
 bers of the board of education shall be held in each town- meeting. 
 
 f. L,. 1903, 
 
 ship, incorporated town or borough school district on the 
 third Tuesday in March at a schoolhouse or such other 
 convenient public place within the district as may be 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Notices. 
 
 Penalty for 
 failure to 
 post notices. 
 
 Election by 
 
 ballot. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Election, 
 
 how 
 
 conducted. 
 
 Report of 
 election and 
 ballots to be 
 deposited 
 with county 
 superintend- 
 ent. 
 
 selected by the Board of Education. Not less than seven 
 notices of such meeting, specifying the day, time, object 
 and place thereof, shall be posted by the district clerk at 
 least ten days before the date of such meeting; one of 
 such notices shall be posted on each schoolhouse within 
 the district, and at such other public places therein as 
 the Board of Education of said district shall direct. 
 Any district clerk who shall fail to post notices calling- 
 said annual meeting as required by this section shall pay 
 a fine of twenty dollars, to be recovered in a court for 
 the trial of small causes by any resident of said school 
 district. A plurality of the votes cast shall be sufficient 
 to elect a member of a board of education, (a) 
 
 89. (80.) All elections for members of such board of 
 education shall be by ballot. The polls for such election 
 shall remain open one hour and as much longer as may 
 be necessary to enable the legal voters present to cast 
 their ballots. Said ballots may be printed or written, or 
 partly printed and partly written. In case a member of 
 a board of education is to be elected for a full term, 
 and a member is to be elected to fill an unexpired term, 
 the ballots shall designate which of the persons voted 
 for is to be elected for the full term, and which for the 
 unexpired term. The chairman of the meeting shall 
 appoint two tellers, who shall receive and count the 
 ballots in his presence, and said chairman shall announce 
 the result of such election. The secretary of the meet- 
 ing shall keep a poll-list and record therein the name 
 of each person voting at such election, and shall also 
 keep a tally-sheet of the votes as counted by the tellers. 
 The tally-sheet shall be signed by the chairman and 
 tellers, and said tally-sheet, poll-list and ballots shall be 
 placed by the secretary in a sealed package indorsed 
 with the name of the district, the name of the county 
 
 (a) School trustees are officers within article 2, paragraph i of the con- 
 stitution, so that, if they are made elective by the people, only male citizens 
 can vote for them. State v. Deshler, i Dutcher 177; Kimball v. Hendee, 
 28 Vr. 307. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 43 
 
 in which said district shall be situate, and the date on 
 which said election shall have been held, and said pack- 
 age, together with a statement of the result of said elec- 
 tion signed by the chairman and secretary, shall be, by 
 said secretary, forwarded to the County Superintendent 
 of Schools within five days after the date of such elec- 
 tion and the same shall be preserved for one year. 
 
 90. (8 1.) At any annual meeting when the question 
 of raising a tax, the issuing of bonds, or the establishing 
 of a union graded school is to be voted on, two ballot- 
 boxes shall be provided, and two tellers shall be ap- 
 pointed for each box. One of said boxes shall be used 
 to receive the ballots for members of the board of edu- 
 cation and the other to receive the ballots for the other 
 objects enumerated in this section. 
 
 91. (82.) Every male citizen of the United States 
 
 who shall have the qualifications required for electors for meetings. 
 the General Assembly of the State of Nbw Jersey, shall 
 have the right to vote at such meeting. Every female 
 citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one 
 years and possessing the qualifications respecting resi- 
 dence required of male voters, shall have the right to 
 vote at any annual or special school meeting of the legal 
 voters of said school district for any purpose other than 
 the election of members of the board of education. (a) 
 
 92. (83.) A member of a board of education shall be 
 
 a citizen and resident of the territory contained in said education.* 
 school district, and shall have been such citizen and resi- 
 dent for at least three years immediately preceding his 
 or her becoming a member of such board, and shall be 
 able to read and write. He shall not be interested, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, in any contract with nor claim 
 against said board. 
 
 93. (84.) Each board of education elected as provided name rate 
 in this article shall be a body corporate, and shall be 
 
 (a) Women may vote at school meetings for all purposes except the elec- 
 tion of officers. Landis v. School District, &c. t 28 Vr. 509; Chamberlain v. 
 Cranbury, 28 Vr. 605. See foot-note to section 88. 
 
44 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Title to 
 property 
 vested in 
 school 
 board. 
 
 Organization 
 
 of school 
 
 board. 
 
 P. L. 1907, 
 
 p. 283. 
 
 Failure to 
 organize. 
 
 Vacancies. 
 
 Oath. 
 
 known as and called "the Board of Education of the 
 (township, town or borough, as the case may be) of 
 
 , in the county of " The title 
 
 to school property, real and personal, previously acquired 
 by a school district acting under the provisions of this 
 article, or by any school district, board of education, 
 school trustees or other body heretofore having charge 
 and control of the public schools situate in the territory 
 now contained in such school district, or in any part 
 thereof, and the title to all lands, buildings and other 
 property hereafter acquired for school purposes in said 
 school district shall vest in the board of education incor- 
 porated under the provisions of this section, (a) 
 
 94. (85.) Each board of education created under the 
 provisions of this article shall organize annually on the 
 first Monday in April by the election of one of its mem- 
 bers as president and another as vice-president. A 
 president or vice-president who refuses to perform any 
 duty imposed upon him by this act may be removed by 
 the majority vote of all the members of the board. If 
 said board shall fail to organize on said day, the County 
 Superintendent of Schools shall appoint, from among 
 said members, a president and a vice-president. In case 
 the office of president or vice-president shall become 
 vacant, the Board of Education shall, within thirty days 
 thereafter, fill such vacancy for the unexpired term; 
 and if it shall fail to fill said vacancy within the said 
 thirty days, the County Superintendent of Schools shall 
 fill such vacancy for the unexpired term. A member of 
 such board of education shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath, before 
 any officer authorized by law to administer oaths, thai 
 he possesses the qualifications to be a member of said 
 board prescribed therefor in this article, and that he 
 
 (a) A certiorari is not properly used to bring up the certificate of the 
 name, &c., of a school district to enable the court to decide on the legal 
 existence of such corporation. State v. Van Winkle, i Dutcher 73; State v. 
 Donahay, i Vr. 404; State v. Brown, 2 Vr. 355. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 45 
 
 will faithfully discharge the duties of his said office. 
 Said oath shall be filed with the district clerk of said 
 board, (a) 
 
 95. (86.) The Board of Education shall have power : 
 
 I. To appoint a person to fill a vacancy in the Board 
 of Education, except a vacancy caused by a failure to 
 elect, but the person so appointed shall serve only until 
 the next election for members of the Board of Educa- 
 tion, (b) 
 
 II. To employ and dismiss principals, teachers, jani- 
 tors, mechanics and laborers, and to fix, alter and order 
 paid their salaries and compensation, (c) 
 
 III. To make, amend and repeal rules, regulations and 
 by-laws, not inconsistent with this act or with the rules 
 and regulations of the State Board of Education, for its 
 own government, for the transaction of business, and 
 for the government and management of the public 
 schools and the public school property in said district, 
 and also for the employment and discharge of principals 
 and teachers, (c) 
 
 IV. To purchase, sell and improve school grounds ; to 
 erect, lease, enlarge, improve, repair or furnish school 
 buildings, and to borrow money therefor with or without 
 mortgage; (d) provided, that for any such act it shall 
 
 (a) When a person who is elected to an office is required, before entering 
 upon the discharge of the duties thereof, to take and subscribe an oath of a 
 specified form, the taking of the oath essentially in that form is a condition 
 precedent to his complete investiture into the office, and, in contemplation of 
 law, is just as much a requisite to its enjoyment as the election itself. Hayter 
 v. Benner, 38 Vr. 359. 
 
 (fe) The office of trustee is not vacated by an unaccepted resignation. 
 Townsend v. School Trustees, &c., 12 Vr. 312. 
 
 The general rule applicable to all public offices is that a resignation of office 
 does not become complete until presented to the proper authority and accepted 
 by it. In the absence of any specific rule prescribing to what authority a 
 resignation must be presented, the proper authority to accept a resignation is 
 that which has power to fill the vacancy. Fryer v. Norton, 38 Vr. 537. 
 
 (c) See sections 7, div. VII, 116, 126, 140, 253, 286, 287, 288 and 289. 
 
 (d) A board of education in seeking proposals for a contract to supply 
 school furniture may lawfully delegate to a committee of its body the 
 duty of preparing and submitting the specifications for such purpose, and 
 of conducting negotiations for the contract; provided the proposals and 
 the result of the negotiations are first reported to and considered by the 
 board before final action in awarding the contract. Kraft v. Board of Edu~ 
 cation, 38 Vr. 512. 
 
 Powers of 
 district 
 boards. 
 Appointment 
 to fill vacancy 
 (see section 
 30. division 
 IV.). 
 
 Employ 
 teachers, etc. 
 
 Make rules. 
 
 Purchase, 
 sell or lease 
 school-houses. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
4 6 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Condemn 
 land for 
 school 
 purposes. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Insure school 
 property. 
 
 Select text- 
 books and 
 prescribe 
 course of 
 study. 
 
 Expel pupils. 
 
 Provide 
 text-books. 
 
 Call special 
 meetings of 
 legal voters. 
 
 have the previous authority of a vote of the legal voters 
 of the district. 
 
 V. To take and condemn land and other property for 
 school purposes in the manner provided by law regulat- 
 ing the ascertainment and payment of compensation for 
 property condemned and taken for public use. If either 
 party shall feel aggrieved by any proceedings and award 
 thereunder, said party may appeal in the manner pro- 
 vided by law for appeals from such proceedings and 
 award ; provided, that before beginning any proceedings 
 for taking and condemning land and other property, the 
 Board of Education shall have the authority of a vote 
 of the legal voters of the district (a) 
 
 VI. To insure school buildings, furniture and other 
 school property, and to receive, lease and hold in trust 
 for the district any and all real or personal property for 
 the benefit of the schools thereof. 
 
 VII. To enforce the rules and regulations prescribed 
 by the State Board of Education, select the text-books, 
 and, in connection with the County Superintendent of 
 Schools, to prescribe the course of study to be pursued 
 in the school or schools under its charge. 
 
 VIII. To suspend or expel pupils from school. 
 
 IX. To provide text-books and other necessary school 
 supplies. 
 
 X. To call a special meeting of the legal voters of the 
 district at any time when in its judgment the interests 
 of the school require it, or whenever fifty of such legal 
 voters shall request it by petition so to do. In the notices 
 of any special meeting, called upon petition as aforesaid, 
 shall be inserted the purposes named in said petition so 
 far as the same are not in conflict with the provisions of 
 this act. No business shall be transacted at any special 
 meeting except as shall have been set forth in the notices 
 by which said meeting was called. Special meetings 
 
 (a) A vote of a majority of legal voters authorizing a board of education 
 to purchase school grounds, does not empower the board to condemn land 
 for school purposes. Fuller v. Chatham, 49 Vr. 107. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 47 
 
 shall be called in the manner provided for calling the 
 annual meetings, (a) 
 
 XL To permit a schoolhouse to be used for other use of school- 
 
 house for 
 
 than school purposes when the board shall consent | h r p r oses 
 thereto. 
 
 XII. To adopt an official seal by which all its official Seal, 
 acts may be authenticated. 
 
 XIII. To make an annual report to the County Super- ^p* 1 
 intendent of Schools on or before the first day of 
 August in the manner and form prescribed by the Com- 
 missioner of Education. 
 
 XIV. To borrow, after the first day of July and be- 0" 
 fore the first day of January, a sum not exceeding one- 
 half of the amount appropriated for the current expenses 
 
 of the schools and for the repair of schoolhouses under 
 its control, and to execute and deliver promissory notes 
 therefor, and to pay the amount so borrowed, together 
 with interest thereon, at a rate not exceeding six per 
 centum per annum. (&) 
 
 96. (87.) A board of education may, under such rules s MP^ v jJ inK 
 and regulations as shall be prescribed by the State Board j^- 1909, 
 of Education, appoint a suitable person as Supervising 
 Principal of Schools, define his duties and fix his salary ; 
 provided, that no person shall be appointed Supervising Proviso. 
 Principal unless he or she shall hold either a State or 
 first-grade county certificate (and provided further 
 that), nor until the necessity for the appointment of a 
 
 (a) i. Special meetings of the voters must be called by the board of 
 trustees regularly convened. Bogert v. Trustees, &c., 14 Vr. 358. 
 
 2. Notices of a special school meeting to raise special school taxes should 
 be put up at least ten days before the time of meeting. Davis v. Rapp, 14 
 Vr. 594; Canda Manufacturing Co. v. Woodbridge, 29 Vr. 134. 
 
 3. A special meeting of the legal voters of a school district, duly called, 
 may vote to raise money for school purposes, although such appropriation 
 has been refused at the annual meeting. State v. Lewis, 6 Vr. 377; Stanton 
 v. Board of Education, 39 Vr. 496. 
 
 4. A special meeting of a school district can vote to raise money to build 
 a school-house, although a similar proposition had been rejected at a previous 
 special meeting held in the same year. Stackhouse v. Clark, 23 Vr. 291. 
 
 5. A notice that the object of the meeting is to purchase a school-house 
 will not warrant a resolution to pay for a school-house already built. Lamb 
 v. Hurff, 9 Vr. 310. 
 
 (b) See section 294. 
 
4 8 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Minimum 
 salary. 
 
 Joint district 
 supervisor. 
 
 Majority 
 vote required 
 in certain 
 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 
 Regular 
 meetings. 
 
 Itemized bills. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Supervising Principal shall have been authorized in 
 writing by the County Superintendent of Schools, and 
 approved by the Commissioner on Education and the 
 State Board of Education. The County Superintendent 
 of Schools in making his annual apportionment of school 
 moneys shall not apportion the amount allowed by law 
 for a Supervising Principal unless the salary paid to 
 such Supervising Principal shall amount, at least, to 
 the sum of one thousand dollars per annum. The boards 
 of education of two or more districts may unite in em- 
 ploying a Supervising Principal. The terms of all Su- 
 pervising Principals now in office shall end on June 
 thirtieth next after the passage of this act, and none 
 shall hereafter be appointed except in the manner pro- 
 vided by this act. (a) 
 
 97. (88.) No principal or teacher shall be appointed, 
 transferred or dismissed, nor the amount of his salary 
 fixed; no school term shall be determined, nor shall any 
 course of study be adopted or altered, nor text-books 
 selected, except by a majority vote of the whole number 
 of members of the Board of Education. (b) 
 
 98. (89.) The Board of Education of every school 
 district elected under the provisions of this article shall 
 meet for the transaction of business at least once in two 
 months during the period that the schools in said dis- 
 trict shall be in session. No contract shall be entered 
 into by a board of education, nor shall any bill or de- 
 mand for money against said board be paid until the 
 same shall have been presented and passed on at a 
 regularly called meeting of the board. 
 
 99. (90.) It shall be unlawful for any board of educa- 
 tion to order paid out of the school moneys under its con- 
 trol any money for school supplies, books, maps, charts, 
 globes, fuel, erecting, enlarging, repairing, furnishing 
 or improving school buildings and grounds, unless the 
 
 (a) See section 3, div. IX. 
 
 (&) See foot-note to sections 116 and 126. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 49 
 
 person claiming said money shall first present to said 
 board an itemized bill showing the name of the person 
 to whom the amount of such bill is due; provided, that Proviso, 
 the district clerk, whenever authorized by said board, 
 may purchase such supplies for the school or schools 
 under its control, and shall present an itemized bill of 
 the same with his affidavit attached, which bill shall be 
 acted on and paid as other bills are paid. Every person 
 presenting any such bill exceeding in amount the sum 
 of five dollars, shall make an affidavit that the goods or 
 services itemized in said bill have been delivered or ren- 
 dered, and that no bonus nor reward has been given or 
 received by any person with the knowledge of the 
 deponent in connection with the claim, and that said 
 bill is correct and true. The district clerk is hereby 
 authorized to take said affidavit without cost. 
 
 100. (91.) Every board of education organized un- 
 der the provisions of this article shall, by the majority 
 vote of all the members of such board, appoint a district 
 clerk, who may be elected from among said members, 
 and shall fix his compensation and term of employment. 
 Said district clerk, as such, may be removed by a ma- 
 jority vote of all the members of said board. He shall, Bond - 
 before entering upon the duties of his office, execute 
 and deliver to said board a bond in a sum to be fixed by 
 said board, with surety or sureties to be approved by 
 said board, conditioned for the faithful performance of 
 the duties of his office. Said board may accept the bond 
 or undertaking of a trust company, or surety or indem- 
 nity company, and may pay the annual premium or fee 
 therefor as a current expense of said board. He shall 
 record in a suitable book all proceedings of the Board 
 of Education, of the annual school meetings and of 
 special school meetings. He shall pay out by orders 
 on the custodian of the school moneys of the school 
 district, and in the manner prescribed by law, all school 
 moneys of the district. He shall keep a correct and 
 detailed account of all the expenditures of school 
 4 s L 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 
 Further 
 duties. 
 
 When balance 
 salary paid. 
 
 Member 
 removed for 
 non-attend- 
 ance. 
 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 Semi-annual 
 meetings of 
 boards of 
 education. 
 Ibid. 
 
 moneys in the district, and shall report to the board at 
 each regular meeting the amount for which warrants 
 shall have been drawn since the date of his last report, 
 the accounts against which said warrants shall have 
 been drawn, and the balance to the credit of each ac- 
 count. At each annual school meeting he shall present 
 his record books and his accounts for public inspection, 
 and shall make a statement of the financial condition of 
 the district. He shall post notices of the annual and of 
 any special meeting of the legal voters, and shall insert 
 in said notices the object or objects for which said 
 meeting shall be called; shall notify all members of the 
 Board of Education of all regular and special meetings 
 of the board, and during the month of July in each 
 year he shall present to the Board of Education a de- 
 tailed report of the financial transactions of the board 
 during the preceding school year, and file a copy 
 thereof with the County Superintendent of Schools. 
 The warrant or order for the balance of salary due a 
 district clerk at the close of the school year shall not be 
 delivered to him until written notice has been received 
 from the County Superintendent that such district clerk 
 has filed with him such annual report, (a) 
 
 101. (92.) A member of a board of education elected 
 under the provisions of this article who shall fail to 
 attend three consecutive regular meetings of said board, 
 without good cause, may be removed by said board, and 
 the vacancy thus created shall be filled in the same man- 
 ner as other vacancies in the Board of Education shall 
 be filled. 
 
 102. (93.) The boards of education in the several 
 school districts in each county organized under the pro- 
 Co) i. An order of the district clerk which specifies the object for which 
 
 it was given, without any designation of the yearly taxes out of which it 
 shall be payable, is a sufficient voucher for the township collector. Zimmer- 
 man v. Mathe, 20 Vr. 45. 
 
 2. The township collector paying out school moneys on statutory orders is 
 not responsible for the application the school trustees have made of the money. 
 Ibid. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 51 
 
 visions of this article, shall meet together semi-annually 
 at such time and places as the County Superintendent of 
 Schools shall appoint. , 
 
 103. (94.) A board of education may, in its corpo- Jji 1 ^* 
 rate capacity, sue and be sued, complain and defend in lbid - 
 any court of law and equity, and employ counsel therefor, 
 
 and the amount of the expense incurred by said board 
 in conducting or defending any such suit shall be certi- 
 fied to the assessor by the president and district clerk of 
 such board, and said amount shall be assessed and col- 
 lected in the next annual tax levy, (a) 
 
 104. (95.) The legal voters (b) of each township, in- ^tn^tax 
 corpo rated town or borough school district may, at any ^ ur ^^ S j 
 annual or special meeting of said legal voters, by the Chap - 242- 
 vote of a majority of those present, raise by a special 
 district tax such sum or sums as a majority of said legal 
 
 voters present at such meeting may agree upon for any 
 or all of the following purposes : To enable the Board enumerated, 
 of Education to purchase or take and condemn land for 
 school purposes; to build, enlarge, repair or furnish a 
 schoolhouse, or to pay a debt incurred therefor; for 
 industrial schools, for manual training, and for the 
 current expenses (c) of the schools, in which term shall 
 be included principals', teachers', janitors' and medical 
 inspectors' salaries, fuel, text-books, school supplies, 
 flags, transportation of pupils, tuition of pupils attend- 
 ing schools in other districts with the consent of the 
 Board of Education, school libraries, compensation of 
 the district clerk, of the custodian of the school moneys 
 and of truant officers, truant schools, insurance and the 
 
 (a) i. An action against a municipal corporation cannot be brought in the 
 court for the trial of small causes. Princeton v. Mount, 5 Dutcher 299; 
 Townsend v. School Trustees, &c., 12 Vr. 312; School Trustees v. Stacker, 
 13 Vr. 115. 
 
 2. The action must be brought against the district by its corporate name, 
 and not against the trustees in theit^idividual names, with the description 
 appended of trustees, &c. Sproul v. Smith, u Vr. 314. 
 
 (b) For definition of "legal voters" see section 91. 
 
 (c) The phrase "current expenses" or "running expenses" is sufficiently 
 definite to denote one of the purposes for which a school tax is to be levied. 
 Stanton v. Board of Education, 39 Vr. 496. 
 
52 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 incidental expenses of the schools. In case any money 
 shall be ordered to be raised by special tax, the district 
 clerk shall make out and sign a certificate thereof, (a) 
 under oath or affirmation, that the same is correct and 
 true, and deliver the same to the Board of Taxation of 
 the county in which such school district shall be situate, 
 on or before the third Tuesday in August in each year, 
 and shall send a duplicate of said certificate to the 
 County Superintendent of Schools. The assessor of any 
 taxing district shall assess on the inhabitants of the 
 school district and their estates, and the taxable property 
 therein, in the same manner as other taxes shall be 
 assessed, and the collector of such taxing district shall 
 levy and collect such sum of money as shall have been 
 ordered to be raised by the legal voters in the manner 
 aforesaid, and shall pay the same to the custodian of 
 the school moneys of the school district as is in this 
 act provided, and for collecting said tax, said collector, 
 except such as receive a salary in lieu of fees, shall 
 receive an amount equal to three-fourths of one per 
 centum of the amount of said tax collected by him, 
 said compensation to be paid by the township com- 
 
 (a) i. To sustain an assessment ordered by the inhabitants of a school dis- 
 trict called together for that purpose, the proof must be clear that ten days' 
 legal notice of the time, place and purpose of such meeting was given. State 
 v. Van Winkle, i Dutcher 73. 
 
 2. Where an assessment of a tax for the purpose of building a school-house 
 is ordered, the sworn certificate stating that the notice of the meeting was 
 given "in accordance with the act" is not sufficient. The certificate should 
 state what the notice was, when and where put up, and all the facts necessary 
 to show that the law has been complied with. State v. Hardcastle, 2 Dutcher 
 143; 3 Dutcher 551; Cochran v. Garrabrant, 3 Vr. 444; Banghart v. Sullivan, 
 7 Vr. 89; Trustees, &c., v. Padden, 15 Vr. 151; Quaid v. Trustees, &c., 
 20 Vr. 607. 
 
 3. When a meeting of the inhabitants of a school district is held and money 
 voted to be raised by taxation at a special meeting, the previous action of the 
 trustees in calling the meeting should appear in the certificate of the clerk to 
 the assessor. Lamb v. Hurff, 9 Vr. 310. 
 
 4. It is essential to "ttie validity of the certificate of the district clerk that 
 it set forth that due notice has been given of the amount proposed to be 
 raised at the district meeting. It is also necessary that it appear by the cer- 
 tificate that the meeting was ordered by the trustees. Slack v. Palmer, 10 
 Vr. 250. 
 
 5. The certificate of the district clerk must show how the amount ordered 
 to be raised was apportioned by the legal voters. Corrigan v. Duryea, n Vr. 
 266; Trustees, &c., v. Padden, 15 Vr. 151. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 53 
 
 mittee or other governing body of the municipality 
 wherein said tax shall be collected. Said collector shall J a ime fo . r f 
 
 payment to 
 
 pay to said custodian, on or before the twenty-second custodian - 
 day of December in each year, the full amount of 
 said tax out of any moneys in his hands, except moneys 
 received from the County Collector on the order of the 
 County Superintendent of Schools ; provided, that when Proviso, 
 there shall be no funds in the hands of said collector 
 available for such purpose, the township committee, 
 common council or other body having control of the 
 finances of the municipality in which such school district 
 shall be situate, shall borrow and appropriate a sum 
 sufficient for such purpose ; provided further, that when Proviso. 
 any meeting shall be held as aforesaid it shall not be 
 lawful for such meeting to order a greater sum of 
 money raised by special tax than shall have been men- 
 tioned and designated in the notices calling such meet- 
 ing, (a) 
 
 105. (96.) At any annual or special meeting when vote to be 
 money shall be ordered raised for school purposes by a p y 1^1903, 
 special district tax or by the issue of bonds, the legal session. 
 voters shall vote by ballot. The chairman of the meeting 
 shall appoint two tellers, who shall receive and count the 
 
 (a) i. Under the statutes of this State, school districts are political organ- 
 izations possessing the power of taxation. Landis v. School District, &c., 28 
 Vr. 509. 
 
 2. School taxes must be assessed upon the same property and in the same 
 manner as all other taxes. Roll v. Perrine, 5 Vr. 254. 
 
 3. School taxes illegally assessed will be set aside by certiorari by the per- 
 sons aggrieved. State v. Browning, 3 Butcher 527; 4 Dutcher 556. 
 
 4. The resolution passed at the district meeting must direct the particular 
 purpose for which the money is to be raised, which must be one of the pur- 
 poses mentioned in the act and must be stated in the notices. If money is 
 voted for more than one purpose, the resolution must specify the amount 
 apportioned to each. Cochran v. Garrabrant, 3 Vr. 444; Banghart v. Sul- 
 livan, 7 Vr. 89; Corrigan v. Duryea, n Vr. 266; Schomp v. Cole, 22 Vr. 277. 
 
 5. A resolution to raise a single sum for building and furnishing a school- 
 house is not bad for uncertainty, because the amount to be used for build- 
 ing and the amount for furnishing are not separately stated. Stackhouse v. 
 Clark, 23 Vr. 291. 
 
 6. A resolution to sell an old school-house passed at the same meeting 
 that it was resolved to raise money to build a new school-house is illegal 
 because no notice was given that the former would be a subject for con- 
 sideration at the meeting. Ibid. 
 
 7. See sections 128 and 129. 
 
54 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Election, how 
 conducted. 
 
 Report to 
 county sti- 
 perintendent. 
 
 District may 
 issue bonds. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Description 
 of bonds. 
 
 ballots in his presence. The secretary of the meeting 
 shall keep a poll-list and shall record therein the name 
 of each person voting, and shall also keep a tally-sheet 
 of the votes as counted. The tally-sheet shall be signed 
 by the chairman and tellers, and said tally-sheet, poll-list 
 and ballots shall be placed by the secretary in a sealed 
 package, indorsed with the name of the district, the name 
 of the county in which the district shall be situate, and 
 the date on which said election shall have been held, and 
 said package, together with a statement of the results 
 of such election, signed by the chairman and secretary, 
 shall, within five days after the date of said meeting, 
 be forwarded by said secretary to the County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools, and the same shall be preserved by 
 him for one year. 
 
 106. (97.) The legal voters of any township, incorpo- 
 rated town or borough school district may, either at the 
 annual meeting of said district, or at a special meeting 
 thereof called for that purpose, by a vote of the ma- 
 jority of those present, authorize the Board of Educa- 
 tion to issue bonds of the district for the purpose of 
 purchasing or taking and condemning land for school 
 purposes, or building a schoolhouse or schoolhouses, or 
 making additions, alterations, repairs or improvements 
 in or upon any schoolhouse and the lands upon which 
 the same shall be located, and of purchasing school fur- 
 niture and other necessary equipment. Such bonds 
 shall be issued in the corporate name of the district, for 
 such sums and in such amounts and payable at such 
 times as the legal voters so met shall direct, with interest 
 at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, pay- 
 able half-yearly. Said bonds shall be signed by the 
 president of the Board of Education and attested by the 
 district clerk; shall bear the seal of the district, and 
 shall have coupons attached for current payment of in- 
 terest, (a) which coupons shall be signed by the district 
 
 (a) See section 274. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 55 
 
 clerk and shall be numbered to correspond to the several 
 bonds to which they shall be severally attached. Bonds Saieof 
 
 * bonds. 
 
 so issued shall be numbered and a proper registry thereof 
 shall be kept by the district clerk. Such bonds may be 
 sold at public or private sale for the best obtainable price, 
 but not less than par. (a) 
 
 107. (98.) Whenever bonds shall have been legally 
 issued by any township, incorporated town or borough Ibid - 
 school district, and the same shall be due and unpaid or 
 outstanding, the Board of Education of such district, 
 when authorized so to do by the legal voters thereof at 
 an annual meeting of said district, or at a special meet- 
 ing thereof called to act thereon, shall have power to 
 renew such outstanding bonds or any part thereof by 
 the issuing of new bonds for that purpose, in the name 
 and under the seal of said district. Such bonds shall 
 be in the general form of the bonds theretofore issued 
 by said district, shall be signed by the president of the 
 Board of Education and attested by the district clerk, 
 shall bear the seal of the district, shall bear interest at 
 a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, and 
 shall be issued for such sums and in such amounts and 
 payable at such times as the legal voters at such meeting 
 shall direct. Such bonds shall have coupons attached 
 for current payment of interest, (b) which coupons 
 shall be signed by the district clerk and shall be num- 
 bered to correspond to the several bonds to which they 
 shall be severally attached. Bonds so issued shall be 
 numbered and a proper registry thereof kept by said 
 district clerk. They may be sold at public or private 
 sale for the best obtainable price, but not less than par. 
 and the money realized from such sale shall be applied to 
 
 (a) i. It is necessary that it shall clearly and unequivocally appear upon 
 the face of the proceedings for the issue of bonds of a school district, that 
 the bonds are to be issued only for purposes which the statute authorizes 
 them to be issued for. Chamberlain v. Cranbury, 29 Vr. 347. 
 
 2. Bonds issued by school districts are not mere mortgages, but are evi- 
 dences of legal debts of the districts issuing them. McCully v. Board of 
 Education, &c., 24 Vr. 18. 
 
 (b) See sections 128, 129, 275 and 276. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Bonds a lien 
 on all 
 
 property in 
 districts. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proceedings 
 to be 
 
 approved by 
 attorney- 
 general. 
 
 Notice to 
 
 assess 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Collection of 
 tax to pay 
 bonds and 
 interest. 
 
 the taking up and cancellation of such outstanding 
 bonds; or said renewal bonds may be exchanged for 
 such outstanding bonds on an equal basis of principal 
 and interest, and the bonds so redeemed shall be forth- 
 with cancelled by the Board of Education of said dis- 
 trict, (a) 
 
 108. (99.) Bonds of any school district issued under 
 the provisions of this article shall be a lien upon the real 
 estate situate in said district, and the personal estates 
 of the inhabitants of the said district, as well as the 
 property of said district, and said estates and property, 
 shall be liable for the payment of the same. Whenever 
 bonds shall be authorized to be issued by any school 
 district as aforesaid, the district clerk shall transmit cer- 
 tified copies of the record of the proceedings authoriz- 
 ing the issuing of such bonds to the Attorney-General 
 for his approval of the legality of said proceedings, and 
 duplicate copies of such record shall be filed with the 
 Commissioner of Education. 
 
 109. (100.) Whenever a township, incorporated town 
 or boro'Ugh school district shall have ordered and author- 
 ized the issue of bonds and the same shall have been 
 issued, the district clerk shall, each and every year, issue 
 to the assessor of the taxing district in which such school 
 district shall be situate, an order directing him to assess 
 upon the owners of property in said taxing district and 
 their estates, and the taxable property therein, an 
 amount sufficient to pay the bond or bonds maturing 
 in such year, together with the interest accruing upon all 
 the unpaid bonds of such district, which order so issued 
 as aforesaid shall be duly executed by said assessor. 
 The moneys so assessed shall be levied and collected by 
 the collector of said taxing district, who shall on or be- 
 fore the fifth day of January next thereafter, pay the full 
 amount so ordered to be assessed, levied and collected 
 to the custodian of the school moneys of said school dis- 
 
 (o) See sections 275 and 276. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 57 
 
 trict, who shall, upon the receipt of the orders of the 
 Board of Education, signed by the president and attested 
 by the district clerk (which orders shall state at what 
 bank the said principal and interest shall be payable), 
 deposit in such bank the sum of money necessary to pay 
 the principal and interest as they shall become due and 
 payable. 
 
 110. (101.) On the taking up of outstanding bonds, f a gdt lion 
 or on the payment of bonds of any township, incorpo- Ibld " 
 rated town or borough school district the Board of 
 Education of such district shall forthwith cancel the 
 
 same, and when so cancelled they shall be deposited in 
 the office of the Commissioner of Education. 
 
 111. (102.) The district clerk in any district in which Report of 
 
 J indebtedness 
 
 there shall be any interest-bearing school debt shall, on to state 
 
 J supenntenu- 
 
 or before the first day of August in each year, report to gj^ 
 the Commissioner of Education the amount of such 
 debt then remaining unpaid, together with the rate of 
 interest, the date or dates on which the bonds, notes or 
 other evidences of indebtedness were issued, and the 
 date or dates on which they will fall due. 
 
 112. (103.) Whenever a township, incorporated town consolidation 
 
 of districts. 
 
 or borough school district shall desire to consolidate with ibid. 
 an adjoining township, incorporated town or borough 
 school district, the Board of Education of said district 
 shall petition the County Superintendent of Schools of 
 the county in which said district shall be situate, to ap- 
 point a time when meetings of the legal voters of the 
 districts proposed to be consolidated shall be held, and 
 said County Superintendent of Schools shall, upon re- 
 ceiving said petition, appoint a day for said meetings, 
 and shall notify the Board of Education of each of said 
 districts of his action. Each Board of Education re- 
 ceiving such notification shall cause its district clerk to 
 post notices calling a special meeting of the legal voters 
 of the district for the purpose of voting on the question 
 of the consolidation of said districts. Said meeting 
 shall be called in the same manner as other special meet- 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Report to, 
 and action 
 by, county 
 superintend- 
 ent. 
 
 Board of 
 education of 
 consolidated 
 district. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 ings are called, and shall be held on the day designated 
 therefor by the County Superintendent of Schools, at 
 such hour and place as may be determined by the Board 
 of Education. The election shall be by ballot, and the 
 chairman shall appoint two tellers, who shall receive 
 and count the ballots in the presence of the chairman of 
 the meeting. The secretary of the meeting shall keep 
 a poll-list and shall record therein the name of each per- 
 son voting at such meeting, and shall also keep a tally- 
 sheet of the votes as counted by the tellers. The tally- 
 sheet shall be signed by the chairman and tellers, and 
 said tally-sheet, poll-list and ballots shall be placed in a 
 sealed package by the secretary, indorsed with the name 
 of the district, the name of the county in which said dis- 
 trict shall be situate, and the date on which said election 
 shall have been held, and said package, together with 
 a statement of the result of said election, signed by the 
 chairman and secretary, shall be, within five days after 
 the date of said election, forwarded by said secretary 
 to the County Superintendent of Schools, and the same 
 shall be preserved by him for one year. If the County 
 Superintendent of Schools shall ascertain from said 
 statements that the number of votes cast in each of said 
 districts in favor of consolidation exceeds the number of 
 votes cast against the same, he shall immediately notify 
 each of the Boards of Education of the result of said 
 election, and thereafter said districts shall constitute but 
 one district. 
 
 113. (104.) The Board of Education of each district 
 consolidated in the mtanner provided in the preceding sec- 
 tion shall, upon receipt of the notice from the County 
 Superintendent of Schools of such consolidation, select 
 by lot four of its number to serve as members of the 
 Board of Education of the consolidated district, and 
 the eight members so selected shall select the ninth 
 member of said board from among the remaining mem- 
 bers of the Board of Education of that district which 
 shall employ the greater number of teachers ; provided, 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 59 
 
 that if the Board of Education of one of the districts 
 so consolidated shall consist of but three members, all 
 of said members shall be members of the Board of Edu- 
 cation of the consolidated district, and four members 
 of said board shall be chosen as hereinbefore provided 
 from the Board of Education of the other district so 
 consolidated; and provided further, that if each of said Proviso. 
 Boards of Education shall consist of three members 
 only, said board shall constitute the Board of Education 
 of the consolidated district, and the board constituted 
 as hereinbefore provided shall serve until the next an- 
 nual meeting for the election of members of Boards of 
 Education, and the terms of office of the remaining 
 members of the Board of Education of each of said dis- 
 tricts so consolidated shall thereupon cease and deter- 
 mine. At said annual meeting a Board of Education 
 shall be elected as provided for the election of members 
 of Boards of Education in new township school districts. 
 
 114. (105.) The Board of Education of such consoli- JtT e e s rS of and 
 dated district shall be a body corporate and shall have all iCfd. d ' 
 the powers and duties and be subject to the same restric- 
 
 tions as a Board of Education in a township school dis- 
 trict, and shall be known as and called "the Board of 
 Education of the - of - >(here insert the 
 
 name of the municipality in which was situate that dis- 
 trict consolidated as aforesaid which had the larger 
 amount of taxable property as ascertained from the last 
 published report of the State Comptroller), in the 
 county of - -"(0) 
 
 115. (i.) Whenever in this State any township, incor- ^f c r h ic j oted 
 porated town or borough school district has heretofore p ri c r n t s olidate 
 been consolidated with an adjoining township, incor- 
 porated town or borough school district, by an election 
 
 of the legal voters of said township, incorporated town P.L. 1904, 
 
 Chap. 11. 
 
 (a) The fact that the teacher was employed by the trustees of a district 
 which was subsequently consolidated with another district will not bar his 
 right to recover, the new district having become entitled to all the property, 
 rights and assets of, and liable for all just claims against both districts. 
 Sprout v. Smith, u Vr. 314. 
 
60 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 or borough school districts, so that at the time of the 
 passage of the act to which this act is a supplement the 
 same formed one combined or consolidated school dis- 
 trict, and the legal voters of said district have not, since 
 said time, rejected a proposition to confirm or continue 
 such consolidation at an election called for that pur- 
 pose, and said district has been, since the passage of 
 said act, maintained and governed as one consolidated 
 school district, such district shall hereafter continue to 
 exist as a single consolidated school district in the same 
 manner as though the said act had not been passed, and 
 in the same manner as though said consolidated school 
 district had been erected by an election of the legal 
 voters of said district held in pursuance of section one 
 hundred and three of said act. (a) 
 
 116. ( i.) Where any school district of this State shall 
 prior to the passage of the act to which this is a supple- 
 ment, have issued bonds for the erection of a graded or 
 high school building therein, and at the time of the 
 issuing of such bonds and the erection of such building, 
 such district shall have comprised the territory of two 
 adjoining municipalities, the voters- of which shall have 
 joined or participated in the election authorizing the 
 issue of the bonds of such district for such purpose, and 
 such district shall have at the time of the passage of said 
 act been governed as a consolidated district, such school 
 district shall continue to be governed as a consolidated 
 district in the same manner as though such consolidation 
 had been effected in the manner provided by the act to 
 which this is a supplement, and the bonds so as aforesaid 
 
 (a) i. The act of March 4th, 1904, which declares certain consolidated 
 school district then existing de facto should continue to exist as consolidated 
 school districts, notwithstanding provisions to the contrary in the General 
 School law, is not unconstitutional, even though special and local, it being 
 in effect an act merely for establishing school districts, and not an act 
 regulating and governing them, nor providing for the management and sup- 
 port of the free public schools therein. Howe v. Board of Education, 43 
 Vr. 158. 
 
 2. The legislature may, by special act, create school districts, leaving their 
 government and the maintenance and support of the public schools therein 
 to be regulated by general laws enacted in that behalf. Ibid. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 61 
 
 issued shall be deemed to have been and shall continue 
 to be a lien upon the inhabitants and property of the mu- 
 cipalities comprising such school district at the time of 
 the issue thereof, notwithstanding the passage of the 
 act to which this is a supplement. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 117. (106.) A Board of Education may make rules Rules for 
 
 ' < J employment 
 
 and regulations governing the engagement and employ- , teachers, 
 ment of teachers and principals, the terms and tenure of ^^ 
 such employment, and the promotion and dismissal of 
 such teachers and principals, the salaries, and the time 
 and mode of payment thereof, and may from time to 
 time change, amend or repeal such rules and regulations. 
 The employment of any teacher by such board, and the 
 rights and duties of such teacher with respect to such 
 employment, shall be dependent upon and shall be gov- 
 erned by the rules and regulations in force with refer- 
 ence thereto. If a Board of Education shall not have Contract 
 
 with teacher. 
 
 made rules and regulations as aforesaid, then no con- 
 tract between such Board of Education and a teacher 
 shall be valid unless the same be in writing, or partly 
 written and partly printed, in triplicate, signed by the 
 president and district clerk or secretary of the Board 
 of Education and by the teacher. One copy thereof 
 shall be filed with the Board of Education, one copy 
 with the teacher and one copy with the County or City 
 Superintendent. Such contract shall specify the date 
 when such teacher shall begin teaching, the kind and 
 grade of certificate held by said teacher, and the date 
 when said certificate will expire, the salary, and such 
 other matter as may be necessary to a full and complete 
 understanding of the same. In every such contract, un- School 
 less otherwise specified, a month shall be construed and 
 taken to be twenty school days or four weeks of five 
 
62 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 school days each. The salary specified in every such 
 contract shall be paid in equal monthly installments, not 
 later than five days after the close of each month while 
 the school shall be in session. Any contract or engage- 
 ment between a Board of Education and a teacher shall 
 cease and determine and be of no effect against said 
 board whenever said board shall ascertain by notice in 
 writing received from the County or City Superintend- 
 ent, or otherwise, that said teacher is not in possession of 
 a proper teacher's certificate in full force and effect, not- 
 withstanding the term or engagement for which such 
 contract shall have been made may not then have ex- 
 pired. The Commissioner of Education shall prepare 
 and distribute blanks for contracts between Boards of 
 Education and teachers, (a) 
 
 118. (107.) In case the dismissal of any teacher be- 
 fore the expiration of any contract entered into between 
 such teacher and a Board of Education shall, upon ap- 
 peal, be decided to have been without good cause, such 
 teacher shall be entitled to compensation for the full term 
 for which said contract shall have been made ; but it shall 
 be optional with the Board of Education whether such 
 teacher shall or shall not teach for the unexpired 
 term.(fr) 
 
 (a) The employment of teachers by school corporations is an act judicial 
 in its character, and should be done at a meeting of the trustees of which 
 all should have notice, and in which all have an opportunity to participate. 
 Townsend v. School Trustees, 12 Vr. 312. 
 
 (b) i. A school teacher who has rendered services according to the require- 
 ments of the School law, and is refused compensation out of the fund specially 
 provided for that purpose, is entitled to a mandamus to compel the proper 
 officers to perform their duty, and to make payment of what is justly due. 
 Apgar v. School Trustees, 5 Vr. 308. 
 
 2. In an action brought by a teacher to recover of the trustees of a school 
 district for services as a teacher, an objection that the plaintiff was not the 
 holder of a proper teacher's certificate in full force and effect cannot be made 
 after the evidence is closed and the cause is being summed up. Sproul v. 
 Smith, ii Vr. 314. 
 
 3. A school teacher who has litigated successfully before the State Super- 
 intendent the controverted questions upon which her right to compensation 
 depends is entitled to a writ of mandamus to enforce a decision in her favor. 
 Thompson v. Board of Education, 28 Vr. 628. 
 
 4. In such a case the only burden upon the relator is to show that the 
 jurisdiction of the State Superintendent extended over the parties in con- 
 troversy. 
 
 5. See foot-notes to sections is and 114. 
 
 6. See section 127. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 63 
 
 119. ( 108.) If a teacher employed by a Board of Edu- f^ for 
 cation shall leave the school before the expiration of the 
 
 term of his or her employment, without the consent of 
 the Board of Education, said teacher shall be deemed 
 guilty of unprofessional conduct, and the Commissioner 
 of Education is authorized, upon receiving notice of 
 such fact, to suspend the certificate of such teacher for 
 a period not exceeding one year. 
 
 120. (109.) Every teacher in a public school shall Keep 
 keep a school register in the manner provided therefor, ^fl ster 
 and no salary shall be paid to such teacher until the dis- 
 
 trict clerk or other officer or person authorized to deliver 
 the check, order or warrant for such salary shall ascer- 
 tain that such register has-been properly kept for the 
 time for which salary is demanded, and shall enter upon 
 said register a certificate to that effect. The check, order 
 or warrant for the balance of salary due any teacher at 
 the time of closing the school for the summer vacation, 
 or of leaving the school before the end of the school 
 year, shall not be delivered to such teacher until the 
 district clerk or other officer authorized to deliver such 
 check, order or warrant shall have received written 
 notice from the County or City Superintendent that such 
 teacher has filed with him his or her annual report on 
 the blank furnished for that purpose by the Commis- 
 sioner of Education; provided, that in any school in Proviso 
 which more than one teacher shall be employed the 
 principal thereof shall furnish such report. 
 
 121. (no.) No teacher shall be required to teach 
 school on any day declared by law to be a public holiday, 
 and no deduction from a teacher's salary shall be made 
 by reason of the fact that a school day happens to be a 
 day declared by law to be a public holiday. Any con- 
 tract made in violation of this section shall have no 
 force or effect as against a teacher. 
 
 122. (in.) A teacher shall hold every pupil account- 
 able in school for disorderly conduct on the way to or 
 from school, or on the playgrounds of the school, or 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Corporal 
 punishment 
 forbidden. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Certificate 
 necessary. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Religious 
 exercises. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Exemption 
 from jury 
 duty. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Tenure per- 
 manent after 
 three years. 
 P. L. 1909, 
 Chap. 243. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 during recess, and shall suspend from school any pupil 
 for good cause ; provided, that such suspension shall be 
 reported forthwith by the teacher to the Board of Edu- 
 cation; provided further, that in any school in which 
 more than one teacher shall be employed the principal 
 alone shall have the power to suspend a pupil. 
 
 123. (112.) No principal, teacher or other person em- 
 ployed or engaged in any capacity in any school or edu- 
 cational institution, whether public or private, shall in- 
 flict or cause to be inflicted corporal punishment upon 
 any pupil attending such school or institution, and every 
 resolution, by-law, rule, ordinance or other act of author- 
 ity heretofore or hereafter passed, adopted, approved, 
 made or given by any person or persons whomsoever, 
 natural or artificial, permitting or authorizing corporal 
 punishment to be inflicted upon any pupil attending or 
 that may attend any school or educational institution 
 shall be henceforth void and of no force or effect. 
 
 124. (113.) No teacher shall be entitled to any salary 
 unless such teacher shall be the holder of an appropriate 
 teacher's certificate, (a) 
 
 125. (114.) No religious service or exercise, except 
 the reading of the Bible and the repeating of the Lord's 
 Prayer, shall be held in any school receiving any por- 
 tion of the moneys appropriated for the support of 
 public schools. 
 
 126. (115.) No teacher shall be required to serve on 
 any jury in this State while his school be in session. 
 
 127. ( i . ) The service of all teachers, principals, super- 
 vising principals of the public schools in any school dis- 
 trict of this State shall be during good behavior and 
 efficiency, after the expiration of a period of employ- 
 ment of three consecutive years in that district, unless 
 a shorter period is fixed by the employing board; pro- 
 vided, that the time any teacher, principal, supervising 
 principal has taught in the district in which he or 
 
 (a) See Article IV. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 she is employed at the time this act shall go into effect, 
 shall be counted in determining such period of employ- 
 ment. No principal or teacher shall be dismissed or 
 subjected to reduction of salary in said school district 
 except for inefficiency, incapacity, conduct unbecoming 
 a teacher or other just cause, and after a written charge 
 of the cause or causes shall have been preferred against 
 him or her, signed by the person or persons making 
 the same, and filed with the secretary or clerk of the 
 Board of Education having charge of the school in 
 which the service is being rendered, and after the charge 
 shall have been examined into and found true in fact 
 by said Board of Education, upon reasonable notice to 
 the person charged, who may be represented by counsel 
 at the hearing. Charges may be filed by any person, 
 whether a member of said school board or not. 
 
 128. (2.) Said Board of Education shall have power 
 to issue writs of subpoena on behalf of either party to 
 compel attendance of witnesses to testify before said 
 board in the matter under investigation, which sub- 
 poena shall be issued under the seal of said board and 
 be signed by the secretary or clerk thereof, and shall 
 be served in the same manner as subpoenas issued out 
 of the courts of common pleas of this State, and every 
 person who refuses or neglects to obey the command 
 of such a writ, or, who, after appearing, refuses to 
 be sworn and testify, shall in either event be liable to 
 a penalty of fifty dollars, to be sued for in the name 
 of said board in any court of competent jurisdiction, 
 which penalty when collected shall be paid to the treas- 
 urer or custodian of moneys of said board. Any mem- 
 ber of said board is hereby authorized to administer 
 oaths to such witnesses as may appear or be brought 
 before it, and any person who shall have been so 
 sworn and who shall testify falsely, shall be guilty of 
 perjury. 
 
 129. (3.) Nothing herein contained shall be held to 
 limit the right of any school board to reduce the num- 
 
 5 si. 
 
 As to charges 
 or reduction 
 of salary. 
 
 Hearing. 
 
 Cpmpel 
 witness by 
 subpoenas. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 Oaths. 
 
 Dismiss 
 teachers if 
 pupils 
 decrease. 
 Ibid. 
 
66 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Pension for 
 teachers. 
 P. L. 1911, 
 Chap. 276. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Schools free. 
 
 Age. 
 
 P. L. 1903, 
 
 Special 
 
 session. 
 
 Tuition fees 
 
 in certain 
 
 cases. 
 
 ber of principals or teachers employed in any school dis- 
 trict when such reduction shall be due to a natural 
 diminution of the number of pupils in said school dis- 
 trict; and provided further, that the service of any prin- 
 cipal or teacher may be terminated without charge or 
 trial who is not the holder of a proper teacher's certifi- 
 cate in full force and effect. 
 
 130. (i.) Any teacher, principal or superintendent 
 who shall have been employed in the public school sys- 
 tem of this State or any other State not less than thirty- 
 five years shall, upon application to the Board of Educa- 
 tion or other body, or by which such teacher, principal or 
 superintendent shall be employed, be retired from duty 
 on half the average annual salary during the last five 
 years of service; provided, such teacher, principal or 
 superintendent shall have been employed at least twenty 
 years by the Board of Education or other body by 
 which he or she shall be retired, and the payment to 
 such persons shall be made at the same time and in the 
 same manner as to teachers regularly employed, (a) 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 PUPILS. 
 
 131. ( 1 1 6.) Public schools shall be free to all persons 
 over five and under twenty years of age who shall be 
 residents of the school district. (&) Non-residents of 
 a school district, if otherwise competent, may be ad- 
 mitted to the schools of said district with the consent of 
 the Board of Education upon such terms as said board 
 
 (a) Although a teacher in the public schools is retired under without hav- 
 ing a hearing, the proceedings will not be set aside on certiorari when the 
 facts on which the retirement was based are conceded. Vroom v. Bayonne, 
 50 Vr. 46. 
 
 (b) The provision of article 4, section 7, paragraph 6, of the State con- 
 stitution is not a limitation of legislative power over the subject of free 
 public education. It prescribes what must be done with the school fund, 
 not what may be done at public expense out of the general funds of the 
 State. The facilities for free public education are to be provided by the 
 legislature within the exercise of a sound discretion, subject only to con- 
 stitutional restraint which must be found in expression or clear implication. 
 Rutgers College v. Morgan, 41 Vr. 460. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 67 
 
 may prescribe; provided, that the authority to charge Proviso, 
 tuition for non-resident pupils conferred by this section 
 shall not apply to non-resident pupils transferred to any 
 district by an order of the County Superintendent of 
 Schools, (a) 
 
 132. (117.) Whenever in any district there shall be T f r ^i s rtati n 
 children living remote from the schoolhouse, the Board ] 
 
 of Education of such district may make rules and con- 
 tracts for the transportation of such children to and from 
 school. Nothing in this section shall be so construed 
 as to prohibit a Board of Education from making con- 
 tracts for the transportation of children to a school in 
 an adjoining district when such children shall be trans- 
 ferred to said district by order of the County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools, or when any children shall attend 
 school in a district other than that in which they shall 
 reside by virtue of an agreement made by the respective 
 Boards of Education. 
 
 133. (118.) Any child living remote from any public J h r ^en r f 
 school in the district in which he or she shall reside shall ^mote from 
 be allowed to attend a public school in an adjoining Ibld- 
 district with the consent of the County Superintendent 
 
 of Schools, which consent shall be in writing, and one 
 copy thereof filed with the district clerk or secretary of 
 the Board of Education of the district in which such 
 child shall reside, and one copy filed with the district 
 clerk or secretary of the Board of Education of the dis- 
 trict in which such child shall attend school ; and in case 
 the districts shall not be in the same county, the written 
 consent of the County Superintendent of Schools of 
 each county shall be obtained. 
 
 134. (119.) Any child who shall have completed the 
 course of study pursued in the schools in the district in 
 which he or she shall reside may, with the consent of the 
 Board of Education of said district and of the Board of ib?d nct ' 
 Education of a district in which he or she shall desire 
 
 (a) See section 3, div. XT. 
 
68 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Pupils to 
 submit to 
 authority of 
 teacher. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Parents 
 liable for 
 pupil's 
 damage to 
 school 
 property. 
 
 Vaccination. 
 P. L. 1906, 
 Chap. 104. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 to attend school, be admitted to a school of higher grade 
 in said last-mentioned district. Said Boards of Educa- 
 tion shall determine the amount to be paid for the edu- 
 cation of such child, and the Board of Education of the 
 district in which such child shall reside shall issue an 
 order for said amount, signed by the president and dis- 
 trict clerk or secretary of the Board of Education, in 
 favor of the custodian of the school moneys of the 
 school district in which such child shall attend school, 
 which order shall be paid by the custodian of the school 
 moneys of the first-mentioned district out of any moneys 
 in his hands available for the current expenses of said 
 district, (a) 
 
 135. (120.) Pupils in the public schools shall comply 
 with the regulations established in pursuance of law for 
 the government of such schools; shall pursue the pre- 
 scribed course of study, and shall submit to the authority 
 of the teacher. Continued and willful disobedience, open 
 defiance of the authority of the teacher, the use of 
 habitual profanity or obscene language shall be good 
 cause for suspension or expulsion from school. Any 
 pupil who shall cut, deface or otherwise injure any 
 schoolhouse, furniture, fences, outbuildings or other 
 property of the school district shall be liable to suspen- 
 sion and punishment, and the parents or guardians of 
 such pupil shall be liable for damages to the amount of 
 the injury ; said amount to be collected by the Board of 
 Education in any court having jurisdiction, together 
 with the costs of said action. 
 
 136. (121.) A board of education may exclude from 
 school any teacher or pupil who shall not have been suc- 
 cessfully vaccinated or revaccinated, unless such teacher 
 or pupil shall present a certificate signed by a regularly 
 licensed physician that such teacher or pupil is an unfit 
 subject for vaccination; provided, that in any district 
 having a medical inspector appointed by the Board of 
 
 (a) See section 3, div. XI. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 69 
 
 Education the certificate hereinafter provided for shall 
 
 be furnished by such medical inspector, (a) No teacher Teachers or 
 
 or pupil who shall be a member of a household in which JPgjf * g 
 
 a person shall be ill with small-pox, diphtheria, scarlet ot e SteSd a11 
 
 fever, whooping cough, yellow fever, typhus fever, 
 
 cholera, measles or such other contagious or infectious 
 
 disease as may be designated by the Board of Educa- 
 
 tion, or of a household exposed to contagion as afore- 
 
 said, shall attend any public school during such illness, 
 
 nor until the Board of Education shall have been 
 
 furnished with a certificate from the Board of Health, 
 
 or from the physician attending such person, or from 
 
 a medical inspector, certifying that all danger of com- 
 
 municating such disease by such teacher or pupil has 
 
 passed. 
 
 137. (122.) In case any pupil enrolled in a public Vaccination 
 
 at public 
 
 school shall be found to be unvaccinated, whose parents j 
 shall be, in the judgment of the Board of Education, ' 1 
 unable to pay for the vaccination of such pupil, the dis- 
 trict clerk or secretary of the Board of Education may 
 give to said pupil a permit to appear before any regularly 
 licensed physician to be vaccinated, and such physician, 
 on presenting said permit with his certificate appended 
 thereto that the vaccination has been by him successfully 
 performed, shall receive from the township, city, incor- 
 porated town, borough or other municipality in which 
 said pupil shall reside the sum of fifty cents. 
 
 138. (123.) Whenever the Board of Health of any Schools dosed 
 township, city, incorporated town, borough or other mu- 
 nicipality shall declare any epidemic or cause of ill-health 
 to be so injurious or hazardous as to make it necessary 
 to close any or all of the public schools in such township, 
 city, incorporated town, borough or other municipality, 
 said board shall immediately serve notice on the Board 
 of Education of the school district situate in said town- 
 
 Co) The appointment of medical inspectors being mandatory, the certificate 
 must be furnished by such inspector. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 When new 
 pupils may 
 be admitted. 
 Ibid. 
 
 No exclusion 
 from school 
 on account of 
 color, etc. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Special classes 
 for pupils 
 below normal. 
 P. L. 1911, 
 Chap. 234. 
 
 ship, city, incorporated town, borough or other munici- 
 pality that it is desirable to close said school or schools. 
 Upon receipt of such notice such Board of Education 
 may close the schools under its control, or such of them 
 as may be designated by the Board of Health, and said 
 schools shall not be reopened until said Board of Edu- 
 cation shall be satisfied that all danger from said epi- 
 demic or cause of ill-health has been removed. 
 
 139. (124.) Children who shall have never attended 
 any public or private school may be admitted to a public 
 school during the ten days immediately following the 
 opening of said school for the fall term, during 
 the first five days in January and April respectively, and 
 at no other time except by a majority vote of all the 
 members of the Board of Education of the school dis- 
 trict in which said school shall be situate. 
 
 140. (125.) No child between the age of four and 
 twenty years shall be excluded from any public school 
 on account of his or her religion, nationality or color. 
 A member of any Board of Education who shall vote to 
 exclude from any public school any such child, on ac- 
 count of his or her religion, nationality or color shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of 
 not less than fifty dollars rior more than two hundred 
 and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, 
 workhouse or penitentiary of the county in which the 
 offence shall have been committed, for not less than 
 thirty days nor more than six months, or by both fine 
 and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, (a) 
 
 141. (i.) Each Board of Education in this State shall 
 ascertain what children, if any, there are in the public 
 schools who are three years or more below the normal. 
 
 (a) i. It is unlawful for school trustees to exclude children from any 
 school on the ground that they are of the negro race. Pierce v. Union Dis- 
 trict, &c., 17 Vr. 76. 
 
 2. In case of a controversy between a citizen and a local board of educa- 
 tion respecting the public school to which the children of the citizen should 
 be assigned, all remedies provided by the School law must be exhausted by 
 the citizen before the prerogative writs of the state are awarded to him. 
 Stockton v. Board of Education, &c., 43 Vr. 80. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 71 
 
 In each school district in this State in which there are 
 ten or more children, three years or more below the 
 normal, the Board of Education thereof shall establish 
 a special class or classes for their instruction, no class, 
 however, to contain more than fifteen children. In each 
 school district in this State where there are ten or more 
 blind or deaf children who are not now cared for or 
 who cannot be cared for in an institution, a special class 
 or classes shall be organized for their education, no such 
 class, however, to contain more than fifteen pupils. Such 
 classes shall be discontinued when proper provision is 
 made for the care and education of such blind and deaf 
 children by the State. The medical examiner of the JJ^f 
 district shall examine the children in special classes at examiner, 
 least once in every three months, (a) 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 SCHOOLHOUSES', FACILITIES AND ACCOMMODATIONS. 
 
 142. (126.) Each school district shall provide suitable Suitable ac- 
 commodations 
 school facilities and accommodations for all children re- must be fur- 
 
 nished. 
 
 siding in the district and desiring to attend the public ^Jj i w* 
 schools therein. Such facilities and accommodations 
 shall include proper school buildings, together with fur- 
 niture and equipment, convenience of access thereto, and 
 courses of study suited to the ages and attainments of 
 all pupils between the ages of five and twenty years. 
 Such facilities and accommodations may be provided 
 either in schools within the district convenient of ac- 
 cess to the pupils or as provided in sections one hun- 
 dred and seventeen, one hundred and eighteen and one 
 hundred and nineteen of the act to which this act is 
 an amendment. Whenever any school district shall School 
 
 moneys with- 
 
 fail to provide such facilities or accommodations, the held upon 
 
 failure to 
 
 County Superintendent of Schools shall transmit to the 
 
 (a) See section 251. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Out-houses 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 
 Tax for. 
 
 Plans for 
 school build- 
 ings. 
 
 P. L. 1911, 
 Chap. 369- 
 
 custodian of the school moneys of the school district an 
 order directing him to withhold from such district all 
 moneys in his hands, or which shall thereafter come into 
 his hands, to the credit of such school district received 
 from the State appropriation or from the State school 
 tax until such suitable facilities or accommodations shall 
 be provided, and shall notify the Board of Education of 
 such district of his action with the reasons therefor. 
 Such order shall not take effect until approved in writing 
 by the Commissioner of Education, and said approval 
 shall state when said order shall take effect. 
 
 143. (127.) Each Board of Education shall provide 
 at least two suitable and convenient outhouses or water- 
 closets for each of the schoolhouses under its control. 
 Said outhouses or water-closets shall be entirely sepa- 
 rated each from the other and shall have separate means 
 of access. Said outhouses and said water-closets, if de- 
 tached from the schoolhouse, shall be separated by a sub- 
 stantial close fence not less than seven feet in height. 
 The Board of Education shall have said outhouses and 
 water-closets kept in a clean and wholesome condition. 
 The question of raising the amount needed to carry into 
 effect the provisions of this section shall not be sub- 
 mitted to the legal voters of the school district, but the 
 Board of Education shall notify the assessor or assessors 
 and collector, by notice signed by the president and dis- 
 trict clerk or secretary, of the amount needed for such 
 purpose, and such amount shall be assessed, levied and 
 collected at the same time and in the same manner as 
 other special school taxes are assessed, levied and col- 
 lected. 
 
 144. (128.) The Commissioner of Charities and Cor- 
 rections shall, upon the request of the Commissioner of 
 Education, cause to be prepared standard plans and 
 specifications for school buildings to contain one, two, 
 four, six, eight, twelve, sixteen, twenty and twenty-four 
 rooms. The Commissioner of Education shall, upon 
 receipt of such plans and specifications, cause blueprints 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 73 
 
 to be made of the plans, and shall have printed copies 
 of the specifications and shall loan copies to any district 
 upon its application. The Commissioner of Charities 
 and Corrections shall also, upon the request of the 
 Commissioner of Education, cause to be made a thor- 
 ough examination of any school building and to report Examination 
 to the Commissioner of Education his findings in regard buildings. 
 thereto. The Commissioner of Education may direct 
 the entire or partial abandonment of any building used 
 for school purposes and may direct the making of such 
 changes therein as to him may seem proper. 
 
 145. (120.) No contract for the erection of any public Approval of 
 
 plans and 
 
 school building or any part thereof shall be made until jj} racts ' 
 and after plans and specifications therefor have been sub- 
 mitted to and approved by the State Board of Education. 
 A copy of the plans and specifications as approved shall 
 be filed forthwith with the State Board of Education. 
 A copy of the contracts for the erection of the whole 
 or any part of the school building and for the furnishing 
 thereof shall be filed with the State Board of Educa- 
 tion within ten days after the same have been signed. 
 No change in the plans or specifications shall be legal 
 unless the same have been submitted to and approved by 
 the State Board of Education. A copy of all changes as 
 approved shall be filed forthwith with the said board. 
 
 146. ( 130.) In any schoolhouse of two or more stories 
 in height, the doors leading from the classrooms to the 
 corridors and from said corridors to the street or to the f e P sSon. 
 ground surrounding such schoolhouse shall open out- 
 wardly. All swing-doors shall have plate-glass windows 
 
 of suitable dimensions. 
 
 147. (i.) Whenever any of the school buildings and P se of 
 
 J insuranc 
 
 furnishings thereof in any school district shall have p 3 ^ 
 been partially or totally destroyed by fire, the moneys Chap - 34 
 received by the Board of Education for insurance on said 
 building and furnishings and contents thereof may be 
 paid out by the custodian of the school moneys of the 
 district for the repairing, reconstruction or rebuilding of 
 
74 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 said building and the purchase and repairing of the 
 furnishings and contents thereof; provided, that insur- 
 ance money shall not be used by the Board of Education, 
 without the authority of the appropriating power, for a 
 building to be erected on a site other than that occupied 
 by the building destroyed by fire ; and provided further, 
 that the Board of Education shall not enter into a con- 
 tract for the construction of a building to cost more 
 than the amount of insurance money received until the 
 additional amount required has been regularly appro- 
 priated. 
 
 ARTICE XL 
 
 UNION-GRADED SCHOOLS. 
 
 Establish- 
 ment of 
 union-graded 
 schools. 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 Election, how 
 conducted. 
 
 Report to 
 county su- 
 perintendent. 
 
 148. (132.) Whenever the Boards of Education of two 
 or more adjoining school districts shall deem it for the 
 best interests of the children that said districts shall unite 
 in establishing and maintaining a union-graded school, 
 each oi said boards shall cause its secretary or district 
 clerk to insert in the notices calling any annual or special 
 meeting of the legal voters, a notice that the question of 
 establishing such union-graded school will be submitted 
 at such meeting. The legal voters shall vote by ballot, 
 and at any such meeting the secretary thereof shall keep 
 a poll-list of the legal voters voting on such question, and 
 a tally-sheet of the ballots as counted by the tellers. Said 
 ballots, poll-list and tally-sheet, which tally-sheet shall 
 be signed by the chairman of the meeting and by said 
 secretary, shall be, by said secretary, within five days 
 after the date of said mieeting, transmitted to the County 
 Superintendent of Schools in a sealed package indorsed 
 with the name of the district, of the county in which it 
 shall be situate, and the date of the meeting. Said 
 secretary shall also transmit to said County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools a certificate of the result of such vote 
 signed by said chairman and secretary. In case the 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 75 
 
 districts shall be situate in different counties, said secre- 
 tary shall transmit the ballots and other papers hereinbe- 
 fore described to the County Superintendent of Schools 
 of the county in which the district shall be situate, and 
 shall transmit a duplicate of the certificate of the re- 
 sult of such vote to the County Superintendent of 
 Schools of the county in which the other district or dis- 
 tricts shall be situate. If the County Superintendent of 
 Schools shall ascertain from such certificates that the 
 total number of votes cast in each of said districts in 
 favor of establishing such union-graded school exceeds 
 the total number of votes cast in each district against the 
 same, he shall immediately notify each of the Boards of 
 Education of the result of such vote. 
 
 149. (133.) Whenever two or more districts shall have unum school 
 voted to establish a union-graded school as provided in constituted. 
 the preceding section, the Board of Education of such 
 union-graded school shall be constituted as follows: 
 
 I. If two districts shall unite for the purpose afore- 
 said, the Board of Education of each of said districts 
 shall appoint two of its members as members of the 
 Board of Education of such union-graded school ; 
 
 II. If three or more districts shall unite for the pur- 
 pose aforesaid, the Board of Education of each of said 
 districts shall appoint one of its members as aforesaid. 
 
 150. (134.) Each board of education shall notify the Notification 
 
 to county su- 
 
 County Superintendent of Schools of the names of the penn 
 persons so appointed as aforesaid, and the persons so 
 appointed shall continue to be members of the Board 
 of Education of such union-graded school until the 
 second Tuesday in April next after their terms of office 
 as members of their respective boards of education shall 
 have expired, and their successors shall be appointed on 
 or before the first day of April in like manner and for 
 a like term. The members so appointed as aforesaid 
 shall continue to act as members of the boards of educa- 
 tion in their respective districts. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Removals and 
 
 vacancies. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Corporate 
 
 name. 
 
 Lhid. 
 
 Organization 
 of board of 
 education. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Custodian 
 of school 
 moneys. 
 
 Powers of 
 union-graded 
 school boards. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Purchase, 
 sell or lease 
 school 
 property. 
 
 151. (135.) A member of a board of education of a 
 union-graded school or the president or secretary there- 
 of, may be removed in the same manner as is provided in 
 this act for the removal of an officer or member of a 
 board of education. Any vacancy in such board shall be 
 filled by the board of education of the district which by 
 reason of such vacancy has not its full representation on 
 the board of education of such union-graded school. 
 
 152. (136.) Each board of education appointed as 
 provided in this article shall be a body corporate, and 
 shall be known as and called "the board of education of 
 
 the union-graded school of the school districts of 
 
 and 1 (here insert the names of the districts), 
 
 in the county of " (here insert the name of the 
 
 county in which the schoolhouse shall be located). 
 
 153. (137.) The Board of Education of each union- 
 graded school shall forthwith, after its first appointment, 
 organize by the election of one of its members as presi- 
 dent and a secretary, who shall serve until the second 
 Tuesday in April next after their election, on which day 
 and annually thereafter said board shall organize by the 
 election of the officers aforesaid. Said board shall ap- 
 point a suitable person as custodian of school moneys of 
 said union-graded school and shall fix his salary and 
 term of office. Said custodian shall have the powers 
 and be charged with the duties conferred or imposed 
 by this act upon custodians of school moneys of school 
 districts, and shall give such bond in such amount and 
 with such sureties as said board shall direct, but said 
 bond shall be for a sum not less than the amount annu- 
 ally apportioned to such school by the County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools. 
 
 154. (138.) The Board of Education of a union- 
 graded school shall have power : 
 
 I. To purchase, sell and improve school grounds, to 
 erect, lease, enlarge, improve, repair or furnish school 
 buildings; to borrow money with or without mortgage 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 77 
 
 and to raise money by taxation for any such purpose, or 
 to pay debts incurred therefor, or for the current ex- 
 penses of the schools ; provided, that for any such actb Proviso, 
 it shall have the previous authority of a majority vote 
 of the Board of Education of each of the districts 
 uniting in establishing said union-graded school; 
 
 II. To take and condemn land and other property Condemn 
 
 J land for 
 
 for school purposes, in the manner provided by law school 
 
 purposes. 
 
 regulating the ascertainment and payment of compensa- 
 tion for property condemned and taken for public use. 
 If either party shall feel aggrieved by any proceedings 
 and awards thereunder, said party may appeal in the 
 manner provided by law for appeals from such proceed- 
 ings and awards; provided, that before beginning any proviso, 
 proceedings for taking and condemning land and other 
 property, the Board of Education shall have the author- 
 ity of a majority vote of the Board of Education of 
 each of the districts uniting in establishing said union- 
 graded school; 
 
 III. To determine, subject to the approval of a ma- 
 jority of the Board of Education of each of the dis- 
 tricts uniting in establishing such union-graded school, 
 the amount needed to purchase land for school pur- 
 poses; to erect and furnish a suitable schoolhouse, or 
 to lease a schoolhouse already erected, and for the cur- 
 rent expenses of such school, in which term shall be 
 included principals', teachers', janitors' and medical in- 
 spectors' salaries, fuel, text-books, school supplies, flags, 
 school libraries, salaries of secretary and cutodian of 
 school moneys, insurance and the incidental expenses of 
 such school. The amount of money thus determined 
 shall be certified by the secretary of said board 
 to the assessors of the several taxing districts 
 in which the school districts uniting as afore- 
 said shall be situate, and said assessors shall 
 apportion said amount among said several taxing 
 districts in the proportion that the ratables of each bear 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Seal. 
 
 Supervising 
 principal. 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment of 
 moneys in 
 union school 
 districts. 
 Ibid. 
 
 to the total ratables o<f all said taxing districts, and the 
 amount thus apportioned to each taxing district shall be 
 assessed, levied and collected in the same manner and at 
 the same time as other school taxes shall be assessed, 
 levied and collected therein, and shall be paid by the 
 several collectors to the custodian of school moneys of 
 such union-graded school on or before the fifth day of 
 January next after the same shall become due and pay- 
 able to said several collectors; 
 
 IV. To adopt an official seal by which all its official 
 acts may be authenticated; 
 
 V. To appoint a supervising principal and fix his 
 salary, which principal shall be also the supervising 
 principal of the schools in the district uniting in estab- 
 lishing such union-graded school. Such supervising 
 principal shall hold a, state or a first-grade county cer- 
 tificate. 
 
 155. (139.) In making the annual apportionment of 
 school moneys, the County Superintendent of Schools 
 shall make an apportionment to such union-graded 
 school on the same basis and in the same manner as to 
 the school district in the county in which such union- 
 graded school shall be situate. If the districts which 
 shall have united in establishing such union-graded 
 school shall be situate in different counties, the County 
 Superintendent of Schools of each of such counties, in 
 making his annual apportionment of school moneys, 
 shall apportion to such union-graded school three hun- 
 dred dollars for the supervising principal and one 
 hundred dollars for each teacher employed therein dur- 
 ing the year preceding that for which said apportion- 
 ment shall be made, and in addition thereto shall ap- 
 portion an additional sum on the basis of the aggregate 
 days attendance of all pupils, residents of such county, 
 who shall have attended such union-graded school dur- 
 ing the year preceding thcJ: for which said apportion- 
 ment shall be made. 
 
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 156. (140.) The board of education of a union- ?^ e e s rs a f nd 
 graded school shall have all the powers and be charged ] $fZ d - 
 with all the duties conferred or imposed upon a board 
 
 of education in a township school district, so far as the 
 same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 article. 
 
 157. (141.) Each union-graded school shall be under fS5 ervision - 
 the supervision and control of the County Superintend- 
 ent of Schools of the county in which the school-house 
 
 shall be situate. 
 
 158. (142.) In case a board of education of a, union- ^hoof-Suses. 
 graded school shall decide that it is necessary to raise j 
 money to purchase land for school purposes, and for 
 
 the erection and furnishing of a school-house or for 
 the purchase thereof by the issue of bonds, it shall 
 notify the board of education of each of the districts 
 which shall have united in establishing such union- 
 graded school, of the amount needed, the number of 
 bonds to be issued, the denomination of such bonds, 
 the maximum rate of interest thereon, and the time or 
 times of payment. Each of such boards, upon receiving Question 
 
 . J ' submitted to 
 
 such notification, shall forthwith call a meeting of the voters. 
 legal voters of its district, and shall submit to said 
 meeting the question of issuing such bonds as proposed 
 by the board of education of such union-graded school, 
 and the district clerk of the board of education of each 
 of said districts shall transmit to the board of educa- 
 tion of such union-graded school certified copies of the 
 record of the proceedings of the board of education and 
 of the legal voters of said district thereon. If- from 
 said certified copies it shall appear that a majority of 
 the legal voters present at such meeting in each of said 
 districts, shall have voted in favor of the issue of such 
 bonds, the secretary of the board of education of such 
 union-graded school shall transmit such certified copies, 
 together with certified copies of the record of the pro- 
 ceedings of the board of education of such union- 
 
8o 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Approval of 
 attorney- 
 general. 
 
 Description 
 of bonds. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Provision for 
 interest and 
 redemption 
 of bonds. 
 Ibid. 
 
 graded school concerning the issue of such bonds, to 
 the Attorney-General for his approval of the legality of 
 all said proceedings, and shall file duplicate certified 
 copies of the record of all such proceedings with the 
 Commissioner of Education, and, upon the approval 
 thereof by the Attorney-General, said bonds may be 
 issued and sold by said board. 
 
 159. (143.) Bonds authorized as provided in this 
 article shall be issued in the corporate name of the board 
 of education of the union-graded school; shall bear in- 
 terest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per an- 
 num, payable semi-annually ; shall be signed by the 
 president of said board and attested by the secretary; 
 shall bear the seal of said board, and shall have coupons 
 attached for current payment of interest, which coupons 
 shall be signed by the secretary, and shall be numbered 
 to correspond to the bonds to which they shall be 
 severally attached. Bonds so issued shall be numbered 
 and a proper registry thereof kept by the secretary, and 
 may be sold at public or private sale for the best ob- 
 tainable price, but not less than par. Such bonds when 
 issued shall be a lien upon the real estate situate in each 
 of the districts which shall have united in establishing 
 such union-graded school, and the personal estates of the 
 inhabitants of each of said districts, as well as the prop- 
 erty of each of said districts, and said estates and prop- 
 erty shall be liable for the payment of the same. 
 
 160. (144.) Whenever bonds shall have been issued 
 by the board of education of a union-graded school, the 
 secretary of such board shall, each and every year, 
 certify to the assessors of the several taxing districts 
 in which the several school districts which shall have 
 united in establishing such union-graded school shall 
 be situate, the amount which shall become due during 
 such year for principal and interest of such bonds. The 
 amount so certified shall be apportioned and assessed 
 by said assessors in the same manner and in the same 
 
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 proportion as taxes for the current expenses of such 
 union-graded school shall be apportioned and assessed, 
 and the moneys so assessed shall be levied and collected 
 by the collectors of the several taxing districts, and the 
 said collectors shall, on or before the fifth day of Janu- 
 ary next thereafter, pay the full amount so ordered to 
 be assessed, levied and collected to the custodian of the 
 school moneys of said union-graded school, who shalL 
 upon receipt of the orders of said board of education 
 (which orders shall state at what bank said principal 
 and interest are payable), deposit in such bank the sum 
 of money necessary to pay said principal and interest 
 as they shall become due and payable. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 KINDERGARTENS. 
 
 161. (145.) The board of education of any school dis- 
 
 trict may establish a kindergarten school or a kindergar- nJ[f artens ' 
 ten department in any school under its control, and shall 
 admit to such kindergarten school or department any 
 child over the age of four and under the age of seven 
 years who shall be a resident of the district; provided, Proviso. 
 that no child under the age of five years shall be admitted 
 to any public school unless such school shall be a regu- 
 larly organized kindergarten school or shall have a kin- 
 dergarten department. 
 
 162. (146.) Every teacher in a kindergarten school or Teachers 
 department shall hold a special kindergarten certificate, gartensmust 
 
 ' hold special 
 
 issued by the State Board of Examiners. certificate. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 163. (147.) The expense of kindergarten schools or Expenses. 
 departments shall be paid out of any moneys available 
 
 for the current expenses of the schools, and in the same 
 manner and under the same restrictions as the expenses 
 of the other schools or departments shall be paid. 
 
 6 s i, 
 
82 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 Ages of 
 pupils in 
 night schools. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Term. 
 
 Expenses. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Evening 
 schools for 
 foreign-born 
 residents. 
 P. L. 1907, 
 Chap. 36. 
 
 Teachers. 
 
 Rules and 
 regulations. 
 
 Course of 
 study. 
 
 Appropriation. 
 Ibid. 
 
 EVENING SCHOOLS. 
 
 164. ( 148.) The board of education of any school dis- 
 trict may establish and maintain public evening schools 
 for the instruction of persons over twelve years of age 
 residents of the district, and unless such evening schools 
 shall be maintained for a term of not less than four 
 months in each year, each of said months to consist of at 
 least sixteen evening sessions of at least two hours each, 
 said district shall not be entitled to any apportionment 
 on the basis of the number of teachers employed in such 
 schools during the year preceding that for which the 
 apportionment shall be made. 
 
 165. (149.) The expenses of evening schools shall be 
 paid out of any moneys available for the current ex- 
 penses of the schools, and in the same manner and under 
 the same restrictions as the expenses of day schools shall 
 be paid. 
 
 166. (i.) The board of education of any school dis- 
 trict may establish and maintain a public evening school 
 or evening schools for the instruction of foreign-born 
 residents of said district, over fourteen years of age, in 
 the English language and in the form of government and 
 the laws of this State and of the United States. Every 
 teacher employed in such a school shall hold a special 
 teacher's certificate, valid as a license to teach in such 
 schools. The State Board of Education shall prescribe 
 rules for the proper control and management of such 
 schools, for the inspection thereof, for the granting of 
 certificates to teach therein, and for carrying into effect 
 the purposes of this act. The course of study in each of 
 such schools and any changes therein shall be submitted 
 to and shall be approved by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 167. (2.) Whenever in any school district there shall 
 have been raised by special appropriation or special tax, 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 83 
 
 or by subscription, or both, such sum as, in the judgment 
 of the State Board of Education, shall be sufficient for 
 the maintenance in such district of an evening school or 
 schools as aforesaid, there shall be paid for such pur- 
 pose to the custodian of the school moneys of said dis- 
 trict, on the order of the Commissioner of Education, an 
 amount equal to that raised therein as aforesaid, which 
 amount shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the war- 
 rant of the State Comptroller; provided, said order proviso, 
 shall not be issued until the course of study in such 
 school or schools or any changes therein shall have been 
 
 approved by the State Board of Education. The moneys Limit to 
 
 ~. f . , 111- state appro- 
 
 appropriated by the State as aforesaid to any school dis- 
 
 trict shall not exceed in any year the sum of five thou- 
 sand dollars. The custodian of the school moneys of 
 the school district shall be the legal custodian of any and mone >' s - 
 all funds appropriated, raised or subscribed for the 
 maintenance of such evening schools. He shall keep a 
 separate and distinct account thereof, and shall disburse 
 said moneys on orders signed by the president and dis- 
 trict clerk or secretary of the board of education. 
 
 168. (3.) The board of education of any school dis- 
 trict receiving an appropriation from the State for the 
 purpose mentioned in this act shall annually, on or be- Ibid - 
 fore the first day of August, make a special report to the 
 Commissioner of Education in the manner and form 
 prescribed by him. 
 
 169. (4.) The State Board of Education may, from Assistance 
 time to time, appoint suitable persons to assist in carry- 
 ing out the provisions of this act and to encourage the 
 establishment of such evening schools. The persons so 
 appointed shall receive no compensation for their serv- 
 ices, but shall be paid the necessary expenses incurred 
 
 by them under the provisions of this act. 
 
 170. (5.) The expenses incurred in carrying out the Expenses 
 provisions of this act shall be paid by the State Treas- met!" 
 urer on the warrant of the State Comptroller, but no 
 expense shall be incurred nor payment made for any of 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 the purposes named in this act until an appropriation 
 therefor shall have been made in a regular appropriation 
 bill. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 Free 
 
 text-books. 
 P. L, 1903, 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 Rules for 
 
 text-books. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 School 
 officers and 
 teachers not 
 to be 
 
 interested in 
 furnishing 
 text-books. 
 Ibid. 
 
 TEXT-BOOKS AND SUPPLIES. 
 
 171. (150.) Text-books and school supplies shall be 
 furnished free of cost for use by all pupils in the public 
 schools. Every school district shall raise and appropri- 
 ate annually in the same manner as other school moneys 
 shall be raised and appropriated in such district an 
 amount sufficient to pay for such text-books and sup- 
 plies. 
 
 172. (151.) Every board of education shall make rules 
 for safekeeping and proper care of text-books, and shall 
 keep an account of all moneys expended by it for such 
 text-books and supplies, and shall report the same in its 
 annual financial statement. 
 
 173. (152.) It shall be unlawful for any County Super- 
 intendent of Schools, member of a board of education, 
 teacher or any person officially connected with the pub- 
 lic schools to be agent for, or to be in any way pecuni- 
 arily or beneficially interested in the sale of any text- 
 books, maps, charts, school apparatus or supplies of any 
 kind or to receive compensation or reward of any kind 
 for any such sale or for unlawfully promoting or favor- 
 ing the same. A violation of the provisions of this sec- 
 tion shall be punishable by removal from office or by 
 revocation of certificate to teach. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 Regular at- 
 tendance at 
 school. 
 P. L. 1909, 
 Chap. 144. 
 
 COMPULSORY EDUCATION. 
 
 174. (153.) Every parent, guardian or other person 
 having control of a child between the ages of seven and 
 seventeen years inclusive shall cause such child to reg- 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 85 
 
 ularly attend a day school in which at least the common 
 school branches of reading-, writing, arithmetic, spell- ftudkd. 8 
 ing, English grammer and geography are taught by a 
 competent teacher, or receive equivalent instruction 
 elsewhere than at school, unless such child is above the 
 age of fifteen years and has completed the grammar 
 school course (prescribed by the State Board of Edu- 
 cation), and in addition thereto is regularly and law- 
 fully employed in some useful occupation or service. 
 Such regular attendance shall be during all the days f t ^ a ^ e 
 and hours that the public schools are in session in the 
 school district in which the child resides, unless it shall 
 be shown to the satisfaction of the Bioard of Educa- 
 tion of the school district in which such child resides, 
 that the bodily or mental condition of such child is 
 such as to prevent his or her attendance at school. If J f u " em P!- y ? d ' 
 
 to attend high 
 
 such child be under the age of seventeen years and has t r r al fng school, 
 completed the grammar school course and is not regu- 
 larly and lawfully employed in any useful occupation 
 or service, such child shall attend the high school or 
 manual-training school in said school district in which 
 such child resides, if there is a high school or manual- 
 training school in said district; if there is no high 
 school or manual-training school in said school district, 
 said child shall be transported to a high school or 
 manual-training school as provided in the act to which 
 this is an amendment. Any child above the age or Exemption 
 
 ' under cer- 
 
 fourteen years who submits satisfactory evidence to 3St?ons n " 
 the Board of Education of the school district in which 
 such child resides, that it is necessary that such child 
 should be employed in some occupation or service, 
 may be granted by said Board of Education a certifi- 
 cate exempting him or her from the provisions of this 
 section, such exemption to continue so long as said 
 child shall be regularly employed as aforesaid. 
 
 175. (154.) Any parent, guardian or other person f a e i?ure y to r 
 having the legal control of any child who shall fail to 
 
 comply with the provisions of section one hundred and Special 
 
 session. 
 
86 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 fifty-three of this act shall be deemed to be a dis- 
 orderly person, and upon sworn complaint made by the 
 truant officer or other person designated, to any justice 
 o-f the peace, police justice or city or town recorder 
 acting as such within the municipality wherein such 
 school district shall be situate, shall be apprehended 
 upon warrant issued to any constable of the county, 
 and upon conviction shall be punishable as a disorderly 
 person. 
 
 176. (155.) The board of education of each school dis- 
 
 trict may appoint, and may remove at pleasure, one or 
 more persons to be designated as truant officers, and 
 may fix their compensation, prescribe their duties, not 
 inconsistent with the provisions of this article, and shall 
 make rules and regulations for the performance of such 
 duties, (a) 
 
 177. (156.) The police authorities in any municipality 
 having an organized police force shall, upon the writ- 
 ten request of the board of education of the school dis- 
 trict situate in such municipality, detail one or more 
 members of said police force to act as truant officers. 
 Any police officer so detailed shall have all the powers 
 granted to truant officers under the provisions of this 
 article as fully as if appointed as such truant officers 
 by the board of education. Whenever the words, 
 "truant-officer" are used in this article, the same shall 
 apply as well to the person or persons designated under 
 section one hundred and fifty-five, as to those desig- 
 nated in this section. 
 
 178. (157.) Every child between the ages of seven and 
 fourteen years who shall be repeatedly absent from 
 school, or found away from home during school hours, 
 or whose parent, guardian or other person having legal 
 control of such child is unable to cause him to attend 
 school, or who shall be habitually a truant from school, 
 or who shall habitually wander about the streets and 
 
 fa) See sections 286 and 287. 
 
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 public places of any municipality during the school 
 hours having no lawful business or occupation, or any 
 pupil who shall be incorrigible, actually vagrant, vicious 
 or immoral in conduct, or who shall fail to comply with 
 the provisions of sections one hundred and sixty-one 
 and one hundred and sixty-two of this act, shall be 
 deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person and 
 proceeded against as provided in section one hundred 
 and fifty-nine of this act. 
 
 179. (158.) Every truant officer or other person desig- 
 nated by a board of education who shall find any child 
 between seven and fourteen years of age away from 
 home during school hours, who shall then be a truant 
 from school shall take such child and deliver him to 
 his parent, guardian, or other person having legal con- 
 control of such child, or to the teacher of the school 
 which such child is lawfully required to attend; said 
 truant officer, or other person shall examine into all 
 violations of the provisions of this act when requested 
 so to do by the Commissioner of Labor or by the board 
 of education of the district for which he shall have 
 been appointed or detailed, and shall thereupon warn 
 any child or pupil, its parent, guardian or other person 
 having legal control of such child or pupil in writing oi 
 the consequences of such violations if persisted in, and 
 shall request that the said parent, guardian or other per- 
 son cause the said pupil to improve his conduct, or said 
 child attend school within five days from serving said 
 notice in writing, and cause said child to attend regularly 
 thereafter; in the event said parent, guardian or other 
 person having control of said child or pupil shall fail, 
 neglect or refuse to cause said pupil to improve his con- 
 duct, or fail, neglect or refuse to cause said child to at- 
 tend school within said period and to attend regularly 
 each day during the remaining period of compulsory 
 attendance, unless regularly excused from school attend- 
 ance by the board of education, said parent, guardian 
 
 Duties of 
 
 truant 
 
 officer. 
 
 P. L. IQOS 
 
 Chap. 180. 
 
 Notice to 
 parents. 
 
 Penalty for 
 not sending 
 child to 
 school. 
 
88 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Complaint. 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 Disposition 
 of child. 
 
 or other person having legal control of such child or 
 pupil shall be deemed to be a disorderly person and 
 liable to prosecution without further notice. 
 
 180. (159.) In the case of the offenses set out in sec- 
 tion one hundred and fifty-seven it shall be the duty of 
 the truant officer or other person designated, when re- 
 quested by the board of education of the school district, 
 to make a complaint thereof under oath before any justice 
 of the peace, police justice or city or town recorder of the 
 municipality where such school district shall be situate, 
 who shall issue his warrant directed to any constable of 
 
 Apprehension, the county to immediately apprehend such child so com- 
 plained of and bring him before him, who, after an 
 examination had as to the offense charged may either 
 direct said child so complained of to be delivered to his 
 parent, guardian or other person entitled to its legal 
 control, or to the teacher of the class in the school at 
 which said child shall or ought to attend, or send the 
 complaint to the clerk of the court for the trial ot juve- 
 nile offenders, meanwhile committing such boy or girl 
 to the county jail to await trial or punishment as a juve- 
 nile offender, or parole him or her to await trial as 
 such before the court for the trial of juvenile offenders 
 in and for the county in which such school district shall 
 be situate. 
 
 181. (160.) Such truant officer shall report promptly 
 every such arrest and the disposition made of such 
 arrested child to the board of education of the school 
 district where said child shall be lawfully required to 
 attend school, or to such person as said board may 
 direct. 
 
 182. ( 161.) The board of education of any school dis- 
 trict may establish and maintain a school or schools, or 
 may set apart separate rooms in a public school build- 
 ing for the use, restraint and instruction of children 
 between the ages of seven and fourteen years who shall 
 be habitual truants from school, or who shall be habit- 
 
 Officer's 
 
 report. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Parental 
 
 school. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 89 
 
 ually insubordinate or incorrigible and disorderly dur- 
 ing their attendance at school. Such school or room 
 shall be known as a parental school. 
 
 183. (162.) Said board of education may compel any 
 such child to attend such parental school and, with the Ibid - 
 consent, in writing, of the parent, guardian or other 
 person having legal control of such child, may cause 
 such child to be restrained and instructed therein for 
 such a period and under such rules and regulations as 
 said board of education may prescribe. 
 
 184. (163.) If any such child shall not attend such ^aii 
 school, then he or she shall be proceeded against as a dis- Ibid - 
 orderly person as set out in sections one hundred and 
 fifty-seven and one hundred and fifty-nine of this act. 
 
 185. (164.) Any parental school established under the 
 provisions of this article shall be maintained as other 
 public schools shall be maintained in the district in 
 which it shall be situate under such rules and regula- 
 tons as the board of education of such district may pre- 
 scribe. 
 
 186. (165.) The board of education of a school dis- 
 trict in which there shall be no parental school, may send 
 children who shall be residents of such school district ho p a i rental 
 and who shall be habitual truants or insubordinate or ] 
 incorrigible as defined in this article, to a parental 
 
 school in an adjoining school district, by and with the 
 consent of the board of education of the district in 
 which said parental school shall be situate. Any ex- 
 pense incurred by a board of education under the pro- 
 visions of this section may be paid out of any moneys 
 raised by special district tax for the current expenses 
 of the school. 
 
 187. (i.) Whenever a complaint shall be made to a 
 magistrate against the parent, guardian or other person 
 having the legal control of any child, or against any 
 child between the ages of seven and fourteen years, for 
 failing to comply with any of the provisions of Article 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 XV. of the act to which this is a supplement, and there 
 is no provision in any other law in this state for com- 
 pensation to the magistrate for issuing his warrant and 
 holding an examination as to the offense charged, the 
 board of education of the school district wherein the 
 complaint shall be made, may, in its discretion, order 
 and direct the payment of a proper bill, made out and 
 sworn to by such magistrate, and not to exceed the sum 
 of fifty cents for the issuing of a warrant, holding the 
 examinations and disposing of the matter before him,, 
 and such payment shall be made from the special dis- 
 trict tax raised for the current expenses of said dis- 
 trict. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 
 Trustees of 
 school fund. 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 Secretary 
 of board. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Riparian 
 lands part 
 of school 
 fund. 
 Ibid. 
 
 SCHOOL FUND. 
 
 188. (166.) The Governor, the Attorney-General, the 
 Secretary of State, the State Comptroller and the State 
 Treasurer (a) are hereby constituted a Board of Trus- 
 tees of the Fund for the Support of Public Schools 
 arising from appropriations heretofore made or which 
 may be hereafter made by law, or which may arise trorn 
 gift, grant, bequest or devise, which board shall be 
 known as "The Trustees for the Support of Public 
 Schools." 
 
 189. ( 167.) The Secretary of State shall be the Secre- 
 tary of said board. He shall record in a book to be kept 
 for that purpose the proceedings of said board and the 
 accounts to be furnished by the State Treasurer as here- 
 inafter directed. 
 
 190. (168.) All lands belonging to this state now or 
 formerly lying under water are appropriated for the 
 support of public schools, and all moneys hereafter 
 received from the sales of such lands shall be paid to 
 "The Trustees for the Support of Public Schools/' and 
 
 (a) The Commissioner of Education is a member of the Board of Trustees. 
 See section 8. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 91 
 
 shall be invested by said board, and shall constitute a 
 part of the permanent school fund of the state. 
 
 191. (169.) All leases which have been heretofore income 
 
 from leases. 
 
 made, or which shall be hereafter made of such lands, ibid, 
 shall be held by "The Trustees for the Support of Public 
 Schools" as a part of the principal of the school fund, 
 and the income arising- from said leases shall be a part 
 of the income of said school fund. 
 
 192. (170.) Moneys belonging to the school fund shall investment* 
 be invested by said board in the bonds of the several 
 
 school districts of this state, or in the bonds of the United 
 States, or of this state, or in the bonds of any county, 
 city, incorporated town, township or borough of this 
 state the total indebtedness of which shall not exceed 
 in the aggregate fifteen per centum of the total assess- 
 able valuation of all taxable property therein, and the 
 interest thereof shall be a part of the income of said 
 school fund. The income of said school fund shall be useof 
 used for the support of public schools, the payment of 
 the salaries of the County Superintendents erf Schools, 
 the payment of premium's and accrued interest on bonds 
 purchased by the "Trustees for the Support of the Pub- 
 lic Schools," and for no other use or purpose whatso- 
 ever. An account of the management of said fund shall Annual 
 
 accounting. 
 
 be laid before the Legislature with the annual statements 
 of the State Treasurer's accounts; No compensation 
 shall be paid to said trustees or treasurer for any serv- 
 ices performed in pursuance of this article, (a) 
 
 193. (171.) Said board shall not invest any part of the Mortgage in- 
 
 vestments. 
 
 principal or interest of said fund in bonds secured by Ibid - 
 mortgage on lands except as hereinafter provided. 
 
 (a) i. The trustees for the support of public schools are the custodians of the 
 fund set apart for the support of public schools, free by constitutional pro- 
 vision from even the control of the legislature, except in the designation of 
 the mode in which the interest and dividends arising therefrom shall be 
 applied for the support of public schools. For the purposes of the adminis- 
 tration of the fund of which they are made custodians and of the rights and 
 remedies upon or against the securites in which it is invested, the trustees are 
 constituted the representatives of the State. American Dock and Improvement 
 Co. v. Trustees of Public Schools, 8 Stew. 181. 
 
 2. See sections 275 and 276. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Foreclosure. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Purchase 
 property at 
 foreclosure 
 sale. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Payment of 
 taxed costs. 
 
 Sale of 
 real estate. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Loan on 
 mortgage. 
 
 194. (172.) Said board shall cause foreclosure pro- 
 ceedings to be commenced without delay whenever the 
 interest on bonds secured by mortgage held by said 
 board as part of the school fund shall remain unpaid for 
 the space of six months ; provided, that whenever fore- 
 closure proceedings shall have been commenced, said 
 board may, in its discretion, discontinue the same upon 
 the payment of accrued interest and the costs of such 
 proceedings. 
 
 195. (173.) Said board may bid for and purchase any 
 lands and premises exposed to sale under the order and 
 decree of any court for the payment and satisfaction 
 of any mortgage incumbrance thereon held by said 
 board, and may take and hold title to the lands and 
 premises so purchased in and by its official name as a 
 part of the principal of the school fund; provided, that 
 said board shall not bid a higher price for such lands 
 and premises than shall be sufficient to produce the 
 amount due upon said mortgage incumbrance and costs. 
 The taxed costs attending such proceedings and sale, 
 if any, shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the war- 
 rant of the State Comptroller. 
 
 196. (174.) All real estate now held by "The Trustees 
 for the Support of Public Schools," and all real estate 
 that may be hereafter acquired by them under foreclos- 
 ure proceedings shall be sold, either at private or public 
 sale, at such times and at such prices as will, in the 
 judgment of said board, be for the best interests of the 
 state. Said board may advertise such properties, either 
 at private or public sale, in such manner as to it shall 
 seem judicious, and the proceeds of such sale shall be 
 paid into the school fund, and shall be invested by said 
 board as other moneys of said fund shall be invested. 
 Said board may loan to the purchaser of any said real 
 estate, one-half of the amount of purchase-money, the 
 

 SCHOOL LAW. 93 
 
 same to be secured by bond and mortgage on the prem- 
 ises so purchased, (a) 
 
 197. (175.) The State Treasurer shall make annually 
 
 to said board on the first day of the annual meeting of the 1 I e b f d slature ' 
 Legislature, and at such other times as said board shall 
 require, a statement of the school fund, containing an 
 account of the securities belonging thereto with the 
 dates of investment, their values, and the interest aris- 
 ing from each class of securities, together with an ac- 
 count of the moneys in the treasury belonging to said 
 fund. 
 
 198. (176.) There shall be annually apportioned and 
 paid from the income of the school fund for the support Ibid - 
 of public schools two hundred thousand dollars. If the 
 income of said fund shall not have been received in full, 
 
 or shall be insufficient for such appropriation, the sum Provision for 
 necessary to make up the deficiency shall be drawn tiuin 
 the State Treasury on the warrant of the State Comp- 
 troller, which sum so drawn as aforesaid shall be re- 
 placed fromi the income of said school fund as soon as 
 the same shall have been received. 
 
 199. (i.) It shall be lawful for the Trustees for the 
 Support of Public Schools to arrange with any munici- 
 
 pality in this State to change any bonds heretofore Chap - 236 - 
 purchased, or now held or hereafter purchased by said 
 trustees, from coupon to registered bonds, and it shall 
 be lawful for any municipality issuing such bonds so 
 held by said trustees to detach from such bonds the 
 coupons thereon and cancel the same, and stamp upon 
 such bonds the registration thereof, and the necessary 
 agreement for the payment of the interest thereon to 
 effectuate the provisions of this act. 
 
 Within sixty days after the passage of this act every 
 coupon bond in the possession of said trustees, and 
 
 (a) A bond and mortgage given to the trustees for the support of public 
 schools cannot be deducted from the valuation of real and personal estate for 
 which an individual shall be assessed for taxes. Montgomery v. Trenton, n 
 Vr. 89. 
 
94 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 every coupon bond thereafter acquired immediately 
 upon the receipt thereof, shall have stamped upon the 
 bond and upon each coupon the following: "This is 
 the property of the trustees for the Support of Public 
 Schools." 
 
 ARTICLE XVII. 
 
 Appropriation 
 
 from state 
 
 fund. 
 
 P. L. 1903, 
 
 Special 
 
 session. 
 
 State school 
 tax. 
 
 Rate of tax 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment by state 
 comptroller. 
 
 STAT SCHOOL TAX. 
 
 200. (177.) For the purpose of maintaining free pub- 
 lic schools there shall be appropriated each year from any 
 moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appro- 
 priated such sum, not less than one hundred thousand 
 dollars, as may be determined by the Legislature in the 
 annual appropriation act; which sum shall be appor- 
 tioned among and paid to the several counties in the 
 proportion that the ratables of each of said counties 
 shall bear to the total ratables of the state as exhibited 
 by the latest abstract of ratables filed in the office of the 
 State Comptroller. In addition to the amount so de- 
 termined and appropriated, a state school tax shall be 
 annually assessed, levied, and collected upon the taxable 
 real and personal property in the state, as exhibited by 
 the latest abstract of ratables from the several counties 
 made out by the several boards of assessors and filed in 
 the office of the State Comptroller. Said tax shall be 
 such an amount as will make, when added to the amount 
 determined and appropriated as aforesaid, a sum equal 
 to two and three-fourths mills on each dollar of valua- 
 tion of the taxable real and personal property in the 
 state as exhibited by the last abstract of ratables from 
 the several counties made out by the several boards of 
 assessors and filed in the office of the State Comptroller, 
 which tax shall be assessed, levied and collected at the 
 same time and in the same manner as other taxes shall 
 be assessed, levied and collected. The State Comp- 
 troller shall apportion said tax and appropriation 
 among the several counties in proportion to the amount 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 95 
 
 of taxable real and personal estate of said counties, 
 respectively, as shown by the abstract of ratables as 
 aforesaid, and he shall transmit on or before the first 
 day of February in each year, to the State Board of 
 Education, a statement of the amount of said tax and 
 appropriation, apportioned as aforesaid, and to the 
 County Collector a statement of the amount of said tax 
 apportioned to and payable by said county, and said 
 County Collector shall lay said statement before the 
 board of assessors of the townships, cities, incorporated 
 towns, boroughs and wards within his county at its 
 next annual meeting, and said board of assessors shall 
 thereupon apportion said school tax as other taxes art 
 apportioned, and the same shall be assessed, levied and 
 collected according to law. (a) 
 
 201. (178.) Every County Collector shall pay to the 
 State Treasurer the quota of the State school tax from t c ol s 1 t e a c t t e or 
 his county on or before the twentieth day of January ibS! 1 " 5 *' 
 next after the assessment thereof. In case any collector Penalty for 
 or other officer having the custody o>f collected taxes py U1 5a. 
 shall fail or neglect to pay to the County Collector the 
 full amount of State school tax due from his taxing dis- 
 trict on or before the twenty-second day of December, 
 said County Collector shall give to the County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools written notice of such failure or neg- 
 lect, and said County Superintendent of Schools shall 
 withhold from every school district in said taxing dis- 
 trict, the full amount apportioned to it out of the reserve 
 fund for the support of the school or schools situate 
 within said taxing district, and said County Superintend- 
 ent of Schools in making the next apportionment of 
 school moneys shall reapportion the amount of the re- 
 
 (a) i. School taxes are to be levied and applied for the school year succeed- 
 ing the assessment. Elisabeth v. Sheridan, 13 Vr. 64. 
 
 z. The board of assessors in apportioning the State and school taxes among 
 the several townships in a county must distribute them according to the 
 value of the property, after deducting debts, as shown by the duplicates of 
 the assessors of the several townships of the then present year and not of the 
 preceding year. Skirm v. Cox, Q Vr. 302. 
 
9 6 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Retention of 
 apportion- 
 ment from 
 state tax. 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment of 
 reserve fund. 
 Ibid. 
 
 serve fund so withheld among the several school districts 
 in his county. Said County Superintendent of Schools 
 shall also withhold from the custodian of the school 
 moneys of any school district the order for the amount 
 of money apportioned out of the State school tax to said 
 district, until the collector or other officer authorized to 
 collect taxes in the taxing district in which said school 
 district shall be situate shall have paid to the County 
 Collector the full amount of the State school tax due 
 from said taxing district, and the body having the con- 
 trol of the finances of any township, city, incorporated 
 town, borough or other municipality in which shall be 
 situate a school district from which shall have been 
 withheld as hereinbefore provided, the amount appor- 
 tioned out of the reserve fund for the support of schools, 
 shall forthwith appropriate to said school district, out 
 of any funds under its control, a sum equal to the 
 amount so withheld, and in case there shall be no funds 
 available for such purpose, the body having control of 
 the finances of such municipality shall borrow and ap- 
 propriate a sum sufficient for such purpose, and shall 
 place the amount so borrowed in the next annual tax 
 levy, (a) 
 
 202. (179.) Ten per centum of the full amount of the 
 State school tax annually raised shall be known as a 
 reserve fund, and shall, on or before the fifteenth day 
 of February in each year, be apportioned among the 
 several counties by the State Board of Education equit- 
 ably and justly according to its discretion. The Com- 
 missioner of Education shall, on or before the fifteenth 
 clay of January next ensuing said apportionment, draw 
 an order on the State Comptroller in favor of each 
 County Collector for ninety per centum of the amount 
 
 (a) i. A mandamus will be allowed to compel townships to pay state and 
 county taxes out of the first moneys collected. Veghte v. Bernards, i$ Vr. 
 338. 
 
 2. A peremptory mandamus will issue for the payment of State and county 
 taxes by a city where it has collected sufficient moneys for city, county and 
 State purposes to pay such taxes. Shields v. Paterson, 26 Vr. 495. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 97 
 
 of the State school tax paid by said County Collector 
 to the State Treasurer, and said County Collector shall 
 apply for and be entitled to receive the amount of said 
 order as soon as said order shall be received by him. 
 The Commissioner of Education shall also draw his 
 order in favor of each County Collector for such por- 
 tion of the reserve fund as shall have been apportioned 
 to his county as aforesaid, which order shall be payable 
 when the total amount of said reserve fund shall have 
 been received by the State Treasurer, (a) 
 
 203. (180.) The State Comptroller shall draw his 
 warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of the County 
 Collector of each county for the portion of the income 
 of the State School Fund, of the State appropriation and 
 State school tax to which said county shall be entitled, 
 whenever such County Collector shall present orders for 
 the same drawn by the Commissioner of Education. 
 
 204. (181.) The County Collector of each county shall 
 receive and hold in trust that part of the State appro- ? tnS? 
 priation and State school tax apportioned to his county, 
 
 and shall pay the same to the custodians of the school 
 moneys of the several school districts of his county on 
 the orders of the County Superintendent of Schools, (b) 
 
 collector. 
 ] 
 
 ne: 
 
 (a) See section 292. 
 
 (&) i. A county collector is not required or permitted to exercise any 
 discretion as to how much of the State appropriation the several township 
 collectors in the county are entitled to receive from him. The question as 
 between these officers is settled conclusively by the order of the county 
 superintendent of public schools. The notion that a county collector can, in 
 any case, lawfully reduce the amount by setting up some counter-claim, 
 whether in his own behalf or in behalf of his county, and whether against 
 the township collector, personally, or against his township, is neither justified 
 by the language nor consistent with the policy of our School laws. Herder 
 v. Collector, &c., 7 Vr. 363. 
 
 2. The county collector of each county shall receive and hold in trust the 
 State appropriation for public schools belonging to his county, and pay the 
 same to the collectors of the several townshps and to the city treasurers only 
 on the orders of the county superintendents, and is responsible for these 
 moneys if otherwise expended. Elizabeth v. Sheridan, 13 Vr. 64. 
 
 3. A mandamus lies against a county collector who utilises to pay over 
 school moneys. Herder v. Hunterdon, 7 Vr. 363. 
 
 4. A mandamus will be allowed for- the payment of the county superintend- 
 ent's order for the State appropriation for public schools when the moneys 
 
9 8 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 District 
 boards to 
 report to 
 county su- 
 perintendent. 
 P. L. 1907, 
 Chap. 122. 
 
 School 
 attendance. 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment of 
 school 
 moneys. 
 
 Amount for 
 supervisor or 
 city superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 205. (182.) The Board of Education of each school 
 district shall, on or before the fifteenth day of March in 
 each year, certify to the County Superintendent of 
 Schools for the county in which such school district shall 
 be situate, and on the blanks furnished for that purpose 
 by the Commissioner of Education, the number of 
 teachers who shall have been employed in the schools of 
 such district for the full time the schools therein shall 
 have been kept open during the then current school year, 
 and the number of teachers who shall have been em- 
 ployed in said schools for a portion of said year, but for 
 a period of not less than four months, specifying the 
 grade in which each of such teachers shall have been 
 employed. There shall also be certified as aforesaid 
 the number of pupils who shall have attended a public 
 school in a district other than that in which they reside, 
 and for whom tuition fees shall have been paid by the 
 Board of Education, specifying the grade in which each 
 of such pupils shall have been enrolled during said year, 
 and also the number of such pupils for whom transporta- 
 tion has been provided, and the cost thereof. 
 
 The said County Superintendent of Schools shall, on 
 or before the first day of April in each year, apportion 
 to the several school districts of said county the State 
 school moneys, and the interest of the surplus revenue 
 in the following manner : 
 
 I. (a) The sum of six hundred dollars to each dis- 
 trict in which there shall have been employed a Super- 
 vising Principal or City Superintendent of Schools, who 
 shall have devoted his entire time to the supervision of 
 the schools in such district, but if two or more districts 
 shall have united in employing a Supervising Principal 
 
 have been applied for school purposes in the preceding year beginning Janu- 
 ary ist. Elizabeth v. Sheridan, 13 Vr. 64. 
 
 5. A county collector, upon mandamus, will be ordered to pay over to the 
 treasurer of a town or township collector the amount of school moneys ap- 
 portioned to said tlllrn or township, for which the collector holds the order 
 of the county superintendent, although the town treasurer or township col- 
 lector may owe to the county collector moneys due for State and county 
 taxes. Plainfield v. Sheridan, 16 Vr. 276. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 99 
 
 as aforesaid, the six hundred dollars apportioned for 
 such principal shall be apportioned among said districts 
 in the proportion that the number of teachers employed 
 in each of said districts shall bear to the total number of 
 teachers employed in all of the districts uniting in em- 
 ploying said Supervising Principal, (a) 
 
 (b) The sum of four hundred dollars for each assist- f^J^JJ 
 ant superintendent and supervisor, other than the Super- superintend- 
 vising Principal, employed in the district, and permanent 
 teacher employed in a high school or high school depart- 
 ment having a full four years' course of study, which 
 
 shall have been approved by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion, (b) 
 
 (c) The sum of three hundred dollars for each per- For each 
 nianent teacher employed in a high school or high school 
 department having a full three years' course of study, 
 which shall have been approved by the State Board of 
 Education.(fr) 
 
 (d) The sum of two hundred dollars for each per- For each 
 
 teacher in 
 
 nianent teacher employed in an ungraded school, or in a ^J d ^ less 
 kindergarten, primary or grammar department or in a 
 high school department having a course of study of less 
 than three full years, which course of study shall have 
 been approved by the State Board of Education. (b) 
 
 (e) The sum of eighty dollars for each temporary For temporary 
 teacher who shall have been employed for a period of not 
 
 less than four months. 
 
 (/) The sum of eighty dollars for each teacher em- For night 
 ployed in an evening school for the full time such school teh*. 
 shall have been maintained ; provided, the Board of Edu- Ptoviso. 
 cation shall certify that said evening school has been 
 maintained at least four months during the school year 
 preceding that for which the apportionment shall be 
 made; provided further, if any such teacher shall have Proviso, 
 been also employed in the day schools of the same dis- 
 
 (a) See section 96. 
 
 (b) See section 3. div. X. 
 
100 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 For each high 
 school pupil 
 in other 
 district. 
 
 For each 
 pupil in 
 ther district. 
 
 For trans- 
 ported pupil. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 75 per cent, 
 of transporta- 
 tion. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 As to manual 
 
 training 
 
 teachers. 
 
 trict, the apportionment aforesaid shall be made for such 
 teacher in addition to any amount apportioned for him 
 as teacher in such day schools. 
 
 (g) The sum of twenty-five dollars for each pupil 
 who shall have attended a high school or a high school 
 department in a district other than that in which he re- 
 sides, and for whom a tuition fee shall be paid by the 
 Board of Education. 
 
 (h) The sum of five dollars for each pupil who shall 
 have attended an ungraded school or a kindergarten, 
 primary or grammar school department, in a district 
 other than that in which he resides, and for whom a 
 tuition fee shall have been paid by the Board of Edu- 
 cation. 
 
 (i) The sum of two hundred dollars to each district 
 in which the Board of Education shall have provided 
 proper means for the transportation of pupils in accord- 
 ance with the provisions of this act, so long as proper 
 transportation shall be provided; provided, that no ap- 
 propriation shall be made for transportation unless the 
 services of a teacher shall have been dispensed with by 
 reason of substituting transportion for the services of 
 such teacher. < 
 
 (&) Seventy-five per centum of the cost of transpor- 
 tation of pupils to a public school or schools in a district 
 other than that in which such pupils reside; provided, 
 that such apportionment shall not be made to any dis- 
 trict in which a schoolhouse shall be closed by reason 
 of providing such transportation. 
 
 In making such apportionment teachers employed in 
 a manual training schopl or department in a district 
 receiving an appropriation from the State for such man- 
 ual training school or department and who shall have 
 devoted at least one-half of the time the schools in said 
 district shall have been kept open to school work other 
 than manual training, shall be regarded as temporary 
 teachers only, but no apportionment shall be made for 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 101 
 
 teachers who shall have devoted their entire time to 
 teaching in such manual training school or department. 
 
 II. He shall apportion to the several school districts ^^0^. 
 of the county the remainder of said moneys on the basis ^ e y f s scl l 
 cf the total days' attendance of all pupils enrolled in the 
 public schools thereof as ascertained from the last pub- 
 lished report of the Commissioner of Education. For 
 the purpose of such apportionment an attendance upon 
 an evening school shall be counted as one-half day's 
 attendance. If a school in any district shall, on account 
 of contagious disease, destruction of the schoolhouse by 
 fire or otherwise, or for other good reason, be closed, 
 for the purpose of this apportionment, such school shall 
 be deemed to have been in session, and the total days' 
 attendance upon such school for the time it shall have 
 been closed as aforesaid shall be determined by dividing 
 the actual total days' attendance of the pupils enrolled 
 in such school by the number of days such school shall 
 have been actually in session, and multiplying the quo- 
 tient thus obtained by the number of school days such 
 school shall have been closed. 
 
 206. (183.) On or before the fifteenth day of Septem- ^ a n ^. e paid 
 ber in each year the custodian of the school moneys of 
 each school district shall pay to the County Collector the 
 balance of moneys apportioned to said district by the 
 County Superintendent of Schools, which may then be 
 in his hands to the credit of said district, and shall report 
 forthwith to the County Superintendent of Schools the 
 amount thus paid over, and the County Collector shall, 
 on or before the first day of October in each year, report 
 to trfe County Superintendent of Schools of his county 
 the amount of money received by him by virtue of the 
 provisions of this section, and said County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools shall thereupon reapportion such R ea ppor- 
 amount among all the school districts in said county. 1 
 The sum thus reapportioned shall be paid immediately 
 by the County Collector to the several custodians of 
 the school moneys of said districts on the orders of the 
 
102 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 County Superintendent of Schools, and shall be available 
 for the then current school year. The sum thus reap- 
 portioned to any district shall be in addition to the sum 
 apportioned to such district by the County Superin- 
 viso. tendant of Schools for said school year; provided, that 
 
 the County Superintendent of Schools may, for good 
 cause shown, allow any such balance to remain in the 
 hands of the custodian of the school moneys of such 
 district to the credit of such district, and such balance 
 may thereafter be used and expended by the Board of 
 Education of such school district for the purpose of 
 paying teachers' salaries and fuel bills, or, by and with 
 the written consent of the County Superintendent of 
 Schools, for the improvement of schoolhouses and 
 grounds, the purchase of school furniture, or for any 
 other purpose connected with the schools of such dis- 
 trict, (a) 
 
 ARTICLE: XVIII. 
 
 Custodian of 
 school 
 moneys. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Orders 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 CUSTODIAN OF SCHOOIv MONEYS. 
 
 207. ( 184.) In each school district there shall be a cus- 
 todian of school moneys, who shall receive and hold in 
 trust all school moneys belonging to such school district, 
 whether received from the State appropriation, State 
 school tax, district tax, appropriation, or from other 
 sources, and shall pay out the same only on orders signed 
 by the president and district clerk or secretary of the 
 Board of Education. Each order shall specify the object 
 for which it shall be given, and shall be made payable to 
 the order of and shall be indorsed by the person entitled 
 to receive the amount named therein; provided, that in 
 the payment of teachers' salaries a pay-roll, certified by 
 the president and district clerk or secretary of the Board 
 of Education, stating the names of the teachers and the 
 amount to be paid to each, may be delivered to the cus- 
 
 (a) For railroad tax see sections 290 to 295. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 103 
 
 todian of school moneys, accompanied by one order or 
 warrant, drawn to his order, for the full amount of said 
 pay-roll, in which case said custodian shall deliver to 
 said district clerk or secretary individual checks payable 
 to the order of said teachers. Said custodian shall pay 
 over the balance of school funds remaining in his hands 
 to his successor in office. He shall keep in the books 
 provided for that purpose a record of the sums received 
 and paid out by him. At the close of the school year he 
 shall transmit to the Board of Education of the district 
 a report showing the amounts received and disbursed 
 by him for school purposes during said year, and shall 
 file a duplicate of such report with the County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools. (a) 
 
 208. (185.) The person designated by law as the cus- 
 todian of the moneys belonging to the municipality in 
 which the school district shall be situate, or the collector, 
 when designated by such Board of Education, shall be 
 the custodian of the school moneys of such district, and 
 shall receive such compensation as the township com- 
 mittee, common council, or. other governing body of such 
 municipality shall determine, which compensation shall 
 be paid by said township committee, common council or 
 other governing body from the funds of the township, 
 incorporated town, borough, city or other municipality, 
 and the bonds given by said collector or other person 
 for the faithful performance of his duty as such officer, 
 shall be held to cover and secure the faithful perform- 
 ance of his duty as custodian of school moneys, and the 
 bondsmen thereon shall be liable therefor; and his 
 bondsmen shall remain and be legally bound for the 
 faithful performance of his duties as such custodian 
 until the final settlement of his accounts; nothing in 
 this article shall be construed as giving to the township 
 committee, common council or other governing body of 
 any municipality any control over moneys belonging to 
 the school district in the hands of the custodian of the 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 
 Municipal 
 
 custodian 
 
 of school 
 
 funds. 
 
 P. L. 1908, 
 
 Chap. 223. 
 
 Bond. 
 
 (a) See foot-notes to section 100. 
 
104 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Moneys held 
 in trust. 
 
 Joint school 
 district. 
 
 Payment of 
 moneys to 
 custodian. 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 school moneys of said district, but said money shall be 
 held by such custodian in trust, and shall be paid out 
 by him only on orders legally issued and signed by the 
 president and district clerk or secretary of the Board of 
 Education; any ordinance, by-law or resolution of a 
 township committee, common council or other governing 
 body of any municipality attempting to control such 
 moneys, or which shall in any way prevent the custodian 
 of the school moneys of the school district from paying 
 the orders of the Board of Education as and when they 
 shall be presented for payment shall be absolutely void 
 and of no effect; whenever any school district shall 
 contain more than one municipality the Board of Educa- 
 tion may appoint a suitable person as custodian of 
 school moneys of said district, and may fix his salary 
 and term of office. Such custodian shall give bonds for 
 the faithful discharge of his duties in such amount 
 and with such sureties as said board shall direct, but 
 such bonds shall be for a sum not less than the amount 
 apportioned to said district by the County Superintend- 
 ent of Schools; until the appointment of a custodian of 
 school moneys by the Board of Education, the collector 
 or other person residing in the municipality situate in 
 such school district having the largest amount of taxable 
 property shall be custodian of the school moneys of such 
 district, (a) 
 
 209. (186.) The collector or treasurer of each munici- 
 pality in which a school district shall be situate, shall pay 
 to the custodian of the school moneys of such school dis- 
 trict the amount ordered to be assessed, levied and col- 
 lected in such municipality for the use of the public 
 schools therein exclusive of the State school tax, on the 
 requisition or requisitions of the Board of Education. (&) 
 
 (a) Money raised and placed in the hands of an officer for a specific 
 purpose cannot be lawfully applied to any other purpose. Hoboken v. Ivison, 
 &fc., 5 Dutcher 65. 
 
 (&) A township collector is not required to pay over to the township com- 
 mittee taxes which he is directed by the legislature to pay over to other 
 persons or to retain in his own keeping as their official custodian. Hardyston 
 v. Harden, 39 Vr. 76. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 105 
 
 210. (187.) Whenever there shall have been estab- S ingfund> 
 lished a sinking fund for the payment of school bonds 
 
 and there is no officer or body designated by law as the 
 custodian of the funds belonging to such sinking fund, 
 the custodian of the moneys of the corporation which 
 shall have issued such bonds shall be the custodian of the 
 securities and moneys belonging to such fund, and the 
 bondsmen on his bond as such custodian shall be liable 
 for the safekeeping of said fund. 
 
 211. (188.) Whenever any order for payment of the wi^n school 
 
 orders draw 
 
 current expenses of a public school shall be drawn and jJJJ eft 
 issued by any Board of Education on the custodian of 
 the school moneys of such district, and there shall be 
 no funds in the hands of such custodian to pay the same, 
 such order shall bear legal interest until such time as 
 said custodian shall have funds to pay the same, of 
 which fact he shall give public notice, whereupon said 
 interest shall cease. \ 
 
 212. (189.) If any custodian of the school moneys of n " 
 any school district shall fail to make and transmit his 
 report to the Board of Education of the district, or shall 
 
 fail to make and transmit his report to the County Su- p.' 9 
 perintendent of Schools on or before the first day of 
 August in any year, he shall forfeit to said school district 
 the sum of ten dollars for each day thereafter until he 
 shall have made and transmitted his report to the Board 
 of Education of the district and to the County Superin- 
 tendent of Schools. Said sum shall be sued for and col- 
 lected by the district clerk or secretary of the Board of 
 Education of said district in any court of competent 
 jurisdiction. 
 
 ARTICLE XIX. 
 
 STATE NORMAL, SCHOOL. 
 
 213. (190.) State normal schools shall be maintained normal 
 
 schools. 
 
 for the purpose of training and educating persons in the |- i-. 
 
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 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Free tuition. 
 
 Supervision. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Repairs and 
 
 insurance. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Pupils; 
 number, 
 declaration. 
 Tbid. 
 
 Model 
 
 schools. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 science of education and art of teaching. The name and 
 title of each such school shall be designated by the State 
 Board of Education. Tuition in said schools shall be 
 free. 
 
 214. (191.) The State Board of Education shall have 
 the control and care of the buildings and grounds owned 
 and used by the State for normal schools and of the 
 funds for the support thereof; shall appoint and re- 
 move principals, teachers and other employes, and shall 
 fix their salaries; shall purchase and furnish text-books, 
 apparatus and supplies for the use of the pupils; shall 
 prescribe courses of study for such schools; shall make 
 rules for their management and shall grant diplomas. 
 
 215. (192.) The State Board of Education shall ap- 
 point a suitable person as treasurer of each of said 
 schools, and shall fix his salary. All bills and charges 
 for the maintenance of said schools, except as herein- 
 after provided, shall be paid by the treasurer thereof 
 upon the certificate of said board. 
 
 216. (193.) Said board shall order necessary repairs 
 to the grounds, buildings and furniture of said normal 
 schools, and shall keep said buildings and furniture in- 
 sured. The State Comptroller shall, upon the certificate 
 of said board, draw warrants upon the State Treasurer 
 for the payment of the cost thereof. 
 
 217. (194.) Each county shall be entitled to at least 
 six times as many pupils in such schools as it shall have 
 representatives in the Legislature. In case any county 
 shall not have the full number of pupils to which it shal) 
 be entitled, pupils may be admitted from other counties. 
 Pupils when admitted shall sign a declaration that they 
 intend to teach in the public schools of this State for at 
 least two years immediately after being graduated, 
 unless excused temporarily by the State Board of Edu- 
 cation, and that if they do not so teach they will refund 
 to the State the cost of their education. 
 
 218. (195.) The State Board of Education may main- 
 tain model schools under regular teachers, in which 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 107 
 
 NormaUchoot* 
 p. L. 1910, ' 
 
 pupils of the normal schools shall have the opportunity 
 to observe and practice approved methods of instruction 
 and discipline. 
 
 219. (i.) The moneys collected by the State Board of 
 Education for tuition fees from the model school and 
 for board at the boarding halls connected with the State 
 normal and model schools, and paid into the State 
 treasury pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled 
 "An act regulating the receipt and disbursement of State 
 moneys in certain cases," approved October thirty-first, 
 one thousand nine hundred and seven, and the supple- 
 ments thereto and amendments thereof, shall be held in 
 trust by the State Treasurer, no part thereof to lapse 
 into the general fund of the State at the close of the 
 State fiscal year, and shall be paid out by the State 
 Treasurer upon the warrant of the Comptroller for the 
 maintenance of the normal school boarding halls and 
 the model school upon bills duly certified and audited 
 by the State Board of Education. 
 
 220. (2.) In the purchase of provisions and supplies 
 for the boarding halls of said schools the State Board of 
 Education is authorized to purchase by contract or other- 
 wise, without first advertising for bids for the same, 
 as it shall deem for the best interests of the schools. 
 
 ARTICLE XX. 
 
 NEW JERSEY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. 
 
 221. (196.) A school shall be maintained for the pur- p a e j 903 
 pose of training and educating deaf children. The name ^gJion 1 . 
 and title of said school shall be "The New Jersey School 
 
 for the Deaf." Tuition in said school shall be free. Free tuition. 
 
 222. (197.) The State Board of Education shall have Control, 
 the control and care of the buildings and grounds owned ibld. er 
 and used by the State for a school for the deaf and the 
 funds for the support thereof; shall appoint and remove 
 
 a superintendent, teachers and other employes and shall 
 fix their salaries; shall purchase furniture, text-books, 
 school apparatus and other supplies; shall make rules 
 
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 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Maintenance. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Advertise- 
 ments for 
 supplies. 
 
 Award 
 contract. 
 
 Qualifications 
 of pupils. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 and regulations for the government and management of 
 said school and for the admission of pupils thereto. 
 
 223. (198.) All improvements, additions and repairs 
 to the buildings of said school and the furnishing thereof 
 shall be by contract, after due notice given and specifica- 
 tions furnished. The State Board of Education shall in- 
 vite proposals twice in each year, at intervals of six 
 months, for supplying said school with dry goods, wear- 
 ing apparel, groceries, provisions, vegetables, fuel, illu- 
 minating material and all other articles the necessity of 
 which it shall be practicable to determine as being needed 
 for the then ensuing six months. The standard quality 
 of such articles shall be determined by the board, and 
 standard samples of non-perishable articles shall be kept 
 in the office of the superintendent for the inspection of 
 bidders. The inviting of proposals shall be advertised 
 for ten consecutive days in two daily newspapers pub- 
 lished in the city of Trenton, which advertisement shall 
 classify the articles which shall be grouped in each 
 bid, and shall also state, as nearly as practicable, the 
 quantity needed, and that said goods are to be delivered 
 during the next ensuing six months as ordered by said 
 superintendent. Said board shall award the contract to 
 the lowest responsible bidder on each class or group of 
 articles advertised for, and shall require contractors to 
 enter into suitable bonds for the faithful performance of 
 said contracts. But said board shall have the right to 
 reject any and all bids not considered by it to be in the 
 interests of said school. 
 
 224. (199.) Deaf persons of suitable age and capacity 
 for instruction who shall be legal residents of this State 
 and not over twenty-one years of age, shall be entitled to 
 the privileges of the school for such a period of time, 
 not exceeding fourteen years, as the State Board of 
 Education shall determine; provided, that whenever 
 more persons apply for admission at one time than can 
 be properly accommodated in said school, said board 
 shall so apportion the number received that each county 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 109 
 
 shall be represented therein in the ratio of its deaf popu- 
 lation to the total deaf population of the State. Ap- ^ l S^ n . 
 plication for admission into said school shall be made 
 to the State Board of Education by a parent, guardian 
 or friend of the proposed pupil in such manner as said 
 board shall direct, but the board shall require such appli- 
 cation to be accompanied by a certificate from the judge 
 of the inferior court of common pleas or the county clerk 
 of the county, the chosen freeholder or clerk of the 
 township, the mayor or other executive officer of the city, 
 borough or other municipality in which the applicant 
 shall reside, setting forth that the applicant is a legal 
 resident of the township, city, borough or other munici- 
 pality claimed as his or her residence, and the age, 
 circumstances and capacity of such proposed pupil, and 
 the ability or inability of such proposed pupil or of his 
 or her parent or guardian to pay any part of the expense 
 of the care and maintenance of such proposed pupil. 
 Whenever said board shall be satisfied that the resources when charge 
 of any person applying for admission to such school or 
 being a pupil thereat, or those of his or her parent or 
 guardian shall be sufficient to defray either the whole 
 or a part of the expense of maintaining such pupil, said 
 board may require such parent or guardian to pay either 
 the whole or such portion of the annual expense of main- 
 taining such pupil as it shall deem just and equitable. 
 
 225. (200.) The State Board of Education shall ap- Treasurer, 
 point some suitable person treasurer of said school and 
 
 shall fix his salary. All bills and charges for the main- 
 tenance of said school shall be paid by said treasurer 
 upon the certificate of said board. 
 
 AJRTICLE XXI. 
 
 MANUAL TRAINING AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR COL- 
 ORED YOUTH. 
 
 226. (201.) The "Manual Training and Industrial Control of 
 
 Bordentown 
 
 School for Colored Youth" (now located at Bordentown) 
 
no 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Tuition free. 
 
 Number of 
 )upils. 
 
 Ht 
 
 Annual ap- 
 propriation 
 to Borden- 
 town school. 
 P. L. 1907. 
 p. 285. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 P. Iy. 1903, 
 Special 
 
 session. 
 
 shall be hereafter conducted and managed by the State 
 Board of Education, which board shall have the full man- 
 agement and control thereof; shall have the care and 
 charge of the buildings and property thereof; the appli- 
 cation and expending of the funds provided or appropri- 
 ated for the support thereof; the appointment and re- 
 moval of a principal, teacher and other employes ; the fix- 
 ing and paying of their salaries ; the power to prescribe 
 the studies and exercises of said school and rules for its 
 management, and for the admission of pupils thereto. 
 Tuition in said school shall be free. 
 
 227. (202.) Each county shall be entitled to as many 
 pupils in said school as it shall have representatives in the 
 Legislature, but in case any county shall not have in said 
 school the full number of pupils to which it shall be 
 entitled, pupils may be admitted from other counties. 
 
 228. (203.) In lieu of all claims, rights and title that 
 the "Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored 
 Youth" has or may hereafter have upon the annual ap- 
 propriation coming to this State from Congress under 
 the provision of the supplement to the act of Congress 
 of August thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and 
 ninety, a sum not to exceed twelve thousand dollars may 
 be annually appropriated for the maintenance of said 
 school out of any money in the Sftate treasury not other- 
 wise appropriated. 
 
 229. (204.) The State Board of Education shall ap- 
 point some suitable person treasurer of said school and 
 shall fix his salary. 
 
 ARTICLE XXII. 
 
 MANUAL TRAINING. 
 
 Appropriation. 
 Ibid. 
 
 230. (205.) Whenever in any school district there 
 shall have been raised by special tax or by subscription 
 or both, a sum not less than two hundred and fifty dol- 
 lars for the establishment in such district of a school or 
 
SCHOOL LAW. in 
 
 schools for industrial education or manual training, or 
 for the purpose of adding industrial education or manual 
 training to the course of study then pursued in the school 
 or schools of such district, there shall be paid for such 
 purpose to the custodian of the school moneys of said 
 district, on the order of the Commissioner of Educa- 
 tion, an amount equal to that raised therein as afore- 
 said, which amount shall be paid by the State Treas- 
 urer on the warrant of the State Comptroller. When- 
 ever such school or schools shall have been estab- 
 lished in any district, or said industrial education or 
 manual training shall have been added to the course of 
 study in the school or schools of any district, there shall 
 be paid to such district in like manner for the main- 
 tenance and support thereof a sum equal to that raised 
 each year in the district for such purpose; provided, Proviso. 
 that the course of study in industrial education or man- 
 ual training established under the provisions of this 
 section shall be approved by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion ; and provided further, that the moneys appropriated Proviso. 
 by the State as aforesaid to any school district shall 
 not exceed in any one year the sum of five thousand 
 dollars. The custodian of the school moneys of the ^fJJJlg 11 
 school district shall be the legal custodian of any and all 
 funds subscribed, appropriated or raised for the purpose 
 of carrying out the course of study contemplated by this 
 section, and he shall keep a separate and distinct account 
 thereof, and shall disburse said moneys on orders signed 
 by the president and district clerk or secretary of the 
 Board of Education. 
 
 231. (206.) In case the sum necessary as aforesaid to Additional 
 
 x managers. 
 
 obtain the State appropriation or any part thereof shall Ibid - 
 have been raised by private subscription, the Board of 
 Education of any school district in which there shall 
 have been established a separate school for industrial 
 education or manual training under the provisions of 
 this article, may select from among the donors of such 
 
112 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Re-port. 
 Tbid. 
 
 sum not more than six persons to assist said board in the 
 management of said school. 
 
 232. (207.) The Board of Education of any school 
 district receiving an appropriation from the State for the 
 purpose mentioned in this article shall annually, on or 
 before the first day of August, make a special report to 
 the Commissioner of Education in the manner and form 
 prescribed by him. 
 
 ARTICLE XXIII. 
 
 SCHOOL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Library ap- 
 propriation. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Selection 
 of books. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Joint 
 ibrary. 
 
 233. (208.) The State Comptroller shall draw his 
 warrant on the State Treasurer upon the order of the 
 Commissioner of Education, and in favor of the cus- 
 todian of the school moneys of a school district for 
 the sum of twenty dollars for any public school situ- 
 ate in such district for which there shall have been raised 
 by special district tax, subscription or entertainment a 
 like sum to establish in such school a school library, or 
 to procure books of reference, school apparatus or educa- 
 tional works of art; and the further sum of ten dollars 
 annually upon a like order, upon condition that there 
 shall have been raised by special district tax, subscrip- 
 tion or entertainment a like sum for the maintenance of 
 such library for such year. 
 
 234. (209.) All selections of articles aforesaid pur- 
 chased in part by State funds shall be approved in such 
 manner as the State Board of Education may by rule 
 direct. 
 
 235. (210.) In any school district in which there shall 
 be more than one schoolhouse, the school library com- 
 mittees of two or more of such schools may consolidate 
 and establish in one place the school libraries under their 
 control, and said committees shall constitute a joint 
 committee for the control and management of such con- 
 solidated library. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 113 
 
 ARTICLE XXIV. 
 TEACHERS' LIBRARIES. 
 
 236. (211.) Whenever in any county there shall have t s e up ^, of 
 been raised by subscription a sum of money not less libraries. 
 than one hundred dollars for the establishment of a 
 library of pedagogical books for the use of the teachers 
 
 of the public schools, the State Comptroller shall, 
 upon the order of the Commissioner of Education, 
 draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of the 
 County Superintendent of Schools of said county for the 
 sum of one hundred dollars for the benefit of such 
 library, and annually thereafter there shall be paid on a 
 like order a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, upon condition that there shall 
 have been raised by subscription a like sum for the main- 
 tenance of such library for such year. 
 
 237. (212.) The County Superintendent of Schools Committee^ 
 and three teachers of public schools in such county ap- Ibid - 
 pointed by him shall constitute a committee to select and 
 purchase books and apparatus for such library, and to 
 
 make rules and regulations for the management, use 
 and safekeeping thereof. 
 
 ARTICLE XXV. (a) 
 TEACHERS' RETIREMENT FUND. 
 
 238. (213.) There shall be a Board of Trustees, to be Trustees of 
 known as "The Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Re- fundThow 
 
 composed. 
 
 tirement Fund. Said board shall be composed of the p-^ 5 I9 7 ' 
 Commissioner of Education, three persons, not teachers, 
 and not eligible to membership in said fund, to be 
 selected by the Governor, and five persons mem- 
 bers of said fund, nominated as is hereinafter pro- 
 Co) Article XXV is not a private, local or special law. 
 The title of "An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free 
 public schools and to provide for the maintenance, support and management 
 thereof," expresses a single object and the creation of the Board of Trustees 
 of the Teachers' Retirement Fund is germane thereto and one of the products 
 of the act. Allen v. Passaic, 79 Atl. Rep. 101. 
 
 SSL 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Office. 
 
 Annual 
 
 convention. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Term. vidcd. The eight persons so selected or nominated shall 
 
 be appointed by the Governor. Said trustees shall be 
 appointed each for a term of four years, and in the 
 
 Vacancies. place of any trustee whose term shall expire a successor 
 shall be appointed in like manner for the term of four 
 years. A vacancy in said board shall be filled by the 
 Governor for the unexpired term in the case of a 
 trustee to be selected by the Governor as aforesaid, and 
 until the next annual convention in case of a trustee 
 nominated as is hereinafter provided. At said conven- 
 tion a person shall be nominated to fill the vacancy for 
 the unexpired term. A suitable office in the State 
 House at Trenton shall be provided for said Board of 
 Trustees. 
 
 239. (214.) The annual convention of the Teachers' 
 Retirement Fund shall be held at the State House in 
 Trenton, at twelve o'clock noon, on the last Saturday in 
 September of each year, for the purpose of nominating 
 members of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Re- 
 tirement Fund, of receiving the report of said board, and 
 for the transaction of any other business properly within 
 
 Delegates. its jurisdiction. Said convention shall be composed of 
 delegates from each county in the State, selected as is 
 hereinafter provided. Said convention shall be called 
 to order by the president of the Board of Trustees, and 
 shall organize by the election of a chairman and a secre- 
 tary. Bach county shall be entitled to be represented 
 in such convention by one delegate for each one hundred 
 teachers in said county who are members of the fund, 
 and one delegate for any fraction over fifty; provided, 
 that each county shall be entitled to at least one delegate. 
 Said delegate shall be elected by the vote of a majority 
 of the members of the fund in the county who shall be 
 present at a meeting held for the purpose of electing 
 such delegates. Said meeting for the election of dele- 
 gates shall be held at such convenient place as shall be 
 selected by the County Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 Notice of. Notice of the time and place of said meeting shall be 
 issued by said County Superintendent at least ten days 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 County 
 convention. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 115 
 
 before the date of said meeting. S'aid meeting shall 
 organize by the election of a chairman and a secretary. Organization. 
 Said secretary shall, within five days after said meeting, 
 forward to the president of the Board of Trustees 
 of the Teachers' Retirement Fund a certificate con- 
 taining the names and addresses of the delegates elected 
 to the annual convention. In case of a vacancy in the County 
 
 * delegates. 
 
 delegation from any county, the remaining delegates 
 from such county may fill such vacancy by appointing 
 a teacher in said county, who shall possess the qualifica- 
 tions hereinbefore prescribed for delegates to such con- 
 vention. A majority of all the delegates entitled to 
 seats in said convention shall constitute a quorum for the 
 transaction of business. 
 
 240. (215.) The officers of the Board of Trustees of <g& 
 the Teachers' Retirement Fund shall be a president, a Ibid - 
 vice-president and a secretary. The president and vice- 
 president shall be members of the Board of Trustees, 
 shall be elected annually on the second Saturday in 
 October, and shall hold office for one year and until 
 their successors shall be elected; provided, that their Proviso, 
 terms as officers shall not extend beyond their respective 
 terms as members of said board. The term of office of 
 the secretary shall be fixed by said board. Said board Careoffund. 
 shall administer the fund hereinafter mentioned, and 
 order all payments therefrom in the manner provided 
 by this article. Such portion of said fund as the Board Investments - 
 of Trustees may from tirne to time determine may be in- 
 vested in the following securities, being securities which 
 are now authorized by law for savings banks. 
 
 I. In stocks or bonds, or interest-bearing notes or JM3.M- 
 c-bligations of the United States, or those for which the 
 
 faith of the United States is distinctly pledged to pro- 
 vide for the payment of the principal and interest 
 thereof. 
 
 II. In the interest-bearing bonds of this State, or in g ) c 1 JJ/ ersey 
 any bonds authorized by the laws of this State to be 
 
 issued by any commission appointed by the Supreme 
 Court of this State by virtue of any law of this State. 
 
n6 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Bonds of 
 
 other states. 
 
 Municipal or 
 school bonds. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Other city or 
 state bonds. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 In bond 
 
 and mortgage. 
 
 III. In the bonds of any State in the Union that has 
 not, within ten years previous to mjaking such invest- 
 ment, defaulted in the payment of any part of either 
 principal or interest in any debt authorized to be con- 
 tracted by any law of such State. 
 
 IV. In the bonds of any county, township, munici- 
 pality or school district of this State issued pursuant to 
 the authority of any law 1 of this State; provided, such 
 county, township, municipality or school district shall 
 not, within the five years next preceding, have de- 
 faulted in the payment of any part of either principal 
 or interest of any legal debt or obligation thereof ; and 
 provided further, the total indebtedness of any borough 
 and village does not exceed ten per centum of its 
 assessed valuation, and such school district bonds are 
 by law charged upon all the property of the inhabitants 
 of such district; or in any interest-bearing obligation 
 (other than obligations commonly known as improve- 
 ment certificates) issued by the city, county, town, town- 
 ship, borough or village. 
 
 V. In the bonds of any city or county, or any other 
 State of the Union, issued pursuant to the authority 
 of any law of any such State; provided, such city or 
 county has not, within ten years previous to making such 
 investment, defaulted in the payment of any part of 
 either principal or interest of any debt authorized to 
 be contracted by any law of such State; and provided 
 further, the total indebtedness of any such city or county 
 is limited by law to ten per centum of its assessed valua- 
 tion. 
 
 VI. In bonds secured by mortgages which shall be 
 a first lien on real estate situate in this State, and worth 
 at least double the amount loaned thereon, but not to 
 exceed sixty per centum of the whole amount of the 
 permanent principal of the fund shall be so> loaned or 
 invested; but in case the loan is on unimproved or un- 
 productive real estate, the amount loaned thereon shall 
 not be more than thirty per centum of its actual value ; 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 117 
 
 and no investment in any bond and mortgage shall be 
 made except upon the report of a committee of at least 
 three of the trustees, and two members of which com- 
 mittee shall certify in writing to the value of the premises 
 mortgaged or to be mortgaged, according to their best 
 judgment; such report shall be filed and preserved 
 among the records of the trustees of the fund. 
 
 VII. In such real estate as shall have been purchased 
 or acquired by the fund at the sales upon the foreclosure 
 of mortgages owned by the fund, or upon judgments 
 or decrees obtained or rendered for debts due to it, or in 
 settlements effected to secure such debts or in satisfac- 
 tion of such mortgages ; and all such real estate shall be 
 sold by said fund within five years after the same shall 
 have been so purchased, unless, upon application to the 
 Commissioner of Banking and Insurance, he shall ex- 
 tend the time within which such sale shall be made. 
 
 All moneys so invested shall be deemed to be part of 
 the permanent principal of said fund, and the income 
 arising from said moneys so invested, together with all 
 moneys received by donation, gift, legacy, bequest, de- fnJjj t e ie s f 
 vise or otherwise, and which shall not be specifically 
 directed to be made a part of the permanent principal of 
 said fund, shall be available for the payment of annuities 
 under this article. All moneys received in payment of 
 principal of bonds or other securities held by said fund 
 shall be reinvested, and shall remain a part of said per- 
 manent principal. The fiscal year of said fund shall Fiscal year, 
 begin on the first day of July and end on the thirtieth 
 day of June. Said board shall present, at each annual Annual 
 convention of the Teachers' Retirement Fund, a report 
 of the condition of said fund for the last preceding fiscal 
 year, showing the receipts and disbursements on ac- 
 count of the fund, together with a list of the beneficiaries 
 thereof. A copy of said report shall be sent to the 
 Governor, and a copy to the State Board of Education, 
 which copy shall be included in the report of the said 
 board to the Legislature. The necessary clerical and 
 
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 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Expenses of 
 fund met by 
 state. 
 
 Treasurer 
 of fund. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Accounts 
 kept and 
 report. 
 
 Annuitants. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Amount paid 
 in must 
 equal 
 annuity. 
 
 other expenses incurred by the Board of Trustees and 
 by the State Treasurer in the administration of said 
 fund shall be paid by the State Treasurer, on the war- 
 rant of the State Comptroller, upon orders signed by the 
 president and secretary of said board. 
 
 241. (216.) The State Treasurer shall be, ex oMcio, 
 treasurer of the Teachers' Retirement Fund. He shall 
 receive all moneys payable to said fund, and pay out the 
 same only on warrants or orders signed by the president 
 and secretary of the Board of Trustees. All warrants 
 or orders, when so signed, shall be full authority for 
 the acquittance of said treasurer for all payments from 
 said fund. Steiid treasurer shall give receipts for all 
 moneys received by him for said fund; shall keep full 
 and correct accounts of the financial transactions con- 
 nected therewith, and shall make an annual report to the 
 Board of Trustees, at its meeting in September, of the 
 receipts and disbursements, and other financial transac- 
 tions connected with said fund. 
 
 242. (217.) Whenever any member of the Teachers' 
 Retirement Fund shall have taught or shall have been 
 employed in the public school system in this State, or in 
 any school in this State supported wholly or in part by 
 public moneys raised under the authority of any law 
 of this State, for a period or periods aggregating at least 
 twenty years, and shall, in the judgment of the Board 
 of Trustees of said fund, have become incapacitated 
 from performing the duties of a teacher, or of such 
 other employment as aforesaid, such person shall, at his 
 or her request, be retired, and shall thereafter receive an 
 annuity out of said fund equal to six-tenths the average 
 annual salary received by such person for the five years 
 of employment next preceding the date of retirement; 
 provided, that no annuity shall be less than two hundred 
 and fifty dollars nor more than six hundred and fifty 
 dollars. In case the amount paid to the fund by any 
 applicant at the time he or she shall apply for retire- 
 ment shall not be equal to at least the amount of his or 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 119 
 
 her annuity for one year, said applicant shall, before he 
 or she shall be paid any annuity, either pay into said 
 fund such sum as shall, together with the sums thereto- 
 fore paid by such applicant, equal one year's annuity as 
 aforesaid; or, in lieu thereof, shall give to the Board of 
 Trustees authority, in writing, to withhold all pay- 
 ments due to him or her on account of such annuity 
 until the sum so withheld shall be equal to the amount 
 due the fund as aforesaid, and to credit his or her ac- 
 count with the sum so withheld as full satisfaction of 
 the amount owing the fund by said applicant. Applica- Application 
 tion for retirement with annuity shall be filed with the 
 Board of Trustees while the applicant is in actual service, 
 or within two years after he or she shall have discon- 
 tinued teaching or such other active employment as 
 aforesaid. The decision of the Board of Trustees shall, 
 subject to appeal to the State Board of Education, de- 
 termine the right of the applicant to any annuity. The 
 payment of any annuity shall be suspended whenever the 
 annuitant has resumed teaching or such other active 
 employment as aforesaid, but such payment may be re- 
 newed whenever evidence shall be presented to the Board 
 of Trustees that such annuitant has again discontinued 
 teaching or such other active employment as aforesaid. 
 Any member of said fund who shall discontinue teach- ^ s e h n ip mem ' 
 ing or such other active employment as aforesaid, for c 
 any cause other than by reason of having become in- 
 capacitated as aforesaid, shall cease to be a member of 
 said fund; but upon resuming teaching or other active Deductions 
 employment as aforesaid, the deductions thereafter made ing teachin *- 
 from his contractual monthly salary shall be based on his 
 length of service in teaching or other active employment 
 as aforesaid at the time he resumes teaching or such em- 
 ployment. The amount theretofore paid on his account 
 to the Teachers' Retirement Fund shall be deemed to be 
 a part of the total amount to be deducted from his salary 
 and paid to said fund. 
 
120 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Annuities 
 paid quar- 
 terly. 
 Ibid. 
 
 How fund 
 constituted. 
 
 2 per cent, 
 from teachers 
 of ten years 
 or less. 
 
 2j4 per cent, 
 from teachers 
 between ten 
 and fifteen 
 years. 
 
 3 per cent, 
 from teachers 
 for fifteen 
 years or 
 more. 
 
 Total deduc- 
 tions. 
 
 Quarterly 
 
 settlements 
 
 between 
 
 teacher and 
 
 fund; 
 
 method. 
 
 243. (218.) All annuities shall be paid in quarterly 
 installments on the last day of September, December, 
 March and June, and each annuity granted shall date 
 from the day on which definite action thereon shall have 
 been taken by the Board of Trustees. 
 
 244. (219.) The retirement fund herein provided for 
 shall be made up as follows : 
 
 I. Two per centum of the contractual monthly salaries 
 of all members of the fund who were or who shall have 
 been teachers, or shall have been employed as is herein- 
 after provided, ten years or less when they became or 
 shall become members of the fund. 
 
 Two and one-half per centum of the contractual 
 monthly salaries of all members of the fund who were 
 or who shall have been teachers, or shall have been em- 
 ployed as is hereinafter provided, over ten years, but 
 less than fifteen years, when they became or shall be- 
 come members of the fund. 
 
 Three per centum of the contractual monthly salaries 
 of all members of the fund who were or who shall have 
 been teachers, or shall have been employed as is here- 
 inafter provided, fifteen years or more when they be- 
 came or shall become members of the fund. 
 
 No deductions made under the provisions of this 
 article from the salary of any teacher shall exceed fifty 
 dollars in any year. The total amount of deduction on 
 account of any member shall not exceed the sum of one 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 The amount due the Teachers' Retirement Fund shall 
 be reserved or deducted from each warrant or order for 
 salary given to each member of the fund by the Board 
 of Education or other board or officer as shall be re- 
 quired by law to give such warrants or orders, and the 
 said board or officer shall, between the first and twen- 
 tieth days of March, June, September and December, 
 draw a warrant for the amounts so reserved and de- 
 ducted in favor of the custodian of the school moneys 
 of the district or school in which such member shall be 
 
trustees. 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 121 
 
 employed, and the said custodian shall, immediately 
 upon receipt of any such warrant or order, forward to 
 the State Treasurer the amount of money named therein, 
 together with a list of the names, the monthly salaries, 
 the amounts deducted, and the percentage rates respec- 
 tively, of the persons from whose salaries the deductions 
 represented thereby have been made. 
 
 II. All moneys and property received by donation, Gifts, iega- 
 
 . . ues, etc 
 
 gift, legacy, bequest, devise, or otherwise, for or on 
 account of said fund. 
 
 III. All interest on investments, and other moneys interest from 
 
 .,., .,.. . ft - V * investments. 
 
 which may be raised for the increase of said fund. 
 
 245. (220.) Said Board of Trustees shall have power : Power of 
 
 I. To frame and modify by-laws for its own govern- 
 ment not inconsistent with the laws of this State; to 
 elect its president and other officers, and to prescribe 
 and enforce rules and regulations necessary to carry 
 into effect the provisions of this article. 
 
 II. To subpoena witnesses and compel their attend- Subpoena 
 
 witnesses. 
 
 ance to testify before it in all matters relating to the 
 operation of this article, and any member of said board 
 may administer oaths or affirmations to such witnesses. 
 
 III. To fix the salary and the term of office of secre- Salary of 
 
 secretary. 
 
 tary of said board. 
 
 IV. To draw its warrants upon the State Treasurer p ay 
 
 r i f i f f f. annuities. 
 
 for the payment out of said fund of all annuities pay- 
 able under the provisions of this article; the members 
 of said board, excepting the secretary, shall serve with- 
 out compensation, but the State Treasurer shall, upon 
 the warrants of the State Comptroller, pay their neces- 
 sary expenses; provided, that if said board shall elect p r0 viso. 
 one of its members secretary, such member may receive 
 compensation for services rendered as secretary. 
 
 V. By the name of "The Board of Trustees of the Corporate 
 
 t-r\ -r\ name 
 
 Teachers Retirement Fund," to sue and be sued, com- 
 plain and defend, in any court of law or equity. 
 
 VI. To have, hold, purchase, sell, assign and transfer Control of 
 
 ... . funds and 
 
 any or the securities in which any part of the said re- securities. 
 
122 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Waiver of 
 present 
 rights, and 
 acceptance 
 of this act. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Form of 
 waiver and 
 acceptance. 
 
 Copy of 
 notice filed 
 with school 
 board. 
 
 When those 
 entitled to 
 may join 
 fund.' 
 
 tirement fund may be invested, and any moneys belong- 
 ing to said fund. 
 
 246. (221.) I. Any person who is now a member of 
 the Teachers' Retirement Fund may, on or before the 
 first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and 
 nine, waive all rights and privileges he now has as such 
 member and accept the provisions of this act, with all its 
 rights and privileges, by signing and delivering to the 
 Board of Trustees of said fund a notice substantially 
 in the following form: 
 
 To the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement 
 
 Fund: 
 
 You are here notified that I hereby waive all rights 
 and privileges as a member of the Teachers' Retirement 
 Fund under the provisions of any act heretofore passed 
 by the Legislature, and that I hereby accept the provi- 
 sions of an act entiled "An act to amend an act entitled 
 'An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of 
 free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, 
 support and management thereof,' approved October 
 nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three," ap- 
 proved (here insert the date of approval of this act), and 
 that I do hereby agree to be bound thereby. Dated 
 
 A copy of said notice shall be filed with the Board of 
 Education or other body by whom he or she shall be 
 employed. Any member of the fund as aforesaid who 
 shall not file such notice shall continue to be bound by 
 the provisions of the statute in force at the time he or 
 she became a member of the fund, and shall be entitled 
 only to such benefits as are thereby conferred. 
 
 II. Any person now entitled to membership in said 
 fund, but who has not heretofore become a member, may 
 join said fund on or before the first day of January, one 
 thousand nine hundred and nine, by signing and de- 
 livering to the Board of Education, Board of Trustees. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 123 
 
 or other body by whom he or she shall be employed, a 
 notice substantially in the form hereinbefore prescribed. 
 
 III. Any person who may become entitled to mem- 
 bership in said fund after this act shall take effect as 
 shall give such notice on or before the first day of 
 January, one thousand nine hundred and nine. 
 
 IV. Every person who shall be appointed to any posi- 
 tion hereinafter designated on or after the first day of 
 January, one thousand nine hundred and eight, shall 
 become a member of the fund by virtue of such appoint- 
 ment; provided, this shall not apply to any member Proviso - 
 of the fund, of to any person eligible to membership in 
 
 said fund, prior to January first, one thousand nine hun- 
 dred and eight, (a) 
 
 247. (222.) Any member of said fund who shall cease 
 
 to teach or be employed in the school or position in which fgf i 
 he or she shall have been employed, and who shall be 
 employed in any other school or position, shall imme- 
 diately give written notice to the Board of Education, 
 or other body having control of the school or position in 
 which he or she shall be employed, that he or she is a 
 member of the Teachers' Retirement Fund, and said 
 notice shall direct that the prescribed per centum of his 
 or her contractual monthly salary be deducted monthly 
 and forwarded quarterly to the State Treasurer as is 
 hereinbefore provided. Such member shall send a copy 
 of said notice, with his or her address, to the secretary 
 of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement 
 Fund, and another copy of said notice to the State 
 Treasurer. 
 
 248. (223.) It shall be the duty of all Boards of Edu- 
 
 cation or Boards of Trustees, or other officers charged n e d m dS5ct P 
 with the appointment or engagement of persons entitled ibid? ntaBe ' 
 to membership in the Teachers' Retirement Fund, to 
 learn if a person so appointed or engaged is a member of 
 
 (a) The provisions of this section become a part of the contract entered 
 into by a person accepting, after January ist, 1908, any position designated 
 in said article, by the mere fact of acceptance, and authorize the deduction 
 and detention, for the Teachers' Retirement Fund, of the percentage pre- 
 scribed by the School Law. Allen v. Passaic, 79 Atl. Rep. xoi. 
 
124 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Eligibility to 
 membership. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Appropriation 
 
 for expenses 
 
 of teachers' 
 
 retirement 
 
 fund. 
 
 P. L. 1905, 
 
 Chap. 95. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Salaries of 
 teachers. 
 P. L. 1903, 
 Special 
 session. 
 
 said fund, and if such be the case, to deduct the percent- 
 age of such salary due to said fund from his or her con- 
 tractual monthly salary and remit the same to the State 
 Treasurer as is hereinbefore provided. 
 
 249. (224.) Any teacher, teacher-clerk, principal, 
 supervisor, supervising principal or superintendent who 
 shall teach or be employed in the public schools of this 
 State, or in any normal, model or reformatory school of 
 this State, or in any other school of this State supported 
 either wholly or in part by public moneys raised under 
 the authority of any law of this State, and any city, 
 county or State superintendent of the public schools of 
 this State, shall be eligible to membership in the 
 Teachers' Retirement Fund. 
 
 250. (i.) The sum of fifteen hundred dollars, or such 
 part thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is 
 hereby appropriated annually for the payment of the 
 expenses of the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Re- 
 tirement Fund provided for by article twenty-five of the 
 act to which this is a supplement, for the administration 
 of said fund, including the expenses of the State Treas- 
 urer and all clerical and other expenses of said Board of 
 Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund under the 
 direction of the State Treasurer; provided, that no ex- 
 penses shall be incurred for which the State shall be 
 liable in connection herewith, unless first approved by 
 the State Treasurer; and provided further, that such 
 expenditure shall be in nowise a guarantee on the part 
 of the State as to the security, condition or prospects of 
 the fund. 
 
 ARTICLE XXVI. 
 
 SALARIES Of TEACHERS AND PRINCIPALS. 
 
 251. (225.) Teachers hereafter employed in any 
 graded school in this State supported in whole or in part 
 by State moneys shall receive salaries proportioned to 
 their experience and success in the school district where 
 they may be employed, such salary, in the case of every 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 125 
 
 teacher whose experience and success have been prop- 
 erly certified to, to be not less than the amount provided 
 for such teacher in the following schedule : 
 
 Aissistant teachers in primary and grammar schools 
 and kindergartens: 
 
 Less than two years' experience, four hundred and depar 
 eight dollars per annum; 
 
 Two years' and less than three years' experience, four 
 hundred and fifty-six dollars per annum; 
 
 Three years' and less than four years' experience, five 
 hundred and four dollars per annum ; 
 
 Four years' and less than five years' experience, five 
 hundred and fifty-two dollars per annum ; 
 
 Five years' and less than six years' experience, six 
 hundred dollars per annum; 
 
 Six years' and less than seven years' experience, six 
 hundred and forty-eight dollars per annum! ; 
 
 Seven years' and less than eight years' experience, six 
 hundred and ninety-six dollars per annum; 
 
 Eight years' and less than nine years' experience, 
 seven hundred and forty-four dollars per annum; 
 
 Nine years' and less than ten years' experience, seven 
 hundred and ninety-two dollars per annum; 
 
 Ten years' and less than eleven years' experience, 
 eight hundred and forty dollars per annum; 
 
 Eleven years' and less than twelve years' experience, 
 eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars per annum ; 
 
 Twelve years' experience and upwards, nine hundred 
 and thirty-six dollars per annum; 
 
 Principals of schools containing grammar and pri- 
 mary departments: 
 
 Less than one year's experience as such principal, one 
 thousa*nd eight hundred dollars per annum; 
 
 One year's and less than two years' experience, one 
 thousand nine hundred dollars per annum; 
 
 Two years' and less than three years' experience, two 
 thousand dollars per annum; 
 
128 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Principals 
 of primary 
 departments 
 in training 
 schools. 
 
 Teachers of 
 methods in 
 training 
 schools. 
 
 Principals of 
 
 training 
 
 schools. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Principal of primary department of training schools 
 for teachers . 
 
 Less than one year's experience, one thousand five 
 hundred dollars per annum, and for each year's experi- 
 ence thereafter, at an additional salary of one hundred 
 dollars per annum, to not less than the sum of one thou- 
 sand seven hundred dollars per annum; 
 
 Teachers of methods or supervisors of methods of 
 training school for teachers : 
 
 Less than one year's experience, one thousand five 
 hundred dollars per annum, and for each year's experi- 
 ence thereafter, at an additional salary of one hundred 
 dollars per annum, to not less than two thousand dollars 
 per annum; 
 
 Principals of training schools for teachers : 
 
 Less than one year's experience, two thousand five 
 hundred dollars per annum, and for each year's experi- 
 ence thereafter, at an additional salary of one hundred 
 dollars per annum, to not less than three thousand dol- 
 lars per annum; provided, that if the annual salary of 
 any teacher now employed in any graded school of any 
 school district is less than the amount required to be 
 paid to such teacher by the preceding schedule, the 
 salary of such teacher shall, if such teacher's experi- 
 ence is approved as successful, be increased by adding 
 thereto, annually, beginning with the first day of the 
 fiscal year next succeeding the adoption of this article, 
 in the manner provided in section two hundred and 
 twenty-six of this act, a sum equal to the annual in- 
 crease provided in the preceding schedule for the class 
 to which such teacher belongs, until such teacher's salary 
 shall be in accordance with the schedule; and provided 
 further, that the annual salary paid to any principal 
 or vice-principal hereafter appointed shall not exceed 
 the annual salary paid at the time such appointment is 
 made to principals and vice-principals of the same class 
 respectively, and that the salary of every such appointee 
 shall, if the experience of such appointee proves to be 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 129 
 
 successful, be increased annually by the amount and in 
 the manner described in this section, until the salary 
 of such appointee shall be in accordance with the preced- 
 ing schedule. 
 
 252. (226.) The Board of Aldermen, Common Council Refcrendum| 
 or other governing body of any municipality of this State $$; 
 may, by resolution, submit the question of the accept- 
 ance or rejection of this article to the voters of such 
 municipality at any general or charter election to be 
 
 held therein, whereof at least ten days' notice shall be 
 given by public advertisement in two daily newspapers 
 of this State, circulating in such municipality, and if a 
 majority of those who shall vote for the acceptance or 
 rejection thereof shall be in favor of the acceptance 
 of this article, then this article shall go into effect 
 at the commencement of the then next fiscal year 
 in such school district, and the grant of power herein 
 made shall be deemed to be accepted by such school dis- 
 trict and such district shall be bound by the terms of this 
 article ; persons entitled to vote at any election where this 
 question is submitted to them shall express their assent 
 or rejection of this article in the manner provided in 
 "An act to regulate elections" (Revision of 1898). 
 There shall be a canvass on the return of the votes upon ^f a e ri n f K 
 the question of acceptance or rejection of this article acce P tance - 
 made by the election officers in the same way and manner 
 as for officers voted for at such election, and if a ma- 
 jority of the ballots shall be found to be in favor of the 
 acceptance of this article it shall then, but not other- 
 wise, go into effect and be binding upon the school 
 district situate in said municipality wherein such vote 
 shall be taken. 
 
 253. (227.) All elections or submissions to the vote of 
 the qualified voters of any municipality for the adoption 
 
 of the provisions of any statute establishing the compen- feTdfers" f 
 sation to be paid to teachers and principals in the public ] 
 schools, and to provide for the payment thereof, in the 
 
 9 s L 
 
128 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Principals 
 of primary 
 departments 
 in training 
 schools. 
 
 Teachers of 
 methods in 
 training 
 schools. 
 
 Principals of 
 
 training 
 
 schools. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Principal of primary department of training schools 
 for teachers . 
 
 Less than one year's experience, one thousand five 
 hundred dollars per annum, and for each year's experi- 
 ence thereafter, at an additional salary of one hundred 
 dollars per annum, to not less than the sum of one thou- 
 sand seven hundred dollars per annum; 
 
 Teachers of methods or supervisors of methods of 
 training school for teachers : 
 
 Less than one year's experience, one thousand five 
 hundred dollars per annum, and for each year's experi- 
 ence thereafter, at an additional salary of one hundred 
 dollars per annum, to not less than two thousand dollars 
 per annum; 
 
 Principals of training schools for teachers : 
 
 Less than one year's experience, two thousand five 
 hundred dollars per annum, and for each year's experi- 
 ence thereafter, at an additional salary of one hundred 
 dollars per annum, to not less than three thousand dol- 
 lars per annum; provided, that if the annual salary of 
 any teacher now employed in any graded school of any 
 school district is less than the amount required to be 
 paid to such teacher by the preceding schedule, the 
 salary of such teacher shall, if such teacher's experi- 
 ence is approved as successful, be increased by adding 
 thereto, annually, beginning with the first day of the 
 fiscal year next succeeding the adoption of this article, 
 in the manner provided in section two hundred and 
 twenty-six of this act, a sum equal to the annual in- 
 crease provided in the preceding schedule for the class 
 to which such teacher belongs, until such teacher's salary 
 shall be in accordance with the schedule; and provided 
 further, that the annual salary paid to any principal 
 or vice-principal hereafter appointed shall not exceed 
 the annual salary paid at the time such appointment is 
 made to principals and vice-principals of the same class 
 respectively, and that the salary of every such appointee 
 shall, if the experience of such appointee proves to be 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 129 
 
 successful, be increased annually by the amount and in 
 the manner described in this section, until the salary 
 of such appointee shall be in accordance with the preced- 
 ing schedule. 
 
 252. (226.) The Board of Aldermen, Common Council Referendum| 
 or other governing body of any municipality of this State XXVL 
 may, by resolution, submit the question of the accept- Ibid - 
 ance or rejection of this article to the voters of such 
 municipality at any general or charter election to be 
 
 held therein, whereof at least ten days' notice shall be 
 given by public advertisement in two daily newspapers 
 of this State, circulating in such municipality, and if a 
 majority of those who shall vote for the acceptance or 
 rejection thereof shall be in favor of the acceptance 
 of this article, then this article shall go into effect 
 at the commencement of the then next fiscal year 
 in such school district, and the grant of power herein 
 made shall be deemed to be accepted by such school dis- 
 trict and such district shall be bound by the terms of this 
 article ; persons entitled to vote at any election where this 
 question is submitted to them shall express their assent 
 or rejection of this article in the manner provided in 
 "An act to regulate elections" (Revision of 1898). 
 There shall be a canvass on the return of the votes upon 
 the question of acceptance or rejection of this article 
 made by the election officers in the same way and manner 
 as for officers voted for at such election, and if a ma- 
 jority of the ballots shall be found to be in favor of the 
 acceptance of this article it shall then, but not other- 
 wise, go into effect and be binding upon the school 
 district situate in said municipality wherein such vote 
 shall be taken. 
 
 253. (227.) All elections or submissions to the vote of 
 
 the qualified voters of any municipality for the adoption clSngcom- 
 
 of the provisions of any statute establishing the compen- tubers! 1 f 
 
 sation to be paid to teachers and principals in the public ] 
 schools, and to provide for the payment thereof, in the 
 
 9 s i. 
 
I 3 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 school district situate in such municipality, which statute 
 v/as in substantial compliance with the provisions of this 
 article, and the acceptance of the provisions of such 
 statute by reason of a majority of the ballots having 
 been found to be in favor thereof, and the attendant 
 proceedings heretofore held, submitted, had, done or 
 taken pursuant to and in substantial compliance with 
 such statute are hereby validated and confirmed as fully 
 and to the same extent as though done after the passage 
 of and in conformity with the provisions of this article, 
 and said teachers and principals shall hereafter receive 
 and be paid salaries in accordance with the provisions 
 of this article. 
 
 ARTICLE XXVII. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Penalty for 
 
 improper 
 
 use of 
 
 school 
 
 moneys. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Medical 
 inspector. 
 P. L. 1909. 
 Chap. 92. 
 
 254. (228.) If the Board of Education of any school 
 district shall use any of the school money received by it, 
 except such as shall have been raised within the district, 
 for any purpose other than the payment of teachers' sal- 
 aries, fuel bills, the transportation of pupils and the tui- 
 tion of pupils attending schools in adjoining districts, 
 there shall be deducted by the County Superintendent of 
 Schools from the next annual apportionment to such 
 district a sum equal to twice the amount thus used, and 
 said County Superintendent of Schools shall apportion 
 the moneys thus deducted among the other districts of 
 the county ; provided, that the Commissioner of Educa- 
 tion may remit such penalty. 
 
 255. (229.) Every Board of Education shall employ a 
 competent physician, to be known as the medical inspec- 
 tor, and fix his salary and term of office. Every Board 
 of Education shall adopt rules for the government of 
 the medical inspector, which rules shall be submitted to 
 the State Board of Education for approval. 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 131 
 
 The medical inspector shall examine every pupil to Duties, 
 learn whether any physical defect exists, and keep a 
 record from year to year of the growth and develop- 
 ment of such pupil, which record shall be the property 
 of the Board of Education, and shall be delivered by 
 said medical inspector to his successor in office. Said 
 inspector shall lecture before the teachers at such times 
 as may be designated by the Board of Education, in- 
 structing them concerning the methods employed to 
 detect the first signs of communicable disease and the 
 recognized measures for the promotion of health and 
 the prevention of disease. The Board of Education 
 may appoint more than one medical inspector. A 
 Board of Education may exclude from school any child Delude 
 whose presence in the schoolroom shall be certified by children - 
 the medical inspector as detrimental to the health or 
 cleanliness of the pupils in the school, and shall notify 
 the parent, guardian or other person having control 
 of such child of the reason therefor. If the cause for 
 exclusion is such that it can be remedied, and the 
 parent, guardian or other person having control of the 
 child excluded as aforesaid shall fail or neglect within 
 a reasonable time to have the cause for such exclu- 
 sion removed, such parent, guardian or other person 
 shall be proceeded against and, upon conviction, be 
 punishable as a disorderly person. (a) 
 
 256. (230.) Every Board of Education shall procure Jfh5ou r 
 a United States flag, flag-staff and the appliances there- p l es I9 o 3 , 
 for for each school in the district, and shall display said 
 
 flag upon or near the public school building during 
 school hours and at such other times as said board may 
 deem proper. 
 
 257. (231.) The several counties in this State shall 
 appropriate the interest of the surplus revenue to the Jbld" 
 support of the public schools. 
 
 (a) See section 140. 
 
 Special 
 session. 
 
I 3 2 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Teachers' 
 institutes. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Appropriation. 
 
 Nature of 
 alcohol and 
 its effects 
 taught. 
 Jbid. 
 
 Examination 
 in physiology, 
 ibid. 
 
 Arbor day. 
 Ibid. 
 
 258. (232.) The Commissioner of Education shall 
 procure instructors and lecturers for teachers' institutes. 
 To defray the expenses incurred in holding said institutes 
 there shall be paid to him annually by the State Treas- 
 urer, upon the warrant of the State Comptroller, a 
 sum not exceeding four thousand dollars. Said Com- 
 missioner of Education shall make annually to the State 
 Board of Education an itemized report of the expenses 
 incurred in holding said teachers' institutes during the 
 year for which said report shall be made. 
 
 259. (233.) The nature of alcoholic drinks and nar- 
 cotics and their effects upon the human system shall be 
 taught in all schools supported wholly or in part by public 
 moneys as thoroughly and in the same manner as other 
 like branches shall be taught, by the use of graded text- 
 books in the hands of the pupils when other branches 
 shall be thus taught and orally only in the case of pupils 
 unable to read. In the text-books on physiology and 
 hygiene the space devoted to the consideration of the 
 nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and their effects 
 upon the human system shall be sufficient for a full and 
 adequate treatment of the subject. The failure or re- 
 fusal of any district to comply with the. provisions of 
 this section shall be sufficient cause for withholding 
 from such district the State appropriation. 
 
 260. (234.) No certificate shall be granted to any per- 
 son to teach in the public schools, except to persons ap- 
 plying for special certificates to teach music, drawing, 
 manual training or other subjects not included in the 
 usual school curriculum, who shall not have passed a sat- 
 isfactory examination in physiology and hygiene w T itb 
 special reference to the nature of alcoholic drinks and 
 narcotics and their effects upon the human system. 
 
 261. (235.) The day in each year known as Arbor 
 Day shall be suitably observed in the public schools. 
 The Commissioner of Education shall from time to 
 time prepare and issue to schools such circulars of infor- 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 133 
 
 mation, advice and instruction with reference to the day 
 as he may deem necessary. 
 
 262. ( i.) For the purpose of encouraging the planting r j r ^ a 8 y ; 
 of shade and forest trees, the first Friday of May in each Chap - l87 
 year is hereby designated as a day for the general 
 observance of such purpose, and to be known as Arbor 
 
 Day. 
 
 263. (2.) On said day appropriate exercises shall be f^ r c f ses 
 introduced in all the schools of the State, and it shall be Ibid - 
 the duty of the several county and city superintendents 
 
 to prepare a program of exercises for that day in all 
 the schools under their respective jurisdiction. 
 
 264. (236.) In all public schools there shall be held on 
 the last school day preceding the following holidays, 
 namely, Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, session - 
 Decoration or Memorial Day and Thanksgiving Day, 
 
 and on such other patriotic holidays as shall be estab- 
 lished by law, appropriate exercises for the development 
 of a higher spirit of patriotism,. 
 
 265. (i.) It shall be the duty of the principals and observance of 
 
 flag day in 
 
 teachers in the public schools of this State to make suita- 
 ble arrangements for the celebration, by appropriate 
 exercises among the pupils in said schools, on the four- 
 teenth day of June, in each year, as the day of the adop- 
 tion of the American flag by the Continental Congress. 
 
 266. (237.) Whenever an execution shall be issued 
 against the Board of Education of a school district or of 
 a union-graded school by any court authorized to issue 
 the same, upon a judgment recovered either before or S 
 subsequent to the passage of this act, and there shall be 
 found no property belonging to said school district or 
 union-graded school sufficient to satisfy the same liable 
 
 to be levied on, then the officers authorized to execute 
 such process shall serve a certified copy of said execution 
 upon the assessor or assessors of the taxing district or 
 districts in which said school district or union-graded 
 school shall be situate, and also upon the collector or col- 
 lectors of such taxing district or districts. Upon receipt 
 
134 
 
 SCHO6L LAW. 
 
 Assessment. 
 
 School census 
 in districts. 
 P. L. 1907, 
 Chap. 1 1 8. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Enumeration. 
 
 School veai. 
 
 P. L. 1903, 
 
 Special 
 
 session. 
 
 Money 
 
 specifically 
 
 appropriated. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 "Article' 
 
 defined. 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 Continuance 
 of present 
 officials. 
 Ibid. 
 
 of such copy or copies such assessor or assessors shall, at 
 the time of the next regular assessment of school taxes, 
 assess upon the inhabitants of said school district and 
 their estates, and upon the taxable property therein, in 
 addition to the regular school taxes, the amount due 
 upon said execution, with interest thereon to the time 
 when the same shall be paid to the officer serving such 
 process and the collector or collectors shall levy and 
 collect the same, and said amount, when collected, shall 
 be a separate fund, and shall be paid over by said collec- 
 tor to the officer who shall have served said process. 
 
 267. (i.) The Board of Education of any school dis- 
 trict may cause to be taken an exact census of all children 
 residing in such district between the ages of five and 
 eighteen years, including such other information as said 
 board may deem necessary or proper; provided, that 
 such census shall not be taken more often than once in 
 five years, and shall not be taken in any year in which a 
 United States or a state census shall be taken. The 
 Board of Education of the school district may appoint 
 as many suitable persons as may be necessary to act as 
 enumerators in taking the said census, and may fix the 
 compensation to be paid to said enumerators, not exceed- 
 ing four cents for each name in said census, which com- 
 pensation shall be paid as a current expense of the dis- 
 trict. 
 
 268. (238.) The school year shall begin on the first 
 day of July and end on the thirtieth day of June. 
 
 269. (239). No money shall be paid from the State 
 treasury for any purpose named in this act unless an 
 appropriation therefor shall have been made by the 
 Legislature in the annual appropriation act. 
 
 270. ( 240. ) Whenever in this act the word "article" is 
 used, it shall be construed as referring to the caption 
 under which it is used. 
 
 271. (242.) The Commissioner of Education, the 
 County and City Superintendents of Schools, the mem- 
 bers of the Boards of Education who are residents of the 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 135 
 
 territory contained in the several school districts, as said 
 districts are constituted by this act, and who are now 
 acting as such, Secretaries of Boards of Education, jani- 
 tors and other employes of the several Boards of Edu- 
 cation of the several school districts, shall continue to 
 serve for the full term for which they were severally 
 elected or appointed, as though they had been elected 
 or appointed under any of the provisions of this act. 
 except as in this act otherwise provided, and all certifi- 
 cates to teach heretofore issued, and now in force in 
 this State, shall be valid according to their terms and 
 for the periods for which they have been severally 
 granted. 
 
 272. (243.) The acceptance of the provisions of this ^ C e / e e p 7 a n n d c ^ m; 
 act contained in Article VI. relating to Boards of Educa- /j Article 
 tion in city school districts shall be submitted to the qual- 
 ified voters of any town, township or borough at a gen- 
 eral or municipal election to be held therein, whenever 
 the town council, township committee or other govern- 
 ing body of such municipality, or the Board of Education 
 of the school district situate in such municipality, shall 
 have, by resolution, directed that such question shall be 
 so submitted. The question to be submitted shall be for 
 or against the adoption of the provisions of Article VI. 
 of an act entitled "An act to establish a thorough and 
 efficient system of free public schools and to provide 
 for the maintenance, support and management thereof," 
 
 approved (insert herein the date when this act 
 
 shall be approved), and if a majority of the votes cast 
 upon said question shall be for the adoption of the pro- 
 visions of said article, the school district in such munici- 
 pality shall thereafter in all respects be governed by 
 the provisons of Article VI. relating to city school dis- 
 tricts, and the Board of Education therein shall have 
 all the powers and duties given and imposed by the 
 several provisions of said article. 
 
 O PTO / \ ATM Referendum; 
 
 4(6. (244.) The acceptance of the provisions of this acceptance 
 act contained in Article VII. relating to Boards of Edu- vn: 
 
i 3 6 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Validity of 
 this act. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Government 
 of schools. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Bonds, regis- 
 tered or 
 coupon. 
 
 P. I,. IQIO, 
 
 Chap. 214. 
 
 cation in township, incorporated town and borough 
 school districts, shall be submitted to the qualified voters 
 of any city at a general or municipal election to be held 
 therein, whenever the common council or other govern- 
 ing body of such city or the Board of Education of the 
 school district situate in such city, shall have, by resolu- 
 tion, directed that such question shall be so submitted. 
 The question to be submitted shall be for or against the 
 adoption of the provisions of Article VII., of an act en- 
 titled "An act to establish a thorough and efficient sys- 
 tem of free public schools and to provide for the main- 
 tenance, support and management thereof," approved 
 
 (insert herein the date when this act shall be 
 
 approved), and if a majority of the votes cast upon 
 said question shall be for the adoption of the provisions 
 of said article, the school district in such city shall there- 
 after in all respects be governed by the provisions of 
 Article VII. relating to township, incorporated town 
 and borough school districts, and the Board of Educa- 
 tion therein shall have all the powers and duties given 
 and imposed by the several provisions of said article. 
 
 274. (245.) In case for any reason any section or any 
 provision of this act shall be questioned in any court, and 
 shall be held to be unconstitutional or invalid, the same 
 shall not be held to affect any other section or provision 
 of this act. 
 
 275. (246.) All school districts shall hereafter be 
 governed solely by the provisions of this act, and all acts 
 and parts of acts, general, special or local, so far as they 
 are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are 
 hereby repealed; provided, that this repealer shall not 
 revive any act heretofore repealed. 
 
 276. (i.) All bonds issued pursuant to the provisions 
 of an act of the Legislature entitled "An act to establish 
 a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, 
 and to provide for the maintenance, support and man- 
 agement thereof," approved October nineteenth, one 
 thousand nine hundred and three, may be registered 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 137 
 
 or coupon, or both, as the governing body or board 
 issuing the same shall determine. 
 
 277. (3.) It shall be lawful for the trustees or Board ^choddistri* 
 of Education of any school district in this State to nego- j n s d f^* 
 tiate with the Trustees for the Support of Public Schools Sooi f s. put 
 in this State for the purchase by them of any bonds to 
 
 be issued by their respective school districts for school 
 purposes without first advertising for bids for such 
 bonds; and if said trustees or Board of Education can 
 agree with the said Trustees for the Support of Public 
 Schools upon the rate of interest to be paid on said 
 bonds, to issue such bonds and sell and deliver the same 
 to the said Trustees for the Support of Public Schools 
 without advertisement therefor or for the sale thereof ; 
 provided, the sale price of such bonds shall never be Proviso, 
 less than par, nor the rate of interest in excess of five 
 per centum. 
 
 278. (i.) No school bonds shall be sold at private sale gateof school 
 to persons other than the Trustees of the School Fund 
 
 or to the Sinking Fund Commissioners for the Support 
 of Public Schools, unless such Trustees or Sinking Fund 
 Commissioners have refused to buy them. No school 
 bonds shall be signed, sealed or delivered except within 
 this State. No school bonds shall be delivered to any 
 purchaser other than the Trustees for the Support of 
 Public Schools except upon payment within the State 
 in cash or by certified check drawn to the order of the 
 Custodian of School Moneys for the full purchase price. 
 
 279. (i.) Every school district heretofore organized 
 and formed in any town, township or borough, and now 
 acting under the provisions of Article VI. of an act en- 
 titled "An act to establish a thorough and efficient sys- chap 
 tern of free public schools, and to provide for the main- 
 tenance, support and management thereof," approved 
 October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and 
 three, shall be deemed and held to be organized and 
 existing under, and in all respects governed by, the pro- 
 visions of said article, notwithstanding such school dis- 
 
138 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 All acts, etc. 
 
 validated. 
 
 Tbid. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tions vali- 
 dated. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Use of ar- 
 mories by 
 school 
 children. 
 P. L. 1909, 
 Chap. 93. 
 
 Residence of 
 member?. 
 P. L. 1910, 
 Chap. 218. 
 
 trict may have been established and organized under 
 an act of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey 
 heretofore declared by the courts to be unconstitutional. 
 
 280. (2.) All statements, resolutions, certificates and 
 acts and things made, adopted and done in good faith by 
 the Board of Education, the Board of School Estimate 
 and other municipal bodies, in any such school district 
 or municipality, according to the provisions of said 
 act of 1903, are hereby ratified, confirmed and vali- 
 dated. 
 
 281. (3.) All appropriations of money by any munici- 
 pal body in any such school district made according to 
 said act of 1903, and all school bonds issued or author- 
 ized to be issued in any such municipality for the purpose 
 of borrowing moneys so appropriated, are hereby rati- 
 fied, validated and confirmed; provided, however, that 
 such bonds were issued or authorized to be issued for 
 money actually and in good faith loaned to such muni- 
 cipality for school purposes and paid to the custodian 
 of school moneys for such school district; and pro- 
 vided further, that the total amount of school bonds so 
 issued or. authorized to be issued was not in excess of 
 the limitation placed upon such issue by said act of 
 1903 and the supplements thereto and amendments 
 thereof. 
 
 282. ( i.) It shall be lawful for the commanding officer 
 of the regiment having the use of any armory, at his dis- 
 cretion, subject to the approval of the Military Board, 
 to permit such armory to be used for athletic purposes 
 by the pupils of the schools of this State upon the appli- 
 cation of the principal of the school, subject to such 
 regulations as may be prescribed by said commanding 
 officer. 
 
 283. (i.) In all cities in this State having a Board of 
 Education the members of which now are or hereafter 
 shall be appointed by the mayor of such city, it shall and 
 may be lawful for the said mayor to appoint as a mem- 
 ber of said Board of Education any resident of said city 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 139 
 
 duly qualified to serve thereon, without regard to the 
 place of residence in such city of the person so 
 appointed. 
 
 284. (i.) Any child who shall have completed the $* 
 course of study pursued in the schools in the district in f?i?.I' 9IOf 
 which he or she shall reside may, with the consent of the ( 
 Board of Education of said district and the board hav- 
 ing the control and management of the Farnum Pre- 
 paratory School, be admitted to said school. Said 
 boards shall determine the amount to be paid for the 
 education of such child, and the Board of Education 
 
 of the district in which such child shall reside shall 
 issue an order for said amount, signed by the president 
 and district clerk or secretary of the Board of Educa- 
 tion, in favor of the custodian of the school moneys of 
 said school, which order shall be paid by the Custodian 
 of the school moneys of the district in which such child 
 resides out of any moneys in his hands available for the 
 current expenses of said district. 
 
 285. ( i . ) The use of the common drinking cup, an un- Common 
 
 doubted source of communication of infectious diseases, rojlibited 
 
 drinking cup 
 prohibited 
 P. L,. IQII. 
 
 is hereby prohibited in all public places within this ( 
 Commonwealth, ,and the State Board of Health shall 
 have full authority to establish such reasonable rules 
 and regulations to make this prohibition effective as in 
 their judgment seems wise and proper. 
 
 286. (2.) Whoever fails to observe the provisions of f b e ij altv- 
 this act, or the rules and regulations of the State Board 
 
 of Health made in relation thereto, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to a fine not ex- 
 ceeding twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
 287. (i.) The provisions of an act entitled "An act civil service 
 
 . ' applied to 
 
 regulating the employment, tenure and discharge of cer- 
 tain officers and employes of this State and of the various 
 counties and municipalities thereof, and providing for 
 3 Civil Service Commission, and defining its powers and 
 duties," approved April tenth, one thousand nine hun- 
 dred and eight, are hereby extended and shall here- 
 
140 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Tenure of 
 truant officers 
 in cities. 
 P. L. 1911, 
 Chap. 275. 
 
 No dismissal 
 except on 
 charges and 
 hearing. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Rules for 
 employment 
 of janitors, 
 P. T y . 1911, 
 Chap. 44. 
 
 Removal 
 of janitor. 
 Ibid. 
 
 after be construed to apply to all school districts of 
 this State, as fully and completely as though the same 
 had been included in the title and body of said act; 
 provided, however, that the said act shall not become 
 effective in any school district of the State until the 
 same shall have been adopted by the vote of the quali- 
 fied voters of such school district, in the manner pro- 
 vided by the thirty-first section of said act. 
 
 288. ( i.) The services of all truant officers of the pub- 
 lic schools in any school district in any city of this State 
 shall be during good behavior and efficiency, after the 
 expiration of a period of employment of one year in 
 said school district; provided, that the time any truant 
 officer has served in the district in which he or she is 
 employed at the time this act shall go into effect, shall 
 be counted in determining such period of employment. 
 
 289. (2.) No truant officer shall be dismissed or sub- 
 jected to reduction of salary except for inefficiency, con- 
 duct unbecoming an officer or other just cause, and after 
 a written charge of the cause or causes shall have been 
 preferred against him or her, signed by the person or 
 persons making the same, and filed with the secretary 
 or clerk of the Board of Education of the school dis- 
 trict in which he or she is employed, and after the 
 charge shall have been examined into and found true 
 in fact by the said Board of Education, upon reason- 
 able notice to the person charged, who may be repre- 
 sented by counsel at the hearing. 
 
 290. (i.) In every municipality or school district of 
 this State the Board of Education shall make such proper 
 rules and regulations as may be necessary for the em- 
 ployment, discharge, management and control of the 
 public school janitors employed by such board not in- 
 consistent with the provisions of this act. 
 
 291. (2.) No public school janitor in any municipality 
 or school district shall be discharged, dismissed or sus- 
 pended, nor shall his pay or compensation be decreased, 
 except upon sworn complaint for cause, and upon a 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 141 
 
 hearing had before such board. Upon the filing of such 
 sworn complaint, a copy thereof, certified by the secre- 
 tary or clerk as a true copy, shall be served upon such 
 person at least five days before the hearing, and at 
 such hearing such janitor shall have the right to be 
 represented by counsel. If upon such hearing it shall Hearing. 
 appear that the person charged is guilty of the neglect, 
 misbehavior or other offense set forth in said complaint, 
 then said board may discharge, dismiss or suspend such 
 janitor or reduce his pay or compensation, but not 
 otherwise. 
 
 RAILROAD TAX FOR SCHOOLS. 
 
 poses. 
 P. L. i. 
 Chap. 146 
 
 292. (i.) The tax assessed in each year by virtue of 
 the provisions of sub-divisions one, three and four of sec- 
 tion three of an act entitled "An act to revise and amend 
 'An act for the taxation of railroad and canal property. p os s 'ig 6 
 approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and 
 eighty- four,' which act was approved March twenty- 
 seventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight," 
 and the amendments thereof or supplements thereto, 
 after deducting therefrom a sum equal to one-half of 
 one per centum of the total valuation of the property 
 on which said tax shall be assessed, shall be devoted to 
 the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient 
 system of free public schools, and shall be apportioned 
 annually, on or before the first day of February, among 
 the several counties by the State Comptroller in propor- 
 tion to the amount of taxable real and personal estate 
 of said counties respectively, as shown by the last ab- 
 stract of ratables from the several counties made out by 
 the several boards of assessors, and filed in the office of 
 said Comptroller. The State Comptroller shall, on or 
 before the first day of November following said appor- 
 tionment, draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in 
 favor of the county collector of each county for the por- 
 tion of said tax to which said county shall be entitled, 
 
142 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment by 
 county super- 
 intendents. 
 
 Comptroller 
 to deduct 
 from school 
 fund amount 
 appropriated 
 for certain 
 educational 
 purposes. 
 P. L. 1909, 
 Chap. 65. 
 
 Use of money 
 deducted. 
 
 Time of 
 payment 
 by state. 
 P. L. 1911, 
 Chap. 237. 
 
 as aforesaid. The moneys received by any county col- 
 lector by virtue of the provisions of this act shall be 
 apportioned by the County Superintendent of Schools 
 of such county among the several school districts therein 
 at the same time and in the same manner as other 
 moneys shall be apportioned by him. 
 
 293. (i.) The State Comptroller, prior to the appor- 
 tionment, on or before the first day of Feburary, among 
 the several counties of the State, of the fund devoted 
 to the maintenance and support of a thorough and 
 efficient system of free public schools, as provided in 
 and by an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 
 'An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of 
 free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, 
 support and management thereof/ approved October 
 nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three," ap- 
 proved April twentieth, one thousand nine hundred and 
 six, shall deduct from the sum so to be apportioned 
 as aforesaid the sum appropriated annually for the 
 purposes herein specified, to wit: 
 
 State Normal School at Trenton, 
 
 State students at Rutgers (scholarships), 
 
 New Jersey School for the Deaf, 
 
 County Superintendents, 
 
 State Normal School at Montclair Heights, 
 
 [Manual Training Industrial School for Colored 
 Youth, 
 
 Evening schools for foreign-born residents, 
 
 Commissioner of Education, 
 
 which said moneys shall be retained in the treasury of 
 the State for the payment of the appropriations to be 
 made for the several purposes indicated, instead of the 
 payment thereof from the general moneys in the State 
 treasury, as heretofore. 
 
 294. (i.) The State Comptroller is hereby empowered 
 and directed to make distribution of the moneys 
 assessed, levied and collected for the year one thousand 
 nine hundred and eleven, as provided in and by an act 
 
SCHOOL LAW. 143 
 
 entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to 
 establish a thorough and efficient system of free public 
 schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support 
 and management thereof, approved October nineteenth, 
 one thousand nine hundred and three,' approved April 
 twentieth, one thousand nine hundred and six," as fol- 
 lows : On the first day of September, one thousand nine 
 hundred and eleven, such part of said moneys as has 
 been collected and on the twenty-fifth day of October 
 of said year, the balance collected to that date. The 
 Comptroller shall annually, hereafter, make a similar 
 distribution of all such moneys collected and which are 
 distributed under said act, on the first day of Sep- 
 tember and on the twenty-fifth day of October, respec- 
 tively, of the year next succeeding the year of their 
 assessment. 
 
 295. (2.) If, hereafter, on the twenty-fifth day of Payment in 
 
 , installments. 
 
 October, in any year, any part of the taxes apportioned ibid, 
 on the first day of February of the previous year, as pro- 
 vided in the act to which this is a supplement, shall not 
 have been paid into the State Treasury, the State Comp- 
 troller shall cause the part of said taxes which shall not 
 have been paid in by said twenty-fifth day of October to 
 be distributed as and when collected, unless the amounts 
 received are less than five thousand dollars, in which 
 event he shall not make a distribution until the pay- 
 ments aggregate five thousand dollars. 
 
 296. (3.) All moneys paid in accordance with this act Custody and 
 shall be held by the official to whom paid in trust for ?** 1909. s ' 
 
 Chap. 63. 
 
 the support and maintenance of the free public school 
 of the school district to which apportioned and paid. 
 No part thereof shall be used to pay or discharge, in 
 whole or in part, any note or other obligation heretofore 
 incurred, or any bonds, whether temporary or for a 
 term of years, heretofore issued by such municipality, 
 or by any Board of Education of any municipality, nor 
 shall any part of the funds hereby authorized to be 
 paid be used for any other purpose than for the support 
 
144 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 Proviso ; 
 Right to 
 borrow in 
 anticipation 
 of taxes. 
 
 Duty of 
 
 state 
 
 comptroller. 
 
 and maintenance of the free public schools of such 
 municipality or school district; provided, however, that 
 it shall be lawful for the municipality or Board of Edu- 
 cation of any school district to borrow by temporary 
 loan, in anticipation of the receipt of any moneys 
 which may be distributed under this act, or the act to 
 which this act is a supplement, to the extent of not 
 exceeding eighty per cent, of the amount of moneys 
 which may be apportioned to such school district under 
 the distribution herein provided for; such temporary 
 obligations, if any, to be first paid from the moneys 
 received under this act, before any other disposition of 
 such money shall be made. Any person, or the mem- 
 bers of any board, violating this act shall be guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, (a) 
 
 297. (4.) The State Comptroller shall, on the date and 
 at the time named in this act, draw his warrant upon the 
 State Treasurer in favor of the county collector of each 
 county for the amount due to each county of the appor- 
 tionment, made to the several counties, at the times 
 and in the manner provided by this act and the act to 
 which this act is a supplement. 
 
 (a) See section 61. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 145 
 
 Miscellaneous Laws. 
 
 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 i. Whenever any board of education, school commit- Sum appro- 
 
 priated by 
 
 
 tee or other like body of any city, town or township 
 in this State shall certify, or shall have certified, to the 
 Governor that a sum of money not less than three thou- 
 sand dollars has been contributed by voluntary sub- 
 scriptions of citizens, or otherwise as hereinafter 
 authorized, for the establishment in any such city, town 
 or township, of a school or schools for industrial educa- 
 tion, it shall be the duty of the said Governor to cause 
 to be drawn by warrant of the Comptroller by himself 
 out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise 
 appropriated, an amount equal to that contributed by 
 the particular locality as aforesaid for the said subject, 
 and when any such school or schools shall have been 
 established in any locality as aforesaid, there shall be 
 annually contributed by the State, in the manner afore- 
 said for the maintenance and support thereof a sum 
 of money equal to that contributed each year in said 
 locality for such purpose; provided, however, that the p rov iso. 
 moneys contributed by the State as aforesaid to any 
 locality shall not exceed in any one year the sum of 
 seven thousand dollars. 
 
 2. All moneys raised and contributed as aforesaid Money to be 
 
 applied under 
 
 shall be applied under the direction of the Board of 
 Trustees, organized as hereinafter provided, to the Ibid 
 establishment and support of schools for the training 
 and education of pupils in industrial pursuits (including 
 agriculture), so as to enable them to perfect themselves 
 in the several branches of industry which require tech- 
 nical instruction. 
 
 10 s 
 
146 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Local tax. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Trustees of 
 industrial 
 schools. 
 P. L. 1895, 
 Chap. 294. 
 
 Powers. 
 
 Treasurer. 
 
 3. Any city, town or township shall have power to 
 appropriate and raise by tax for the support of any 
 such school therein, such sum of money as they may 
 deem expedient and just. 
 
 4. There shall be a Board of Trustees of each of such 
 schools, which shall consist of the governor and the 
 mayor or other chief executive officer of the city, town or 
 township in which such school is located, as ex-officio 
 members, and eight other persons to be chosen and ap- 
 pointed by the Governor as follows : Within thirty days 
 after the passage of this act the Governor shall choose 
 and appoint eight persons, resident in the city, town or 
 township in which such school is located, as members 
 of such Board of Trustees for the following terms: (a) 
 two for the term of one year, two for the term of two 
 year, two for the term of three years and two for the 
 term of four years ; and thereafter two trustees shall be 
 appointed in like manner each year for a full term of five 
 years; and the official terms of all trustees in office at 
 the time of the passage of this act shall terminate and 
 expire upon the making of the appointment aforesaid, 
 and the trustees appointed hereunder shall take office 
 immediately upon their appointment, and shall continue 
 in office until their successors are appointed, and any 
 vacancy that may occur in the said Board of Trustees 
 shall be filled by appointment in like manner for the un- 
 expired term only ; the said Board of Trustees shall have 
 control of the buildings and grounds owned and used 
 by such schools, the application of the funds for the sup- 
 port thereof, the regulation of the tuition fees, the ap- 
 pointment and removal of teachers, the power to pre- 
 scribe the studies and the exercises of the school and 
 rules for its management, to grant certificates of gradua- 
 tion, to appoint some suitable person treasurer of the 
 board, to frame and modify at pleasure such by-laws 
 as they may deem necessary for their own government ; 
 
 (a) Amended by section 6. 
 

 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 147 
 
 they shall report annually to the State and local Boards 
 of Education their own doings and the progress and 
 condition of the schools. 
 
 5. The said trustees shall receive no compensation Compensation, 
 for their services, but the expenses necessarily incurred 
 
 by them in the discharge of their duties shall be paid 
 upon the approval of the Governor. 
 
 6. The trustees of schools for industrial education, to 
 be hereafter appointed by the Governor of this State 
 for full terms under and by virtue of the acts to which 
 this is a supplement or the supplements thereto, shall 
 serve for terms of four years and not for terms of five 
 years as now required by law. 
 
 7. The Board of Trustees of the schools for indus- Trustees of 
 
 ' industrial 
 
 trial education, provided for and organized under the Seated bodies 
 act to which this is a supplement, be and they are hereby p ^ ?^. 
 created a body corporate under the name and style of ' 
 "The Board of Trustees of Schools for Industrial Edu- 
 cation," with the right of perpetual succession, to sue 
 and be sued, to purchase, lease and hold personal and 
 real property, and to sell and mortgage the same, and 
 with power to accept donations and bequests of money, 
 and property to be used for the purposes for which 
 said boards are constituted and organized. 
 
 i. Whenever in any city of this State the board of state ap : 
 
 propriation 
 
 trustees of schools for industrial education shall ac- toward local 
 
 industrial 
 
 quire by deed, gift, grant, devise or otherwise, the sum p h 1 I s 909 
 of one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended for Chap - ?B - 
 the purchase of land and erection and equipment of a 
 building or buildings to be used for the purposes for 
 which said board is constituted, and whenever any such 
 board of trustees of schools for industrial education in 
 said city shall certify, or shall have certified, to the 
 Governor that a sum of money not less than three 
 thousand dollars has been contributed by voluntary 
 subscriptions of citizens, or otherwise, as hereinafter 
 authorized, for the establishment in said city of a 
 school or schools for industrial education, it shall be 
 
148 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Erect suit- 
 able build- 
 ings. 
 
 P.I, 1907, 
 Lhap. 222. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Bond issue. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Amount. 
 
 the duty of the said Governor to cause to be drawn by 
 warrant of the comptroller, approved by himself, out 
 of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise ap- 
 propriated, an amount equal to that contributed by the 
 said city as aforesaid for the said object, and when 
 any such school or schools shall have been established 
 in any city as aforesaid, there shall be annually con- 
 tributed by the State, in manner aforesaid, for the 
 maintenance and support thereof, a sum of money 
 equal to that contributed each year in said city for such 
 purpose; provided, however, that the moneys contrib- 
 uted by the State as aforesaid shall not exceed in any 
 one year the sum of ten thousand dollars. 
 
 1. It shall and may be lawful for the board of trustees 
 of the school for industrial education in any city of the 
 second class of this state, upon first obtaining the con- 
 sent of the common council or other governing body of 
 such city, to build upon land already owned by it, or to 
 purchase land and build thereon a building or buildings, 
 structure or structures, for the uses and purposes of a 
 school for industrial education within its corporate 
 limits; provided, that the cost and expense of the land 
 purchased, and the building or buildings, structure or 
 structures to be erected, shall not in the aggregate ex- 
 ceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 2. To defray the cost and expense of such land and 
 buildings, structure or structures to be erected under 
 and in pursuance of the first section of this act, it shall 
 be lawful for the common council or other governing 
 body of any city of the second class in this state, to 
 issue bonds in the corporate name of said city for the 
 aggregate amount required by said board of trustees, 
 in sums of not more than one thousand dollars, and not 
 less than one hundred dollars each, to be signed by the 
 mayor and countersigned by the clerk and sealed with 
 the corporate seal of said city, and to have written or 
 printed thereon the words "School for Industrial Educa- 
 tion Construction Bonds," said bonds to be disposed 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 149 
 
 of at not less than their par value, and shall be payable 
 at the expiration of not more than twenty years after Time and 
 their date of issue, and to draw interest at a rate not 
 exceeding four per centum per annum, payable semi- 
 annually, and may be registered or coupon bonds, or 
 may be registered and coupon bonds combined, at the 
 option of said city, and there shall be raised by taxes 
 each year the interest on the whole amount of the bonds 
 so issued, together with at least five per centum per 
 annum for the purpose of a sinking fund, to be paid to 
 the commissioners of the sinking fund of said city for 
 the purpose of meeting the said bonds as they become 
 due ; and the money raised by the issuing of said bonds 
 shall be credited on the books of the city treasurer to the 
 said trustees of the school for industrial education, and 
 paid out and disbursed by the city treasurer, from time 
 to time, on the written order or orders of said trustees, 
 signed by their president and secretary, and counter- 
 signed by the city comptroller, in payment of the pur- 
 chase price of any land purchased by said trustees, and 
 the cost of erection of any building or buildings, struc- 
 ture or structures thereon for the use of a school for 
 industrial education within the corporate limits of such 
 city. 
 
 SUMMER COURSES IN AGRICULTURE, MANUAL TRAINING 
 AND HOME ECONOMICS. 
 
 1. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining 
 summer courses for instruction in method of teaching J/^ 1908 ' 
 elementary agriculture, manual training and home eco- 
 nomics, there shall be appropriated annually a sum not 
 exceeding two thousand dollars; provided, that no Froviso 
 money shall be expended under the provisions of this 
 
 act until an appropriation therefor shall have been made 
 in the annual appropriation bill. 
 
 2. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules Rules, regula- 
 
 tions, places, 
 and regulations for establishing and maintaining sun> ibid. 
 
ISO 
 
 Certificates 
 valid to 
 teach. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Expenses, 
 how paid. 
 Ibid. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 mer courses of study in elementary agriculture, manual 
 training and home economics, and shall designate the 
 place or places where such courses shall be provided. 
 Certificates of graduation from such courses of study as 
 prescribed by the State Board of Education shall be 
 valid licenses to teach in the public schools the subjects 
 covered by said certificates; provided, the holders 
 thereof shall also hold certificates valid as licenses to 
 teach in the public schools in which they shall be em- 
 ployed. 
 
 3. All expenses incurred in establishing and main- 
 taining such courses of study and which are to be paid 
 out of the moneys appropriated under the provisions of 
 the act shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the war- 
 rant of the State Comptroller, on bills approved by the 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 School at 
 state prison. 
 P. I,- 1907, 
 p. 124. 
 
 School 
 board. 
 Tbid. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 An Act to establish a school and to provide school facili- 
 ties and accommodations in the State Prison. 
 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 
 of the State of New Jersey: 
 
 1. The board of inspectors of the State Prison shall 
 establish in said prison a school for the instruction of 
 persons confined therein, and shall provide for said 
 school a suitable school-room or school-rooms, together 
 with proper furniture and equipment. 
 
 2. Said school shall be under the supervision and con- 
 trol of a board to be known as the State Prison School 
 Board. Said board shall consist of the principal keeper 
 of the prison, two members of the Board of Inspectors, 
 to be appointed annually by the board, and the moral 
 instructors in said prison. The members of said board 
 appointed by the Board of Inspectors shall hold office 
 for the term of one year; provided, that the term of 
 office of a member of such board so appointed shall not 
 extend beyond his term of office as a member of the 
 Board of Inspectors. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 151 
 
 3. The State Prison School Board shall make neces- f b f d es - 
 sary rules for the proper conduct and management of 
 said school to be approved by the Board of Inspectors, 
 
 shall appoint the teachers and fix their salaries and J n e | c b h e r k s s 
 terms of employment, purchase the necessary text- 
 books, apparatus and supplies, and prescribe the course 
 of study to be pursued in said school. Said course of 
 study shall provide an elementary education, equivalent 
 to that provided by similar courses of study in the pub- 
 lic schools in this State. The course of study and any 
 changes therein shall be submitted to the State Board 
 of Education for its approval, and no course of study 
 shall be established until approved by said board. 
 
 4. No teacher receiving a salary for services shall be 
 employed in such school who does not possess a certifi- Ibid - 
 cate of qualification issued under rules prescribed by the 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 5. The head teacher shall not be an inmate of said who may 
 
 ^ teach. 
 
 prison. Inmates of said prison may, with the approval, Ibid - 
 in writing, of the principal keeper, be appointed as assist- 
 ant teachers. 
 
 6. No inmate of said prison shall be admitted as a Keepers' 
 
 ..... . . consent. 
 
 pupil in said school except upon the written consent of ibid, 
 the principal keeper. 
 
 7. The expenses incurred by the Board of Inspectors Expenses met 
 in providing and maintaining a school-room or school- ibid. 
 rooms, or for the purchase of school furniture and equip- 
 ment, shall be certified to the State Comptroller by said 
 
 board, and the expenses incurred by the State Prison 
 School Board in carrying into effect the purposes of 
 this act shall be certified to said Comptroller by said 
 school board. All expenses incurred under the pro- 
 visions of this act, when properly certified as aforesaid, 
 shall be paid on the warrant of said Comptroller out of 
 any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appro- 
 priated ; provided, that no expense shall be incurred p rov iso. 
 under the provisions of this act until an appropriation 
 
152 
 
 Annual 
 report. 
 Ibid. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 therefor shall have been made in a regular appropriation 
 bill. 
 
 8. The State Prison School Board shall report to the 
 Board of Inspectors annually, on or before the fifteenth 
 day of November, in regard to all matters committed to 
 its care, and shall transmit a copy of said report to the 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 Building for 
 school of 
 detention. 
 P. Iv. 1909, 
 Chap. 205. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 School a 
 
 special 
 
 district. 
 
 School 
 moneys. 
 
 Management 
 of school 
 and district. 
 
 An Act to establish Schools of Detention. 
 
 i. It shall be lawful for the boards of chosen free- 
 holders or commissioners of any county in this State 
 where a juvenile court is established, or may hereafter 
 be established, to purchase suitable land and buildings, 
 to erect the necessary buildings on land owned by said 
 county, to be used as a school of detention for the 
 purpose of caring for dependent and delinquent chil- 
 dren under sixteen years of age whom it may be neces- 
 sary to hold in custody by virtue of the order or direc- 
 tion of any Court of Common Pleas of said county, and 
 to furnish and maintain the same; provided, that no 
 such land shall be purchased, or building or buildings 
 shall be erected, without the consent and approval of 
 the judge of the juvenile court. Such school of deten- 
 tion, together with the land belonging thereto, shall con- 
 stitute a special school district in said county, and shall 
 be entitled to receive, and the county superintendent of 
 said county shall apportion and cause to be paid to the 
 county collector, who shall be the custodian of school 
 moneys for said special school district, such apportion- 
 ments of the State school moneys and interest and 
 surplus revenues as are paid to public school districts 
 in said county. When the grounds have been secured, 
 and the buildings erected and prepared for occupancy, 
 the general management of such school of detention 
 and school district shall be vested in a board of direc- 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 153 
 
 tors consisting of the judge of the juvenile court, the 
 county superintendent of schools, the president or 
 director of the board of chosen freeholders, or county 
 commissioners, and two members of said board or com- 
 mission, to be selected by the director or president 
 thereof, and the superintendent of schools of the most 
 populous city in said county. 
 
 2. These schools of detention shall receive also chil- 
 dren under the age of sixteen who shall be habitual 
 truants from school, or who shall be habitually insub- 
 ordinate or incorrigible and disorderly during their at- 
 tendance at school, which children shall be complained 
 against as juvenile delinquents, in accordance with the 
 provisions of the act entitled "An act establishing a 
 court for the trial of juvenile offenders and defining its 
 duties and powers," approved April eighth, one thou- 
 sand nine hundred and three. 
 
 3. The said schools of detention shall be arranged Arrange- 
 
 ments. 
 
 and conducted, so far as practicable, for the safe cus- ^- 1( > o8 > 
 
 Chap. 307. 
 
 tody of children committed thereto, and, so far as the 
 length of time of their commitment permits, for their 
 training and education for good citizenship and self- 
 support. There shall be ample ground for fanning or 
 gardening, and shops or other means, for industrial 
 training, and the institution shall be maintained or con- 
 ducted as a home. To this end the employes provided 
 for and selected to control and manage such school of 
 detention shall be a superintendent, and such teachers, 
 matrons, farmers, and other employes as in the judg- 
 ment of the board of directors may be necessary for 
 the proper maintanance of the school and grounds, and 
 the proper care and instruction and training of the 
 children. The said superintendent shall be a man or a 
 
 woman of good moral character, and thoroughly com- 
 petent to discharge the duties of the office. The said 
 superintendent shall be selected and employed by the 
 said board of directors of said special school district, 
 and he or she shall reside in said school of detention or 
 
154 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Teachers. 
 
 Supervising 
 principal. 
 
 School 
 records. 
 
 Salaries. 
 
 Additional 
 funds fur- 
 nished by 
 county. 
 
 Records. 
 P. L. 1906, 
 Chap. 37- 
 
 special school district. The course of study and training 
 for the pupils in such school of detention shall be pre- 
 pared by said superintendent, or by the principal teacher 
 of said school, subject to the approval of the board of 
 directors and the State Board of Education. The teach- 
 ers in said school shall be required to have such legal 
 certificates to teach as are required of teachers in the 
 public schools of the State. The principal teacher shall 
 be the supervising principal, and the district shall be en- 
 titled to the $600 pr year now apportioned by law, or 
 whatever sum may hereafter be apportioned to school 
 districts under the supervision of a supervising princi- 
 pal. The teachers and principal of said school district 
 shall make such reports and keep such records as are 
 required to be made and kept in other public school dis- 
 tricts of said county. The said superintendent shall 
 have power to employ such additional help as may be 
 necessary for the maintenance of such buildings and 
 grounds, subject to the approval of the board of direc- 
 tors. The salaries or wages and terms of service of 
 superintendent, matron, teachers and other employes of 
 such school shall be determined by said board of direc- 
 tors. Whatever sum in addition to the money received 
 from the State may be necessary to maintain, operate 
 and conduct said school to pay salaries or wages of em- 
 ployes, and to procure supplies, shall be appropriated 
 by the board of chosen freeholders of said county. All 
 bills shall be paid by the custodian of school moneys of 
 said special school district on order signed by the presi- 
 dent and secretary of the said board of directors. 
 
 4. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of said 
 schools of detention to keep a complete record of all 
 children committed thereto in a book, which record shall 
 contain the name, address and age of each child, cause 
 of its detention and the length of time detained, the 
 offense alleged to have been committed by such child, if 
 any, and any other useful data or information that may 
 be directed to be kept by the judge of the Juvenile Court 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 155 
 
 of the county. A record shall also be kept by such 
 superintendent of all expenditures made by the county 
 for the care and maintenance of such school. An annual 
 report to the board of chosen freeholders shall be made 
 between the first and thirty-first of December in each 
 year by the superintendent, which shall contain an item- 
 ized statement of all such expense necessary to main- 
 tain such schools, together with the number of inmates 
 therein during each month. The judge of the Juvenile 
 Court of said county at any time may demand, in which 
 case it shall be the duty of the superintendent to furnish, 
 such information as said court may require concerning 
 the conduct, maintenance or inmates of the school of 
 detention. Such schools shall be supplied with all the 
 necessary teachers, help and convenient facilities for the 
 care of the inmates thereof. All children under six- 
 teen years of age arrested for any cause (except murder 
 or manslaughter) and school children habitual truant 
 or incorrigible may, by the order of the Juvenile Court, 
 be held in the detention school until final judgment. 
 
 5. For the purpose of obtaining means for the pur- 
 chase of such lands and buildings, or the erection of ^^ *9s, 
 such building or buildings for the school of detention, 
 and the furnishing thereof, it shall be lawful for the 
 board of freeholders or commissioners of any such 
 county to issue and sell the bonds of said county to an 
 amount not exceeding one-half of one per centum of Amount. 
 the ratables of said county; said bonds shall bear inter- 
 est at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum, Rate. 
 and the principal thereof shall be payable at a time not Time - 
 exceeding twenty years from their date ; and such board 
 of chosen freeholders, or county commissioners, shall 
 establish a sinking fund, to be raised by taxation from sinking fund. 
 year to year, sufficient to pay off and discharge said 
 bonds at their maturity, and shall also include in the 
 annual tax levy a sum sufficient to pay the interest 
 thereon. 
 
156 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Counties may 
 contract for 
 children. 
 P. I,. 1910, 
 Chap. 99. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Price of 
 board per 
 week. 
 
 6. In counties of this State where the total commit- 
 ments of the above classes of children during the year 
 may be so few as, in the judgment of the board of 
 chosen freeholders, to render impracticable, on account 
 of the large expense involved, the building and support- 
 ing of such houses of detention within such county, 
 it shall be lawful for such county, through its respective 
 boards of chosen freeholders, with the consent of the 
 judge of the Juvenile Court of said county, or the judge 
 of the Orphans' Court, if there be no Juvenile Court, 
 to enter into negotiations with any reputable and regu- 
 larly incorporated society or institution in this State 
 whose business it is to care for homeless or indigent 
 or neglected children for the board and care of such 
 children as may from time to time be committed by the 
 said judge, or as may be placed therein by the parent or 
 parents, guardian or guardians of any such child: 
 provided, such society or institution is willing to enter 
 into bonds to carry out in full the spirit and intent of 
 this law as to the length of time such child or children 
 shall be detained, the character of the physical, the 
 mental and the moral discipline it shall receive, and 
 the regular reports to be made ; and provided, said chil- 
 dren are regularly sent to the public schools in the 
 district in which said institution is located, or are regu- 
 larly sent to a school maintained and conducted by such 
 society or institution. And the said judge, with the 
 concurrence of the said board of chosen freeholders, 
 is hereby authorized to fix the price to be paid per week 
 for the board of each child so placed, not exceeding 
 three dollars per week; the amount to be expended in 
 clothing, medical attendance or incidentals that may be 
 found necessary and to provide for the payment of 
 all such expense. And such corporate society or insti- 
 tution, by thus accepting such children from the county, 
 shall not thereby become a part of the public school 
 system of the State, but retain its place and its corpo- 
 rate powers, and its character as a private institution 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 157 
 
 belonging to and a part of the said corporate society or 
 institution; and provided further, that it shall be lawful Proviso. 
 for the board of chosen freeholders of any county in 
 this State to purchase lands adjoining or near any such 
 house of detention or school, wherever the same may 
 be located in this State, and to erect and construct 
 proper and necessary buildings thereon for the care of 
 homeless, indigent or neglected children, or such as may 
 be placed in or committed thereto from said county 
 or counties, as in this act provided; provided further, Proviso. 
 that the total amount hereby authorized to be expended 
 by the board of chosen freeholders of any county in 
 this State for the purchase of said land, and the erec- 
 tion and construction of necessary buildings thereon, 
 and the furnishing of the same, shall not exceed the 
 sum of three thousand dollars; and provided further, Proviso, 
 that it shall be lawful for, and the board of chosen free- 
 holders of any county of this State may, in their dis- 
 cretion, in lieu of issuing and selling bonds of said 
 county for the obtaining O'f means for the purchase of 
 said lands and the erection and furnishing of said build- 
 ings as provided for in this act, provide by taxation 
 for the raising and paying the cost of the purchase of 
 said lands and the erection and furnishing of said 
 buildings, and cause the same to be assessed and col- 
 lected by tax, at the same time and in the same manner 
 as other taxes in said county or counties are assessed 
 and collected, a sum sufficient to pay for the same. 
 
 An Act permitting certain boards of education to con- 
 vey school-houses and lands to the boroughs or other 
 municipalities in which they are situate. 
 
 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 
 of the State of New Jersey: Conveyance 
 
 J of school 
 
 i. In any borough or other municipality in this State property to 
 
 J municipality 
 
 where the board of education thereof has been or shall f r nominal 
 
 sum. 
 
 hereafter be authorized by vote of the qualified voters 
 
158 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 of such borough or other municipality at an election 
 held for that purpose to acquire land and erect thereon 
 a new school-house and to dispose of an old school- 
 house and the lot of land on which the same is erected, 
 and the borough or other municipality in which said old 
 school-house and land are situate shall be desirous of 
 acquiring the same to use for public purposes, it shall 
 be lawful for such board of education to convey said 
 old school-house and the lot of land upon which it is 
 erected to the borough or other municipality by its cor- 
 porate name for a nominal consideration ; provided, how- 
 ever, the lines of the municipality are co-extensive with 
 the lines of the school district and a resolution, re- 
 questing such conveyance, shall have first been passed 
 by a vote of a majority of all the members of the council 
 or other governing body of the municipality and a reso- 
 lution, authorizing such conveyance, shall have been 
 passed by a vote of a majority of all the members of 
 such board of education. 
 
 Unused 
 school build- 
 ings may be 
 transferred to 
 township. 
 P. L. 1907, 
 Chap. 49. 
 
 Remodeling 
 and use of 
 such building. 
 
 An Act to authorize the board of education of any town- 
 ship in this state to transfer any unused school build- 
 ing to the township in which said board of education 
 is located and to empower the township committee to 
 use said building for municipal purposes. 
 BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly 
 
 of the State of New Jersey: 
 
 1. It shall be lawful for any board of education of 
 any township in this State, by resolution adopted by a 
 two-thirds vote of the members of said board of educa- 
 tion, to transfer any building not used by it for school 
 purposes to the township in which said board and school 
 building is located for use by said township for muni- 
 cipal purposes. 
 
 2. It shall be lawful for any township committee of 
 any township to which any school building may be trans- 
 ferred, to alter and remodel said building, to remove 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 159 
 
 the same to any suitable location upon lands belonging 
 to the township, and do and perform any act which may 
 be necessary to put such building in proper condition, to 
 use the same for municipal purposes of such township, 
 and any expense incurred thereby shall be paid out of 
 any unexpended balances or funds in the possession of 
 the township committee. 
 
 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
 
 i. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent, 
 at such time and place as the Commissioner of Education 
 may appoint, to examine such candidates for state schol- 
 arships at the agricultural college as may present them- 
 selves, and the candidates shall be subjected to such ex- 
 amination as the faculty of the said college and the Com- 
 missioner of Education shall prescribe; and the candi- 
 dates who shall receive certificates of appointment to the 
 agricultural college in any one county shall be those who 
 obtain, on such examination, the highest average for 
 scholarship; and the number of certificates thus granted 
 shall in no case exceed the number of state scholarships 
 to which such county is entitled. (a) 
 
 i. In order that the students in the schools in all Dumber of 
 
 scholarships. 
 
 parts of the state may receive the stimulus afforded by L - ^05, 
 
 J * Chap. 90. 
 
 the opportunity to pursue the courses of study in the 
 State Agricultural College, and in order to enable said 
 State Agricultural College to furnish instruction gratui- 
 tously to students, residents of this state, in its several 
 courses of study, as special courses of advanced study 
 in the public school system of this state, there shall be 
 sent to the said college, each year, from each county in 
 this state, students to the number of members of assem- AS many 
 
 cs nicn\l>crs 
 
 bly to which such county is entitled, to be selected and of assembly, 
 designated as hereinafter provided, who shall receive 
 gratuitous instruction in any or all of the prescribed 
 
 (a) Each county is entitled to as many students as it has representa- 
 tives in the legislature. P. L, 1864, Chap. 369, 10. 
 
i6o 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Students 
 on vacant 
 scholarships. 
 
 Selection of 
 students. 
 P. Iy. 1909, 
 Chap. 26. 
 
 When exam- 
 ination held. 
 
 Subjects. 
 
 Certificates 
 issued by 
 state commis- 
 sioner of 
 education. 
 
 branches of study in any of the courses of study of said 
 state college, under the general powers of supervision 
 and control possessed by the board of visitors of said 
 state college. Said students so received shall be resi- 
 dents of this state, and shall be admitted into said state 
 college upon the terms and subject to the rules and dis- 
 cipline which shall apply to all other free students of 
 said college; and if there should be from any county 
 more than the designated number of suitably prepared 
 applicants .in the same year, such additional applicants 
 may, in the discretion of the board of visitors of the 
 said State Agricultural College, be received on any va- 
 cant scholarships of any other county until the county 
 last named shall require such scholarships, after notice 
 has been served on the superintendent of education of 
 the county in which such vacant scholarships existed. 
 
 2. Said students shall be selected as follows : A com- 
 petitive examination, unider the direction of the city 
 superintendents and the county superintendents of edu- 
 cation in each county shall be held upon the first Friday 
 in June in each year and the Saturday following, at such 
 place or places in each county as shall be designated by 
 the said superintendent, and the necessary traveling 
 expenses of said examiners not otherwise provided for 
 by law, on the approval of the president and secretary 
 of the Board of Visitors of said State Agricultural Col- 
 lege, shall be paid by said State College; students who 
 apply for examination shall be examined upon such 
 subjects as may be designated by the faculty of said 
 college and the State Board of Education, and the said 
 city and county superintendents shall report to the 
 president of said college and to the Commissioner of 
 Education the names of all such students examined as 
 in their opinion are suitably prepared to enter said col- 
 lege, with their estimate of the order of excellence in 
 scholarship shown by said students at such preliminary 
 examination; certificates of appointment to the State 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 161 
 
 Agricultural College shall be issued by the Commis- 
 sioner of Education to all of such students as are so 
 found to be qualified to enter said college, and in 
 case the vacant scholarships shall not be sufficient to 
 receive all such successful candidates, preference in ap- 
 pointing to vacant scholarships shall be given to suc- 
 cessful candidates in the order of the excellence of their 
 examination as certified by said superintendents, and in 
 general the regulations and provisions governing the 
 conduct of such examinations, and the appointment of 
 said students to said scholarships shall be subject to the 
 control of said Board of Visitors of said college. 
 
 3. Each student so appointed and admitted to said ^"udent. 
 college shall be regarded as holding a state scholarship, cip.9o. 
 and for each scholarship so held there shall be due from 
 
 the state to the college, on the first day of November, in 
 each year, the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars ; 
 provided, that the aggregate amount due for any year Proviso - 
 for such scholarships shall not exceed fifteen thousand 
 dollars, (a) 
 
 4. In order to ascertain the Dumber of scholarships 
 
 for which payment shall be due as aforesaid, the presi- number of 
 dent of said college shall in the month of October in ibid. ent 
 each year make his certificate in writing, setting forth 
 the names of the students so as aforesaid appointed and 
 then in attendance at said college, the counties from: 
 which they were appointed and the classes in college to 
 which they belong, or the special courses of study which 
 they are pursuing, which certificate, when approved by ApprovaL 
 the president of the board of visitors of the State Agri- 
 cultural College, shallbe plenary evidence of the num- 
 ber of scholarships for which payment shall be due, 
 
 (a) It was competent for the legislature to establish an agricultural 
 college at Rutgers, and to support it out of the state's general fund, and 
 the legislation on that subject is not infirm by reason of the constitu- 
 tional provision against private, special or local legislation, or by reason 
 of the further provision "that no donation of land or appropriation of 
 money shall be made by the state or any municipal corporation to or for 
 the use of any society, association or corporation." Rutgers College v. 
 Morgan, 41 Vr. 460. 
 
 II S Iv 
 
1 62 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Establish 
 short 
 courses. 
 P. L- 1905, 
 Chap. 55. 
 
 Subjects of 
 instruction. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Buildings 
 and appa- 
 ratus. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Instructors. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tion. 
 Ibid. 
 
 and on filing the same with the Comptroller of the state 
 he shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for 
 the sum of money to which the said college may accord- 
 ingly be entitled, and the State Treasurer shall pay the 
 same as soon as proper appropriation shall have been 
 made therefor. 
 
 1. The trustees of the State Agricultural College of 
 New Jersey be, and they are, hereby required to estab- 
 lish in said State Agricultural College a department 
 which shall provide short courses in agriculture, 
 equipped and designed for the practical education of 
 students, in both general and specific lines of farming. 
 
 2. Said department shall offer special instruction to 
 students on soils, crops, fertilizers, manures, drainage, 
 farm machinery, farm building; breeds of live-stock, 
 stock judging, animal diseases and remedies; produc- 
 tion and handling of milk and cream, the manufacture 
 of butter and cheese; the growth of fruits, berries, man- 
 agement of orchards, market garden and vegetable crops, 
 and insects injurious to the various plants, diseases of 
 plants; animal nutrition, including the use of forage 
 crops, cereal grains, fine feeds, and all other matters 
 pertaining to general and specific lines of farm practice. 
 
 3. Said department shall be provided with suitable 
 buildings for stock judging, butter making, milk testing 
 and lecture-rooms ; said buildings shall be equipped with 
 the necessary apparatus and machinery far carrying out 
 the specific instruction provided for in section two. 
 
 4. Said trustees shall employ to conduct this depart- 
 ment competent instructors of the necessary education 
 and scientific acquirements, who shall teach the theo- 
 retical and practical part of the subjects herein pro- 
 vided for. 
 
 5. There shall be appropriated out of the general 
 revenues of the state the sum of twenty-four thousand 
 dollars, to be expended in the organization, equipment 
 and maintenance O'f said department, as provided for in 
 the first four sections of this act for the current year, 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 163 
 
 and then shall be appropriated from the same fund the 
 sum of six thousand five hundred dollars annually here- 
 after, beginning on the next succeeding year for the 
 salaries, supplies and all other expenses for the main- 
 tenance of said department; provided, that such sum or p rov i s o. 
 sums shall first be appropriated in the annual appro- 
 priation bill. 
 
 FREE LECTURES. 
 
 1. The boards of education in cities of this state or 
 other municipalities containing over ten thousand popu- 
 lation according to the last census are hereby authorized Chap - 4S - 
 and empowered to provide for the employment of lec- 
 turers on the natural sciences and kindred subjects in the 
 public schools in any city or other municipality, in the 
 evenings, for the benefit of workingmen and working- 
 women. 
 
 2. The said boards of education shall have the power Purchase 
 
 necessary 
 
 to purchase books, stationery and other things necessary apparatus, 
 and expedient to successfully conduct said lectures, ibid. 
 which it shall have the power to direct. 
 
 3. No admission fee shall be charged, and at least one NO admission 
 school in each ward or subdivision of each city or muni- charged. 
 
 TK'H 
 
 cipality, where practicable, shall be designated by the 
 said board of education for the purpose of carrying out 
 the provisions of this act, and at least one lecture shall 
 be delivered during each of the months of October, No- 
 vember, December, January, February and M&rch in 
 each year, which shall be advertised in a daily or weekly 
 paper published in said city or municipality at least ten 
 days in advance of the delivery thereof. 
 
 Extract from an act entitled "An act concerning dis- 
 orderly persons" [Revision of 1898]. 
 
 4. Any person who shall enter the buildings or go 
 upon the lands belonging to any public school district of 
 this state, or used and occupied for school purposes by 
 any public school in this state, and shall break, injure 
 or deface such building or any part thereof, or the 
 
164 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Penalty for 
 
 bribery. 
 
 Penalty for 
 officers 
 having an 
 interest in 
 furnishing 
 supplies. 
 
 Penalty for 
 bribery. 
 
 fences or outhouses belonging to or connected with such 
 building or lands, or shall disturb the exercises of such 
 public school, or molest or give annoyance to the chil- 
 dren attending such school, or any teacher therein, shall 
 be deemed and adjudged to be a disorderly person. 
 
 Extracts from an act entitled "An act for the punish- 
 ment of crimes" [Revision of 1898]. 
 
 28. Any member or officer of any state, county or city 
 government, or any member of any public board, asso- 
 ciation or commission, who shall hereafter solicit or 
 receive either directly or indirectly, any money or valu- 
 able thing, reward or commission for his vote in the 
 appointment or selection of any person or persons to any 
 position in any department oi any public body afore- 
 said, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be 
 punished accordingly, and be forever thereafter disquali- 
 fied from holding any office of profit, trust or emolu- 
 ment in this state. 
 
 29. Any employe or person having the whole or par- 
 tial control or management of any institution, the 
 moneys for the support of which are drawn in whole or 
 in part from the treasury of the state, or any county or 
 city thereof, who shall be directly or indirectly interested 
 in furnishing any goods, chattels, supplies or property of 
 any kind whatsoever, to or for the use of any such in- 
 stitution, shall be guilty oi a misdemeanor. 
 
 30. Any person who shall directly or indirectly give, 
 or receive, or promise, contract or agree to give or re- 
 ceive, any sum or sums of money, or any goods, chattels, 
 gifts, lands or real estate, or any other thing, present or 
 reward whatsoever, to secure or obtain, or to give out or 
 grant the printing of blanks, notices, advertisements, or 
 any other printing, or any other work or thing, con- 
 nected with, or in or appertaining to, any office or de- 
 partment of the government of this state, or any office 
 or department of the government of any county, city, 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 165 
 
 town, township, borough or other place in this state, 
 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 31. Any board of chosen freeholders or any town- 
 
 ship committee, or any board of aldermen, or common a i>P r P riatlon - 
 councilmen, or any board of education, or any board of 
 commissioners of any county, township, city, town or 
 borough in this state, or any committee of any such 
 board, committee or commission, which, or any member 
 thereof who shall disburse, order or vote for the dis- 
 bursement O'f public moneys, in excess of the appro- 
 priation respectively to any such board or committee; 
 or which board or committee, or any member thereof, 
 who shall incur obligations in excess of the appropria- 
 tion and limit of expenditure provided by law for the 
 purposes respectively of any such board or committee, 
 thus disbursing, ordering or voting for the disbursement 
 and expenditure of public moneys, or thus incurring 
 obligations in excess of the amount appropriated, and 
 limit O'f expenditure as now or hereafter appropriated 
 and limited by law, shall be jointly or severally guilty 
 of a misdemeanor; provided, nothing herein shall pre- Proviso, 
 vent any board of education fronn keeping open the 
 public schools. 
 
 32. Any member of any board of chosen freeholders, 
 
 or any township committee, or any board of education traas in fo C r n " 
 
 ... i r 1 1 buildings or 
 
 in anv school district, or any board o>f aldermen or comr supplies. 
 
 . . . - . P. L. 1907, 
 
 mon council in any city, or any board of commissioners p. 292. 
 of any county, township, city, town or borough in this 
 state, who shall be directly or indirectly concerned in 
 any agreement or contract for the construction of any 
 bridge or building of any kind whatsoever, or any im- 
 provement whatever to be constructed or made for the 
 public use or at the public expense, or shall be a party 
 to any contract or agreement, either as principal or 
 surety, between the county, township, city, town, bor- 
 ough or school district, as the case may be, and any 
 other party, or who shall be directly or indirectly inter- 
 ested in furnishing any goods, chattels, supplies or prop- 
 
i66 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Manner of 
 advertising 
 and receiving 
 proposals. 
 
 erty of any kind whatsoever to or for the county, town- 
 ship, city, town, borough or school district, the contract 
 or agreement for which is made or the expense or con- 
 sideration of which is paid by the board, council or 
 committee of which such member is a part, shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 33. When bids or proposals for supplies or for public 
 works OT buildings or other public purposes are asked 
 for by boards of managers having charge of any of the 
 public institutions of this state, or by boards of free- 
 holders, common councils, boards of works or other 
 bodies having control of the counties, cities or other 
 municipal bodies of this state or any department of the 
 same, or any committees representing such boards or 
 bodies, such boards or bodies or committees shall pro- 
 ceed in the manner following, to wit : said boards or 
 governing bodies or committees shall give public notice 
 at the time such bids or proposals are advertised of the 
 time and place when such bids shall be received, and at 
 such time and place the said board or governing body 
 or committee, being in session, shall receive such bids, 
 and thereupon immediately proceed to unseal the same 
 and publicly announce the contents in the presence of 
 the parties bidding or their agents, providing said par- 
 ties or agents choose to be then and there present, and 
 also make proper record of the prices and terms upon 
 the minutes of the body; no bids shall be received pre- 
 vious to the hour designated in the public notice, and 
 none shall be received thereafter; and any failure to 
 comply with the provisions hereof shall be a misde- 
 meanor. 
 
 State board 
 of children's 
 guar.iians; 
 appointment 
 and term. 
 P L. 1895, 
 Chap. 165. 
 
 STATE BOARD OF CHILDREN'S GUARDIANS. 
 
 i. There shall be appointed by the Governor seven 
 persons, two of whom shall be women, who shall be 
 known as the state board of children's guardians, two of 
 whom shall hold office for two years, two for four years 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 167 
 
 and three for six years, as shall be indicated by the 
 Governor on making their appointment, and thereafter 
 all appointments, except to fill vacancies in the said 
 board, shall be for six years, and shall be made by the 
 Governor ; said board shall receive no compensation for Expenses met. 
 their time or services but the actual and necessary ex- 
 penses of each of them while engaged in the perform- 
 ance of the duties of his or her office. 
 
 2. In case of the death or resignation of any mem- 
 ber, or in case any member ceases to be a resident or 
 citizen of this state, it shall be the duty of the Governor 
 to fill such vacancy for the unexpired term only, and any 
 member may be removed by the Governor for cause. 
 
 3. Said board of children's guardians shall have and y 
 it is hereby vested with power to adopt a seal and rea- Ibid - 
 sonable rules and regulations; said board of children's 
 guardians shall have the care of and maintain a general 
 supervision over all indigent, helpless, dependent, aban- 
 doned, friendless and poor children who may now be 
 
 or who may hereafter become public charges ; and said 
 board shall have the care of and maintain supervision 
 over all children adjudged public charges, who may 
 now be in the charge, custody and control of any county 
 asylum, county home, almshouse, poorhouse, charitable 
 institution, home or family, to which such child or chil- 
 dren may be or have been committed, confined, adopted, 
 apprenticed, indentured or bound out ; said board shall 
 have and is hereby vested with power to appoint such 
 agents, one being a woman, and other subordinate offi- 
 cers as it may deem necessary ; said board shall fix their 
 compensation, subject to the approval of the Governor, 
 and the amount paid for compensation of such agents 
 and other officers shall not exceed the sum appropriated 
 by the legislature for the purpose. 
 
 4. It shall be the duty of the state board of children's Further duty. 
 
 J P. L,. 1902, 
 
 guardians, when any child shall become a public charge, Cha P- 16 - 
 to place such child in the care of some family within this 
 state, with or without the payment of board, and with 
 
1 68 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Visitations. 
 P. Iv. 1895, 
 Chap. 165. 
 
 Reports. 
 
 or without indenture; and it shall further be the duty of 
 such state board of children's guardians to place such 
 child in the care of some family of the religious faith of 
 the parent or parents of such child, and during the pe- 
 riod in which the state board of children's guardians is 
 seeking such famiily for such child and until such family 
 is secured as hereinbefore provided, it shall be the duty 
 of the state board of children's guardians; to place such 
 child in the custody of an institution in this state for the 
 care of children ; provided, that the institution in which 
 the child is placed shall be one maintained for children 
 of the religious faith of the parent or parents of such 
 child when such an institution exists therein ; in case no 
 institution of such religious faith exists in this state, then 
 the said board of children's guardians shall use its discre- 
 tion in providing an institution for the care of such child 
 until a family has been secured; provided, that nothing 
 in this act contained shall be construed as giving such 
 state board the custody of any child heretofore or here- 
 after placed by a board of chosen freeholders in a duly 
 incorporated charitable institution located in the county 
 where such child shall have been committed as a public 
 charge pursuant to an act approved March twenty-fifth, 
 anno domjini one thousand eight hundred and eighty- 
 one, entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act 
 for the settlement and relief of the poor' (Revision), 
 approved March twenty-fifth, one thousand eight hun- 
 dred and seventy-four." 
 
 5. It shall be the duty of the state board of children's 
 guardians to visit, by its agent or agents, quarterly, all 
 children who may be committed under this act, and also 
 any home, asylum, institution or private family where 
 any such child or children may be placed; said board 
 shall report from time to time to the Governor, and 
 make a yearly report to the Governor and legislature of 
 the state, showing in detail the work of said board for 
 that time. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 169 
 
 6. The county board of chosen freeholders of the ^ s b r v ro ~ 
 lespective counties of this state shall annually hereafter c ^f^. Tce 
 provide sufficient funds for the objects of this act in ] 
 
 their respective counties for the support, care and edu- 
 cation and maintenance of any child or children ad- 
 judged to be a public charge, and who shall become 
 thereby wards of the state board of children's guard- 
 ians; said sum shall not be less than one dollar and 
 fifty cents per week for each child. 
 
 7. It shall be the duty of the proper officers in anv Provisions for 
 
 ' expenses m 
 
 county, township, borough, city or other municipality in jjjjjjjjjj 
 any county in the state having jurisdiction to provide in ]bid - 
 their annual budget for the expense of maintaining such 
 children as aforesaid; said sum not to be less than one 
 dollar and fifty cents per week for each child. 
 
 8. It shall be the duty of every overseer of the poor overseer of 
 or other officer in any borough, city, county, township or r - 1 
 ether municipality in any county in the state, having Chap - 16 - 
 jurisdiction and power to do so, to commit such child or 
 children to the care of the keeper of the almshouse or 
 
 such other institution where he would commit such child 
 or children, for the term of thirty days after the date of 
 such commitment; thereupon he shall forthwith give a 
 written notice of such commitment to the state board of 
 children's guardians, which notice shall contain a de- 
 scription of such child, or children, embracing its or 
 their name, age, sex, religion, faith of its or their parent 
 or parents, date of commitment and such other informa- 
 tion as such officer has been able to ascertain ; upon such Wards of 
 commitment being made by such officer as aforesaid, guardians, 
 such child or children shall immediately become the 
 ward or wards of the state board of children's guard- 
 ians, and said state board of children's guardians shall 
 thereupon, for all intents and purposes, become and be 
 declared the legal guardian of such child, and entitled 
 tc its custody, and which right of guardianship shall 
 supersede any right of the parents of said child, so far 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 
 
 Children 
 placed as 
 soon as 
 possible. 
 P. L. 1895, 
 Chap. 165- 
 
 Return 
 children to 
 parents. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Until effective 
 organization 
 is completed. 
 Ibid. 
 
 Remain as 
 guardians. 
 Ibid. 
 
 as its custody is concerned; but said board may sur- 
 render such right to one or both parents, if in the opinion 
 of said board the best interests of said child will be 
 promoted thereby, and the parent or parents are of 
 good moral character and capable of maintaining said 
 child ; and said keeper of the almshouse or other institu- 
 tion shall, within forty-eight hours after such child is 
 placed in his care, notify said board of children's guard- 
 ians of the presence of said child in said almshouse or 
 institution. 
 
 9. It shall be the duty of the state board of children's 
 guardians, upon receipt of the notice of the commitment 
 of any child as hereinbefore provided, to place such child 
 or children in the manner hereinbefore provided as soon 
 as possible thereafter; and in no case shall said child or 
 children who may hereafter be committed as public 
 charges, who may be over the age of twelve months, be 
 confined in such almshouse for a longer period than 
 thirty days, and the keeper of such almshouse shall sur- 
 render such child or children to the care and custody of 
 the state board of children's guardians at any time 
 v/ithin thirty days, when surrender is demanded. 
 
 10. The state board of children's guardians may, in 
 its discretion, return any child or children becoming 
 wards of said state board to the parent or parents or 
 other relative agreeing to assume the care and mainte- 
 nance of such child or children or of sufficient ability to 
 do so. 
 
 11. The state board of children's guardians may, in 
 their discretion, for the purpose of effective organiza- 
 tion require the continuance of children in almshouses or 
 other places where such children may be kept for a 
 period of not longer than six months after the passage 
 of this act. 
 
 12. The state board of children's guardians shall re- 
 main the guardian of all children indentured, bound out 
 or put forth, who may now be or may hereafter become 
 public charges. 
 
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. 171 
 
 13. This act shall be construed liberally and for the 
 benefit of any child or children so becoming ward or Ibld * 
 wards of such state board of children's guardians as 
 aforesaid. 
 
Rules and Regulations 
 
 PRESCRIBED BY THE 
 
 State Board of Education 
 
 (173) 
 
Rules Relating to Certificates. 
 
 1 . No person shall be employed as a teacher, principal or super- 
 visor,* unless he shall hold a certificate, which certificate shall 
 be in full force and effect in this State and valid for the position 
 to be filled at the time he shall begin teaching under a contract 
 entered into with a Board of Education. Any person accepting 
 a position as teacher in any school shall, before entering upon 
 the duties of such position, exhibit his certificate to the County 
 Superintendent of Schools or the City Superintendent of Schools 
 of the county or the city in which such school shall be situate. 
 
 2. Any applicant for a certificate shall be at least 18 years of 
 age, shall file testimonials as to moral character, a physician's 
 certificate of health, and, in case of previous experience, testi- 
 monials as to his success in teaching, and shall also present a 
 written statement giving the places in which he has taught and 
 the term of service in each. 
 
 3. No certificate, granted upon examination, shall be issued to 
 any person whose percentage in any subject covered by the exam- 
 ination shall fall below 70 per cent, except as hereinafter speci- 
 fied for provisional certificates. 
 
 4. An applicant to have his certificate renewed or made per- 
 manent must file testimonials of success from his county or city 
 superintendent, and from the president or district clerk, or sec- 
 retary of the board of education under which he has been em- 
 ployed. 
 
 5. Certificates in force July i, 1911, shall be renewed upon 
 application by the State Board of Examiners, but shall be valid 
 only as originally issued; provided, that in renewing or making 
 
 * NOTE. The term "supervisor" includes county and city superintendents, supervising 
 principals, principals of graded schools who devote their entire time to supervision, and 
 supervisors of elementary or high schools. It does not include supervisors of special 
 departments, as manual training, household economics, kindergartens, etc. 
 
176 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 permanent such certificates the State Board of Examiners shall 
 be governed by the rules heretofore in force. 
 
 6. There shall be twx> general classes of certificates, viz., State 
 Certificates, issued by the State Board of Examiners, and city 
 certificates, issued to graduates of city training schools. Appli- 
 cations for certificates should be filed with the State Board of 
 Examiners at least one month prior to the date of the examina- 
 tion. 
 
 7. A State Certificate shall be valid in any district in the 
 State, in the grades covered by said certificate. 
 
 8. A City Certificate shall be valid only in the city in which 
 it is issued. 
 
 9. The State Board of Examiners shall issue certificates of 
 the following classes : Elementary, Secondary, Normal School, 
 Supervisors, Special and. Provisional. 
 
 10. The State Board of Examiners may, under Rules and 
 Regulations prescribed by the State Board of Education, revoke 
 for cause any certificate granted by any Board oif Examiners. 
 
 11. Any person holding a Supervisor's Certificate shall be 
 deemed and taken to hold a First Grade State Certificate as re- 
 quired by law. 
 
 PROVISIONAL CERTIFICATES. 
 
 12. Any applicant for any class of State Certificate may, be- 
 tween the dates of the regular examinations, be granted a pro- 
 visional certificate valid until the last of the second month follow- 
 ing 1 the date of the next regular examination. 
 
 113. A provisional certificate shall not be renewed except, that 
 in the case of a person who holds no certificate valid in this 
 State, and who is therefore required to take an examination in 
 all the subjects specified for the class of certificate applied for, a 
 provisional certificate may be granted which shall be valid until 
 the fifteenth day of the mionth succeeding the date of the second 
 regular examination held after the granting of said provisional 
 certificate; provided, the applicant shall, at the first examination, 
 pass in more than half of the subjects specified for the class of 
 certificate applied for, and shall secure at least 70 per cent, in 
 each subject and a general average of not less than 75 per cent. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 177 
 
 14. Application for a provisional certificate shall be made to 
 the county or city superintendent having supervision of the 
 schools in which the applicant expects to teach. All provisional 
 certificates shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the 
 State Board of Examiners, but shall not be valid licenses to teach 
 unless countersigned by the superintendent by whom they are 
 issued. A provisional certificate shall not be issued until there 
 shall have been filed with said superintendent an application for 
 a regular certificate valid for the grade in which the applicant 
 expects to teach. Whenever a provisional certificate shall be 
 issued the superintendent shall forthwith forward to the State 
 Board of Examiners a statement setting forth the name of the 
 person to whom it was issued, the grades for which it is valid 
 and the date on which it was issued. He shall forward with 
 SU( tteS&tement the application for the regular certificate and any 
 credentials filed with him by the person to whom the provisional 
 certificate was issued. Each superintendent shall keep an accurate 
 record of all provisional certificates issued by him. 
 
 DEFINITIONS FOR PURPOSES OF CERTIFICATION. 
 
 15. A Kindergarten School is a school for children "over the 
 age of four and under the age of seven years." (Article XII, 
 School Law.) 
 
 1 6. An Elementary School is a school in which there are any 
 or all of the first eight years of work exclusive of the kinder- 
 garten. 
 
 17. A Secondary School is a school in which there are any or 
 all of the four years of work following the elementary school. 
 
 1 8. The term "year" shall mean a period of not less than nine 
 months of twenty school days each. 
 
 19. The term "supervisor" includes county and city superin- 
 tendents, supervising principals, principals of graded schools who 
 devote their entire time to supervision and supervisors of ele- 
 mentary or high schools. It does not include supervisors of 
 special departments as manual training, household economics, 
 kindergarten, etc. 
 
 12 s i. 
 
1 78 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 DATES AND PLACES FOR EXAMINATIONS. 
 
 20. There shall be two examinations for State Certificates each 
 year. Said examinations shall be held on the last three Satur- 
 days of April and the first three Saturdays in November, at places 
 arranged for by the State Board of Examiners with the County 
 and City Superintendents of the respective counties and cities. 
 Other examinations may be held by the State Board of Exam- 
 iners at such times and places as said Board may determine. 
 
 STATE CERTIFICATES. 
 
 21. State Certificates may be obtained either by endorsement 
 or examination. /. By endorsement. In lieu of examinations 
 the State Board of Examiners may accept (i) the diploma 
 of a state normal school of another state; (2) a permanent state 
 certificate granted in another state on examination, provided, that 
 such diploma or certificate covers work equivalent to that required 
 in this State for the grade of certificate for which application is 
 made; provided further, that the entrance requirements for such 
 normal school shall have been the equivalent of those required 
 for admission to normal schools in this State. 
 
 22. Certificates from other states shall be endorsed only on 
 terms of reciprocity, except that normal school diplomas issued 
 in states not having a State system of certification, and which 
 are, therefore, unable to grant said reciprocal privileges, may be 
 endorsed as hereinabove provided. 
 
 23. By examination. The diploma of an approved college, any 
 New Jersey County or State Certificate in full force and effect, 
 or which shall have been in full force and effect in this State 
 within one year next preceding the date of the examination, and 
 any credit heretofore given by any Board of Examiners shall be 
 accepted in lieu of an examination in the subjects covered by such 
 diploma or certificate or by such credits; provided, that in con- 
 sidering the recognition to be given to such certificate and credits, 
 the State Board of Examiners shall be governed by the rules 
 heretofore in force. 
 
 24. Records from approved universities or colleges or ap- 
 proved summer schools, of the satisfactory completion of a 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 179 
 
 course of study in any professional subject required for any 
 grade of certificate, may be accepted by the State Board of Ex- 
 aminers in lieu of the examination in such subject, provided the 
 record of the same be submitted under seal or affidavit of the 
 institution. 
 
 25. The order in which the subjects shall be taken at an exam- 
 ination shall be determined by the State Board of Examiners.* 
 
 ELEMENTARY CERTIFICATES. 
 
 26. Limited. An applicant for a limited elementary certificate, 
 upon examination, shall be examined in the following subjects: 
 
 Orthography, Business Forms, 
 
 Reading, Geography, 
 
 Grammar, United States History, with 
 
 Composition, Civics, 
 
 Literature for the grades, General History, 
 
 Arithmetic, Physiology and Hygiene, 
 
 Penmanship, Drawing. 
 
 27. After September i, 1912, the applicant must have had 
 one year of a course in an "approved" high school, after 1913, 
 two years; after 1914, three years, and after 1915 must be a 
 graduate of such school. 
 
 28. This certificate shall be valid for one year, at the end of 
 which it may be renewed without examination for two years. 
 
 29. Permanent. A limited elementary certificate may be made 
 permanent after three years of successful teaching in this State, 
 and after an examination in the following required subjects : 
 
 Psychology, Physics, 
 
 Physical Training, Elementary Algebra, 
 
 Manual Training, or House- Theory and Practice of 
 
 hold Economics, Teaching. 
 History of Education, 
 
 And any three of the following electives : 
 
 * For schedule see last page, 185. 
 
i8o RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 Botany, Agriculture, 
 
 Chemistry, Plane Geometry, 
 
 Vocal Music, Astronomy. 
 Zoology, 
 
 30. An elementary certificate shall entitle the holder to teach 
 in an elementary school. 
 
 SECONDARY CERTIFICATES. 
 
 31. Limited. An applicant for a limited secondary school 
 certificate shall hold a diploma from an approved college, or a 
 diploma from an approved four year high school teachers' course 
 of a State normal school, or shall be the holder of a New Jersey 
 Permanent Elementary State Certificate ; and, in addition thereto- 
 shall be examined in such of the following subjects as are not 
 covered by such diploma or certificate: 
 
 Psychology with special refer- Physiology and Hygiene, 
 ence to teaching, 'Principles of Secondary 
 
 History of Education, Education. 
 
 And the subject or subjects to be taught. 
 
 32. This certificate shall be valid for one year, at the end of 
 which it may be renewed without examination for two years. 
 
 33. A secondary certificate shall entitle the holder to teach in 
 a secondary or in an elementary school. 
 
 34. Permanent. A limited secondary school certificate may 
 be made permanent after three years of successful teaching. 
 
 SUPERVISORS' CERTIFICATES. 
 
 35. Limited. An applicant for a limited supervisors' certifi- 
 cate shall be at least twenty-five years of age, shall hold a New 
 Jersey elementary or secondary certificate, or the equivalent 
 thereof, shall have had at least five years experience in teaching, 
 shall have been principal or supervisor of a school or schools 
 employing at least five assistant teachers for at least one year, 
 and shall present testimonials of his executive ability from the 
 county or the city superintendent and the president, district clerk 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 181 
 
 or secretary of the board of education under which he has been 
 employed and shall pass an examination in School Organization. 
 
 36. Permanent. A limited supervisor's certificate may be made 
 permanent after three years of successful experience as a super- 
 visor. 
 
 37. A Supervisor's certificate shall be valid for any super- 
 visor's position, and in addition thereto, to teach in any branch 
 of study covered by such certificate. 
 
 SPECIAL, CERTIFICATES. 
 
 38. Limited. A limited special certificate may be issued to 
 teach in an evening school and to teach : 
 
 Kindergarten, Cooking, 
 
 Modern Languages, Sewing. 
 
 Physical Training, Agriculture, 
 
 Music, Bookkeeping, 
 
 Drawing, Stenography and Typewriting, 
 
 Manual Training, Penmanship, 
 
 and such other industrial or vocational branches as may be de- 
 termined by the State Board of Examiners. 
 
 39. An applicant for a special certificate shall be examined in 
 the subject or subjects to be taught, and for Kindergarten, Mod- 
 ern Languages, Bookkeeping, and Evening Schools, shall be a 
 graduate of a four-year approved high school course, or the 
 equivalent. 
 
 40. This certificate is valid for one year, at the end of which 
 it may be renewed without examination for two years. 
 
 41. Permanent. A limited special certificate may be made 
 permanent after three years of successful teaching. 
 
 42. A special certificate shall entitle the holder to teach or 
 supervise any grade in the subject or subjects covered by such 
 certificate. 
 
 43. Kindergarten shall include Kindergarten Drawing- and 
 Kindergarten Music. 
 
 44. Drawing shall include Plane Geometry. 
 
1 82 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 45. Bookkeeping' shall include Commercial Arithmetic, Com- 
 mercial Law and Business Practice. 
 
 46. Manual Training shall include Mechanical Drawing. 
 
 47. Cooking shall include Household Chemistry, Physiology 
 and Hygiene. 
 
 48. Sewing shall include dressmaking. 
 
 49. Penmanship shall include Theory and Practice of Pen- 
 manship, Orthography and English Grammar. 
 
 50. Music shall include History of Music, Methods in Music 
 and Musical material used in schools. An applicant for a Music 
 Certificate must also file testimonials from two qualified teachers 
 of Music. 
 
 51. Stenography and Typewriting shall include English Gram- 
 mar, Composition and Orthography. 
 
 52. Modern Languages shall include Psychology, History of 
 Education, Theory and Practice. 
 
 NORMAL SCHOOL CERTIFICATES. 
 
 53. A certificate for either the two-year or the three-year nor- 
 mal course shall rank as an elementary certificate. 
 
 54. A certificate for efficient special work in any subject to 
 the extent of two elective units shall rank as a special certificate 
 in that subject. 
 
 55. A certificate for the high school teachers' course of four 
 years shall rank as a secondary certificate for the subjects cov- 
 evered by it. 
 
 56. A Kindergarten-Primary certificate shall be valid for a 
 Kindergarten and the first three primary years. 
 
 57. A Normal certificate may be made permanent after two 
 years of successful teaching under such certificate. 
 
 PLAN OF EXAMINATIONS. 
 
 158. Readers. The State Board of Examiners shall appoint 
 readers who shall hold secondary certificates or their equivalent. 
 The number of Readers, their term of service and their compen- 
 sation shall be fixed bv the State Board of Education. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 183 
 
 59. Preparation of Questions. The work of preparing ques- 
 tions for the examinations shall be done under the supervision 
 of the State Board of Examiners. 
 
 60. Conduct of the Examinations. The examination shall be 
 held simultaneously, under the personal supervision of the County 
 and City Superintendents of Schools. /Questions shall be in 
 sealed envelopes, which shall be broken at the times indicated 
 thereon, and in the presence of the applicants. 
 
 61. Each applicant shall write his name and address upon a 
 card and shall seal the same in a numbered envelope. The en- 
 velope shall be collected by the person in charge of the examina- 
 tion and forwarded by him to the Commissioner of Educa- 
 tion. The applicant shall mark each sheet of his examination 
 paper with his assigned number, but shall oiot write his name or 
 any distinguishing mark upon his paper nor upon the outside of 
 the envelope which contains his name and address. This en- 
 velope shall not be opened until all the papers have been duly- 
 examined, and under conditions hereinafter stated. 
 
 62. When all the applicants shall have completed the exami- 
 nation in a given subject, the County Superintendent shall seal 
 the papers in double envelopes, writing upon the inner envelope 
 the subject and place of examination. This package shall be 
 immediately sent to the Commissioner of Education. 
 
 63. Rleaders. The Readers shall mark the papers, upon the 
 basis of 100 credits, and shall make a record of the papers, dis- 
 tinguishing them by their numbers. This record for each of 
 the numbers, signed by the reader, shall be sealed in an envelope 
 and sent to the Commissioner of Education. No reader shall 
 affix any mark upon the papers which might tend to influence 
 the examiners. 
 
 64. The Commissioner of Education shall retain the reports 
 of the readers, sealed until all readers have made their reports. 
 
 65. The sealed reports of the readers shall be opened by the 
 State Board of Examiners and the result of the examination 
 for each subject recorded. 
 
 66. Identifying Applicants. The numbered envelopes contain- 
 ing the names of the applicants shall not be opened except at a 
 
1 84 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 meeting of the State Board of Examiners, and not until the 
 markings, according to the distinguishing numbers, are fully 
 completed by the readers. The names shall then be substituted 
 for the numbers. 
 
 67. Records. The State Board of Examiners shall keep a 
 record of all the certificates it shall grant and shall report the 
 same to the State Board of Education. 
 
 68. County and City Superintendents shall report all certifi- 
 cates held by the teachers under their supervision to the 
 Commissioner of Education, who shall keep a record of the 
 same. 
 
 69. County and City Superintendents shall file all contracts, 
 rules and regulations of Boards of Education concerning the 
 employment of teachers, and keep an accurate record thereof. 
 
 70. District Clerk. The District Clerk of each school district 
 shall, within ten days after a contract with a teacher shall have 
 been made, forward to the County Superintendent of Schools 
 a copy of such contract, if the same shall be in writing, but if 
 such contract shall have been made under rules adopted by the 
 Board of Education said District Clerk shall report to the 
 County Superintendent of Schools the name of such teacher, the 
 term and position for which he shall be employed, the amount 
 of salary and the class and date of his certificate. 
 
 71. Each Board of Education which shall adopt rules govern- 
 ing the employment of teachers in accordance with the provi- 
 sions of section 106 of the School Law, shall file a copy of such 
 rules, and any amendment thereof, or supplement thereto, with 
 the County Superintendent of Schools. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 ORDER OF EXAMINATIONS, MAY AND DECEMBER. 
 
 185 
 
 First Saturday. 
 9: is A. M. 
 
 Second Saturday. 
 g: 15 A. M. 
 
 Third Saturday. 
 9: is A. M. 
 
 LIMITED ELEMENTARY. 
 
 Arithmetic 
 
 Penmanship 
 
 General History 
 Business Forms 
 
 Composition 
 Literature for the Grades 
 
 PERMANENT ELEMENTARY. 
 
 Psychology 
 "Astronomy 
 
 Manual Training 
 * Botany 
 *Zoology 
 
 History of Education 
 * Chemistry 
 
 SECONDARY AND SUPERVISOR. 
 
 Principles of Secondary 
 Education 
 School Organization 
 
 
 
 SPECIAL. 
 
 Kindergarten 
 Kindergarten Drawing 
 Kindergarten Training 
 Kindergarten Music 
 Stenography, Typewriting, in- 
 cluding English Grammar, 
 Composition and Orthography. 
 
 Manual Training, including 
 Mechanical Drawing 
 Music 
 History of Music 
 Methods of Music 
 Music Material 
 Commercial Arithmetic 
 Commercial Law 
 
 Latin 
 French 
 
 x: 15 P. M. 
 
 1:1-5 P. M. 
 
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 LIMITED ELEMENTARY. 
 
 Orthography 
 Reading 
 Enelish Grammar 
 
 U. S. History with Civics 
 Geography 
 
 Drawing, 
 Physiology and Hygiene 
 
 PERMANENT ELEMENTARY. 
 
 Physical Training, 
 *Agriculture 
 Household Economics 
 
 Theory and Practice 
 Elementary Algebra 
 *Vocal Music 
 
 Physics 
 * Plane Geometry 
 
 SPECIAL. 
 
 Cooking, including Household 
 
 Chemistry 
 Sewing, including Dressmaking 
 
 Bookkeeping 
 Business Practice 
 fPenmanship 
 
 Drawing, including Plane 
 Geometry 
 German 
 Spanish 
 Greek 
 
 * Electives; three are required. 
 
 t Special Penmanship includes Orthography, English Grammar and Theory and Practice of Pen- 
 manship. 
 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 i. Each County Superintendent shall visit the schools in his 
 county as often as may be necessary ; provided, that he shall visit 
 every school under his jurisdiction at least once in each year 4 ,; 
 provided -further, that the total number of visits made during the 
 year shall equal at least twice the number of schools under his 
 
1 86 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 jurisdiction, the additional visits to be made to such schools as, 
 in his judgment, most need his encouragement and advice. At 
 such visits he shall inquire into the management, methods of 
 instruction and discipline in such schools; note the condition of 
 the school-houses, sites, buildings and appurtenances, examine the 
 course of study, text-books and school libraries, and recommend 
 to and counsel teachers as to proper studies, methods, discipline 
 and management for the schools. 
 
 2. The County Superintendent shall distribute promptly all 
 documents, forms, laws, circulars and instructions which he may 
 receive from the Commissioner of Education or the State Board 
 of Education. 
 
 3. The County Superintendent shall see that the decisions of 
 the Commissioner of Education and the State Board of Educa- 
 tion, upon controversies arising under the School laws of the 
 State or under the rules and regulations prescribed by the State 
 Board of Education are obeyed; and in case such decisions are 
 not obeyed he shall so inform the Commissioner of Education 
 and state the circumstances. 
 
 4. The County Superintendent shall preserve carefully all 
 reports of school officers and teachers, and at the close of his 
 official term shall deliver to his successor all records, books, 
 documents, papers and property belonging to the office. 
 
 5. The County Superintendent shall not be agent for or be 
 in any way pecuniarily or beneficially interested in the sale to the 
 board of education of any school district under his supervision of 
 any text-books, maps, charts, school apparatus or supplies of any 
 kind, or receive compensation or reward of any kind for any such 
 sale or for unlawfully promoting or favoring the same. Any 
 County Superintendent who shall violate this provision shall be 
 subject to removal from office. 
 
 6. The County Superintendent shall meet each board of edu- 
 cation in his county at least twice each year, at such times and 
 places as he may appoint. 
 
 7. The County Superintendent shall, in the manner now pro- 
 vided by law, and subject to the approval of the Commissioner of 
 Education, prepare and establish a uniform course of study and a 
 standard of graduation in the schools under his supervision. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 187 
 
 8. The County Superintendent shall, by such means as he 
 shall deem most practicable, establish a County Pedagogical 
 Library, and shall, subject to the approval of the Commissioner 
 of Education, designate courses of pedagogical reading. 
 
 9. The Commissioner of Education shall furnish blank diplo- 
 mas to be awarded by County Superintendents to all pupils who 
 shall successfully complete the prescribed course of study; also di- 
 plomas suitable to be granted to such teachers as shall prove that 
 they have intelligently completed the courses of professional 
 reading prescribed for their respective grades. 
 
 10. The Advisory Committee shall, subject to the approval 
 of the State Board o>f Education, prepare rules for the examina- 
 tion of applicants for the position of County Superintendent; 
 shall conduct such examinations and shall report its findings to 
 said board at. its regular meeting in June. 
 
 11. Each County Superintendent in his annual report to the 
 Commissioner of Education shall specifically report as to 
 whether the provisions of Section 230 of the School Law relat- 
 ing to the display of the United States Flag during school hours, 
 and whether section 265 relating to Flag Day on the fourteenth 
 day of June, in each year, have been complied with in the various 
 school districts therein, and shall annually, and at such other 
 times as he may deem advisable, direct the attention of the boards 
 of education therein to the necessity of complying with the pro- 
 visions of said sections. He is also directed to recommend that 
 in each school the daily exercise shall include a salute to the 
 United States flag, and shall include in his report a statement of 
 the observance of this custom. 
 
 TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. 
 
 i. The Commissioner of Education shall secure instructors, 
 prepare programs and provide a county institute for each county 
 of the State, but shall hold joint institutes wherever practicable. 
 General sessions of such institutes may, if deemed advisable, be 
 held during each forenoon, but the afternoon session shall be 
 divided into either two or three departments, in which the instruc- 
 
1 88 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 tion given shall be adapted to the several grades of teachers in 
 attendance. 
 
 2. No public school in the State shall be in session, or shall 
 be deemed to be in session, during the period the institute for the 
 county in which it is situate shall be held. 
 
 3. All teachers shall attend the annual institute held for the 
 county in which they are teaching ; and no deduction shall be made 
 from the salary of any teacher for the time he shall be in attend- 
 ance upon said institute. 
 
 4. The Commissioner of Education shall pay all expenses in- 
 curred in connection with each county institute, but only upon the 
 presentation of itemized and certified bills, and shall render to the 
 State Board of Education both an itemized and a summarized 
 account of the amount expended, accompanied with appropriate 
 vouchers. 
 
 5. The County Superintendent shall make all necessary local 
 arrangements for the county institute, shall preside at the same, 
 shall render an exact statement to employing boards as to the time 
 each teacher in the county has been in attendance at said institute, 
 and no teacher shall be paid for time not in actual attendance at 
 the said institute, except upon the presentation of a written excuse 
 from the County Superintendent. 
 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 i. The order or warrant for the balance of salary due any 
 teacher at the time of closing the school for the summer vacation 
 shall not be delivered to such teacher until the district clerk or 
 other officer authorized to deliver such order or warrant shall 
 have received written notice from the Commissioner of Edu- 
 cation that such teacher has filed his or her register and 
 report of attendance with him; provided, that in any school 
 in which more than one teacher shall be employed, the principal 
 thereof shall file the registers and reports ; and provided further, 
 that in any district having a superintendent or a supervising prin- 
 cipal the filing of the registers and reports with such super intend- 
 -ent or supervising principal shall be deemed to be a compliance 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 189 
 
 with the provisions of this rule, and said superintendent or super- 
 vising principal shall forward the registers and reports to the 
 Commissioner of Education. 
 
 SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. 
 
 1. For the purpose of apportionment a day shall consist of not 
 less than four hours of actual school work, except in kinder- 
 gartens one continuous session of two and one-half hours may be 
 considered a day. Night school sessions shall be reckoned as 
 half days. 
 
 2. The mere presence of a pupil at roll call will not be con- 
 sidered as sufficient attendance to be a compliance with the intent 
 of the law. A pupil must be present at least one hour during 
 any forenoon, afternoon or evening session in order to be 
 recorded present. 
 
 3. No attendance is to be marked in the register for the days 
 during which the school shall be closed, but a report shall be made 
 to the Commissioner of Education at the end of the year stating 
 in detail the days on which the schools were closed and the reasons 
 therefor. The attendance for days when the school shall have 
 been closed for good cause will be computed by said Commis- 
 sioner of Education, and all that the teacher is required to do is 
 to note in the register on each day the school shall be closed, the 
 reasons why a session of the school was not held. 
 
 4. Whenever a dwelling shall be quarantined by order of the 
 board of health, notice shall be sent to the Commissioner of 
 Education of the date when the quarantine went into effect 
 and the date when it was raised, with a certificate from the 
 board of health stating the reasons for the quarantine. Chil- 
 dren residing in the building quarantined, who shall be actually 
 on roll in the school at the time the building shall be quarantined, 
 excepting children who are ill, shall be counted as present during 
 the time the building shall be quarantined. The allowance for 
 attendance lost by pupils quarantined will be added to the total 
 attendance of the district by the Commissioner of Education at 
 the end of the school year. The Commissioner of Education 
 shall prepare and distribute blank forms for carrying this rule 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 into effect, and the notice provided for in this rule shall be for- 
 warded on said forms as soon as possible after said quarantine 
 shall be raised. 
 
 5. When schools do not have regular half -day classes, the rainy 
 day session may be the length of the usual morning session. 
 
 SCHOOL LIBRARIES 
 
 1. In each city school district all selections of books of refer- 
 ence, books for school libraries, school apparatus and educational 
 works of art, purchased in part by State funds, shall be approved 
 by a committee of five persons, consisting of the city superin- 
 tendent of schools, if there be one, two principals of public 
 schools in such city to be appointed by said city superintendent, 
 and two residents of the city to be appointed by the Board of 
 Education. If in any such city there shall be a public library, 
 with a regularly appointed and qualified librarian who shall be 
 able to serve, said librarian shall be a member of such committee, 
 in which case the Board of Education shall appoint one resident 
 of the city on such committee instead of two as is hereinbefore 
 provided. In any city school district not having a city superin- 
 tendent of schools, the county superintendent of schools o>f the 
 county in which such city shall be situate, shall be a member of 
 said committee, and shall appoint said principals. 
 
 2. In each township, incorporated town and borough school 
 district, all selections of books of reference, books for school 
 libraries, school apparatus and educational works of art, pur- 
 chased in part by State funds, shall be approved by a committee 
 consisting of the county superintendent of schools for the county 
 in which such district shall be situate, the President of the Board 
 of Education, the principal of the school for which the purchases 
 shall be made, and the supervising principal of the district, if 
 there be one. If in any such school district there shall be a public 
 library, with a regularly appointed and qualified librarian, who 
 shall be able to serve, said librarian shall also be a member of 
 such committee. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 191 
 
 APPROVAL OF HIGH SCHOOLS. 
 
 1 . Those schools shall be classed as high schools which require 
 for admission the successful completion of eight years of graded 
 pre-academic work, or its equivalent, said pre-academic work to 
 be approved by the State Board of Education. 
 
 2. High schools that fully meet the standards set by the State 
 Board of Education shall be classed as "Approved High Schools." 
 
 3. In order to be approved, a high school must meet the fol- 
 lowing 1 conditions : 
 
 (a) All the regular courses of study must cover four full 
 years of school work, and must be approved by the State Board 
 of Education. 
 
 (b) The teaching and equipment must be approved by the 
 State Board of Education, but such approval will not be granted 
 unless three years of high school work are in actual operation. 
 
 (c) The teaching force must be adequate in number, and shall, 
 in every case, consist o*f at least three teachers, each of whom 
 shall be engaged exclusively in high school work. 
 
 (d) Diplomas shall be granted only to pupils who shall have 
 completed a full four-year course, aggregating at least seventy - 
 two (72) academic counts. The counts shall be reckoned in 
 accordance with the number of recitations per week of a school 
 year of at least thirty-eight weeks, and the recitation periods 
 shall average at least forty minutes. 
 
 4. A three-year high school will be registered as a "Partial 
 High School" in case it meets the following conditions : 
 
 (a) All the regular courses of study moist cover three full 
 years of school work, and must be approved by the State Board 
 of Education. 
 
 (b) The teaching and equipment must be approved by the 
 State Board of Education, but said approval will not be granted 
 unless at least two years of high school work are in actual 
 operation. 
 
 (c) The teaching force must be adequate in number, and shall 
 consist in every case of at least two teachers, each of whom shall 
 be engaged exclusively in high school work. 
 
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 (d) Certificates of graduation shall be granted only to pupils 
 who have completed a full three-year course, aggregating at 
 least fifty- four academic counts. The counts shall be reckoned 
 in accordance with the number of recitations per week of a school 
 year of not less than thirty-eight weeks, and the recitation periods 
 shall average not less than forty minutes. 
 
 5. Properly certified graduates of an approved high school 
 shall be entitled to admission, without examination, to the two- 
 year professional courses of the State Normal Schools. 
 
 6. Properly certified graduates of a three-year partial high 
 school shall be entitled to admission, without examination, to the 
 three-year courses of the State Normal Schools. 
 
 7. Certificates for work done may be granted by a local Board 
 of Education to pupils who have not completed a full four-year 
 high school course, but such certificates shall not be granted as 
 diplomas; and must, in each case, state the number of years' 
 work successfully completed. Holders of such certificates shall 
 not be ranked as graduates from any course. 
 
 APPORTIONMENT TO HIGH SCHOOLS. 
 
 1. The sum of $400 shall be apportioned to each district for 
 each teacher who shall have been permanently and exclusively 
 employed in a high school in which only an approved four years' 
 course or approved four years' courses of study are maintained. 
 
 2. The sum of $300 shall in like manner be apportioned for 
 each teacher who shall have been permanently and exclusively 
 employed in a high school maintaining only an approved course 
 or approved courses of study of not less than three years. 
 
 3. High schools maintaining courses of study which differ in 
 scope and in the term or time required for their completion shall 
 be classified for apportionment in accordance with their shortest 
 course. 
 
 REGISTRATION OF PRIVATE SCHOOLS. 
 
 i. A private secondary school may, upon the request of its 
 governing authority, be registered in the Department of Public 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 193 
 
 Instruction if, after inspection by a representative of said depart- 
 ment, it shall be found to comply with the following conditions: 
 
 (a) It must be under the management of a corporate body, 
 board of trustees or other responsible control. 
 
 (b) In all other respects the same standards shall apply as are 
 prescribed by the State Board of Education for the public high 
 schools. 
 
 2. Graduates of private registered secondary schools shall be 
 entitled to admission to the State Normal Schools on the same 
 terms as apply to graduates of the public high schools. 
 
 MEDICAI, INSPECTION. 
 
 1 . Every board of education shall appoint one or more medical 
 inspectors of schools in its district. Every medical inspector 
 shall be a regular practitioner of medicine, duly qualified to 
 practice in that district and physically able to serve. It shall fix 
 his duties in accordance with the rules of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation and regulate his pay. The medical inspector shall be ap- 
 pointed for one year. 
 
 2. Two or more adjoining school districts may unite in the 
 employment of a medical inspector for economy's sake or other 
 reasons. Under such circumstances each district shall pay its 
 part of the salary in proportion to the number of pupils in each 
 district. 
 
 3. The Commissioner of Education shall provide the neces- 
 sary blanks needed for carrying on the work of medical in- 
 spection and for gathering, preserving and forwarding to the 
 State Board the statistics collected. These records are the 
 property of the local boards and must be preserved by them. 
 Such parts of these records as may be designated from' time to 
 time shall be filed with the Secretary of this Board. 
 
 4. Pupils sent home from school by a medical inspector, with 
 a diagnosis of infectious or contagious disease, either actual or 
 suspected, shall not be readmitted to their respective class-rooms 
 until they shall present a written excuse signed by their family 
 physician or some other regularly qualified physician, who has 
 
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194 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 examined or treated them. This rule covers cases of disease of 
 the skin or scalp, and of purulent discharges from the eyes, nose 
 or ears, as well as the commonly .recognized diseases of an in- 
 fectious or contagious nature. 
 
 5. Boards of education shall carefully conform to all rules 
 of the local Boards of Health regarding sanitary conditions in 
 and about school property and in the matter of quarantine. 
 
 6. A medical inspector shall use the same care and skill in 
 examining pupils under his charge as he would in the case of 
 private patients. 
 
 7. The time for the stated medical inspection of the schools 
 shall be arranged in each district to suit the convenience of the 
 school authorities and the inspectors. It is advisable that the 
 regular visit for the detection of possible communicable diseases 
 should be made as soon after the opening of the morning session 
 of school as possible, in order that children suffering from such 
 diseases may not be kept in the class-rooms and become a fur- 
 ther source of danger to others. Emergency calls must be re- 
 sponded to as quickly as possible. 
 
 S. Frequency of regular inspections 
 
 In general, local boards shall determine this point, provided, 
 they do not fall below the following minimum requirements : 
 
 a. Rural districts, scattered school-houses. 
 Each school at least once a month. 
 
 b. Villages and small towns. 
 
 Each school at least twice a month. 
 
 c. Towns and cities. 
 
 At the discretion of the local boards and medical exam- 
 iners, but not less than once a week. 
 
 9. At the commencement of each school year the medical in- 
 spector shall arrange to make a systematic examination of each 
 school child in his district. This shall comprise a thorough 
 examination of 
 
 a. Eyes, for farsightedness and nearsightedness ; color 
 blindness; squint and roughly for astigmatism if sus- 
 pected; also the condition of the eyelids. 
 
 b. Ears. Acuteness of hearing. Presence or absence of 
 discharges. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 195 
 
 c. Throat. Condition of tonsils. Probable adenoids. 
 Nasal deformities or discharges. 
 
 d. Teeth. Condition and care. 
 
 e. Deformities. Spine, limbs, etc. 
 
 f. Skin. Presence or absence of eruptions. Condition of 
 scalp. 
 
 g. Where practicable, measurements. Height, weight and 
 chest measures. Examination of heart and lungs. 
 
 These examinations shall be made by the medical inspector 
 himself and not left to nurses or teachers. 
 
 10. It shall be the duty of the medical inspector to immediately 
 exclude from the class-room any pupil whom he may suspect of 
 having any form of contagious or infecti6us or communicable 
 disease. This pupil shall be sent home at once with a written 
 statement signed by the medical inspector, stating the nature of 
 the disease suspected, and requesting that the pupil may be seen 
 at once by its family physician. The medical inspector shall not 
 attend such cases professionally unless he is the regular medical 
 attendant of the family. 
 
 n. The medical inspector shall be especially careful to comply 
 with all rules and regulations of the local and State Boards of 
 Health, and promptly notify the proper authorities of all cases 
 of contagious or infectious disease. 
 
 12. The medical inspector shall, from: time to time, examine 
 into the sanitary condition of all school properties in his district 
 and keep the board of educaton informed thereof. Any special 
 work required of the medical inspector by the local board of 
 education, such as frequent extra visits, vaccination or fumiga- 
 tions, shall be arranged for by mutual agreement. 
 
 13. The certificate of exemption from vaccination of any pupil 
 shall be made by the medical inspector. 
 
 APPEALS. 
 
 i. All appeals shall be heard on the record on which the Com- 
 sioner of Education rendered his decision, which record shall 
 be certified by him to the State Board of Education. 
 
196 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 APPEALS HOW AND WHEN TO BE TAKEN. 
 
 2. Appeals must be taken within thirty days after the Com- 
 missioner of Education has filed his decision. An appeal shall be 
 taken by filing with the Commissioner and serving by registered 
 mail or personally upon the adverse party or his attorney, a notice 
 identifying the decision and stating that an appeal is taken to 
 the State Board of Education from it, or from such part of it as 
 may be specified. An affidavit setting forth the time and manner 
 of service must be promptly filed with the Commissioner. 
 
 POINTS. 
 
 3. Within five days after an appeal is taken the appellant shall 
 file with the Secretary of the Board and serve upon the respond- 
 ent a statement setting forth the points on which he relies and a 
 reference to the evidence and authorities, if any, in support 
 thereof. At the same time he shall file with the Secretary of the 
 Board, if he so desires, a written request for an oral hearing. 
 The respondent within five days after the service of the appell- 
 ant's points may file with the Secretary of the Board and serve 
 upon the appellant an answer to his points, and if he so desires, 
 a written request for an oral hearing. 
 
 4. If answering points are served the appellant may within 
 two days thereafter file and serve points in reply. 
 
 HEARING ON APPEAIv. 
 
 5. On the fifteenth day after an appeal has been taken, the 
 Secretary of the Board shall remit the record, certified as here- 
 inbefore provided, the notice of appeal, the affidavit of service, 
 the points and the requests, if any, for an oral hearing, to the 
 Advisory Committee. Such committee shall determine whether 
 or not an oral hearing should be held, and if so, it shall fix the 
 time and place and notify the parties. It shall consider the appeal 
 and recommend its conclusions to the Board. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS. 197 
 
 COPIES OF RUIZES. 
 
 6. When a notice of appeal is filed in the office of the Com- 
 missioner of Education, he shall forthwith mail a copy of these 
 rules to each of the parties. 
 
Blanks and Forms 
 
 For School Officers. 
 
 (199) 
 
Blanks and Forms for School Officers 
 
 The following Forms have been prepared for the use of all 
 officers having duties to discharge under the School Law. Their 
 use will secure uniformity and correctness in the transaction of 
 financial and general school business. The literal use of these 
 Forms is in no case essential to the validity of a school instru- 
 ment. Any Form may be used which clearly expresses the objects 
 designed, or the intention of the parties interested, and conforms 
 in all respects to the requirements of the law, but as those an- 
 nexed have been prepared with strict reference to these necessary 
 conditions, their use is recommended. The blank spaces are to be 
 filled to meet the varying circumstances in each case. 
 
 CALVIN N. KENDALL, 
 Commissioner of Education. 
 
 (201) 
 
202 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 Forms fcr County Superintendents* 
 
 I. (Form No. 15.) Transfer Certificate. 
 
 ,. . . .County. 
 
 Transfer Certificate Nb 
 
 This is to certify that , residing in the 
 
 School District of County of ., has re- 
 ceived the consent of the County Superintendent to attend the 
 
 Public Schools in the School District of , 
 
 County of 
 
 Dated , 19. ... 
 
 County Superintedent. 
 
 One copy should be filed with the clerk of the school district 
 in which the pupil attends school, and one copy with the clerk 
 of the school district in which said pupil resides. When the 
 districts are in adjoining counties, the certificate must be signed 
 by the County Superintendent of each county. 
 
 II. (Form No. 21.) Notice of Institute Postal Card. 
 
 ,N.J.,.. ,../,. 19.. 
 
 The Teachers' Institute for , County will be held 
 
 at , beginning , 19 . . , and closing 
 
 , I9-- 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 RULE PRESCRIBED BY THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. "All teachers are 
 required to attend the Annual Institute, held for the County in which they are 
 teaching ; and no deduction shall be made from the salary of any teacher for 
 the time he or she shall be in attendance upon said institute." 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 203 
 
 III. (Form No. 22.) Certificate of Teacher's Attendance at Institute. 
 
 N. J., ,19... 
 
 To the Board of Education of the School District of 
 
 I hereby certify that has been in attend- 
 ance at the Annual Institute of the County, just closed, 
 
 days. 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 IV. (Form No. 25.) Statement of Expenses. 
 
 ,N.J., ,19... 
 
 To the State Board of Education : 
 
 Herewith I submit a statement, by items, of the expenses in- 
 curred by me in the performance of my official duties as County 
 
 Superintendent of Schools for . County, for the three 
 
 months ending , 19 ... 
 
 OFFICE EXPENSES. 
 
 Postage, 
 Expressage, 
 Stationery, 
 Printing, 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES. 
 
 EXPENSES INCURRED IN VISITING SCHOOLS. 
 
 Date , Schools, 
 
 Date . . , Schools, 
 
204 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 SUMMARY. 
 
 Office expenses, 
 
 Miscellaneous expenses, ....... , 
 
 Expenses incurred in visiting schools, 
 
 Total, 
 
 Total number of schoolhouses in the County, 
 Total number visited during the three months ending 
 ........ ...,19..., . 
 
 Numbers of the schools not visited, 
 Reasons why these schools were not visited, 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 
 
 County , ' 
 
 On this day of , 19 . . . , before me personally 
 
 appeared , County Superintendent of County, 
 
 who, on his oath, saith that the within statement is true, and that, 
 to the best of his knowledge and belief, he has, during the time 
 for which this statement is made, faithfully performed all the 
 duties imposed by the School Law and by the regulations of the 
 State Board of Education. 
 Sworn and subscribed before me 
 
 this day of , 19. .. 
 
 V. (Form No. 26.) Order on County Collector for the $200,000 State 
 School Fund Appropriation. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, \ 
 
 No , N. J., ,19-.- 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of , Custodian of School 
 
 Moneys of the School District of , 
 
 dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the State Appro- 
 priation of $200,000, for the support of Public Schools in said 
 District, for the School Year beginning July 1st, 19. . , 
 $ 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 205 
 
 VI. (Form No. 26A.) Order on County Collector for the State 
 Appropriation. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 No ,N.J., ,19... 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of .. . . , Custodian of School 
 
 Moneys of the School District of ., 
 
 dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the State Appro- 
 priation for the support of Public Schools in said District, for the 
 School Year beginning July 1st, 19. . ., in accordance with the 
 provisions of section 177 of the School Law. 
 
 $.. 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 VII. (Form No. 27.) Order on the County Collector for the State 
 
 School Tax. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 No ,N.J., ,19... 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of . , Custodian of School 
 
 Moneys of the School District of ., 
 
 dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the State School 
 Tax for the support of Public Schools in said District, for the 
 School Year beginning July ist, 19. .. 
 $.. 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
206 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 VIM. (Form No. 28.) Order on the County Collector for the Reserve 
 
 Fund. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, ~| 
 
 No ...,N.J., ,19... / 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of . , Custodian of School 
 
 Moneys of the School District of , 
 
 dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the Reserve Fund 
 for the suport of Public Schools in said District, for the School 
 Year beginning July ist, 19. .. 
 $ 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 IX. (Form No. 29.) Order on the County Collector for the Interest of 
 
 Surplus Revenue. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 
 No ,N.J., ,19... 
 
 To the Collector of County: 
 
 Pay to the order of , Custodian of School 
 
 Moneys of the School District of , . 
 
 dollars, being the amount apportioned out of the interest of the 
 Surplus Revenue for the support of Public Schools in said Dis- 
 trict, for the School Year beginning July ist, 19. .. 
 
 $.. 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 X. (Form No. 30.) Order on County Collector for Balances. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, ^ 
 
 No , N.J., ,19... 
 
 To the Collector of County : 
 
 Pay to the order of . , Custodian of School 
 
 Moneys of the School District of , 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 207 
 
 dollars, being the amount of balance of the State Appropriation 
 reapportioned to said District for the support of Public Schools, 
 for the School Year beginning July ist, 19. . . 
 
 $ 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 XI. (Form No. 57.) Notice to District Clerk that Teacher has 
 filed Report. 
 
 .N.J., .. 19-.. 
 
 To . District Clerk: 
 
 SIR You are hereby notified that .has filed. 
 
 annual report with me, as required by law. 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 XII. Form of Certificate Condemning a School-House. 
 
 This is to certify that I, the undersigned, have this day con- 
 demned Public School-house No .in the School District of 
 
 . . ... .,. ... .and County of. .,. .,. ..,.'.-, as being, in its present con- 
 dition, inadequate and unsuited to the number of pupils attend- 
 ing or desiring to attend said school. [Here give reasons.] 
 
 Dated this day of .....,, 19. . . 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 Approved this day of . , ., ,. .>, 19 . . . , and this 
 
 order shall take effect on the day of , 19 ... 
 
 Commissioner of Education. 
 
 NOTE. The original should be filed with the Custodian of School Moneys, 
 a copy retained by the County Superintendent and a copy filed with the Com- 
 missioner of Education and with the District Clerk. 
 
308 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 XIII. Notice to the Custodian of School Moneys of Apportionment 
 
 of Balances. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, ] 
 .......... ,N.J., ... ........ , I9 ... 
 
 To the Custodian of School Moneys of the School District of 
 
 The amount of balances of the State Appropriation due your 
 School District, under section 183 of the School Law, is $ ...... 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 XIV. Notice to District Clerk of Apportionment of Balances. 
 
 OFFICE OF COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT, 
 .....,N.J., ..,19... 
 
 i D. C, School District of : 
 
 I have this day apportioned to your District, from the balances 
 
 of the State Appropriation, the sum of $ for the School 
 
 Year beginning July ist, 19. .. 
 
 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 XV. Appointment of a President or Vice-President. 
 
 To ..,.,: 
 
 The office of President (or Vice-President) of the Board of 
 
 Education of the School District of , in the county 
 
 of .'.,..,..,..,..; being vacant through failure of the Board of 
 Education to elect according to law, you are hereby appointed to 
 fill such vacancy until the next annual meeting for the organiza- 
 tion of the Board of Education in said district. 
 
 Dated this day of , 19 . . . 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 209 
 
 XVI. Notice to the Custodian of School Moneys, Directing Him to With- 
 hold Schools Moneys from a Teacher. 
 
 To the Custodian of School Moneys of the School District of 
 
 SIR You are hereby directed to withhold all further payment 
 
 of salary to , a teacher now employed in School 
 
 No , situated in your School District, said teacher not being- 
 
 in possession of a certificate [or not having kept the School Regis- 
 ter], as is required by the School Law. 
 
 Dated this day of , 19. ... 
 
 County Superintendent. 
 Approved this day of , 19. .. 
 
 Commissioner of Education. 
 See note to XII. 
 
 XVII. Notice to the Custodian of School Moneys, Directing Him to With- 
 hold School Moneys from a District. 
 
 To the Custodian of School Moneys of the School District of 
 
 SIR You are hereby directed to withhold [here state the 
 amount in words'] from the school moneys apportioned to your 
 School District [here state the reason why the money is with- 
 held}. 
 
 Dated this day of , 19. .. 
 
 County Superintendent, 
 Approved this day of , 19. .. 
 
 Commissioner of Education. 
 See note to XII. 
 
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io BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 Forms for City Superintendents* 
 
 XVIII. (Form No. 33.) Application for State Aid for School Library. 
 
 N. J 19.. 
 
 To the Commissioner of Education : 
 
 SIR We, the undersigned, Superintendent and Secretary of 
 
 the Board of Education of the School District of , County 
 
 of , State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that there has 
 
 been raised in our district the sum of dollars, for the 
 
 purpose of a school library in School No 
 
 in said District, in accordance with the provisions of Article 
 XXIII. , section 208, of the Revised School Law, and we therefore 
 
 request you to send to. ., , Custodian of School Moneys of 
 
 said District, an order for the amount due from the State in 
 accordance with the further provisions of said article. 
 
 City Superintendent. 
 
 , Secretary Board of Education. 
 The address of the Custodian is 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, \ 
 
 COUNTY OF. J * 
 
 , Superintendent of the School District 
 
 in the County of , being duly sworn, on his oath saith 
 
 that the within statement is true. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me this ^ 
 . .day of .. ., 19. . . J 
 
 ,.,N. J., ,19.-. 
 
 To the County Superintendent of Schools : 
 
 $ IR _We, the 'undersigned, Superintendent and Secretary of 
 the Board of Education of the School District of , County 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS, 211 
 
 of , State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that there has 
 
 been raised for School No the sum of 
 
 dollars, and that we have forwarded to the Commissioner of 
 Education the application for State aid for the library in favor of 
 said school. 
 
 Superintendent. 
 Secretary. 
 
 XIX. (Form No. 39.) Teacher's Contract. 
 
 It is agreed between the Board of Education of in the 
 
 County of and .that said Board of Education 
 
 has employed and does hereby engage and employ the said 
 
 to teach in the. ...... .public school, under the control 
 
 of said Board of Education, for the term of year. . 
 
 from the .day of ., 19. . ., at a salary of $ 
 
 to be paid in .. .equal monthly installments; .......... 
 
 that the said shall begin teaching on the day 
 
 of , 19. . . ; that the said. . . . .holds a valid. ....... 
 
 certificate to teach, issued in New Jersey, now in 
 
 full force and effect, or will procure such certificate before the 
 date. .... .he shall begin teaching, and that the date when said 
 
 certificate will expire is the. . . ... . . .day of 19. . ., and 
 
 that said teacher, before entering upon the duties of such position, 
 
 will exhibit certificate to the Superintendent 
 
 of Schools of the County in which such school shall be situate. 
 
 It is hereby agreed that either of said parties to this contract 
 may, at any time, terminate said contract and the employment 
 aforesaid, by giving to the other party [here insert length of 
 time] notice in writing of its election to so terminate the same. 
 
 The said. . . .,. . . ... .hereby accepts the employment aforesaid 
 
 and undertakes that ... he will faithfully do and perform 
 
 ..... .duty under the employment aforesaid, and will observe 
 
 and enforce the rules prescribed for the government of the 
 
BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 School by the Board of Education and the Superintendent, or 
 Principal, or Supervising 1 Principal. 
 
 Dated this. . t . . . ... ... .day of , , 19. .. 
 
 . .1. .,..,..., President of the Board of Education 
 
 District Clerk. of the School District of 
 
 County of 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 XX. (Form No. 40.) Application for State Manual Training 
 Appropriation. 
 
 N.J., 19... 
 
 ( Post-Office Address.) 
 To the Commissioner of Education : 
 
 SIR We hereby certify that for the School year beginning 
 
 July ist, 19. . ., there has been raised by in the 
 
 School District of , in the County of 
 
 . .',. .!. ., the sum of . .,. dollars for the purpose of 
 
 maintaining a course of Manual Training, as approved by the 
 State Board of Education, pursued in the schools of this district, 
 and that said amount has been appropriated for such purpose. 
 
 This application is made in accordance with the provisions of 
 Article XXII. of the revised School Law, and upon our certifica- 
 tion that said course of study is being maintained as approved by 
 the State Board of Education, and we therefore request you to 
 
 draw an order in favor of. .. . . .,. ... .Custodian of the 
 
 School Moneys of said School District, for the amount due from 
 the State, in accordance with the further provisions of said 
 article. 
 
 President of the Board of Education 
 
 of the School District of , 
 
 County of. ... 
 
 Attest : 
 
 Secretary or District Clerk of the Board of Education. 
 The address of the Custodian of School Moneys is 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 213 
 
 Forms for District Clerks* 
 
 XXI. (Form No. 3.) Notice for Annual Meeting for the Election of 
 Members of the Board of Education. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of the School Dis- 
 trict of . . . .: , in the County of , that the annual 
 
 School meeting for the election of members of the Board of Edu- 
 cation will be held at. ... .,. .,. .,. ., on Tuesday, the. . . . . .,. . .day 
 
 of March, 19. . ., at. o'clock. .... 
 
 The polls will remain open one hour, and as much longer as 
 may be necessary to enable all the legal voters present to cast 
 their ballots. 
 
 At said meeting will be submitted the question of voting a tax 
 for the following purposes: 
 
 Purchase of land for school purposes 
 
 Building and repairing school-houses 
 
 Current expenses .1. . ... 
 
 Manual training ,...,...,..., 
 
 The total amount thought to be necessary is $. 
 
 The following propositions will also be submitted: 
 
 Dated this day of March 19. .. 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE. "A member of a Board of Education shall be at least twenty-one 
 years of age, a citizen and resident of the School District, and shall have been 
 such citizen and resident for at least three years immediately preceding his 
 or her becoming a member of such Board, and shall be able to read and 
 write." School Law, Sec. 83. 
 
2'i4 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 XXII. Notice for a Special District Meeting. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of the School Dis- 
 trict of . ., in the County of , that a special School 
 
 meeting will be held at , on the day of , 19 , 
 
 at o'clock in the noon, at which meeting will be sub- 
 mitted the following questions [here particularly specify each 
 item of business to be acted upon] . 
 
 Dated this day of , 19. . . 
 
 President. 
 District Clerk. 
 
 XXIII. Various Specifications of Business to be Transacted that may 
 be Inserted in any Notice for District Meeting, as they may be 
 Needed. 
 
 To authorize the board of education to purchase or take and 
 condemn land and to erect a school-house thereon, and to pur- 
 chase school furniture and other necessary equipment ; 
 
 To authorize the board of education to repair, alter or enlarge 
 a school-house already erected ; 
 
 To purchase school furniture and other necessary equipment; 
 
 To raise money by district tax to pay the expenses of such 
 erection, alteration or repair; 
 
 To authorize the board to borrow money ordered to be raised 
 by issuing bonds in the corporate name of the district in such 
 amounts and payable at such times as the legal voters shall direct ; 
 
 To raise a district tax to defray the current expenses of the 
 schools during the ensuing year [current expenses include prin- 
 cipals', teachers', janitors' and medical inspectors' salaries, fuel, 
 text-books, school supplies, flags, transportation of pupils, tuition 
 of pupils attending school in other districts with the consent of 
 the board of education, school libraries, compensation of the dis- 
 trict clerk, of the custodian of school moneys and of truant offi- 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS, 215 
 
 cers, truant schools, insurance and the incidental expenses of the 
 schools] ; 
 
 To order a district tax for the payment of a debt of 
 
 dollars, now resting upon the school-house property ; 
 
 To order the sale of the present school-house property, and to 
 decide what disposition shall be made of the proceeds ; 
 
 To authorize the board to condemn land for school purposes ; 
 
 To authorize the board to renew outstanding bonds ; 
 
 To see if the district will reduce the number of members of the 
 board of education ; 
 
 To see if the district will agree to establish a union-graded 
 school ; 
 
 To order a district tax for manual training. 
 
 XXIV. Order of Business at a District School Meeting. 
 
 1. Choose a chairman and secretary. 
 
 2. Read the notice calling the meeting. 
 
 3. Report of district clerk. 
 
 4. Appointment of tellers by the chairman. 
 
 5. Transaction of the business for which the meeting was 
 called, as set forth in the notice. 
 
 6. Miscellaneous business. 
 
 7. Adjournment. 
 
 XXV. (Form No. 12.) Order on Custodian of School Moneys for 
 Teachers' Salaries. 
 
 No , N. J., ,19.. 
 
 To , Custodian of School Moneys of the School District 
 
 of . . County of . . . . ., State of New Jersey: 
 
 Pay to the order of , Teacher, dollars, 
 
 being the amount of salary due for teaching in Public School No. 
 
2i6 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 . . , of said School District of , from , 
 
 19. . to , 19. . 
 
 $ . .1. , President. > Board of Education of the 
 
 , District Clk. f School District of 
 
 I hereby certify that the Teacher in whose favor this order is 
 drawn, is in possession of a Teacher's Certificate, in full force 
 and effect, and has properly kept the School Register, as required 
 by law, and that I have certified thereto in said Register. 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE. Money raised by district tax can be used for such school purposes as 
 are specified at the meeting at which the money is ordered. All other school 
 money must be reserved for the payment of teacher's salary, fuel, bills, trans- 
 portation of pupils and tuition of pupils in adjoining districts. 
 
 Payments can be made only for the support of those schools that conform 
 in all respects to the provisions of the School Law, and to those teachers only 
 who possess certificates in full force and effect, covering the time for which 
 salary is demanded, and who have kept the school register in the manner pre- 
 scribed. 
 
 The Custodian of School Moneys should invariably refuse to pay orders 
 until he is satisfied that all these conditions have been complied with. 
 
 XXVI. (Form No. 13.) Order on the Custodian of School Moneys for 
 District Tax Raised for Other Purposes than the Payment of 
 Teachers' Salaries. 
 
 No , N. J., ,19... 
 
 To , Custodian of School Moneys of the School District 
 
 of . . , County of , State of New Jersey: 
 
 Pay to the order of dollars, for [here 
 
 state for what purpose the money is to be paid] , out of the funds 
 raised by District Tax now in your hands. 
 
 , District Clerk. [ Board of Education School Dis- 
 
 , President. ( trict , County of 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 217 
 
 XXVII. (Form No. 14.) Notice by District Clerk to County Superin- 
 tendent of the Election of Members of Board of Education. 
 
 To , County Superintendent : 
 
 SIR The legal voters of at the annual school meet- 
 ing held on the day of March, 19 . . . , elected 
 
 as members of the Board of Education in the place of 
 
 , , whose terms had expired. 
 
 The Board of Education now consists of 
 Name. Address. 
 
 Mr whose term expires 19 ... 
 
 " , , " " " 19... 
 
 " " " " 19. .. 
 
 (i a (t t( __ 
 
 t( a it (( Tr ^ 
 
 t( a (( n _^. 
 
 a (( (t tt _^ 
 
 " , " " " 19... 
 
 " , , " " " 19..- 
 
 The Board has organized by the election of Mr as 
 
 President, Mr as Vice-President, and Mr 
 
 as District Clerk. 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE. This notice should be sent to the County Superintendent within five 
 days after the organization of the Board. 
 
 XXVIII. (Form No. 17.) Report of District Clerk to County Superin- 
 tendent of the Amount of District School Tax Ordered to be Raised. 
 
 To County Superintendent . . County : 
 
 The following is a copy of the notice delivered to the Assessor 
 as required by law : 
 
2i8 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 To . . . . Assessor of County : 
 
 A meeting of the legal voters of the School District of the 
 
 of in the County of was held at . . 
 
 a convenient public place within the District, on the day 
 
 of 19. . . , pursuant to notice, setting forth the time, 
 
 place and object of said meeting, and specifying .dollars 
 
 as the amount of money thought necessary to be raised. The Dis- 
 trict Clerk, as directed by the Board of Education at a meeting of 
 
 said Board held on the ............. day of . . , 19..., 
 
 posted .copies of the notice calling said meeting, one 
 
 copy thereof being posted on each school-house in the district, and 
 one copy thereof at each of the following-named public places 
 
 therein : 
 
 on the . . .... .day of. .1. ... . ., 19. ... The said legal 
 
 voters so met, by the consent of a majority of those present, 
 
 ordered raised by special district tax dollars for the purpose 
 
 of . . . and ,. dollars for the purpose of 
 
 and dollars for the purpose of . ... amounting in 
 
 all to . . dollars, which sum is not in excess of the 
 
 amounts set forth in the notices for said purposes. The vote was 
 taken by ballot and the ballots, tally sheet, poll list and statement 
 of the result of said meeting having been filed with the County 
 Superintendent of Schools in the manner required by law, you are 
 
 therefore directed to assess the said sum of dollars on 
 
 the inhabitants of said School District, arid their estates, and the 
 taxable property therein, pursuant to the statute in such case 
 made and provided. 
 
 Dated this. ... . . ... . . . day of ........... 19. ... 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 STATE; OF NEW JERSEY, \ 
 
 COUNTY OF J 
 
 , , being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he is the District Clerk of the School District of the of 
 
 in the County of . . , and that the above 
 
 statement by him is correct and true. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 219 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me this . . . . day of 
 
 > 19--- 
 
 XXIX. (Form No. 17.) Certificate of the Amount of School Tax Voted 
 to be Raised in a School District, to be Delivered by the District 
 Clerk to the Township Assessor. 
 
 To Assessor of . . . . County : 
 
 A meeting of the legal voters of the School District of the .... 
 
 .... of , in the County of ........ was held at 
 
 a convenient public place within the District, on the day 
 
 of , 19. ., pursuant to notice, setting forth the time, 
 
 place and object of said meeting, and specifying. . . ... . . .dollars 
 
 as the amount of money thought necessary to be raised. The 
 District Clerk, as directed by the Board of Education at a meet- 
 ing of said Board held on the. day of , 19. ., 
 
 posted copies of the notice calling said meeting, one 
 
 copy thereof being posted on each school-house in the district, and 
 one copy thereof at each of the following-named public places 
 
 therein : ,. . 
 
 on the day of . . ., 19. . The said legal 
 
 voters so met, by the consent of a majority of those present, 
 ordered raised by special district tax dollars for the pur- 
 pose of and dollars for the purpose O'f 
 
 and dollars for the purpose of amounting in 
 
 all to dollars, which sum is not in excess of the 
 
 amounts set forth in the notices for said purposes. The vote was 
 taken by ballot and the ballots, tally sheet, poll list and statement 
 ol the result of said meeting having been filed with the County 
 Superintendent of Schools in the manner required by law, you are 
 
 therefore direct to assess the said sum of dollars on 
 
 the inhabitants of said School District, and their estates, and the 
 taxable property therein, pursuant to the statute in such case 
 made and provided. 
 
 Dated this day of , 19. . 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
220 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 
 COUNTY OF 
 
 , being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he is the District Clerk of the School District of the of 
 
 in the County of ., and that the above 
 
 statement by him is correct arid true. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me this. . . ., day of 
 
 NOTES TO XXII AND XXIIL The certificate must state for what object or 
 objects the money is raised. 3 Vroom 444. If more than one object is speci- 
 fied, the amount of money apportioned to each must be stated. 7 Vroom 89. 
 
 A district tax ordered for the purpose of "maintaining a school" is illegal. 
 The e'xpress purpose, as specified in section 95, for which the money is to be 
 used must be stated and voted upon. 
 
 The law requires that notice of the above action should also be sent to the 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 XXX. (Form No. 20.) Affidavit to Bills Presented to a Board of 
 
 Education. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, \ 
 ..;.. i. .COUNTY, / 
 
 ..,..,....;......, of full age, being duly sworn, on his oath 
 
 saith that the goods or services itemized in the annexed bill have 
 been delivered or rendered ; that no bonus has been given or re- 
 ceived by any person or persons in connection with the same; 
 that the same is correct and true, and the amount therein stated 
 is justly due and owing as set forth. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me, 1 
 
 this. day of , 19. ... k. ....... 
 
 .D. C. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 221 
 
 XXXI. (Form No. 32.) Application for State Aid to Establish a School 
 
 Library. 
 
 N.J., ..,.,, 19... 
 
 To the Commissioner of Education : 
 
 SIR We, the undersigned, President and District Clerk of the 
 Board of Education of the School District of ........... County 
 
 of .............. State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that there 
 
 has been raised for School No.. . . . ... . ( . .1 the sum of . . 
 
 dollars, for the purpose of. .1. .. . .1. .,. .a School Library in said 
 School, in accordance with the provisions of Section 208 of the 
 Revised School Law, and we therefore request you to send to 
 
 . ., , Custodian of the School moneys of said District, an 
 
 order for the amount due from the State in accordance with the 
 further provisions of said act. 
 
 The address of the Custodian is. .. ... . . ... . 
 
 , President, ") Board of Education of the 
 
 L School District of 
 
 , District Clerk, j County. 
 
 NOTE. The money raised in the district may be by special tax, subscription 
 or entertainment. The money thus raised, together with that received from 
 the State, can be expended for library books, books of reference, apparatus 
 or educational works of art. The law does not admit of its being used to 
 purchase text-books. 
 
 The first appropriation is twenty dollars, and subsequent appropriations 
 ten dollars each. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, \ 
 . ... ... .COUNTY, J v 
 
 District Clerk of the School District of , 
 
 in the County of , being duly sworn, on his oath saith 
 
 that the within statement is true. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me, this "| 
 .. .day of , A. D. 19. . . r.i. ... ., 
 
 , N. J., ,19... 
 
 To the County Superintendent of Schools : 
 
 SIR We, the undersigned, President and District Clerk of the 
 Board of Education of the School District of. , County 
 
222 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 of ......... .1. ., State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that there 
 
 has been raised for School No.. ... . . . ... the sum of 
 
 dollars, and that we have forwarded to the Commissioner of 
 Education the application for State aid for the library in favor 
 of said school. 
 
 President. 
 District Clerk. 
 
 XXXII. (Form No. 129.) Report of Purchases Made for School 
 
 Library. 
 
 To the Commissioner of Education : 
 
 I hereby report that the following purchases have been made 
 for our School, with the amount raised in the District, and the 
 appropriation received from the State. 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE This report must be made in order that the district may be entitled 
 to future payment. It should give the names and prices of the several articles 
 purchased. 
 
 XXXIII. (Form No. 39.) Teacher's Contract. 
 
 It is agreed between the Board of Education of , in the 
 
 County of ,.. . and , that said Board of Education has 
 
 employed and does hereby engage and employ the said ........ 
 
 to teach in the ,. .public school, under the control of said 
 
 Board of Education, for the term of year from the 
 
 day of ., 19. ..., at the salary of $ , to be 
 
 paid in equal monthly installments; that the said. ...... 
 
 shall begin teaching on the day of , 19. . . ; that 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 223 
 
 the said ,. . holds a valid certificate to 
 
 teach, issued in New Jersey, now in full force and effect, or will 
 procure such certificate before the date, .he shall begin teaching, 
 
 and that the date when said certificate will expire is the 
 
 day of , 19. . ., and that said teacher, before entering 
 
 upon the duties of such position, will exhibit certificate 
 
 to the Superintendent of Schools o>f the county in which 
 
 such school shall be situate. 
 
 It is hereby agreed that either of said parties to this contract 
 may, at any time, terminate said contract and the employment 
 aforesaid, by giving to the other party [here insert length of time} 
 notice in writing of its election to so terminate the same. 
 
 The said. ......... .hereby accepts the employment aforesaid 
 
 and undertakes that. . .he will faithfully do and perform. ...... 
 
 duty under the employment aforesaid, and will observe and en- 
 force the rules prescribed for the government of the School by 
 the Board of Education and the Superintendent, or Principal, or 
 Supervising Principal. 
 
 Dated this day of ., 19. .. 
 
 , President of the Board of Education 
 
 District Cl&rk. of the School District of 
 
 County of 
 
 Teaicher. 
 
 NOTE. One copy of the contract must be filed with the County Superintend- 
 ent, one copy with the District Clerk and one copy retained by the teacher. 
 
 XXXIV. (Form No. 40.) Application for State Manual Training 
 Appropriation. 
 
 ....N. J., 19.-. 
 
 (Post-Office Address.) 
 To the Commissioner of Education: 
 
 SIR We hereby certify that for the School year beginning 
 July ist, 19. . . , there has been raised by in the School 
 
224 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 District of. . . . . . .. ., in the County of , 
 
 the sum of . . dollars for the purpose of maintaining a 
 
 course of Manual Training-, as approved by the State Board of 
 Education, pursued in the schools of this district, and that said 
 amount has been appropriated for such purpose. 
 
 This application is made in accordance with the provisions of 
 Article XXII. of the revised School Law, and upon our certifica- 
 tion that said course of study is being maintained as approved 
 by the State Board of Education, and we therefore request you to 
 draw an order in favor of , .... .1. .......... .Custodian of the 
 
 School Moneys of said School District, for the amount due from 
 the State, in accordance with the further provisions of said article. 
 
 President of the Board of Education 
 
 of the School District of. . ., 
 
 County of 
 
 Attest : 
 
 Secretary or District Clerk of the Bvard of Education. 
 The address of the Custodian of School Moneys is 
 
 XXXV. (Form No. 137.) Bond to be Issued for Loan. 
 
 SCHOOL BOND 
 
 No Bond of School District of the of . . 
 
 $ County of , N. J. 
 
 Know all men by these presents that "The Board of Education 
 
 of the of. .'., in the County of " in 
 
 the State of New Jersey, is justly indebted unto , or 
 
 bearer, in the sum of dollars, lawful money of the United 
 
 States of America, to be paid to the said or bearer, on 
 
 the day of. . , 19. . ., at the bank at. , 
 
 N. J., with interest therefor from the date hereof, at the rate of 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 225 
 
 per centum per annum, payable semi-annually , on the 
 
 days of and in every year, at the 
 
 bank aforesaid, on the presentation of the annexed coupons, as 
 they shall severally become due. 
 
 This is one of a series of coupon (a) bonds issued by the Board 
 of Education of above School District, amounting in the aggre- 
 gate to dollars, numbered from ...... to , both in- 
 clusive; and all of said bonds have been issued for money bor- 
 rowed by said Board under the provisions of Article VII. of an 
 act entitled "An act to establish a thorough and efficient system 
 of free public schools and to provide for the maintenance, support 
 and management thereof," approved October iQth, 1903, and by 
 
 the consent of the inhabitants of said lawfully given, at 
 
 a meeting lawfully held, on , 19. .. 
 
 In witness whereof, on the day of in the year 
 
 nineteen hundred and , this bond is signed by the Presi- 
 dent of the Board of Education of the of . ., in 
 
 the County of , and attested by the District Clerk, under 
 
 the seal of the Board. 
 
 President. 
 Attest : 
 
 District Clerk. 
 [SEAL.] 
 
 [Form of Coupon to be attached to the above Bond.} 
 
 SCHOOL BOND. 
 
 Board o>f Education of the ...... or ...... , County of ........ : 
 
 Interest warrant for ........ dollars, payable at the ......... 
 
 bank of ........ N. J., to bearer ........ , 19 . . . , f or six months' 
 
 interest on Bond No ..... 
 
 .................. ,D. C. 
 
 (a) Bonds may be registered or coupon. If registered the bond should so 
 state and the coupons omitted. 
 
 15 s L 
 
226 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 XXXVI. (Form No. 55.) Notice to the Assessor of Amount of Tax to be 
 Raised for Bonds and Interest. 
 
 To Assessor of County : 
 
 A meeting of the legal voters of the School District of the 
 
 of in the County of was held at 
 
 a convenient public place within the District, on the day 
 
 of , 19. . . , pursuant to notice, setting forth the time, 
 
 place and object of said meeting, and specifying 
 
 dollars as the amount of money thought necessary to be raised by 
 the issue of bonds for the purpose of providing adequate and suit- 
 able school accommodations for the pupils attending or desiring to 
 attend school in said District. The District Clerk, as directed by 
 
 the Board of Education, posted copies of the notice 
 
 calling said meeting, one copy thereof being posted on each school- 
 house in the district, and one copy thereof at each of the following- 
 named public places therein : 
 
 on the day of , 19 ... The said legal voters 
 
 so met, by the consent of a majority of those present, ordered 
 
 raised by the issue of School District bonds dollars, and 
 
 said legal voters also determined the denomination of said bonds 
 and the time or times of payment thereof. The amount of said 
 bonds so authorized to be issued was not in excess of the amount 
 set forth in the notices. The vote was taken by ballot, and the bal- 
 lots, tally sheet, poll list and statement of the result of said meet- 
 ing having been filed with the County Superintendent of Schools 
 in the manner required by law. The proceedings authorizing said 
 issue of bonds were approved by the Attorney-General as required 
 by law. You are therefore directed to assess on the inhabitants 
 of said School District, and their estates, and the taxable property 
 therein, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, 
 
 the sum of dollars, being the amount of principal and 
 
 interest due on said bonds during the year for which said assess- 
 ment shall be made. 
 
 Dated this day of , 19 ... 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 227 
 
 STATS OF NEW JERSEY, ^ 
 
 COUNTY OF. . j 
 
 , being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he is the District Clerk of the School District of the 
 
 of in the County of and that the above 
 
 statement by him is correct and true. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me this .day of , 
 
 19.... 
 
 XXXVII. (Form No. 55.) Notice to County Superintendent of Tax for 
 
 Bonds and Interest. 
 
 To County Superintendent County : 
 
 The following is a copy of the notice delivered to the Assessor 
 as required by law : 
 
 To , Assessor of County : 
 
 A meeting of the legal voters of the School District of the. . . . 
 
 . . . .of. in the County of. ...... .was held at 
 
 a convenient public place within the District, on the 
 
 day of , 19. ., pursuant to notice, setting forth the 
 
 time, place and object of said meeting 1 , and specifying 
 
 dollars as the amount of money thought necessary to be raised by 
 the issue of bonds for the purpose of providing adequate and suit- 
 able school accommodations for the pupils attending or desiring 
 to attend school in said District. The District Clerk, as directed 
 by the Board of Education, posted. ...... .copies of the notice 
 
 calling said meeting, one copy thereof being posted on each 
 school-house in the district, and one copy thereof at each of the 
 
 following-named public places therein: ,..,..1.. , 
 
 on the day of . , 19. . The said legal voters 
 
 so met, by the consent of a majority of those present, ordered 
 
 raised by the issue of School District bonds. dollars, and 
 
 said legal voters also determined the denomination of said bonds 
 and the time or times of payment thereof. The amount of said 
 bonds so authorized to be issued was not in excess of the amount 
 set forth in the notices. The vote was taken by ballot and the 
 
228 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 ballots, tally sheet, poll list and statement of the result of said 
 meeting having been filed with the County Superintendent of 
 Schools in the manner required by law. The proceedings author- 
 izing said issue O'f bonds were approved by the Attorney-General 
 as required by law. You are therefore directed to assess on the 
 inhabitants o>f said School District, and their estates, and the tax- 
 able property therein, pursuant to the statute in such case made 
 
 and provided, the sum of dollars, being the amount of 
 
 principal and interest due on said bonds during the year for 
 which said assessment shall be made. 
 
 Dated this day of , 19 ... 
 
 District Clerk. 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 
 
 COUNTY OF 
 
 , being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he is the District Clerk of the School District of the 
 
 of in the County of and that the above 
 
 statement by him is correct and true. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before me this day of , 
 
 19.... 
 
 XXXVIII. (Form No. 61.) Directions for Bonding a District. 
 
 i. There must be a regularly-called meeting of the Board of 
 Education, of which meeting all the members must have had 
 notice. The notice may be given verbally or by mailing a writ- 
 ten notice. If the latter, the notice must be mailed in ample time 
 to be received before the time fixed for the meeting. At that 
 meeting the Board of Education must decide on the amount of 
 money thought to be necessary. If land is to be purchased, the 
 Board of Education must decide upon the site or sites it thinks 
 suitable. It must also decide upon the time for holding the 
 District Meeting, and the form of the resolution to be inserted 
 in the notices to be posted by the District Clerk, and the places, 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 229 
 
 other than the school-houses, where such notices shall be posted. 
 Full minutes of the meeting must be kept. The Board should 
 adjourn to meet as soon as possible after the District Meeting, 
 and at such adjourned meeting should adopt resolutions necessary 
 to carry into effect the resolutions adopted by the legal voters. 
 
 2. If it is the intention to submit to the legal voters more 
 than one proposition, the Board of Education should adopt a 
 full set of resolutions for each proposition, which should appear 
 in the notices and be placed on the ballots. If this is done, and 
 the legal voters reject one proposition and adopt the other, the 
 number and amount of bonds to be issued will agree with the 
 expenditures authorized by the legal voters. All propositions 
 submitted must be printed on the same ballot. 
 
 3. The District Clerk must post the notices ordered by the 
 Board of Education at least ten days before the date of the meet- 
 ing of the legal voters ; the day the notices are posted cannot be 
 counted in the ten days. The notices must state the time and 
 place of the District Meeting, and all business that is to be 
 acted upon. If land is to be purchased, or to be condemned, 
 the plot or plots thought to be suitable by the Board of Education 
 must be described in the notices. AS resolution authorizing the 
 Board of Education to purchase & lot will not authorize it to 
 secure the lot by condemnation. The Board of Education may 
 submit more than one site, in which case each plot must be de- 
 scribed in the notices. The notices must also state the amount 
 of money thought to be necessary. The notices must not state 
 the denomination of the bonds and times of payment, as these 
 items are by law to be determined by the District Meeting. The 
 notices must also state that the question of authorizing the Board 
 of Education to issue bonds will be submitted. A copy of the 
 notice must be posted on each schoolhouse in the district, and at 
 such other places as may be designated by the Board of Educa- 
 tion. Not less than seven notices must be posted. 
 
 4. The District Meeting must decide the amount of money to 
 be raised, and also decide what portion of the money so ordered 
 shall be used for the purchase of land, and what portion for build- 
 ing, furniture and other necessary equipment. The cost of fenc- 
 
230 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 ing, grading and supplying drinking water is to be included in 
 the appropriation for the erection of the school-house, it should 
 not be made a separate item. The total amount ordered raised 
 must not exceed the sum named- in the notices. The District 
 Meeting must also decide how many bonds shall be issued, the 
 denomination of each bond, and the time of its payment, but 
 should not fix the rate of interest, as the law gives that power 
 to the Board of Education, but not to exceed six per cent. It 
 cannot select a site unless it has been submitted by the Board of 
 Education in the notices. The meeting may, however, reject 
 all the sites offered. All votes in the District Meeting must be 
 by ballot. The ballots must contain in full the several proposi- 
 tions voted on. Full minutes of the meeting must be kept. 
 
 5. The chairman must appoint two tellers to receive and count 
 the ballots. The secretary must keep a poll-list of the voters, 
 and a tally-sheet of the ballots as counted. The tally-sheet must 
 be signed by the chairman and tellers and, with the ballots, 
 be placed in a package, endorsed with the name of the district, 
 the name of the county in which the district shall be situate, and 
 the date on which the meeting shall have been held. The pack- 
 age must be sealed as soon as the ballots are counted and the tally 
 sheet signed, and before leaving the place where the election was 
 held, forwarded to the County Superintendent of Schools within 
 five days after the date of the meeting, together with a statement 
 of the result of the meeting, signed by the chairman and secre- 
 tary. Envelopes for this purpose can be obtained from the 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 6. Two copies of the minutes of both meetings of the Board 
 of Education, attested by the District Clerk; two copies of the 
 notices posted, attested by said clerk; two copies of the minutes 
 of the District Meeting, attested by the secretary of the meeting, 
 and two copies of each kind of ballot used, attested by the secre- 
 tary of the meeting, must be sent to this office one copy to be 
 approved by the Attorney-General and the other to be filed in this 
 office. When it is intended to borrow the money from the State 
 School Fund, an application must accompany the copies of the 
 proceedings. Blank forms to be used for the reports of the pro- 
 ceedings and for application for loan from State School Fund may 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 231 
 
 be obtained from the County Superintendent of Schools. In mak- 
 ing reports, only such business as relates to the purchase of land, 
 building, furnishing and equipping the school-house and bonding 
 the district need be inserted in the copies of the minutes of the 
 meetings of the Board of Education and legal voters. In the 
 blank for the report of the proceedings of the District Meeting, 
 a resolution is inserted for the purchase of land, in making the 
 report when land is not ordered to be purchased, the resolution 
 for the purchase of land should be crossed out with red ink, also 
 in the application for the loan from the State School Fund. 
 
 7. The approval o the Attorney-General must be secured be- 
 fore bonds can be legally issued, whether the money is to be 
 borrowed from the State School Fund or from private parties. 
 
 8. When district bonds have been issued, the District Clerk 
 must, when any bond is paid and canceled, forward said canceled 
 bond to this office, as required by law. 
 
 9. Blank bonds will be furnished by this office. 
 
 FORM OF BAUDOT. 
 District School Meeting 
 
 (Name of District.) 
 19- 
 
 1. Resolved, That the Board of Education be authorized to 
 purchase as a lot on which to build a school-house, the plot of 
 land situate as follows : 
 
 The cost of said land shall not exceed the sum of dollars. 
 
 2. Resolved, That the Board of Education be authorized to 
 erect a school-house on said plot of land, and to purchase for said 
 school-house the school furniture and other necessary equipment. 
 The cost of said school-house, furniture and equipment shall not 
 exceed the sum of dollars. 
 
 3. Resolved, That for the purpose of securing the money 
 needed to purchase said land, to erect said school-house, and pur- 
 chase said furniture and equipment, the Board O'f Education be 
 
*3 2 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 authorized to issue bonds of the District in the cor- 
 porate name of the District, in the denomination of 
 
 dollars each. 
 
 4. Resolved, That one bond shall be issued for year, 
 
 one for . .years, one for ,. ... .years. 
 
 Notice to Voters. 
 
 To vote for the resolutions leave them as they are printed. 
 To vote against any resolution cancel the same with ink or 
 pencil. 
 
 (The following note is not to be printed on the ballot.) 
 
 NOTE. If a choice in the plot of land on which to erect the school-house is 
 offered, make a separate resolution for each plot with the word or between the 
 resolutions, and add to the "notice to voters" the following: Do not vote for 
 both resolutions for purchase of land. 
 
 If authority to condemn is requested the notice and ballots must contain the 
 words "take" and "condemn." 
 
 MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Pursuant to notice given to each member, the Board of Edu- 
 cation of the of in the County 
 
 of met at on the 
 
 day of . 19. . ., at .o'clock in the 
 
 There were present Messrs 
 
 On motion of Mr the following preamble 
 
 and resolutions were adopted : 
 
 WHEREAS, In the judgment of this Board, the school accommo- 
 dations now provided in this district are inadequate and un- 
 suited to the number of pupils attending or desiring to attend 
 school; and 
 
 WHEREAS, It is the opinion of this Board that in order to pro- 
 vide adequate and suitable school accommodations, a plot of 
 land should be secured, a new school-house erected, and school 
 furniture and other necessary equipment purchased, and that 
 the amount necessary for the foregoing is thought to be the 
 sum of. .dollars; therefore 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS, 233 
 
 Resolved, That a meeting of the legal voters of the school dis- 
 trict be held at .on the. .. day of 
 
 19. . ., at o'clock in the , 
 
 and that the District Clerk be and is hereby directed to post a 
 copy of the notice calling said meeting on each school-house in 
 the district, and a copy at each of the following-named public 
 places in the district, to wit : 
 
 Resolved, That there shall be stated in said notices the follow- 
 ing items of business to be acted upon at said meeting : 
 
 To authorize the Board of Education to purchase,* as a lot on 
 which to erect a school-house, the plot of land situate as follows : 
 
 The cost of said plot shall not exceed the sum of 
 
 dollars. 
 
 To authorize the Board of Education to erect a school-house 
 on said plot of land, and to purchase for said school-house the 
 school furniture and other necessary equipment. The cost of 
 said school-house, furniture and equipment shall not exceed the 
 sum of ...dollars. 
 
 The amount of money thought to be necessary for the fore- 
 going is ( dollars. 
 
 To authorize the Board of Education to borrow the money 
 ordered to be raised by issuing bonds in the corporate name of the 
 district, in such amounts and payable at such times as the legal 
 voters shall direct. 
 
 On motion of Mr the Board adjourned to 
 
 meet at on the 
 
 day of . . . . . 19 . . , at o'clock 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, '\ 
 _ kw. 
 
 COUNTY OF 
 
 being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he is the District Clerk of the Board of Education of 
 
 * If authority to condemn is requested the words "or take and condemn" 
 must be inserted. 
 
234 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 of . . . .1. . . in the County of 
 
 ... .1 , that said Board consists of 
 
 members, and that it is incorporated under section 84 of an act 
 entitled "An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of 
 free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support 
 and management thereof," approved October igth, 1903, and that 
 the foregoing is a true copy of the proceedings and resolutions 
 had and adopted by said Board of Education at a meeting held on 
 
 the day of 19 . . , so far 
 
 as said proceedings and resolutions relate to the calling of the 
 meeting of the legal voters of said district, to be held on the .... 
 
 day of . . . .1 19. ., and that notice of the 
 
 time and place of said meeting was given to each member of said 
 Board on the day of ,. . . .19. ., 
 
 in the following manner: 
 
 
 
 [Here insert how notice was given. If written, append copy.] 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before "1 
 
 me, this r 
 
 day of 19. . J 
 
 NOTICE. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to the legal voters of the School District 
 
 of the. . of -.''... i in the County of 
 
 that a meeting of the legal voters of said School District 
 
 will be held at , on the day of , 
 
 19. . ., at . . .o'clock in the ,. ., at which meeting the 
 
 following items of business to be acted on will be submitted : 
 
 To authorize the Board of Education to purchase,* as a lot on 
 which to erect a school-house, the plot of land situate as follows : 
 
 * If authority to condemn is to be granted the words "or take and condemn" 
 must be inserted. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 235 
 
 The cost of said plot shall not exceed the sum of 
 
 dollars. 
 
 To authorize the Board of Education to erect a school-house on 
 said plot of land, and to purchase for said school-house the school 
 furniture and other necessary equipment. The cost of said 
 school-house, furniture and equipment shall not exceed the sum 
 of dollars. 
 
 The amount of money thought to be necessary for the fore- 
 going is .dollars. 
 
 To authorize the Board of Education to borrow the money 
 ordered to be raised by issuing bonds in the corporate name of the 
 District in such amounts and payable at such times as the legal 
 voters shall direct. 
 
 District Clerk. 
 Dated . . . ., 19. . 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, -^ 
 ~ Iss. 
 
 COUNTY OF j 
 
 being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he is the District Clerk of the Board of Education of the 
 
 of in the County of , that there are 
 
 school-houses in said district, and that he posted copies 
 
 of a notice, of which the foregoing is a true copy, on the 
 
 day of . . ., 19. ., one copy being posted on each of said 
 
 school-houses, and one copy at each of the following-named public 
 places in the District, as directed by the Board of Education, to 
 wit : . 
 
 that the notices were posted' in all respects according to law. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before 
 
 me, the 
 
 day of 19. .. 
 
236 BLANKS AND "FORMS 
 
 DISTRICT MEETING. 
 
 The legal voters of the School District of the of 
 
 <...., in the County of , met at on 
 
 the day of 19. . ., at o'clock in 
 
 the , pursuant to legal notice, a copy of which notice 
 
 is hereto appended. 
 
 Mr was elected chairman and Mr secre- 
 tary of the meeting. 
 
 The secretary read the notice calling the meeting. 
 
 The chairman appointed as tellers Messrs 
 
 The following resolutions were adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Education be authorized to pur- 
 chase,* as a lot on which to erect a school-house, the plot of land 
 situate as follows : 
 
 The cost of said land shall not exceed the sum of 
 
 dollars. 
 
 The vote on this resolution was by ballot. For 
 
 Against 
 
 Resolved, That the Board of Education be authorized to erect 
 a school-house on said plot of land, and to purchase for said 
 school-house the school furniture and other necessary equipment. 
 The cost of said school-house, furniture and equipment shall not 
 exceed the sum of dollars. 
 
 The vote on this resolution was by ballot. For 
 
 Against 
 
 Resolved, That for the purpose of securing the money needed 
 to purchase* said land, to erect said school-house and purchase 
 said furniture and equipment, the Board of Education be author- 
 ized to issue bonds of the District, in the corporate name 
 
 of the District, in the denomination of' dollars each. 
 
 The vote on this resolution was by ballot. For 
 
 Against 
 
 * If authority to take and condemn land is given the resolution must so 
 state. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 237 
 
 Resolved, That one bond shall be issued for year, one 
 
 for years, one for years, one for 
 
 years, 
 
 The vote on this resolution was by ballot. For 
 
 Against 
 
 The total number of names on the poll list was 
 
 The total number of ballots cast was 
 
 The total number of ballots rejected was 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, .\ 
 COUNTY OF J ' 
 
 . . , being- duly sworn, on his oath saith that he 
 
 was the secretary o<f the meeting of the legal voters of the. ... ... . 
 
 of , in the County of. ... .,. .,. .,. ., held on the. ...... 
 
 day of , 19. . ., and that the foregoing is a true copy 
 
 of the proceedings and resolutions had and adopted at said meet- 
 ing ; that all votes taken at said meeting were by ballot, and that 
 he has forwarded to the County Superintendent of Schools a 
 statement of the result of said meeting, together with a sealed 
 package containing the ballots, poll list and tally sheet used at 
 said meeting, as required by section 96 of the Revised School 
 Law. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before 1 
 
 me, this 
 
 day of 19. .. ' 
 
 BAWDT. 
 
 Here insert a copy of each style of ballot used at the meeting 
 of the legal voters. 
 
238 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 kw. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 
 COUNTY OF 
 
 . being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he was the secretary of the meeting of the legal voters of the 
 
 of in the County of 
 
 held on the day of 19. . ., and that 
 
 the foregoing true cop of the ballot used 
 
 at said meeting. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before 
 
 me, this 
 
 day of ..19 I Secretary. 
 
 MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF TJHE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 An adjourned meeting of the Board of Education of the 
 
 ........ of . . . in the County of was held at 
 
 .on the day of , 19. . ., at 
 
 o'clock in the. . . . .,. ... .pursuant to a resolution adopted by said 
 Board at a meeting held on the day of ., 19. .. 
 
 There were present, Messrs 
 
 On motion of Mr the following preamble and reso- 
 lutions were adopted : 
 
 WHEREAS, At a meeting held on the. ...*.... day of 
 
 19..., the legal voters adopted resolutions authorizing this 
 Board to purchase a certain plot of land for school purposes ; to 
 erect on said plot a school-house; to purchase for said school- 
 house the school furniture and other necessary equipment, and 
 to borrow the money needed for the same by issuing School 
 District bonds; therefore be it 
 
 Resolved, That this Board purchase from the plot of 
 
 land situate . 
 
 at a cost not to exceed the sum of dollars. 
 
 Resolved, That this Board erect on said plot a school-house, 
 said house to be built of and to contain rooms, 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 239 
 
 and to purchase for said school-house the school furniture and 
 other necessary equipment. The cost of said school-house, furni- 
 ture and equipment not to exceed the sum of dollars. 
 
 Resolved, That for the purpose of securing- the money needed 
 to purchase said plot, to erect said school-house and purchase 
 
 said furniture and equipment, this Board issue Coupon 
 
 bonds of the District, in the corporate name of the District, in 
 
 the denomination of .dollars each; that one bond shall 
 
 be issued for year, one for years, 
 
 that the rate of interest shall be per cent, per annum, 
 
 payable semi-annually on the days of and 
 
 . . and that the principal of and interest on said bonds 
 
 shall be payable at the. ,. .bank at as they 
 
 severally become due and payable. 
 
 Resolved, That this Board adjourn to meet at on the 
 
 day of . , at o'clock, to take such 
 
 further action as may be necessary to carry into effect the fore- 
 going- resolutions. 
 
 rss. 
 
 STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 
 COUNTY OF 
 
 being duly sworn, on his oath saith that 
 
 he is the District Clerk of the Board of Education of the 
 
 of in the County of , and that the fore- 
 going is a true copy of the proceedings and resolutions had and 
 adopted by said Board of Education at a meeting held on the 
 day of . . , 19. .. 
 
 Sworn and subscribed before "1 
 
 me this . r 
 
 day of . 
 
 NOTE. In order that these papers shall be a correct record of the proceed- 
 ings, cross out with red ink any item not acted on. 
 
2-40 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 XXXIX. (Form No. 62.) Application for Loan From State School Fund. 
 
 To the Trustees for the Support of Public Schools : 
 
 The Board of Education of the .of. ., , in 
 
 the County of . .,. .,..,...., in the State of New Jersey, ask to bor- 
 row of the Trustees for the Support of Public Schools the sum 
 
 of . ., dollars, for the purpose of purchasing- land, erecting 
 
 a school-house and purchasing school furniture and other neces- 
 sary equipment, and offer as security for said loan bonds of the 
 School District to the amount at par of said loan. 
 
 Official title of bonds, 
 
 Original amount of issue, $ 
 
 Amount offered, $ 
 
 Date of bonds, ....... -Maturity, 
 
 Average time (be exact), years. 
 
 Rate, Payable, annually and 
 
 Denominations, $ 
 
 Where are principal and interest payable?. . . 
 
 Registration as to principal by whom and where? 
 
 Price (be exact) Yielding (be exact) % 
 
 Statistics. 
 
 Real valuation, estimated, . . ,i $ 
 
 Assessed valuation, 191 . . . , $ 
 
 Total bonded debt, including this issue, .... $ 
 
 Water debt, . . .. $ 
 
 School debt, $ 
 
 Sinking fund, $ 
 
 Net debt, $ 
 
 Floating debt in addition, $ 
 
 Population, 1910 census 191 
 
 Estimated, 
 
 Percentage of debt to valuation (be exact) % 
 
 Delivery of bonds, , 
 
 Remarks. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 241 
 
 We submit herewith a copy of the proceedings had at said 
 meeting of said inhabitants, a copy of the minutes of the meeting 
 of the Board of Education of said district at which the posting 
 of the notices calling said meeting of the inhabitants was ordered, 
 a copy of the notices calling said meeting duly verified by affi- 
 davit, and the approval of the Attorney-General as to the legality 
 of said proceedings. 
 
 Dated , N. J., ,. ., 19. . . 
 
 .Pres. "i Board of Education of 
 
 .D. C. J County of 
 
 XL. Notice for a Meeting of the District Board of Education. 
 
 To... : 
 
 You are hereby notified that there will be a meeting of the 
 
 Board of Education of the School District of . ., ,. ... ., on 
 
 .evening, ,. ., 19. . ., at o'clock, in 
 
 the school-house. 
 
 [Date.} ... 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 XLI. Notice to be given by the Secretary of a District School Meeting 
 to the Members- Elect. 
 
 To : 
 
 You are hereby notified that at the annual school meeting in 
 
 the School District of ,..,.., in the County of 
 
 held on the day of , 19 . . . , you were 
 
 elected a member of the Board of Education in said district. 
 
 Dated this .day of . . , 19. . . 
 
 Secretary of said meeting. 
 16 s L 
 
242 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 XLII. Form of a Lease. 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that A. B., of the 
 
 of , in the County of . . , in the State of New 
 
 Jersey, of the first part, for the consideration herein mentioned, 
 
 does hereby lease unto "The Board of Education of the 
 
 of. ... ... .,. .,. ., in the County of. . ,. .," in the State afore- 
 said, party of the second part, its successors and assigns, the fol- 
 lowing-described parcel of land : 
 
 [Here insert description of land.] 
 
 Together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto 
 belonging: To have and to hold the same for and during the 
 
 term of. .... ...years from the ,. .day of , , 
 
 A. D. 19. .!. ; and the said party of the second part, for itself, its 
 successors and assigns, does covenant and agree to pay the said 
 party of the first part, for said premises, the annual rent of 
 .dollars. 
 
 In testimony whereof, the said parties have hereunto set their 
 
 hands and seals, this day of , 19 ... 
 
 A. B., Lessor. 
 
 , President. 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 XLII I. Form of a Deed of a School-House Site. 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that A. B. [and C. B., his 
 
 wife, if married] , in the of , in the County 
 
 of , in the State of New Jersey, party of the first part, 
 
 for and in consideration of the sum of dollars, to them 
 
 in hand paid by "The Board of Education of the of 
 
 , in the County of ," and State aforesaid, 
 
 party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowl- 
 edged, do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to the said party 
 of the second part, its successors and assigns, the following- 
 described piece of land namely : 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 243 
 
 [Here insert description of land.] 
 
 Together with all the privileges and appurtenances thereunto 
 belonging: To have and to hold the same to the said party of 
 the second part, its successors and assigns forever; and the said 
 party of the first part, for themselves, their heirs, executors 
 and administrators, do covenant, bargain and agree, to and 
 with the said party of the second part, its successors and assigns, 
 that at the time of the ensealing and delivery of these presents, 
 they are well seized of the premises above conveyed, as of a good, 
 sure, perfect, absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance in the 
 law in fee-simple, and that the said lands and premises are free 
 from all incumbrances whatsoever ; and that the above bargained 
 premises in the quiet and peaceable possession of the said party of 
 the second part, its successors and assigns, against all and every 
 person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim, the whole or any 
 part thereof, the said party of the first part will forever warrant 
 and defend. 
 
 In witness whereof, the said A. B. and C. B., his wife, party 
 of the first part, have hereunto set their hands and seals, this 
 .......... day of .......... , A. D. 19 ... 
 
 Signed, sealed and delivered in "1 A -n 
 
 , A. B. 
 
 presence of 
 
 F 
 
 C. B. [SEAL.] 
 
 NOTE. Such deeds should be duly acknowledged before a judge, commis- 
 sioner of deeds, master in chancery or other officer authorized by law to take 
 such acknowledgment, and recorded in the office of the county clerk. The 
 bond and mortgage given by the Board of Education to secure payment of 
 part of purchase-money may be in the usual forms, and for the execution of 
 deeds, mortgages and bonds each district should have a corporate seal. Notes 
 given for borrowed money should be in the name of the district and signed 
 by the President and District Clerk. 
 
 XLIV. Contract for Building a School-House. 
 
 Contract made and entered into between A. B., of the County of 
 
 , State of New Jersey, and "The Board of Education 
 
 of the of , in the County of ," 
 
 State of New Jersey. 
 
244 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 In consideration of the sum of one dollar in hand paid, the 
 receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, and of the further sum 
 
 of dollars, to be paid as hereinafter specified, the said 
 
 A. B. agrees to build a frame school-house and to furnish the 
 materials therefor, acording to the plans and specifications for 
 the erection of said house hereto appended, at such point in said 
 district as the said board may designate. The said house is to 
 be built of the best material, in a substantial, workmanlike man- 
 ner ; and is to be completed and delivered to said Board, free from 
 
 any lien for work done or materials furnished, by the 
 
 day of , 19 . . . ; and in case the said house is not 
 
 finished in the time herein specified, the said A. B. shall forfeit and 
 pay to the said Board, for the use of said district, the sum of 
 
 dollars, and shall also be liable for all damages that 
 
 may result in consequence of such failure, and said Board may 
 finish the building and charge the cost of the same to the said A. B. 
 
 The said Board hereby agrees to pay the said A. B. the sum of 
 
 dollars when the foundation of said house is finished, 
 
 and the further sum of dollars when the building is 
 
 ready for the roof ; and the remaining sum of dollars 
 
 when the said house is finished and delivered, as herein stipulated. 
 
 It is further agreed, that this contract shall not be sublet, 
 transferred or assigned without the consent of both parties. 
 
 Witness our hands this day of , 19 ... 
 
 A. B., Contractor. 
 
 , President. 
 
 , District Clerk. 
 
 NOTE. In building a school-house, it is all-important to secure a plan of the 
 building, with full specifications as to its dimensions, style of architecture, 
 number and size of the windows and doors, quality of materials to be used ; 
 what kind of roof; number of coats of paint; of what material the founda- 
 tion shall be constructed ; its depth below, and its height above the surface 
 of the ground; the number and style of chimneys and flues; the provisions 
 for ventilation ; the number of coats of plastering, and style of finish, and all 
 other items in detail that may be deemed necessary. The plan and specifica- 
 tions should be attached to the contract, and the whole filed with the District 
 Clerk. Before the building is commenced, the contract and specifications 
 should be filed in the office of the county clerk to prevent liens. All plans and 
 specifications must be submitted to the State Board of Education for approval, 
 and copies of all contracts must be filed with the State Board of Education 
 as soon as executed. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 245 
 
 XLV. Form of Note for Money Borrowed. 
 
 ,N;J., 19... 
 
 days after date, "The Board of Education of the 
 
 of , in the County of ," State of 
 
 New Jersey, promises to pay to , or order, 
 
 dollars, with interest from the date thereof, at the rate of 
 
 per cent, per annum. 
 
 This note is given for money borrowed by said Board for the 
 
 purpose of , pursuant to the statute entitled "An Act 
 
 to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, 
 and to provide for the maintenance, support and management 
 thereof," approved October igth, 1903, and by the consent of the 
 inhabitants of the said district lawfully given, at a meeting law- 
 fully held on , 19 ... 
 
 President. 
 Attest : 
 
 District Clerk. 
 
 XLVI. Duties of District Clerk. 
 
 1. To prepare and post 
 
 Notices for annual district meeting, 
 Notices for special district meeting. 
 
 2. To prepare and deliver notices for meetings of the Board of 
 Education. 
 
 3. To act as secretary of the Board of Education. 
 
 4. To record, in a book provided for that purpose, all the pro- 
 ceedings of Board of Education meetings and district meetings. 
 
 5. To keep an account of the finances of the district, and to 
 report at each regular meeting of the Board of Education. 
 
 6. To pay out all moneys by issuing orders on the Custodian 
 of School Moneys. 
 
246 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 7. To make a financial report to County Superintendent. 
 
 8. To make a report of the transactions of the Board for the 
 year to the annual district meeting for the election of members of 
 the Board of Education. 
 
 9. To prepare and forward the annual report of the County 
 Superintendent. 
 
 10. To notify County Superintendent and township assessor of 
 the amount of district school tax ordered. 
 
 11. To notify County Superintendent of the election of mem- 
 bers of the Board. 
 
 12. To buy fuel, text-books and such other articles as the 
 Board may direct. 
 
 13. To deliver to his successor all records and papers belonging 
 to the district. 
 
 XLVN. (Form No. 34.) Certificate that Child has Attended School. 
 
 I hereby certify that I am Principal of School No , 
 
 in the of , County of . , and that 
 
 [name of child] is the [son, daughter or ward] of [name of 
 parent or guardian], residing at [street and city] ; that to the best 
 
 of my knowledge and belief, said [name of child'] is . 
 
 years of age ; and said [name of child] has attended school under 
 my charge, five days a week, for. ...... .weeks, during the year 
 
 preceding the date of this certificate. 
 
 Dated , 19 
 
 Principal. 
 
 XLVIII. Teacher's Report to the County Superintendent when Leaving a 
 School Before the End of the School Year. 
 
 Report of the Teacher of Public School No in the 
 
 of , in the County of , for 
 
 the portion of the School Year commencing. . ., ist, 
 
 19. . . ., and ending. . . ., 19. ... 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 247 
 
 [The body of the Report same as Annual Report in the Register.} 
 
 To , County Superintendent for County: 
 
 Being; about to leave my present school, I respectfully present 
 the above record and statements as my report for the expired 
 portion of the present School Year, as required by the laws of 
 this State; which report I hereby certify has been carefully made 
 out from the records contained in the School Register. 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 NOTE. The law requires that a duplicate of the above report shall be made 
 to the District Clerk. 
 
 Xj_IX. Teacher's Report of the Suspension of a Pupil to the Board of 
 
 Education. 
 
 To , District Clerk of the Board of Education of the 
 
 of , of the County of . : 
 
 SIR You are hereby notified that I have this day suspended 
 
 from my school , for [here state the cause for 
 
 suspension] . 
 
 Dated this day of 19. ... 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 NOTE. The School law requires every suspension to be reported to the 
 Board of Education. 
 
248 BLANKS AND FORMS 
 
 Calendar for School Elections and Duties. 
 
 1. State Board of Education. Meets on the first Saturday of 
 each month. 
 
 2. State Examinations. Held on the last three Saturdays in 
 April and the first three Saturdays in November. 
 
 3. Boards of Education. Elected on the third Tuesday in 
 March, annually, must organize on the first Monday in April and 
 should meet at least once in two months during the period that 
 the school shall be in session. 
 
 4. District Clerks. Elected to take office July first. 
 
 5. District Meetings for Voting District Tax. Held on the 
 third Tuesday in March, annually, or at the call of the Board of 
 Education. 
 
 6. Report of the State Board of Education to the Governor. 
 On the first Tuesday in December, annually. 
 
 7. Report of the Commissioner of Education to the State 
 Board of Education. On the first Saturday in December, an- 
 nually. 
 
 8. Report of County Superintendent to the Commissioner of 
 Education. On or before the first of September, annually. 
 
 9. Report of the District Clerks to County Superintendent 
 On or before the first of August, annually. 
 
 10. Report of Teachers to Board of Education. At the close 
 of each quarter's teaching, or as directed by the rules of the 
 Board. 
 
 11. Financial Statement of Township Collector to Township 
 Committee and County Superintendent. On or before the first 
 of August, annually. 
 
 12. Financial Statement of District Clerks to Township Com- 
 mittee. On or before the first of August, annually. 
 
 13. Financial Statement of District Clerks to the County 
 Superintendent. On or before the first of August, annually. 
 
FOR SCHOOL OFFICERS. 249 
 
 14. Assessor Makes Returns to Collector. Within fifteen days 
 after the first Monday in September, annually. 
 
 15. State School Tax. To be paid to the State Treasurer on 
 or before the twentieth day of January. To be paid to the 
 County Collector on or before the twenty-second day of Decem- 
 ber. 
 
 1 6. School Tax. Collected and due the Board of Education 
 by the twenty-second day of December, annually. 
 
 17. Apportionment of the State Appropriation to the Counties. 
 Made on or before the fifteenth day of February, annually. 
 
 1 8. Report of Teachers Employed. Made by the Board of 
 Education to the County Superintendent on or before March 
 fifteenth, annually. 
 
 19. Apportionment of the State Appropriation and Township 
 School Taxes to the District. Made by the County Superintend- 
 ent on or before the first day of April, annually. 
 
 20. State Appropriation. Two hundred thousand dollars paid 
 in November, and the State school tax in the month of January 
 following 1 , the railroad tax collected paid September first, and 
 balance October twenty-fifth. 
 
 21. Agricultural College. Candidates examined by the County 
 and City Superintendents on the first Saturday in June. 
 
 22. School Holidays. First day of January, Lincoln's birth- 
 day, Washington's birthday, Good Friday, Memorial day, fourth 
 of July, Labor day, Columbus day, Thanksgiving- day, Christmas 
 day, any day upon which a general election shall be held, and also 
 any day set apart by proclamation of the Governor of this State 
 or the President of the United States for the purposes of public 
 observance. 
 
 23. Patriotic Exercises. Held on the last school day preced- 
 ing Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday, Decoration or 
 Memorial day and Thanksgiving day. 
 
 24. School Year. Commences on the first day of July and 
 ends on the thirtieth day of June. 
 
 25. Library Year. The school library year, the teachers' li- 
 brary year and the year for appropriations for manual training 
 coincide with the State fiscal year, and begin on the first day of 
 November and end on the thirty-first day of October. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 (250 
 
INDKX. 
 
 Section references are to black figures in text. 
 
 A. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Abandonment of school buildings, section 144, 73 
 
 Accommodations for school children, section 142, 71 
 
 Accounts, inspector of, section 3, division VII, 8 
 
 Acts validated, section 280, 138 
 
 Advertisement for bids, etc., sections 58, 78, 27, 34 
 
 Advertising and receiving proposals, section 33, 166 
 
 Affidavits, assistant commissioners of education may take, section 25, . . 16 
 
 Commissioner of Education may take, section 25, 16 
 
 county superintendent may take, section 30, division 1 18 
 
 district clerk may take, section 99, 49 
 
 Age of children, attendance at school compulsory, section 174 84 
 
 attending free schools, sections 131, 142, 66, 71 
 
 detention schools, section 2, 153 
 
 exempted from school attendance, section 174, 85 
 
 kindergarten schools, section 161, 81 
 
 night schools, section 164, 82 
 
 Agricultural college, appointment of students for, section i, 159 
 
 appropriations for, section 5, 162 
 
 candidates examined, when, 249 
 
 examinations for, section 2, 160 
 
 fee, no admission charge, section 3 163 
 
 instructors, section 4, 162 
 
 scholarships in, section i, 159 
 
 short courses, section I, 162 
 
 students, sections 1-4, 159 
 
 subjects taught, section 2 162 
 
 Agriculture, expenses, how paid, section 3, 150 
 
 manual training and home economics, appropriation for, 
 
 section i, 149 
 
 rules and regulations, section 2, 149 
 
 summer courses of study, section 2, 149 
 
 Alcoholic drinks and narcotics, effects of, to be taught in all schools, 
 
 section 259, 132 
 
 Annexation, municipalities, section 42, 23 
 
 (253) 
 
254 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Annual district meetings in townships, section 88, 41 
 
 or special meetings, vote by ballot, section 105, 53 
 
 report of condition of public schools to be printed, section 60, .. 28 
 
 Commissioner of Education, section 24, : . . . 16 
 
 county superintendents, section 31, 19 
 
 district boards, to county superintendent, section 95, 
 
 division XIII, 47 
 
 district clerks, section 100, 50 
 
 school fund, made to Legislature, section 197, 93 
 
 State Board of Education, section 5, 10 
 
 State prison school board, section 8, 152 
 
 superintendent of schools, section 73 32 
 
 Annuitants, teachers' retirement fund, section 242, 118 
 
 Appeals, Commissioner of Education, sections n, 15, 118, rules 
 
 i-5, 12, 13, 62, 195 
 
 copies of rules to be filed in office of commissioner, rule 6, 197 
 
 hearing of, rules I, 5, 195 
 
 how and when taken, rule 2, 196 
 
 points shall be filed, rule 3, 196 
 
 State Board of Education, section 3, division IV, n, 15, 18, 
 
 8, 12, 13, 14 
 
 Application for retirement with annuity, section 242, 119 
 
 Appointment, assistant commissioners of education, section 7, division II, 10 
 
 superintendents, sections 65, 66, 32 
 
 assistant to hear and decide controversies, section 7, divi- 
 sion VI, ii 
 
 boards of education, members of, section 45, 25 
 
 in cities, sections 45, 52, 24, 26 
 
 township, town or borough dis- 
 tricts, section 30, division IV, . . 18 
 for union-graded schools, section 149, 
 
 divisions I, II, 75 
 
 boards of school estimate, section 79, 34 
 
 business manager, sections 56, 76, 27, 33 
 
 children's guardians, state board of, section i, 166 
 
 city school boards, section 45, 24 
 
 superintendents, sections 56, 70, 71, 27, 31, 32 
 
 clerks in secretary's office, section 63, 29 
 
 to superintendents of schools, section 73, 32 
 
 Commissioner of Education, section 6, 10 
 
 county boards of examiners, section 37, 20 
 
 superintendents, section 3, division II, 17, 27, . . .8, 14, 17 
 
 custodian of school moneys, section 153, 76 
 
 district clerks, by boards of education, section 100, 49 
 
 examiners, county, section 37, 20 
 
 State, section 36, 20 
 
INDEX. 255 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Appointment by Governor, of board of trustees for industrial schools, 
 
 section 4, 146 
 
 members of board of education, for a new township, sec- 
 tion 30, division IV, 18 
 
 president and vice president of boards of education, sec- 
 tion 94, 44 
 
 principals, sections 57, 97, 117, 27, 48, 81 
 
 regulators of night schools, section 169, 83 
 
 secretary State Board of Education, sections i, 7, divi- 
 sion I, 7, 10 
 
 State Board of Children's Guardians, section i, 166 
 
 examiners, section 36, 20 
 
 students for agricultural college, section i, 159 
 
 superintendents of schools, sections 33, 70, 19, 31 
 
 supervising principal, section 96, 47 
 
 for union-graded schools, section 
 
 149, division V, 78 
 
 supervisor of elementary education, section 7, division IV, n 
 
 industrial education, section 7, division V, n 
 
 secondary education, section 7, division III, 10 
 
 teachers, sections 57, 74, 95, division II, 97, 117,. .27, 32, 45, 48, 61 
 
 truant officers, section 176, 86 
 
 trustees of industrial schools, section 4, 146 
 
 vacancies filled, section 95, 45 
 
 Af portionment, annual, school fund, section 198, 93 
 
 balances, sections 40, 205, 206, 22, 101, 208 
 
 counties, by State Comptroller, section 200, 94 
 
 detention schools, county superintendent to make, sec- 
 tion i, 152 
 
 high schools, 192 
 
 new district, section 44, 24 
 
 night schools, section 164, 82 
 
 railroad tax, sections 292-295, 141 
 
 reserve fund, section 202, 96 
 
 State Comptroller, State school tax, section 200, 94 
 
 school moneys, amount per supervisor, assistant super- 
 visor, teacher, pupil, etc., section 205, 98 
 by commissioner of education, section 
 
 21, 15 
 
 by county superintendent, section 155, 78 
 
 to counties, section 21, 15 
 
 State school tax, section 200, 94 
 
 tax, retention of, by county superintendent, sec- 
 tion 201, 95 
 
 when made to counties, 249 
 
 union-graded schools, section 155, 78 
 
256 INDEX. 
 
 PAGL-. 
 
 Appropriations, balance from State, section 40, 22 
 
 city, sections 79-92, 34 
 
 colored industrial school, section 228, no 
 
 compulsory attendance at school, section 174, 84 
 
 detention schools, section i, 152 
 
 determined by board of school estimate, section 81, 35 
 
 evening schools, section 167, 82 
 
 for foreign-born residents, section 166, 82 
 
 fund for support of public schools, section 188, 90 
 
 industrial schools, sections I, i, 145, 147 
 
 institutes, section 258, 132 
 
 insurance money, section 147, 74 
 
 kindergartens, section 163, 81 
 
 land and buildings, section 82, 36 
 
 libraries, school, section 233, 112 
 
 teachers', section 236, 113 
 
 manual training, section 230, no 
 
 night schools, section 167, 82 
 
 outhouses, section 143, 72 
 
 penalty for exceeding, section 31, 165 
 
 railroad tax, 141-144 
 
 State fund, section 200, 94 
 
 limit of, section 167, 82 
 
 prison school, section 7, 151 
 
 school fund, sections 192, 198, 91, 93 
 
 summer school, section i, 149 
 
 surplus revenue, section 257, 131 
 
 teachers' retirement fund, section 250, 124 
 
 text books, section 171, 84 
 
 townships, sections 83, 104-106, 38, 51 
 
 union graded schools, section 154, division III, 77 
 
 validated, section 81, 138 
 
 withheld, sections 19, 44, 142, 14, 24, 71 
 
 Approval of high schools, rules 1-7, I9 1 
 
 plans and contracts, section 145, 73 
 
 Arbor day, sections 261-263, 132 
 
 Armories, use of, by school children, section 282 138 
 
 Assessment, State school tax, section 200, 94 
 
 executions to satisfy section 66, 133 
 
 school tax, cities, sections 81, 82, 35> 36 
 
 townships, sections 104, 109, 154 division III, 
 
 266, 5i, 56, 76, 133 
 
 Assessor, assess property to pay bonds and interest, section 109, 56 
 
 returns to collector, when made, 249 
 
 and collector of taxes, section 104, 5 2 
 
 Assessors, county collector to make statements before boards of, section 
 
 200, 95 
 
INDEX. 257 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Assistant Commissioners of Education, appointment, section 7, division 
 
 II, 10 
 
 division VI, 1 1 
 
 superintendents, appointment of, section 71, 32 
 
 apportionment for, section 205, division I .... 99 
 
 qualifications, section 72, 32 
 
 removal of, section 71, 32 
 
 salary, section 71, 32 
 
 Attendance, pupils, regular, sections 174, 205, 84, 98 
 
 schools, rules 1-5, 189 
 
 of witnesses, section 3, division XII, 9 
 
 Attorney-General to approve bonds issued by school districts, sections 
 
 108, 158, 56, 80 
 
 Audit of claims, sections 67, 68, 30 
 
 Auditor to examine accounts, claims, etc., section 68, 30 
 
 B. 
 
 Balances paid county county collector, section no, 57 
 
 Ballot, appropriations at district meetings voted by, sections 90, 105,. ...43,53 
 
 boards of education, elected by, section 89, 42 
 
 bonds, voted by, section 105, 53 
 
 boxes to be used in certain cases, section 90, 43 
 
 consolidation of districts, vote by, section 112, 57 
 
 union-graded schools, vote for, section 148, 74 
 
 Bids and contracts, sections 59, 78, 28, 34 
 
 Bills, itemized, section 99, 48 
 
 payment of, in cities, sections 66, 67, 68, v . 29, 30 
 
 townships, sections 98, 99, 48 
 
 Blanks for school officers, Commissioner of Education to furnish, sec- 
 tion 23, 16 
 
 Board of children's guardians, State, sections 1-13, : . . 166-171 
 
 education (see cities, townships, State prison school and union- 
 graded schools), 
 examiners, members of State, term of office, compensation, 
 
 etc., section 36, 20 
 
 county boards, qualifications, duties, compensation, 
 
 vacancies, etc., section 37, 20 
 
 school estimate, sections 79-82, 84, 85, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39 
 
 Body corporate, city school district, section 51, 26 
 
 Bond, auditor in cities, section 68, 30 
 
 Bonds, borrow money on school, section 82, 36 
 
 business manager, section 76, 33 
 
 cancellation of, section no, 57 
 
 city school districts, amount of, section 82, 36 
 
 coupon or registered, sections 82, 276, 36, 136 
 
 interest on, section 82, 30 
 
 17 S I, 
 
258 INDEX. 
 
 PAGS. 
 
 Bonds, city issue, how ordered, section 82, 36 
 
 sinking fund for, section 82, 36 
 
 consolidated districts, issued by, section 116, 60 
 
 custodian of school moneys, sections 153, 207, 76, 103 
 
 district clerk, section 100, 49 
 
 coupon, changed to registered, section 99, 93 
 
 or registered, section 82, 36 
 
 districts may issue, sections 105, 106, 53, 54 
 
 interest on, section 82, 36 
 
 industrial school, section 2, 148 
 
 issued by any school district a lien on all property in district, 
 
 section 108, 56 
 
 payment of, tax for, section 109, 56 
 
 proceedings, approved by attorney-general, section 108, 56 
 
 copy to be filed with commissioner of education, 
 
 section 108, 56 
 
 registry of, section 106, 54 
 
 renewal of, section 107, 55 
 
 sale of, sections 106, 278, 55, 137 
 
 security for, section 108, 56 
 
 secretary board of education, section 62, 29 
 
 school of detention, issue of, section 5, 155 
 
 school districts may sell to trustees for support of public schools, 
 
 section 277, 137 
 
 tax for, section 109, 56 
 
 teachers' retirement fund, section 240, 115 
 
 union graded schools, sections 158-160, 79, 80 
 
 Bookkeeping, uniform system for districts, section 3, division VIII,.... y 
 
 Borrow money on notes, section 61, 28 
 
 school bonds, section 82, 36 
 
 Business manager, sections 76-78, 33 
 
 Body corporate, city school district, section 51, 26 
 
 trustees of industrial schools, section 7, 147 
 
 Buildings, approval of plans for school, sections 144, 145, 7 2 , 73 
 
 bids for, in new districts, section 40, 21 
 
 bonds for, cities, section 82, 36 
 
 townships, sections 90, 105-111, 43, 53 
 
 business manager to supervise, sections 77, 78, 33 
 
 condemnation of lands for, sections 53, 95, division V, ....26,46 
 
 contracts for, sections 58, 59, 78, 27, 28, 33 
 
 destroyed by fire, section 147, ~3 
 
 damage to, by pupils, section 135, 68 
 
 detention schools, section i, i5 2 
 
 doors to open outwardly, section 146, 73 
 
 examination of, section 144, 73 
 
 industrial schools in cities, section i, 148 
 
 insurance on, sections 95, 147, division VI, 46,73 
 
 industrial, section i, 145 
 
INDEX. 259 
 
 PACI:. 
 
 Buildings, inspector of, section 3, division VI, 8 
 
 janitors, section 95, division II, 45 
 
 mortgage on, section 95, division IV, 45 
 
 outhouses, section 143, 7 2 
 
 penalty for failure to provide, section 142, 71 
 
 plans, approval of, sections 144, 145, 72, 73 
 
 in cities, section 78, 33 
 
 commissioner of education to cause to be prepared, 
 
 section 144, 72 
 
 repairs to, sections 58, 59, 78, 27, 28, 33 
 
 suitable, must be furnished, section 142, 71 
 
 supervision of, sections 77, 78, 95, division IV, 33~45 
 
 tax for, section 104, 51 
 
 title to, sections 41, 54, 55, 86, division VI, 22,26,46 
 
 union-graded schools, section 154, division III, 158-160, 77,79 
 
 use of for other than school purposes, section 95, division XI, 47 
 
 unused school, sections I, 2, 158 
 
 Business manager, appointment of, sections 56, 76, 27,33 
 
 bond of, section 76, 33 
 
 buildings, to supervise, sections 77, 78, 33 
 
 duties, sections 76, 77, 78, 33 
 
 salary, sections 56, 76, 27, 33 
 
 term of office, section 56, 27 
 
 By-laws, city boards to adopt, section, 57, 27 
 
 State Board of Education to adopt, section 3, division I, 8 
 
 township boards of education, section 95, division III, 45 
 
 C. 
 
 Calendar for school elections and duties, 248 
 
 Census enumerators, section 207, 134 
 
 Certificates, age of applicant for, rule 2, 175 
 
 appointment, .section 45, 24 
 
 amount of school estimate, section 81, 35 
 
 assessor, to, section 104, 52 
 
 board of health, section 136, 69 
 
 classes of, section 6, 176 
 
 boards of examiners, section 38, 21 
 
 city requirements for, section 3, division V, 38, 260,. .8, 21, 132 
 
 city superintendents to hold, section 72, 32 
 
 college diploma accepted, rule 23, 178 
 
 contract invalid unless teacher holds, section 117, rule I, . .66, 175 
 county requirements for section 3, division V, 37, 260. .8, 20, 132 
 
 county superintendent to hold, section 27, 17 
 
 definition for purposes of certification, 177 
 
 detention schools, section 3, 154 
 
 elementary, rules 9, 26, 176, 179 
 
2<5o INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Certificates, election for union-graded schools, section 148, 74 
 
 employed, children, section 174, 85 
 
 evening schools for foreign-born residents, section 293.... 142 
 
 examination percentage, rule 3, , 175 
 
 examinations, conduct of, rule 60, 183 
 
 dates and places for rule 20, 178 
 
 district clerk, rule 70, 184 
 
 identification of applicants, rule 66, 183 
 
 order of, 185 
 
 plan of, 182 
 
 readers, rule 58, 63, 182,183 
 
 preparation of questions, rule 59, 183 
 
 records, rule 67, 184 
 
 graduation in agriculture and manual training, valid to teach, 
 
 section 2, 149 
 
 indorsement of, rule 21, 178 
 
 kindergarten teachers, section 162, rules 15, 43, 81,177,181 
 
 language, rule, 52, 182 
 
 manual training, rule 46, 182 
 
 music, rule 50, 182 
 
 normal school, 182 
 
 diploma, rule 22, 1 78 
 
 graduates, rule 9, 176 
 
 perecentage required, rules 3, 13, 175, 176 
 
 permanent rules, 29, 34, 36, 41, 179, 180, 181 
 
 physical training, rule 71, 185 
 
 provisional, rules 12-14, 176 
 
 renewal of, rules 4, 5, 175 
 
 rules for granting, section 3, division V, rule I, 8, 175 
 
 secondary, rule 9, 176, 180 
 
 limited, rule 31, 180 
 
 permanent, rule 34, 180 
 
 special, rule 9, 176 
 
 limited, rule 38, 181 
 
 permanent, rule 41, 181 
 
 State board of examiners, may revoke rule 10, 1/6 
 
 State, by endorsement, rule 21, 178 
 
 by examination, rule 23, 178 
 
 State, requirements for, sections 36, 260, rule 21, 20, 132, 178 
 
 State prison school, section 4, 151 
 
 summer schools, rule 24, 178 
 
 suspension of, section 119, 63 
 
 supervisors, rules i, 9, n, I75 X 76 
 
 limited, rule 35, 180 
 
 permanent, rule 36, 181 
 
 teachers, must hold, sections 124, 129, rule i, 64, 66, 175 
 
 kindergarten, section 162, 81 
 
 testimonials to be filed, rule 2, 175 
 
INDEX. 261 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Certificates, union-graded schools, election, section 148, 74 
 
 vaccination, section 136, 68 
 
 Charges or reduction of salary of principals or teachers, section 127, .... 65 
 Children's guardians, State board of, appointed by Governor, section I, 166 
 
 power and duty of, sections 3, 4, 167 
 
 expenses, sections I, 7, 167, 169 
 
 funds provided by chosen freeholders, section 6, 169 
 
 wards of, section 8, 169 
 
 City school boards, appointment of, section 45, 24 
 
 districts, article VI, j 24 
 
 assistant superintendents, section 71, 32 
 
 auditor of, section 68, 30 
 
 boards of education body corporate, section 51, .... 26 
 
 may sue, condemn land, etc., section 53, 26 
 
 board of education advertise proposals for sup- 
 plies, section 58, 27 
 
 rules and regulations, 173 
 
 superintendent and secretary, sections 56, 62, 63, 64, 
 
 65, 66, 69, 70, 73, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 
 
 schools, supervision of, section 33, 19 
 
 Claims, payment of, section 67, 30 
 
 audited, section 68, 30 
 
 Clerical assistance to commissioner of education, section 13, 13 
 
 Clerk for county superintendent, section 35, 19 
 
 Cities, advertisement for buildings and supplies, sections 58, 59, 27,28 
 
 appropriations, sections 79, 81, 82, 34, 35, 36 
 
 withheld, sections 20, 142, 15, 71 
 
 Arbor Day, observation of, section 261, 132 
 
 Article XXVI, referendum, acceptance of, section 252, 129 
 
 VI, acceptance of, section 272, 135 
 
 assistant superintendents, sections 71, 72, 205, 32, 99 
 
 attendance of pupils, sections 174, 205, 84, 98 
 
 auditor, section 68, 30 
 
 balances, section 206, 101 
 
 bills, how paid, sections 66-68, 29, 30 
 
 board of school estimate, section 79, 34 
 
 powers of, sections 80, 81, 35 
 
 secretary, section 79, 35 
 
 boards of education, appointment, section 45, 24 
 
 body corporate, section 51, 26 
 
 by-laws of, section 57, 27 
 
 compensation, section 50, 26 
 
 contracts, not to be interested in, section 47, 25 
 
 teachers, sections 117, 118, 61,62 
 
 incorporation of, section 51, 26 
 
 oath of office, section 48, 25 
 
 organization, section 52, 26 
 
 l8 S L 
 
262 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Cities, boards of education, penalty for violation of law, sections ig, 
 
 49, 14, 25 
 
 powers of, sections 52-82, 117, 118, 172, 186, 
 
 267, 26, 61, 62, 84, 89, 134 
 
 president, section 52, 26 
 
 qualifications of, section 47, 25 
 
 removal, section 49, 25 
 
 report, section 60, 28 
 
 seal, section 51, 26 
 
 secretary, sections 56, 62, 27, 29 
 
 term of, sections 45, 46, 24, 25 
 
 title to property, section 55, 26 
 
 vacancies, section 45, 24 
 
 vice-president of, section 52, 26 
 
 bond of business manager, section 76, 33 
 
 secretary, section 62, 29 
 
 bonds for school-houses, section 82, 36 
 
 borrow in anticipation of tax, section 61, 28 
 
 buildings, condemnation of, section 142, 71 
 
 contracts for, sections 58, 59, 27, 28 
 
 plans for, section 78, 33 
 
 business manager, appointment of, sections 56, 76, 27, 33 
 
 bond of, section 76, 33 
 
 duties of, sections 76-78, 33 
 
 salary, sections 56, 76, 27, 33 
 
 term of office, section 56, 27 
 
 census, may take, section 267, 134 
 
 certificates, section 3, division V, 38 8, 21 
 
 clerks, how appointed, sections 63, 73, 77, 29, 32, 33 
 
 colored children not to be excluded from schools, section 140, ... 70 
 
 condemn land, section 53, 26 
 
 contagious diseases in schools, section 136, 68 
 
 schools closed, section 138, 69 
 
 contracts, advertisement for, sections 58, 59, 62, 27, 28, 29 
 
 how awarded, section 59, 28 
 
 penalty for officials being interested in, section 32, .... 165 
 
 teachers, sections 117, 118, rule i, 61, 62, 188 
 
 corporal punishment, section 123, 64 
 
 corporate name, section 51, 26 
 
 course of study, sections 74, 259 32, 132 
 
 custodian of school moneys, section 68, article XVIII, 30, 102 
 
 damage to school property, section 135, 68 
 
 evening schools, sections 164, 165, 82 
 
 foreign-born residents, section 166, 82 
 
 examinations, section 3, division V, 38 8, 21 
 
 executions, section 266, 133 
 
 flag day, section 265, 133 
 
INDEX. 263 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Cities, flags for school-houses, section 256, 131 
 
 high schools, rules 1-7, 191 
 
 holidays, sections 121, 264, 63, 133 
 
 insurance, section 95, division VI, 46 
 
 institutes, rules 1-5, 187 
 
 kindergartens, section 161, 81 
 
 libraries, article XXIV, rules 1-2, 113, 190 
 
 manual training, article XXI, section i, 109, 149 
 
 medical inspector, section 225, 130 
 
 outhouses, section 143, 72 
 
 parental schools, sections 182-186, 88 
 
 penalty for violation of law, sections 19, 44, 14, 24 
 
 illegal use of school moneys, section 254, 130 
 
 pension, teachers', section 242, 1 18 
 
 plans for school-houses, sections 78, 144, 145, 33, 72, 73 
 
 property, title to, sections 41, 53, 54, 55, 22, 26 
 
 pupils, admission of, sections 139, 161, 70, 81 
 
 ages, of, sections 131, 161, 164, 66, 81, 82 
 
 attendance reported, section 205, 101 
 
 compulsory, sections 174-187, 84 
 
 excluded from school, sections 136, 137, 140, 68, 69, 70 
 
 expulsion of, section 135, 68 
 
 non-resident, section 131, 66 
 
 suspension of, sections 122, 135, 63. 68 
 
 transfer of, section 133, 67 
 
 transportation, section 132, 67 
 
 tuition fees, sections 65, 131, 134, 29, 66, 67 
 
 vaccination, sections 136, 137, 68, 69 
 
 religious service, section 125, 64 
 
 reports, sections 32, 60, 65, 69, 205, 19, 28, 29, 31, 98 
 
 school district, section 39, 21 
 
 month, section 117, 61 
 
 term, section 44, 24 
 
 year, section 268, 134 
 
 secretary, appointment of, sections 56, 62, 27, 29 
 
 bond of, section 62, 29 
 
 clerks may appoint, section 63, 29 
 
 contracts with teachers, to file, section 117, 61 
 
 duties, sections 45, 63-66, 69, 79, 208, 24, 29, 31, 34, 103 
 
 removal of, section 62, 29 
 
 report of, sections 65, 69, 29, 31 
 
 salary of, sections 56, 62, 27, 29 
 
 term of employment, section 56, 27 
 
 tuition fees, section 65, 29 
 
 sinking fund, custodian of, section 210, 105 
 
 superintendent, appointment of, sections 56, 70, 27, 31 
 
 apportionment for, section 205, 98 
 
264 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Cities, superintendent, arbor day program, section 261, 132 
 
 assistant may nominate, section 71, 32 
 
 clerks may appoint, section 73, 32 
 
 duties of, sections 70-75, 31 
 
 qualifications, section 72, 32 
 
 removal of, section 70, 31 
 
 report of, sections 32, 73, 19, 32 
 
 salary of, sections 56, 70, 27, 31 
 
 teachers, may suspend, section 75, 33 
 
 teachers' report to certify, section 120, 63 
 
 term of office, section 56, 27 
 
 supplies, advertisement for, section 58, 27 
 
 teachers, appointment of, sections 57, 74, 117, 27, 32, 61 
 
 certificates for, section 3, division V, 38, 8, 21 
 
 contracts, sections 117, 118, 121, 61,62,63 
 
 corporal punishment prohibited, section 123, 64 
 
 evening schools for foreign-born residents, section 166, . 82 
 
 excluded from school, section 136, 68 
 
 holidays, sections 121, 264, 63, 133 
 
 institute, section 258, 132 
 
 jury duty, section 126, 64 
 
 pension for, sections 130, 242, 66, 118 
 
 pupils, authority over, section 122, 63 
 
 register, to keep, section 120, 63 
 
 removal of, sections 57, 74, 118, 27, 32, 62 
 
 report of, section 120, 63 
 
 rules for employment, section 117, 61 
 
 salaries of, sections 20, 117, 118, 120, 121, 124, article 
 
 XXVI, rule i, 15,61,62,63,64,188 
 
 suspension of, section 75, 33 
 
 term, school, section 44, 24 
 
 text-books, sections 58, 74, 171, 172, 27, 32, 84 
 
 title to school property, sections 41, 53, 54, 55, 22, 26 
 
 transfer of pupils, section 133, 67 
 
 transportation of pupils, section 132, 67 
 
 truant officers, section 176, 86 
 
 tuition fees, sections 65, 131, 134, 142, 29, 66, 67, 71 
 
 vaccination of pupils, sections 136, 137, 68, 69 
 
 warrants, how issued, sections 67, 68, 30 
 
 City superintendent, agricultural college, hold examinations for, section 
 
 2, 160 
 
 appointment of, sections 56, 70, 27, 31 
 
 apportionment for, section 182, division I, 98 
 
 assistant, may nominate, section 71, 32 
 
 duties of, sections 71-75, 32 
 
 qualifications, section 72, 3 2 
 
 removal of, section 70, 3 1 
 
 report of, sections 32, 73, i9> 32 
 
INDEX. 265 
 
 PACE. 
 
 City superintendent, salary of, sections 56, 70, 27, 31 
 
 teachers, may suspend, section 75, 35 
 
 teacher's report to certify, section 120, 63 
 
 term of office, section 56, 27 
 
 Commissioner of education, administer oaths, section 9, 12 
 
 affidavits, may take, section 25, 16 
 
 annual report to State board, section 24,. ... 16 
 
 appeals, section n, 12 
 
 appointment of, term and salary, sec- 
 tion 6, 10 
 
 apportion school moneys, section 21, 15 
 
 approve order for payment of moneys with- 
 held, section 142, 72 
 
 blanks to be furnished school officers, sec- 
 tion 23, 16 
 
 certified copies of record of proceedings in 
 bond issues to be filed with, sec- 
 tion 158, 80 
 
 condemn school buildings, section 144, 73 
 
 construction and furnishing of schools, sec- 
 tion 14 13 
 
 county superintendent's salary withheld for 
 
 cause, section 18, 14 
 
 decide controversies arising under school 
 
 laws, section 15, 13 
 
 employ clerical assistance and fix compensa- 
 tion, section 13, 13 
 
 expenses of county superintendents paid on 
 
 order of, section 29, 26 
 
 keep a record of official acts, etc., section 
 
 16, 14 
 
 moneys for evening schools, section 167, . . 83 
 
 office provided for, section 12, 12 
 
 powers of, section 7, 10 
 
 power to designate secretary of State board, 
 
 section 7, division I, 10 
 
 to appoint assistants, section 7, divi- 
 sion II, 10 
 
 to designate supervisor of secondary 
 
 education, section 7, division III, 10 
 to designate supervisor of elemen- 
 tary education, section 7, division 
 
 IV, ii 
 
 to designate assistant as supervisor 
 of industrial education, including 
 agriculture, section 7, division V, 11 
 to designate assistant to hear con- 
 troversies and disputes, section 7, 
 division VI, 1 1 
 
266 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Commissioner of education, power to hold meetings of county and city 
 
 superintendents, section 7, division 
 
 X, ii 
 
 to prescribe examination for grad- 
 uation from grammar schools, 
 
 etc., section 7, division VII, 11 
 
 to prescribe course of study for ele- 
 mentary schools, section 7, divi- 
 sion VIII, : ii 
 
 to prescribe method to ascertain 
 children below normal, section 7, 
 
 division IX, 1 1 
 
 to withhold school moneys, section 
 
 7 division XI, 12 
 
 published report of, section 40 22 
 
 remit penalties, section 44, 24 
 
 report of county superintendent to, 248 
 
 report to State board once a month, section 
 
 7, division XII, 12 
 
 reports made to, sections 31, 32, 73, 19, 32 
 
 reports of private schools, section 22, 16 
 
 request standard plans for school buildings 
 
 to be prepared, section 144, 72 
 
 salary withheld from teacher, section 20, .. 15 
 secretary of State board and member of 
 
 board of examiners, section 14, 13 
 
 seal, records, etc., to be delivered to suc- 
 cessor, section 26, 17 
 
 special report by boards of education, sec- 
 tion 168, 83 
 
 State school moneys withheld for non-per- 
 formance of duty, section 19, 14 
 
 supervision of all schools of the State, 
 
 section 14, 13 
 
 suspend certificates of teachers, section 119, 63 
 
 take affidavits, etc., section 25, 16 
 
 title of office defined, section 10, 12 
 
 trustee of school fund, section 8, 12 
 
 United States, school records accessible to, 
 
 section 34, 19 
 
 vacancy in office of county superintendent 
 
 filled by, section 17, 14 
 
 Collection of tax to pay bonds and interest, section 109, 56 
 
 Collector of taxes, compensation, section 104, 52 
 
 Collectors, pay moneys to custodian, section 160, 81 
 
 Commissioner of Labor, truancy, etc, section 179, 87 
 
 Compensation, board of examiners, section 37, 20 
 
 magistrates, section 187, 90 
 
INDEX. 267 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Compensation, members boards of education in school districts, 
 
 -Action 50, 26 
 
 members State board, section 4, 10 
 
 truant officers, section 176, 86 
 
 trustees of industrial schools, section 5 147 
 
 trustees for support of public schools, section 192,.... 91 
 
 Complaint, truancy, sections 180, 187, 88, 89 
 
 Comptroller's warrant to county collector, section 203, 97 
 
 Compulsory education, sections 174, 179, 84, 87 
 
 Continuance of officials for full term, section 271, 134 
 
 Controversies to be decided by commissioner of education, section 15,. . 13 
 Condemn land for school purposes, union-graded schools, section 
 
 154, division II, 77 
 
 Condemnation of land for school purposes, by whom, sections 53, 95, 
 
 division V, 104, 26,46,51 
 
 Consolidation of districts, sections 112, 113, 115, 57, 58, 59 
 
 Contagions diseases, vaccination imperative, section 136, rule 4, 69,193 
 
 Contracts for building and repairs, section 59, also foot note, 28 
 
 with teachers, section 117, 61 
 
 officials not to be interested in, section 32, 165 
 
 Conveyance of school property for nominal sum, section i, 157 
 
 Corporal punishment forbidden, section 123, 64 
 
 Corporate name of boards of education, section 93, 43 
 
 board of union-graded school, section 152, 76 
 
 County collector, balances paid to, section 206, 101 
 
 neglect of duty, section 201, 95 
 
 payments of school tax to State Treasurer, section 201, 95 
 
 statement before boards of assessors, section 200, 95 
 
 to hold money in trust, section 204, 97 
 
 to withhold school moneys, section 7, divisions XI,. ... 12 
 
 Course of study for elementary schools, section 7, division VIII, n 
 
 grammar schools, section 174, 85 
 
 night schools, section 166, 82 
 
 promotion to higher grade, etc., sections 134, 142, 67, 71 
 
 and text-books, section 95, division VII, 46 
 
 Coupons, stamp on bonds, section 199, 93 
 
 Custodian of school moneys, as to tuition, etc., section 134, 68 
 
 evening schools, section 167, 83 
 
 to give bonds, section 208, 103 
 
 must make report, section 212, 105 
 
 manual training, section 230, in 
 
 retention of moneys by county superin- 
 tendent, section 201, 96 
 
 one in each district, sections 207, 208, 102, 103 
 
 of school district to certify balance, if any, 
 
 section 40, 22 
 
 in union-graded schools, sections 153, 160,. .76,81 
 
268 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 County superintendent, affidavits, may take, section 30, division I, 18 
 
 agent, must not act as, rule 5, 186 
 
 annual report to commissioner of education. 
 
 section 31, 19 
 
 appointment of, section 3, division II, 27, 8,17 
 
 appoint examiners, section 37, 20 
 
 appoint members of boards of education, section 
 
 30, division IV, 18 
 
 appoint president and vice-president, section 94, 44 
 appoint time for holding semi-annual meetings 
 
 of boards of education, section 102, 50 
 
 apportion school moneys, section 40, 22 
 
 balances, to apportion, section 40, 22 
 
 certificate, must hold State, section 27, 17 
 
 clerical assistant, section 35, 19 
 
 condemn school buildings, section 142, 71 
 
 consolidation of districts, sections 112, 115, ....57-59 
 course of study to prescribe, section 95, division 
 
 VII, 46 
 
 distribute documents, forms, circulars and in- 
 structions, rule 2, 186 
 
 duties, penalty for non-performance, section 18, 14 
 establish uniform course of study and a stand- 
 ard of graduation, rule 7, 186 
 
 establish county pedagogical libraries, rule 8,. . 187 
 
 expenses paid, section 29, 17 
 
 examination for position of, rule 10, 187 
 
 flag day, report as to observance of, rule n, . . . 187 
 issue orders for school moneys, section 30. 
 
 division II, 18 
 
 library, establish county pedagogical, rule 8,.. 187 
 
 local officers to report annually, section 32, ... 19 
 may withhold moneys for neglect of duty by 
 
 collectors, section 201, 95 
 
 meet county boards twice a year, rule 6, 180 
 
 office provided for, by board of freeholders, sec- 
 tion 34, 19 
 
 powers of, sections 19, 30, 37, 112, 133, 142, 
 
 155, 157, 201, J 4, 18, 20, 57, 67, 71, 78, 79, 95 
 
 preserve reports of school officers and teachers, 
 
 and examination papers, rule 4, 186 
 
 president of board of education, appoint, 94, . . 44 
 
 qualifications, section 27, 17 
 
 removal of, section 3, division II, 8 
 
 reports of local officers to, section 32, 19 
 
 rules governing, 185, 187 
 
 salary, sections 18, 28, 192, 14. r/, 91 
 
INDEX. 269 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 County superintendent, State school tax, to withhold in certain cases, 
 
 section 19, 14 
 
 supervision of schools, section 33, 19 
 
 term of office, sections 17, 27, 14, 17 
 
 transfer of pupils, sections 132, 133, 67 
 
 union-graded schools, sections 148, 149, 74, 75 
 
 vacancy, how filled, section 17, 14 
 
 vice-president, to appoint, section 94 44 
 
 visit schools, rule i, 185 
 
 D. 
 
 Damage to school property, section 135, 08 
 
 Deaf children, sections 141, 224, 225, 71, 108 
 
 Decisions, record to be kept, section 16, 14 
 
 Deficiency in school fund, section 198, 93 
 
 Detention schools, 152, 157 
 
 Diplomas, district normal school, section 38, 21 
 
 Disbursements by boards of education, section 68, 30 
 
 Dismissal of teacher, section 118, 62 
 
 Disorderly persons, sections 175, 178, 4, 86, 87, 163 
 
 District boards to report to county superintendent, section 205, 98 
 
 District clerk, accounts to be kept, section 100, 49 
 
 affidavit, section 99, 48 
 
 appointment of, section 100, 49 
 
 bond of, section 100, 49 
 
 bonds, registry of, section 106, 54 
 
 certificate of tax, section 104, 51 
 
 elected to take office July ist, 248 
 
 forward to county superintendent copy of contract with 
 
 teacher, rule 70, 184 
 
 issue orders for vaccination at public expense, section 
 
 137, 69 
 
 minutes kept, section 100, 49 
 
 notice to assessor, to give, section 109, 56 
 
 notice of meetings of board of education, section 100, . . 49 
 legal voters, sections 87, 88, 100, 
 
 112, 148, 40,41,49,57,74 
 
 orders, to issue, sections 100, 120, 134, 207, 49, 63, 67, 102 
 
 penalty for failure to post notices, section 88 41 
 
 report, section 100, 49 
 
 register, to certify, section 120, 63 
 
 report of, sections 32, 86, division XIII, 100, in, 
 
 rule 70, 19, 47, 49, 57, 184, 248 
 
 salary, section 100, . 49 
 
 Supplies, may purchase, section 99, 48 
 
 teacher's contract, to file, section 117, rule 70, 61, 184 
 
2;o INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 District clerk, teachers' retirement fund, payments to, section 244, 
 
 division I, 120 
 
 vaccination of pupils, give permit for, section 137, .... 69 
 
 meetings, section 88, 41, 248 
 
 normal school diplomas, section 38, 21 
 
 tax for school purposes, section 104, 51 
 
 schools, rules and regulations, section 95, division III, 45 
 
 Districts consolidated, sections 112, 113, 115, 57, 58, 59 
 
 Doors of school-houses to open outwardly, section 146, 73 
 
 E. 
 
 Election, union-graded schools, section 148, 74 
 
 by ballot x for members of boards of education, section 89, .... 42 
 
 Elementary certificates, rule 26, . 179 
 
 education, rule 16, 177 
 
 school, definition of, rule 16, 177 
 
 Employed children, section 174, 85 
 
 Employment of teachers, section 117, 61 
 
 Enumerators, how appointed, section 267, 134 
 
 Epidemics, schools closed during, section 138, 69 
 
 Estimate for expenses furnished by board of education, section 80, .... 35 
 
 Evening schools, apportionment, section 205, 101 
 
 for foreign-born, residents, section 166, 82 
 
 Examiners, county, section 37, 20 
 
 State board of, section 36, rules 58-71, 20, 182 
 
 Examination of school buildings, section 144, 73 
 
 Examinations, minimum prescribed, section 7, division VII, n 
 
 order of, 185 
 
 State, when held, 248 
 
 Exemption from jury duty, section 126, 64 
 
 Exclusion from school prohibited on account of religion, nationality or 
 
 color, section 140, 70 
 
 Expenses, agriculture, manual training, etc., sections I, 3, 149,150 
 
 kindergartens, section 163, 81 
 
 night schools, sections 166, 170, 82, 83 
 
 F. 
 
 Farnum preparatory school, control and management of, section 2, 8 
 
 Financial statement of district clerks, 248 
 
 township collector, 248 
 
 Fire, destruction by, section 147, 73 
 
 Flag day, section 265, rule 11, 133, 187, 249 
 
 Flags for school-houses, section 256, 131 
 
 Foreclosure procedings, section 194, 195, 
 
 Foreign-born residents, night schools, section 166, 
 
LNDEX. 271 
 
 1>AGE. 
 
 Free schools, age of pupils, section 131, 65 
 
 fund for support of, 5 
 
 lectures, 163 
 
 tuition in normal schools, section 213, 105 
 
 Furnishing school buildings, section 145 73 
 
 G. 
 
 Government of schools, act relating to, section 275, 136 
 
 Grammar schools, course of study, section 174, 85 
 
 H. 
 
 Holidays, observation of, section 121, rule n, 63, 187, 249 
 
 Hearing upon charges against principal or teacher, section 127, 65 
 
 High schools, apportionment to, rule i, 192 
 
 approved, rules 1-7, 191 
 
 attendance of unemployed, section 184, 85 
 
 diplomas, rule 3, I9 1 
 
 Income from leases, section 191, 91 
 
 Indebtedness, assumption of, section 42, 23 
 
 Industrial education, supervisor of, how appointed, section 7, division V, u 
 
 school for colored youth, control of, section 226, 109 
 
 schools, appropriation by State, sections I, i, 145, 147 
 
 money applied under direction of trustees, section 2, . 145 
 
 Inspection of work and materials, section 78, 34 
 
 Inspector of accounts, appointed by State board, section 3, division VII, 8 
 
 buildings, appointed by State board, section 3, division VI, 8 
 
 Institutes, teachers' rules for, rules 1-5, 187 
 
 Insurance of school property, section 95, division VI, 147, 46, 73 
 
 Interest, how paid, section 160, 8-1 
 
 payment of, section 199, 93 
 
 of surplus revenue, section 257, 131 
 
 Investments, moneys of school fund, sections 192, 193, 91 
 
 teachers' retirement fund, section 240, 117 
 
 Itemized bills, unlawful to pay unless, section 99, 48 
 
 J. 
 
 Janitor, mechanics and laborers, section 95, division II, 45 
 
 Joint school district, section 208, 104 
 
 Judgments against school districts, payment of, section 266, 133 
 
272 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Jury duty, exemption from, section 126, 64 
 
 Juvenile court, section 6, 156 
 
 offenders, section 180, 88 
 
 K. 
 
 Kindergartens, ages of pupils in, section 161, 81 
 
 definition of, rule 15, 177 
 
 expenses, how paid, section 163, 81 
 
 maintenance of, section 162, 81 
 
 teachers in, section 162, 81 
 
 L. 
 
 Land and buildings, appropriations for, section 82, 36 
 
 condemnation of, for school purposes, section 95, division V, .... 46 
 
 Law applies to all school districts, section 279, 137 
 
 Leases, income from, section 191, 91 
 
 Length of school term, section 44, 24 
 
 Libraries, school, appropriations for, sections 233-235, 112 
 
 rules governing, 190 
 
 teachers, sections 236, 237, 113 
 
 Library year, 249 
 
 Lien on property, bonds issued by any school district, section 108, 56 
 
 Limit of State appropriation, section 167, 83 
 
 Lincoln's birthday, section 264, 133 
 
 Loan on mortgage, section 196, 92 
 
 Local tax for industrial schools, section 3, 146 
 
 M. 
 
 Majority vote in certain cases, section 97, 48 
 
 Management of schools, section 56, 27 
 
 Manual training, appropriation for, sections 230, I, 140, 149 
 
 managers, section 231, in 
 
 and industrial school for colored youths, Bordentown, 
 
 N. J., section 226, 109 
 
 schools, section 174, 85 
 
 teachers, section 205 (), 100 
 
 district tax, for section 104 5 1 
 
 Mechanics' lien law (see foot note), 34 
 
 Medical examiner, duties of, section 141, 71 
 
 inspection, rules regulating, 193 
 
 inspector, salary, section 154, division III, 77 
 
 furnish certificate of vaccination, section 136, 68 
 
 to be competent physician, section 255 130 
 
INDEX. 273 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Meetings of county and city superintendents, section 7, division X, n 
 
 State board, when held, 248 
 
 regular, in school districts, section 98, 48 
 
 special, of legal voters, section 95, division X, 112, 46, 57 
 
 Members of board for a new township, section 30, division IV, 18 
 
 Memorial Day, observance of, section 264, 133 
 
 Misdemeanor to exclude certain pupils, section 140, 70 
 
 Moneys held in trust by custodian, section 208, 104 
 
 Model schools, how maintained, section 218, 106 
 
 Mortgage, incumbrance, section 195, 9 2 
 
 investments, section 193, 91 
 
 loan on, section 196, 92 
 
 Municipalities, annexation, etc., section 42, 23 
 
 repayment of indebtedness, section 43, 23 
 
 N. 
 
 New school districts, section 40, 21 
 
 township, appointment of boards of education, section 30, division 
 
 IV, 18 
 
 Night schools, how maintained, section 164, 82 
 
 foreign-born children, section 165, 82 
 
 Normal school, district diplomas, section 38, 21 
 
 schools, control of grounds and buildings, sections 214, 216,.... 106 
 
 pupils must declare intention to teach, section 217, 106 
 
 title, and tuition, section 213, 105 
 
 Notice of district meetings, section 88, 42 
 
 O. 
 
 Oath of office, section 94, 44 
 
 members of boards of education, section 48. 25 
 
 Oaths and affidavits, section 25, 16 
 
 authority to administer, section 128, 65 
 
 by whom administered, section 9, 12 
 
 Obligations assumed by new districts, section 41, 22 
 
 Obscene language, cause for suspension, section 135, 68 
 
 Office for county superintendent, section 34, 19 
 
 of State board, sections i, n, 7, 12 
 
 Officers teachers' retirement fund, section 240, 115 
 
 Officials must not act as agents for text-books or supplies, section 173, . . 84 
 not to be interested in contracts for buildings or supplies, sec- 
 tion 32, 165 
 
 Official seal, section 95, division XII, section 154, division IV, 47, 78 
 
 Orders for school moneys, section 30, division II, i 
 
 Organization of boards of education, section 52, 26 
 
 board of union-graded school, section 153, 76 
 
 school boards, section 94, 44 
 
 Outhouses or water-closets, must be provided, section 143 72 
 
274 INDEX. 
 
 p. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Parental schools, sections 182, 183, 185, 186, 88, 89 
 
 Parents liable for damage to school property by children, section 135, 68 
 
 Patriotic exercises, certain holidays, section 264, 133, 249 
 
 Payment by county collector to State Treasurer, section 201, 95 
 
 of claims, how made, section 67, 30 
 
 judgments against school district, section 266, 133 
 
 moneys to custodian, section 209, 104 
 
 Penalty for bribery, sections 28, 30, 164 
 
 exceeding appropriation, section 31, 165 
 
 failure of collector of taxes to pay over same, section 201, .. 95 
 
 improper use of school money, section 254, 130 
 
 not sending child to school, section 179, 87 
 
 officers having interest in furnishing supplies, section 29, . . 164 
 
 refusing to obey subpoena, section 128, 65 
 
 Pension for teachers, principals or superintendents, section 130 66 
 
 Physiology examination in, section 260, 132 
 
 Plans for school buildings, section 144, 72 
 
 and contracts, approval of, section 145, 73 
 
 specifications supervised, section 78, 33 
 
 Powers of boards of education, section 95, 45 
 
 commissioner of education, section 7, 10 
 
 county superintendent, section 30, 18 
 
 district boards, section 95, 45 
 
 State board of education, section 3, divisions I, II, III, IV, 
 
 V, VI, VII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, 8, 9 
 
 union-graded school boards, section 154, 76 
 
 and duties of boards of education in consolidated districts, sec- 
 tion 114, 59 
 
 union-graded schools, section 156, .... 79 
 
 secretary, sections 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 29 
 
 Principals, dismissal of, section 127, 65 
 
 employment and suspension of, etc., sections 75., 95, 123, 
 
 33, 45, 64 
 
 pension, section 130, 66 
 
 salaries of, article XXVI, 124 
 
 Private schools, registration of 192 
 
 reports of, section 22, 16 
 
 Profanity or obscene language, section 135, 68 
 
 Proposals, section 95, note d, 45 
 
 advertising and receiving, section 33, 166 
 
 for supplies, section 58, 27 
 
 Pupils, admission to public schools, section 139, 70 
 
 age, etc., section 131, 66 
 
 damage to school property, section 135, 68 
 
 diminution of, section 129, 65 
 
INDEX. 275 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Pupils, exposed to contagious diseases, section 136, 69 
 
 expulsion of, section 95, division VIII, 46 
 
 industrial schools, etc., section 2, 145 
 
 must comply with regulations, section 135, 68 
 
 night schools, section 164, 82 
 
 non-resident, section 131, 66 
 
 special classes for, section 141, 70 
 
 suspended for cause, section 123, 64 
 
 teacher's authority over, section 122, 63 
 
 vaccination of, section 136, 68 
 
 Purchase, sale, lease and improvement of school grounds, section 95, 
 division IV, section 154, division I, 45, 76 
 
 Q. 
 
 Qualification of county examiners, section 37, 20 
 
 members of boards of education, section 91, 43 
 
 city board, section 47, 25 
 
 State Board of Education, section i, 7 
 
 superintendents of schools, section 72, 32 
 
 voters at school meetings, section 91, 43 
 
 R. 
 
 Railroad tax, distribution for school purposes, how made, sections 
 
 292-295 141 
 
 Real estate held by trustees for support of public schools, sale of, 
 
 section 196, 92 
 
 Reapportionment of school moneys, section 206, 101 
 
 Records to be kept by district clerk, section 100, 49 
 
 Reduction of salary of principal or teacher, section 127, 65 
 
 Referendum, mode of declaring acceptance of, sections 252, 253, 272, 
 
 273, 129, 135 
 
 Registration of private schools, 192 
 
 Removal from office, cause for, section 173, 84 
 
 Removals and vacancies, union-graded schools, section 151, 76 
 
 Report of Commissioner of Education to State board, 248 
 
 county superintendent to Commissioner of Education, 248 
 
 district clerks to county superintendent, 248 
 
 elections in district boards deposited with county superin- 
 tendent, section 89, 42 
 
 State board of children's guardians, section 5, 168 
 
 teachers to board of education, 248 
 
 employed, 249 
 
 Reports of local officers of school districts, section 32, 19 
 
 monthly and yearly, by secretary, section 69, 31 
 
 private schools, section 22, 16 
 
 Report, special, night schools, to State superintendent, section 168, 83 
 
276 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Residence of members of boards of education, section 283, 138 
 
 Reserve fund, apportionment of, sections 201, 202, 96 
 
 Retention of apportionment from State tax, section 201, 96 
 
 Retirement of teachers, principals or superintendents, section 130, 66 
 
 Right to sue, section 103, 51 
 
 Riparian lands part of school fund, section 190, 90 
 
 Rules and regulations for advertising for proposals, section 58, 27 
 
 night schools, section 160, 82 
 
 for carrying school law into effect, section 3, 8 
 
 institutes, section 3, division III, rule i, 8, 187 
 
 S. 
 
 Salary, business manager, section 76, 33 
 
 commissioner of education, section 6, 10 
 
 county superintendent, section 28, 17 
 
 withheld for neglect of duty, section 18, . . 14 
 
 district clerk, section 100, 50 
 
 janitors, mechanics and laborers, section 95, division II, 154, 
 
 division III, 45, 74 
 
 principal or teacher, reduction of, section 127, 65 
 
 principals, teachers, janitors, section 154, division III, 74 
 
 secretary city board of education, section 62, 29 
 
 superintendents of schools, se'ctions 17, 70, 14, 31 
 
 teachers, sections 20, 74, 95, division II, 117, 120, article 
 
 XXVI, 15, 32, 45, 61, 63, 124 
 
 treasurer, school for colored youth, section 229, no 
 
 normal school, section 215, 106 
 
 school for the deaf, section 225, 109 
 
 Sale of real estate by trustees for the support of public schools, sec- 
 tion 196, 92 
 
 Scholarships in agricultural college, section i, 159 
 
 School attendance, to be certified, section 205, 98 
 
 attendance, rules governing, 189 
 
 .bonds, may borrow on, section 82, 36 
 
 sale of, section 278, 137 
 
 buildings, destroyed by fire, section 147, 73 
 
 examination of, section 144, 73 
 
 census in districts, section 267, 134 
 
 for the deaf, control of, section 222, 107 
 
 title, section 221, I( >7 
 
 maintenance, etc., sections, 223-225 107 
 
 colored youth, article XXI, 109 
 
 districts, borrow money in certain cases, section 201, 96 
 
 establish union graded schools, section 148, 74 
 
 how constituted, section 39, 21 
 
 law applies to all, section 279 137 
 
INDEX. 277 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 School districts may sell bonds to trustees for support of public schools, 
 
 section 277, J37 
 
 must provide accommodations for children, section 142, 71 
 
 obligations assumed by, section 41, 22 
 
 possesses power of taxation (see footnote), 53 
 
 regulating new districts, section 40, 21 
 
 estimate, board of, sections 79, 80, 81, 82, 34, 35- 36 
 
 fund, annual report to Legislature, section 197, 93 
 
 deficiency, section 198, 93 
 
 riparian lands part of, section 190, 90 
 
 secretary of, section 189, 90 
 
 trustees of, section 188, 90 
 
 grounds, purchase and sale of, section 95, division IV 45 
 
 holidays, 249 
 
 houses, facilities and accommodations, article X, 71 
 
 used for other purposes, section 95, division XI, 47 
 
 libraries, article XXIII, 112 
 
 appropriation for, section 233, 112 
 
 joint library, section 235, 112 
 
 selection of books, section 234, 112 
 
 in union-graded schools, section 154, 77 
 
 rules- for, 190 
 
 money, penalty for improper use of, section 254, 130 
 
 moneys withheld, section 142, 7 1 
 
 month, to be tweny school days, section 117, 61 
 
 orders, when draw interest, section 211, 105 
 
 property conveyed for nominal sum, section i, 157 
 
 title to, section 41, 22 
 
 vested in board of education, section 54, 48 
 
 register, teacher shall keep, section 120, 63 
 
 supplies, union-graded schools, section 154, division III 77 
 
 taxes (see foot-note), 95 
 
 when collected and due, 249 
 
 paid to State Treasurer, when, 249 
 
 term, length of, etc., section 44, 24 
 
 year, when begins, section 268, 134, 249 
 
 Schools closed during epidemic, section 138, 69 
 
 of detention, arrangement, ground, officers and employes, super- 
 intendent, teachers, salaries, etc., section 3,. ...153. 154 
 
 building for, section I, 152 
 
 counties may contract for children,' section 6, ... 156 
 
 county may issue bonds, section 5> T 55 
 
 for whom intended, section 2, 153 
 
 judge of juvenile court may demand information 
 
 as to conduct, etc., section 4, 155 
 
 management of, section I, 152 
 
 record to be kept, section 4, 154 
 
 free, section 131, 66 
 
 19 S L 
 
278 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Seal, official, section 95, division XII, 47 
 
 Secondary education, supervision of, section 7, division III 10 
 
 school, term defined, rule 17, 177 
 
 Secretary, salary, powers, duties, etc., sections 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 29 
 
 State Board of Education, section 7, division I, section 14. .10, 13 
 
 Semi-annual meetings of boards of education, section 102 50 
 
 Sinking fund for retirement of bonds in cities, section 82, 37 
 
 payment of school bonds, section 210, 105 
 
 Special appropriation for night schools, section 167, 82 
 
 classes for pupils below normal, section 141, 70 
 
 meetings of legal voters, section 95, division X (see foot note), 
 
 46, 5i. 104 
 
 report, night schools, to State superintendent, section 168, 83 
 
 State appropriation for industrial schools, section i, 147 
 
 to the counties, apportionment of, 249 
 
 and township school taxes to districts, 249 
 
 board of children's guardians, appointment of, section i 166 
 
 children indentured, section 12, .... 170 
 
 children placed, section 9, 1 70 
 
 duty of overseer of poor, section 8, . 169 
 
 expenses, section 7, 169 
 
 funds provided, section 6, 169 
 
 powers and duties, section 3, 167 
 
 reports of, section 5 168 
 
 vacancies, section 2, 167 
 
 visitations, section 5, 168 
 
 wards of, section 8, 169 
 
 Board of Education, appeals, section 3, division IV, u, 15 8, 12, 13 
 
 appointment of, section i, 7 
 
 by-laws, may frame and modify, section 3, 
 
 division I, 
 
 colored industrial school, control of, section 2, 8 
 compensation not to be paid members, sec- 
 tion 4, 10 
 
 contracts awarded, not to be interested in, 
 
 section 33, 165 
 
 county superintendents, to appoint, section 3. 
 
 division II, 
 
 deaf, control of school for, section II, article 
 
 XX, 
 
 evening school for foreign-born residents. 
 
 section 166, 
 
 examinations, make rules for. section 3. 
 
 division V, 36-38, 8, jo 
 
 expenses of, section 4, i 
 
 county superintendents, approval 
 
 of, section 29, t~ 
 
INDEX. 279 
 
 FACE. 
 
 State Board of Education, Farnum preparatory school, control of, sec- 
 tion 2, 8 
 
 manual training schools, section 2, 8 
 
 meetings, time and place of, section i, 8, 248 
 
 to be public, section i, 8 
 
 model school, maintain, section 218, 106 
 
 normal school, control of, section 2, article 
 
 XIX, 8 
 
 office of, section i, 7 
 
 plans for school-houses, to approve, 145, 73 
 
 powers 
 to appoint county superintendents, section 
 
 3, division II, 8 
 
 to appoint an inspector of buildings, section 
 
 3, division VI, 8 
 
 to appoint an inspector of accounts, section 
 
 3, division VII, 8 
 
 to appoint supervising principals upon appli- 
 cation, section 3, division IX, 9 
 
 to compel production of books and attend- 
 ance of witnesses, section 3, division XII, 9 
 to decide appeals, section 3, division IV, ... 8 
 to fix district rates of tuition, section 3, 
 
 division XI, 9 
 
 to issue subpoenas, section 3, division XIII, 9 
 to make rules for its own government, elect 
 its officers, and enforce rules and regula- 
 tions, section 3, division I, f 
 
 to prescribe method of bookkeeping for 
 
 school districts, section 3, division VIII, . . u 
 to regulate examinations and licenses to 
 
 teach, section 3, division V, .8 
 
 to regulate holding of teachers' institutes, 
 
 section 3, division III, S 
 
 to withhold approval of secondary schools, 
 
 section 3, division X, < i 
 
 qualifications for members, section i, 7 
 
 report of to Legislature, section 5, 10 
 
 reserve fund, apportion, section 202, 96 
 
 rules and regulations, I73-IQ7 
 
 rules, to prescribe, section 3, divisions I, V, . . 8 
 
 report annually to Legislature, section 5, 10 
 
 secretary of, section 7, division I, 10 
 
 State appropriations, 249 
 
 State board of examiners, appoint member of, 
 
 section 36, 20 
 
 supervise and control public instruction, sec- 
 tion i, 
 
280 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 State Board of Education, term of office, section i, 7 
 
 vacancies, how filled, section i, 7 
 
 constitution, extracts from, 5 
 
 normal schools, admission of pupils, section 217, 106 
 
 buildings and grounds, section 214, 106 
 
 certificates to graduates, rules 53-57, 182 
 
 control of, sections 2, 214, 8, 106 
 
 course of study, section 214, 106 
 
 diplomas to graduates, section 214, 106 
 
 insurance, section 216, 106 
 
 model schools, section 218, 106 
 
 object, section 213, 105 
 
 principals, appointment of, section 214, 106 
 
 member of State board of examiners, 
 
 section 36, 20 
 
 pupils, number of, section 217, 106 
 
 pledge, section 217, 106 
 
 repairs, section 216, 106 
 
 rules for, section 214, 106 
 
 teachers in, 214, 106 
 
 title, section 213, 105 
 
 treasurers of, section 215, 106 
 
 prison school, board must report annually, section 8 152 
 
 expenses, how met, section 7, 151 
 
 inmates not admitted without consent of keeper, 
 
 section 6, 151 
 
 inspector to establish, section i 150 
 
 rules, teachers, books, course of study, section 3,... 151 
 
 supervision of, section i, 150 
 
 teachers' qualifications, sections 4, 5, 151 
 
 school tax, annually assessed, section 200, 94 
 
 appropriation from State Fund, section 200, 94 
 
 rate of, section 200, 94 
 
 schools, control of, section 2, 8 
 
 provisions and supplies, sections 219, 220, 107 
 
 tuition fees, etc., held in trust, section 219, TO/ 
 
 treasurer, payments of quota of school tax by county collectors. 
 
 section 201, 95 
 
 Statement by State Comptroller of amount of tax and appropriation, sec- 
 tion 200, 94 
 
 Students, agricultural college, admission of, 159 
 
 Subpoenas, issue of, section 3, division XIII, 9 
 
 witnesses must obey, section 128, 65 
 
 Summer courses in agriculture and manual training, section 1-3. 149 
 
 Superintendents, pension, section 130, 66 
 
 Supervising principal, union-graded schools, section 154, division V, sec- 
 tion 155, ' / 8 
 
INDEX. 281 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Supervising principal, how appointed, section 96 47 
 
 State board may appoint, section 3, division IX, 9 
 Supervision of schools, county superintendent to exercise, sections 14, 
 
 30, 13, 18 
 
 Supervisor of elementary education, section 7, division IV, n 
 
 secondary education, section 7, division III, 10 
 
 industrial education, section 7, division V, n 
 
 what' the term includes, rule 19, 177 
 
 or city superintendent, apportionment of school moneys, 
 
 section 205, division I, 98 
 
 Supplies, advertised for, section 58, 27 
 
 and text-books, free, section 171, 84 
 
 Surplus revenue, interest of, section 257, 131 
 
 Suspension from office, section 3, division XII, 9 
 
 of principals or teachers, section 75, 33 
 
 pupils, section 135, 68 
 
 T. 
 
 Tax assessed, levied and collected, section 200, 94 
 
 for raising money in certain cases, section 143, 72 
 
 support of industrial schools, section 3, 146 
 
 rate of State school, section 200, '. 94 
 
 special district, section 187, 90 
 
 Taxable property, assessment, section 192, 91 
 
 Taxation, money raised by, section 154, division I, 77 
 
 Taxed costs, payment of, section 195, 92 
 
 Teachers, agents, for supplies, not to act as, section 173, 84 
 
 appointment of, section 74, 32 
 
 agricultural college, section 4, 162 
 
 appointment of, section 74, 32 
 
 apportionment for, section 205^ 99 
 
 arbor day exercises, section 261, 132 
 
 balance of salary due, rule i, 188 
 
 certificates, must hold, sections 27, 117, 124, 129, 162, rule 
 
 i 17, 62, 64, 66, 8 1 
 
 exhibit to county superintendent, rule i, 175 
 
 percentage required, rule 3, 175 
 
 revocation of, section 173, 84 
 
 suspension, section 119, 63 
 
 contagious diseases in schools, section 136, 68 
 
 contracts, section 117, 118, 61, 62 
 
 corporal punishment prohibited by, section 123, 64 
 
 critic, section 251, 127 
 
 detention schools, section 3, 153 
 
 dismissal of, sections 57, 75. 95, 118, divisions II, III, 97, 
 ' ^ 27, 33, 45, 48, 62. 65 
 
282 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE- 
 
 Teachers, employment of, section 95, rule i, 45, 175 
 
 examinations, section 3, division V, rule 20, 8, 178 
 
 evening schools, section 205^, 99 
 
 for foreign-born residents, section 166, 82 
 
 flag day, section 265, 133 
 
 grammar schools, section 251, 125 
 
 high schools, section 251, 126 
 
 holidays, sections 121, 265, 63, 133 
 
 exercises held, section 265, 133 
 
 institutes, must attend, rule 3, 188 
 
 jury, exempt from service on, section 126, 64 
 
 kindergarten, sections 162, 251, 81, 125 
 
 night schools, section 164, 82 
 
 patriotism to be taught, section 265, 133 
 
 penalty for violations, section 119, 63 
 
 pension, section 130, 66 
 
 primary schools, section 251, 125 
 
 pupils, authority over, section 122, 63 
 
 pupils, suspension of, sections 122, 135, 63, 68 
 
 register to be kept, section 120, , 63 
 
 religious exercises in schools, section 125, 64 
 
 report of, section 120, 63 
 
 retirement fund, article XXV, 113-124 
 
 rules for employment of, sections 57, 59, division III, 117, 
 
 rule I, 27, 45, 61, 175 
 
 salary, sections 124, 127, 251, article XXVI., rule i, 
 
 64, 65, 124, 188 
 
 tax for, section 104, 51 
 
 withheld for neglect, section 20, 15 
 
 school month, section 117, 61 
 
 school register must be kept by, section 120, 63 
 
 State prison school, section 3, 151 
 
 summer schools for, sections 1-3, 149 
 
 supervising principals, sections 96, 97, 138, division V, 47,48, 78 
 
 suspend pupils, sections 122, 135, 63, 68 
 
 suspension of, sections 75, 119, 33> 63 
 
 tenure of service, section 127, 64 
 
 testimonials, shall file, rule 4, 1 7S 
 
 training schools, section 251, 127, 128 
 
 institutes, section 3, division III, 258, rules 1-5, 8, 132, 187 
 
 libraries, appropriations for, sections 236, 258, 113, 132 
 
 control of, section 237, 113 
 
 committee on selection, section 237, 113 
 
 retirement fund, annual convention, section 239, 114 
 
 annuities granted, sections 242, 243, 118, 120 
 
 amount of, section 242, 118 
 
 application for membership in, section 246, 122 
 
INDEX. 283 
 
 PAGE- 
 
 Teachers, retirement fund, appropriation for, section 250, 124 
 
 assets, section 244, 120 
 
 bequests, section 240, 117 
 
 expenses, section 240, 118 
 
 fiscal year, section 240, 117 
 
 investment, section 240, 117 
 
 members, sections 244, 246-250, 120 
 
 officers of, section 240, 113 
 
 president, section 240. t . . 115 
 
 report of, section 240, 117 
 
 secretary, section 240, 115 
 
 treasurer, section 241, 118 
 
 trustees, section 238, 113 
 
 powers of, section 245 121 
 
 ungraded schools, section 205, division I, 99 
 
 keep school register, section 120, 63 
 
 school register, must keep, section 120, 63 
 
 permanent tenure, section 127. 64 
 
 temporary, section 205^, 99 
 
 vaccination of, section 136, 68 
 
 Term of night schools, section 164, 82 
 
 office, members of boards of education, sections 45, 46, 25 
 
 union-graded schools, section 150, 75 
 
 Text-books and course of study, section 95, division VII, IX, 46 
 
 section 104, 51 
 
 free, section 171, 64 
 
 kindergarten supplies, section 58, 28 
 
 officers and teachers not to be agents for, section 173, 84 
 
 rules for furnishing, section 172 84 
 
 selection of, section 74, 32 
 
 union-graded schools section 154, division III, 77 
 
 Thanksgiving Day, section 264, 133 
 
 Title to property vested in school board, section 93, 44 
 
 school property, in whom vested, sections 41, 55 22, 26 
 
 Township boards of education, how chosen, section 86, 39 
 
 committee, power to make appropriations, section 83, 38 
 
 to certify to assessor, section 84, 38 
 
 raise money for school buildings, section 85,.. 39 
 
 incorporated town and borough school districts, Article VII. 39 
 
 new, determining number of trustees, etc., sections 87, 88, .... 41 
 
 Townships, accounts, section 100, 49. 
 
 affidavits to bills, section 99, 48 
 
 annual meeting, sections 88, 100 41. 4t> 
 
 appropriations, penalty for exceeding, section 38, 21 
 
 boards of education, how chosen, section 86, 39 
 
 balances, apportionment of, section 40 21 
 
 ballot, elections by, sections 89, 90, 105, 42, 43 53 
 
 ballot-boxes, to be provided, section 90 4$ 
 
284 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Townships, bills, payment of, sections 98, 99, 4 g 
 
 board of education, accounts of, section 100, 49 
 
 affidavit to bills, section 99, 49 
 
 appointment of, section 30, division 
 
 IV, 95, division I, 18, 45 
 
 arbor day, section 261, 132 
 
 attendance of pupils, to report, section 
 
 182, 98 
 
 borrow money, section 95, divisions I, 
 
 XIV, .' 45 
 
 bribery, penalty, sections 28 and 30, ... 164 
 by-laws, to adopt, section 95, division 
 
 I", 45 
 
 condemn land, section 95, division V, . 45 
 consolidated districts, sections 112-114 57 
 contagious diseases, schools closed, sec- 
 tion 138 69 
 
 contracts, how made, sections 98, 99, . 48 
 not to be interested in, sec- 
 tion 92, 43 
 
 corporate name, section 93, 43 
 
 counsel, employment of, section 103, . 51 
 
 county meetings, section 102, 50 
 
 course of study, may adopt, section 
 
 86, division VII, 97, rule 4, 45, 48, 191 
 
 custodian of school moneys, section 
 
 208, 103 
 
 debts of new districts, sections 41-43, 22 
 district clerk, appointment of, section 
 
 100, 49 
 
 election of, section 30, division IV, 86- 
 
 89, H3, i8,39,58 
 
 evening schools for foreign-born resi- 
 dents, section 166, 82 
 
 expulsion of pupils, section 95, division 
 
 VIII, 135, 45,68 
 
 incorporation of, section 93, 43 
 
 insurance, section 95, division VI, . . 45 
 
 janitors, section 86, division II, 45 
 
 medical inspectors, section 255, 130 
 
 meetings of, sections 98, 102, 48, 50 
 
 minutes of, section 100, 49 
 
 mortgage school property, section 95, 
 
 division IV, 45 
 
 notices of meetings, section 88, 4 1 
 
 number of members, sections 86, 87, .39, 40 
 
 oath of office, section 94, 44 
 
 organization, section 94, 44 
 
INDEX. 285 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Townships, board of education, penalty for failure to attend meet- 
 ings, section 101, 50 
 
 penalty for violation of law, sections 
 
 19, 44, 14, 24 
 
 pension, teachers, section 130, 66 
 
 petition to call meeting of legal voters, 
 
 section 95, division X, 45 
 
 powers, sections, 95, 187, 267, 45, 89, 134 
 
 president, section 94, 44 
 
 pupils, may suspend or expel, section 
 
 95, division VIII, 135, 45,68 
 
 qualifications, section 92, 43 
 
 removal of members, sections 101, 
 
 173 50,84 
 
 report of, section 95, division XIII, ... 45 
 
 seal, section 95, division XII, 45 
 
 supervising principal, may appoint, sec- 
 tions 96, 97, 47 
 
 supplies, how provided, section 99, . . 48 
 suspend pupils, section 95, division 
 
 VIII, 135, 45,68 
 
 teachers, appointment of, section 95, 
 
 divisions II, III, 97, 117, 45,48,61 
 
 teachers, contracts with, sections 106, 
 
 107, 121, 61, 62, 63 
 
 teachers, dismissal of, section 95, divi- 
 sions II, III, 118, 45,52 
 
 teachers, salaries, section 95, division 
 
 II, 117, 118, 120, 124, ...45,61,62,63,64 
 term of office, sections 86, 87, 113, .39,40,58 
 text-books, section 95, divisions VII, 
 
 IX, 97, 171, 172, 46, 48, 84 
 
 transfer of unused school buildings, . . 158 
 transportation of pupils, section 132, ... 67 
 
 truant officers, section 176, 86 
 
 vacancies in, sections 86, 95, divisions 
 
 I, 101, 39,45,50 
 
 vice-president, section 94, 44 
 
 bonds, sections 90, 105, in, 43, 53, 57 
 
 census, section 267, 134 
 
 colored children, not excluded from school, section 140, . . 70 
 condemnation of land for school purposes, section 95, divi- 
 sion V, 106, 46, 54 
 
 consolidation of districts, sections 112-116, 57, 58, 59, 60 
 
 contagious diseases, schools closed, section 138 69 
 
 pupils excluded from school, section 
 
 136, 68 
 
 contracts, how made, sections 98, 99, 48 
 
286 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Townships, corporal punishment prohibited, section 123, 64 
 
 corporate name of district, sections 93, 114, 43, 59 
 
 course of study, adoption, section 95, division VII, 97, 46, 48 
 
 custodian of school moneys, section 104, article XVIII, .51,102 
 
 debt, sections 41-43, 22 
 
 district clerk, appointment of, section 100, 49 
 
 tax, sections 103-105, 51 
 
 elections by ballot, sections 89, 90, 105, 42, 43, 53 
 
 evening schools, sections 164, 165, 82 
 
 foreign-born residents, section 166, 82 
 
 executions against, section 266, 133 
 
 expulsion of pupils, section 95, divisions VIII, 135, 46, 68 
 
 flag day, section 265, 133 
 
 flags for school-houses, section 256, 131 
 
 high schools, approval of, rules 1-7, 191 
 
 holidays, sections, 121, 264, 265 63, 133 
 
 insurance, section 95, 46 
 
 janitors, section 95, division II, 45 
 
 kindergartens, sections 145-147, 81 
 
 legal expenses, section 103, 51 
 
 voters at school meetings, section 91, 43 
 
 libraries, article XXIII, 112 
 
 manual training, section 104, article XXII, 51 
 
 medical inspectors, sections 104, 136, 255, 51,68,130 
 
 mortgage school property, section 95, division IV, 45 
 
 new districts, section 87, 41 
 
 notices of meetings, sections 88, 89, 41.42 
 
 outhouses, tax for, section 143, 72 
 
 penalty for illegal use of school moneys, section 254 130 
 
 pensions, section 130, 66 
 
 petition for meetings of legal voters, section 95, division X, 46 
 
 plans for school-houses, sections, 144, 145, 7 2 , 73 
 
 property, title to, section 41, 22 
 
 pupils, admission of, sections 131, 139, 66, 70 
 
 expulsion or suspension, section 95, divisions VIII, 
 
 122, 135, 45,63,68 
 
 transfer of, sections 133, 134. 6 7 
 
 transportation, sections 132, 205, 67,100 
 
 tuition fees, sections 131, 134, 66, 67 
 
 vaccination, sections 136, 137, 68, 69 
 
 religious services in schools, section 125, 64 
 
 report, section 95, division XIII, in, 47. 57 
 
 school-houses, used for other purposes, section 95, division 
 
 XI, 47 
 
 school term, section 44, 24 
 
 month, section 117, 61 
 
 year, section 268, 1 34 
 
 seal of, section 95, division XII, 47 
 
INDEX. 287 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Townships, sinking fund custodian, section 210, 105 
 
 special meetings of legal voters, section 95, division X, 112,. .46,57 
 
 supervising principal, section 96, 47 
 
 supplies, how provided, section 99, 48 
 
 suspension of pupils, section 95, division VIII, 46 
 
 teachers, appointment of, section 95, divisions I, II, 97, 
 
 ii7 45, 48, 61 
 
 teachers, contracts with, sections 117, 118, 121, rules 69, 
 
 70, 61, 62, 63, 184 
 
 pension, section 30, 66 
 
 rules for employment, section 117, 61 
 
 salaries, sections 117, 118, 120, 121, 124, ..61,62,63,64 
 
 tellers at school meetings, sections 89, 90, 105, 42,43,53 
 
 term, school, section 44, 24 
 
 text-books, section 95, divisions VII, IX, 97, 171, 46,48,84 
 
 title to school property, section 41 22 
 
 transfer of pupils, sections 133, 134, 67 
 
 transportation of pupils, sections 132, 205, 67,100 
 
 truant officers, sections 176, 177, 86 
 
 tuition fees, sections 131, 134, 66, 67 
 
 union-graded schools, article XI, 74, 81 
 
 vaccination of pupils, sections 136, 137, 68,69 
 
 Transfer of children remote from school, section 133, 67 
 
 Transportation of pupils, district tax for, sections 104, 132, 51, 67 
 
 to high schools, section 174, 85 
 
 Treasurer, industrial schools, section 4, 146 
 
 Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, 
 
 section 229, no 
 
 New Jersey School for the Deaf, section 225, 109 
 
 Normal schools, section 215, 106 
 
 school fund, section 197, 93 
 
 teachers' retirement fund, section 241, 118 
 
 Truancy defined, sections 178-182, 86-88 
 
 Truant officers, sections 175, 176, 179, 180, 181, 86, 87, 88 
 
 Trustees for support of public schools, sections, 188, 190, 191, 192, 196, 
 
 199, 90, 91, 92, 93 
 
 of boards of education may be reduced in number, section 87, 40 
 
 school fund, section 8, 12 
 
 teachers' retirement fund, section 238, 113 
 
 industrial schools, appropriation for, section i, 145 
 
 of whom to consist, section 3, 146 
 
 powers of, section 4, 146 
 
 treasurer of board for support of, sec- 
 tion 4, 146 
 
 terms of, sections 4, 6, 146, 147 
 
 compensation of, section 5, 147 
 
 body corporate, section 7, 147 
 
288 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE- 
 
 Trustees, of industrial schools, may erect suitable buildings, section i,. . 148 
 
 issue of bonds, section 2, 148 
 
 sinking fund provided, section 2, 149 
 
 township boards may be reduced, section 87, 40 
 
 Tuition fees in certain cases, section 131, 66 
 
 normal schools, section 213, I0 5 
 
 of pupils, section 104, 131, 134, 5Ij 66, 67 
 
 rates fixed, section 3, division XI, 9 
 
 U. 
 
 Union-graded schools, apportionment to, section 155, 78 
 
 appropriations for, section 154, division III, 77 
 
 board, of education, appointment of, section 149, 
 
 150, 151, 75,76 
 
 corporate body, section 152, 76 
 powers of, sections 154, 156, 
 
 76, 79 
 
 removal of member of, 
 
 section 151, 76 
 
 term of office, section 150, 75 
 
 vacancy, section 151, 76 
 
 bonds for, sections 157, 158, 160, 79, 80 
 
 borrow money for, section 154, division I, 76 
 
 buildings for, section 154, division III 77 
 
 condemn land, section 154, division II, 77 
 
 custodian of moneys, section 153, 76 
 
 bond of, section 153, 76 
 
 salary, section 153 76 
 
 election, sections 90, 148, 43, 74 
 
 establishment of, section 148, 74 
 
 report, section 148, 74 
 
 seal, section 154, division IV, 78 
 
 secretary, section 153, 76 
 
 supervising principal, section 154, division V., ... 78 
 
 supervision of, section 157, 79 
 
 tax for, section 154, division III, 76 
 
 teachers, section 154, division III, 76 
 
 voters, questions submitted to, section 158, 79 
 
 Union school boards, section 149, 75 
 
 districts, apportionment of moneys, section 155, 78 
 
 Use of school-houses for other than school purposes, section 95, division 
 
 XI, 47 
 
 V. 
 
 Vacancy, boards of education, sections 45-, 49, 101, 24, 25, 50 
 
 office county superintendent, section 17, 14 
 
 county superintendent to fill, section 37 20 
 
 in township boards, section 86 40 
 
INDEX. 289 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Vacancies and removals, section 151 76 
 
 in office, sections 94, 95, 44, 45 
 
 Vaccination of teachers and pupils, section 136, 137, 68, 69 
 
 Validation of acts and appropriations, sections 280, 281, 138 
 
 Validity of Act, section 274, 136 
 
 Valuation of real and personal property for taxation purposes, section 
 200. 94 
 
 W. 
 
 Warrant drawn by comptroller for establishment of industrial schools, 
 
 section i, 94 
 
 Washington's birthday, observance of, section 264, 133 
 
 Withhold school moneys, section 7, division XI, section 19, 12, 14 
 
 salary of county superintendent for neglect of duty, sec- 
 tion 18, 14 
 
 salary from teacher, section 20, 15 
 
 Witnesses, attendance of, compulsory, section 3, division XII, 9 
 
 compelled to testify, section 128, 65 
 
 Writs of subpoena, power to issue, section 128, 65 
 
290 INDEX. 
 
 Blanks and Forms* 
 
 Forms for County Superintendents: 
 
 appointment of a president or vice-president, XV, 208 
 
 apportionment of balances, notices to custodian, XIII, 208 
 
 district clerk, XIV, 208 
 
 balances, notices of, XIII, 208 
 
 order for, X, 206 
 
 certificate condemning school-house, XII, 207 
 
 teacher's attendance at institutes, III, 203 
 
 transfer of pupils, I, 202 
 
 condemnation of school-houses, certificate for, XII, 207 
 
 district clerk, notice that teacher has filed report, XI, 207 
 
 expenses, statement of, IV, 203 
 
 institute, certificate of attendance at, III, 203 
 
 notice of, II, 202 
 
 notice of balances, XIII, 208 
 
 institute, II, 202 
 
 to district clerk that teacher has filed report, XI, . . . 207 
 
 withhold school moneys from district, XVII, . . . 209 
 
 teacher, XVI, . . 209 
 
 orders, balances, X, 206 
 
 reserve fund, VIII, 206 
 
 State appropriation, VI, 205 
 
 school fund appropriation, V, 204 
 
 tax, VII, 205 
 
 surplus revenue, interest of, IX, 206 
 
 transfer of pupils, I, 202 
 
 reserve fund, order for, VIII, 206 
 
 State appropriation, order for, VI, 205 
 
 school fund appropriation, order for, V, 204 
 
 tax, order for, VII, 205 
 
 statement of expenses of county superintendent, IV, 203 
 
 surplus revenue, order for interest of, IX, 206 
 
 transfer of pupils, certificate for, I, 202 
 
 withhold school moneys from teacher, notice to, XVI, 209 
 
 district, notice to, XVII, 209 
 
 Forms for City Superintendents : 
 
 application for State aid for school library, XVIII, 210 
 
 manual training appropriation, XX, .... 212 
 
 contract, teacher's, XIX, 211 
 
INDEX. 291 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Forms for District Clerks : 
 
 affidavit to bills, form of, XXX, 220 
 
 annual district meeting, notice for, XXI, 213 
 
 assessor, notice to, XXXVI, 226 
 
 application for loan from State school fund, XXXIX, 240 
 
 State aid for library, XXXI, 221 
 
 manual training, XXXIV,, 221 
 
 ballot for bonds, form for, XXXVIII, 231 
 
 board of education, notice of election as member of, XXVII, 217 
 
 meeting of, XL,, 241 
 
 report of election of, XXVII, 217 
 
 notice for meeting, XL, XU, 241 
 
 bonds, certificate to assessor for tax for, XXIX, 219 
 
 county superintendent, of tax for, 
 
 XXXVII, 227 
 
 directions for proceedings, XXXVI, 226 
 
 for school loan, XXXV, 224 
 
 notice to assessor of amount of tax to be raised for, 
 
 XXXVI, 226 
 
 certificates of tax for bonds, XXXVI, XXX VII, 226,227 
 
 current expenses, XXVIII, XXIX, 217, 218 
 
 school tax voted to be raised, XXIX, 219 
 
 contract for building, XLIV, 243 
 
 with teacher, XXXIII, 222 
 
 deed for school property, XLIII, 242 
 
 directions for bonding a district, XXXVIII, 228 
 
 duties of, XLVI, 245 
 
 lease, XLJI, 241 
 
 library, application for State aid, XXXI 221 
 
 report of purchases, XXXII. 222 
 
 loans, bonds for, XXXV, 224 
 
 from State school fund, application, XXXIX, 240 
 
 note for, XLV, 245 
 
 manual training, application for State aid, XXXIV, 223 
 
 meeting, items that may be inserted in notice for district, 
 
 XXIII, ..." 214 
 
 notice for annual district, XXI, 213 
 
 board of education, XL, 241 
 
 special district, XXII, 214 
 
 order of business, XXIV, 215 
 
 minutes of meeting of board of education, XXXVIIL 232, 238 
 
 note, XLV, 244 
 
 aoticc, annual district meeting, XXI, XXIII, 213, 214 
 
 election of members of board, XXVII, 217 
 
 for special district meeting, XXII, 214 
 
 items that may be inserted in district meeting, XXIII, 214 
 
 meeting of board of education, XXXVIIL XL 217, 241 
 
292 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Forms for District Clerks : 
 
 notice, members of board of education of election, XXVII. 217 
 
 order of business at district meeting, XXIV, 215 
 
 miscellaneous purposes, XXVI, 216 
 
 teachers' salary, XXV, XXVI, 215, 216 
 
 on custodian of school moneys for district tax raised 
 for other purposes than payment of teachers' salaries, 
 
 XXVI, 216 
 
 report of election of board of education, XXVII, 217 
 
 library purchases, XXXII, 222 
 
 proceedings authorizing bonds, XXXVIII, 228 
 
 to county superintendent, XXVII, XXVIII, 217 
 
 special district meeting, notice of, XXII, 214 
 
 specifications of business to be transacted at district meet- 
 ing, XXIII, 214 
 
 tax for bonds, notice to assessor, XXXVI, 226 
 
 county superintendent, XXXVII, . . . 227 
 
 district school, notice to assessor, XXVIII, 217 
 
 teacher, certificate child has attended school, XLVII, 246 
 
 contract with, XXXIII, 222- 
 
 order for salary, XXV, 215 
 
 report of suspension, XLJX, 247 
 
 to county superintendent when leaving be- 
 fore end of school year, XLVIII, 246 
 
 Forms for District Meetings: 
 
 minutes authorizing bonds, XXXVIII, 228 
 
 notice to members of board of education elected at, XL, 241 
 
 order of business, XXIV, 215 
 
 Miscellaneous Forms and Directions : 
 
 calendar for school elections and duties, 248 
 
AMENDMENTS 
 
 TO 
 
 SCHOOL LAW 
 
 1912 
 
VII. Ascertain the thoroughness and efficiency of any Prescribe 
 or all public schools, and of any or all grades in them %ff 
 by such ways and means, tests and examinations, as to 
 him may seen proper, whenever in his opinion or in that 
 of the State Board of Education it is advisable to do so. 
 Prescribe during each school term and within sixty days 
 prior to its expiration, an examination in at least arith- 
 metic, writing, spelling, English, history and geography, 
 of the pupils in the highest grade in each Elementary' 
 School; provided, that if in any school any of said sub- 
 jects is not taught in the highest grade, the examinations 
 shall be confined to such of the said subjects as are 
 taught or used ; prepare or cause to be prepared questions 
 for the examinations; prescribe the times and places for 
 holding them and the rules governing them; select the 
 superintendents, principals and teachers, who shall con- 
 duct them, and who shall mark and file such papers and 
 such reports as may be required in the Department of 
 Public Instruction; report to the State Board of Educa- 
 tion the results of all tests and examinations and such 
 >ther information in regard thereto as it may require. 
 Nothing herein contained shall impair the right of each 
 district to prescribe its own rules for promotion. 
 This amends paragraph VII of section 7, page n. 
 
 22. The Commissioner of Education shall by and Appointment 
 with the advice and consent of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation shall appoint for each county a suitable person to 
 be the county superintendent of schools of that county 
 who shall hold office for the term, of three years from 
 the date of his appointment and until his successor shall 
 have been appointed as aforesaid, unless sooner removed 
 for cause by said board. Each county superintendent 
 lereafter appointed shall give particular attention to 
 actual and personal supervision of school and shall de- 
 vote his entire time to the duties of his office. No per- 
 son shall be appointed as county superintendent of 
 
Qualifica- 
 tions. 
 
 Salary of 
 county super- 
 intendents. 
 P. L. 1912, 
 Chap. 367. 
 
 P. L. 1912, 
 Chap. 364. 
 
 City hoards 
 of examiners. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 Proviso. 
 
 schools unless he shall hold the highest teacher's certifi- 
 cate issued in this State and shall have been a resident of 
 the county for which he is appointed for at least three 
 years immediately preceding his appointment. 
 
 23. The yearly salary of a county superintendent of 
 schools hereafter appointed shall be three thousand dol- 
 lars. Such salary shall be paid in equal monthly install- 
 ments, and the State Comptroller shall, on the order of 
 the Commissioner of Education, draw his warrant for 
 such salary on the State Treasurer in favor of such 
 county superintendents of schools. 
 
 This amends sections 27 and 28, page 17 
 
 The amendment to section 31 of the School Law 
 passed in 1911 has been repealed. The section now 
 reads as follows : 
 
 38. (31.) In each city school district there may be a 
 board of examiners consisting of the superintendent of 
 schools of such district, if there be one, and such persons 
 as the board of education of the school district shall ap- 
 point. No person shall be appointed as such examiner 
 unless he or she shall hold either a State certificate or the 
 highest grade certificate issued in said district, or shall 
 be a graduate of a college or university. Said board of 
 examiners shall, under such rules and regulations as the 
 State Board of Education shall prescribe, grant certifi- 
 cates to teach which shall be valid for all schools of such 
 school district. No teacher shall be employed in any of 
 the schools of such district unless he or she shall possess 
 such certificate or a State or county certificate ; provided, 
 that nothing herein contained shall be construed to pre- 
 vent the board of education of such school district from 
 prescribing and requiring other and further qualifications 
 to teach than shall have been prescribed by the rules and 
 regulations of the State Board of Education as afore- 
 said; provided further, that if any such school district 
 shall maintain a normal school or a training school for 
 
teachers, which school shall have been approved as to 
 its course of study by the State Board of Education, then 
 the diplomas or certificates issued to pupils of any such 
 school upon graduation therefrom may be accepted by 
 the board of education of said school district as certifi- 
 cates to teach valid for the schools of such school dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Amends section 38, page 21. 
 
 i . In every city school district except where the pro- j^ d be f of 
 visions of article seven of the act to which this is a sup- 
 plement have been or shall hereafter be accepted as per- p y 
 mitted by section two hundred and forty-four of said act 
 and in every township, incorporated town or borough 
 school district in which the provisions of article six of 
 said act have been or shall hereafter be accepted, as per- 
 mitted by section two hundred and forty-three of said 
 act, the board of education shall be appointed by the 
 mayor or other chief executive officer. Said board shall gts d w?th dis ' 
 consist of five members, except where the last State or SfTaS^than 
 Federal census, at any time of appointment as herein- hivefive 
 after provided, shall show a population of forty-five JJ^o'or 
 
 ..... . ,. over, nine 
 
 thousand inhabitants or upward in such school district in members. 
 which case the board shall consist of nine members. Ap- Appointed in 
 pointments shall be made between the second and taTe" office 
 
 February rst. 
 
 fifteenth days of January in each year and terms of office J^ o{ 
 shall begin on the first day of February thereafter. In 
 the case of boards of education consisting of five mem- 
 bers, one member shall be appointed each year for a term 
 of five years and until the appointment and qualification 
 of a successor; and in the case of boards consisting of 
 nine members, three members shall be appointed each 
 year for terms of three years and until the appointment 
 and qualification of successors; provided, that every 
 member of a board of education in a school district 
 affected by this supplement shall continue to serve during 
 his term of office and thereafter until the first day of 
 
Proviso. 
 
 Vacancy; 
 
 how filled. 
 
 Organization 
 of board. 
 
 February then next ensuing; and provided further, that 
 first appointment under this supplement may be for less 
 than full terms if necessary; it being the intention to 
 provide hereby that when this supplement shall take 
 effect in a school district there shall be an immediate 
 increase, if necessary, to five members or to nine mem- 
 bers, according to the population of the school district, 
 as above provided, and the gradual reduction to the pre- 
 scribed membership as terms expire, if in any case the 
 existing membership shall be in excess thereof, and that 
 eventually in cases of boards of education consisting of 
 five members, one shall go out of office each year, and in 
 cases boards of education consisting of nine members, 
 three shall go out of office each year. Any vacancy in 
 such board of education shall be forthwith reported by 
 the secretary of said board to the mayor or other chief 
 executive officer, who shall, within thirty days thereafter, 
 appoint a person to fill such vacancy for the unexpired 
 term. To every such appointee said mayor or other 
 chief executive officer shall issue and deliver a certificate 
 of appointment. In any township school district affected 
 by this supplement the chairman of the township com- 
 mittee shall for the purposes named in this section be 
 deemed and taken to be the chief executive officer. 
 
 2. On the first day O'f February in each year, or on the 
 following day if that be a Sunday, every board of educa- 
 tion constituted by this supplement shall organize by 
 electing one of its members as president and another 
 as vice-president, which officers shall serve for one year 
 and until their respective successors shall be elected. 
 
 3. Upon the organization of a board of education 
 under this supplement, any board of education or other 
 body in the school district affected theretofore having 
 charge of the public schools in such school district or 
 having custody, charge or management of any fund or 
 property used for or in the maintaining of public schools 
 
in such school district, and having no other function, 
 shall be ipso facto abolished. 
 
 This repeals sections 45 and 46, page 24. 
 
 76. Whenever a city board of education shall decide ns 
 
 that it is necessary to raise money for the purchase of p nd 
 lands for school purposes, or for erecting, enlarging, 
 
 repairing or furnishing a school-house or school-houses, he given to 
 
 . each member 
 
 it shall prepare and deliver to each member of the board of board of 
 
 1 school 
 
 of school estimate of such school district a statement of cstimatc - 
 the amount of money estimated to be necessary for such 
 purpose or purposes; said board of school estimate shall i"oard of 
 
 r estimate to fix 
 
 fix and determine the amount necessary for such ptir- amount of 
 
 J appropnaton. 
 
 pose or purposes, and shall make two certificates of such 
 amount, one of which certificates shall be delivered to 
 said board of education, and the other to the common 
 council, board of finance or other body in the city hav- 
 ing the power to make appropriations of money raised 
 by tax in such city; said common council board of 
 
 finance or other body may appropriate such sum or Appropria- 
 
 tions; how 
 sums for such purpose or purposes in the same manner made. 
 
 as other appropriations are made by it, and said sum 
 or sums shall be raised, assessed, levied and collected 
 at the same time and in the same manner as moneys ap- 
 propriated for other purposes in such city are raised, 
 assessed, levied and collected; or said common council, 
 board of finance or other body may appropriate and 
 borrow such sum or sums for the purpose or purposes May rai f e 
 
 amount by 
 
 aforesaid, and may secure the repayment of the sum S s of 
 or sums so borrowed, together with interest thereon 
 at a rate not to exceed five per centum per annum, by 
 the issue of bonds in the corporate name of such city; 
 bonds so issued shall be designated "school bonds," 
 may be registered or coupon or both, of such denomi- 
 nations as the common council, board of finance or 
 other board may determine, and shall be made payable 
 in not more than fifty years from the date thereof; they 
 
Sinking fund. 
 
 Bonded debt 
 limited to 
 three per 
 cent, except 
 when bonds 
 issued to 
 replace 
 building 
 destroyed by 
 fire. Limit in 
 such cases, 
 zV-z per cent. 
 
 shall be sold at public or private sale and not for less 
 than par and accrued interest, and such city shall in 
 its annual tax levy raise money sufficient to pay the 
 interest on said bonds, together with at least one per 
 centum per annum of the principal thereof, to provide 
 a sinking fund for the retirement of said bonds at ma- 
 turity; or in lieu of providing for a sinking fund for 
 the retirement of said bonds at maturity, the bonds may 
 be so issued that a stated equitable amount of them (in 
 value), having regard to other school bonds already 
 issued, shall become payable in each year beginning not 
 more than ten years from date of the earliest issue and 
 ending in not less than forty years from such date, and 
 in such case there shall be raised by tax in each year 
 such sunn of money as may be necessary to pay the in- 
 terest on all outstanding bonds and the principal of 
 such bonds as may mature during that year; the pro- 
 ceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be deposited with 
 the custodian of school moneys of such school district 
 and shall be paid out only on the warrants or orders 
 of the board of education; provided, that the total 
 amount of bonds for the purposes named in this section, 
 including bonds theretofore issued for such purposes, 
 and not 'redeemed, shall not exceed at any one time a 
 sum equal to three per centum of the taxable valuation 
 of the real and personal property in such city; provided, 
 jwrther, that in the case of the repair, reconstruction, 
 rebuilding, or erection and furnishing of a school- 
 house to replace a school-house and furnishings thereof 
 partially or totally destroyed by fire that the total 
 amount of bonds for such purposes, including bonds 
 heretofore issued for the purposes named in this section, 
 and not 'redeemed, shall not exceed at any one time a 
 sum equal to three and one-half per centum of the tax- 
 able valuation of the real and personal property in such 
 city; and provided further, that if the charter of the 
 city shall limit the amount of indebtedness in such city, 
 
or shall by its terms prevent the carrying out of the pro- 
 visions of this section, said charter provisions shall be Si a "f er H ot t 
 hereafter held not to apply to the issuing of bonds g?hooi 'bonds 
 under the provisions of this section. 
 This amends section 82, page 36. 
 
 In every incorporated town school district which has, 
 
 or shall hereafter have, according to any State or United townf oT i 
 
 States census, a population of ten thousand or over, and morepopu- 
 
 which has not adopted the provisions of article six of P. L.' 1912 
 
 - , . , . . Chap. 340. 
 
 the act of which this is a supplement, the mayor or 
 
 other chief executive officer shall, between the second 
 
 and fifteenth days of January next after the passage of 
 
 this act, appoint five persons to be members of the board 
 
 of education of such district. In making his appoint- Term. 
 
 ments, the mayor or other chief executive officer shall 
 
 appoint one person to serve for one year, one person 
 
 to serve for two years, one person to serve for three 
 
 years, one person to serve for four years, and one per- 
 
 son to serve for five years, and annually thereafter, be- 
 
 tween the second and fifteenth days of January, said 
 
 mayor or other chief executive officer of such school 
 
 district shall appoint a member of the said Board of 
 
 Education to serve for the term of five years to take the 
 
 place of that member whose term shall expire in such 
 
 year. Any vacancy in such board of education shall J^ a ^ 
 
 be forthwith reported by the secretary of said board 
 
 to the mayor or other chief executive officer, who shall 
 
 within thirty days thereafter appoint a person to fill 
 
 such vacancy for the unexpired term. To every such 
 
 appointee as aforesaid said mayor or other chief execu- 
 
 tive officer shall issue and deliver a certificate of appoint- Board to 
 
 ment. The term of office of a member of the board of FebmaVv i 
 
 education, except a member appointed to fill an unex- 
 
 pired term, shall begin on the first day of February next 
 
 succeeding his appointment. The terms of office of all 
 
 members of boards of education in said districts which 
 
District may 
 issue bonds. 
 P. L. 1912. 
 Chap. 399. 
 
 Description 
 of bonds. 
 
 Bonded debt 
 limited to 
 three per 
 cent. 
 
 are affected by this act shall expire on the thirty-first 
 day of January next after the passage of this act. 
 
 This amends section 86, page 39, so far as the selec- 
 tion of members of a board of education in a town of 
 ten thousand or over is concerned. 
 
 97. The legal voters of any township, incorporated 
 town or borough school district may, either at the an- 
 nual meeting of said district or at a special meeting 
 thereof called for that purpose, by the vote of a major- 
 ity of the legal ballots cast, authorize the board of educa- 
 tion to issue bonds of the district for the purpose of pur- 
 chasing or taking and condemning land for school pur- 
 poses, or building a school house or school houses, or 
 making additions, alterations, repairs or improvements 
 in or upon any school house and the lands upon which 
 the same shall be located, and of purchasing school fur- 
 niture and other necessary equipment. Such bonds shall 
 be issued in the corporate name of the district, for such 
 sums and in such amounts and shall be made payable 
 in not more than thirty years from the date thereof, as 
 directed by a majority of the legal ballots cast, with in- 
 terest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, 
 payable half yearly. Said bonds may be fully registered, 
 registered as to principal or coupon bonds (or may be 
 registered and coupon bonds combined), and shall be 
 signed by the president of the board of education and at- 
 tested by the district clerk, shall bear the seal of the 
 district, and if registered as to principal only or coupon 
 bonds they shall have coupons attached for current pay- 
 ment of interest, which coupons shall be signed by the 
 district clerk and shall be numbered to correspond to 
 the several bonds to which they shall be severally at- 
 tached. Bonds so issued shall be numbered and a proper 
 registry thereof shall be kept by the district clerk. Pro- 
 vided, that the total amount of bonds for the purposes 
 named in this section, including bonds theretofore issued 
 
for such purposes and not redeemed, shall not exceed 
 
 at any one time the sum equal to three per centum of the 
 
 taxable valuation of the real and personal property in 
 
 such district. Such bonds may be sold at public or pri- sale of 
 
 vate sale for the best obtainable price, but not less than 
 
 par. 
 
 Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to any 
 bonds authorized to be issued by the legal voters of any 
 school district prior to the passage or approval of this 
 act or the act to which this act is amendatory. 
 
 This amends section 106, page 54. 
 
 i. Any teacher, principal or superintendent who shall 
 have been employed in the public school work not less 
 than thirty-five years shall, upon application to the board 
 of education or other body, or by resolution of the board 
 of education or other body by which such teacher, prin- 
 cipal or superintendent shall be employed, be retired 
 from duty on half the average annual salary during the 
 last five years of service; provided, such teacher, prin- 
 cipal or superintendent shall have been employed at least 
 twenty years by the board of education, department or 
 other body by which he or she shall be retired, and the 
 payments to such persons shall be made at the same time 
 and in the same manner as to persons regularly em- 
 ployed. 
 
 This amends section 130, page 66. 
 
 Pensions for 
 teachers, 
 principals and 
 sunerin- 
 
 ( 
 
 p rov i s o. 
 
 Public schools shall be . free to all persons over five ARCS of 
 and under twenty years of age, and to such persons 
 over the age of twenty years as the board of education 
 of any school district may deem it wise to offer instruc- 
 tion, who shall be residents of the school district. Non- 
 residents of a school district if otherwise competent, 
 may be admitted to the. schools of said district with the 
 consent of the board of education upon such terms as 
 said board may prescribe; provided, that the authority Proviso. 
 
 Tuition fees 
 
 authorized. 
 
10 
 
 to charge tuition for non-resident pupils conferred by 
 this section shall not apply to non-resident pupils trans- 
 ferred to any district by an order of the county super- 
 intendent of schools. 
 
 This amends section 131, page 66. 
 
 Boards of 
 education to 
 report to 
 county super- 
 intendent. 
 P. L. 1912, 
 Chap. 141. 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment of 
 school 
 monevs. 
 
 Amount for 
 supervising- 
 principal or 
 city superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 182. The board of education of each school district 
 shall, on or before the fifteenth day of March in each 
 year, certify to the county superintendent of schools for 
 the county in which such school district shall be situate, 
 and on the blanks furnished for that purpose by the 
 Commissioner of Education, the number of teachers, 
 who shall have been employed in the schools of such 
 district for the full time the schools therein shall have 
 been kept open during the then current school year, and 
 the number of teachers who shall have 'been employed 
 in said schools for a portion of said year, but for a 
 period of not less than four months, specifying the 
 grade in which each of such teachers shall have been 
 employed. There shall also be certified as aforesaid 
 the number of pupils who shall have attended a public 
 school in a district other than that in which they reside, 
 and for whom tuition fees shall have been paid by the 
 board of education, specifying the grade in which each 
 of such pupils shall have been enrolled during said year, 
 and also the number of such pupils for whom transpor- 
 tation has been provided, and the cost thereof. 
 
 The said county superintendent of schools shall, on 
 or before the first day of April in each year, apportion 
 to the several school districts of said county the State 
 school moneys, and the interest of the surplus revenue 
 in the following manner: 
 
 I. (a) The sum of six hundred dollars to each dis- 
 trict in which there shall have been employed a super- 
 vising principal or city superintendent of schools, who 
 shall have devoted his entire time to the supervsion of 
 the schools in such district, but if two or more districts 
 
JI 
 
 shall have united in employing a supervising principal 
 as aforesaid, the six hundred dollars apportioned for 
 such principal shall be apportioned among said districts 
 in the proportion that the number of teachers employed 
 in each of said districts shall bear to the total number 
 of teachers employed in all of the districts uniting in 
 employing said supervising principal. 
 
 (b) The sum of five hundred dollars for each teacher 
 employed in a special class for the instruction of blind 
 or deaf children or for children who are three years or 
 more below the normal. 
 
 (c) The sum of four hundred dollars for each assist- 
 ant superintendent and supervisor, other than the super- 
 vising principal, employed in the district, and permanent 
 teacher employed in a high school or high school de- 
 partment having a full four years' course of study, who 
 shall have been approved by the State Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 (d) The sum of three hundred dollars for each per- 
 manent teacher employed in a high school or high school 
 department having a full three years' course of study, 
 which shall have been approved by the State Board of 
 Education. 
 
 (e) The sum of two hundred dollars for each per- 
 manent teacher employed in an ungraded school, or in 
 a kindergarten, primary or grammar department or in 
 a high school department having a course of study of 
 less than three full years, which course of study shall 
 have been approved by the State Board of Education. 
 
 (f) The sum of eighty dollars for each temporary 
 teacher who shall have been employed for a period of 
 not less than four months. 
 
 (g) The sum of eighty dollars for each teacher em- 
 ployed in an evening school for the full time such school 
 shall have been maintained; provided, the board of 
 education shall certify that said evening school has been 
 maintained at least four months during the school year 
 
 Amount for 
 teacher in 
 special 
 classes. 
 
 Amount for 
 assistant 
 supervisor, 
 superinten- 
 dent and 
 teacher in 
 four-year 
 high school. 
 
 Amount per 
 teacher in 
 three-year 
 high school. 
 
 Amount per 
 teacher in 
 other grades. 
 
 Amount for 
 
 temporary 
 
 teacher. 
 
 Amount per 
 teacher in 
 evening 
 schools. 
 
12 
 
 Amount per 
 pupil attend- 
 ing high 
 school in 
 other dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 Amount per 
 pupil attend- 
 ing schools in 
 other districts 
 below high 
 school grade. 
 
 75 per cent, 
 of cost of 
 transporta- 
 tion. 
 Proviso. 
 
 Teachers in 
 manual train- 
 ing schools 
 not included. 
 
 preceding that for which the apportionment shall be 
 made; provided, further, if any such teacher shall have 
 been also employed in the day schools of the same dis- 
 trict, the apportionment aforesaid shall be made for 
 such teacher in addition to any amount apportioned for 
 him as teacher in such day schools. 
 
 (h) The sum of twenty-five dollars for each pupil 
 who shall have attended a high school or high school 
 department in a district other than that in which he 
 resides, and for whom a tuition fee shall be paid by the 
 board of education. 
 
 (i)' The sum of five dollars for each pupil who shall 
 have attended an ungraded school or a kindergarten, 
 primary or grammar school department, in a district 
 other than that in which he resides, and for whom a 
 tuition fee shall have been paid by the board of educa- 
 tion. 
 
 (k) Seventy-five per centum of the cost of transpor- 
 tation of pupils to a public school or schools; provided, 
 that, subject to appeal as provided in section ten of the 
 act to which this act is an amendment, the necessity 
 for the transportation and the cost and method thereof 
 shall have been approved by the county superintendent 
 of schools of the county in which the district paying the 
 cost of such transportation is situate. 
 
 In making such apportionment teachers employed in 
 a manual training school or department in a district 
 receiving an appropriation from the State for such 
 manual training school or department and who shall 
 have devoted at least one-half of the time the schools 
 in said district shall have been kept open to school work 
 other than manual training, shall be regarded as tem- 
 porary teachers only, but no apportionment shall be 
 made for teachers who shall have devoted their entire 
 time to teaching in such manual training school or de- 
 partment. 
 
II. He shall apportion to the several school districts A PP ortion- 
 of the county the remainder of said moneys on the basis SSldance- 
 of the total days' attendance of all pupils enrolled in the 
 public schools thereof as ascertained from the last pub- 
 lished report of the Commissioner of Education. For 
 the purpose of such apportionment an attendance upon 
 an evening school shall be counted as one-half day's 
 attendance. If a school in any district shall, on account 
 of contagious disease, destruction of the school-house 
 by fire or otherwise, or for other good reason, be closed, 
 for the purpose of this apportionment, such school shall 
 be deemed to have been in session, and the total days' 
 attendance upon such school for the time it shall have 
 been closed as aforesaid shall be determined by divid- 
 ing the actual total days' attendance of the pupils en- 
 rolled in such school by the number of days such school 
 shall have been actually in session, and multiplying the 
 quotient thus obtained by the number of school days 
 such school shall have been closed. 
 
 This amends section 205, page 98. 
 
 
 
 185. The person designated by law as the custodian of Custodian O r 
 the moneys belonging to the municipality in which the pi^ y i' gi , 
 school district shall be situate, or the collector, when Chap ' 2S -- 
 designated by such board of education, shall be the cus- 
 todian of the school moneys of such district, and shall 
 receive such compensation as the board of education of 
 such municipality shall determine which compensation 
 shall be paid by said board of education from the funds 
 of said board and the bonds given by said collector or Bonds of 
 
 . custodian. 
 
 other person for the faithful performance of his duty 
 as such officer, shall be held to cover and secure the 
 faithful performance of his duty as custodian of school 
 moneys, and the bondsmen thereon shall be liable there- 
 for; in case the term of office of any such collector or 
 other person shall expire before the close of the school 
 vear, he shall remain and continue to be the custodian 
 
Appointment 
 f custodian 
 T>y board of 
 education in 
 
 certain cases. 
 
 Report of 
 custodian to 
 
 board of 
 education. 
 
 of school moneys until the close of the then current 
 school year, and his bondsmen shall remain and be 
 legally bound -for the faithful performance of his duties 
 as such custodian until the final settlement of his ac- 
 counts ; nothing in this article shall be construed as giv- 
 ing to the township committee, common council or other 
 governing body of any municipality any control over 
 moneys belonging to the school district in the hands of 
 the custodian of the school moneys of said district, but 
 said moneys shall be held by such custodian in trust, and 
 shall be paid out by him only on orders legally issued and 
 signed by the president and district clerk or becretary of 
 the board of education ; any ordinance, by-law or resolu- 
 tion of a township committee, common council or other 
 governing body of any municipality attempting to con- 
 trol such moneys, or which shall in any way prevent the 
 custodian of the school moneys of the school district 
 from paying the orders of the board of education as and 
 when they shall be presented for payment shall be abso- 
 lutely void and of no effect ; whenever any school district 
 shall contain more than one municipality the board of 
 education may appoint a suitable person as custodian of 
 school moneys of said district, and may fix his salary and 
 term of office. Such custodian shall, when requested to 
 do so at any time by the board, render to said board a 
 true and full account of all moneys in his possession, as 
 such custodian up to such time, and of all payments made 
 by him out of said moneys and for what purpose, and 
 shall also, when required by resolution of said board, 
 deposit in any bank or banking institution designated by 
 said board, all moneys then in his hands or thereafter 
 collected or received by him as such custodian; he shall 
 give bonds for the faithful discharge of his duties in such 
 amount and with such sureties as said board shall direct, 
 but such bonds -shall be for a sum not less than the 
 amount apportioned to said district by the county super- 
 intendent of schools ; until the appointment of a cus- 
 
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 todian of school moneys by the board of education, the 
 collector or other person residing in the municipality 
 situate in such school district having the largest amount 
 of taxable property shall be custodian of the school 
 moneys of such district. 
 
 This amends section 208, page 103. 
 
 i. For the purpose of encouraging the planting of rb r * 
 shade and forest trees, the second Friday of April in each ( 
 year is hereby designated as a day for the general ob- 
 servance of such purpose, and to be known as Arbor 
 Day. 
 
 This amends section 262, page 133. 
 
 1. In every case of conviction under the provisions of pajd es magis e 
 the act to which this is a supplement, when a fine is im- p p at ;. I9I2t 
 posed, it shall be lawful for the defendant to pay the said 
 
 fine, together with the costs, to the justice of the peace, 
 police justice or city or town recorder acting as such, 
 before whom such conviction is had; and that such jus- 
 tice of the peace, police justice or city or town recorder 
 acting as such, shall receive the same, and within ten 
 days thereafter, pay the said fine to the custodian of Ma&strate to 
 
 . deposit fines 
 
 school moneys of the school district, where such offense with cus- 
 
 todian of 
 
 was committed, for the use of the public schools thereof. sch o1 
 
 2. The following fees shall be allowed for services 
 under the provisions of this act, which shall be in full 
 of all other fees and charges whatsoever: 
 
 To the justice of the peace, police justice or city or Fees. 
 town recorder acting as such 
 
 Drawing complaint, $0.50 
 
 Issuing warrant, 0.50 
 
 Hearing or trial, 0.50 
 
 Conviction, 0.50 
 
 To officer for serving process, .... 
 Serving warrant, . .1 0.75 
 
 and mileage at the rate of four 
 
 cents per mile. 
 
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 Serving every subpoena, 0.25 
 
 Serving commitment, 0.50 
 
 Board of 
 education may 
 insure school 
 property in 
 city insurance 
 fund. 
 
 P. L. 1912, 
 Chap. 253. 
 
 Tlates of 
 
 insurance. 
 
 Investment 
 of premiums. 
 
 1. Where in any city of this State a municipal in- 
 surance fund shall have been or may hereafter be estab- 
 lished and insurance fund commissioners appointed, the 
 board of education of the city school district of such 
 city, in its discretion, may, by resolution, provide that 
 from and after the adoption of such resolution the 
 school buildings and school property of such school dis- 
 trict shall be insured in the municipal insurance fund 
 of the city. 
 
 2. The insurance fund commissioners of such city 
 shall have power to fix reasonable rates of premium for 
 all insurance carried on school buildings and school 
 property of the school district by such fund, and the 
 board O'f education shall forthwith pay to the insurance 
 fund commissioners of the city such premium for any 
 insurance carried by such municipal insurance fund on 
 school buildings and school property of such city school 
 district. Whenever, in the discretion of the insurance 
 fund commissioners of such city, they may deem it ex- 
 pedient, they may place insurance on school buildings 
 and school property insured in the municipal insurance 
 fund with insurance companies authorized to do business 
 in this State, and the premiums for such insurance in 
 excess of the rates of premium thereon fixed by the 
 commissioners shall forthwith be paid to the commis- 
 sioners by the board of education of the district. The 
 policies of insurance shall provide that the loss shall be 
 payable to the board of education of the school district. 
 
 3. All moneys received by the commissioners for pre- 
 miums on school buildings and school property insured 
 in the municipal insurance fund of the city, except so 
 much as may be necessary to pay premiums upon insur- 
 ance placed upon any of such school buildings and school 
 property with insurance companies as provided in sec- 
 
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 tion two of this act, shall be invested by the commis- 
 sioners with the moneys of the municipal insurance fund 
 and in the manner provided for the investment of such 
 moneys. 
 
 4. In case the school buildings and other school prop- 
 erty of the district of any city shall be insured in the 
 municipal insurance fund of such city, as hereinbefore 
 provided, the common council of such city, or other 
 board or body having- control of the finances of such 
 city may, from time to time, if in its judgment advis- 
 able, appropriate additional sums of money to the 
 municipal insurance fund of the city from moneys under 
 its control not otherwise appropriated, or by raising 
 such sums in the tax levy for the years in which they 
 are severally appropriated. 
 
 5. Each school building and the contents thereof shall d f 
 
 be insured in the municipal insurance fund separately building*. 
 and for definite and determined sums respectively, ex- 
 cept where the commissioners shall have insured the 
 same in an insurance company as provided in section 
 two of this act. In case of loss incurred by fire on any 
 building or contents, not insured in an insurance com- 
 pany, if the loss be total, the commissioners shall pay, 
 within sixty days, the whole sum from the municipal 
 insurance fund to the board of education of the district ; 
 if the loss be partial and not total, the sum to be paid 
 shall be fixed and adjusted by a commission of adjust- 
 ment, consisting of a commissioner of the municipal in- 
 surance fund, the president of the board of education of 
 the school district and the chairman of the finance com- 
 mittee of the common council or the president of the 
 board or body of such city having control of the finances. 
 
 i. Whenever any blind person, who is a citizen of 
 this State, desires to attend any college, university, tech- 
 nical school or professional school, authorized by law to p. u a i*i 
 grant degrees, other than an institution established for 
 
i8 
 
 Provso. 
 
 Appropria- 
 tion to assist 
 students. 
 
 Institution to 
 be in this 
 State. 
 
 Payments. 
 
 Reports. 
 
 the regular instruction of the blind, shall make applica- 
 tion for such purpose to the Commissioner of Education, 
 and be designated by him as a fit person to be received 
 and accepted as a student in any of such institutions, such 
 applicant shall thereupon be entitled to have the aid and 
 assistance hereinafter provided for; provided, that such 
 blind person shall also prove to the satisfaction of said 
 commissioner that he is financially unable to defray the 
 expense, or any part thereof, hereinafter specified. 
 
 2. There shall be paid by the State for the use of such 
 student a sum not to exceed two hundred dollars 
 ($200.00) per annum, with which to defray the fee 
 charged by any such institution, and also the further 
 sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per annum with 
 which to employ a person or persons to read to such 
 student from text books and pamphlets which shall be 
 necessary for such student to use in connection with the 
 pursuit of his or her studies in the college, university or 
 school where he or she shall be matriculated. 
 
 3. It shall be necessary in every case for any such 
 student to receive his or her tuition from a college, uni- 
 versity, technical school, or professional school, estab- 
 lished and located within the State of New Jersey. 
 
 4. Any moneys to be paid under the authority of this 
 act shall be paid quarterly, after the beginning of the 
 school year of any college, university, technical or other 
 school, where any blind student shall be matriculated, 
 by the Treasurer of the State, on the warrant of the 
 Comptroller to the treasurer of any such college, uni- 
 versity, technical or other school, upon his presenting 
 an account showing the actual number of blind students 
 matriculated and attending the institution of which he 
 is treasurer, which account shall be verified by the presi- 
 dent of any such institution. 
 
 5. It shall be necessary for every college, university, 
 technical or other school in which any blind student 
 is matriculated to furnish to the Comrniissioner of 
 
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 Education a quarterly report showing the progress or 
 status of every such blind student matriculated in such 
 college, university, technical or other school, and in the 
 event that any of said reports shall disclose the fact 
 that any student is unable to keep up with his or her 
 studies and acquire the education provided for by any 
 such college, university, technical or other school, or 
 that any of such students are not taking advantage of 
 the opportunities provided for him or her by the terms 
 of this act, then in each such case, if it shall be the judg- 
 ment of the Commissioner of Education that the aid and 
 assistance offered and provided by this act shall be de- 
 nied and withdrawn from any such student, then the 
 same, on the recommendation and certificate of said 
 Commissioner of Education, shall be withdrawn from 
 any such student and the college, university, technical 
 or other school in which any such student is entered or 
 matriculated shall be notified by the State Comptroller 
 of every such action. 
 
 1. No school or institution of learning conducted of 
 within this State shall hereafter confer any degree or ^7^ 
 degrees until the terms and conditions of such degree firms ly n 
 or degrees shall first be submitted to and approved of state Bolrd 
 by the State Board of Education of the State of New L 1912. 
 
 Chap. 315. 
 
 Jersey; provided, that nothing in this section contained 
 shall apply to any school or institution of learning which 
 shall have been established and conducted within this 
 State for a period of twenty-five years prior to the 
 passage of this act. 
 
 2. Any person or corporation violating any of the Penalty. 
 provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of five 
 hundred dollars for each offence, to be recovered in an 
 action of debt by the State Board of Education of the 
 State of New Jersey, such penalty when recovered to 
 
 be paid into the treasury of this State. 
 
2O 
 
 Public schools 
 exempt. 
 
 Board of 
 Education 
 in city may 
 transfer land 
 to city in 
 certain cases 
 for park 
 purposes. 
 P. L. IQI2, 
 Chap. 305. 
 
 Land, how 
 transferred. 
 
 Additional 
 
 Normal 
 
 School. 
 
 Controlled by 
 State Board 
 of Education. 
 
 3. Nothing in this act contained shall apply to any 
 school or schools conducted under the public school sys- 
 tem of this State. 
 
 1. Whenever the board of education in any city of 
 this State has acquired lands for the purpose of erect 
 ing a school building thereon, and shall determine that 
 such lands are undesirable or unnecessary for such pur- 
 pose, it shall be lawful for such board of education to 
 transfer and convey such lands to such city, without 
 any consideration being paid therefor, for use by such 
 city as a public park or playground, and such lands, 
 when so transferred and conveyed, shall thereafter be 
 in the charge and under the control of the board or 
 body having charge and control of the public parks of 
 such city and may be improved by such board or body. 
 
 2. No transfer or conveyance of lands shall be made 
 until the board of education shall have adopted a reso- 
 lution declaring the lands no longer desirable or neces- 
 sary for the purpose of erecting a school building there- 
 on and authorizing the conveyance thereof to the city, 
 by deed executed in the name and under the seal of the, 
 board of education, by the president and secretary there- 
 of, and until the board or body having charge of the 
 finances of the city shall have adopted a resolution, ap- 
 proved by the mayor thereof, requesting or approving 
 the conveyance of such lands to such city. 
 
 1. There shall be established and maintained an ad- 
 ditional State Normal School for the purpose of train- 
 ing and educating persons in the science of education 
 and art of teaching; the name and title of said school 
 shall be "The New Jersey State Normal School at (here 
 insert the name of the place where said school shall be 
 located)"; tuition in said school shall be free. 
 
 2. The State Board of Education shall have control 
 and care of said school in the same manner and to the 
 
counties - 
 
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 same extent as said board has control and care of "The 
 New Jersey State Normal Schools." 
 
 3. The State Board of Education shall purchase a ^ J as b s e in 
 suitably located site in one of the counties of the first 
 
 class not having a normjal training school and shall 
 rect thereon a building or buildings for the use of said 
 normal school. 
 
 4. The erection and furnishing of said building or 
 buildings shall be done by contract or otherwise, as the 
 said board shall deem for the best interests of the State ; 
 said board may employ architects, superintendents and 
 mechanics, advertise for proposals, make a contract or 
 contracts for the whole or any part of said work, and 
 incur all necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
 of this act. 
 
 5. For the purchase of said site, and the erection and 
 furnishing of said building or buildings, the sum of 
 three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as 
 may be necessary, is hereby appropriated ; said sum shall 
 be paid by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the 
 Comptroller of the Treasury, upon the requisitions of 
 Jhe State Board of Education, in such sums as said 
 board may need from time to time for the prosecution 
 
 of the work herein provided for; provided, that no ex- Proviso. 
 pense shall be incurred or moneys expended as author- 
 ized by this act, nor shall said appropriation become 
 available, until an appropriation therefor shall have been 
 made by the Legislature in the annual appropriation act. 
 
 6. The said board shall make to the Legislature at its Report. 
 next session, and at each succeeding session, until said 
 building or buildings shall be completed, a full and de- 
 tailed report of its proceedings and expenditures under 
 
 this act. 
 
 Appointment 
 of members 
 
 i. All appointments of members of boards of educa- education 5 
 
 . . ,. . . tt under Chap. 
 
 tion made under the provisions of an act entitled An 233. P. L. 
 
 IQII, vah- 
 
 aCt to amend an act entitled 'An act to establish a thor- dated. ^^ 
 
 Chap. 272. 
 
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 ough and efficient system of free public schools and to 
 provide for the maintenance, support and management 
 thereof/ approved October nineteenth, one thousand 
 nine hundred and three," approved April twenty-sev- 
 enth, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, are hereby 
 validated and confirmed. 
 
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