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lected shall be paid over to the treasurer of the respective school districts which may be entitled thereto.

§ 229(d). The board of supervisors of Westchester county shall, school tax at their first annual session after the passage of this act, proceed to inquire and determine the amount of uncollected tax for school purposes that was, at the date of the passage of this act, assessed and confirmed against the real property in the territory covered by the several school districts hereby affected. Of the amount so ascertained the said board shall determine how much should be equitably paid to the school district of the city of Mount Vernon as created by this act, and how much to such of the school lis tricts of the town of Eastchester as were formerly parts of the school district hereby consolidated and made the school district of the city of Mount Vernon. In determining the proportions of the school tax to be paid as aforesaid, to the several school districts, the board of supervisors shall be governed by the assessed valuation of property, subject to school tax, located within such school districts as they existed before the passage of this act, and the proportion of school tax, uncollected at date of the passage of this act, to be paid to such of the school districts of the town of Eastchester as were formerly parts of the school districts hereby consolidated, shall bear proportion to the assessed valuation of the real property in such school districts of town of Eastchester, and outside the boundaries of the consoli dation school district of the city of Mount Vernon.

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§ 229(e). On the second Tuesday following the date when this act shall take effect, the members of the board of education of union free school districts numbers one, two, four and five of the town of Eastchester, then residing within the boundaries of the city of Mount Vernon, shall assemble at the Fifth avenue schoolhouse, situated on Fifth avenue near Second street in said city, at eight (8) p. m. of that day; and such of their number as shall so assemble shall then and there organize by the election of one of their number as president, and some suitable person, not of their number but who shall be a resident of said city, as clerk, who shall, by virtue of his office, act as secretary and keep the minutes and accounts of said board; and thereupon and thereafter such members of said boards of education and trustees so organized shall be known and designated as and shall become and be and possess all the powers

and discharge all the duties of the "board of education of the city of Mount Vernon," as provided by this act; and thereupon the terms of office of all the trustees of said school districts one, two, four and five residing in said city shall cease and expire.

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At a special school election for the city of Mount First elecVernon to be held within thirty (30) days after the pas-president sage of this act, notice of which shall be given by said board of education of the city of Mount Vernon, as hereinafter provided, there shall be elected, by the persons residing within said city qualified to vote for school officers under the general school laws of this state, a president of said board of education of the city of Mount Vernon, who shall hold office for the term of four years. And also at such special election there shall be elected, by the persons residing in the respective wards of said city who shall be qualified under the general school laws of this state to vote for school officers, two members of said board of education, to be known as trustees, one of which in each ward shall be elected for a term of two years, and the other for a term of four years; and at each regular school election thereafter to be held, as here- Subse inafter provided, there shall be elected one member of said board tions. of education in each ward of said city, whose term of office shall be for four years, in place of the trustees from each ward whose term of office shall next thereafter expire; and at each alternate regular school election thereafter to be held, there shall be elected, by the city at large, a president of said board, whose term of office shall be four years, in place of the president whose term of office shall next thereafter expire. The said board of education shall Polling designate at least five polling places in as many separate wards in said city, as the polling places for holding elections for school officers, and the particular ward for which each polling place shall serve.

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Notice of such special election, and of all subsequent Notices of elections to be held under this act, shall be given by said board of education of the city of Mount Vernon, by a notice to be signed by its president and clerk, which shall specify the time of holding such election and the location of the several polling places, and the ward to which each polling place is assigned. It shall also specify the number and office of members of said board, with their respective terms of office, to be elected thereat. Such notice shall

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be published in the official city newspapers at least once in each week for three successive weeks immediately preceding such Inspectors election. The inspectors of election of the several election dis tricts, wherein such polling places are situated respectively, and who are authorized to hold and conduct elections in said city at the time of holding such school elections, shall preside and hold said school elections in their respective districts. The clerk of said board of education shall, at least ten days before the date of such school elections, notify the inspectors of election districts in which polling places are situated, by notice mailed to each of them in the post-office of said city, of every such election and the polling places designated by said board.

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The inspectors of election in each of said election districts shall preside and conduct such school elections at the places in their respective districts designated as aforesaid; and their powers and duties in respect thereto shall be determined and regulated by the provisions relating to the holding of the annual city elections for city officers, except as modified by this act.

The regular election for school officers in said city, under this act, after said first election, shall be held on the first Tuesday of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and biennially thereafter on the first Tuesday of June in each alternate year.

Said first election, and all subsequent elections for school officers, shall be opened at three o'clock in the afternoon and shall be kept open, without intermission or adjournment, until nine o'clock in the evening, when the same Canvass of shall be finally closed, and the inspectors of election shall forthInspectors. with, without adjournment, canvass all votes cast, declare and make duplicate certificates of the result, as required in the general city elections, and file such duplicate certificate within twenty-four hours thereafter, one with the clerk of the board of education of said city, and the other with the clerk of said city. At such elections there shall also be elected, when necessary, in the respective wards, such other member of the board of educa tion as required to fill a vacancy that may have occurred during the preceding year, the member so elected being entitled only to fill the unexpired term of the member who may have resigned, refused to serve, died or been removed. In case of members of the board elected to fill vacancies as herein described, their names upon the ballots to be voted must be

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accompanied by the words: "To fill the unexpired term of....... resigned," or "refused to serve," "died " or " removed," as the case may be. The members of the board of education who shall be Qualificaelected by the electors of the respective wards, under the provisions of this section, shall be residents of and freeholders in such wards during their respective terms. They shall receive Compenno compensation for their services as members of such board. § 229(f). On the day following the first school election, on the days following the regular school elections to be under this act, the board of education of said city shall convene at eight o'clock in the evening, at its usual place of meeting, and all the certificates of the votes cast at each of the polling places designated as aforesaid shall be produced and said board of education shall forthwith proceed to canvass such certificates, declare the result thereof, and shall cause a statement of the whole number of votes cast for each candidate to be entered on its minutes, shall declare those persons elected who have received the greatest number of votes, and shall immediately thereafter make a certificate in writing of all those who are duly elected, to Certificate be signed by its president and clerk, and cause the same to be filed within twenty-four hours in the office of the city clerk, and it shall be the duty of the city clerk, within five days thereafter, to notify the several persons so duly elected of their election. The persons so elected shall, within fifteen days after the filing Oath of of such certificate of election as aforesaid, take the constitutional oath of office, and file the same within said fifteen days in the office of the city clerk; and every person who neglects within said last-mentioned period to take and file said oath of office shall be deemed to have declined the office, and it shall be vacant. § 229(g). The term of office of each school officer elected under Terms of the provisions of this act shall commence on the second Monday of August next following his election; and on the second Monday of August next following the passage of this act, the board of education of the city of Mount Vernon, as constituted for the preceding year, shall be dissolved and the terms of office of all the trustees or members of the board of education of school districts one, two, four and five of the town of Eastchester, then residing within the boundaries of the city of Mount Vernon, shall cease and expire, and the persons to be elected at said first school election, after duly qualifying, as hereinbefore provided,

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and their successors in office, shall thereafter constitute the board of education of said city.

A majority of the of the trustees of said board of educa President. tion shall constitute a quorum. In the proceedings of the board of education the president shall preside over its meetings; and each member thereof present shall have a vote except the president, who shall have only a casting vote when the votes of the other members are tied. Every school officer shall at the time of his election and during his term of office Office, when be a resident and freeholder of the city, and every trustee removing from the ward from which he was elected, and every school officer removing from the city, shall thereby vacate his office. All school property located within the boundaries of said city, as to board. well as all powers, privileges and contracts exercised and enjoyed by and all duties, obligations and liabilities of said trustees or boards of education of the school districts herein enumerated, except as herein provided, are hereby transferred to, vested and imposed upon said board of education of the city of Mount Vernon, constituted and organized as aforesaid; and said board shall be held to have actual possession and be seized of all such property, rights and contracts, in trust for said school district of the city of Mount Vernon, for school purposes as hereinbefore provided; and the rights and privileges of all persons or parties that may have arisen or accrued under, pursuant to, or by virtue of any contract, rule or regulation, as well as any liability that may have arisen by reason thereof, except as hereinafter provided, shall remain and be in force by or against said board of education of the city of Mount Vernon and their successors, in the same manner and with like effect as might have been done by or against the trustees or boards of education of said school districts, or their or each of their successors, as if this act had not been passed. All books of record, account or instruction, and all documents and papers of whatever nature, that pertain to any of the schools within the boundaries of the city of Mount Vernon, and are in possession of the trustees or boards of education of the several school districts herein enumerated at the time of the passage of this act, shall be turned over and delivered to the board of education of the city of Mount Vernon upon its organization.

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