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$229 h). The trustees of school districts numbers one, two, four Statement and five of the town of Eastchester shall make out and deliver to of town the board of education hereby created, at the first meeting, a detailed statement of their several districts, showing all the school property, both personal and real, in their several school districts, and the estimated value thereof, the number of schoolhouses in their districts, the size thereof and the materials of which the same are built, the departments into which the schools are divided, and the average attendance of each school and department, the number of volumes in the school library, the number and names of the teachers employed in each, their rank and the salaries paid to each; the balance on hand at the time of their annual report, the amount of money ordered to be raised at the last meeting of the district, and the purposes for which it was appropriated; the receipts and expenditures of said trustees since said last annual meeting; the amount of money due and owing to the district, the amount of indebtedness of the district, and such other facts as they may deem necessary to make a full and complete statement of the condition of the schools in their several districts.

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Immediately upon the organization of the board of Duties of education of the city of Mount Vernon, as herein before organiza prescribed, said board shall proceed to the discharge of its appropriate duties. It shall provide and appoint a place for its further meetings, which shall be held as often as once in each calendar month. It shall adopt proper rules and regulations for such meetings and the dispatch of its business, and for the appointment of such committees as it may deem advisable. It shall appoint a clerk, as hereinbefore provided, who shall hold office Clerk of during the pleasure of the board, and whose compensation shall be fixed by such board. The clerk shall keep an accurate record of the proceedings of said board, and shall perform such other duties as the board may prescribe. Said board shall, within fif-Report to teen days after its first organization, prepare a report of all the real and personal property acquired by it under the provisions of this act, specifying the location and approximate value thereof, which report shall be transmitted to the special committee directed to be appointed in section two hundred and twenty-nine-(c) of this act. Said board of education shall also proceed to make, and Statement as soon as practicable complete, a statement and account of of districts.

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all the funds in hand, collected or in process of collection, in each of the school districts consolidated under this act, with the proportion thereof that should come into the possession of the said board by virtue of this act; and of all the debts and liabilities owing, contracted or incurred by each of said districts, showing the proportion thereof that should become a charge against the school district of the city of Mount Vernon. Copies of such statement shall be transmitted to the common council of the city of Mount Vernon, the said special committee created as above provided, and the superintendent of public instruction of this state. Said Collection board shall proceed to collect such outstanding accounts as percounts. tain to the schools or school property within the boundaries of the city of Mount Vernon, and such portion of the outstanding school tax as the board of supervisors of Westchester county shall, under the provision of this act, apportion to said school district of the city of Mount Vernon. Said board of education shall also Settlement proceed to settle and liquidate the debts and liabilities of said districts that have been incurred upon or on account of the schools or school properties located within the boundaries of the city of Apportion Mount Vernon; and such debts and liabilities of said school districts as pertain to or have been incurred upon or on account of schools and school properties remaining outside the boundaries of the city of Mount Vernon, shall be apportioned as charges against the school districts of the town of Eastchester that may be formed from the parts or portions of school districts herein before enumerated, by the school commissioner of the first school commissioner's district of Westchester county, under the provisions of section two hundred and twenty-nine-(b).

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To establish schools,

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§ 229(i). Subject to the provisions of this act, the board of education of the city of Mount Vernon shall have power, and it shall be its duty

1. To establish and organize, in said city, such and so many free schools, including night schools, as said board shall deem requisite and expedient, and to change or discontinue the same at its discretion.

2. To establish and maintain, whenever it shall be deemed expedient so to do, within the limits of the school district hereby created, a high school, to which graduates from the free schools

of said district shall be admitted for a course of instruction to be regulated by the board of education.

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3. To organize, establish and maintain school saving banks, Saving under the authority of, and in conformity with, any general law of the state in regard to such or similar institutions.

4. To purchase or hire, sell or dispose of, school-houses, lots or Purchase and repair sites, to alter, improve and repair school-houses and appur- of protenances as may be deemed advisable.

5. To purchase, exchange, improve and repair school apparatus, books, furniture and appendages, and to defray the necessary expense attending the same.

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6. To have the custody and safe-keeping of the school buildings, Custody of lots, out-houses, books, furniture and appendages, and to see that etc. the ordinances and by-laws of said city in regard thereto are enforced, and any violation thereof punished.

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7. To contract with and employ a superintendent of instruction Superinfor said city, and fix his compensation; to contract with and and employ all necessary teachers for the schools of the city, and at pleasure to remove them or any of them, or the superintendent of instruction, under such rules and regulations as may be established by law, or by the department of public instruction of the state. And nothing in section two hundred and twenty-nine-(g) of this act shall be construed to prevent the exercise of the power hereby conferred upon the board of education.

8. To pay the salaries of superintendent and teachers out of any Salaries. moneys appropriated or provided by law for that purpose.

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9. To defray the necessary contingent expenses of the board and Contingent district, including the wages of clerk, janitors and other assistants and employes, and incidental expenses.

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10. To expend all moneys raised by virtue of this act, or which Sites and may have been previously raised by any of the districts consoli-houses. dated hereby, for purchasing sites, erecting or enlarging schoolhouses, or for other purposes, in such manner as may deemed advisable, but only for the purpose for which the same was raised; and the expenditures herein directed apply only to school property located within the boundaries of the city of Mount Vernon, outside which the board of education hereby created has neither authority nor jurisdiction.

11. To take and appropriate land and other real property within Appropria said city for school purposes, when authorized so to do, upon mak-property.

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Licensing of teachers.

Supervision of schools.

Non-resident pupils.

City library.

Library moneys.

Exercise of powers of Inhabi

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ing compensation therefor, in the same manner and under the same proceedings as prescribed and conferred upon the common council of the city of Mount Vernon, in the matter of improvements, by section one hundred and seventy of title seven of chapter one hundred and eighty-two, of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

12. To license, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of instruction of said city, all teachers employed in the schools thereof, in the same manner and with the like effect in said city as school commissioners of counties.

13. To have, to the exclusion of all boards and officers, except the superintendent of public instruction of the state, the entire supervision and management of the public schools of said city, and the right, from time to time, to adopt, alter, modify or repeal, as may be deemed expedient, rules and regulations for their organization, government and instruction, for the reception of pupils and their transfer from one school-room or school-house to another, for their advancement from class to class as their degrees of scholarship shall warrant, and generally for the promotion of the good order and prosperity of said schools.

14. To allow the children of persons non-resident within the city to attend any of the schools therein under the control of said board, upon such terms as said board may prescribe.

15. To establish and maintain a city library, and to provide suitable rooms therefor, to employ and pay a librarian and assistants to have the care and supervision of the books and other publication belonging thereto, and supervise the letting out and return thereof. To exercise the same discretion as to the disposition of the moneys provided by law for the purpose of libraries as is conferred upon the inhabitants of school districts.

16. Except as otherwise provided by this act, to exercise all the powers conferred upon the inhabitants of school districts at school district meetings.

17. Except as otherwise provided by this act, to exercise all the powers conferred, and all the duties imposed, by the general laws of this state applicable to boards of education in cities. The records of the proceedings of said board, or a transcript thereof, certified by its president and clerk, shall be received in all courts or places as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.

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§ 229(j). Within thirty days after the first organization of the Annual board of education hereby created, and on or before the first day of sums for of May in each year thereafter, said board shall present to the purposes. mayor, or acting mayor, of the city of Mount Vernon, a statement of such moneys as it may deem necessary for each of the following purposes until the next annual statement, namely:

1. For wages of superintendent and teachers, after applying such of the public school and other moneys as may be applicable thereto.

2. For the maintenance of a high school, if one shall have been established, and the payment of the teachers thereof after applying such of the public school and other moneys as may be applicable thereto.

3. For the repair of school-houses, out-houses and grounds, with their appendages and appurtenances.

4. For the purchase, repair or improvement of school apparatus, books, furniture and fixtures.

5. For the purchase, maintenance and care of the city school library; but not to exceed two thousand dollars in any one year. 6. For the rent of school-houses and rooms for school purposes, the purchase of fuel and lights, and to pay the contingent expenses of the district, including the wages of clerk, janitors, and other assistants and employes, and incidental expenses.

7. For such other purposes as required by the provisions of this act.

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If the mayor or acting mayor approves such statement, he Action by shall sign it, and immediately file the same with the city clerk; thereupon. if he does not approve any item therein he shall, within two days, return the statement, with his objections indorsed thereon. or annexed thereto, to the president or clerk of the board of education. Said board shall then proceed to reconsider such veto, how statement, and if three-fifths of all the members then in office sidered. agree to sustain the statement as made, it shall stand as if it had been approved by the mayor, and shall be immediately filed with the city clerk. If three-fifths of the members of said board do not agree to sustain the statement as made, it shall be modified so as to conform to the views expressed by the mayor in his objections, and he shall then sign it and file it with the city clerk. If the mayor or acting mayor fails to sign a statement Failure to of moneys required, as herein provided, or fails to return such statement.

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