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 Education, an amount equal to that raised therein as aforesaid, which amount shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the State Comptroller. Whenever such school or schools shall have been established 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 maintenance 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 manual training established under the provisions of this section shall be approved by the State Board of Education; 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 Custodian 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.

of funds.

231. (206.) In case the sum necessary as aforesaid to Additional 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

Report.
Ibid.

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.

Library appropriation. Ibid.

Selection of books. Ibid.

Joint library.

SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

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 custodian of the school moneys of a school district for the sum of twenty dollars for any public school situate 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 educational 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, subscription or entertainment a like sum for the maintenance of such library for such year.

234. (209.) All selections of articles aforesaid purchased 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 committees 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 consolidated library.

ARTICLE XXIV.

TEACHERS' LIBRARIES.

teachers'

236. (211.) Whenever in any county there shall have Support 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 maintenance of such library for such year.

on selection. Ibid.

237. (212.) The County Superintendent of Schools Committee and three teachers of public schools in such county appointed 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 known as "The Board of Trustees of the Teachers' Retirement Fund." Said board shall be composed of the Commissioner of Education, three persons, not teachers, and not eligible to membership in said fund, to be selected by the Governor, and five persons members of said fund, nominated as is hereinafter pro

(a) 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.

Term.

Vacancies.

Office.

vided. 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 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 convention 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' Retirement Fund, of receiving the report of said board, and for the transaction of any other business properly within 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 secretary. Each 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 delegates shall be held at such convenient place as shall be selected by the County Superintendent of Schools. Notice of the time and place of said meeting shall be issued by said County Superintendent at least ten days before the date of said meeting. Said 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 containing the names and addresses of the delegates elected to the annual convention. In case of a vacancy in the County 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 qualifications hereinbefore prescribed for delegates to such convention. A majority of all the delegates entitled to seats in said convention shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

delegates.

Ibid.

240. (215.) The officers of the Board of Trustees of Officers the Teachers' Retirement Fund shall be a president, a vice-president and a secretary. The president and vicepresident 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 Care of fund. 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 time to time determine may be invested in the following securities, being securities which are now authorized by law for savings banks.

curities.

I. In stocks or bonds, or interest-bearing notes or U. S. seobligations of the United States, or those for which the faith of the United States is distinctly pledged to provide for the payment of the principal and interest thereof.

II. In the interest-bearing bonds of this State, or in New Jersey 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.