Works. hereby directed to pay the above amount upon the warrant of the Public Comptroller, to the order of the Superintendent of Public Works, for the purposes defined by this act. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 242. AN ACT to amend section three of chapter four hundred and thirty- APPROVED by the Governor May 6, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. Section three of chapter four hundred and thirty-nine of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, entitled "An act for the better protection of life and property upon the railroads of this State, to promote the safer and better management of steam railroads," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: at certain when to § 3. At any point where a street, highway, turnpike, plan kroad or Flagmen traveled way is crossed at the same level by a railroad, or at any point crossings, where a horse railroad is crossed by a steam railroad, the supreme court court or county court may, upon the application of the local author- order staities and upon ten days notice to the railroad corporation whose road tioning of. so crosses, order that a flagman be stationed at such point, or that gates shall be erected across such street, highway, turnpike or plankroad, and that a person be stationed to open and close such gates when an engine or train passes, or make such other order respecting the same as it deems proper. Such order shall only be made after the refusal or neglect of such corporation to station such flagman or erect such gates after having been requested so to do by such local authorities. And whenever the crossings by a railroad at the same level of Special any street, highway, turnpike, plank road or traveled way within the provisions limits of any village or city shall be protected by gates with persons of railroad stationed to open and close the same when an engine or train passes, certain it shall not be lawful for the local authorities of such village or city, villages or not having by the last State or United States census a population of fifty thousand, to impose any limitation, less than thirty miles per hour, upon the speed at which such engine or train shall be run upon the railroad within the corporate limits of such village or city, or to enforce any existing limitations upon such rate of speed. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. 37 as to speed trains, in cities. City charter CHAP. 243. AN ACT to provide for the deficiency in the revenue of the common school fund. APPROVED by the Governor May 6, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of sixty thousand one hundred and forty-five dollars, and fifteen cents is hereby appropriated from the general fund revenue, to supply the deficiency in the revenue of the common school fund on the thirteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAP. 244. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and fifty of the laws of one APPROVED by the Governor May 6, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. SECTION 1. Section sixty-nine of chapter one hundred and fifty of amended. the laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Kingston," as as* the same has been heretofore amended, is hereby further amended so as to read as follows: Annual estimate for poor, streets, lighting and fire expenses, ted. § 69. The common council shall in each year on or before the first by council, day of November, make a careful estimate of the expense of supporting and relieving the city poor, which estimate shall not exceed thirteen thousand dollars; also of the expenses of the general repairs of streets and the lighting of the same; of the expenses of the fire department, etc,limi and the city expense for all other purposes, which several estimates, including that for the city poor, shall not exceed the sum of sixtythree thousand dollars. The common council shall, for said several Annual tax purposes, have power to raise by tax in each year, from the taxable inhabitants of said city, and the property therein liable to taxation, such sums of money as they may deem proper, but not exceeding the sum of sixty-three thousand dollars, exclusive of the amount added thereto under that part of section sixty-three which relates to lunatics, deaf-mutes, blind, insane and idiotic poor; and under sections ninetyfour, ninety-eight, ninety-nine and one hundred and eighteen of this act, and exclusive of the amount necessary to pay the principal and interest of the bonded and other indebtedness of the city as it falls due. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. limited. * So in the original, CHAP. 245. AN ACT to amend chapter five hundred and fifty-five of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the general acts relating to public instruction," and chapter two hundred and forty-eight of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, entitled "An act in relation to the election of officers in certain school districts," and chapter two hundred and ten of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty, entitled "An act to provide for the dissolution of union free school districts in certain cases," and the several acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, relating to the time for holding the annual meetings and elections in the school districts of the State, and reports of commissioners. APPROVED by the Governor May 6, 1889. Passed, three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section fifteen of title two of chapter five hundred and Public Infifty-five of the laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, is act hereby amended so as to read as follows: struction amended. commis ject to State § 15. The commissioners shall be subject to such rules and regula- School tions as the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, from time to sioners, time prescribe, and appeals from their acts and decisions may be made how subto him, as hereinafter provided. They shall, whenever thereto re- certain quired by the superintendent, report to him, as to any particular mat- rules. ter or act, and shall severally make to him annually, to the twenty- Reports to fifth day of July in each year, a report in such form and containing Superinall such particulars as he shall prescribe and call for; and, for that tendent. purpose, shall procure the reports of the trustees of the school districts from the town clerks' offices, and after abstracting the necessary Annual contents thereof, shall arrange and indorse them properly, and deposit from rethem with a copy of his own abstract thereof, in the office of the turns of county clerk; and the clerk shall safely keep them. § 2. Section eight, of title seven of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: report, school trustees. hood meetings, held, an § 8. The annual meeting of each neighborhood shall be held on the Neighborfirst Tuesday of August in each year, at the hour and place fixed by school the last previous neighborhood meeting or, if such hour and place when and have not been so fixed, then the same shall be held in the school-house where at seven thirty o'clock in the evening. If a neighborhood possesses Lually. more than one school-house, it shall be held in the one usually used for that purpose, unless the trustees designate in the notice another. If there is no school building, or if the school-house shall be no longer accessible, then at such other place as the trustees, or, if there be no trustees, the clerk shall in the notice designate. § 3. Section nine of title seven of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: school dis 89. The annual meeting of each school district shall be held the Annual first Tuesday of August in each year, and unless the hour and place trict meetthereof shall have been fixed by a vote of a previous district meeting, ings, when the same shall be held in the school-house at seven-thirty o'clock in held. the evening. If a district possesses more than one school-house, it and Terms of officers of new dis tricts. School trustees, number, and elected. Annual elections. Number, how reduced. shall be held in the one usually employed for that purpose, unless the trustees designate another. If the district possesses no school-house, or if the school-house shall be no longer accessible, then the annual meeting shall be held at such place as the trustees, or, if there be no trustee, the clerk shall designate in the notice. § 4. Section twenty-six of title seven of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 26. The terms of all officers elected at the first meeting of a newly erected neighborhood or district, except of a union free school district, shall expire on the first Tuesday of August next thereafter. § 5. Section twenty-seven of title seven of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 27. On the first Tuesday of August, next after the erection of a district, at its first annual meeting, the electors shall determine by how fixed resolution, whether the district shall have one or three trustees, and if they resolve to have three trustees, shall elect the three for one, two and three years, respectively, and shall designate by their votes, for which term each is elected; thereafter in such district, one trustee shall be elected at each annual meeting to fill the office of the outgoing trustee. The electors of any district having three trustees, shall have power to decide by resolution, at any annual meeting, whether the district shall have a sole trustee or three trustees, and if they resolve to have a sole trustee, the trustee or trustees in office shall continue in office until their term or terms of office shall expire, and no election of a trustee shall be had in the district until the offices of such trustee or trustees shall become vacant by the expiration of their terms of office or otherwise, and thereafter but one trustee shall be elected for said district, until the electors of a district having decided to have but one trustee shall determine at an annual meeting, by a two-thirds vote of the legal voters present thereat, to have three trustees; in which case they shall, upon the adoption of such resolution, proceed to elect three trustees or such number as may be necessary to form a board of three trustees, in the same manner as provided in this section for the election of three trustees at the first annual meeting after the erection of a district; and thereafter in such district, one trustee shall be elected for three years, at each annual meeting, to fill the office of the outgoing trustee. Number, how increased. Annual report of school trustees, contents of. As to time school has been taught. As to drafts upon § 6. Section sixty, of title seven, of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 60. The trustees of each school district shall, between the twentyfifth day of July and the first Tuesday of August, in each year make and direct to the school commissioner a report in writing, dated on the twenty-sixth day of July of the year in which it is made, and shall sign and certify it and deliver it to the clerk of the town in which the school-house of the district is situated; and every such report shall certify: 1. The whole time any school has been kept in their district during the year ending on the day previous to the date of such report, and distinguishing what portion of the time such school has been kept by qualified teachers, and the whole number of days, including holidays, in which the school was taught by qualified teachers. 2. The amount of their drafts upon the supervisor, for the payment of teachers' wages during such year, and the amount of their drafts supervisor. upon him for the purchase of books and school apparatus during such year, and the manner in which such moneys have been expended. Number of 3. The number of children taught in the district school or schools during such year by qualified teachers, and the sum of the days' children attendance of all such children upon the school. etc. taught, 4. The number of children residing in the district on the thirtieth Number of day of June previous to the making of such report, and the names of children of the parents or other persons with whom such children did respectively age. reside, and the number of children residing with each. school statement 5. The amount of money paid for teachers' wages, in addition to Financial the public money paid therefor, the amount of taxes levied in said and obdistrict for purchasing school-house sites, for building, hiring, pur- jects of chasing, repairing and insuring school-houses, for fuel, for district trict tax. libraries, or for any other purpose allowed by law, and such other information in relation to the schools and the district as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may, from time to time, require. § 7. Section five of title nine of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ings of determine union free trustees, to education. § 5. Any such meeting held as aforesaid shall be organized by the Proceedappointment of a chairman and secretary, and may be adjourned from meeting, to time to time by a majority vote, provided that such adjournment as to formshall not be for a longer period than ten days; and whenever any such ation of meeting, at which not less than fifteen persons entitled to vote thereat school. shall, by the affirmative vote of a majority present and voting, determine to establish a union free school in said district pursuant to such notice, it shall thereupon be lawful for such meeting to proceed to the election, by ballot, of not less than three or more than nine trustees, who shall, by the order of such meeting, be divided into three Election of several classes, the first to hold until one, the second until two, the form third until three years from the first Tuesday in August next follow- board of ing, except in the cases in the next section provided for; and when the trustees so elected shall enter upon their office, the office of any existing trustee or trustees shall cease, except for the purposes stated in section eleven of title six of this act. The said trustees and their successors in office shall constitute the board of education of and for the union free school district for which they are elected, and the Designadesignation of such district as union free school district number of the town of shall be made by the school commissioner having jurisdiction of the district; and the said board shall have the name and style of the board of education of (adding the designation aforesaid); copies of said call, minutes of said meeting or meetings, duly certified by the chairman and secretary thereof, shall be by them, or either of them, transmitted and deposited, one to and with the Proceedtown clerk, one to and with the school commissioner, in whose juris- certifed diction said districts are located, and one to and with the Superintend- and deposited. ent of Public Instruction; but when, at any such meeting, the question as to the establishment of a union free school shall not be decided in the affirmative, as aforesaid, then all further proceedings at such Effect of meeting, except a motion to reconsider or adjourn, shall be dispensed action. with, and no such meeting shall be again called within one year thereafter. § 8. Section nine of title nine of said act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: tion of board. ings, how negative ings, in thorities § 9. In case the corporate authorities shall refuse to provide for Proceedany or all of the other purposes of expenditures declared necessary in case corthe statement aforesaid, they shall communicate in writing to the said pornteauboard of education their objections to each and every expenditure refuse to provide which they refuse to allow and thereupon the said board of education for expenshall cause the said communication to be published six times in at ditures. |