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WATERLOO.

[Laws of 1853, chap. 151.]

This act makes the same provisions in tenor and effect for districts Nos. 1 and 15, respectively, in the village of Waterloo, as those of the act on page 375, ante, in respect to districts Nos. 2, 3, 5 and 7 in Castleton.

[Laws of 1855, chap. 238.]

SECTION 1. The trustees of school district number one, in the town of Waterloo, in the county of Seneca, and their successors in office, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of the "Trustees of Waterloo union school," and empowered to establish and organize a classical school in said district and in the village of Waterloo, which school shall be subject to the visitation of the regents of the university of this state, and to all laws and regulations applicable to the incorporated academies thereof, and shall be entitled to all the privileges of such academies, and share in the distribution of the moneys of the literature fund of this state as the academies thereof; and said trustees shall have authority to make regulations respecting the attendance of the children of the said district in the school-houses thereof, the transfer of them from one room or school-house to another, the instruction and studies to be given and pursued in said schools; provided, however, that this act shall not affect the rights and duties of said trustees and district under the statutes of this state relating to common schools, or under any special act relating to said district number one.

WEST FARMS.

[Laws of 1853, chap. 365.]

SECTION 1. School district number one, in the town of West Farms, shall form a permanent school district, and shall not be subject to alteration by the town superintendent of common schools for the town in which said district is situated. §2. The said district shall be under the direction of a board, to be styled the board of education of school district number one, town of West Farms, which shall be a corporate body in relation to all the powers and duties conferred upon them by this act, and shall possess the general powers and be subject to the liabilities and restrictions imposed by the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes. They shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties in respect to said district that the trustees of common schools now possess or are subject to, together with such other powers and duties as are given and imposed by this act. The said board shall consist of nine members, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. James Woods, Benjamin Harrison, F. W. Gilley, William H. Merritt, L. K. Osborne, Stephen Angell, Harry M. Morris, Myron Finch, Gouverneur Morris, shall compose the first board of education, and shall hold their office from one to three years, that is to say, three shall go out in each year, and in the order in which their names stand recorded in this section. The said board of education shall meet for the transaction of business as often as once in each month, and may adjourn for any shorter time. Special meetings may be called by the president, or, in his absence or inability to act, by the secretary or any other member of the board, as often as necessary, by giving personal notice to each member thereof, or causing a written or printed notice to be left at his last place of residence at least twentyfour hours before the hour of meeting. And if, any member of the said board shall refuse or neglect to attend any three successive stated meetings of the board,

and if no satisfactory cause of his non-attendance be shown, the board may declare his office vacant. No member of said board shall receive any pay or compensation for his services. It shall not be lawful for any member of said board to become a contractor for building, or making any improvement or repairs authorized by this act, or be in any manner, directly or indirectly, interested either as principal, partner or surety in any such contract. All contracts made in violation of this provision shall be absolutely void, and the person so violating shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, to be prosecuted for and received and used by said board for school purposes.

§ 3. There shall be elected, at each annual district meeting, three members of said board of education, who shall hold office for three years. There shall also be elected at the same time one collector, to hold office for one year, and also three persons as inspectors of election for the ensuing year, all of whom shall be citizens, and taxable inhabitants of the district; said election shall be by ballot; notice thereof shall be given two weeks previous, by the board of education, in any two local newspapers having the largest circulation. The election shall be held and conducted, the votes shall be canvassed, and the result of the election shall be determined in the same manner as for town officers.

§ 4. The collector shall collect and pay over the school moneys, assessed upon said district, to the treasurer of the board of education; he shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties of a town collector, and shall, within ten days after receiving notice of his election, execute and deliver to the said board of education a bond, in such penalty and with such sureties as the said board may require, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties; in case said bond shall not be given within ten days after receiving such notice, such office shall become vacated, and said board may make appointment to supply such vacancy. § 5. The said board of education shall, at their first annual meeting, choose one of their number for president, one for secretary and one for treasurer, who shall hold office for one year. In the absence of either of such officers at any regular meeting of the board, a president or secretary may be appointed for the by time being, and election for said officers shall be held thereafter on the same day of the same week of the same month in which the first election was held. If from any cause the election shall not take place on the day appointed it shall be held within one week thereafter; until such election the old officers shall continue to perform their respective functions. The treasurer shall, within ten days after receiving notice of his appointment, execute and deliver to the said board of education a bond in such penalty and with such sureties as they may require; in case such bond shall not be given within ten days after receiving such notice, such office shall thereby become vacated, and said board may make an appointment to supply such vacancy. Said board may appoint a clerk, whose compensation shall be fixed by them, and who shall hold office for one year. The said clerk shall keep a record of the proceedings of the board, and perform such other duties as the board may prescribe. The said record, or a transcript thereof certified by the president and clerk, shall be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the facts therein set forth.

§ 6. The said board of education shall call an annual district meeting on the first Monday in June, and shall submit thereto a full report, in writing, of their doings as such board, and shall state therein the number and condition of the schools in said district under their charge, and the number of scholars attending the same, the studies pursued, the amount of moneys received from the state and from other sources, as well as the amount raised in the district for school purposes, the expenditures of the same, and all the particulars, in detail, relating to the schools in said district, which report shall, immediately after it is made, be printed in two newspapers published in the district for two weeks consecutively. § 7. The said board of education are hereby authorized and directed to levy and collect by tax in each year, upon all the taxable property in said district, such sum as may be necessary, not exceeding in amount one-half of one per cent on the value of such taxable property, as the same shall be assessed by the assossors of the town, as taken from their last assessment roll, which sum shall be

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applied to the necessary and contingent expenses of the schools and said district; and when, in the opinion of the said board, it becomes necessary to build an additional school-house or houses in the district, or to enlarge those already built, they shall give public notice, of at least fifteen days, of the site or sites selected for such purposes, and of the amounts required for the purchase thereof, inclusive of the building and of the cost of the furniture, &c., and at the same time call a district meeting, to which the same is to be submitted; and unless a majority of all the tax payers of the district present shall oppose the proposed plan, then the said board may proceed to raise the means by levying a tax, as above, not exceeding in amount one-half of one per cent on the value of the taxable property in the district.

§8. The said board of education may make all necessary by-laws for their own government. Vacancies in the board, occurring by resignation or any other cause, the same may be filled by the board until the next annual election, when such vacancies shall be filled in the same manner as those caused by expiration of term of office. The title of the school-houses, sites, lots, furniture, books, apparatus and appurtenances, and all other school property in the said district, shall be and the same hereby is vested in the said board of education; and the said board, in its corporate capacity, may take, hold and dispose of any real or personal estate, transferred to it by gift, grant, bequest or devise, for the use of the common schools in the said district. They shall have and possess within the said district all the rights, powers and authority of town superintendent of common schools. They shall have the entire control and management of all the common schools within the said district, and all the property belonging to the same. They shall require one of the members of the said board to visit each school in said district at least once in each week, to render such assistance to the teachers and advice to the pupils as may be necessary, and to see that the regulations are rigidly adhered to. Said board shall have power to make all warrants, for the collection of the taxes to be raised by them, returnable at sixty or ninety days, in their discretion, and to renew the same whenever it shall become

necessary.

§ 9. All moneys to be received by virtue of this act, and all moneys by law appropriated to or provided for said district, shall be paid to the treasurer of said board, who, together with the sureties upon his official bond, shall be accountable to said board of education. Said treasurer shall not pay out any of such money, except by resolution of said board and upon an order drawn by the president, and certified by the secretary to be so drawn in pursuance of such resolution.

§ 10. The trustees of the town of West Farms shall pay over to the treasurer of the board of education the proportion of the school fund belonging to the town of West Farms to which the said district number one shall or may be entitled, together with the interest thereon, to be used by such board of education for school purposes.

$11. The town superintendent of West Farms, the trustees and collector of district number one of said town, shall pay over to the treasurer of the board of education all moneys belonging to said district or to which said district may be entitled for school purposes.

$12. The board of education shall have control and charge of the district school library in said district. They may employ a librarian and assistants, make such additions to the library and such regulations therefor as they shall deem necessary. § 13. The said board of education may call special meetings of said district whenever they may deem it necessary; they shall give notice of the same by posting up a written or printed notice thereof in at least five public places in said district, and by publishing the same in two newspapers published in said district at least two weeks previons to the time fixed for such meeting, which notice shall state the time and place of such meeting and the purpose for which the same is called; and no business shall be transacted at any such special meeting except that stated in the notice calling the same.

§ 14. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed, so far as relates to district number one, in the town of West Farms aforesaid.

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WILLIAMSVILLE.

[Laws of 1846, chap. 119.]

SECTION 1. The trustees of the school district at the village of Williamsville, in the town of Amberst and county of Erie, are hereby authorized, if the inhabitants of said district shall at any regular school district meeting so direct, to make thereafter, and until the said inhabitants shall in like manner otherwise direct, separate and distinct rate bills for the payment of the wages of the teachers in the primary and higher department of the schools kept in the said district; in such manner to collect, on account of scholars attending each department, such balances as may be justly due for the wages of the teacher or teachers in that department, after the application to that purpose of such share of the public moneys as shall be apportioned to each department by such trustees, by giving to each such proportion of the whole sum applicable to the payment of teachers' wages in both departments as the number of scholars who shall have attended such department during the time for which such rate bill is to be made shall bear to the whole number of scholars attending both of such departments during the same period.

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ANNUAL REPORTS OF TRUSTEES, pages 301 to 317:

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