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mission from further liability, upon their said bond to
said town. And said commission shall account to the
board of trustees of the village of Potsdam, for the
moneys and securities received from said village,
which board of trustees, upon such accounting, shall
have power to approve of the account so to be ren-
dered, and discharge such commission from further
liability upon their said bond to said village.

$10. The amount in this act provided to be paid
by the said county, town and village, for the purposes
in this act declared, shall apply on the amount that
shall be paid by the said county in satisfaction of
the proposition made by said board of supervisors of
said county to the said commission constituted by said
act in regard to normal schools, by resolution of said
board of supervisors, dated December eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and the amount that
shall be paid by the said town and village of Potsdam,
shall apply upon and towards the satisfaction of the
propositions of the board of trustees of said village to
said commission constituted by said act in regard to
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$11. Authority is hereby given to the board of supervisors of the county of St. Lawrence, at any annual meeting thereof, to repay to the town of Pots- Repayment dam such portion of the tax hereby imposed upon said town as such board of supervisors shall determine to be just and proper. And in case the moneys to be raised as in this act provided shall be insufficient to complete such buildings and furnish such apparatus, books and furniture as herein intended, the said board of supervisors, to supply such deficiency, may raise upon said county and pay over to the commission by this act created, a further sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars; and for such purpose said board of supervisors may levy and collect a tax upon said amount. County, and issue county bonds representing the same, as said board may determine necessary to carry out the powers in this section given.

$12. The Superintendent of Public Instruction may, if, in his opinion, suitable buildings and rooms are provided at the village of Potsdam for the accommodation of teachers and pupils of a normal school,

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$13. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 7.

AN ACT to establish a Board of Education in and for the village school district of the town of Malone, in the county of Franklin, and for other purposes.

Passed January 24, 1867; three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The five existing trustees of the village school district of the town of Malone, associated with five trustees of the corporation of Franklin Academy, in said village, and their respective successors in office, shall constitute a board of education for said village school district.

$2. Upon the passage of this act, the board of trustees of said Franklin Academy shall elect five of its members, who shall be residents of said village school district, who shall be associated with said school district trustees, to form the board of education, established by the foregoing section. Said academy trustees, so elected, shall determine by lot their respective terms of office, so that one shall serve one year, one two years, one three years, one four years, and one five years, and in each case the period of service shall commence and end with that of the trustees of said village school district. After such first election the said board of trustees of Franklin Academy shall, at the time of the annual meeting of said village school district, elect one of its members to supply the place of the trustee whose term of office shall then expire. The trustees of said village school district shall continue to be elected as provided by

section two of chapter three hundred and seventy of
the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty eight.

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33. The said board of education when it shall be Powers of duly organized under the foregoing provisions, shall have the care, management and control of all the schools in said village school district, and also of the academy therein; but nothing in this act shall be held in any wise to affect or impair the separate corporate existence of said academy, or any rights or privileges appertaining to it, as such corporation, except as herein expressly provided. And generally, except as qualified by this act, the said board of education shall have, possess and exercise all the powers and privileges conferred upon such boards, in school districts, other than those whose limits correspond with those of any city or incorporated village, by title nine of chapter five hundred and fifty-five of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four. The said district schools shall be free only to those persons age residing in the district, authorized to be enumerated with and reported with those forming the basis for the apportionment of public money to said district. To all others, as well as to all attending the academy, whether from within or from without the limits of said district, a just and remunerative rate of tuition. shall be charged, which rate, from time to time, shall be fixed by said board of education.

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34. Except as modified by the foregoing provisions, so much of title nine, of chapter five hundred and fifty-five, of the Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as relates to school districts, other than of those whose limits correspond with those of any city or incorporated village, is hereby extended and made applicable to the village school district, of the town of Malone."

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35. So much of chapter three hundred and seventy, the Laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, being iAn act to consolidate school districts one, fourteen, fifteen, and twenty-three, in the town of Malone, in the county of Franklin," as conflicts or is inconsistent cewith the foregoing provisions, is hereby repealed. 36. This act shall take effect immediately.

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Chap. 8.

AN ACT to confirm the decision of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. relating to the election of trustees in Union Free School District number two, in the town of German Flats, in the county of Herkimer, and to confirm the official action of said trustees, and to define their tenure of office.

Passed January 24, 1867.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The decision of Victor M. Rice, State Superintendent of public instruction, in the matter of the appeal from the election of trustees in union free school district No. two, in the town of German Flats, in the county of Herkimer, is hereby in all things ratified and confirmed.

S2. Warren Wheeler, Robert H. Pomeroy and Robert Winant, are hereby declared to be the legal acting trustees in said district, and each and all of their official acts as such trustees, are hereby ratified R and confirmed.

$3. The term of office of each of the trustees aforesaid shall continue, and not expire, except in the manner following: The term of office of said Warren Wheeler shall expire on the second Saturday! of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; the term of office of the said Robert H. Pomeroy shall expire on the second Saturday of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and the term of office of the said Robert Winant shall expire on the second Saturday of March, eighteen hundred and sixtynine.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 9.

IN ACT to legalize and confirm the appointment of Thomas K. Beecher and David Decker, as School Commissioners for the Union School District of the city of Elmira, and to legalize and confirm their acts as such commissioners.

Passed January 25, 1867.

The People of the State of New York, represented in State and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The appointments of Thomas K. Beechand David Decker, school commissioners for the Chion school district of the city of Elmira, in place of Orin Robinson and John Arnot, by the common anel of said city, on the fifteenth day of October, teen hundred and sixty-six, are hereby declared be of the same force, effect and validity as if said pointments had been duly made by said council on Monday preceding the second Tuesday in Octoe eighteen hundred and sixty-six, according to the Wisions of an act entitled "An act in relation to on schools in the village of Elmira," passed Al fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and ended by an act entitled "An act to incorporate e city of Elmira," passed April seventh, eighteen dred and sixty-four; and the official acts of said issioners are declared to be of the same force and effect as if they had been duly appointed on the day specified in said act.

32. This act shall take effect immediately.

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