Postage and transportation.

Office

expenses.

Traveling expenses.

Engineers.

Balaries of superintendent and deputies.

ofce

expenses.

Traveling expenses.

thousand dollars; canal clerk, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, or at the rate of five dollars per day; record clerk, acting as confidential clerk, eleven hundred dollars, two stenog. raphers, one thousand dollars each, and one stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars.

For postage and expense of transportation of letters, official documents, or other matter sent by express or freight, including boxes or covering for same, twelve hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For furniture, books, binding, blanks, printing and other office expenses of the state engineer and surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

PAYABLE FROM THE CANAL FUND.

For traveling expenses of the state engineer and surveyor, two thousand dollars; for the traveling expenses of the deputy state engineer and surveyor, one thousand dollars, payable quarterly to each in full for all such expenses.

For the salaries and compensation of the engineers employed upon the ordinary repairs of canals, including the incidental expenses of such engineers, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

For the superintendent of public instruction, for salary, five thousand dollars. Deputy superintendent, for salary, four thousand five hundred dollars. Second deputy superintendent, for salary, four thousand dollars. For furniture, books, binding, blanks, printing and other office expenses, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For traveling expenses which may be incurred in the visitation of common schools, normal schools, teachers institutes, Indian schools and other institutions under the supervision of this department; and for the proper representation of this state at meetings of educational associations, one thousand five hundred dollars or Postage and so much thereof as may be necessary. For postage, and expense of transportation of all letters, official documents, or other matter sent by express or freight, including boxes or covering for same, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces sary.

transporta

tion.

expenses.

For printing circulars and programs relative to the observance Arbor day of Arbor day for distribution among the school districts of the state, and for the expenses relating to the observance of that day, pursuant to the provisions of chapter five hundred and fiftysix of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-four, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

clerks and employes

For clerks and other employes, for salaries, fifteen thousand of three hundred dollars, of which amount there shall be paid to the confidential clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; to the chief of the finance bureau, twenty-four hundred dollars; to chief of statistical bureau, twenty-one hundred dollars; to index clerk, twelve hundred dollars; one clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; to mailing clerk, fifteen hundred dollars; stenographer to the superintendent, twelve hundred dollars; stenographer to the first deputy, twelve hundred dollars; for messengers, porters and page, twenty-seven hundred dollars, and for temporary employes two thousand dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary.

LAW DEPARTMENT.

For counsel to the department, for salary, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars.

Law depart ment.

COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

education.

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of chapter six Compulsory hundred seventy-one of the laws of eighteen hundred ninetyfour as amended by chapter nine hundred eighty-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-five, relating to compulsory education fifteen thousand five hundred dollars; of which amount there shall be paid for salary to the chief inspector of the bureau of compulsory education three thousand dollars; to three inspectors, each the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars; and for traveling expenses, printing and supplies five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

PAYABLE FROM THE FREE SCHOOL FUND.

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For the support of the common schools of the state, three lion, five hundred thousand dollars, to which shall be added the sum of one hundred seventy thousand dollars, which is here

Support of common schools.

Bureau of

school libraries.

Normal and

training schools.

Teachers institutes and sum

mer institutes.

by appropriated, payable from THE REVENUE FROM THE COM. MON SCHOOL FUND in accordance with the provisions of the re vised statutes and chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-four, and the further sum of seventyfive thousand dollars, which is hereby appropriated, payable from the revenue from THE UNITED STATES DEPOSIT FUND in accordance with the provisions of chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-four and chapter five hundred seventy-three of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-two, as amended by chapter five hundred forty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-five; and from which sum of seventyfive thousand dollars there shall be paid to the chief of the bureau of school libraries for salary, twenty-four hundred dollars; for one stenographer, twelve hundred dollars; and one clerk, nine hundred dollars.

For the support and maintenance of the state normal and training schools, the sum of three hundred and twenty thou sand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, payable upon bills to be audited by him, from which amount there shall be paid to the president of the Albany normal college at Albany, for salary, four thousand dollars; and to the principals of the state normal schools at Buffalo, Brockport, New Paltz and Potsdam, each three thousand dollars; and to the principals at Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo, Jamaica, Oneonta, Oswego and Plattsburg, where residences are not furnished by the state, three thousand three hundred dollars each; and to the inspector of normal schools, Indian schools, and institutions for the instruction of the deaf, dumb and blind, twenty-five hundred dollars.

For the maintenance of teachers institutes, pursuant to chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninetyfour and for the maintenance of summer institutes in accordance with the provisions of chapter one hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for the preparation of question papers fifty thousand dollars, or so much Supervisor thereof as may be necessary; from which amount there shall be conductors, paid to the supervisor of the bureau of institutes for salary, four thousand dollars; to five institute conductors, for salaries, each three thousand dollars; to one special instructor in drawing, twenty-two hundred dollars; to one special instructor in primary

of bureau of

etc.

work, reading and literature, two thousand dollars; one lecturer two thousand five hundred dollars; and to one special instructor in English twelve hundred dollars.

missioners.

For the state superintendent of public instruction for the com- School commissioners of common schools, for salaries, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars; payable, one thousand dollars to each commissioner in the state.

registers and trustees

For printing and binding fifteen thousand school registers pur. School suant to chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen reports. hundred ninety-four, and for printing and binding twenty-five thousand copies of trustees reports, and for packing and boxing the same, five thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

TRAINING OF TEACHERS.

classes.

supervision.

For the supervisor of the bureau of teachers' training classes, Teachers' for salary, thirty-five hundred dollars; for four inspectors, for salary, each twenty-five hundred dollars; for one stenographer, nine hundred dollars; and for one clerk, one thousand dollars. For payment to academies and union schools designated by the superintendent of public instruction for the professional training of teachers, pursuant to chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-four, and for the professional training of teachers in the cities and villages of the state employing a local superintendent of schools in accordance with the provisions of chapter ten hundred thirty-one of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-five, and for printing, supplies, traveling ex- Expenses of penses and other disbursements connected with the maintenance, supervision and examination of such classes and schools, eighty-four thousand six hundred dollars, twenty-five thousand dollars of which amount shall be paid by the superintendent of public instruction to the cities and villages maintaining teachers' training schools in accordance with the rules established by him. Not more than one hundred thirteen training classes shall be Training established by the state superintendent in any one year under limited. the provisions of chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-four. Five hundred dollars shall be Payments paid to each school maintaining a class of not less than ten pupils in accordance with rules and regulations established by the

classes

to school.

ment of

balance.

Apportion state superintendent, and such balance as shall remain after the payment of the necessary expenses for printing, supplies, traveling expenses and disbursements connected with the maintenance of such schools and training classes shall be apportioned among such training classes ratably on the basis of the number of teachers instructed therein in excess of said number.

Instruction in natural history, etc.

Admission to lectures.

Salaries and

expenses of department.

VISUAL INSTRUCTION.

For the state superintendent of public instruction for the American museum of natural history in the city of New York, for continuing the instruction of natural history, geography and kindred subjects in the several state normal schools, the normal college of the city of New York, the training schools for teachers in the city of New York, the teachers institutes in the counties of the state, and to the teachers in the common schools of the city of New York and vicinity as per contract entered into between the state superintendent of public instruction and the American museum of natural history of the city of New York as authorized by chapter ninety-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and for complying with the provisions of chapter four hundred eighty-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-nine extending such instruction to the cities and villages of the state that have or may have a local superintendent of schools, the sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

All persons of the age of ten years and upwards shall be admitted at public lectures illustrated by colored maps or pictures thrown upon a screen or other background, under proper regulations.

EXAMINATION DEPARTMENT.

For the state superintendent of public instruction for defraying the expenses connected with the uniform system of examinations for teachers certificates, state certificates, and state scholarships in Cornell university, and for preparing and printing blanks, circulars, question papers and certificates necessary for such examinations, and for college graduate certificates issued by him in pursuance of chapter five hundred fifty-six of the laws of eighteen hundred ninety-four, and for defraying the expenses of examinations in connection with the uniform graded course of study, twenty-two thousand three hundred dollars, or