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hearing had before such board. Upon the filing of such sworn complaint, a copy thereof, certified by the secretary or clerk as a true copy, shall be served upon such person at least five days before the hearing, and at such hearing such janitor shall have the right to be represented by counsel. If upon such hearing it shall Hearing. appear that the person charged is guilty of the neglect, misbehavior or other offense set forth in said complaint, then said board may discharge, dismiss or suspend such janitor or reduce his pay or compensation, but not otherwise.

RAILROAD TAX FOR SCHOOLS.

of state rail. road tax among the counties fo

school purposes.

P. L. 1906

Chap. 146

292. (1.) The tax assessed in each year by virtue of Distribution the provisions of sub-divisions one, three and four of section three of an act entitled "An act to revise and amend 'An act for the taxation of railroad and canal property, approved April tenth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four,' which act was approved March twentyseventh, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight," and the amendments thereof or supplements thereto, after deducting therefrom a sum equal to one-half of one per centum of the total valuation of the property on which said tax shall be assessed, shall be devoted to the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and shall be apportioned annually, on or before the first day of February, among the several counties by the State Comptroller in proportion to the amount of taxable real and personal estate of said counties respectively, as shown by the last abstract of ratables from the several counties made out by the several boards of assessors, and filed in the office of said Comptroller. The State Comptroller shall, on or before the first day of November following said apportionment, draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of the county collector of each county for the portion of said tax to which said county shall be entitled,

Apportionment by

county superintendents.

Comptroller

to deduct
from school
fund amount
appropriated
for certain
educational
purposes.

P. L. 1909,
Chap. 65.

Use of money deducted.

Time of payment by state.

P. L. 1911,
Chap. 237.

as aforesaid. The moneys received by any county collector by virtue of the provisions of this act shall be apportioned by the County Superintendent of Schools of such county among the several school districts therein at the same time and in the same manner as other moneys shall be apportioned by him.

293. (1.) The State Comptroller, prior to the apportionment, on or before the first day of Feburary, among the several counties of the State, of the fund devoted to the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, as provided in and by an act entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support and management thereof,' approved October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three," approved April twentieth, one thousand nine hundred and six, shall deduct from the sum so to be apportioned as aforesaid the sum appropriated annually for the purposes herein specified, to wit:

State Normal School at Trenton,

State students at Rutgers (scholarships),

New Jersey School for the Deaf,

County Superintendents,

State Normal School at Montclair Heights,
Manual Training Industrial School for Colored
Youth,

Evening schools for foreign-born residents,
Commissioner of Education,

which said moneys shall be retained in the treasury of
the State for the payment of the appropriations to be
made for the several purposes indicated, instead of the
payment thereof from the general moneys in the State
treasury, as heretofore.

294. (1.) The State Comptroller is hereby empowered and directed to make distribution of the moneys assessed, levied and collected for the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven, as provided in and by an act

entitled "A supplement to an act entitled 'An act to establish a thorough and efficient system of free public schools, and to provide for the maintenance, support and management thereof, approved October nineteenth, one thousand nine hundred and three,' approved April twentieth, one thousand nine hundred and six," as follows: On the first day of September, one thousand nine hundred and eleven, such part of said moneys as has been collected and on the twenty-fifth day of October of said year, the balance collected to that date. The Comptroller shall annually, hereafter, make a similar distribution of all such moneys collected and which are distributed under said act, on the first day of September and on the twenty-fifth day of October, respectively, of the year next succeeding the year of their assessment.

installments.

lbid.

295. (2.) If, hereafter, on the twenty-fifth day of Payment in October, in any year, any part of the taxes apportioned on the first day of February of the previous year, as provided in the act to which this is a supplement, shall not have been paid into the State Treasury, the State Comptroller shall cause the part of said taxes which shall not have been paid in by said twenty-fifth day of October to be distributed as and when collected, unless the amounts received are less than five thousand dollars, in which event he shall not make a distribution until the payments aggregate five thousand dollars.

296. (3.) All moneys paid in accordance with this act shall be held by the official to whom paid in trust for the support and maintenance of the free public school of the school district to which apportioned and paid. No part thereof shall be used to pay or discharge, in whole or in part, any note or other obligation heretofore incurred, or any bonds, whether temporary or for a term of years, heretofore issued by such municipality, or by any Board of Education of any municipality, nor shall any part of the funds hereby authorized to be paid be used for any other purpose than for the support

Custody and
P. L. 1909,

use of funds.

Chap. 63.

Proviso; Right to borrow in anticipation of taxes.

Duty of state comptroller.

and maintenance of the free public schools of such municipality or school district; provided, however, that it shall be lawful for the municipality or Board of Education of any school district to borrow by temporary loan, in anticipation of the receipt of any moneys which may be distributed under this act, or the act to which this act is a supplement, to the extent of not exceeding eighty per cent. of the amount of moneys which may be apportioned to such school district under the distribution herein provided for; such temporary obligations, if any, to be first paid from the moneys received under this act, before any other disposition of such money shall be made. Any person, or the members of any board, violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (a)

297. (4.) The State Comptroller shall, on the date and at the time named in this act, draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of the county collector of each county for the amount due to each county of the apportionment, made to the several counties, at the times and in the manner provided by this act and the act to which this act is a supplement.

(a) See section 61.

Miscellaneous Laws.

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

1. Whenever any board of education, school committee or other like body of any city, town or township in this State shall certify, or shall have certified, to the Governor that a sum of money not less than three thousand dollars has been contributed by voluntary subscriptions of citizens, or otherwise as hereinafter authorized, for the establishment in any such city, town or township, of a school or schools for industrial education, it shall be the duty of the said Governor to cause to be drawn by warrant of the Comptroller by himself out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to that contributed by the particular locality as aforesaid for the said subject, and when any such school or schools shall have been established in any locality as aforesaid, there shall be annually contributed by the State, in the manner aforesaid for the maintenance and support thereof a sum of money equal to that contributed each year in said locality for such purpose; provided, however, that the moneys contributed by the State as aforesaid to any locality shall not exceed in any one year the sum of seven thousand dollars.

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applied under

direction of Ibid.

trustees.

2. All moneys raised and contributed as aforesaid Money to be shall be applied under the direction of the Board of Trustees, organized as hereinafter provided, to the establishment and support of schools for the training and education of pupils in industrial pursuits (including agriculture), so as to enable them to perfect themselves in the several branches of industry which require technical instruction.

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