Local tax. Trustees of P. L. 1895, Powers. Treasurer. 3. Any city, town or township shall have power to appropriate and raise by tax for the support of any such school therein, such sum of money as they may deem expedient and just. 4. There shall be a Board of Trustees of each of such schools, which shall consist of the governor and the mayor or other chief executive officer of the city, town or township in which such school is located, as ex-officio members, and eight other persons to be chosen and appointed by the Governor as follows: Within thirty days after the passage of this act the Governor shall choose and appoint eight persons, resident in the city, town or township in which such school is located, as members of such Board of Trustees for the following terms: (a) two for the term of one year, two for the term of two year, two for the term of three years and two for the term of four years; and thereafter two trustees shall be appointed in like manner each year for a full term of five years; and the official terms of all trustees in office at the time of the passage of this act shall terminate and expire upon the making of the appointment aforesaid, and the trustees appointed hereunder shall take office immediately upon their appointment, and shall continue in office until their successors are appointed, and any vacancy that may occur in the said Board of Trustees shall be filled by appointment in like manner for the unexpired term only; the said Board of Trustees shall have control of the buildings and grounds owned and used by such schools, the application of the funds for the support thereof, the regulation of the tuition fees, the appointment and removal of teachers, the power to prescribe the studies and the exercises of the school and rules for its management, to grant certificates of graduation, to appoint some suitable person treasurer of the board, to frame and modify at pleasure such by-laws as they may deem necessary for their own government; (a) Amended by section 6. they shall report annually to the State and local Boards of Education their own doings and the progress and condition of the schools. 5. The said trustees shall receive no compensation Compensation. for their services, but the expenses necessarily incurred by them in the discharge of their duties shall be paid upon the approval of the Governor. 6. The trustees of schools for industrial education, to be hereafter appointed by the Governor of this State for full terms under and by virtue of the acts to which this is a supplement or the supplements thereto, shall serve for terms of four years and not for terms of five years as now required by law. Term of office of 1896, Chap. 48. Trustees of schools industrial created bodies 7. The Board of Trustees of the schools for industrial education, provided for and organized under the act to which this is a supplement, be and they are hereby corporate. created a body corporate under the name and style of Chap. 9. "The Board of Trustees of Schools for Industrial Education," with the right of perpetual succession, to sue and be sued, to purchase, lease and hold personal and real property, and to sell and mortgage the same, and with power to accept donations and bequests of money, and property to be used for the purposes for which said boards are constituted and organized. I. Whenever in any city of this State the board of trustees of schools for industrial education shall acquire by deed, gift, grant, devise or otherwise, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended for the purchase of land and erection and equipment of a building or buildings to be used for the purposes for which said board is constituted, and whenever any such board of trustees of schools for industrial education in said city 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 said city of a school or schools for industrial education, it shall be State appropriation toward local industrial schools. Chap. 78. P. L. 1909, Proviso. Erect suitable buildings. P. I.. 1907, Proviso. Bond issue. Amount. the duty of the said Governor to cause to be drawn by warrant of the comptroller, approved by himself, out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to that contributed by the said city as aforesaid for the said object, and when any such school or schools shall have been established in any city as aforesaid, there shall be annually contributed by the State, in manner aforesaid, for the maintenance and support thereof, a sum of money equal to that contributed each year in said city for such purpose; provided, however, that the moneys contributed by the State as aforesaid shall not exceed in any one year the sum of ten thousand dollars. I. It shall and may be lawful for the board of trustees of the school for industrial education in any city of the second class of this state, upon first obtaining the consent of the common council or other governing body of such city, to build upon land already owned by it, or to purchase land and build thereon a building or buildings, structure or structures, for the uses and purposes of a school for industrial education within its corporate limits; provided, that the cost and expense of the land purchased, and the building or buildings, structure or structures to be erected, shall not in the aggregate exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars. 2. To defray the cost and expense of such land and buildings, structure or structures to be erected under and in pursuance of the first section of this act, it shall be lawful for the common council or other governing body of any city of the second class in this state, to issue bonds in the corporate name of said city for the aggregate amount required by said board of trustees, in sums of not more than one thousand dollars, and not less than one hundred dollars each, to be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk and sealed with the corporate seal of said city, and to have written or printed thereon the words "School for Industrial Education Construction Bonds," said bonds to be disposed rate. Sinking fund provision. of at not less than their par value, and shall be payable at the expiration of not more than twenty years after Time and their date of issue, and to draw interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum, payable semiannually, and may be registered or coupon bonds, or may be registered and coupon bonds combined, at the option of said city, and there shall be raised by taxes each year the interest on the whole amount of the bonds so issued, together with at least five per centum per annum for the purpose of a sinking fund, to be paid to the commissioners of the sinking fund of said city for the purpose of meeting the said bonds as they become due; and the money raised by the issuing of said bonds shall be credited on the books of the city treasurer to the said trustees of the school for industrial education, and paid out and disbursed by the city treasurer, from time to time, on the written order or orders of said trustees, signed by their president and secretary, and countersigned by the city comptroller, in payment of the purchase price of any land purchased by said trustees, and the cost of erection of any building or buildings, structure or structures thereon for the use of a school for industrial education within the corporate limits of such city. SUMMER COURSES IN AGRICULTURE, MANUAL TRAINING AND HOME ECONOMICS. tion. p. 92. 1. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining Appropriasummer courses for instruction in method of teaching P. L. 1908, elementary agriculture, manual training and home economics, there shall be appropriated annually a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars; provided, that no Proviso. money shall be expended under the provisions of this act until an appropriation there for shall have been made in the annual appropriation bill. tions, places. 2. The State Board of Education shall adopt rules Rules, regulaand regulations for establishing and maintaining sum- Ibid. Certificates valid to teach. Proviso. Expenses, how paid. Ibid. mer courses of study in elementary agriculture, manual training and home economics, and shall designate the place or places where such courses shall be provided. Certificates of graduation from such courses of study as prescribed by the State Board of Education shall be valid licenses to teach in the public schools the subjects covered by said certificates; provided, the holders thereof shall also hold certificates valid as licenses to teach in the public schools in which they shall be employed. 3. All expenses incurred in establishing and maintaining such courses of study and which are to be paid out of the moneys appropriated under the provisions of the act shall be paid by the State Treasurer on the warrant of the State Comptroller, on bills approved by the State Board of Education. School at state prison. P. L. 1907, p. 124. School board. Ibid. Proviso. An Act to establish a school and to provide school facilities and accommodations in the State Prison. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey: 1. The board of inspectors of the State Prison shall establish in said prison a school for the instruction of persons confined therein, and shall provide for said. school a suitable school-room or school-rooms, together with proper furniture and equipment. 2. Said school shall be under the supervision and control of a board to be known as the State Prison School Board. Said board shall consist of the principal keeper of the prison, two members of the Board of Inspectors, to be appointed annually by the board, and the moral instructors in said prison. The members of said board appointed by the Board of Inspectors shall hold office for the term of one year; provided, that the term of office of a member of such board so appointed shall not extend beyond his term of office as a member of the Board of Inspectors. |