port, showing all districts in his jurisdiction that have and those that have not complied with the provisions of this act, according to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, based upon a thorough investigation by him as to the facts; nor shall any public money of the state be apportioned or aid for the benefit of any teachers' training class, teachers' institute or other school mentioned herein until the officer having jurisdiction or supervision thereof shall have filed with the state superintendent of public instruction an affidavit that he has made thorough investigation as to the facts and that to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, all the provisions of this act relative thereto have been complied with. The principal of each normal school in the state shall at the close of each of their school years file with the state superintendent of public instruction an affidavit that all the provisions of this law applicable thereto have been complied with during the school year just terminated and until, such affidavit shall be filed no warrant shall be issued by the state superintendent of public instruction for the payment by the treasurer of any part of the money appropriated for such school. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of public instruction to provide blank forms of affidavit required herein for use by the local school officers, and he shall include in his annual report a statement showing every school, city, or district which has failed to comply with all the provisions of this act during the preceding school year. On complaint by appeal to the state superintendent of public instruction by any patron of the schools mentioned in the last preceding section, or by any citizen, that any provision of this act has not been complied with in any city or district, the state superintendent of public instruction shall make immediate investigation, and on satisfactory evidence of the truth of such complaint, shall thereupon and thereafter withhold all public money of the state to which such city or district would otherwise be entitled, until all the provisions of this act shall be complied with in said city or district, and shall exercise his power of reclamation and deduction under section nine of article one of title two of the consolidated school law. (As amended by chap. 1041 of 1895 and chap. 901 of 1896.)

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ARTICLE VII

FREE INSTRUCTION IN DRAWING.

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§ 21. In each of the state normal schools the course of study shall embrace instruction in industrial or free-hand drawing. The board of education in each city in this state shall cause free instruction to be given in industrial or free-hand drawing in at least one department of the schools under their charge. The board of education of each union free school district shall cause free instruction to be given in industrial or free-hand drawing in the schools under their charge, unless excused therefrom by the superintendent of public instruction.

§ 22. The board of education, or other body having supervision of the public schools in any city or union free school district in this state, is hereby authorized to establish and maintain evening schools for free instruction in industrial drawing, whenever the city authorities in any city or the qualified electors duly convened in any union free school district shall so direct, and shall make provision for the maintenance of such schools. In addition to the powers now conferred by law upon the authorities of any city, or upon the electors of any union free school district in the state, such authorities and such electors shall also have power, whenever they shall think it advisable, to raise such moneys as shall be necessary to carry out the purposes of this act.

ARTICLE VIII.

VOCAL MUSIC IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

23. In each of the state normal schools the course of study may embrace instruction in vocal music. The boards of education in each city, and in each union free school district incorporated under the laws of this state, may cause free instruction to be given in vocal music in the schools under their charge. The superintendent of public instruction may provide instruction in vocal music in all teachers' institutes held throughout the state.

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ARTICLE IX.

FREE KINDERGARTEN IN CITIES AND VILLAGES.

24. The school authorities of any union free or common school district, located in any county having less than one million inhabitants, may establish and maintain one or more free kindergarten schools. The moneys for the support of such school shall be raised in like manner as for the support of the other public schools of such district. No child under the age of four years shall be admitted to the schools, and the local school authorities are hereby empowered to fix the highest age limit of children who may attend. All teachers employed in these schools shall be licensed in accordance with rules and regulations established by the superintendent of public instruction, and shall each share in the distribution of district quotas. The attendance of children under the age of five years who may be enrolled in the schools shall be reported separately and shall be counted in the distribution of public money. (As amended by chap. 264 of 1896, § 20.)

ARTICLE X.

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

8 25. Boards or departments of education of cities and villages, and of union free schools and trustees of public school districts, are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain a department or departments in the schools under their charge for industrial training and for teaching and illustrating the manual or industrial arts, and the principles underlying the same; and for that purpose they are respectively authorized to purchase and use such material and apparatus, and to establish and maintain such shops, and to employ such instructor or instructors, in addition to the other teachers in said schools, as in their judgment shall be deemed necessary or proper whenever the authorities or electors respectively now authorized by law to raise money by taxation for school purposes, shall make provision for the maintenance of such departments.

§ 26. All authorities and electors, respectively, now authorized by law to levy and raise taxes for school purposes, are hereby authorized to levy and raise by taxation, in addition to any amount or amounts which they are now, respectively, in any city,

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village, or district, authorized by law to raise for school purposes, and in the same manner, and at a regular or special meeting, the necessary funds to establish and maintain such industrial departments as aforesaid.

§ 27. The state normal and training schools which are or hereafter may be established in this state, hereby are and shall be required to include in their courses of instruction the principles underlying the manual or industrial arts, and also the practical training in the same, to such an extent, as the superintendent of public instruction may prescribe, and to such further extent as the local boards, respectively, of said normal and training schools may prescribe.

ARTICLE XI.

SCHOOLS FOR COLORED CHILDREN.

§ 28. (Repealed by chap. 492 of 1900.)

§ 29. The trustees of any union school district, or of any school district organized under a special act, may, when the inhabitants of any district shall so determine, by resolution, at any annual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, establish a separate school or separate schools for the instruction of such colored children resident therein, and such schools shall be supported in the same manner and receive the same care, and be furnished with the same facilities for instruction, as the white schools therein.

30. No person shall be employed to teach any of such schools who shall not, at the time of such employment, be legally qualified.

31. The colored schools in the city of New York, now existing and in operation, shall hereafter be classed and known and be continued as ward schools, and primaries, with their present

teachers, unless such teachers are removed in the manner provided by law, and such schools shall be under the control and management of the school officers of the respective wards in which they are located in the same manner and to the same extent as other ward schools, and shall be open for the education of pupils for whom admission is sought, without regard to race or color.

ARTICLE XII.

ORPHAN SCHOOLS.

32. The schools of the several incorporated orphan asylum societies in this state, other than those in the city of New York, shall participate in the distribution of the school moneys, in the same manner and to the same extent, in proportion to the number of children educated therein, as the common schools in their respective cities or districts. The schools of said societies shall be subject to the rules and regulations of the common schools in such cities or districts, but shall remain under the immediate management and direction of the said societies as heretofore.

ARTICLE XIII.

INDIAN SCHOOLS.

33. The superintendent of public instruction shall be charged with providing the means of education for all the Indian children in the state. He shall cause to be ascertained the condition of the various bands in the state in respect to education; he shall establish schools in such places, and of such character and description as he shall deem necessary; he shall employ superintendents for such schools, and shall, with the concurrence of the comptroller and secretary of state, cause to be erected, where necessary, convenient buildings for their accommodation.

34. In the discharge of the duties imposed by this act, the said superintendent shall endeavor to secure the co-operation of all the several bands of Indians, and for this purpose, shall visit, by himself or his authorized representative, all the reservations where they reside, lay the matter before them in public assembly, inviting them to assist either by appropriating their public moneys to this object, or by setting apart lands and erecting suitable buildings, or by furnishing labor or materials for such buildings,