CHAPTER 47, LAWS OF 1909, BEING CHAPTER 43 OF THE CONSOLIDATED

LAWS

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Section 182. The superintendent of state prisons, and the superintendents of reformatories and penitentiaries, respectively, are authorized and directed to cause to be manufactured by the convicts in the prisons, reformatories and penitentiaries, such articles as are needed and used therein, and also such as are required by the state or political divisions thereof, and in the buildings, offices and public institutions owned or managed and controlled by the state, including articles and materials to be used in the erection of the buildings. All such articles manufactured in the state prisons, reformatories and penitentiaries, and not required for use therein, shall be of the styles, patterns, designs and qualities fixed by the board of classification, and may be furnished to the state, or to any political division thereof, or for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political division thereof, at and for such prices as shall be fixed and determined as hereinafter provided, upon the requisitions of the proper officials, trustees or managers thereof. No article so manufactured shall be purchased from any other source, for the state or public institutions of the state, or the political divisions thereof, unless said state commission of prisons shall certify that the same cannot be furnished upon such requisition, and no claim therefor shall be audited or paid without such certificate.

GENERAL CONSTRUCTION LAW

CHAPTER 27, LAWS OF 1909, BEING CHAPTER 22 OF THE CONSOLIDATED LAWS

Section 24. Holidays; half-holiday.-The term holiday includes the following days in each year: the first day of January known as New Year's day; the twelfth day of February, known as Lincoln's birthday; the twenty-second day of February, known as Washington's birthday; the thirtieth day of May, known as Memorial day; the fourth day of July, known as Independence day; the first Monday of September, known as Labor day; the twelfth day of October, known as Columbus day, and the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day, and if either of such days is Sunday, the next day thereafter; each general election day and each day appointed by the president of the United States or by the governor of this state as a day of general thanksgiving, general fasting and prayer, or other general religious observances. The term half-holiday includes the period from noon to midnight of each Saturday which is not a holiday. (As amended by Chapter 112, Laws of 1909.)

LIQUOR TAX LAW

CHAPTER 39, Laws or 1909, BEING CHAPTER 34 OF THE CONSOLIDATED

LAWS

Section 23. Places in which traffic in liquor shall not be permitted.— Traffic in liquor shall not be permitted:

2. Under the provisions of subdivision one of section eight of this chapter, in any building, yard, booth or other place which shall be on the same street or avenue or within two hundred feet of a building occupied exclusively as a church or school-house; the measurements to be taken in a straight line from the centre of the nearest entrance of the building used for such church or school to the centre of the nearest entrance of the place in which such liquor traffic is desired to be carried on; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to a place which on the twenty-third day of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, was lawfully occupied for a hotel, nor to a place in which such traffic in liquors was actually lawfully carried on at that date, nor to a place which at such date was occupied, or was in process of construction, by a corporation or association which traffics in liquors solely with the members thereof, nor to a place within such limit to which a corporation or association trafficking in liquors solely with the members thereof, at such date may remove but none of the exemptions under this subdivision shall apply to subdivision one of this section, or

BIENNIAL SCHOOL CENSUS

CHAPTER 550, Laws of 1895

AN ACT IN RELATION TO A BIENNIAL SCHOOL CENSUS

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of public instruction to take or cause to be taken, in the next ensuing October after the enactment of this law, and thereafter in every second year of the month of October, a school census, in all towns and cities of the state having a population of ten thousand or upwards; which shall ascertain the following facts, and he shall embody a summary of the same in his annual report for the year, in which said census is taken, viz., the names and ages of all persons between the ages of four and sixteen; the number of persons in each town or city coming within the application of this law between the ages of twelve and twenty-one years that are unable to read or write; the number of persons over four and under sixteen years of age who do not attend school because they are obliged to work within school hours; the number of persons between four and sixteen years who are attending other than public schools; and such other facts as in his judg ment may be of importance in securing the information needed to carry out the requirements of article nine, section one of the state constitution, or for the improvement of the common school system.

Section 2. In taking this school census, the superintendent of public instruction is authorized to determine the work to be done by all of the common school authorities and employees under his superintendency, and it shall be the duty of all such authorities and public officers having any civil authority in connection with the common school administration of the state or of said city or town to aid said superintendent in all proper ways in the discharge of his duties under this act.

Section 3. Whoever, being any parent or person having under his or her control, or in his or her charge, a child between the ages of four and sixteen years, refuses or withholds information in his or her possession, sought by said superintendent or his representative for the purpose of a school census, or falsifies in regard to the same, shall be liable to and punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

Section 4. The money required for the purpose of carrying this act into effect shall be paid by the towns and cities respectively included in the provisions of the act, and shall be paid for the service rendered in taking the school census, on the certificate of the state superintendent that such census has been satisfactorily taken.

Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

NOTE-See Sections 1000-1004 of the Education Law, 1909, relating to School Census.

CHAPTER 1031, LAWS OF 1895

AN ACT TO ENCOURAGE AND PROMOTE THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF TEACHERS

*Section 1. The board of education or the public school authorities of any city or of any village employing a superintendent of schools, may establish, maintain, direct and control one or more schools or classes for the professional instruction and training of teachers in the principles of education and in the method of instruction for not less than 38 weeks in each school year.

†Section 2. Toward the maintenance and support of these schools and classes established pursuant to this act, or heretofore established and maintained for similar purposes, and whose requirements for admission and whose course of studies are made with the approval of the state superintendent of public instruction, and under whose direction such classes shall be conducted, the said superintendent is hereby authorized and directed in each year to set apart, to apportion, and to pay from the free school fund $1 for each week of instruction of each pupil, and the sum of $40,000 is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this act until the close of the school year of 1897. Such apportionment and payment shall be made upon the report of the local superintendent of schools filed with the state superintendent of public instruction, who shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount apportioned.

Section 3. If the total sum to be apportioned and to be paid, as provided by section 2 of this act, shall in any one year exceed the said sum of $100,000, the said state superintendent of public instruction shall apportion to each school and class its pro rata of said sum upon the basis described in section 2 of this act.

Section 4. After January 1, 1897, no person shall be employed or licensed to teach in the primary and grammar schools of any city authorized by law to employ a superintendent of schools, who has not had successful experience in teaching for at least three years, or, in lieu thereof, has not completed a three years course in, and graduated from, a high school or academy having a course of study of not less than three years,

NOTE-See Sections 640-645 of the Education Law, 1909, relating to Training Classes and Training Schools.

*As amended by Chapter 495, Laws of 1897. +As amended by Chapter 646, Laws of 1896.

CHAPTER 550, Laws of 1895

AN ACT IN RELATION TO A BIENNIAL SCHOOL CENSUS

Section 1. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of public instruction to take or cause to be taken, in the next ensuing October after the enactment of this law, and thereafter in every second year of the month of October, a school census, in all towns and cities of the state having a population of ten thousand or upwards; which shall ascertain the following facts, and he shall embody a summary of the same in his annual report for the year, in which said census is taken, viz., the names and ages of all persons between the ages of four and sixteen; the number of persons in each town or city coming within the application of this law between the ages of twelve and twenty-one years that are unable to read or write; the number of persons over four and under sixteen years of age who do not attend school because they are obliged to work within school hours; the number of persons between four and sixteen years who are attending other than public schools; and such other facts as in his judg ment may be of importance in securing the information needed to carry out the requirements of article nine, section one of the state constitution, or for the improvement of the common school system.

Section 2. In taking this school census, the superintendent of public instruction is authorized to determine the work to be done by all of the common school authorities and employees under his superintendency, and it shall be the duty of all such authorities and public officers having any civil authority in connection with the common school administration of the state or of said city or town to aid said superintendent in all proper ways in the discharge of his duties under this act.

Section 3. Whoever, being any parent or person having under his or her control, or in his or her charge, a child between the ages of four and sixteen years, refuses or withholds information in his or her possession, sought by said superintendent or his representative for the purpose of a school census, or falsifies in regard to the same, shall be liable to and punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

Section 4. The money required for the purpose of carrying this act into effect shall be paid by the towns and cities respectively included in the provisions of the act, and shall be paid for the service rendered in taking the school census, on the certificate of the state superintendent that such census has been satisfactorily taken.

Section 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

NOTE-See Sections 1000-1004 of the Education Law, 1909, relating to School Census.