assistant in said schools shall be paid less than fourteen hundred dollars per annum; and no male teacher after twelve years of service in said schools shall receive less than two thousand and one hundred and sixty dollars per annum; provided, however, that the service of such teacher, vice-principal, head of department, or first assistant shall have been approved after inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by a majority of the borough board of school superintendents. For all purposes affecting the increase of salaries of teachers in any school the principal of such school shall have a seat in the borough board of superintendents, with a vote on all increases of salaries of teachers in said school, the salaries of the women principals in said schools shall be increased by the addition of two hundred and fifty dollars in each year until they shall receive the sum of two thousand and five hundred dollars per annum; and the salaries of the male principals in said schools shall be increased by the addition of two hundred and fifty dollars in each year until they shall receive the sum of three thousand and five hundred dollars per annum; and no male principal after ten years of service as principal in said schools, shall receive less than three thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and no woman principal of ten years' service as principal in said schools shall receive less than twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; provided, however, that the service of such principal shall have been approved after inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by the borough board of superintendents; but these provisions shall not apply to principals of schools of less than twelve classes. No salary now paid to any public school teacher in The City of New York shall be reduced by the operation of this act.

Section 2. The board of estimate and apportionment is hereby authorized and required to direct the issue of revenue bonds for the purpose of providing funds to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

JAMAICA NORMAL SCHOOL

CHAPTER 524, Laws of 1905

AN ACT TO TRANSFER TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK THE NORMAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS, CITY OF NEW YORK, FORMERLY IN THE VILLAGE OF JAMAICA AND COUNTY OF QUEENS

Section 1. The normal and training school heretofore established in the former village of Jamaica, in the county of Queens, pursuant to the provisions of chapter five hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three entitled "An act to establish a normal and training school in the village of Jamaica and county of Queens," including all the lands, buildings and appurtenances thereunto belonging, shall be transferred and conveyed to The City of New York, for the use of the said city as a training school and public school on the first day of January nineteen hundred and six upon terms to be fixed and agreed upon by a commission consisting of the mayor, comptroller and president of the board of education of The City of New York and the commissioner of education and the comptroller of the state of New York.

Section 2. Upon the transfer of the said school under the terms fixed by the said commission, the conduct, management and support thereof shall be regulated by chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, known as the Greater New York charter, and the board of education shall have and exercise the same rights and powers in respect to said school as said board possesses in respect to other public schools in The City of New York.

Section 3. The principals, teachers, janitors and other employees of the said school shall be transferred from the service of the state to the service of the city in the respective positions to which they have been appointed, and shall be entitled to such compensation as is now provided or may hereafter be provided for similar positions in the schools of The City of New York by the lawful authority, subject to change of title and to transfer, reassignment or removal for cause, as may be provided by law; and all such principals, teachers, janitors and other employees shall be eligible for reappointment, subject, however, to the right of the board of education of The City of New York to abolish unnecessary positions, and subject also to their complying, in the case of teachers, with the provisions of the board of education of The City of New York

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lars per annum; and no male teacher after twelve years of service in said schools shall receive less than two thousand and one hundred and sixty dollars per annum; provided, however, that the service of such teacher, vice-principal, head of department, or first assistant shall have been approved after inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by a majority of the borough board of school superintendents. For all purposes affecting the increase of salaries of teachers in any school the principal of such school shall have a seat in the borough board of superintendents, with a vote on all increases of salaries of teachers in said school, the salaries of the women principals in said schools shall be increased by the addition of two hundred and fifty dollars in each year until they shall receive the sum of two thousand and five hundred dollars per annum; and the salaries of the male principals in said schools shall be increased by the addition of two hundred and fifty dollars in each year until they shall receive the sum of three thousand and five hundred dollars per annum; and no male principal after ten years of service as principal in said schools, shall receive less than three thousand five hundred dollars per annum; and no woman principal of ten years' service as principal in said schools shall receive less than twenty-five hundred dollars per annum; provided, however, that the service of such principal shall have been approved after inspection and investigation as fit and meritorious by the borough board of superintendents; but these provisions shall not apply to principals of schools of less than twelve classes. No salary now paid to any public school teacher in The City of New York shall be reduced by the operation of this act.

Section 2. The board of estimate and apportionment is hereby authorized and required to direct the issue of revenue bonds for the purpose of providing funds to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 524, Laws of 1905

AN ACT TO TRANSFER TO THE CITY OF NEW YORK THE NORMAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL IN THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS, CITY OF NEW YORK, FORMERLY IN THE VILLAGE OF JAMAICA AND COUNTY OF QUEENS

Section 1. The normal and training school heretofore established in the former village of Jamaica, in the county of Queens, pursuant to the provisions of chapter five hundred and fifty-three of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three entitled "An act to establish a normal and training school in the village of Jamaica and county of Queens," including all the lands, buildings and appurtenances thereunto belonging, shall be transferred and conveyed to The City of New York, for the use of the said city as a training school and public school on the first day of January nineteen hundred and six upon terms to be fixed and agreed upon by a commission consisting of the mayor, comptroller and president of the board of education of The City of New York and the commissioner of education and the comptroller of the state of New York.

Section 2. Upon the transfer of the said school under the terms fixed by the said commission, the conduct, management and support thereof shall be regulated by chapter three hundred and seventy-eight of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, as amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and one, known as the Greater New York charter, and the board of education shall have and exercise the same rights and powers in respect to said school as said board possesses in respect to other public schools in The City of New York.

Section 3. The principals, teachers, janitors and other employees of the said school shall be transferred from the service of the state to the service of the city in the respective positions to which they have been appointed, and shall be entitled to such compensation as is now provided or may hereafter be provided for similar positions in the schools of The City of New York by the lawful authority, subject to change of title and to transfer, reassignment or removal for cause, as may be provided by law; and all such principals, teachers, janitors and other employees shall be eligible for reappointment, subject, however, to the right of the board of education of The City of New York to abolish unnecessary positions, and subject also to their complying, in the case of teachers, with the provisions of the board of education of The City of New York

with regard to renewal and permanence of license, and, in the case of janitors, with the provisions of the law relating to the civil service, that are applicable to The City of New York.

Section 4. Provision for the maintenance of said school and the payment of salaries shall be made by the board of estimate and apportionment in the budget for nineteen hundred and six.

Section 5. All acts or portions of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.