two or more than four weeks, as the commission may determine. Such camps and the training and discipline thereat shall be under the direction and charge of the commission. The major-general commanding the National Guard shall detail for service at such camps, such number of officers and enlisted men of the National Guard and Naval Militia as may be required by the Commission. Such officers and enlisted men, during such detail shall receive pay, subsistence and transportation as authorized in this chapter and the regulations issued thereunder for officers and enlisted men of their grades and length of service on duty under orders of the major-general, commanding the the National Guard. (Amended by L. 1918, ch. 470.) § 29. General powers and duties of the commission. The commission in addition to the powers elsewhere in this article conferred on it shall have power to: 1. Provide for the observation and inspection of the work and methods prescribed under the provisions of this article, or under the provisions of the Education Law relating to instruction in physical training prescribed after conference with the commission. 2. Prescribe the powers and duties of the inspection of physical training. 3. Regulate the duties of clerical and other assistants and employees of the commission. 4. Prescribe rules and regulations for compulsory attendance during the periods of military training provided in this article. 5. Regulate individual exemptions from prescribed military training. 6. Maintain, and co-operate with the colleges in the State or the federal authorities in maintaining courses of instruction for male teachers and physical instructors and others who volunteer and are accepted by the commission. 7. Make regulations and rules for fully carrying into effect the provisions of this article. $29-a. State military property, including armories, may be used. The authorities in charge of armories shall, upon the application of the Military Training Commission, allow the use of any armory of the National Guard and Naval Militia for the conduct of military drills provided for by this article, when such armory is not then required for the use of the National Guard or Naval Militia, and shall authorize the temporary use by boys for whom military instruction is provided as prescribed in this article, for the purpose of such drills, of arms and other equipment of the National Guard and Naval Militia, belonging to the State, not then required for the use of the National Guard or Naval Militia, and of arms and other equipment which may have been rendered obsolete and unserviceable and which may be retained and issued for such purpose, under such rules and regulations as the proper military authorities may prescribe. The military authorities of the State are authorized and empowered to loan to the Military Training Commission such military property as may be necessary in the organization and maintenance of field training camps, and to carry out the provisions of this article. (Amended by L. 1918, ch. 470.) § 29-b. Use of school buildings. The school authorities throughout the State are authorized to permit the use of school buildings and school grounds for the purpose of carrying out the pro visions of this article. § 29-c. Expenses of detailed officers and men. The expenditures authorized to be made by this article to officers and enlisted men of the National Guard detailed as therein authorized shall be paid from funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of this article. § 29-d. Definitions; article not applicable to certain schools. The expression school authorities" as used in this article shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as is given to such expression in the Education Law. "Secondary schools" means schools for "secondary education," as defined in such law, to the extent that they provide such education. None of the provisions of this article shall apply to any agricultural college in any institution in this State which receives the benefits of the act of congress of July 2, 1862, provided for instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts, and military training, and in which instruction in military tactics is now required of pupils, nor shall it apply to pupils therein. 2. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated to carry out the provisions of this act, which sum shall be expended under the direction of the Military Training Commission for its expenses, the salary of assistants, clerical hire, pay and expenses of detailed officers and enlisted men of the National Guard and Naval Militia, compensation of teachers and instructors assigned from schools and colleges for conducting military training, and the cost of maintaining training camps. 4. PATRIOTISM ARTICLE 26-C Instruction in Patriotism and Citizenship Section 705. Courses of instruction in patriotism and citizenship. In order to promote a spirit of patriotic and civic service and obligation and to foster in the children of the State moral and intellectual qualities which are essential in preparing to meet the obligations of citizenship in peace or in war, the Regents of The University of the State of New York shall prescribe courses of instruction in patriotism and citizenship, to be maintained and followed in all the schools of the State. The boards of education and trustees of the several cities and school districts of the State shall require instruction to be given in such courses, by the teachers employed in the schools therein. All pupils attending such schools, over the age of eight years, shall attend upon such instruction. Similar courses of instruction shall be prescribed and maintained in private schools in the State, and all pupils in such schools over eight years of age shall attend upon such courses. If such courses are not so established and maintained in a private school, attendance upon instruction in such school shall not be deemed substantially equivalent to instruction given to pupils of like age in the public schools of the city or district in which such pupils reside. (Added by L. 1918, ch. 241, in effect April 17, 1918.) § 706. Rules prescribing courses; inspection and supervision; enforcement. The Regents of The University of the State of New York shall determine the subjects to be included in such courses of instruction in each of the grades in such subjects. They shall adopt rules providing for attendance upon such instruction and for such other matters as are required for carrying into effect the objects and purposes of this article. 5. THE FLAG ARTICLE 27 § 710. Purchase and display of flag. It shall be the duty of the school authorities of every public school in the several cities and school districts of the State to purchase a United States flag, flagstaff and the necessary appliances therefor, and to display such flag upon or near the public school building during school hours, and at such other times as such school authorities may direct. § 711. Rules and regulations. The said school authorities shall establish rules and regulations for the proper custody, care and display of the flag, and when the weather will not permit it to be otherwise displayed, it shall be placed conspicuously in the principal room in the schoolhouse. § 712. Commissioner of Education shall prepare program. 1. It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Education to prepare, for the use of the public schools of the State, a program providing for a salute to the flag and such other patriotic exercises as may be deemed by him to be expedient, under such regulations and instructions as may best meet the varied requirements of the different grades in such schools. 2. It shall also be his duty to make special provision for the observance in the public schools of Lincoln's birthday, Washington's birthday, Memorial day and Flag day, and such other legal holidays of like character as may be hereafter designated by law when the Legislature makes an appropriation therefor. 713. Military drill excluded. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize military instruction or drill in the public schools during school hours. 6. TEXTBOOKS Article 25, Section 674. Textbooks containing seditious or disloyal matter. No textbook in any subject used in the public schools in this State shall contain any matter or statements of any kind which are seditious in character, disloyal to the United States or favorable to the cause of any foreign country with which the United States is now at war. A commission is hereby created, consisting of the Commissioner of Education and of two persons to be designated by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, whose duty it shall be on complaint to examine textbooks used in the public schools of the State, in the subjects of civics, economics, English, history, language and literature, for the purpose of determining whether such textbooks contain any matter or statements of any kind which are seditious in character, disloyal to the United States or favorable to the cause of any foreign country with which the United States is now at war. Any person may present a written complaint to such commission that a textbook, in any of the aforesaid subjects for use in the public. schools of this State or offered for sale for use in the public schools of this State contains matter or statements in violation of this section, specifying such matter or statements in detail. If the commission determine that the textbook against which complaint is made contains any such matter or statements, it shall issue a certificate disapproving the use of such textbook in the public schools of this State, together with a statement of the reasons for its disapproval, specifying the matter found unlawful. Such certificate of disapproval of a textbook, with a detailed statement of the reasons for its disapproval, shall be duly forwarded to the boards of education or other boards or authorities having jurisdiction of the public schools of the cities, towns or school districts of this State, and after the receipt of such certificate the use of a textbook so disapproved shall be discontinued in such city, town or school district. Any contract hereafter made by any such board of education or other school authorities for the purchase of a textbook in any of such subjects, which has been so disapproved, shall be void. Any school officer or teacher who permits a textbook in any of such subjects, which has been so disapproved, to be used in the public schools of the State, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added by L. 1918, ch. 246, in effect April 17, 1918.) 7. QUALIFICAtions of teACHERS Article 20, Section 550. Qualifications of teachers. No person shall be employed or authorized to teach in the public schools of the State who is 1. Under the age of eighteen years. 2. Not in possession of a teacher's certificate issued under the authority of this chapter or a diploma issued on the completion of a course in a State normal school of this State or in the State normal college. |