IN ASSEMBLY, 1 January 26, 1831. REPORT : Of the committee on colleges, academies and common schools, in relation to the Revised Statutes concerning common schools. Mr. Morehouse, from the committtee on colleges, academies and common schools, to whom was referred an act to amend the Revised Statutes relating to common schools, REPORTED That by the Revised Statutes, the commissioners of common schools are to apportion the school monies received by them among the several districts within their town, in proportion to the number of children residing in each within the ages prescribed, as the same shall appear by the last annual reports of the trustees of the respective districts; provided always, that the district from which no sufficient annual report shall have been received, and in which a school shall not have been kept for at least three months during the year ending at the date of its report, &c. shall not receive any apportionment of monies. The enumeration of the children is supposed to be made on the last day of December, annually; and the report must be dated on the first day of January in every year. The 26th section of article 3d of the title of the statutes relating to common schools, provides for an equitable apportionment of the school monies in cases of alteration or formation of a district after the annual reports are made to the commissioners, and before the the apportionment of the monies, but does not extend to the more [A. No. 81.] 1 common case of an alteration or erection of a district in the autumn, and so immediately preceding the first of January ensuing, as to render it impracticable to have had a school kept therein for three months antecedent the report. The operation of the law as it now exists, will exclude a district from a participation in the school monies for the year succeeding its formation, if formed subsequent to the first of October in any year, although such district is formed from another or other districts in which a school has been duly kept, and the money which its inhabitants would have had the benefit of as a component part of the district from which they are taken, is apportioned generally. The committee can discover no good reason for continuing this obviously inequitable consequence; and they recommend the passage of the act referred to them as an adequate provision for the case suggested. IN ASSEMBLY, January 22, 1831. ANNUAL REPORT Of Abraham A. Slover, an Inspector of Lumber for the city and county of New-York. To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New-York. Agreeable to the Revised Laws, I, as an Inspector of lumber, make the following returns for the year 1830, viz: Feet. 9,606 ash cot. joist worth from, .......... 12,870 oak plank and boards, 15,506 maple joist, ........ .................. 905 cherry boards,.... .... ... Per thousand. $7 50 to $10 00 15 00 to 20 00 15 00 to 20 00 35 00 23,818 pine plank and boards, clear,.......... 6,050 Spanish cedar, 4 to 6 cents per super IN ASSEMBLY, January 24, 1831. : ANNUAL REPORT Of James M. Nelson, an Inspector of Lumber for the city and county of New-York. In pursuance of an act of the legislature of this state, entitled "An act to amend 'An act directing the mode of appointing certain officers whose appointments are not otherwise provided for by the constitution,' passed February 2nd 1827," and in pursuance of the 197th section of the 13th article of the 2nd title of the 17th chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, I have the honor of herewith transmitting to you, for the use of the legislature, a report, showing the quantity, quality and value of the lumber measured and inspected by me, for the year immediately preceding the first day of January inst., together with the amount of fees and emoluments derived from my said office, of inspector of lumber. I have the honor to be, Your obt. servt., JAMES M. NELSON, Inspector. New-York, Jan. 1831. 1 |