Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 55, Issues 1-2 |
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Amount paid teachers ANNUAL REPORT ask leave ASSEMBLY Asylum authorised average banks beef and pork bill canal capital CATTARAUGUS COUNTY Cayuga Cayuga County cents Chautauque Chenango children taught city and county city of Albany commissioners common schools county of Livingston county of New-York county paupers cure Delaware dollars duty Erie county Esopus creek expense February February 13 females Fort Covington Herkimer Herkimer county Honorable the Legislature House hundred insane inspected Inspector of Lumber institutions instruction January January 21 John lands Livingston lunatics males mercht New-York Number of districts number of paupers Oneida Onondaga opinion Otsego OTSEGO COUNTY overseers paupers persons petition of sundry petitioners plank poor poor-house population pork present provisions Public money rail-road referred the petition relief Rensselaer road school fund School money select committee sundry inhabitants superintendents tion Total town of Franklinville Towns and Counties trustees turnpike whole number York
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Page 14 - By it twenty thousand pounds were annually appropriated for the term of five years, for the purpose of ' ' encouraging and maintaining schools in the several cities and towns in this State, in which the children of the inhabitants, residing in the State, shall be instructed in the English language or be taught English grammar, arithmetic, mathematics and such other branches of knowledge as are most useful and necessary to complete a good English education.
Page 12 - Resolved, That the Senators of this State in the Congress of the United States be instructed and the Representatives be requested to oppose the restoration of the deposits and the renewal of the charter of the United States Bank.
Page 3 - Plans for the improvement and management of the common school fund, and for the better organization of the common schools ; and, 4. All such matters relating to his office, and to the common schools, as he shall deem expedient to communicate.
Page 13 - The committee to whom was referred so much of the governor's message, as relates to...
Page 14 - The system of Common Schools having been discontinued, and the advantage to morals, religion, liberty and good government, arising from the general diffusion of knowledge being universally admitted, permit me to recommend this subject to your deliberate attention.
Page 4 - The chancellor shall have the care and custody of all idiots, todyofiuiou, lunatics, persons of unsound mind, and persons who shall be incapable of conducting their own affairs, in consequence of habitual drunkenness, and of their real and personal estates, so that the same shall not be wasted or destroyed ; and shall provide for their safe keeping and maintenance, and for the maintenance of their families, and the education of their children, out of their personal estates, and the rents and profits...
Page 16 - I cannot omit this occasion of inviting your attention to the means of instruction for the rising generation. To enable them to perceive and duly to estimate their rights, to inculcate correct principles and habits of morality and religion, and to render them useful citizens, a competent provision for their education is all-essential.
Page 13 - That his Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, requested...