of such minor by mail to the school authorities, and a person, firm or corporation employing a minor over fourteen years of age and less than eighteen years of age contrary to the provisions of this article shall be subject to a fine of not less than twentyfive dollars and not more than one hundred dollars for each offense or by imprisonment in the city or county jail for not less than five days and not more than ten days, or by such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. A person, firm or corporation, which has in its employ a minor who fails to attend a part-time or continuation school or class as required herein, shall immediately discontinue the services of such minor upon receiving from the school authorities written notice of the failure of such minor to attend such part-time or continuation school or class, and a person, firm or corporation violating this provision of law shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars for each offense.

j The board of education of each city or district having a population of five thousand or more inhabitants is hereby required to enforce the provisions of this law and the Commissioner of Education is hereby charged with the duty and vested with necessary authority to supervise the enforcement and administration of this act.

k If the authorities of such a city or school district fail or refuse to provide the necessary funds for the establishment and maintenance of such part-time or continuation schools or classes as are required under this law, the city or district shall forfeit from the funds due such city or district from the State for school purposes an amount equal to that which is estimated by the board of education as necessary to properly operate and maintain such schools or classes. The public or state funds thus forfeited by such city or district shall be apportioned by the Commissioner of Education to the board of education of such city or district for the purpose of maintaining such part-time or continuation schools or classes and the board of education of the city or district receiving such funds shall apply the same toward the maintenance of such schools or classes and in payment of the expenses incurred thereby. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

§ 602 Establishment of general industrial and unit trade and technical schools, and schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, practical arts or homemaking schools or evening vocational schools; directors of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making. The board of education of any union free school

district shall also establish, acquire and maintain general industrial schools, unit trade and technical schools, schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, and practical arts or homemaking schools and evening vocational schools for like purposes whenever such schools shall be authorized by a district meeting. The trustees or board of trustees of a common school district may establish a school or a course in agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, when authorized by a district meeting. The board of education of a city, town or union free school district, not maintaining a school of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking may employ a director of agriculture. The boards of edu cation or trustees of two or more districts or towns may by joint contract employ such a director and determine in such contract as to the portion of the compensation which is to be paid by each district. The qualifications of a person employed as such director shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Education, as provided by law in respect to teachers employed in public schools of the State. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

§ 603 Appointment of an advisory board. 1 The board of education shall appoint an advisory board of five members representing the local trades, industries, and occupations. In the first instance two of such members shall be appointed for a term of one year and three of such members shall be appointed for a term of two years. Thereafter as the terms of such members shall expire the vacancies caused thereby shall be filled for a full term of two years. Any other vacancy occurring on such board shall be filled by the appointing power named in this section for the remainder of the unexpired term.

2 It shall be the duty of such advisory board to counsel with and advise the board of education in relation to the powers and duties vested in such board by this chapter. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

§ 604 Authority of the board of education over such schools. The board of education in a city or in a union free school district in which city or district a general industrial school, unit trade or technical school, a school of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, or practical arts or homemaking school, or a part-time or continuation school, or an evening vocational school is established as provided in this article, is vested with the same power and authority over the management, supervision and control of such school and the teachers or instructors

employed therein as such board now has over the schools and teachers under their charge. Such boards of education shall also have full power and authority:

1 To employ competent teachers or instructors.

2 To provide proper courses of study.

3 To purchase or acquire sites and grounds and to purchase, acquire, lease or construct and to repair suitable shops or buildings and to properly equip the same.

4 To purchase necessary machinery, tools, apparatus and supplies. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

§ 605 State aid for general industrial schools, unit trade and technical schools, part-time or continuation schools, practical arts or homemaking schools, evening vocational schools, and schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking. 1 The Commissioner of Education in the annual apportionment of the state school moneys shall apportion therefrom to each city and school district for each general industrial school, unit trade and technical school, part-time or continuation school, practical arts or homemaking school or evening vocational school, maintained therein for thirty-six weeks during the school year and employing one teacher whose work is devoted exclusively to such school, and having an enrolment of such number of pupils as may be required by the Commissioner of Education and maintaining an organization and a course of study, and conducted in a manner approved by him, a sum equal to two-thirds of the salary paid to such teacher, but not exceeding one thousand dollars.

2 He shall also apportion in like manner to each city, union free school district or common school district for each school of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, maintained therein for thirty-six weeks during the school year, and employing one teacher whose work is devoted exclusively to such school, and such number of pupils as may be required by the Commissioner of Education having an enrolment and maintaining an organization and course of study and conducted in a manner approved by him, a sum equal to two-thirds of the salary paid to such teacher. Such teacher may be employed for the entire year, and during the time that the said school is not open shall be engaged in performing such educational services as may be required by the board of education or trustees, under regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Education. Where a contract is made with a teacher

for the entire year and such teacher is employed for such period, as herein provided, the Commissioner of Education shall make an additional apportionment to such city or district of the sum of two hundred dollars. But the total amount apportioned in each year on account of such teacher shall not exceed one thousand dollars.

3 The Commissioner of Education shall also make an additional apportionment to each city and union free school district for each additional teacher employed in the schools mentioned in the preceding subdivisions of this section for thirty-six weeks during the school year, a sum equal to one-half of the salary paid to each such additional teacher, but not exceeding one thousand dollars for each teacher.

4 The Commissioner of Education shall also apportion in like manner to each city, town and school district employing, or joining in the employment of, a director of agriculture, as authorized by section 602 of this chapter, and establishing, maintaining and conducting an organization and course of instruction in such subject, approved by the Commissioner of Education, a sum equal to one-half of the salary paid to such director by such city, town or district, or by two or more of such towns or districts, not exceeding in each year the sum of six hundred dollars for each director employed. Where the apportionment is made on account of a director employed by two or more towns or districts, it shall be apportioned to such towns or districts in accordance with the proportionate amount paid by each of such towns or districts under the contract made with such director.

5 The Commissioner of Education, in his discretion, may apportion to a district or city maintaining such schools or employing such teachers for a shorter time than thirty-six weeks, or for a less time than a regular school day, an amount pro rata to the time such schools are maintained or such teachers are employed. This section shall not be construed to entitle manual training high schools or other secondary schools maintaining manual training departments, to an apportionment of funds herein provided for.

Any person employed as teacher as provided herein may serve as principal of the school in which the said industrial or trade school or course, or school or course of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, is maintained. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

§ 606 Application of such moneys. All moneys apportioned by the Commissioner of Education for schools under

this article shall be used exclusively for the payment of the salaries of teachers employed in such schools in the city or district to which such moneys are apportioned. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

§ 607 Annual estimate by board of education and appropriations by municipal and school districts. The board of education of each city and the board of education or trustees of each school district which maintains a general industrial school, unit trade or technical school, school of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making, part-time or continuation schools, practical arts or homemaking schools or evening vocational schools, shall include in its estimate of expenses pursuant to the provisions of this chapter the amount that will be required to maintain such schools after applying toward the maintenance thereof the amount apportioned therefor by the Commissioner of Education. Such amount shall thereafter be levied, assessed and raised by tax upon the taxable property of the city or district at the time and in the manner that other taxes for school purposes are raised in such city or district. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

§ 608 Courses in schools of agriculture for training of teachers. The state schools of agriculture at Saint Lawrence University, at Alfred University and at Morrisville may give courses for the training of teachers in agriculture, mechanic arts, domestic science or homemaking, approved by the Commissioner of Education. Such schools shall be entitled to an apportionment of money as provided in section 605 of this chapter for schools established in union free school districts. Graduates from such approved courses may receive licenses to teach agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking in the public schools of the State, subject to such rules and regulations as the Commissioner of Education may prescribe. [Amended by L. 1919, ch. 531, in effect August 1, 1919.]

Federal aid. An act was passed by Congress, approved February 23, 1917, entitled "An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for cooperation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects, and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure." This act appropriated an annual amount which will reach an annual maximum of $7,000,000 in 1926 to be apportioned among the states which accept the conditions under which the apportionment is to be made and provide some official body or officer to cooperate with the federal authorities in carrying into effect the provisions of the act. The act creates officers whose duty it will be to prescribe the instruction to be given in vocational subjects and to aid and encourage the states in promoting vocational education. The State Legislature enacted the following act accepting the terms and provisions of the federal act: