2 Knowingly keeps any false account, or makes any false entry or erasure in any account of, or relating to, any money so received by him, or, 3 Fraudulently alters, falsifies, conceals, destroys or obliter ates any such account; or, 4 Wilfully omits or refuses to pay over to the people of this State or their officer or agent authorized by law to receive the same, or to such city, village, county or town, or the proper officer or authority empowered to demand and receive the same, any money received by him as such officer, when it is his duty imposed by law to pay over, or account for, the same, Is guilty of a felony. An § 1866 Violations of law by public officers. officer or other person mentioned in the last section who wilfully disobeys any provision of law regulating his official conduct, in cases other than those specified in that section is guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both. § 1868 Officials not to be interested in sales, leases or contracts. A public officer or school officer who is authorized to sell or lease any property, or to make any contract in his official capacity, or to take part in making any such sale, lease or contract, who voluntarily becomes interested individually in such sale, lease or contract, directly or indirectly, except in cases where such sale, lease or contract, or payment under the same, is subject to audit or approval by the Commissioner of Education, is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 1871 School district trustee not to draw draft on supervisor in certain cases. A school district trustee who issues an order or draws a draft on a supervisor or collector for any money, unless there is at the time sufficient money in the hands of such supervisor or collector belonging to the district to meet such order or draft, is guilty of a misdemeanor. § 2050 Injury to public record. A person who, wilfully and unlawfully removes, mutilates, destroys, conceals, or obliterates a record, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited in a public office or with any public officer by authority of law, is punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years, or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by both. § 2321 Making false statement in reference to taxes. A person, who, in making any statement, oral or written, which is required or authorized by law to be made as the basis of imposing any tax or assessment, or of an application to reduce any tax or assessment, wilfully makes, as to any material matter, any statement which he knows to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Abolition of libraries, 334 Academic departments, 4 academies changed to, 108-9 INDEX for non-resident pupils, 164-65 Academic pupils, tuition in contract- apportionment to, 163 changed to academic departments, charters, 12-13 dissolution, 15-17 retransfer to former trustees, 109 Accountants, 10 Actions against school officers, 251, 252 expenses of district officers in de- for recovery of taxes, 136 supervisors sue for money due from school officers, 46 teachers' wages, unpaid, 72 district superintendents may take, Age of pupils, 177, 201 Agriculture, apparatus for teaching, instruction in, in central rural Agriculture, schools of, 57, 186-95, 298-99 authority of the board of educa- Agriculture, schools of (continued) directors of, 191 estimates and appropriations, 194 state aid for, 192 supervision by Commissioner of Alcoholic drinks, see Physiology and Alfred University, state school of Americanization, provision for carry- Animals, humane treatment, 92, 103, Annual meetings, see School meet- Anti-sedition law, 29-31 apportionment for, 163 boards of education to purchase, district to vote tax for, 71 [349] Birds, humane treatment and pro- Blind, schools for, 296 academy, may adopt as academic agricultural schools, and others, appointment of officers in union bonds, legalization by Commis- central rural schools, duties relat- condemnation of land for school- of consolidated district, 44 contracts with trustees in other corporate bodies, 97 district quotas, powers, 44 disputes concerning, 100 record of votes, 99 expenditures, limitation upon, 107 fire drills, duties relating to, 234 relating to, 186-87 kindergartens, to maintain, 106 annual, 101 members, school officers, 5 |