The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-03-18

SPECIAL MEETING.
President Hams in the Choir.

President Hams in the Choir. 0..ssr.ra1.
taking up the report Of the special committee 10 viii IN
was referred communication from the public school
society IN to soS %aa %.ds IL:
day at the preceding meeting The trustees Of the public
the minutes Of the former meeting read and arp-ov
ca one Of the trustees forward and requested mat
the public school society should % heard through Mr.
Mr. KArcHam then roso, aud after some preliminary
remarks said the question was wnesnsr me society
from the school fund a cert lin for each Of the
children This the question which they WERE to dis
sr The law Of IsIa Here Mr. road the ilth and 18th
sections of the act and commended that by those sections
hepubc school 70 DC .sa we
schools in which sectarian books &C. were introduced
and used The next question vas nss WE meaning the
that the society had right to call on the Legislature fer
funds to build schools, but his propoeiton was,
thew had Corporate authority build and open schools
This power was conferred on them by the original
charter Of the 9th Of April asO ac tbs so
ciety were empowered purchase take receive hold
and ENJOY any estats real or personal wna!ever ma
their and alss authorized them to establish
one or free schools in the city for the objects named
nusd to recto ali the subsequent acts down to the act Of
May 1884, conending the society had perfect corpofae
right to erect and Spsn .siS ~ sxsn to M
on the minds of the members Of the board Of ed
cation that the Of building and opening schools
was altogether out this question: upon that he would
have something TO say before he finished his arguments
he then contended the Legislature did not intend or
lie school society 70 erect new schools he said the
common school system embraced all the children 10
New York or in other words that the system IN, while
dren there and therefore that 1t must embrace all
the children in the city but III, this o %ouia Dro Ss
not see this. The fact,is the Legislature alluded to
the school societies mentioned in section 49, the law
+. in 70 those
isting or other words the old ground should be left
under the management Of the same parties % before ne
irresponsible body.thsy were a. Irresponsible IN
point Of Law any other body and he held in his hand
thousands Of dollars without single dollar deficiency
He also denied the right OF the Legislature to alter the
bounty 70 tho society had
chartered right Neither had the Legislature any right
to deprive the society Of its chartered right to build
Mr. Ketcham said he would now come to the important
question, which was, could the Public School Society
had the right draw in the manner and to the same
extent the ward schoolsthey had right to draw per
head for all the lessi incurred ior their :ea0o
penses and the fund from which those expenses were to
be drawn7 Legislative enactmsnts were the from
which the fund was to be drawn, and the object or
purpose which the fund created to be the legal
expenses for which to be expended Mr. Kstcham
contended at great length that the Public school Soc sy
had concurrent power with the Board of Education to
purchase ground establish schools provided they
vested the title to ell real and personal estate belonging
to such schools in the Corporation of the city Of New
York. He however, concluded by stating that there
any doubt in the minds Of the members Of the Board
Of Education, to the construction Of the school laws
he would recommend that this Board should join the
Public School Society in application to the Legislature
Tor short decaratory act explaining the intention
of the Legislature and that that act should contain
promise which would give the Board Of Education
supervisory power in relation to the location only OF
any schools be hereafter established by the public
school society
Commissioner MASON replied to Mr.. Kstcham, and
said he left the main question out Of view. There was
question to the right the Public School Society
to build school houses and establish schools out Of
their own funds from such fund: as private indi
viduals might be willing to entrus to them for that pur
pose the question before this board and which it had
to decide whether since the act Of May, 1874
the Public School Society had the to purchase sites
and esabsh schools and draw the school fund for
the expense of establishing those schools The learned
Commissioner insisted that would be inconsistent both
with letter and spirit of the different legislative en-
actments for regulating common schools that the Public
School Society should have powers with the
Board of Education After Mr.. Mason concluded. Mr.
Sedgwck spoke at some length after which Mr. Michel
moved an adjournment to Wednesday next, which was