New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-21
PUBLIC MEETINGS.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.

The Board of Education held their usual weekly
meeting yesterday afterncon-ER,sTus c. BENEDICT,
President in the Chair The minutes Of the last meet
ing were read and approved after which the minutes
Of the Executive Committee read and confirmed.
COMMENTATORS Prom c. w Hawkins, Super
intendcnt of Gas Works recommending Kidders gas
regulator. Referred to Committee on Repairs with
power
From the School Officers of the Sixteenth Ward,
expressing BIZ resolution their disspprobaton of the
proposed denomination Of the teachers in that ard
Referred to Committee Of the Whole.
From the School Officers Of the Fourth Wari.
nominating Mr.. Chas. III. .Collsdsy a. Trustee, and
Mr.. Cbas. ii. Lyons as Inspector Of said Ward
referred to Committee on Qualifications. From 5. s.
Randall, City Superintendent relative TO the method
OF education pursued in the Public Schools, aud
recommending classification Of the various depart
ments Of each school also a careful revision OF the
class and text boz laid the table and ordered to
be printed From Patrick McAuliffe for the pay
meut OF ~ 900 due to him for building Ard School In
Fifteenth ct, Tear Lexngton-ay, referred to Finance
Committee.
RrsoLUTIoss.-That The superintendent of School
Buildings deliver to the NJ Y. Juvenile Asylum as
many may he needed Of such seats, old desks, &c,
fog their uae as may have been laid aside. Referred
to Committee on Furniture, with power
That the Plsnetarium now in the Free Academy be
transferred to the han Of the Board of Education for
the uso Of the Normal Schools. Referred to the Com
mttte on the Free Academy
That il be referred to the Finance Committee to
prepare and submit to this Board the necessary pa
pers for the Board Of Education to make application
10 the Common Council for further appropriation Tor
school purposes for the year 1854. Adopted.
That the Chairman Of the Committees on the Free
Academy, Normal Schools on Finance. on Repairs
and on Supplies be Committee to inquire whether
the eployGs OF this Board dlscharging their re-
spectiye duties with ability and promptness Adopted.
RFPoRTs-Of Committee on Elections and Qasli-
6estiops ON nomination Of WIN. V. Leggett as Com
missic Ier of Twenty. second Ward q. J. Dougherty
Trustee for Fourth Ward, and James I. Brennan as
Trustee for Seventh Ward Adopted.
Of Executive Committee on the Free Academy IN
favor Of an appropriation Of $40 900 for support Of
said institution. Adopted.
OF Committee on Free Scholarships, in favor OF ap-
plication Of l.. Antoinette Comstock or Rutgers
Female Institute. Adopted.
OF Committee on Repairs, in favor Of an apprOpria-
ton Of g., 900 for the shop. Adopted.
OF Finance Committee, recommending approPria.
ton of 5000 for the purchase OF furnaces VI Ward
School No. 81. Adopted.
or the Finance Committee, recommending the
adoption of the following resolutions:
Rssored That $50 e6 10 being tie balance Of the annual
OF school moneys for 1854 be aud the same are
her,by srprop cd for the rnpport Of said schools
Resottd That iSs6 81 being the balance OF tie annual
sproroument OF school for 1884 10 the Corporate
Schools be ana the ne se hereby sPPropns'sd of the
TEACHERS SALARns.-1he Board then went into
a Committee Of the Whole upon the report Of the
Committee on Salaries in favor Of establishing uni
form Grade OF salaries FOR the teachers employed ia
the various schools under the jurisdiction Of the
Board of Education. Considerable discussion en-
sued upon the report, pending which the Board ad'
iOuruCd