Pennsylvania Act 1862-466 — SYSTEM OF EDUCATION BY COMMON SCHOOLS - REGULATION OF

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SYSTEM OF EDUCATION BY COMMON SCHOOLS - REGULATION OF
                 Act of Apr. 11, 1862, P.L. 471, No. 466              Cl. 24
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "An Act for the regulation and continuance
        of a system of Education by Common Schools," approved the
        eighth day of May, one thousand eighth hundred and fifty-
        four.

        Section 16.  Conveyance of property by trustees of academy or
     seminary to school districts; use of property conveyed;
     admission to school of children of citizens of county within
     which district situated; agreement for maintenance of schools;
     conversion of assets into cash; transfer of assets
        The trustees of any academy or seminary in this Commonwealth,
     which received money or land therefrom for educational purposes,
     are hereby authorized and empowered to convey, by deed of not
     less than two-thirds of their number, to be approved by the
     court of common pleas of the county within which said academy or
     seminary is located, all the real estate, buildings, property,
     and funds of or belonging thereto, to the board of directors,
     and their successors in office, of the common schools of the
     district in which the main building thereof may be situated, to
     be used and applied by said directors for the purposes of common
     school education therein; or, if so designated in said
     conveyance, said lands, property, and funds, or their equivalent
     in value, shall be devoted to the establishment and maintenance
     of an industrial school, in which instruction shall be given in
     manual training, husbandry, and domestic science, and for no
     other purpose: Provided, That when such property shall be used
     toward the maintenance of such industrial or high common school,
     the citizens of the county within which said district is
     situated shall have the right to have their sons and daughters
     admitted into such industrial or high school, if duly qualified,
     on paying to the treasurer of said district the same rate of
     tuition for each which it shall annually cost said district per
     student for the maintenance of such industrial or high school,
     aside from the use therein of the property and funds so conveyed
     to said district as hereinbefore provided.
        The trustees of the academy or seminary may enter into an
     agreement with the board of school directors of the school
     district to conduct jointly the aforesaid educational work, and
     may bear a part or the whole of the expense thereof; or the
     trustees may contract with the directors so that the directors
     may have sole charge and supervision of such instruction.
        The trustees may, with the approval of the court of common
     pleas, convert the whole or part of the assets of the academy or
     seminary into cash, and transfer the same, or transfer the
     assets in whole or in part, to the board of school directors,
     upon the express condition that the principal or corpus of the
     assets shall forever remain intact, and that only the income or
     use thereof be available for such instruction.  1862, April 11,
     P.L. 471, Sec. 16; 1911, May 11, P.L. 258, Sec. 1; 1915, April
     22, P.L. 165, Sec. 1.