Excerpt from General School Law of the State of New York 2. He shall appoint a deputy; and, in case of a vacancy in the office of superintendent, the deputy may perform all the duties of the office until the day after the day hereinbefore fixed for an election by the senate and assembly. In case the office of both superintendent and deputy shall be vacant, the governor shall appoint some person to fill the office, until the superintendent shall be elected and assume it. 3. The superintendent's office shall continue to be in the state hall, and maintained at the expense of the state. 4. His salary shall be five thousand dollars a year, payable quarterly, by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller. 5. He may appoint as many clerks as he may deem necessary, but the compensation of such clerks shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of nine thousand dollars in any one year, and shall be payable monthly by the treasurer, on the warrant of the comptroller, and the certificate of the superintendent. 6. The seal of the superintendent, of which a description and impression are now on file in the office of the secretary of state, shall continue to be his official seal, and when necessary may be renewed from time to time. Copies of all papers deposited or filed in the superintendent's office, and of all acts, orders and decisions made by him, and of the drafts or machine copies of his official letters, may be authenticated under the said seal, and when so authenticated, shall be evidence equally with and in like manner as the originals. 7. The superintendent shall be ex-officio a trustee of Cornell University and of the New York State Asylum for Idiots, and a Regent of the University of the State of New York. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.