Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: different villages, towns or cities in which such orphan asylums may be located. § 902 Annual reports. An annual report shall be made and sworn to by the presiding officer of any such asylum, stating the number of inmates thereof, the time spent by them in pursuing studies therein, in what studies they shall have been instructed, and the manner in which the public funds distributed to it shall have been expended, which shall be filed with the Commissioner of Education. ARTICLE 36 Schools for Colored Children [Text of article omitted.] ARTICLE 37 Indian Schools [Text of article omitted.] ARTICLE 38 Instruction of Deaf-Mutes and of the Blind [Text of article omitted.] ARTICLE 39 New York State School for the Blind [Text of article omitted.] ARTICLE 39-a [Added by L. 1917, ch. 559, in effect May 18, 1917] Physically Defective Children § 1020 Physically defective children. 1 The board of education of each city and of each union free school district, and the board of trustees of each school district shall, within one year from the time this act becomes effective, ascertain, under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Education and approved by the Regents of the University, the number of children in such city or district under the age of eighteen years who are deaf, blind, so crippled or otherwise so physically defective as to be unable to attend upon instruction in regular classes maintained in public schools. 2 The board of education of each city and of each union free school district in which there are ten or more children who are deaf, blind, crippled or otherwise physically defective shall establish such special classes as may be necessary to provide instruction adapted to the mental attainments and physical conditions of such...