St. Patrick's Orphan Asylum v. Board of Education

By the court, E. Darwin Smith, J.

The legislature in 1850, passed an act entitled “ an act to provide for the ter education of the children in the several oiphan asylums in this state other than in the city of blew York,” the first section of which is as follows:

u The schools of the several incorporated orphan asylum societies within this state, other than those in the city of bfew York, shall participate in the distribution of the school moneys, in the same manner, and to the same extent, in proportion to the number of children educated therein, as the common schools in. their respective…