*344.* _Orphan Asylums, School Moneys._—In 1850 the New York Legislature enacted a law as follows: “The schools of the several incorporated orphan asylums within the State other than those in the city of New 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 cities and districts.” The court ruled that moneys devoted by the constitution to the State for the support of common schools could not be distributed under the act, for the reason that such asylums are not public schools; but moneys from other sources might be paid for the education of such orphan children in proportion to their number to those educated in the common schools of their respective cities and districts.(612) The schools kept by the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum Society of the city of Brooklyn, are not common schools within the meaning of the constitution, and a provision of law that such schools should share in the distribution of school moneys raised by the State was void.(613) *345.* _Contract, Direct Payment, Lease._—No school of any denomination or sect is entitled to public moneys for its support, either by contract for the education of students therein or by direct payment from the government.(614) A school conducted by the Catholic Church in which religious instruction is given to Catholic children is a sectarian institution within the constitutional provision against using public funds for sectarian purposes; but public school money expended for such a school conducted by this school district could not be recovered by suit against the school officers.(615) Also, a school maintained as a charity under direction of trustees elected by the town where they must be of a certain religion, is not entitled to public moneys.(616) But the lease of a part of a parochial school building or the basement of a church for public school purposed does not violate the law.(617) In the States of Maine, Iowa, Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Kansas, and Texas, the reading of the King James Bible and the singing of hymns and saying prayers have been held not sectarian.(618) But in Wisconsin, the court ruled the other way.(619) *346.* _Teacher, Lord’s Prayer, Exercise._—“A public school teacher, who, for the purpose of quieting the pupils and preparing them for their regular studies, repeats the Lord’s Prayer and the Twenty-second Psalm as a morning exercise, without comment or remark, in which none of the pupils are required to participate, is not conducting a form of religious worship or giving sectarian or religious instruction.”(620) Substantially the same rule applies in Pennsylvania.(621) However, similar religious exercises conducted by Catholic teachers have generally been held sectarian and not permissible in public schools.(622)