New York Consolidated Laws, Education Law - EDN § 3711. Sale of gospel or school lots on division of town

1. Whenever a town having lands assigned to it for the support of the gospel or of schools, shall be divided into two or more towns, or shall be altered in its limits by the annexing of a part of its territory to other towns, such lands shall be sold by the supervisor of the town, in which such lands were included immediately before such division or alteration;  and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned between the towns interested therein, in the same manner as the other public moneys of towns, so divided or altered, are apportioned.

2. The shares of such moneys, to which the towns shall be respectively entitled, shall be paid to the supervisors of the respective towns, and shall thereafter be subject to the provisions of section twenty-one hundred forty-two.