Complex sentence: The Board of Education in Benicia, which later became the Benicia Unified School District, was organized in May, 1850, and agreed to pay Woodbridge $1000.00 for his work as a teacher that first year, making the payment in city bonds.
Split into simpler sentences: The Board of Education in Benicia, which later became the Benicia Unified School District, was organized in May, 1850. The board agreed to pay Woodbridge $1000.00 for his work as a teacher that first year, making the payment to him in city bonds.