Maumee express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1837-1838, 1837-08-12
To the County auditors.

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copy OF the Law, and q statement OF
what Is required; but for fear Of acci-.
dent, another copy will be forwarded 20
each Of you, and also copy Of the cir
cular of the county auditor to the school
and township officers as prepared by the
auditor of this county, you can adopt this
or any other form you please, SO as TO- ef-
feet the object. You have also received
blank forms to facilitate your labors,and
secure as far as possible, uniformity in
your returns.
Conference.-The extended action un-
der this law must begin ,oith you. Any
delay on your part will delay the whole.
The school officers must receive their
instructions from you. Let me entreat
you to send out your circulars at least
one to every school district, and to every
township clerk in your respective coun-
ties Immediately, as the law directs.
Read il for yourselves, and let us all be
governed by the requisition of the laws,
under which we are to act.
To the Officers Of Common schools in the
State of Ohio. b
Gentlemen-On you, after all, devolves
the greater part ofthe work, and thele.
gislature looks to you for an active and
efectual endeavor to furnish all the in
formation required. Your returns are
to be made to the county auditors, and
by the county auditors, forwarded to the
Superintendent, to be laid before the le-
gislature.
The county auditors have copies ofthe
law and directions, on all the points
which reports are required. You are re-
ferred therefore to these officers for in
formation, should they in any case fail to
comply with their duty in placing the
proper documents in their hands al an
early day.
You will be particularly careful that
your annual report includes all the time
from the third Friday in October, 1886.
TO the third Friday October, 1887, being
the period of the annual election Of
boards of school officers.
! There are, in the state, say seventy
two county auditors, and more than
twenty thousand school officers, inclu-
ding school directors, examiners, clerks,
and treasurers, besides school teachers,
any of whom can, in one or two days,
collect and furnish, with sufficient accu-
racy, all that is required Of his particu-
lar district.
To the Citizens of Ohio.
Fellow citizens-An important trust
has been committed too you, as citizens
r of free country: but that trust in re-
gard to the interest Of education, was
never so important as now. Formerly
but little was required Of you, because
the country was to new to admit OF
action on the subject; but now much
is required to be done, if you would pre-
, serve equal rights to all The voices Of
all men Of all parties unite from east to
west from the Lake to the Ohio river, in
. favor of general education To'avoid
the evils Of partial legislation, a superin-
tendant has been appointed: but he can't
answer the expectation ofthe public un-
less the people respond to the call now
made, and, through the proper officers,
cause full reports to be made within the
proper time. .
Fellow citizens, much has already
been done, but it is admitted on all hands
that much remains yet to be done. The
legislature with an earnest disposition to
go forward in the good work, stand and
call upon you for information, as to what
is now doing, what remains to be done,
and how they may best accomplish the
object so generally favored.
Large sums of money are derived
from lands and taxes; and other large
appropriations have recently been made
for common schools to an extent that
must secure US, as state, the admira-
ton of the intelligent and the patriotic
every where.
Your superintendent has entered upon
the duties ofhis Office with fear and hope.
He can only be Of service by collecting
and laying before your Legislature your
several thousand voices; he claims only an
earnest wish to promote the great cause
of education, the common schools, the
peoples colleges" He is to great ex-
ltent, powerless, except as your organ.
Some action, decisive action, will proba-
Ily ensue from the legislature next win
ter. 1t depends on the people what can
be the character Of that action. Three
or four active men in county, with a
little aid from the school officers and
county auditor, may furnish the superin-
tendant with such information as shall
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