The Panola lynx. (Panola, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1845-1846, 1846-01-24


mary" that it meant there should b
one school under one roof. or that tn
Seminary and all its auxiliary depart
I ments should be in the same enclosu re
or even in the same city or town. Tn,
spirit oil the Act Of Congress is carried
out by the establishment of one Semin
airy, University or College, with sucf
auxiliary departments as are necessary
10 It's success. They should be UNDER
THE GENERAL SUPERVISION AND CONTROL
and be located at such points as TO be
OF the creates: advantage to the main
College, and 10 the cause Of education.
There must yet be another and a still
more useful class Of schools mean
the common or free school. The 18th
section OF land in each township, sci
apart by wise enactment Of Congress
tor this purpose, have oeen most shame.
fully neglected. The inattention with
which these lands have, in many in
stances been treated, makes it very ap.
parent to my mind, that what ever sys-
tenn OF schools we adopt, must be tai ken
under the supervisory control ofofficers
who shall be responsible to the State.
There must be some general head, and
there must be an immediate RESPONSE
bltIty ot-that head. to the State laws.
The people in mass will never require
responsibility and they will never net
unltedly and constantly as one man for
the public good each one will content
himself with acting for himself, and the
general good will go unattended TO. OF
the ten or twelve hundred acres OF
schooElands heretofore, and now under
the control of the citizens Of the town
ship, have not been able to ascertain
that one hundred have been well man
aged: Some of them have been tres
passed on and denuded Of their valua-
bic timber; in other instances they have
been leased, and the money has not
been collected in MANY instances it has
been collected and squandered; in the
tewest number of cases has there been
tree schools kept by the proceeds.
| recommend the passage of a law
for The election Of School Commission
ers in each county, one by the 1ualified
electors of each police district. and that
it be made the duty Of this aboard of
school, commissioners" TO enquire into
and ascertain the'exact condition Of each
sixteen section in their respective coun
lies. | recommend the appointment Of
a general School Commissioner 10 reside
dt the seat Of government, who shall
receive his appointment from the. Gov
ernor and Senate, whose duty it shall
be TO require ofqnd receive from the
School Commissioners in the sever
al counties semi annual reports Of their
proceedings in regard -tosihe sixteenth
sections and other matters entrusted TO
their charge
1t should be made the duty OF the
County Commissioners 10 hold meetings
qurter yearly, at the county site. and
whenever the interest arising from the
proceeds of school. section. is sufficient
10 pay u teacher, it should be their DUTY
to employ competent man and esta-
bIlsh him in a school, Whenever there
is surplus, the consent Of congress
should be obtained TO lis transfer and
use in the next ABIDING township in
which there is a deficiency. The,
should, without delay,Iease all the six-
teenth sections, now undisposed of and
report TO the general commissioner the
for which each one was leased
| further recommend that all the fines
and forleltures, billiard, retail, and other.
licenses, and all other funds that now
go into the Treasury-othef than the lie
climate taxes on properly, he relin-
pushed TO fund TO BE established and
called the ''school fund" That the H.
erary fund be collected from The sew
eral counties, and placed in The "schoo!
Iund;" and ! further-recommend that n
AK of five per cent. on the amount Of
he State and county taxes be assessed
md collect ed. annually for the benefit
'fthe school fund. 7 estimafe that from
hese sources, fnot including the litera-
y fund noW on. handy we will derive |
$4,000 annually. This fund should
'e placed under the control Of the gen
al w uSGu III ulUlTO
he establishment Of free schools. The /
unds to be apportioned among the coun-
les; each according TO lis white popd-
alton, taking the census of 1916 as the
resent basis of aPporlionment 1t
hould be the'dury Of the School Com /
nisSloners to establish schools. And |
whenever the funds of the township
vas insufficient to employ a teacher, a |
ortion Of his wages should be paid out
f the general fund; and the whole
hould be so divided that there should
re free school in every inhabited
ownshiP, at leas, a portion ofthe year.
1.-THE fund would employ teacher but
Or three months. let the school be |
aught for that length of time.
Such is the plan which have devised.
fit does not meetathe legislative sane
on my hearty CO. ope ration is rendered
any other scheme which gives req
enable promise of success. In the fin
arr1nUpDonpt IF opu rlon pouob ,,o,o.