The Arkansas banner., 1850-04-02
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" NIIE 01NNlNNsI THE COMMON SCHOOL FUND.


 IL k mOss unfortunate that the maxlm should ob- taiu. what is svrrybody's business ls nObody's business" It ls moro anfsrsassss still that the acknowledged authority ef tho dogma should bs sscsest excuse for the regsIa,iOa of the conduct Of Mir. Everybody, ia rslation to the basiness of Mir Nobody. The Common School Fand happeas to be placed, unforsanalsly. n this usds6aable DO. sition, aud should IL long cOntlaas thus. there is reason tO believe that its real existence will after while, become to be regarded kind of aoaea- tty. Indeed, begin 10 think that since the Rip Van Wrinkle slumber passed over the western DOT ton of our city. h has already become ideal. aud that during this slumber she has been planged ia Lethe and like Achilles. oaIy hsF heel escaped be- iax submerged. It becomes necessary then for her to go back to first principles the la the history of the past. for oss have gone back to the horn- book, snd as csnno, discover that any one else has. I will tell (e1cuse good people my egosisn) the wonderful discoveries have made. Ia times past Congress passed an act donating the Sixteenth Section ia each tow wnship to the In- habitants of the township, to bs devoted to the purposes of common school instruction. One of these sixteenth sections, that ia township north, aud range 12 vest happens to lie a couple or three miles from Little Rock, and being ia the township belonged to the inhabitants thereof The legislature of the great State of Arkansas, in the ple n,ude of it's wisdom authorized the sale of this land whenever the inhabitants pestioned the county cour, for the same. and provided for the election c a Commissioner and Trustees for the management of the funds arising therefrom. Upon examina- lion, nd that the inhabitants did petition. and a pol-book scas opensd. aud an election had Upon further examination, find that on the 18th Nov. ls43, Herndon Haralson, Clerk. &c, with the assistance of c. L.Jeffries and Joseph Fenno. Justices of ie peace, dily certified the election of R. Besbe as Commissioner to sell the 18th section { in township north, rnge l2 west; and also on the same day certified tie election of L. H. Good rich, c. C. Watkins anl Charles RaPley as Trus- tees of schools in said township. On the same day Charles Rapley, as TTtstee, with Wm, Field as security, and L. H. Goodrich with C. C. Watkins as security, and G. c. Watkins with l.. H. Good rich as security each aud all, entered into bond to
 the State of Arkansas, f the of the inhabitants of the township aforesaid in the sum of $5.0OO for the faithful discharge Ot their duties; and on the l l4th Nov. 1s4s, R. Bebe, Commissioner, with wm F.. Woodruff as his security, entered into bond to the State in tn, sum of $lO.OO0, for the use of the inhabitants of said township, for his faithfal performance as such Commissioner; and on the I7th day of the slme month, the bond was approved by all the Trustees, and of course MF. Beebe was fully aathori;ed by law to enter oD She performance of his duties.
 1 Mir. Beebe, as Commissioner, did enter on the discharge of his said duiss. and on the a3d day of December, Is43, gave certificates of sale and pur- chase, as follows, to-wits
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