Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1850-12-25

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In his late Report to the Legislature, President
f the Literary Board Gov. Manly travels out of his
way to make some statements and suggestions in re-
alton to the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
Among other things. h. says:
The Report Of the Superintendent to this Board,
shows that he had under his charge for the year end
ng May Is, 1850, eighteen deaf mutes who are
,ene6caries of the State.''
The Governor then goes refer to the fact that
no provision has been thus far made in this Instu
this, and Of the supposed number of deaf mute pupils
he tells the Legislature that " while this state of
things continues, the annual appropriation of S5 900
ought to be curtailed'' Gov. Many is mistaken in
his in relation to the number of pupils in
the Institution in May, 1850. The Report of the Su
perintendent the Literary Board which he REFERS
contained only the names of those pupils whose
Counties had failed to pay for them required by
law. The number of these, the Governor states,
was eighteen; but this is no criterion by which to
form an idea Of the number of benefciares in attend
ance. The number of pupils, at the time mentioned
in the Report of the Superintendent, t,Oeny Uo
and Of these twenty Iene6ciaries of the State
in whole in part. We rfer to the Report of the
President and Directors of the Institution submitted
the present Legislature, containing statement of
the number Of pupils at PRESENT in the Institution as
well for other matters of interest connected with
its operations.
So much for one mistake If the Governor-now
for the next. In the financial portion Of the Report
there is an item charged 10 the Institution of IS, ,OOO-
the amount appropriated by act Of Assembly for the
purpose of meeting the bond of the Superntend ent,
given to the contractors. This amount was to come
from the unerpended balance Of the annual appropria
lion, and should not, therefore, be made separate
charge. as it is made by the Governor.
So much for that mstake-now for the next.
Speaking of the buildings and of the contract made
with the Messrs Cosby for their erec,ion the Gov
ernor says the of 81 500, part of the contract
price, has been withheld from the contractors, until
this question whether the contract has been COM
piled with, shall be satisfactorily adjusted Now,
the Literary Board have retained 500, as stated
by Gov. Manly, and the Board of Directors of the
Institution have withheld 81 900, out OF the S. 900
above spoken of-making in all two thousand 1fue
hundred dollars withheld, instead of one thousand
Ave hundred, as stated by the Governor.
We have said that Gov Manly has travelled out of
his way to make some of these statements and sug-
gestions in relation to the Institution for the Deaf
agement of this Institution out OF the hands of the
Literary Board and vested it in Board of Directors
who were empowered generally and specially to su-
perntend and control it. 1t is to be presumed, in
the absence of proof the contrary, that they know
their dues-that they will perform those duties to
the best Of their judgment-and that, if the annual
appropriation for the Institution should be found to
be too much, they will recommend to the Legislature
reduction of it. is Governor IF the Stale, recou-
mendation by Gov. Manly that the appropriation be
curailed, would have been in place; but we cannot
perceive that, President Of The Literary Board he
hasany authority to offer suggestions and recon-
mendatons in this regard, than the Board of Drec-
tors of the Institution spoken Of would have to offer
their advice in relation to the Literary Fund to Con-
mon Schools. But Gov. Manly appears to be peculi-
arly unfortunate in every rublic movement he nakes.
Instead of putting his white-basis recommendation
in relation to the distribution of the School Fund,
in his annual Message, Governor of the State, he
ought to have held that up and inserted it in this Re-
port as President of the Literary Board while the
proper place for most of his statements and sugges-
tions in this Report, in connection with the Deaf and
Dumb Institution, would have been his annual Mes
sage. But the Governor, being determined to pu,
his white-basis proposition ill., yielded in all probabi'
ity to the necessity of the in embodying it in
his annual Message-for he knew that the members
of the Literary Board would sanction such propo-
sition in their Report.
| In making these remarks we are actuated by nc
disposition TO annoy Gov. Manly, or to do him injus
,ice. We have sought only to correct his misstate
ments, and to set forth the tacts they exist, before
the Legislature and the public.