The Sierra citizen. [volume] (Downieville, Calif.) 1854-185?, 1854-12-02

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Saturday, December 2, ASA
Common Schools.
One great objection to the permanent
settlement of families ia the mining dis
tricts, is the want of schools to educate
their children. They prefer to leave them
il the old States, ofteutimes at very ordi-
nary schools, rather than bring them here
to be educated in the street.
Singular it is that in State so pros
porous a. this, where every branch Of
business is prosecuted with so much energy
and profit, that so little attention should
be paid to the education Of the children
who are hereafter to take the places of
zhe actors now before the scenes There
is no reason why good schools should not
be established and sustained, in every
mining town with sufficient population
There are numbers of professional teachers
here, who, like men of other professions,
have worked in the mines three or four
years without any one being aware Of
their requirements; such being the case
there can be NO lack Of competent instruct
ors, when situation is offered in which q
man of education can make respectable
livelihood.
The Superinten dent of Public Instruc-
ton has been indefatigable in his efforts
to promote the cause of education in Cali
fornia. The amended laws establishing
and regulating Common Schools, are wise
in their provisions, and tits only necessary
for the people in the interior to comply
with the acquisitions. By the Revenue
Act of 1854, one fourth of the amount re-
ceived into the State Treasury from poll
tax is to be placed to the credit Of the
school fund, and this, with the $4,000
interest Of the seven per cent. bonds in
that fund, will be apportioned to public
schools, organized, conducted and reported
to the department in accordance with law.
This apportionment will be, insufficient to
support school all the year, but it will
be of material advantage.
Section 10, Article /, of the Act
establishing and regulating common
schools, provides that "the County Asses
sor of each and every county in the State
shall be, and he is hereby constituted the
Superintendent CT Common Schools with
In and for his county" We are glad to
see that Mr.. Proctor, the Assessor of ST.
ezra county, is paying the attention to
this matter that its Importance demands.
Section A, Article III. The Common
School moneys in the County Treasures,
shall be apportioned among the several
towns, cities and villages, in proportion to
the number of children residing therein
between the ages of FIVE and eighteen
years, as shown by the last previous re-
ports OF the Common School Marshals and
other officers charged Herewith, and no
school district shall be entitled to any por-
tion of the common school moneys, in
which there shall not have been taught, BY
n legally qualified teacher, a common
school for three months within the year
ending on the last day Of October, and one
half Of the compensation Of said teacher
paid by the inhabitants of said district.
The following is the number of children
between FIVE and eighteen years of age, in
this county, taken from the Common
School Marshal's report to the County
Superintendent -
Downieville, .............. ........ "a
st. Louis, 81