The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1855-01-27
Schools for Ottawa,

We announce with more than ordinary
qualification that the meetings that have
lately been held by our citizens on the sub
feet Of establishing schools in Ottawa are
about to result in something substantial. -
The following report, submitted to, and
adopted at the meeting on Saturday evening,
shadows forth the leading ideas OF the pisn
agreed on. The meeting on Saturday even.
ing appointed committee to prepare bin
to be submitted to the Legislature embrace
ing as It's leading features this plan The
city Of Ottawa is TO be disconnected with the
Township, and reacted into one school dis
trict, under the control ofa board Of cduca-
ton, who are TO establish such primary
schools in the different parts OF the city as
the eXiscneies of the people may require,
and have power, for this purpose, to dispose
our proportion Of the school fund, and TO
levy tax of one per cent. on the property
Of the city. In addition to these primary
schools, central high school is also con
tcmplGtcd for the more advanced scholars.
1t IS believed, when once fairly in operation
the system will Dc no more expensive than
our present want Of system, while. as re-
CARDS efficiency, there can be no compar-
ison. Bat were the expense double what
our people at present pay, it would DO no
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loving Is the report alluded to:
10 The Iahabitdpts Of the City Of Ottaro.
Your committee to whom was reC,rred bv
the meeting held at the Conr, lIouse last
Saturday evening. the subject relative 10 the
adoption Of n general system Of free nuhl;r
schools in this city, and t, report piap ON
which the same shall be based and carried
out, beg leave to report:
That they have given the subject all the
consideration which the time would hermit
and their limited information on educational
matters Of the present dav, suggests:
Your committee feel deeply IMPRESSED
with the importance Of the matter submitted
to them.
To the general iutpllioonc. or thc nc,ul,
has been wisely coufdeI all that anntrt,in2
"a the Government of the country a. yy,,ll as
the political relations which individuals shall
sustain one with another and ,ho freedom
and happines, Of the whole I'pon each
mall, citizen arriving Mt fine .,c Of ,,y.,,t,..
one years dcvolves an important and sacred
trust, an equal voice for sustaining and pcr,
pctuatipe our institutions reared by ,hc ma.
triots and saycs of the revolution and nor
fcctcdby their wisdom and the eyurrjrnce
which they acouired while manf,llv got ,,itI
calm determination RESISTING the cycroacI.
ments and exactious Of arbitrary ,oy,er
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