Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1859-02-18

Schools. l32, ls2
Average number in the Summer
School'. lOO,T26
Number Of Scholars IN the Winter
Schools. l5I,sGO
Average number in Winter Schools. IL? 1870
Ter Schools, HES
Ratio Of Mean average attendance
u whole number Of Scholars, 70
Number ol Male Teachers, 2,22S
Number Of Female Tcachcr', 1890
Average wage. OF Male Teachers per
month exclusive oC board, SCI
Average wage. Of Female Teachers
pSr week, exclusive Of hoard. S2l5
Average length Of all the Schools Tor
week. 1919
Amount ol money raised by tax in 1888
for support oi Schools, Siu2,16l,ll
Amount required by law S3ij,y2S, so
Excess over amour, required by
law, sol, Il2.Ol
Amount received from State
School Fund.-. SSa, COS -
Amount received from local
iund., Sll,"S6.Id
Amount expended for private
Schools, So, ISL. So
Amount of voluntary contrihu.
iions FOR the support OF pri.
mtc and prolonged public
Schools, $40 ji2.9l
mi'tlc., $1,000 oS
L.
fund, $lio,Os54s
Amount of hank tax distributed
june /, lsjs, ssj,l6,sO
Number ut ScnoUl houses built the
Ilst year, l5i
Cos, OF the .ame. s6l,73oOO
Aggregate amount expended Tor
year, SG23,G99C 60
Number II good School Houses
ia the State, loo
Number OF poor School Houses 200
Estimated 'aluc Of all the
School Houses, Sl,l0j, 9G1 90
Average amour ~ School money
RAISED Per Scholar. Slj9
Average amount received from
the State, SO,3i.s
Average amount expended Tor
private Schools. S0.23 :
Total average FER Scholar, S2l7.G
Population OF the State m 1850, 5sO, 3Os
Valuation Of the State in 1850. SOS 900. l21
Number of towns that RAISED 90
cents pr inhabimnt, as
rcquircd by law, go
Number that raised lSs,, Gj
Per ccniagc ul valuation of 1850
Appropriated 70 Common
Schools. in mills and tenth OF mill, IL
Number Of towns that raised 81
and less than Sj Per scholar, !
Number that RAISED % and les
than 81, .
Number tina, raised SO, and les,
than ). 80
Numbrr that raised 81, aud less
than 81. ga
Number that raised lees than 81, :
The following paragraphs in relation to
- School Money and and the permanent
- School Fund " are OF special interest:
S,uooL MoNrr. The Jaw require, that
sixty cent. tor every inhahitani shall b.
raised for the support of schools. The
amount thus required Of III, cities. towns
aud plantations, from which return. have
been rccrivcd. would De three hundred aud
fifty Eve thousand. nine hundred aud TWEEN.
ty-eisht dollars and eighty cents. The
sum raised was four hundred and two thous.
and. seven hundred and siI,y-one dollars
and eleven cents, showing an excess over the
amount required By law Of fifty. four thou..
and, seven hundred and twelve dollars and
one cent. The amount raised by tax, that
received from the State and from local funds
that expended for the support OF private
and for prolonged public schools, that paid
Cor school superintendence and for the erec-
ton Of New school houses, constitute the
sum Of six hundred and twenty.,hrcc thous.
and, six hundred anu ninety.nine dollars
and siI,y.ninc cents. rs the aggregate ex.
penditure for the direct and indirect sup
port Of schools the past year. The amount
raised gives 10 each scholar, on an average.
one dollar and hfiy.nino cents; that re-
ceiyed from the State, ,hrty.four cents and
eigh, mills and from local funds, with the
sum expended in support OF private schools,
twen,y.three cents and eight mills, making
an average SUN to each scholar in the State
Of two dollars, seventeen cents and six mills.
ScnooL FUND. The Permanent School
Fund Of the State. June I. 1858, was Siii,-
NC 90. and June /, 1857, was Sl3G.3i6.-
81. THIS fund has n prospective increase
from the sales OF 49, .j67 acres Of reserved
lands from twenty per cent. of all mon
eys hereafter accruIng from the sales OF
all the public lands. unsold and not other.
wise appropriated; AID from some $50, 600
on notes now due for school lands. The re-.
solve Of April 10, 1858. appropria,ing
twenty per cent. was no, supposed by the
Land Agent to apply to a certain class Of
sales, aud, consequently, certain moneys
have been paid into the treasury Of State,
since the passage OF tho receive. which
should have been paid into the treasury OF
State, since the passage Of the resolve.
which should have been returned as be-
longing to the School Fund. n the Land
Agen, has hada Misrepresentation Of the re-
'olve. he win speedily make the correction
necessary to secure the intended increase to
the Fund.