The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-09-01
Condition ofthe County school Fund


At the June Term of the County Com
missioners' Court Con the 9th of June), an
exhibit of the County School Fund was
submitted by the Auditor. As this report
is of great interest to all concerned in our
Common Schools, we copy the material
portions of it.
REPORT OF THE COUNTY AUDITOR.
Now here the County Auditor submits to
this Board his annual report of the condi-
ton and operations of the School Fund of
said County from May 81, 1859, to June l,
1860, in the words and figures following,
to-wit:
AUDITORS OFFICE, vANnERBURdH COUNT, / +
Evansville, June LIST, 1860. !
To the hoHcrdJle, the board Of Commissioners or the
County Of VaHdsroHrgh:
GENTLEMEN In obedience to the provis-
ions of section SO of chapter 80 of the acts
of the General Assembly of the State of
Indiana, approved March 8, 1856, the under
signed, Auditor of said county, submits the
following Report in regard to the opera
tion oil" this office, connected with the
Loans of the School Funds of said county,
and to all moneys received on account of
Common School and Congressional Town
ship Funds, to the disbursement at the
County Treasury of said Funds from the
3lst day CT May, 1859, up to June lst, 1860:
The Auditors Report is divided into
eighteen statements.
No. is a statement of the loans of the
Common School fund, together with the
lands not paid out by purchasers, out
standing on the 3lst day of May, 1859,
with the amount of principal paid, and
Teloaned during the year, and the amounts
upon Loans, of said fund on the frat day
of June, 1860 (To-wit:)
There was of this fund outstanding on
Rs h0@%s On a. Jq hera,vaps ron Ma" 3T,
1859, to June lst 1860 2'G2SOO
Which leaves Loans ........... IL 64s. II
Reoaued this fund from May 81, 1889,
to June l. lsto... l,fl9.2Z
Outstanding on loans June /, 60. .S2S, 2oe. 80
No. 2 is like statement of the funds be-
longing 20 Congressional Township No.
south, Range 10 west.
mos 3, 4, 3, c, and 7, are like state
ments in regard to Congressional Town
ships and 7 south, range 10 west, and 5,
6, aud south, range IL west, but we shall
not copy them in full, as they would be of
no particular use to our subscribers in the
various civil townships, for the reason that
the Congressional townships do not embrace
the same territory that the civil townships
do. In other words, Congressional town
ship south, range 10 west for instance,
includes within It's bounds about half of the
southern part of Scott and the northern
part of Centre, and Con. Town. 6 south,
range 10 west, embraces portions of Knight,
Pigeon, and Centre townships; and so on
throughout the county. The citizens ofany
particular civil township, therefore, could
not tell without going to the Auditors Of
fee just how the various funds and their
townships were related. Furthermore, the
northern half of Armstrong aud Scott town.
ships make their returns TO Gibson county,
on account of a provision in the school law
which requires that the county which con-
tains the 10Th Tor school) section, shall have
the management Of the fund, and the 18th
sections Of the Congressional townships of
which the above portions of Armstrong and
Scott form 81 part, lie in Gibson county
And again, the southern portion of Union
township is embraced in (fractionaD Con.
Town. 6 south, range IL west, and by pro-
vision of the school law, Union township
manages her own school lands, and controls
the revenue thereof in this fractional Con.
Town, and the said fractional township fund
does not come into the tables we allude to.
1t will thus be seen that a large fund, arts
lug from the said portions of Union, Scott,
and Armstrong townships, are not included
IN the school fund OF the county, We how
eve7 give the amount outstanding on loans
IN each OF the Congressional townships,
June !, 1860, as follows