Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-04-13
11NEL.
MD.
-oOL BILL.

Scnooi blll tor this county, as adopted
by the Legislature at its last session. 1t
has now been read and considered by q
large number of our citizens, probably
a majority of them. While it finds
favor and is approved of by great many,
yet there are some who are opposed not
only to the particular features of this
bill, elT.t to the entire system of primary
cducsGzoh. We had supposed that the
sentiments Of our people. upon this ques-
ton, was we'll understood, and that our
Legislators, who supported and procured
the passage Of this bill, but reflected the
will of their constituents; and, indeed,
we yet feel confident that the system, if
once put into operation and properly I'M
derstood, will be sustained and find favor
with the people of this county. But the
popularity OF the system, or of the pro-
visions of this particular bill, is not now
for US to discuss. The Legislature has
passed the law under which we are to act
IN the future, or as soon as it can be car
ried into effect, and it behooyes every
good citizen to lend helping hand, and
give encouragement to those whose duty
1t is to put it into operation. There are
difficulties attending the carrying of
this bill into operation, but none so for
midable that time, experience and deter
mination will not overcome. We say
time, for we really think that is the great
requisite. The necessary means-the
ntoney-the Commissioners cannot now
command but allow them time, and they
will be able. School-houses are to be
Jrtih; in time, they will be. So time
is all important.
BY provision of this bill, the Com
missioners of Tax can levy, in their dis
erection, for the support of schools, tax
of not more than twenty cents, nor less
than ten, in the one hundred dollars. -
Suppose they levy the minimum amount
only five thousand dollars will be raised
from this source, and which amount will
not be due, and subject to the order of
the School Commissioners, before the
first Of January next. -Four thousand
dollars more will be received from the
State Treasury next July-making only
nine thousand dollars, an amount entirely
too small to commence this new system
Of education Bat let us take n more
liberal view, and suppose the Commits
sioners of Tax will levy the maximum
amount, and VIC viii then have FIVE thou
sand dollars mor5-lnaking fourteen thou
sand dollars--tea thousand Of it not due
and obtainabie before January next--a
sum yet too small to develop the full ben
efts of this measure.
The most experienced and best in
'HAnCN ou1hS U.S. cntludtc buc HCccSSlty
Of thirty school houses for the county, at
a cost of three hundred dollars each
making nine thousand dollars the an
nual salary of a teacher for each house,
is three hundred dollars-requiring nine
thousand dollars more so that for the
first year of the adoption of this bill,
eighteen thousand dollars will be requir-
ed for teachers and school-houses alone
to say nothing of sundry minor expenses
to be provided for, though by no means
Insignificant in amount. But we hope
tbe per capita fee, which we have not Ia
ken into consideration, will cover these
and other incidental expenses.
Without pursuing this subject further,
with all Difference, we would suggest tc
the School Commissioners, if the law will
permit, the propriety of allowing the old
system to dispense its great, though par.
tial, benefits for while longer, and de-
lay the action of the new one until they
can command the money to inaugurate it,
and put it in full operation. In the
meantime, sites for school-houses can be
selected, contracts for building can be
entered into, and houses may be erected.
The Commissioners, well qualified to dis
charge tbeir duties as we know them to
te, can and much useful matter, in con-
necsion with this subject, to engage their
attention, and at some future day. not
very remote, this system of Primary
Schools, under this bill, will be developed,
in this county, in all its usefulness, dis
pensing its blessings to thousands yet
unborn.
New TOBACCO WAREHOUSES. - We
publish to-day the bill passed at the late
session Of our Legislature, providing for
che building Of new Tobacco Warehouses
IN the city Of Baltimore, on deep water.
and prefaced by an article from the pen
Of a correspondent of the " Gazette" of