The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-01-30
10 the General Assembly OF Ma
rylanG.

proper support and future efficiency of tL,
public school system Of Cecil county.
When your mcmorialists came into exist.
ence as Board, under the act OF 1858.
chaP'er :o" they lOuud some eighty seven
schools II operation, the greater nnrt of
them wholly independent Of any supervision
and under the charge Of teachers in most
cases se!t->clccted, many OF whom looked to
the poor school fund of the county then nd
minia'cred by the Orphans Court rs the
chiel or most reliable part of their support.
| he DEMANDS upon that fund which il was
impossible The Judges of the Orphans Court,
III The midst of their other duties, could in.
veStigate with that scrutiny the subject re-
| CURED, had so largely increased and the
| h"mGcr OF persons claiming the benefit of it
." numerous that the principal of that fund +,
| winch Ill iormcr years had accumulated to
| over twenty Thousand dollars was at that
time reduced 10 eight thousand nine hundred
and forty dollars, which amount came into
the bands OF this Board
our memoralists. in entering upon the
duties I'll their commission in l-.,S, found SO
| great IL demand Tor suitable houses, tthe lar.
EHf ana more important towns being without
thrhi, that they determined to appropriate
| TINS principal sum $500 to the erection of
school houses, where thcY wee most needed
and 10 the repairs of others SO far forth as it
| would supply the demand aul with that
view distributed ii among the several dis
| tflcts OF the county upon an equitable basis,
i!Gr after cxpcndiug thc whole of Ills tlnI
| w.th such AID us could pe uitoiucd from ,.nI
untary contributions in different lo,;,ljt;cs
| they still find the drnnnH for al brr iI,i Idi,y,
ai!'i further rciails CONSTANTLY PRESSING u,,Gn
/ 'hehl. Ihe consequence Is. tilat Tue Ortllua-
! I! resources OF the board have been, and still
aFtthlS heavily drawn ttpnl, wnilc they are in
adequate to the support of the schools. even
for inr period or Term Of three quarters or
nine months of the wear, as the following
| statement will show.
iic receipts Of the Board are aImos. 81.
| cluSiy"Iy confined to the tax for school MIR.
Loses at the limited RATE nf ,vrIvn cent, !,
/ Ihe hundred dollars and the fund annually
| received from tue Stac. rheir ether re-.
! source. are SO i.cuusiucrahc in amount and
80 entirely contingent and variable that any
! estimate based upun them wouid Pc whnlly
! y;.iWrt2ss. lie entire amount t,r;v,, from
, them curing lie i've wears Of ovr cyis,once
Il Board. does not exceed the sum Of four
hundred dollars.
| it.c amount derived from taycs. may ha
estimated III round numbers at nine t6ous.
and six hundred ,gil,r., >l,;unl ~,
states donation may reach -. 100, three
Thousand four hundred; ,uokinr an oo,,r,
gate Of :I3.utlJt thirteen thousand dollars
.odaiuo, from, tho ,,.,st ,,,l ,iI,,,';.i
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