The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-01-28
A FEW MORE WORDS ABOUT TIL
SCHOOL QUESTION.

SCHOOL QUESTION.
We do not propose to run tho school
question into the ground, and bore our
readers with it nd nauseam but the
detailed report by Superintendent Biv-
ms and some conclusions derivable
therefrom are Apr opriats matters for q
few comments and assurances. Thus
much good has grown out Of agitatiug
tho matter We have come to see
through good deal Of fog surrounding
it and to understand what, hitherto,
has been an impenstrable mystery. Mr..
Bivins' report is an exact statement Of
transactions, exhibiting receipts, ap-
portiouments and disbursements and
these constitute satisfactory showing
Of debts and credits. We are jltold
what tho school has cost what each
teacher has been paid, and the present
state of the funds. Inasmach, how
ever, ~ we took occasion to inquire
concerning the time of payments and
az to whether each creditor had been
paid in bis or her turn, We will state
what has come to our knowledge touch
ing this part Of tho subject. With the
exception of sum less than one hun
dred and City dollars paid to one of the
lady teachers, for back salary, the en-
tire State apportionment recently placed
to the credit of the School Fund of this
District, was paid to Mr.. Bivins as his
back salary. This fact, alone. exhibits
the liberality with which Mr.. Bivins
has conducted the business of his off
ice that is to say he has paid himself
last. We also know in the case Of one
Of the young lady teachers who was
. creditor ofthe District in considera-
BILE sum, Mr.. Bivins advanced her the
amount due, taking her assigned war
rant on the Treasury as his voucher.
We state these things because we,
among others, have been led to suspect
a different sort of manner in which |
salaries and other bills have been paid |
IN other words, instead of being grasp
ing and selfish, or even insisting upon
Il pro rata apportionment of the moneys,
As he had a perfect right to do, he has
been remarkably generous and self
denying. We state these facts cheer
fully aud gladly and none tho less SO,
because Mr.. Bivins' sense Of modesty
restrained him from making them part
of his report.
The rate bills, which appear in the
detailed report, and which were not
mentioned in the first report, were not
accounted for il the said first report for
the sim pie reason that the amounts de-
rived therefrom and apportioued among
the teachers, had been deducted from
the salary bills presented to, and al
lowed by, the Board of Directors.
Being so accounted for, they were
deemed as not entering into the trans
actions had between the Superintendent
and the County Treasurer.
Now a word as to the future prospects {
Of the schools here and in Empire.
This District owes Gn back salary to .
Bivins) Sl6O. There are but $125 g. S
ia the Treasury to pay this amount
With. This leaves balance of S35 c
liabilities over and above our assets.
Empire District is in much more pros
,erous condition, having a balance in P
he Fund of ST. ,Os2 Al. The Third o
Clear Creek-has been done t.
way with. The exhibit further shows o
hat the Fund received from all "
ources, Special Taxes and otherwise "
independent of contributions) S. n
;ls 81 Some ST. At of this amount 6
vas what was turned over to the Fund fl
y the predecessor of Mr.. Bivins, Mr.. a
Vim. B. Lawlor. There is . total bal I
nee now remaining in tho Fund Of - -
il ,20S o3. Thus all bills, excepting e'
be $3.50 owing to Bivins have been !.
aid; and while this District is bet S35 Vi