The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-01-01

ing report of the State Normal School
for the year 1868.
Your attention is first called to the
receipts and expenditures as shown in
the financial exhibit here given.
FINANCIAL EXHIBIT.
State Normal School In account 10Th the State
Of Kansas: DR..
To amt paid for salary of Principal, 1880 90
80 Associate PRINCIPAL GOO 90
Femsle Teacher, 1000 90
g Principal of Model School, 575 90
III. ID. Preston, classifying
Normal School lands, AT 90
John Hammond for extra
work on building, 30 90
Deficiency in expenses, 1867, so 90
Insurance, 70 90
% Diplomas, ITO 90
I" Stoves, 80 90
" Catalogue, $50 90
g Chandelier and lamps, so 90
4" Fuel $50 90
% American Cyclopedia, 100 90
Dictionaries, gazetteers, maps, 100 90
Stationery, advertising,
printing and postage, 81 %
JanitOr's services and cur
rent expenses, 45T 80
Books, express & freight, 1874 40
1891 81
CONTRA. CIR.
BY amount appropriated:
For salary of Principal, $500 90
g Associate Principal, GO 90
% Female Teacher, 1000 90
Principal of Model School, 800 90
IL. ID. Preston classifying school land. 427 90
John Hammond extra work, 50 90
Deficiency in expenses Of 1887, $50 90
For Insurance, IS 90
Diplomas, 40 90
l." Stoves. 15 90
g Catalogue, $50 90
Chandeliers and lamps, so 90
90 Fuel $50 90
Cyciopedia, 100 90
Dictionaries, ETC., $50 90
BY amount received from the students,
tuition fees and for books, 100 60
6,846 80
Amount of appropriation for Principal
of Model School not drawn from
the treasury, 1926 90
Balance on hand, 30 %
DEBTS OF THE INSTITUTION.
Two-thirds of the salary OF associate
Principal, due to ii. B. Norton, 1900 90
One-fOurth Of the salary of Principal.
due to l.. Il. Kellogg, 500 90
Miss NJ. j. Watson, extra teacher, 3A
months, 3O5 So
1t will be seen from the above state
ment that the amounts appropriated by
the Legislature have been drawn from
the Treasury for the specific purposes
for which they were appropriated with
the exception of 1925 of that set apart
for the Principal of the Model School.
This, not being earned, still remains in
the Treasury. In some cases the amounts
appropriated were not quite sufficient
to pay for the articles bought under our
direction. These small excuses were
made up from the Incidental Fund.
The appropriation for salaries of
teachers having been insufficient for
their full payment, their remain unpaid
just claims against the institution, which
are set forth in the above, and in our es-
innate of the amount of necessary ex-
penses for the coming year. 1t is, in
the judgment of your Committee, great
ly to be regretted that these arrearages
have been suffered to accumulate. The
injustice in Professor Norton's case is
especially noticeable. His salary is
$lSOOp er year; but, partly by the failure
of the Legislature to appropriate that
amount, and partly by error of the
Chief Clerk of the House in cutting
down the sum actually voted, he has
only been able to draw from the Treas
ury $500. Two-thirds of what he is
justly entitled to remains, therefore,
due and unpaid. Your Committee rec
ommend as a matter of justice a special
appropriation for the payment of these
back claims.
THE NORMAL SCHOOL LANDS.
Your Committee in their last annual
report made a suggestion in regard to
the Normal School lands which, not be-
ing acted upon by the Legislature, they
desire to repeat.
In section three of the Act of March
Sd, 1863, under which the institution was
located and endowed, the language is
such as does not clearly define the par
tcular sections to which the school is
entitled. 1t reads:
SEC 3. That all lands granted to the State of
Kansas, and selected by said State adjoining
cO0tiPnOnS he tn each n the
springs belonging to said State, and granted
by the fourth subdivision of the third sec
ton OF an act OF Congress entitled, IAN act for
the admission of Kansas into the UniOn," ap-
approved, January 18th, 1861, save and except
the salt springs, and the section Of land upon
which each Of the said salt springs are located,
and one additional section, are hereby set part
and reserved as q perpetual endowment for
the support and maintenance of the Normal
School established and located by this act.
1t thus appears that the act gives, as
an endowment, all the lands granted to
the State by Congress, except the sec
tions upon which the salt springs are
situated and zone additional section"
Your committee would recommend that
the Board unite in requesting the Legis-
lature to give that zone additional sec
ton" to the school as further endOW-
ment, leaving to the State the sections
containing the springs, thus clearly des-
ignating the particular sections which
belong to the State as well as those which
belong to the institution.
In the 4th section of the act above re-
ferred to, it is provided that the pro-
ceeds derived from the sale of the lands
with which the school is endowed shall
be invested in United States, State or
other reliable stocks, yielding not less
than six per cent. upon their par value,
and the money so invested is to consti-
tute perpetual fund, the principal of
which Is to remain forever undimin-
ished, and the interest inviolably appro-
priated for the support and maintenance
of the school, and to no other purpose
whatever; the interest, therefore, be-
ing all that the institution can rely on
for its support. This, upon a careful
estimate, based upon the most satisfac-
tory sale of the lands, will be found
hardly sufficient to defray the expenses
of the school, when the salaries of teach
ers are included. But knowing the pol
icy of the Board of Directors to be that
which will most speedily result in es-
tablishing the institution upon a self
supporting basis, your committee have
not only administered the affairs of the
school IN an economical way, but have
been alike DESTROYS of placing the insti-
tuition upon an independent footing, re-
lying upon its own proper means, and
not upon the treasury of the State. To
this end your Committee earnestly rec
ommend that the Board unite in re-
questing the Legislature to release the
institution from its obligations to re-
imburse the State for appropriations
heretofore made.
oExERAL CONDITIONS AND NEEDS OF
THE SCHOOL.
It is truly gratifying to rs TO witness
and be able TO record the present health
fnl and growing condition Of the Institu-
ton. The record for the past year
shows an aggregate attendance Of one