New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-09-14
APPORTIOND1RNT OF THE SCHOOL

STATE or LOUISIANA,
Of3ce STATE Superintendent of Public Education,
| New Orleans, September l, 1870.
NorE-The following circular is issued in
| connection with the present quarterly ap
| pOrtionment of the current school fund. 1t is
| TO be hoped that all school officers in the
State will pay particular attention to the
| subjects on which it bears, and be directed
accordingly:
/. The Treasurers of District Boards Of
School Directors for the several ward dis
tiicts of the city of New Orleans, when
qualified according to law with authentic
copies Of their bonds on file in this Office,
can call at once and draw the amounts here
matter apportioned to their respective dis
tricts.
g The Treasurers of the various districts
throughout the State. i'll the several parishes
thereof, can in like manner, as i'll the
city of New Orleans, draw the amounts APP
pOrtioned to them.
g. Already there has accumulated in the
State treasury the sum OF $40, 4o9 81,
which should be drawn at once and used for
the education of the children OF the State
a. According to section fifty-three of the
school law, if the various district Boards,
or either of them, fail to establish and con-
duet at least one pubic school for at least u
period of two months prior to December
next, the State Superintendent may direct
the State Treasurer to withhold the appOr-
tionment of the State schOo! fund from said
district or districts, and direct him to pay
the same to the Treasurer of the parish
Board for the support OF schools III such
Delinquent districts
From this IT will appear that each dis
trict caring to manage its own schooiS ana
attend TO the education of its own children
must if State aid be sought, make no delay
in securing the funds generously supplied
by the State for school purposes.
5. The city Board Of School Directors for
the city of New Orleans, according to sec
ton itty-four of the school law, which vests
them with power as to school funds, similar
to that vested in parish boards for other
parishes, will be entitled to draw the funds,
which can now be secured by district
treasurers in the respective wards OF the
city, in case said district treasurers fail, by
the month Of December next, to draw such
funds, and to apply them to the uses and IN
the manner provided for by law.
6. The State Superintendent has prepared,
and is ready to distribute to all parties re-
utliring the same, all necessary blank forms,
oaths of office, bonds for treaSurers, etc,
and TO afford any information by which
school directors or others may proceed to
the work of establishing ana supporting
schools.
Z. The Ward Boards for the respective
"Ward School Districts of the city of New
Orleans, being according to section So OF the
school law corporate bodies, entitled TO
hold property for school purposes. should
proceed. at as early u day as practicable,
and open the public school houses of their
wards, taking care to notify the
city Board of Directors of their readiness
TO occupy said houses since said city Board,
in the absence of Ward Boards, held tenn
porary occupancy of them.
8. yreaSurers who have not drawn the APP
portionments made March and June l,
of the present year, may draw them with
that which is hereby announced.
Amount apportioned the first
Monday in March. ............ s73,93S IL
Amount apportiOned the first
Monday in June .......-...... y9,267 81
Amount apportioned the first
Monday in September. E2.266 so
Total educable youth in the State be-
tween the ages of six and twenty-One years,
as reported by the State Tax Assessors and
Collectors. 2545 33.
The above apportionment gives to each
educaSle youth in the state one dollar and
eighteen cents. Boards Of school directors
are entitled to draw warrants at the above
rate only when March and June apportion
mcnts have not been drawn.
Respectfully,
THOMAS w. CONWAY.
State Superintendent Public Education.