The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-05
EDUCATION.

Meeting of the Board of Public Education.
A stated meeting of this board was held
yesterday afternoon, M. Hall Stanton in the
chair.
Communications we're received as follows:
From the Tenth section, asking that night
school be established in the same during the
present winter.
In answer to a request for information from
Mr.. Halliwell, Secretary of the board, the
City Solicitor replied that ''all ground-rents
reserved by deed, dated prior to 1862, and
payable by the terms of the deed in lawful
silver money, or lawful money, are pay
able only in gold or silver coinage prior to
June 4, 1853, and the holders of such ground
rents are entitled to what their deeds call for
in silver of that coinage or in gold" The
matter was referred to the Committee on
Property
The Eighth section asked an appropriate
of $4,000 for purchasing and repairing the
building No. 905 Locust street, to be used
as primary school. Referred.
The Twelfth section asked that the board
confirm the name Lafayette School" for the
building now being erected on Noble street,
below Sixth. On motion, the name of Ed
ward M. Paxson was substituted.
The board was notified to vacate the pre-
mises occupied for school purposes in Howard
Hall, Bainbridge street, above Third, from
the 1st of January next. This is the build
ing of which Judge Ludlow rendered deci-
sion about the taxes of the same few days
ago.
An appropriation of $500 was asked for
to erect school-house on lot at Wissa-
hickon. Referred to the Committee on Pro-
perty.
An appropriation of $500 was asked for
to purchase the property on the east side of
Sixth street, below Poplar, and to put the
same in order. Referred.
A communication was received from Gus
tavus Remak, Esq, informing the Board that
if the ''nutting day of last fall is to be re-
peated during this season, and the necessary
arrangements are made. therefor. The Chief
Engineer of the Park, Mr. Cresson, will aft ord
every facility to the attainment of the object.
The offer was accepted, and committee was
appointed as follows:-Messrs. Freedom,
Armstrong, jackson, Hickok, Steinmetz,
Smith, MacBride, Gratz, and Fageu.
Mr.. Elkin, of the Committee on Qualifca-
tion of Teachers, presented report, that an
examination of music teachers had resulted
in the giving of first-class certificates to
Messrs j. g. Beckel, G. f. Bishop, Theodore
G. Boettger, Carl Heineman, and Miss 3.
Sophia Grease.
Mr. MacBride, of the Committee on Schools,
reported in favor of new Primary school of
four divisions, in the Jackson building, to
udt6 lIOm OdnudIy II dlSO, III ldVOT VI lOur
division Grammar school for boys and one
for girls in the E. NJ Stanton School; that
the Pollock Girls Secondary be transferred
to the Stanton building; and that four-divi-
sion Primary school be constituted in the
Pollock School, all of which were approved
by the board.
The board confirmed the appointments of
teachers in the Second, Third, Eleventh, Fif-
teenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Nineteenth,
Twentieth, and Twenty third sections.
The following named were confirmed as
music-teachers: section, Mary Bell;
Eighth, Fanny Trimble; Twelfth, Mary Nc
Cartney; Thirteenth, NJ e. Heyl; Fourteenth,
Emma M. Hall; Fifteenth, A. H. Whitney and
George Bishop; Sixteenth, j. g. Beckel;
Nineteenth, Kate H. Chandler; Twenty first,
E. Sophia Grease; Twenty-third, Mary L.
Blake; Twenty-fourth, Kate F. Hollingsworth;
Twenty sixth, Lizzie Outerbridge; Twenty
seventh, M. E. Goodno.
Mr.. Steinmetz offered a resolution instruct.
ing the Committee on Revision of Studies to
strike from the list of studies the following -
Crittenden's Bookkeeping, Cutters Anatomy,
Science of Government, Natural Philosophy,
and Logarithmic Tables.
On motion of Mr.. Armstrong, it was re-
ferred to the Committee on Revision oi
Studies. Adjourned.