The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-10-07
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER >. 1871

APPoRrIoNaENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS.
following circular from the Board of Edti-
cation of the State will be found of interest.
The apportionment Of school funds Is COM
plete for the years 1S70-'71, 1S71-'72:
OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT PUB. INsTR'N,1
RICHMOND, VA, Oct. 8, 1871. :
To County Supertnteadents, Boards of T,.us-
tees, and County Treasurcrs
In the table given below will be found
one column containing amounts nppor-
toned from the revenue of 1870, and an
other containing amounts from the revenue
OF 1871, These amounts must be kept scpd-
rate OH the treasurer s books, and be used
Only for: the payment of expenses for the
years to which they respectively belong.
Let this be particularly observed.,n.i
At first view it would seem proper to use
the income of the new year for discharging
the debts of the old, so far as might be
necessary but inasmuch as the authority
to do this is doubtful, the Board OF EdIca-
tion fOrbids all mixing of the funds OF the
different years until the Legislature en-
presses its mind upon the subject, which it
i'll be asked to do in December.
There will probably be az much surplus
returned from some counties as will nuke
UP the deficit in others, SO that there may
be no difficulty in obtaining leave from the
Legislature to allow the liberty, which will
be desired by some counties, OF drawing
upon the new funds to make up The de-
ficicucies of the last year. But this must
not be done ut present, even by borrowing
from the new.
The Legislature meets within sixty days,
and there will be more money coming III
for last year; 50 that by the exercise Oh
faith and patience all difficulties may yet be
overcome. ..t..r- s&-i
1t will not be proper for boards of trus-
tees to divide any more OF the State or
county money among teachers than Inc
sums specified in the contracts. Any con-
ditiOns with regard to the wages of teach
ers should be expressed In writing by inter
lining the contract before signing. If
this is neglected, there is not only liability
to misunderstanding, but there Is danger
that the clerks papers will not correspond
with the trc.surer's-a state of things which
never looks well even when nothing wrong
has been designed.
County superintendents who divide funds
on the basis of population need not send
their apportionments here, but may con-
slider them approved. Let all remember
that the funds Of the present year must
always be divided among the districts
strictly on the basis of populaton, and
each diStrlbutive share of the funds per-
tanning to the current year, whether State
or county, is to be placed to the credit OF
the district entitled by population TO re-
ceiye it, without regard to its compliance
or noncompliance with the regulations,
and is not to be used by other dlslric,s, but
to remain idle until the district becomes
entitled to draw on the funds, or in default
of that, to be returned to the treasury ut
the end Of the year for redistribution.
In those counties in which there are no
arTcarages payable out of the State money
trcasurers should not draw the quotas
| assigned to their counties, and thus save
unnecessary trouble.