The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-09-22
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
thursday EVENING, September q.


Carnahan, Caldwell, Hall, Launder,
Otte, Stewart, Todd and Weitzel.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read, approved and signed.
The committee on Accounts reported
the following bills and offered a resolu-
ton for their payment: Charles Otte'
repairs to Eighth Ward school house,
$3.50; J. A. Jackson, repairs on
Washington township school house,
sl2; William Hare, repairing hydrant,
Centre school house, Splits; W. H.
Bassett, $40; George Roberts, s26.l5
J. M. Bickel, s9.45. Adopted.
The committee on Buildings and Real
Estate offered the following:
Reso!ged, That the contract for build
ing the iron railing fence at Union
township school house be and is hereby
awarded to Bodley Brothers at the price
per foot submitted in their proposition
to the Board, September !, 1871, they
to take the old fence at old school
building at - cents per foot in part
payment for building the new fence.
Adopted.
The committee on Salaries, to whom
was referred the matter Of salaries to
be paid ianitors, reported the following ::
Resolved, That the salaries of janitors
employed by the Board of Education for
the year commencing September, l,
1871, be fixed as follows: Washington,
5000; Madison-Second ward-Sl2O;
Seventh ward, $50; branch Seventh
ward, $55; Clay, $3.50; Union, 5000;
Centre, 5000; Webster, 5000, and
Richie $3.50. Adopted.
The Superintendent presented the
following statement Of the enrolment
for the month ending September 2lst.
Total number enrolled in Washington
township school 4322;; Madison 343; Clay
81; Union $50; Centre 39l; Webster
$50; Richie $50; Colored school CO.
Total number enrolled in Grammar
schools 2T9; Primary schools 25lS
total for the district 2797. He reports
that there are 81 less enrolled in the
Grammar schools. exclusive of the
Eighth Ward school, than were enroll
ed during September of last year a
falling oii'of nearly so per cent. In the
primary schools the attendance Is
somewhat larger than last year.
A petition abont twenty feet long
signed by about thousand resident;
and tax payers Of the city Of Wheeling
asking the Board Of Education to ap
point a committee to confer with a
committee on the part of the signers tc
see what may be done to permit then
to participate, without any sacrifice OIL
their conscientious convictions, in the
benefits of the school fund. 1t was &C
companicd by the following communi
cation:
To the Board of Education of til,
School District Of Wheeling:
GENTLEMEN The undersigned com
mittee appointed by the Catholic ia,
payers and citizens fthe city of Wheel
Ing, beg leave to present you the accom-
panying petition and would respectfully
ask for it your earnest consideration.
We believe all tax payers have a
right to share in the benefits accruing
from the outlay ofthe pubic funds, anc
careful consideration OF the school
law has satisfied the Catholic residents
of the school district of Wheeling tina,
there is nothing in the law to proven
their participation in the advantages o
the educational fund if properly admin
istered, without sacrifice of conscience
The application of the means raised by
taxation is made to depend entirely or
the wisdom and fairness Of the Com
missioners and Board of Education. Tc
their sense of right, justice and true lib
erty we appeal therefore for redress oil
our grievances.
We would represent to the BOARD
that the Divine law Gas we understand
it) vigorously imposes on the parent the
obligation OF imparting to his child the
knowledge of God and His requirements
from the first dawn of reason, and in
connection with all that is learned o.
the works Of creation, and Of the bust
ness of lie. That in our estimation
the school room furnishes the mos
ready and suitable place and occasion
for importing these lessons. Thai
without such assiduous training in the
school room, no less than at home and
in the chapel, the youth is not prepared
to resist the violence of his growing
passions; and that society as well as
himself must necessarily suffer from the
omission. Recognizing fully this, oul
obligation, to God, to our children anG
to society, we claim the right to fulfi
the duty without forfeiting thereby the
advantages Of the taxes imposed on us
So evident is the influence of associa
tons and training on childhood and
youth, that we hold it as a sacred and
permanent duty of parents 10 commit
their children only to those in whom
they may prefer to confde. And we
maintain, therefore, that the regulations
of the Board should be made to har
monte with the duty Of the citizen tc
his God.
We proclaim it the duty Of every
freeman, as OF every Christian, to hold
fast to his paternal rights in this mo.
mentous matter, and as a sincere friend
to true liberty, to respect and sustain
the rights of others. For there are few
things, if any, respecting which liberty
is more to be priced and maintained
and where interference may be more
injudicious, more unjust, and more
fatal to mans best interests.
Happily, we see no reasonable OBJ.
lection to what, as Christians and free,
men, we demand; for we are disposed
to be content with less than the full
measure of equity would require, that
none may find even plausible ground Of
complaint. We are not opposed to the