The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-23
SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT
OF THE
Board Of School COMMISSIONERS
of Hartford County.
OF THE
of Hartford County.

amount deemed necessary to keep the
Schools in operation ten months Being
ignorant of the amount of money necessary
to keep the 70 schools in the county in OPP
Grafton ten months. and pay the expenses
of the system just introduced, and unwil-
! ling to ask for more money than was abso-
lutely needed, asked for a levy Of only p
cents.
The Board finding p cents insufficient,
, requested the County Commissioners in
| 1869 for levy of cents This amount
was also insufficient to keep the n schools
in operation 10 months.
The result was on the retiring of the
Board of 1868, it owed the Teachers bal
ance on their salaries for the term ending
November 10Th, 1860, of $3,540.G1, and a
debt for Books and Stationery to the
amount Of $4,566GS.
In January, 1870, new Board came into
office, and paid the balance due Teachers,
and $3.007.70 for Books. This Board paid
also for the new School House No. 7, Bap-
| tist in the 4th District, $7S9.61. This
Board, relying on the power conferred by
the then existing School Law, requiring the
/ County Commissioners to levy the amount
asked and needed, had no apprehensions
as to their ability to carry on the Schools
and liquidate the debt. The Legislature
in April, 1870, repealed the law and limited
the County School tax to 10 cents unless
the County Commissioners approve and
sanction an additional Tax. Had the
School Board anticipated this change in
the Law, they would not have contracted
to build any school houses, although so
much needed.
A new Board of County Commissioners
in November, 1869, came into office, to
whom the School Board applied, in June,
1870, for levy of 20 cents, which amount
would have been sufficient to have kept
the schools in operation 10 months, and
paid the debt. The County Commission
ers refused to levy more than the 10 cents.
The only alternative left the Board was to
suspend the schools and carry part Of the
debt over to the next year. The School
| Board again, Gin 1870 submitted full es
innate Of the expenses Of the SO schools in
the county, and the indebtedness Of the
Board, and asked for a levy of fifteen cents,
to keep the schools open terms and liqui-
date the debt, and also for an additional
levy of cents for the especial purpose of
building school houses. The Commission.
ers refused and levied only 10 cents.
The Board built the following School
Houses in 1870: No. 1, 1st District, Alb
ingdon, at a cost, including the lot and
furniture, $1,145; No. 2, Hartford Furnace,
$1,175. 2d District-Lapidum, No. ID,
$1,000; Hartford Seminary, No. u, pur-
chased Of the Trustees at $3.50. Calvary,
Sd District, No. 10, $780, No T, Forest
Hill, cost including 5000 for the lot, ST.
575.52 No. 10, near Sandy Hook, 81 $780,
%. Bel Air Lot, for School House $3.50;
Union Chapel school house and Reese's No.
4, $500. 4th District-School House No.
20, built by Mr.. Turner, $3.50. Total cost
$9,55I74.
| The Board issued their notes and certi-
ficates of Indebtedness in payment of these
Lots and School Houses.
Of this amount $4,12614 has been paid,
balance remains of $5,431.60, which the
Board has authorized the Collectors to re-
ceive in payment of taxes. There have
! been no School Houses built in the 9th OF
9th Districts. The Board rent two School
rooms in the Town Hall at Havre de Grace
and the Town School House at $50 each
per annum. The five schools formerly il,
Havre de Grace, are united into three, and
graded with five Teachers.
The ten cents on the 800 paid into the
State Treasury for Public Schools is appor-
toned by the Comptroller to the several
counties and the city of Baltimore, in pro-
portion to the number of children between
the ages of and 20. BY the census OF
1860 there were, in Hartford county, S,433
children of the scholastic age. BY the cen
sus of 1870 there were 7,343 between the
ages of and 20-a decrease of 1000. In
cal,
ly distribution to Hartford county for Pub
lie Schools, has diminished $1,232.09. In
1868, the quarterly distribution was 49,
939.42; in 1871, $2,707.33.
Hartford pays into the State Treasury
$12,S40.49 for distribution to Public
Schools, but receives back only $40, 149 90
The State School Fund has been gradually
diminishing for seven years. In 1869, it
was over $4,000; for 1871, $2,4O3.s7.
By law the School Commissioners are
authorized to purchase text books and
stationery for their respective counties
Each Commissioner orders what books and
stationery he requires, ana distributes them
to the Scholars in his district, or under
his immediate charge. The books and
stationery cost in 1871 about $4,000; the
book fees from pupils $4,491.s5, leaving q
balance in favor of the books of 81, 1S1 .S5
The incidentals rent, fuel, &C., were 81,
657 81 and repairs $564.S9 making bal
ance against book fees of 81 ,O4071, which
the Board paid. From this the book fees
of pupils do not pay the cost of books, the
incidentals and repairs. Therearc in ope
ration so Schools as follows:
1st District, 10; I'd District, Is; Sd Dis
trict, 10; 4th District, 20; 9Th District
10; and sixth or Havre de Grace, Schools
The salaries of the Teachers for the Win
ter term, ending January 31st, 1872, will
be: list District, about $675; Cd, 81 ,220H3d
$1,400; 4th, 81, $40; 9th, $1,36O; and 9th
$3.50. Total salaries $6,775, per term TO
S3 Teachers employed. The salaries o
Teachers for three terms will be $20,325
and for four terms $27,100. Add to thi
the 81 ,040,T which the Board pays for in
cidentals and repairs above the receipts 70
book fees, the amount will be $2S, 14071
The Receipts from the State are $12 ,552.
or; from the county tax $12,840.4o. To
tai $3.50 2.55, being $1,70745 less thar
:. the amount required to keep the School
in operation four terms, with the creates
economy. The number of pupils attend
ing the Public Schools in 1868, was 3,101