The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-02-09
SUPPLEMENTAL STATEMENT
OF THE
Board Of School COMMISSIONERS
Of Hartford County.

The Board desire to make statement of
facts connected with the Public Schools,
since their organization in April, 1868.
The Board organized April 14th, 1868,
and continued the Schools in operation till
July of same year.
By the School Law of 1868 the Board
was invested with authority to call on the
County Commissioners for levy of any
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 levy Of only %
cents.
The Board finding p cents insufficient,
requested the County Commissioners in
1869 for levy of 6 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 1861 it owed the Teachers bal
ance on their salaries for the term ending
November 18th, 1869, of $3,549.61, and a
debt for Books and Stationery to the
amount of $4,566.6S.
In January, 1870, q new Board came into
office, and paid the balance due Teachers,
and So, 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
a,,1 1ioni6ata bn Iaht T lof,
in April, 1870, repealed the law and limited
the County Commissioners approve and
School Board anticipated this change in
to build any school houses, although 50
much needed.
A new Board of County Commissioners,
whom the School Board applied, in June,
1870, for levy of 30 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
Dodlu Nlu lOI ~ SuDHllIlCC d lull CS-
innate of the expenses of the SO schools in
the county, and the Indebtedness of the
Board, and asked for 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
!. NJ fa4n 1,
ingdon, at cost, including the loo and
furniture, 81 Jas; No. 2, Hartford Furnace,
$1,175. I'd District-Lapidum, No. 10,
$1,000; Hartford Seminary, No. ~, pur-
chased of the Trustees at $3.50. Calvary,
Sd District, No. 10, $3.50; No. 7, Forest
Hill, cost including 5000 for the lot, ST.
575.52 No. 10, near Sandy Hook, 81 1896
%. Bel Air Lot for School House $3.50
Union Chapel school house and Reese's No
4, $500. 4th District-School House No
90, built by Mr.. Turner, 1886. Total cost
$9,557.74.
The Board issued their notes and certi.
ticates OF Indebtedness in payment of these
Lots and School Houses
Of this amount $4,126.14 has been paid
balance remains of $5,431 so, which the
Board has authorized the Collectors to re.
ceive in payment of taxes. There have
been no School Houses built in the 5th 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 ir
Havre de Grace, are united into three, and
graded with five Teachers.
The ten cents ON the 500 paid into the
State Treasury for Public Schools is appor
toned by the Comptroller to the severa