Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1874-01-15
LOCAL NEWS.

Cry SCHOOL BOARD. "A meeting was call
ed for last Monday night, but at eight o'cock.
only the chairman, the Superintendent of
Schools, and Messrs. S. f. Beach, Wheat and
Wilmington we're in attendance, and it being
ed. the Board adjourned to last night, when
there the were present: E. Suowden, it,, esq,
chairman, Messrs Addison, j. s. Beach,
Keuper, Neale, Wheat ADD Wilmington and
the Superintendent Of Schools.
The chairman stated that the meeting had
been called at the request of the chairman OF
the committee on the new school house, who
had proposition to make concerning the pay
meut of u note which had been given for the
purchase of the lot, but that as other trustees
were expected to attend, it would be as we'll to
avail. their arrival; whereupon, unanimous con-
sent was given for taking up other business,
and Mr. Wheat, FROM the Committee on FL
nauce and Accounts, reported as correct the
following bills, which were passed, viz:
Clerk City Court, recording deed, 50. 50;
Albert Stuart, drawing deed, &C., S. SO; Chas.
L. Powell rent, S3l.25, Virginia Sentinel, ad-
ver,ising, 50 so.
On motion of the Superintendent, a sum
sufficient to pay all contracts made for rent.
was appropriated, payable 10 the instalments
required by those contracts.
MIR. Wheat, from the building committee OF
the proposed new school house, reported that
a note for Sl,3ll. so had been given by the
chairman, at the request Of that committee, for
the purchase money, borrowed from the Citl-
zens National Bank; that note was due to.mor-
row. aud it was not advisable to sell stock at
this time; there was something over eleven
hundred dollars In tho treasury, aud that
amount, with the interest due Tomorrow,
would about pay the note; the teachers could
be paid out of the city's quota, due February
lst He, therefore, moved the appropriation
of all the money in the treasury IN favor OF the
building committee.
The SUPERINTENDENT said he had one very
serious objection to that course; 1t was entirely
unnecessary. He had a document which would
prove that to the satisfaction of the Board.
Whereupon, he hauded to MIR. Wheat check
from Rev. DR.. Sears, general agent of the Pea
body Education Fund, for $1,000, saying that
it had been received by the nights mail, and
he had said nothing about it before, that ne
might give the trustees a pleasant surprise.
Il was the first nstalment of the 81 900 promls-
ed for this year.
MIR. Wheat Immediately withdrew his mo-
ton aud substituted for 1t another, that the
coupons payable Tomorrow, the $1,000 just
received, and the sum OF $l46. 50 from the
treasury, be appropriated 10 favor Of the chair
man, for the payment of the note due at the
Cit!zeus' National Bank, and the sum ct 1927
to pay due bill given to Messrs. Bur ke y
Herbert ly the Superintendent Of Schools, in
part payment for city stock purchased BY him
Tor the Board
The Superintendent said that the bonds held
by hun for the Board had been deposited by
the advice OF the chairman Of the COMMITTEE
on Finance and Accounts. in the Citizens Ma
,ional Bank; to relieve himself of all RESPONSE
bili,y in the matter, he preferred having
positive order of the Board on the subject.
Whcrcupou, GU motion of Mr.. Wheat, it was
ordered that the Superintendent of Schools
deposit in the Citlzeus' National Bank, the
bouds held by him 10 trust for this Board
Aud the Board then, at 81, adjourned.