The daily gazette., 1875-01-26
FIRST EDITION
The Board Of Education.

TEACHERs-A NEW CoLoRED SCHOOL
- TAXING CoI0RED PEOPLE FOR
SCHOOL PURPosEs - OTHER SUP
JECTs.
The Board of Education met In reg
ular session, last evening, DR.. Grim
shaw, in the absence of Pres't Short.
Mr.. |, j. jenkins moved to susnsud
the rules, in order to elect member
from the Sixth Ward, yice C. Wesley
Weldin, resigned. Adopted.
He then nominated Henry Eckel,
who received 13 votes and was declared
elected.
MIR. Jenkins was appointed com
mittee to inform Mr.. Eckel of his cleo
tion.
The Committee on Teachers reported
that ON February 9Th large number
OF pupils will be ready for promotion
to grammar schools and recommended
that Miss Mary Lacklin, of No. II, be
appointed first assistant in the grammer
department of No. IL, the appointment
10 go into effect Feb. 9Th also that no
additional appointment be made to
MI the vacancy caused by Miss Lack
Inns promotion. Adopted.
The committee also presented the
following report:
TO ne Bodid Of Public Education
Your Committee on Teachers think
the occasion of the promotion of an
other teacher to Il position in one of
the Grammar Schools fit one upon
which To commend to the Board of Ed
ucation and the public the example of
the twelve teachers who have passed
the examination emitting them to
permanent certificates, and upon which
to express again the opinion that it is
the duty 0I all of our teachers who
have not passed such examination TO
pursue regularly the studies necessary
in order 10 do so. Especially do we
feel that this is n duty incumbent upon
those, who, without having passed
such examinations, hold positions in
our Grammar Schools or Principalships
in our Primary Schools and therefore
we offer the following
Resoired, That the public good de-
mands that we shall, wherever possible,
secure for the higher positions in our
school teachers, who, by their scholar
ship aud success in teaching, have be-
come holders of the permanent certifi-
Gates given under the rulesssof the
Board. VIM. s. HILLEs,
|. j. JENKINS,
...l CIIAs. BAIRD,
The report was adopted.
Mr. George Anderson, assistant
teacher in the Howard School was or
dered to be engaged one more month.
On motion OF Mr. McIntire, the
Lf,.n
draw on the City Treasurer for the
amount OF school taxes in his hands.
On his further motion, the same
Committee was authorized to have
discounted a note for $1,000 at go
days.
The Committee appointed to report
to the Bureau of Education was in
structed to furnish the Board with
copy of said report.
The Committee appointed to con-
slider the propriety of openinga school
for colored people in old school No
10, Second street, near Washington,
reported favorably, and presented q
petition for said school, signed by 70
colored men of that section of the
city.
The subject on motion, was laid
over until next meeting.
The Committee to consider the pro-
pricty OF enlarging the recitation
rooms of school No. 4, reported that
it would be unwisc, at present, to in
cur the expense of such alteration,
and recommended the following i'm
provements: Divide the large room
into three rooms by placing glass
partition across the room, near the
centre, parallel with Washington
street, aud another at right angles
with this, extending to Washington
street; also, through the two recita-
tiOn rooms into the rooms formed by
the latter partition. This, the com
mittee think. would give much addi-
tional room. The whole subject was
laid over until next meeting.
Mr.. H. NJ. Jenkins offered the fol-
lewing:
Res0t0ed, BY the Board of Educa-
ton of the City of Wilmington, that
il is the sense of the Board that all
citizens should be taxed for school
purposes according to their taxable
valuation, without regard to color,
and we hereby respectfully petition
the Legislature for the passage of
amendments to existing laws securing
such equality of taxation within the
city of Wilmington.
The resolution was laid over until
next meeting.
Mr.. Wooley offered resolution in
structing the Superintendent to cor
respond with Prof. Northrup, relative
to securing him to deliver two lectures
before the teachers of our public
schools Laid over until next meeting.
Messrs. Bird, Baird and Hesler
were appointed a committee, to pet J.
tion the Legislature to pass an act ad
ding school District No. 19i, to the
city. The Secretary was instructed
to ascertain and draw the amount of
the State School fund due District No.
| 3,
On motion, the Superintendent was
instructed to request the principals to
comply with Section 5, of the rules
requiring reports to be made to the
school committees of all cases of cor
poral punishment.