The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-05
THE STATE BOARD OF EDU.
CATION.

The State Board of Education assembled
at noon yesterday in response to the following
call of State Superintendent of Education G.
W. Brown.
STATE OF LOUISIANA,
OFFICE OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION,
New Orleans, Oct. 16, 1875.
To whom it may concern:
By order Of the President special meeting
of the State Board of Education is hereby
called at the capital on Thursday, Nov. A.
1875, at IL NJ, for the purpose of hearing the
charges made against the members of the city
Board of School Directors, parish of Orleans,
submitted by the committee appointed by the
mass meeting in the Lafayette Square, assem-
bled Sept. 29, 1875. NJ. G. COLE,
Secretary.
There were present: W. G.. Brown, State
SUP erintendent, presiding; T. Morris Ches-
tel, First District; E. S. Stoddard, Second
District Geo. B. Loud, Third District c. W.
Boothby Sixth District.
Absent: Brewster, Fifth District; Heating,
Fourth District
A number of the Directors of the city
were on hand in response to citations to
appear and answer charges preferred by the
citizens committee. Among them were The
following: Bourges, Carey, Massicot, Tracy,
McCarty, Ingraham, Rey, Hartzell and Du-
mont. Dibble responded by letter.
The call for the meeting was read, and
superintendent Brown said that he had called
the meeting for the purpose of investigating
very serious charges against every member OF
the City School Dire Glory by a committee of
citizens, and q called you togetherlfor the
purpose of hearing the evidence of the COM
mittee which + supposed they had to offer. I
have notified the committee and this morn
ing received the following communication:
New ORLEANS Nov. 4, 1875.
VIM. G. Brown, State Superintendent Of Public
Education:
Sir-Your communication Of the 30th ult. has
been received and consi, Tered. am instructed to
say that evidence of the charges OF non-vlslta-
ton of schools is within your own reach, and the
charges of incapacty and of holding two offices
are too notorious to need proof.
Very respectfully, PAGE Nj. BAKER,
Chairman.
They assert that it is within my reach. I
repudiate it. 1t is not within my reach.
There are several of the Directors present,
prepared to answer, and several have answer
ed by letter. 1t remains with the Board to
say, whether or not they will be heard, when
there are really no persons appearing against
them.
Chester had his say. In the first place he
wanted to know what the "chawges were;
in the second place he did not care what they
were, because there was nobody present to
substantiate the changes" and for the same
reason he did not want to hear the Directors.
Boothby said he thought the Directors
wanted to be heard, and the board should
listen to them.
Chester objected, and moved that when the
board adjourned it adjourn until IL o'clock
to-day. He did not want to be hasty; he
wanted to give the Citizens Committee a
chance.
The motion prevailed, and Chester called
for an executive session. The purpose of the
call was to consider the designations of Alfred
Shaw and E. G. Billings.
The board considered, and the executive
session was raised and, on being called to
order in public, resolution authorizing the
appointment of committee to draft resolu-
tions expressive of the sense Of the board re-
garding the charges of the citizens commit
tee was adopted.
Stoddard, Chester and Boothby were ap-
pointed, and the board adjourned until IL
o clock to-day.