The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-09-09
-, or che Trustees Of Pubiic
schools.

ii .oicod and confirmed by the Board
El,J,rmrn, september 1, 1871
w uonor,hle Mayor ana Aldermen, Of
ghrC.W oi pallaH'
,nlersi ned trustees Of public schools
HS cIly Ot Dallas, appointed W your
0f lIJ b0dy, boz leave 70 report lhelf
h1hu y,I,ugs as lOlOWsi
protf,u fhpy hn,e employed AZ principal,
Fllhln Allan. ~ III two assistants, Holectod
pr a. nn,,yrd by Us, Mrs. Allen and Mrs
~ 'Dake, 10 leneh the school
lAwp lhlrd ward Nald Alleh
10 HInp comfortable rooms desks, apatsi
mihi ,r'e,iylng Cor nimsrlf and assistants,
ttn nu,, of $40 Per month, payable ~ the
lhv 'v"".rI month, he having the privilege
emu W, t5lup iu hiss hoOl students over FOUR
Oh ,nd under eight years OF age, ana
lt'ur,tnu them tho usual TAI ION ana OF
tNN.s'WW those within those AEeS VINO study
dlMs,ns not specified lu the statute the
Hll,Wn,tlnn. should the actual attendance
usual ,Ireu within the scholastic age rehid-
o. U,,.nld rhrd ward amount 20 ono num-
w. and forty, ne EMPLOYS lnlid assistant
UIscl'd as the first, ana we then pay seid
w',, si5b uer month, instead Of SllO, no long
an ",n,i oyce-s Of scholastic scholars c.n-
~ Heis 20 organize and conduct aid
Vuui in gtrct com pliluoe with public
V'.i raw mud the Ordinn 0e OF the city
Htncll. ~ commence FIRST Monday IN Sep
WN,bsr. lN,7, and continue eight months or
Wpi'ny", ms the pnblic school fund shall Inst.
Tbe contract IL herewith hled ana maze
par iumvnd"They have employed Mrs. Q.
Miller, with Miss Ruth Evans
Lrnd Mr.. j, r. Spoers, ~ assistants
,n tearh In the Second ward, on the same
Wor,n. #, q contract Is herewith hled, and
made mart ofihis report,
"Tnhd They have employed professor j,
~ TorlN with Miss ----- ltachman, fist
llls'stant, ana Miss Mary Blah, second, ON
same terms TO teach the First ward
.nbool. The contract IL herewith filed.
"Eopuh-They have employed Professor
Misses II. RSddlck and Lizzie
%,rrton assistants on the same terms 10
Ieach the Fourth ward school, and filed the
CONTRACT herewith
There not being sufficient colored chill
lr,n i'm the Second and Fourth wards 10
,u,''olIen school I'm them, we deemed II best,
and did lOr school purposes, attach the
Wat and Fourth wards together as Que,
and inc Second and Third wards MS one.
,IWo have EN- plOyed George y. Richardson
~ prlnc pal, and Miss ------ as assistant,
%tnr advised that one assistant would be
srficiept for 500 per month, being In every
'Ssncct similar 10 the contracts with the
ioorhprs Of white schools, except he pays but
one assistant, and unless the actual attend
onceof children residing IN the Second and
Third wards shall amount to one hundred
ami twenty within the scholastic age, when
we pay Sl25 per month during the actual at-
tendance of said number, and the school is
"a commence on the 18th of October. The
cnntract Is herewith fled.
They have employed ----------, with one
assistant TO teach the colored school in the
FIRST and Fourth wards on the same terms,
the contract Tor which is not yet signed
The eaSons which induced us to place the
bapinping of the cOlOred school on the 10th
ofOrtOhrl are that IL is co toni picking sea-
son, and most Of them being poor are com
oe.led TO put their children at cotton-pick-
inc To secure something to buy food and
clothing for winter, and books necessary
when they go.
They deem II necessary and proper, when
the fund, which viii come 70 the city for
public schools, to divide il pro rdt0 among
The white and colored Children so as to
give each their potion, and the part APP
pOrtioned to the whites lie appOr-
Toned among the wards in proper
tion to the children of scholastic age resi1-
Ing in each ward, being four parlS, ana
that the part appOrlioned he divided in the
same way, between the tirst am fourtn
and the Second and Third wards, being two
parts,
The trustees have, as far as they could, en-
deavUred to employ teachers, ana OBTAIN
rooms that Will make the public tree school
and one on account Of lis merits
To which all classes will willingly send We
believe we have secured the good VII OF the
pupil and the parent In this. Had We been
urmsEed suitable rooms and means Sufti-
cient, we would have ac'ed, perhaps, differ
emily. We simply say we have done the
very best we cOuld with the means NJ our
DISMISSAL and under the circumstances
We have been appealed by several ladies
and gentlemen for The privilege Of sending
their children to school in ward other than
the one they reside in. This VIII be cons
yeuience to tn party, but make quite lrou--
Ri some in the distribution OF the fund
among the different wards, and We submit
ID ip tue council.
All which we respectfully submit
II +. LANTX, President.
j. II, CARLETON, secretary.