The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-27
THE STATE SCHOOL FUND.

! School Fund distributed that year was
S237,2l5 SO, and this year it on ly amounts
to Sl95, 1873 75. Why this difference?
As the State increases in wealth and pop
ulstion, this fund should grow propor-
tionaiely.-Morgantot0n Post.
The statement that the sum of S237,-
2l5.SS was distributed in 1871, appears
by reference to the Auditors report, 10
| be incorrect, as that document puts the
amount spportioned for that year at
Sl74,s96.S5. Reference is probably made
to the spportioE ment which Is said to
| have been made for the Year 1870, but
which in fact included the receipts into
that fund from April lst, 1869 to Sep
tember lst, 1870 in addition TO large
sum which WAS apportioned tor previous
years, but which was not drawn from
the treasury, and was consequently re-
spportioned in 1870.
On the first day of April, 1869, the
amount of the fund in the treasury WAS
apportloned as required by the laws then
in force. On that day (April LIST, 1869, J
the Code which requires the apport:on-
ment 10 be made on the first day OF Sep
tember in each year went into effect,
and consequently no apportlonment was
made until september lsL, 1870, on which
day the amount of the fund which had
been accommodating JOr serenteeH months
was spportioned.
1t will be seen by an examination OF
the Auditors report, that on the first day
oi October, 1869, there was in the treas
ury, 10 the credit OF the general school
fund, the sum OF S97, 7,44O.43. The re
ceipts into that fund from October lst,
1869, to Septem Der lst, 1870, amounted TO
Sl9l $4,000, which added TO the sum in
the treasury October l, 1863, produces
an aggregate OF $3.50, 9,380.47. The dis
bursements during the period from Oc-
tober l, 1869. to September l, l07O'
amounted to S60,5I9O5. Add to The
sum in tie treasury October /, 1869, the
receipts from that time until September
!, 1870, and deduct rom the amount
thereof the disbursements for the sane
period and the result will show tie
amount remaining III the treasury tor dis
trlbution, September l, 1870, to be S22o,-
SOL AZ The Auditors report shows that
on the lst day OF October, 1869, when
there WAS >nly the sum of s97, ,44O.43 IN
the treasury to the credit OF the general
school fund) there yet renamed IN the
treasury $46,7S9 II which had been H.
ciuded il the apportlonmehts OF iormor
wears, and had not been drawn by the
counties, so that when tAe sum OF S9L-
44O. .43 Is taken as the basis upon which
inc calculations AS to the amount OF the
iund Tor distribution in 1870 Is made, we
.nciude in that sum $4o, ,139 II
which had been apportioned in a
previous year. If therefore the whole
amount apportioned tor the year previous
t. 1870 mad beeH paid 10 the counties
tne sum to be apportioned in 1870 would
have been Just S49, 1877 less than the
amount which WAS apportioned, and for
| the seuenteea months We would have had
| IN the treasury Tor distribution 10 The
! counties The sum Of $3.50, l32.Z5. 1t can
not be claimed that when the apportloI =
mrnt OF 1877 was made any considerable
part of the sum appocnoned Tor 1876
remained ia the treasury, Tor OF the large
amount apportioned in 1876 there
only remained on Sept. lst, I9'"
the sum OF S4,z23.OO which mad
not been paid to the counties
1t NAV be a matter OF some interest 10
our editorial friends - be lrlormed that
the total amount paid out TO the counties
from this fund in the years 1866, 1866,
1867, 1868, 1869 and 1870, during Repub-
Lcan rule was S72o .O45O w, while the
amount paid out in the years 1871, 1872
1878. 1874, 1875 and 1876 was 81, 500,
$500. We will add, that slthough We
may be Increasing IN wealth, as these ed
Itors tell US We are. It IS nevertheless true
that many OF our people, Democrats ana
Republicans, cal not procure funds suttl-
cent To pay their taxes, and.the names OF
thousands who in 1870 were able to meet
all the demands ofthe State upon them, IN
1917 are found upon the delinquent lists.
Ii our friend OF the Standard don't com
prehend this fact, he may gain ray OF
light upon the subject by glauclng his
eye At the long delinquent tax lists mot
ably the one 10 his own county, Kama.
whs), which have recently been printed
in the papers of the State.
Much hss been said in sn artful way,
by the Radical papers OF the State,
shout 'robblng the School Fund TO pay
the expenses of the Government" Now
there Is no foundation Tor this-not even
the shadow OF foundation.
Not dollar that belongs to
the general school fund has been diverted
to any other use. The only pretended
foundation for this sort of talk is found
in the fact that y sum of money which
belongs TO the perms"ert school fund
not the general or distribu,sble school
/ fuud-hss been loaned TO the State