Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-12-26

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EXPENSES, SCHOOL BUILDINGS. ETC.
Under the head of the current school ex-
penses, etc., the total cost of public schools
is estimated at 81, 1922, 949.O7, or by appor-
tionment $8.4o per year for each scholar.
The present system of apportionmeht is
advocated, with some minor changes.
The public school buildings in Minneapo-
lis cost $3O5,5O2; St. Paul, 243,328;
Winona, $128,46O; Saltwater, $1O6,1OO,
and all other reckonings as to cost
of apparatus, salaries and attendance are
stated in like proportion.
The total number of pupils in the State
studying German is sO7: Greek, 46; Latin
628, and French 81.
THE UNIVERSITY.
The university, its progress and history,
together with all acts, etc., pertaining to it,
are recited, and in this connection the fol-
lowing tables are given, first as to the lands
held by the university:
Acres
Grant to territorial university... 46,465
Grant to State university .............. 81 079
Added by State legislature, 1868. ....... 81, $50
Total acres of land granted by Con-
gress. ........... ,Oo6
Second-The permanent university fund
arises from the sale Of agricultural lands be-
longing to the university, and of timber on
pine lands.
Sales up to December, 1877 $3.50, 739 68
Sales IN 1878 up to date. ........... 21,267 80
Sales Of pine timber. ... 1926 10
Total permanent fund. ........ 1914, 243 II
The average price of agricultural lands
sold has been 1851 per acre. The cash
part of this fund is invested in bonds yield
ing generally per cent, the same rate paid
upon the part of land sales on which time is
given to purchasers.
BY act of legislature passed in 1868, the
regents were authorized to use for current
expenses stumpage money that might come
into their hands, and about 100000 were so
applied.
To restore this amount to that fund, the
Legislature in 1874 passed an act requiring
$l2, 900 to be annually taken from the fund
for the support of State institutions, and
used "to reimburse the permanent university
fund for moneys heretofore used for the
support of said university, arising
from sales of stumpage on university
lands.''
THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.
The following statistical information is
impaired in regard to the normal schols:
Cost of the Normal buildings at St. Cloud,
including site, heating apparatus, and furn-
ishing:
Appropriation, 1859. $50, GOO
1913. 5U,UUU
Part of the $4,000 by State and citizens
put into new building. 3,270
Heating and furnishing. ;,;.:;::... 10000
Present value of old building. ........ $500
= :
The original building has been converted
into boarding house for young ladies, &C.
| commodatlng about twenty-five. This
"Normal Home'' is very desirable feature
of the school, furnishing board at low rates
to many who need such help. A similar ar
rangement is desirable for the other schools.
The first appropriation for 1869 was 3d.
900, the largest annual appropriation has
been $4,000, and the average for ten years is
$4,000. Enrolment and graduates for 1878
is reported in the Model department., 115;
Normal, IS; graduates, Is.
The superintendent speaks highly of their
work, and urges adequate support for their
SCHOOL BOOKS.
The superintendent reports upon the mat
ter of schools as follows:
The legislature of last winter put fnan-
cial bottom into the imperative textbook
law of the preceding year, and this Office has
furnished every possible facility for supply
ing the books to all who want them.
The State superintendent is authorized to
negotiate with the contractor for any books
needed in the common schools in addition
to those mentioned in the law. Under this
provision he has arranged with the contractor
to furnish a geography of Minnesota by Miss
E. A. Wheeler, formerly of the Winona nor
NAL school, at fifty cents, series of writing
books by G. G. Curtiss, of the Business col
lege of Minneapolis, at nine cents each, and
higher reader at eighty-fve cents, by the
authors of other readers furnished under the
law.
While the act of 1877 had no fund out of
which to pay for books, about 200 districts
In thirteen different counties sent in orders.
It has been so arranged that these are recog-
nized by the supplementary act and pa idfor
to the amount of about Sc, 600. These books
are not included in the following table.
Donations to the normal school at Winona
by citizens and the city.
In 1858, to secure the school. ......... $5,512
In 1865, for site. ........... 5,275
In 1867, city bonds for building. ...... $4,000
Total. ..:::::.......:S 25,787
I Cost of the normal building at Winona,
including heating apparatus and furnishing.
Donated by citizens. 1925
Donated by city. .................... 1900
Appropriations by the State. .......... 1851
Total. $l36, 106
State appropriations for current expenses:
Tha average annual appropriation for six
teen years has been 81, 642. go: Il IT, ..-..
For this year the enrolment in the normal
department is reported to be 247; enrolment
in the model department, 1874; graduates, 10.
Cost of the normal building at Mankato.
including heating apparatus and furnishing:
Donated by citizens, 1866. 5000
Appropriated by tho State, 1s6s........ $4,000
1870. IL 500
r.. .. @es'.' 1871. 1900
1877, repairs $500
AOtoA.. .....s ........ $57. 500
The enrolment and graduates for 1877
was, inthe normal department, A6; model,
60; graduates, %.
About 800 districts have ordered directly.
from the contractor, or through some fifty
five agents in different parts Of the State.
The table does not show books SO ordered,
but the omission does not materially affect
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