The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-26
afrldavit, as the law requires. I9e necessity
citizen who desires to See arelief law proper

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afrldavft, as the law requires. TIE necessity
IN n,sch call "A doubtless manifest TO every
citizen who, desires to see areieI law proper
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not an impossibiity, as assumed by the Ad-
ministrator, but o perfectly practicable mode
Of ascertaining who, among the employees
of the City Board, are really entitled to be
paid out Of the State appropriation for De-
eember, 1877, can be sh0WR easily, by tho sec
rotary Of tho City Board sending TO oil the
schools the circular OF information and form
OF affidavit with which he had been furnished
by the State Superintendent. II worthy
teachers aud others are debarred from re-
ceiving within the present month, heir just dues
for December, 1877, this wr0ng nil be caused
solely By unnecessary detay IN distributing that
circular and form.
g. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE LAW.
IL the opinion of the Administrator OF
Finance actually be that the pay rolls issued
by the City Board Of School Directors are not
such warrants" as are referred 10 In the
prOyis0 Of the appropriation act, then has the
law provided no mode Of payment to the city
teachers, and the schools of rural Louisiana
will be gamers by the force OF the Admins
| traitors reasoning.
The Administrator construction OF the law
| Ii "herculean strain Of the imagination" In
so far as he deems himself exempted from the
necessity OF complying with Its pyovsso The
State Superintendent desires to relieve him
from an effort which might terminate In
phrenits and, hence, absolving him from oil
labor In the matter, calls on the secretary as
the executive officer Of the Board Of Dlrec-
tors, to take such precautions as will shield
him from any future "perpiexity." The con-
clusion deduced by him from the statement,
that because the teachers never received any
evidence of indebtedness and had none In
prospective, ttep could not haze sold or die
posed of their claims for SALARIES dgdinst The
b0nyd to any particular snitDsdatnt or midi
uiduats," will probably startle hundreds OF
teachers who know, TO their sorrow, that they
have sold their salaries for m 1nths past and Z
even months To come, and agitate no small
number of brokers and others who have Just
claims against the city of New Orleans for
numerous salaries which they have purchased
Rtwhat Mey deemed o. valuable consideration.
The opinion of the State Superintendent as
TO the proper construction of the appr6ptia-
tiOt1 oct IL In conformity tOftsplain, ufimistak.
able language. The act itself Is here repro
du0ed for the information OF oil concerned.
No. ISL An Act
Making appropriations to- cover deficiencies OF
former years. to be paid out Of the revenues
of such years.
SECTION /. Be it enacted BY the Senate and
House Of Representatiyes Of the state q Louis
following sums or so much thereof as may be
necessary. be and the. arc hereby appropriated
finds STse bereinafer named said amounts t to be-
Augmentation for the relief of the New Or
leans School Board. out Of the current school
funds of 1877. $4,000.
Out OF the current school funds OF 1878.
$4,000.
That the Superintendent Of Public Educa-
tion be authorized TO place to the credit OF the
city OF New Orleans the first moneys collected
from the back taxes ~ the respective years to
the school fund; provided that no payment of
any warrant against the school funds Of the
said years shall be made. eroept ID those Bho
are the o,sners and original pages. and hare re.
manned Me OlDners Of said warrants from The
issue thereof to the payment OF Hte same, TO be
made to appear by the affidavit i,dorsed on tie
ndrr ant Of the claimant.
It should not be forgotten that this appro-
priation for the relief OF the New Orleans
teachers and other persons, was made In
derogation OF section q OF the school law
prescribing the basis for apportioning school
funds among the respective parishes. SO
noble an act OF generosity and grace on the
part Of the country members OF the General
Assembly can be properly appreciated only
by faithful observance Of the act according
ID Hs intent da disclosed n, The PBoyIso which
alone secured its enactment.