Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-01-07

53: log, 80; total, IS. The number @
school houses erected during the year
I2. cost of school houses erected dur
i ing year, s., 424.S9 estimated value O
school houses, Including sites, grounds
desks, seats, etc, $40. 95l estimated
value OF school apparatus, viz, globes
maps, charts, black boards, etc, S2,6S3.
20: total estimated value of all school
property belonging to the public, $73
63470 Total amount OF public money
received from all sources during the
year: By the city, $l3. 1855; by the
country, $24, 200 SO total amount, $3S,-
1924. Total amOunGon hand Sept /,
1877: By the city, 81 ,543 S. on hand
by the country, So. 526 63 total amount
| on hand Sept. /, 1877, So .072 81 total
amount an hand aud received by both
city and country for the year ending
August 81, 1878, S43 304 -. Total
amount paid oct as salaries of teach
era: By the city, $40 .685.00; by the
country, SIG, 754 So; total amount ex-
pended for school sites, buildings. re-
| pairs, etc, S7.182.l7. This Item includes
the cost OF school houses erected sub
tract for school houses completed dur
ing the year the sum of 81, 424.96 will
leave the sum of $2,7572l, most OF
which was expended for material for
buildings not yet completed.
Total amount expended for furni-
ture, fixtures, libraries, etc, $63l.T8;
total amount paid Clerks and Treas
urers, $443 %; total amount paid for all
other expenses, including salary Of
the County Superintendent, 1886 81.
This amount is not properly accounted
for from the school funds. as the en-
tire amount Of the salary of the
County Superintendent Is derived
from other sources. 1t would be cor
rect from the above item, $500 90
Leaving the sum of $4S5.54. Total
amount expended by the city.
S12, 1902 total amount expended by
s34, 796.68. This last grand total In
cludes all the money expended on be-
half of public education, together
with the salaries of both City and
County superintendent, and ali other
officers. Balance on hand August
31st. 1873, for the city, 81. 1888. Bal-
aoce on hand in the hands of Clerks
and Treasurers on behalf of the coun-
try schools, 1924 IA. Total amount
on hand and available August 3lst,
1873, IS, OCT 81.
During the past year. dating from
December 3lst, 1871, to December 3lst,
1873, there has been held IL your
county, exclusive of the city, Nor
nIal School and four Institutes for the
training of teachers.
The frat named continued in session |
four weeks of five days each. The |
entire amount expended in payment |
of instructors for the Normal School |
was SIP 40. of which the Directors of |
seventeen of the twenty districts fur
TnEN II IL
collected from teachers not resident of |
the county. For the $1,000 furnished |
by the several districts there has been |
taught and reported to me by teachers |
from the Normal school extra days OF |
school to the amount of $l14.00. I |
feel confident that more has |
been taught than has been re-
ported. But upon the known facts |
there has been a net saving to the |
county in actual time put in free of
charge equal to 1890, leaving entire
ly out OF the account the improved
efficiency OF the teachers. The latter
can not easily be estimated in money.
The improved efficiency of the teach
ers Is well known to all who have
visited the school rooms before and
School. Yet with all the consequences
each of which have been good, do
not think 1t necessary to again accept
Of any Of the public funds to Gefrsy
any Of the expenses OF a Normal
School. But q Normal Schoo! ought
by all means to be holden.
Your Superintendent has Travelled
something over 1900 miles in the
OF official duties, has in
Cured incidental expenses to the
amount Of $50 40, leaving but Sale so
If the allowed salary for compensation
lf services. Of the salary allowed the
County uperintendent, only about
1910 90 is actually paid from the pub
lie funds of the county. The remain
ng SIPS 90 Is collected from teachers
'or examinations.
/ can not close this report without
calling your attention to simple yet
astonishing fact that actually exists in
our midst.
You have undoubtedly beeu struck
Hith amusement at the large sums of
money presented in this report, and
as the aggregate GUMS were
While it is quite large sum, it IL
put small per cent. of the amount of
axes collected and disbursed annual.
Y. You can hud, by careful exami.
nation, that the entire current ex~
oenses of the county, including the
,choOi revenue, with all ordinary dis 4:
1nrsements except interest upon !
public loans, Ia only % per cent. Of the
public disbursements.
While you pay rs per cent. for the
support OF public paupers and the
rial and punishment Of criminals; or,
% he plain, rs per cent. of the current
Of public funds by your
is on behalf of paupers and
criminals, While only % per cent. Is
expended to carry forward the ordi-
nary current expenses of the county
and educate the rising population.
With high regard, l sm your obedi-
INT servant, II. e. HAMSTED,
County Superintendent.
REPORT on THE POOR ASYLUM.
The report of w. F. Gibbs, Jas. II.
Clamp and Jas. Shipe, Commissioners
If the County Poor Asylum, sets
orth that the farm was rented TO judi
,on Chapaberry for one third of the
crop, enough having been reserved on
" hich to raise vegetables for the In
mates. The net proceeds of the farm
are shown to be: 16 bushels wheat, so
iozsn bundles oats, 100 bushels corn,
} 700 pounds hay. Vegetables raised
oy paupers 80 bushels onions, 800
heads cabbage, 90 bushels beans. 80
1ushel5 Irish DOtAtoes, ! 500 pounds