Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-11
NAME OF SCHOOL

Total amount of tuition collected .....sg3 10
Section 45 of your rules requires that the
teachers shall be in their school rooms for
the reception of pupils fifteen MINUTES before
8 o'clock, and section So provides that tardi-
ness shall be equivalent TO oEe-third of a
days absence. The pay rolls for January,
February and March were made out in accord
ance with the above. Const quently some of
the teachers who were tardy only once lost
one-third of a days pay, notwithstanding
they were in their school-rooms in ample
time to commence ROTATIONS at Q o'clock,
while others who were absent one heur after
O'Clock lost only one-flfth of the days pay.
1t will be seen, then, that the teachers who
reported ten minutes before O'Clock suffered
a deduction OF one dollar, while those who
did not report till 10 o'clock lost only sixty
cents. Will the board please establish an
equitable rule for the future? respectfully
submitted,
c. II. COLLIER, Superintendent.
The report received, and its recon-
menda,ions for change ia the rule for
hardness WIS referred 10 the Commi,tee on
Rules.
A communication was received from a
committee in Washington, recommending
petitions TO Congress for governmeBt aid to
public schools. Messrs. DdBose aud j lord an
iudorsei the movam mt, and thought the
official approval of the board sfoud be
given. A committee of three was appointed
to obtain signatures TO the petition.
The Auditing Committee reported sundry
bills amounting 10 1857 So, and the March
payroll for 1920 20. All the bills we're
ordered paid
The Finance Committee reported collec-
lions and old balance, ST., III OF; payments,
1926 50, leaving a balance ON hand OF
1926 20. Mr.. Jordan recommended that
this balance be appropriated to pay back
salaries of teachers for February and one
half of March. He also read an announce
ment from Mr.. Williams, State agent, of the
collection Of $500 PoiI-ts4, sAio14 would be
turned over in few days. The report wss
adopted.
An application from Mrs Florence p
Cooper for reconsideration of former action
of the board declining an increase Of wages
to $50 per month. Her petition was accom-
panied by certificates of the fact that she had
been tesching in county schools for several
years past. The former action was reconsid-
cred, and the salary raised to $50 pei. month.
Mr.. Shaw said chalk was not furnished to
the colored schools but was to the white
schools.
The secretary and several members said
the schools were treated alike, and chalk had
been furnished all the schools for some time
past.
Mrs. Maclin's petition for certificate was
TeleTTcu 10 tue
Mr.. Boyle reported that the necessary
money had been raised for the memorial
window to Colonel J. t. Leath, and the win
dow had been placed in the church. The
boards thanks were rendered Mr.. Boyle.
Mrs Mollie Marshall's salary was raised
to $50 per month.
DR.. W. B. Rogers, member from the Sixth
ward, was granted leave OF absence for three
months.
A motion TO reconsider the action of the
board at its last meeting, in refusing an in
crease of pay TO Mrs. Braughton, was lost.
Mr.. Walsh moved that the board employ
an attorney, at salary OF $500 per year, to
attend to TIE boards legal business. The
matter was laid over till next meeting.
Mr.. Ralston moved that the schools be
closed on the last day of May. Carried.
Mr.. Burke was the only one of the Visiting
Committee who had report to make. He
had visited the Peabody school, and gave a
good account of it.
The hoard then aIiOurned