San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-12-14

ulation of 1870, 1851, and an enrolment
of 44,052, or 80 per cent. and col
ored school population OF I84,ls4,
with an enrolment of 84,476, OF
only 26 per cent. She spends only
S4S0,820 per annum for this purpose.
Maryland, with a white school pop.
ulation of 218,669, has an enrolment
of 1920, or SO per cent; and with
a colored school population of 68, SOL,
has an enrolment of 1921, or "A
per cent. Maryland devotes 81, 544,-
367 per annum to education.
Mississippi has 1862 white eligi.
bles, and 1894, or GA per cent, en-
rolled; and 252, 4S8 colored elgibles,
with l23,710, or 40 per cent. enrolled.
Her annual expenditure it $s9O,7O4.
Missouri, with a white school pop.
ulation of 6Sl, 995, has 454,21S en-.
rolled, or 81 per cent. Out of col.
ored school population of 41,489, she
has 22,158 enrolled, or So per cent.
She spends $8,152,17S a year on
education.
North Carolina has white school
population of 291,77O, and an enroll
ment of 136,4S1, or AZ per cent.
She has colored school population
of 1854, with. an enrolment of
of 1925, or SO per cent. Her an
nual expenditure is $352,882.
South Carolina has white school
population of 1888, with an enroll
ment of 61,219, or rs per cent, and
a colored school population of 144,-
315, with an enrolment of 1858,
or 80 per cent. She spends 1924, 629
year for this purpose.
Tennessee is set down as having
4O3,353 white eligibles, 229, 300, OF
81 per cent, being on the rolls; and
as having al, 500 colored eligibles,
6O,951, or 43 per cent, being on the
rolls. Her schools cost her $724,-
S62 per annum.
Texas makes the best showing:
1873, 912 of her white school popula-
ton of III, 426, or 81 per cent, are
enrolled; 47,874, OR n per cent. OF
the 62,015 colored school popula-
ton, ale enrolled. She spends $685.
346 year on education.
Virginia has white school popula-
ton of 314,827, with an enrolment
of 1915, or 4S per cent, and
colored school population Of 24O,-
$50, with an enrolment of 68,6O0,
Or 20 per cent. She expends $780,
100 on her schools.
West Virginia has a white school
population of 2O2,364, and enroll
ment of 128,779, or 60 per cent.
She has a colored school population
of 7,749, and an enrolment of 4,O71,
or So per cent. Her annual expendi-
ture, in this regard, is $716,864.
The District of Columbia, which is
accounted as part Of the South, has
white school population of 1852,
and an enrolment of 1884, or 81
per cent; and a colored school popu-
lation of 1896, with an enrolment
of 9,505, or 69 per cent. The total
expenditure for education in the Dis
trict is $438, 567 per annum.
In all, the white school population
of the South is $500, 1861, with an
enrolment of 2,215,674. Its colored
school population is 1,SO3,257, with
an enrolment of 7S4,7O9. It spends
$12,475,044 year for popular educa-
ton. In Delaware and Kentucky the
school tax collected from colored
citizens is the only State appro-
priation for the support of colored
schools. In Maryland there is a bien-
NAL appropriation by the Legislature.
In the District of Columbia one-third
of the school money is set apart for
colored public schools, and in the
other States mentioned above the
school moneys are divided in proper
ton to the school population, and
without regard to race.
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