Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-11-27

practicablllty of collecting debts by the
usual course OF law, chattcl mortgages
are resorted to which defeats the opera
tion of the exemption law so that by the
extreme to which 1t IS carried the cxemp-
ton Jaw to great extent defeats Its own
end and humane purpose The object of
such law primarily Is to benefit and nro-
tect the poor, not the rich in defraudlng &
their creditors as the present exemption
law OF the territory can be made to do.
Report Of the Territorial Superintendent
Of Public Instruction.
: W. II. H Beadle, superintendent Of
public ins ructlon in Dakota Territory
furnishes the press with a summary of his
report tupon matters relating to the schools
of the territory. The report iavors and
defends the township system as opposed
to the district plan will present the ques
tion Of electing county superintendents at
the June elections; the question Of turn
ing over tho revenues derived from sa-
loon licenses and fines into the county
general fund; the appointment If an as
sistant superintendent to have exclusive
jurisdiction over North Dokota, and TAX
Ing the grounds that the school lands
should not be sold for less tnan from $50
to $50 per acre but meanwhile leased and
the rents be applied TO the support Of
schools, or that the lands be sold only for
a period OF thirty years at the end of
which time the title to revert to the state
TO, school purposes.
Tre following statistics arc presented ::
There are 81 organized counties at the
prcsen, time, but the reports for the fiscal
year ending Jurc 3Oth, 1884, include only
- counties which had schools aud school
accounts that year:
Number of counties reporting. IS
Number Of counties organized
but not reporting, l6
Member Of school townships or
gan1zed in so counties, SGT
Number of school districts or
ganlzeu, IN Is old counties, l,042
Number of persons June l, 1854
between the ages of and 2oyears, 7,499
Number Of pupils enrolled in
public schools, 50.03I
Number of school houses, grad
ed, "a
Number Of school houses un-
graded, l,s49
Value of permanent school
property, sl,6s9,65s
Number OF slttings IN school
houses, t9,560
Number Of graded schools, GO
Number Of ungraded schools, 1880
Number Of teachers employed,
males, S63
Number Of teachers employed,
females, 2,04S
Average pay OF teachers per
month-2o days, malcs,. s3S. .43
Average pay of teachers per
month-2o days, females. s3l72
Average number of days schools
were taught, lOl
Numuer of County Teachers
Institutes held, 80
Meetings of Territorial Associ-
ations and Institute, 3
EXPENDITURES.
For shool houses, sites and ap-
pcndages, s639,962 So
For teachers wages, 394, ,7S5 Al
For incidental expenses, l35, ,406 20
For interest on bonds, 1919 %
For other debrs and liabilities, 1884, so
Total common school expenses
during year, sl,306, SIS. p
Balance on hand June 30th,
1884. 96,6s4. 81
Total to balance total common
school receipts, 1903, SO
For university buildings, YER
million, 100000
For university buildings Grand
Forks, 100000
For building Agricultural Col
lege, Brook,ngs, 10000. .oo
For Normal school building,
Madison, 100000
For Normal sch>o building,
Spearfish, 5,ooo.o oC
Donated IN money and landsto
all these, 10000. OC
For salaries and other expenses
for all these, $4,000. .0C
Aggregate for publ: educa-
ton during the year, sl,74s, ,562 90
Don't forget the oyster supper to be
gwen by the Ladies' Aid Society Of the
NJ. E. Church this evening at W. r