The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-04-27
For repairs Of school-house


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For salary of teacher of school No. 3 for
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For salary of teacher of school No. for
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For salary Of teacher or school No. ) for
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For salary of teacher of school No. 8 for
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Complete the List of SchoolsJ
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This form is issued in pursuance of the
law as laid down in the fifteenth clause
of this same Goth section Of the Act re-
ferred to and is as follows:
The Board of Public instruction in
each county shall, on or before the last
Monday in June of each year, prepare an
itemized statement showing the amount
of money required for the maintenance
Of the necessary common schools Of their
county for the next ensuing scholastic
year. Now, under the act of the Legis-
lature Of 1881, providing for a county
school tax, the law does not in any man
ner affect this law as quoted, but simply
provides for a review of the estimate by
the Boards of County Commissioners,
and fixes a minimum and maximum, as
limits to which the latter boards may go
in reducing or increasing the demands of
the Boards of Public Instruction made in
their itemized statements of current and
incidental expenses.
think in view of all the above, it is
clearly III the power and that it is the
duty of the Boards of Public Instructions
to build suitable schOOl-houses for the
education of the children of the various
counties, the children of the State. Now,
Of course. a due consideration of the
ability Of the people to pay should be
had, and principles Of economy, just and
prudent, should be the actuating motive
of every public officer and board of Off
GERS. and, under existing circumstances,
it would be simply impossible to build
every schOOl-hOuse needed or demanded
in any county in any one year, but one
or two could be provided for in the an
nual estimate for each year, and thus by
persistent effort the whole county would
soon be dotted over here and there with
neat and CHEEKY school -hOuses-things of
beauty and great and good use in the
midst Of the wilderness, as well as in the
cities and towns-enhancing the value of
surrounding property, elevating the
standard Of society, and cultivating a
/ higher and better type of citizenship;
/ citizens, parents and children would take
a deeper and Hvelier interest in their
/ particular school, and the whole matter
of public education receive a new and
fresher impetus, forward and upward
In regard to your remarks in reference
to the County Commissioners acting in
. concert with the Board of instruction in
building such a public school-house as
the city of PaIatka should by all means
have, I viii not venture an opinion as to
law, OF right, or duty, because it is out
side of my field of work, and might be
. justly considered as presumption on my
part, but I will venture this much: 1t
does seem to me if they can levy and
collect a tax to build court houses and
jails and asylums for the poor, they can
render the necessity for these much less
by aiding their counties in the proper
education and training of the children.
Now, Mr.. Editor, I will conclude this
already too long letter by saying that in
my opinion, and as a result of an expert
rience of eight years, if good schools are
furnished and properly conducted and
the children positively improved and ad-
vanced so that the parents and friends
shall be satisfied, no complaint will be
made against the officers who brought il
about If you think the publishing OF
this expression of opinion in your enter
prising journal will result in good. ]
have no objection, but if it is to provoke
a captious controversy, then withhold it.
because I have no time for such work
My duties, which have resolved to fully
and completely discharge, will demand
my whole time,
Respectfully,
A. J. RUSSELL.
SIM of Pub ms State of Florida