The record-union., 1892-12-12
OUT OF FUNDS.
Work on the State Textbooks Has to
Stop for While.
Meeting OF the State Board of Educa-
tion-Editor Raymond's Report
Diplomas Issued.

The State Board of Education met in
the Office of the State Superintendent
Saturday afternoon. Present: Ira More,
of the Normal School at Los Angeles;
L. T. Pierce, OF the Normal School at
Chico; C. w. Childs, of the Normal School
at San Jose, and J. W. Anderson, Super
intendent of Public instruction. In the
absence of Governor Markham, Professor
More was elected President pro tenn.
w. H. V. Raymond, editor of the State
textbooks, presented his report, as fol-
lows:
Hon. j. ". Anderson, Secretary State
Board Of EducdtiOn-DEAR SIR: l beg
to make through you to the State Board
OF Education the following report: First
The text of the Advanced Geography, the
only book of the State series remaining
unfinished, is electrotyped to the sixty
first page. Fifty thousand copies of one
form OF this text eight pages are printed.
Second-The full page and double page
maps OF the book occupy twenty pages,
and of all of these $4,000 copies are now
printed.
Third-The revised manuscript of the
book has all been received from the au-
thors, and is in the hands of the COM
positor through the subject of South
America. This includes the special
geography of California, which, in this
book, has been included in the treatment
of the United States, and not, as in most
Biographies, inserted as a supplement.
Fourth-Predictions as to date of final
completion, in work of this kind, even
when so far advanced as this is, are diff
cult to make with safety. With the
manuscript in its present condition, the
literary work can be performed without
occasioning delay in the publishing de-
Aurfrr navnf lErf l,n Il 4l L.
partment are so considerable and often so
unexpected that an exact fixing OF final
dates is not easy. That the work may go
on without interruption by the legisla-
tive printing of the present season. new
press has been purchased, and the Super
lntendeht Of Printing, if no unforeseen
obstacles arise, expects to report the COM
pletion of the book by July |, 1893.
Fifth-The History has been in use four
years without additions bringing it down
to date. There are on hand OF the present
edition 15,1 100 copies. These facts are
to take some action i'll the premises.
Sixth-It may be of interest to your
honorable body to review the financial
aspect of your work, which is limited to
the compilation of the books and
the furnishing of drawings for their
illustration. The amount of money
expended by you in the preparation and
illustration of all the books that have
now been in use for two years or
more is S2l ,243 SO. This includes not only
authorship, but editorial supervision and
drawing tor illustration besides. Ten per
cent. of the amount received by the State
for sales of these books is S42, 500 Y. The
books referred to in this paragraph are
the readers and speller, in use six years;
the arithmetics, in use five years; the
grammor and United States His
tory, in use four years; the les
n rr in ne hrna
and the elementary geography, in use
two years. When II Is remem bered that
private publishers almost uniformly pay
10 per cent. copyright on authorship
alone and allow II to run through the life
time OF the book, the board, think, may
well congratulate itself on the financial
management of the trust committed to
it. Even the elementary geography, the
most expensive and the youngest OF the
books in this list, has in 10 per cent. of its
sales, paid for its compilation and its
illustrations within 500.
The amount of money on hand to the
credit of the board is now 81, 73S 80; out
standing obligations, 81 800. Very respect
fully submitted, w. H. V. RAYMoND,
Editor State School Books.
The consideration of this report was
deferred till after action taken on appli-
cations for diplomas.
Life diplomas of the higher grade were
granted to Philip Eden and Clara Lilli-
bridge.
Life diplomas of the grammar grade
We're granted to the following persons:
John +. West, Miss Fannie O'Hanlon,
Helen Ambruster, Marg. B. Curry, Anna
Wettig, Forest a. Gilmore, Lulu +. Dur
kin, Corrinne NJ. Curtis, Mag. A. Paine,
Helen A. Burbank, Mary c. Robert, Jen-
ME Howard Erkson, Mrs. Hattie b.
Bingham, Mrs. Carrie l.. Remington,
Kate Doherty, Mrs. A. w. Jenkins, Mel
lie NJ. White, Mrs. Laura Duncan and l.
NJ. Matlock.
An educational diploma of the higher
grade was granted TO Alice S. Culverwell
on condition that the same shall not be
issued unless her grammar school course
certificate should appear to have been
granted upon proper credentials. An
educational diploma OF this grade was
also granted to Mary NJ. Campbell.
Educational diplomas of the grammar
grade were granted to Anna Long, Jen-
ME Redmond, Josie NJ. Buelna, Frank
Sanborn, Anna McSweeney, Rosa A.
Gibbens, Juanita V. Conley, Julia Dahl,
Minnie q. Galjndo, Eliz. Kitchens, So
phia F. Jones. James L. Hardin, Mollie
McCroskey, Frank c. McDiarmid, George
Pentland Eliza Blackwood Butcher.
Mary A. Puckhaber, Sarah E. Onyon,
Rose Denne Simpson, Lille NJ. Crowell,
W. E. Tebbe, Anna c. Been, J. d. Boggs,
Clara B. Bailey and Inez Leona Carrick.
situation of the board, as shown by the
editors report, was taken up. On mo-
ton of Superintendent Anderson the fol-
lowing was unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The funds at the disposal of this
board for the compilation of State textbooks
being now almost exhausted there being at
THE present time only S23S 80 in the fund,
therefore be ii
ResoUed, That at the time for which the
said sum OF S23S 90 Will compensate the
ed1tor-in-chief for his services the services of
the said editor-in-chief be dispensed with
ReSOlred That when proper funds are pro-
Vided this board Will consider the proprietv
OF again electing an editor-in-chief to continue
the work.
The following resolution, on motion of
Professor More, was also unanimously
adopted:
ReSotued, That this board ask the coming
Legislature TO order revision of the books
in the order in which they were published
and to make provision therefor.
The board then adjourned.
THEY ROB THE TREES