The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1892-02-09

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Mr. @. L. Tubb. County Superin-
tendent of Education submitted the
following report which was ordered
filed and recorded:
TO the Honorable Board of Super
visors Of Monroe county:
GENTLEMEN:
In making this, my first report,
to your honorable body, it becomes
my duty to state some facts and
figures in order that false and err0n-
eous impressions shall be corrected,
aud that jnstice may be done too all
pOrties concerned in the premises.
On the Ath day of January of the
present year, when | took charge Of
the public schools of your county.
Mr.. Wicks, the County Treasurer,
reported that he held (31,S54.40)
eighteen hundred and fifty -four dol
lars and forty cents to the credit of
the county school fund; to this add
($2,00O.O0) two thousand dollars
loaned to the common county fund
gives only (S3, 654.40) three thons-
and eight hundred aud ffty-four
dollars and forty cents available for
school purposes. During the month
of January issued teachers pay
certificates to the amount of 49,
260.50) three thousand two hundred
and sixty dollars and fifty cents, and
yet there are outstanding "teachers
reports" for the second December)
months work contracted and taught
under the administration of my pre-
decessor in Office, which will re-
quire at least (3625,0W six hundred
and twenty-five dollars to satisfy,
making II total of nearly GS3,900.00)
three thousand nine hundred dol
lars for schools taught before my
administration began, to pay which
| received little more than (S38G0,-
00) thirty eight hundred dollars. TO
all this might be added other claims
against the county school fund for
nearly 81 100000 one thousand dol
lars, which were contracted and
payable almost a year ago.
These figures must show conclu-
sively that had rot the County
Treasurer received some school
funds during the past month, he
would have been compelled to sus-
pend the payment of "teacher's
warrants.n To show the causes
which produced this state of affairs
would require a lengthy recapitula-
ton of receipts and disbursements
for The three or four years next pre-
ceding the commencement of my
administration, in this | do not
care to indulge.
Now, in this dark hour of finan-
cial distress, | am forced to call
upon your honorable body for some
assistance by which | shall be en-
abled to continue the public schools
of the county on cash basis, and
to exonerate me from any censure
for the lack Of funds in my hands to
pay teachers warrants on presenta-
ton, as sufficient monies were not
turned over by my predecessor to
discharge his own co tracts.
And when you have made a thor
ough analysis of this matter, l have
not the least doubt that you, and
each of you, will yield a most ready
consent to do all in your power for
this noble cause.
In detailing these facts, I desire
to be understood as imputing no
wrong to my predecessor, but mere
ly to show The condition OF the fund
when it reached my supervision,
and to ask relief at your hands.
All Of which is respectfully sub
mitted. q. L. TUBB,
County Supt. Pub. Ed