Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-10-13
PUBLIC SCHOOL MONEY.

The Department of Public Ipstruc
ton has made the apportionment ot
moneys available for public school pur
poses.
Superintendent Southall in letter tt
the county and city superintendent
and treasurers, says:
The Auditor of Public Accounts re.
ports that, under the provision of Sec
tion 1907 Of the Code, the amount appli-
cable to public free school purposes out
of the revenue assessed for the year is,
S762, ,4S2.01. This amount is herein ap-
portloned at the rate of 81. 1451 per head
of school population.
''The Auditor of Public Accounts
will forward to each superintendent a
warrant for the amount apportioned to
his county or city. Upon receipt of this
warrant the superintendent will en-
dorSe the same to, and deposit it with,
the treasurer of his county, together
with a written statement showing the
amount apportioned to, and to be placed
to the credit of, each school district.
The uperintendent will also furnish
each district clerk a statement showing
the sub-apportionment of this fund
among the several districts eff the coup-
ty.
The law regulating the disburse-
ment OF this fund is as follows:
All warrants drawn by district
school boards upon State school funds
shall be paid by the treasurer out of any
State funds collected by him. But in
no case shaiiiilios pay out a greater sum
for any district than the amount of
State school funds apportioned to said
district.
s. At the annual meeting in August,
i'll each year, the county school board
shall compare the warrants issued by
each district board with those paid by
the Treasurer, and report the result to
the Superintendent of Public Instruc-
tion.
"This money is to be disbursed upon
warran of district boards of trustees,
as other school funds are disbursed, and
is to be used exclusively for the pay of
teachers.
County treasurers and district
clerks will so keep their accounts as to
this fund from other school
funds, and make separate statement
of the receipts and disbursements on ac-
count of it in settling their accounts at
the close Of the year."
The following is the school popula-
tion and the amount of money appor-
toned to each city in the State and the
counties in this section.
Albemarle, population 11,515; appor-
toned $13, 1858; Amherst, 1861, $4,-
375.43; Appomattox, 1881, $4,55S.64;
Augusta, LII, $1e, 1881; Bath, 1895,
$2,OS9.S1; Botetourt, 6,OS7, $6,97O. %;
Buckingham, 6,7i4, $7,6ss. s.2O Buena
Vista, 100, $9O4.63; Charlottesville, 2,141
s., 451 .66; Clarke, 5000, Sc, 437.59; Craig,
l, ,629, 81 ,S65.37; Cumberland, 3,951, $4,-
524,29; Danville, 1928, $5.9sO.S6; Flu
wanna, 3,64t, $4,169.31; Frederick. 1885,
So, 5,53656; Fredericksburg, 1895, $751;
S6; Goochland county, 4,107, $4,7O2.95;
Highland, 2,111, $2,417.31; Louisa, 6,817,
81, ,SO6. Is; Lynchburg, 6,772, $7,754; Man
chester, 3,699, 81. .591.37; Nelson, 6,347,
s. ,267. .95; Newport News, 1 ,949, 81, ,231. so;
Norfolk City, 10,257, $11, 1859; Orange,
J, ,167, $5,916.73; Page, 5,156, 1904. IA; Pc
tersburg. 1867, $S,7794S; Portsmouth,,
1918, 81, 944.54; Richmond City, 1888,
s27, ,4O5.6S; Ronoke City, 1926, S5,1s2.72;
s,425, $9,64447; Rocking |
lam, IL ,216, $12, ,S43. "A; Shenandoah, I, ,450;
sS,531; Staunton, 1856, $2.239.S1; Win
chester, 1892, $2,05202.