The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Filed a Written Protest Againts State
Aid 20 Garrett Schools.


Superintendent, personally objected to
the appropriation when he appeared be-
fore the Committee Senator Speicher
with his determined way of doing things,
took hold of the subject and made a
strong appeal before the committee
and personally canvassed the matter
with his brother senators, until at last
he secured favorable report and in a
few days the bill will pass the Senate
and receive the signature of the Cover
nor, and for the next two years the
school fund OF Garrett county will have
added to it yearly $4,000 Fortunate
indeed is Garrett county. in having Mr..
Speicher representing them in the
Senate of Maryland. The protest
follows:
To the Committee on Finance of the
Senate.
Gentlemen:-I have been instructed
by the State Board of Education to say
that their attention has been called to
House Bill No. q which has passed the
House and is now before your Commit
tee.
The preamble to this bill recites a
recommendation of this Board that the
sum of Four Thousand dollars should
be paid to the School Commissioners of
Garrett County out of the State School
Fund in addition to the pro-rate ap,
pCrtionment to that county.
The Board did make sucn recommen-
dalton in 1894 when conditions seemed
oppressive to Garrett county. But the
Board is convinced that conditions there
have so changed as no longer TO justify
this particular treatment of one county
at the expense of all the rest, and there
fore the Board desires to notify you
that it now Withdra it's recommen-
daton of such action.
1t appears that in 1894 the assessible
basis OF Garrett county was 81, 800. 633,
whereas it IS now SlO,9 57. 994. The
county levy for schools in Garrett is
1872 cents on the 500, practically the
same rate as in 1894, whereas the
average rate for schools in the counties
of the State is 30 cents on the 800,
and there are but three otner counties
in the State whose levy for schools is as
low as that of Grrrett.
TIE Board asks you to consider these
facts in connection with this request
of Garrett county, remembering that
whatever is given to that county under
such bill as this must be paid by other
counties and that they are making
serious complaint of such partial treat
ment after the occasion for it has long
passed away.
BY order of the State Board Of Ed
ucation.
Very truly yours,
M. BATES STEPHENS.
March II, 1914
In this protest of the State Board of
Education and State Superintendent of
Public Education, made before the
Ways and Means Committee Of the
State Senate, it is stated that the coun-
ty levy for school purposes is now
''23.2" per hundred dollars of assessed
valuation. This same statement is
made in the annual report of the State
Board of Education for the fiscal year
ending July 81, 1918 This statement
in the protest and report is misleading.
The levy made for school purposes by
the County Commissioners OF Garrett
county in April, 1912, was 27.8 per hun
dred dollars of assessed valuation; for
the total assessment of the county in
April. 1912, was 1871, 10 and the
amount levied for school purposes was
$33, 600. Furthermore, it might be ad-
ded, in April, 1918, the local levy for
school purposes was 1872, which levy is
almost eqr al to 30.S, which is the aver
age levy tor school purposes of all the
counties of the State