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to absolute accuracy is not at hand.
Enough is accessible, however, to
show that the Neck district has been
shamefully imposed upon. If l can
show this to be true by comparing 1t
with the only district that has, thru
its representative. challenged my
statements, it may be inferred that
| can show the same unfairnesS all
over the county, district by district.
Mr.. Noble says twenty teachers
have resigned. There are Is dis
tricts. In those Is districts there
are about 200 teachers. In our dis
trict there are six. Out of the TWEEN
" resigning, three are from ours
and not one from Mr.. Hackett's dis
trict Were We to calculate by dis
tricts one would be our full share,
but half of our teachers have quit.
If this were true of the county, about
100 would have quit, and five would
have resigned from Mr. Hackett's
district Here. then we will begin.
While three thalf) of ours have
quit, not one has resigned from his
district.
We have SIX teachers, lie nas ten.
Our six cost $2,409 and his ten cost
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our teachers cost $500, each one of
his cost S575. Will Mr.. Hackett
kindly explain this?
The Fork district has $50 pupils
and the Neck has 1913. This gives
back to Mr. Hackett's district SIG
for each pupil, while the Neck gets
only S1225. Will my friend crack
| this nut? Will Mr.. Hackett explain
why his district gets back 25 per
cent. more of the taxes than we do
on this one item?
| Again, Mr.. Hackett's district has
| $50 pupils and pays SIS, 55S taxes.
| This amounts to s43.33 per pupil,
| while the Neck pays $62.17 per pu-
! pill. Perhaps Mr.. Hackett sees thru
| this, and can explain it.
The Neck district has about 25
square miles of land, while the Fork
/ district has about rs square miles.
| The Neck has about 80 miles of pub
| lie roads Mr.. Hackett's district has
| about 90 The Neck district has no
| State road. The Fork has one
| smack from Rhodesdale to the Nam
ticoke fully miles.
Now, if the Neck has but one
| third the area and one-third as many
miles of roads, and no State road,
| and pays two-thirds as many dol
| lars in taxes, and gets back far less
THAN one-half as many dollars as the
Fork district gets back, ought l to
be chided with as making unfair
comparisons by having selected the
lower districts for examination?
Beside these apparent inequali-
ties, Mr.. Hackett's district has one
half of all the money allowed the
tcounty, outside of Cambridge, by
the special act of the Legislature
bonding the county for $4,000.
l presume districts adjoining the
Fork are under Mr.. Hackett's inf1u-
ence, and he may want me to COM
pare the Neck with the Vienna dis
trict. This l am quite ready to do,
if he shall request it.
In closing for this time, l wish to
emphasize that l am battling, not
with the Commissioners, nor with
| anyone willing to listen; l am at
war with a system of finance that
makes flesh of one section of the
county and fish of another.
am not unwilling to allow thai
the stronger shall bear the burdens
of the weaker / am ready to advo
cate laying aside a reasonable
amount as surplus upon which the
proper authorities may draw in ale
of the weaker. This will leave q
reasonable chance for the stronger
to remain strong. My protest is