Year: 1878

might be necessary fix the salary of each and


prescribe their several duties The Board has power to re-


move either principal assistants for good and sufficient


cause and to appoint others in their stead and pre-


scribe the various books to be used As is known


Iougaoo University established. and is maintained


chiefly, by the American Missionary Society, with head


quarters in New York Recently the society has refused


to permit the State Board of Trustees such


control over the Normal Department contemplated


and intended by the Legislature The Society insists upon


being allowed to appoint teachers for the department
sustained by State appropriation. and to make such
changes in the Faculty it may wish. On the 21st


december last, the Board OF Trustees, at full meeting
recommended that the authority OF the Board in the
management and control of the Normal Department had


been ignored and denied by the American Missionary
Society thus rendering cooperation the part of the
State impraccable further appropriation should be
made to said Institution. The Board further recon-
mended that, should appropriation be made, should
be as supplement to what is being done by the
American Missionary Society," and that the law creating


State Board of Trustees be repealed, nasmuch the
Board is not allowed to exercise any of the powers


erred upon it by the statute. 1t occurs to that in
stead of supporting the Normal Department at Tougaloo
it would be better establish Normal school in Central
Mississippi, the line of the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road, the property of which should be owned by the
State and the affairs managed entirely by State Board
upon the plan of the Normal School at Holly Springs
which is doing faithful work in the education of col
ored youth, and in training them for teachers


Through the efforts Of the State Superintendent of Ed
ucation and District Attorney Booth of the 11h District
the of $500 has been realized from of the suretes
on the bond of T. W. Cardoza who Treasurer of the
Normal Department of Tougaoo University and who had

of the appropriation for 1874.


At the beginning of the past scholastic year, many of
the counties deeply in debt and their school
rants greatly deprecated in value, many instances not
much fifty cents on the dollar. This
Indebtedness caused mainly by the spirit of specula
ton INDUCED in by many persons whose positions fur
nshed opportunities for speculation The State Supern
tendent has encouraged policy looking to the adoption
by the school system of the cash basis Much has been
accomplished by him. In all the counties the school
debt has been greatly reduced, and in many entirely
liquidated At the time, it is believed that the
schools have been effective, more than in any
former year.


Section 2 of the Act of February /, 1877, entitled can
Act III relation to the appointment of County Superin
tendens of Public Education makes it the duty of the
State Board of Education, when the term of office of
county superintendent shall expire during the OF
the Legislature, between the regular sessions to
appoint during the sessions previous to the
praon of such term to take effect after the expiration of
the of the incumbent AS the Legislature, after its
present session. will only meet bennay and the effect
the section mentioned will be to require the appointment
of superntendens many instances for terms to begin
two years after appointment, modification of the
section may be proper.