The New-York Annual Register for the Year 1833 Fourth Year of Publication (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 Excerpt: ...equal at least in amount to the sum apportioned to their town from the State treasury; which sum was to be added to the apportionment from the school fund, and the amount thus made up, be applied to the payment of teacher's wages. Another requirement of the system, is, that before the inhabitants of a neighbourhood can participate in the public fund, they must organize a district, erect a school-house, furnish it with fuel and necessary appendages, and have a school taught therein at least three months by a legally qualified teacher; and it is on a report of all these facts by the trustees, that the commissioners are authorized to apportion the school money to a district. Seven hundred and sixty-one towns, (omitting all the wards, ) have made returns the past year, exhibiting a total amount paid by individuals in the several school districts, for school bills, besides the public money apportioned to the districts, of $358,320, 17 cents; which, added to the public money, ($305,582 78) makes the aggregate amount of $663,902 95 cents, paid for teachers wages alone, in the common schools of the State These returns show, that where the State, or the school fund pays one dollar for teachers wages, the inhabitant of the town by a tax upon his property, pays $1,20 cents, ($60,000 deducted for NewYork, ) and by voluntary contributions in the school district where he resides $3. 58 cents, for the same object; and the proportion of 17 cents is derived from the local school fund. The amount paid for teachers' wages, is only about one half of the _ A part of the monev received bv the commissioners in the city of New-York:: PPl Ed to the erection of school-houses, the purchase of fuel, books, kc. and that Common Schools. 215 expense annually incurred for the su...