Third report of the State School Commissioner of the State of Georgia, submitted to the General Assembly of the state of Georgia at its session in January, 1874 [1874]

THIRD REPORT
OF THE
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SUBMITTED TO THE
General Assembly
OF THE
STATE OF GEORGIA,
AT ITS
SESSION IN JANUARY, -1^7^.
ATLANTA, GA. :
W. A. HEMPHILL & CO,, PUBLIC PPINTERS. 1874.

Department of Education,
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13, 1874.
To his Excellency James II. Smith:
Dear Sir : I liave tlie lionor to lay before you my second annual report, for transmission to tlie General Assembly.
Witb sentiments of the highest respect, I am your obedient servant,
Gustaves J. Ore, State ScJiool Commissioner.

REPORT.
In making my second annual report, I submit first tlie required financial statement.
There are now in the hands of the Secretary of State educational bonds, issued under the act of December 11, ISoS, to the amount of $330,000. A paragraph of the Constitution, setting apart and devoting "any educational funds now belonging to this State--except the endowment of, and debt due to the State Univer sity" to the support of common schools, makes these bonds a permanent common school fund. Some of the bonds were executed in 1859, and others in 18G0; and all of them bear interest at six per cent. I have conferred with a number of gentlemen, eminent for legal ability, in relation to these bonds. Some of them think that this department is entitled to all the unpaid interest now due on tlie bonds. Others express tlie opinion that only the interest accruing since the pas sage of the first public school law, October 13, 1870, can be lawfully claimed. There can be no doubt about the legality and justice of this latter claim, and I refer to my last annual report for the arguments in support of this opinion. If the claim be allowed, the amount of interest due, up to October 13, 1873, will be 863,000. I again most earnestly urge the importance of such leg islation as shall secure the payment of the interest past due, and of that to accrue in the future upon these bonds.

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According to a statement made by tiro late Comptroller General, and now on file in this office, there had been collected from all the Constitutional sources of school revenue up to March 1, 1872..........................................
From official statements made by the present Comptroller and the State Treasurer, and from an account of expenses kept in this of fice, I make the following further exhibit: Collected from March 1, 1872, to August 19, 1872-poll tax.........................................$ 20,339 73
Tax on shows and exhibitions......................... 1,340 50 Tax on sale of liquors....................... ........... 4,081 17
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$387,725 00 32,301 40

There was expended before the last mentioned date as follows: Expenses of this office under my predecessor, from October 27, 1870, to January 13, 1872............................ $ 10,248 0G
Expenses after my extrance into office, from January 13, 1872, to August 19, 1872........... 1,421 03 --------------

$420,080 40 11,009 09-

$408,417 37

There was collected from August 19, 1872, to

December 1, 1873, as follows: Poll tax... .$137,423 03

Tax on shows and exhibitions......................... 3,313 38

Tax on sale of liquors.....................................

85 04

Half rental W. & A. R. R.............................. 190,725 80

Dividends on Georgia Railroad stock in 1872 . 3,031 SO

Dividends on Georgia Railroad stock in 1873. 1,488 00

-------------- $330,208 25

Expenses of this office from August 19, 1872,

to January 1, 1873.........................................$ 1,830 79

Expenses of same from January 1, 1873, to

December 1, 1873.......................................... 3,120 41

-------------- 4,903 20

Net amount collected from Aug. 19, 1872, to Dec. 1, 1873 $331,805 05 Fret amount collected up to Aug. 19, 1872, as given above 408,417 37

Ret amount collected from all sources up to Dec. 1, 1873. $739,722 42 Of the "above there has been apportioned among tho
counties for the support of schools the past year......... $250,000 00

Of tlie special tax of one-tentli of one per cent, lev ied under "An act to provide for tlie payment of the

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debt due to teacLers and school officers who did service under the public school law in the year 1871," ap proved August 19, 1872, there has been collected as follows:

Up to September 10, 1873................................ From that date to December 1, 1873 ..............

$174,107 03 2,129 99

Of this tlicro has been apportioned among
the counties as follows : On the 21st December, 1872, a full account of
which was given in my last annual report. .$100,000 00 On the 13th September, 1873 ......................... 74,000 00
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$170,237 01 174,000 00

$ 2,237 01

1 have thrown the iinancial statement in reference to the school fund proper into a form covering two sepa rate periods, in order that I may the more satisfactorily discuss the school debt of 1871. When I entered upon the duties of this office, the 15th of January, 1872, I found this debt in existence. The exact amount of it I have never been able to ascertain. Reports sent in by the County School Commissioners, at my request, make it aggregate about $300,000. Thus, at the beginning of my official labors, I found this department burdened with this heavy debt, and entirely without resources for its payment. There has been a great deal of com plaint on the part of uninformed persons against the present State authorities, and against the present and preceding Legislatures, on account of a state of things for which they are in no wise responsible. At the time the teachers of 1871 took service, there were no public funds in the treasury for the payment of their claims. On the sixth of August, 1870--one year before the schools of 1871 were opened--the school fund, amount ing at that time to $242,027.62, was bonded under the act of July 28, 1870. The same act provided for the use of school funds for other than school purposes, as said funds were paid into the treasury, for an inde finite time. Bonds "to secure" the funds thus used

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were to be placed in the treasury and were required to be sold "under the direction of the Governor, to meet appropriations for school purposes, and for no other purpose." Iso bonds were placed in the treasury after the first deposit was made, but, no doubt, school funds continued to be used for other than school purposes. This state of facts existed at the time the schools of of 1871 were opened. What, then, was the reliance of those who taught the schools for compensation? Their only reliance was upon the proceeds of the sale of the bonds above mentioned, and upon any school funds in the treasury that had escaped being used for other than school purposes, under the act "to set apart and secure" the school fund. While I have believed from the beginning that the teachers of 1871 have more cause of complaint against themselves than any one else; in as much as they took the service with all the risks upon them implied in the state of facts above set forth; yet, believing that many of them were ignorant of this state of facts, and that the legislation which brought about the state of facts was unconstitutional, I have repeatedly urged measures of relief. It is known to the members of the last General Assembly that I am responsible, to a large extent, for the passage of the act of the 19th August, 1872, which makes pro vision for the payment of this debt. The financial statement above given shows that there had been col lected from all the constitutional sources of school revenue up to that date the net sum of 408,417.37. From this take away the amount raised and already apportioned for paying this debt of 1871, viz: $174,000, and there remains $234,417.37. The amount of school fund bonded August 6, 1870, it will be remembered, was $242,027.02, an amount greater than the sum just named by 7,010.25.
It will be thus seen that the act of August 19, 1870, has already replaced in the treasury for distribution an amount greater than the sum of all the school funds paid into the treasury between the date of its passage

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and the Gth of August, 1870--a period of more than two years--by the sum of $7,610.25. It is very clear that the unpaid amount of the school funds bonded is a debt due, under the Constitution, to the Department of Education. It is equally clear that the teachers of no one year can of right claim the monopoly of the proceeds of educational taxes for a series of years together. Any careful reader of the Constitution will see that the intention of the framers of that instrument was that the school funds, for which it provides, should be used from year to year in aid of the public schools which it requires to be established. By the act of August 19, 1872, authority was given for destrojdng the school bonds deposited with the Treasurer--inas much as they were found to be unlawfully executed-- and for substituting in their place lawfully executed bonds. These bonds were to be sold "at rates not injurious to the credit of the State," and the proceeds were to be apportioned among the counties on the basis of the school population, and used in payment of the claims of tlie teachers of 1871, till those claims were satisfied, and afterwards for future school work. No market has been found for these bonds, nor is it probable that a market will be found at an early day. Should they be sold, the law, as it now stands, would require the proceeds to be disposed of as above set forth. It is a question deserving of consideration, as to whether a change is not required in the method of disposing of any funds that may be raised in any way hereafter for the payment of this debt.
In some of the counties the debt due to the teachers has been paid in full by the fund already apportioned ; in others they have been paid in full by their patrons, and the quotas apportioned to these counties, by a private contract between teachers and patrons, have been disposed of in refunding to the latter in small sums pro rata; and in others still, as I am informed, wages unreasonable in amount were allowed to. teach ers, upon the hypothesis that there was very great un

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certainty about their ever receiving in full the amounts stipulated. Should the General Assembly make any other than existing provisions for restoring to tliis department its just dues--which I earnestly hope they wall do--and should they make provision for using the amount so restored in paying the debt of 1871-- which I also most earnestly favor, inasmuch as this debt of 1871, and the mismanagement of that year, have been tho most serious obstacle, in many places, to success in the conduct of this department--I hope the law making the provision will be so framed as to require the quotas apportioned to the counties to be used, in the discretion of the County Board of Educa tion, in payment of the claimants of 1871, in whole or in part, as the boards may judge best, or in the sup port of schools in the respective counties.
In my last report I recommended that the General Assembly make provision for executing small bonds, bearing interest at seven per cent., and made non-taxable--that these bonds be apportioned among the coun ties upon the basis of school population--that they be turned over to the different County Boards of Educa tion, to be sold by them at a fixed minimum rate, and that the proceeds be used, first, in the payment of the claims of 1871, and the surplus for the support of schools. Should the General Assembly be of the opin ion that it is unwise at the present time to levy another special tax for replacing the funds of which this de partment has been wrongfully deprived--a mode of replacing which I would greatly prefer, if it can be prudently adopted--I would again recommend the bond measure, modified, as already suggested herein in respect to the mode of disposing of the proceeds of the bonds.
The 28th section of the general school law requires the Board of Education of each county to report to the State School Commissioner that arrangements have been made for continuing public schools in operation for three months of the year, in order to entitle the

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county to draw Tier juro rata of tlie public school fund. At the date of this wilting, one hundred and eighteen counties have reported, and reports continue to come in. Three months' schools have therefore been kept up in almost all of the counties of the State, and, as I learn from correspondence, are giving great satisfac tion in many places. The schools have generally been in operation during the latter part of the year, and have been extended, in many counties, into the month of December, and in some cases, even to the end of that month. The consolidation of teachers' reports has reached me from comparatively few of the counties at this date ; but I hope to be able to give a tabulated statement of results the time of the meeting of the General Assembly. The faithfulness with which financial obligations have been met has secured the confidence of the public very generally throughout the State. The question arises, shall we continue this great work so auspiciously begun, and endeavor to give it increased efficiency? By the United States Census of 1870, the entire population of the State of Georgia was 1,184,109.^ The number of persons in the State over ten years of age not able to read was 418,5o3, or a little over thirty-five per cent, of the entire popula tion. The number of persons over ten years of age not able to write wars reported as follows: white, 124,939, colored, 343,601, total 468,540, or nearly forty to every one hundred of the entire population. To show the effort being made at that time to meet this great edu cational want we quote further: The number of chil dren between the ages of five and eighteeft years was given at 407,516. There were in the State, according to the same authority,^,432 teachers of all kinds. Dividing the former number by the latter, we find that there was one teacher to every one hundred and sixtyseven children. The number of teachers given above includes teachers of music, drawing, painting, dancing, professors in colleges, etc., so that doubtless the num ber of teachers engaged in imparting instruction in the

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elements of an English education to those who stood in need of it was considerably less than one to every one hundred and sixty-seven.
My general knowledge of the people of Georgia has led me to doubt the accuracy of the statistics here quoted, and should it be my privilege to superintend the taking of another enumeration return, I shall take measures to ascertain, with as much accuracy as possi ble, the true status of our people as to illiteracy. I have no doubt but that the figures given are an ap proximation to the truth ; and that they may be safely assumed as a basis of reasoning. What shall we do to provide for the great want which these figures reveal ? To a State with the educational destitution above dis closed I know of but three courses that might be pur sued, viz: first, to stand still and do nothing ; second, to adopt something like our old poor school system ; or third, to seek to put into operation an efficient sys tem of public school instruction. From adopting either of the first two alternatives we are excluded by the provisions of our Constitution, and it would seem unnecessary to spend time in their discussion. Some of our people, however, think the one, and some the other the true educational policy to be adopted by the State; and as good men, with constitutional obligations resting upon them to the contrary, are often insensibly influenced by preconceived opinions, it may not be amiss to devote a brief space to their consideration.
Those who advocate the first alternative contend that education, like all other business enterprises, should be left to tire exclusive control and management of those interested--that the wants of the people will originate the best means of supply--and they meet you with such general declarations as the following: the less legislation the better--the least governed State is the best governed, etc. While there is much of truth in these general statements so far as they relate to mere material interests; yet the history of this, and all other enlightened States, shows that it has been

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necessary, in numberless instances, to stimulate mate

rial production by legislation; and it is painfully evi

dent to all observers in every ignorant community,

that in respect to that immaterial commodity repre

sented by the word education, the rule is, the less the

supply tlie less the demand.

I am well convinced that it is true statesmanship in

a State to take in hand and direct her educational in

terests ; and I base the policy--not upon grounds of

philanthropy or humanity--but upon those of inter

est. A State is interested in having the body of her

citizens intelligent and virtuous. Her very existence,

where free institutions prevail, rests upon these condi

tions. Capacity to know the right and a purpose to

do it are two essential elements of character in the

good citizen; and a dominant body of such citizens

can alone insure the safety and perpetuity of republi

can institutions. With such a body of citizens in the

ascendant wise legislation and an efficient administra

tion of the laws are secured and all the rights of per

son and property are protected. Now, while it would

be but a truism to assert that the general diffusion of

education would make the body of citizens more intel

ligent, can we safely say that it would make them

more virtuous? The tendency is certainly in that di

rection. The human mind is so formed that contact

with truth is, per se, elevating in its tendency. What

ever improves the taste and furnishes the mind with the

material for rational thought and gives the means of

filling up the leisure hours which come to all, with

profitable employment, must have a wholesome effect

upon the moral nature. But the chief moral effect

produced in the days of school training is due to the

indirect teaching, the life and the daily walk of up

right, virtuous, sympathetic instructors. Simple in

tellectual training will certainly be found insufficient

to produce the end desired, and even when supple

mented by the influence exerted by virtuous instruc

tors it will be found inadequate. Other agencies must

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be brought to bear, such as the pure influences of a virtuous home, the labors of the Sabbath school and the ministrations of our pulpits. The last two have been wisely made voluntary agencies in this country; as they involve questions of conscience too sacred for legislative control. But while this is so, it is palpably evident that neither they, nor the more quiet and pow erful agency of home training, can produce proper moral impressions upon minds left untaught. These agencies are powerless properly to impress those left to grow up in brutish ignorance. The moral nature can be reached only through the mental. There must be a basis of mental culture and illumination before moral builders may hope to rear a superstructure of any value. The State may, nay, indeed she must, see to it that this intellectual basis is provided. She can not afford to leave entirely to voluntary effort the pro viding of that on which--not her prosperity merely-- but her very existence depends.
The train of reasoning which has been pursued, has led us--and I think safely and legitimately--to the conclusion that interference on the part of the State in educational operations is not only proper, but that it is indispensably necessary. I trust I shall be borne with while I present one other reason for legislative interference, which, while it does not, like that already urged, come to the State with appeals to the instinct of self-preservation, yet places before her motives which address themselves, in tones not to be resisted, to her love of power, of relative position, of whatever is included in the words material prosperity. The State is vitally interested in having a body of efficient laborers, and in whatever promotes the productiveness of labor. The material prosperity of a State resides largely in the wealth-producing power of her popula tion, and this depends again, to a large extent, upon intelligence in the laborer. This is no new truth which I enunciate. It is recognized in the organic law of the land, and lias been ever since the formation of our

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present government. In the Congress that adopted the Articles of Confedei-ation, relative population was urged as the true basis of apportioning to the States the quotas of revenue to be raised b}'- them for general purposes. It was contended that taxation ought to be in proportion to wealth-producing power, and that relative population was the best criterion of that power. In the discussions, a difference of opinion developed itself among the advocates of the basis of population. Africaii slavery existed at that time in a number of the States, and it was contended that the labor of the intelligent white man was more productive than that of the ignorant slave; some estimating the productive yield of tlie former at two, some at three, and some even at four, times that of the latter. Owing to this difference of opinion, the basis of population was aban doned, and that of the relative value of real estate flubstituted in its place. Subsequently, however, at the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the scheme of making relative population the basis was revived, and the idea of the superior productive ness of intelligent labor found recognition in the threefifths rule of taxation and representation, which was incorporated in the fundamental law. So much for this historic proof.
I now give another of a different kind. In 1870 the Commissioner of Education at Washington prepared a circular containing a number of questions, one object of which was to ascertain the opinion of experienced men upon the question of the influence of education upon the productiveness of labor. Three thousand copies of this circular wei'e sent out, North, South, East and West, to men employing large numbers of la borers in agriculture, mining and the various branches of manufactures. Many of these replied, and from all those employing white laborers, the response was almost unanimous. They nearly all agreed that, ac cording to their observation, the effect of education is to increase the productiveness of labor. In their

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estimate of the rate of increase they differed, some stating it at ten per cent., while others went as high as one hundred, according as the nature of the employ ment demanded more or less intelligence. The testi mony of those employing colored laborers in farm work was, to some extent, conflicting, \some stating that they had observed a difference between the pro ductiveness of the labor of their ignorant and their partially instructed employees, while others had dis covered no difference. In the case of the colored la borers, there is simply a want of experience, as the few counted as educated have but a smattering of learning. . The result of the investigation, as a whole, furnished proof as decisive as testimony can well make it, that the educated laborer is a much more efficient producer than the ignorant one. And now have I said enough, or shall I continue to accumulate proofs on this head ? Shall I refer to the well known and often cited exam ple of Prussia ? Shall I tell how she was overrun, com pletely humbled and laid under tribute by the elder Napoleon, and how, with ruined resources, and with a foreign standing army of one hundred thousand men quartered upon her soil, in her dejection she turned to popular education as the only means by which she might hope to restore her shattered for tunes 1 The splendid results are written in history, and after having humbled her ancient enemy she stands to day a first class power in all the elements of national greatness. Need I tell how Great Britain after having held--and that too without dispute--the first place as a manufacturing power, for a long series of years, found, at the industrial exhibition at Paris, six years ago, that she had fallen behind her continental com petitors in many branches of manufactures, and how a large committee of the British Parliament appointed to inquire into the causes, after a protracted and pa tient investigation continued for months, reported that the falling off in home manufactures and the advance in the continental wTere due to the neglect of popular

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and technical education, in the one case, and the earnest and intelligent attention given to these subjects in the other ? Shall I cite the well known but humilia ting fact that certain States of this Union with a sterile soil, an unfriendly climate and inferior natural re sources have, by their attention to popular education, grown rich, and for a series of years have made other States, far more favored by nature, tributary to their material prosperity 1 With the lesson contained in the facts cited before us, our State cannot afford to stand still while others are moving forward in the march of progress inaugurated by the great educational awaken ing now prevailing almost every where, both at home and abroad.
Having disposed of the first alternative I come now to the consideration of the second. With those who favor a return to the poor school system--a policy pursued for many years in this State--I have no con troversy upon the question of the propriety and neces sity of legislative interference. What they propose, as well as what I advocate, implies the existence of both the propriety and necessity of doing something. We differ only as to what that something shall be. It is a question, not of principle, but simply of mode. The weighty fact that we have tried the policy which they advocate for many long years with the most unsatisfactory results, is against them. It will be remembered, too, that during that long period of trial we were seeking to provide for the educational wants of the indigent white population only, and that the number of that class was very much smaller than at present. With these advantages in favor of the sys tem, it was pronounced to be a failure by thinking men, and the illiteracy among our white population exhibited by the figures taken from the census of 1870, elsewhere given, will demonstrate how fs.r they were correct in this opinion. I beg leave further to call attention to what is comprehended in a return to the poor school policy in the altered condition of sociefv.
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Under tlie Constitution of this State and that of the United States, we cannot make any distinction between the races, even if we thought it wise to do so. We are compelled to ma e such provision as we may be able for all the destitute, or to leave all in hopeless igno rance. Under the poor school system, therefore, the property holders would be compelled, after paying out of their own private purses for the education of their own children, to respond in the way of taxation in amount sufficient to provide education for the children of the indigent of both races. If the old sys tem failed wdien the burden to be carried was so light, what can we hope for when that burden is so much increased in weight? If the burden can be made lighter under tire public school system, as we hope to be able to show in the proper place, we can see nothing to prompt the desire to return to the poor school sys tem, except it be the hope of evading the burden by voting meagre supplies, under a show of accomplish ing something, but with the reality of doing nothing to purpose. JNTot only is experience against the poor school policy, but the system had many vices some of which seem to be inherent, thus excluding all hope of improvement through modification. Under that socalled system, there was almost an entire absence of system--there was no uniformity in the different coun ties, the whole work being left almost entirely to local control--caste was introduced into the schools by the legal distinction made between the rich and the poor-- there was no supervision, and teachers, suffering under the mental stagnation superinduced by the system, were content to run the same little rounds from year to year, without perceptible advance or improvement.
It remains only for me to consider the alternative of establishing an efficient system of public schools. As has already been remarked, the public school policy is the only one possible to us at present, as the ques tion has been settled by the fundamental law of the State. Earnest reflection and fuller information have

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convinced me, too, in opposition to preconceived opin ions and tlie influence of life-long associations that it lias been wisely settled; inasmuch as the public school system has many advantages over any other policy hitherto adopted. It has all the advantages of organ ization, system, supervision and the placing of all the youth that enter the schools upon a common level of equality--advantages which all the wisdom of former legislators has never enabled them to embody in any poor school system hitherto devised. It has, further, the advantage of greater cheapness. In order to show this, I give the following results, computed for seven States, from data given in the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for 1872. The esti mates are made upon the basis of average attendance, and therefore give tlie cost per scholar for full atten dance, for every day of the respective school terms. It is proper further to remark that the item of cost em braces the whole expense of tuition and supervision, and that the branches taught in the public schools of these States are not simply the elementary branches, but that their scheme of instruction includes a suffi cient number of high schools in which the classics, the ancient languages, some of the sciences and some branches of the higher mathematics are taught.

Am'itga Time.

Cost per Scholar

Rhode Island......... ........... 34 weeks and 2 days....... ............ $14 03 Connecticut............ .......... 8 months and 12^ days. ............. 10 70 New York............... ........... 85 weeks and 1 day....... ............. 13 88 Pennsylvania......... ........... 0 months....................... ............. 7 84 Ohio....................... ...........152 days............................. ......... 10 04 Illinois................... ........... (j months and 27 clays .. Maryland................ ........... 9 2-11 months................ ............ 1G 09

The estimates above were made without any selection of States, further than simply taking some from differ ent portions of the Union.
I beg leave to present another illustration from results reached in our own State. The year before the public schools of Atlanta were put in operation, 1,200

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children, in round numbers, were taught, at an ex pense, as nearly as the same could be ascertained, of $48,000. During the first year's public school work, 2,800 children were taught, at a cost of about $50,000. I have now before me the report of the Superintendent for the jmar ending August 31, 1873, in which the cost per scholar, per annum, including all expenses, is put down at $18.29, and the cost per scholar for instruction only at $lo. From the report of the Superintendent of Public Schools for the city of Savannah and county of Chatham, also before me, I learn that the cost of education per capita was $17.60 in 1872-3; $17.90 in 1871-2; and $10.25 in 1870-71. The Superintendent remarks, "It can easily be demonstrated that, under the existing arrangement, double the number of chil dren are educated at less than one-third the cost of the instruction given under the system of private schools that for so long a time prevailed among us." It must be borne in mind that the schools in these cities also embrace a regular gradation from the primary to the high school--that in the girls' high schools the curri culum of studies is equal in extent and variety to that of the better class of our female colleges--and that the boys' high schools furnish a compass of classical and mathematical instruction sufficient to entitle the grad uates to admission into the sophomore class of our colleges.
It may be asked how do public schools thus cheapen the cost of instruction 1 The explanation is easy: Communities, instead of being divided by supporting a number of smaller schools, are brought together in the support of one ; ami all the scnool material is tims thrown together in one body, tims making a more perfect classification possible. The pupils are graded, those of the same degree of advancement being thrown into the same grades. Separate teachers are assigned to the different grades, and, the school material being thus properly classified, each teacher can teach a mucii larger number of pupils and do lus work muen more

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thoroughly, than he could in a private school, com posed of pupils of every degree of advancement from the abecedarian to those pursuing classical and the higher mathematical studies. In short, the public schools furnish a beautiful illustration of the benefits of the principle of the division of labor taught in all our works upon the subject of Political Economy.
It is sometimes said that the advantages of a public school system can be made available only in densely populated communities, and that it is, of consequence, unsuited to the sparsely settled territory of our South ern States. It is true that these advantages are real ized, to their full extent, only in cities, or in densely populated communities. But having admitted this, we are unable to see that the inference drawn from it, that the system is unsuited to the wants of the South, is legitimate. Let us submit this inference to the test of a mathematical calculation. In doing so, we shall take our figures again from the census return of 1870. In our rural districts a school is ordinarily accessible to all children living within an area having a radius of three miles. Such an area contains by computa tion 28.2744 square miles.
The number of square miles in the State of Georgia is 58,000, and the population 1,184,109. From these data, it can be easily shown that, if the population were uniformly distributed over the entire territory of the State, there would be located upon every 28.2744 square miles 577 inhabitants. The number of children of school age in the State is 407,510, and a simple cal culation will show that the average number of children to every 577 inhabitants, is 190. That amount of school material would bring a sufficient number of children into the school to admit of grading--not with the thoroughness, it must be confessed, which is reached in densely populated communities ; but yet with suf ficient thoroughness to bring with it decided advan tages. As this would be the average result in school areas of the dimensions assumed, we might, but for

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the heavy population of the cities, infer that one-half of the territory of the State would be placed under more favorable, while the other half would be under less favorable conditions. The occupancy of the soil by two distinct races, too, would further abate from the advantages we have been urging. Oiir school law requires the establishment of separate schools for white and colored children--a requirement universally demanded, so far as I am informed, by both races, and objected to only by a few chronic agitators outside of the territory to be affected by a change. Notwith standing these drawbacks, I think we might safely as sume that at least one-third of our territory is in such condition in respect to population as to make the in habitants large gainers, in an economic view, from the introduction of public shools; and in as much as the other two-thirds would not be losers in this particular view, and would be gainers in all the other advantages of public school instruction, I think it safe to conclude that the argument from cheapness, though somewhatweakened by what has been urged in respect to sparse ness of population, still retains sufficient strength to carry conviction to candid minds, especially when it is remembered that we are not proposing to legislate for the present simply, but for a great future vdiich it is to be hoped yet remains for us and for those to come after us. While the immediate gain would not be as great as it would be under more favorable conditions, yet the successful introduction of the system, if it should operate with us as it has invariably done else where, would bring with it such an influx of popula tion as would ultimately not only entirely remove the objection founded on sparseness of population, but would make such additions to the value of real estate and to the total productive yield of labor in the State as would gradually lighten the burdens to all, from year to year.
Having shown in the foregoing pages the true grounds of State control in the matter of education,

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and having vindicated the wisdom of the constitutional provision which makes it obligatory upon ns to adopt a public school system, the question arises, what shall that system be? The Constitution, after setting apart the funds derived from certain sources for the support of common schools, leaves to the General Assembly the option of three different modes of providing the residue of funds necessary for the support of an effi cient system. They may raise the funds themselves, by levying a general tax upon the property of the State, or they may do it indirectly, by conferring the power of local taxation upon the county authorities, or they may provide for supplementing the present inadequate State fund by subscription on the part of the patrons of the schools, as has been done this year. In my last annual report, I took the ground that any one of the three modes above given was open to choice under the Constitution. There were those who doubted the constitutional power of the General Assembly to delegate the power of taxation for school purposes to the county authorities and municipal corporations. Happily for us, as I think, a case involving the whole question of constitutional power was brought up to the Supreme Court, at the term just closed, from the city of Americus, and the decision of that high tribu nal fully sustains all the grounds taken in the report referred to. The unequal operation of a general tax would forever prevent the adoption of that mode. Many counties of the State would by that method pay into the treasury amounts largely in excess of those received back for the support of schools, while others would receive back much more than the amounts paid in, and a law so unequal iu its operation could never receive the harmonious support of the representatives of the people. As is well known, I have advocated from the beginning the providing of a comparatively small State fund, and leaving the raising of the sup plemental amount requisite to the voluntary action of the people of the several counties. The present sources

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of school revenue will yield a State fund of a little over $250,000 annually. I do not desire to see this fund largely increased. Some additions could be made to it without the imposition of heavy burdens upon any portion of our population. In addition to providing for paying the interest on the permanent school fund elsewhere recommended, the General Assembly might require the imposition of the school tax upon the sale of spirituous liquors authorized by the Constitution, and make it a condition precedent upon entering children in the schools for the parent to produce a tax receipt, showing that he had paid all school taxes demanded of him. It is needless to enter into an argument to show that the first measure recommendwd would not be burdensome. A few words upon the second may be necessary. From data in the Comptroller General's office I learn that there were polls returned the past year as follows : Whites, 109,700; colored, 82,970; total, 192,670. The amount of poll tax paid in the year 1872 was about $123,000. It is evident, from this showing, that near 70,000 persons failed to pay this tax that year.
While it is true that in all the advantages arising from the general diffusion of education--the addition to the value of real estate--the increase in the produc tiveness of labor--greater security in the rights of property--the decrease in crime and the expense in curred for its suppression and punishment, all citizens are interested--and interested, too, about in propor tion to the amount of property owned; and while these have been held everywhere--wherever a public school system has been inaugurated--as the proper grounds upon which to justify the imposition of a property tax, it is nevertheless true that the man who has become the father of a child is more deeply inter ested than others can be in preparing him for the du ties of citizenship and for becoming a useful member of society. It was, therefore, wisely made a part of our Constitution that the poll tax, which is required of

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all, should be made a constituent portion of the school fund; and but for the existing constitutional inhibi tion I would be glad to see the poll tax fixed at two or three dollars per capita. If the measure of which I am speaking should be adopted--and I most earnestly desire to see it done--it is estimated by the Comptrol ler General that the addition to the receipts from poll tax would be not less than $30,000 to $40,000. A law could be easily framed which would make the yield from the liquor tax at least $8,000. These two amounts and the $21,000 interest on the permanent fund, added to the present yield, would make the annual school fund about $325,000. This amount would keep up the schools throughout the State for nearly three months of the year. I do not desire, at present, to see a larger addition to the school fund. I have been of the opin ion--and the conviction grows in strength every day-- that our main reliance must be on local levies. Expe rience in other States has shown this to be the true policy. As the school reports of the different States are not always sufficiently definite as to the origin of the different branches of their school revenue, a few months since, I wrote to the Superintendents of Educa tion in all the States with a view to ascertaining the relative amounts raised in each State from local taxa tion and other sources. For your information I give an abstract of the different replies received.

Alabama--ISTo local tax authorized by law. California--Raised from Slate taxation and permanent
school fund.................................................. $ 430,219 60 County taxation...................................... ... 1,179,073 45 District tax, subscription, etc......................... ol0,502 30 Connecticut--Amount raised for schools by township tax,
(local)............................................................. 042,194 11 From district tax, (local)............................. 485,523 56 The district tax is raised for building and repairing houses, etc. The State contributes, as interest on permanent fund, one dollar per head of school population. Jowa--School revenue for 1872 .......................................... 4,242,978 79 Raised by local taxation, about.............................. 4,000,000 00

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Kansas--Amount raised by district tax in 1872 ................ 882,044 94 State fund.............................................................. 217,810 80
Louisiana--Local tax aggregates about....................... . ... 600,000 00 Maryland--Total expenditures for schools in 1872 ........... 1,238,101 30
Of this amount, there was raised by local tax ation .............................. ................ .... .... 701,205 22 Massachusetts--No money is raised for schools by State or
county tax, but wholly b}r municipal tax ation. Cities and townships raise their school tax by voluntary assessment. Amount of interest of permanent fund distributed in 1872..................................... 88,748 23 Amount raised by local taxation.............. 3,204,159 89 Michigan--liaised by local taxation for the support of public schools in 1872........................................ 1,887,660 00 Mississippi--Teachers' salaries are provided for by a State tax of four mills on the dollar--the building-, repairing- and renting of houses are left to be provided for by local taxation. Missouri--Raised by local taxation in 1872 ....................... 1,145,384 00 Derived from State fund................................... 644,931 00Nebraska--From all sources, (in 1873)............ ................. 808,662 74 State apportionment......................................... 229,886 04 All funds, except State apportionment, are do- . rived from local taxes. Nevada--About four-fifths of the total annual revenue for the support of schools is derived from local taxa tion. New- Hampshire--Entire amount expended for schools .. 507,446 49-
Raised by local taxation....................... 367,552 23 New Jersey--Expended for schools in 1872, amount for
building and repairing houses not included. 1,670,599 72 Of this amount there was raised by local taxation........................................................ 376,141 72 New York--Furnished by the State, (in 1872).................... 2,058,806 10 Proceeds of school lands................................ 36,497 48 Raised by local taxation................................ 7,516,589 25 From other sources......................................... 200,466 83
Total........................................................ 10,402,419 66-
North Carolina--The State appropriates 75 per cent, of the entire State and county capitation taxes, a property tax of 84 cents on each $100 worth of property and credits in the State, all taxes on auctioneers and licenses to retail liquors and the income from the permanent fund. The whole of this will not pay as much as $1 for each child of school age. The School Commissioners

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of a county are authorized to submit the

question of a supplemental tax suflicient

to sustain schools four months of the year

to a vote of the people

Ohio--Total school expenditures in 1873........................... 0,817,358 30

Of this there was raised from local taxes.............. 4,933,759 OS

Pennsylvania--Total school expenditures of all kinds in

1873 ............................................................ 8,345,073 78

Of this there was raised by local taxation. 7,645,073 78

Rhode Island--Sources of school revenue for the year

1873-3--

State appropriation....... ............................ 90,000 00

Township appropriation (local).................. 414,180 00

Registry taxes (local)....................

28,899 00

District taxes (local)....... ............................ 41,004 00

South Carolina--The amount of funds raised last year,

(1872), for school purposes by local taxa

tion was................................................... 75,393 35

Tennessee--Annual school fund--Poll tax of $1 per capita, tax on property of one mill on the dollar's worth and the interest at 6 per cent, on the permanent school fund of $3,513,500. County Courts are authorized to supplement by a local tax which they may, or may not, submit to a vote of the people. More than fifty counties have levied a tax this year, (1873), varying from -l mill to 4 mills on the dollar--the usual levy being 1 mill. The coun ties have generally provided for 5 months' school. Where the tax wTas submitted to the people, it was generally voted down.
Vermont--About one-eighth of all the funds expended for schools is apportioned by the State--all the re mainder raised by local taxation.
Virginia--For the year ending August 01, 1873, whole amount expended for schools............................ Of which there was raised by local taxation...
Wisconsin--Taxes for building and repairing houses....... Taxes for teachers' wages, (local).................. Taxes for apparatus and libraries.................. Taxes levied at town meetings, (local).......... Taxes levied by County Supervisors (local).. Income from State school fund..................... From other sources.........................................

993,318 59 468,967 96 253,348 81 913,998 33
9,076 57 303,400 24 203,063 75 159,587 22 205,576 25

District of Columbia--The schools of this District are supported entirely by local taxation.

I make no remark upon the figures above given fur-

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tlier than simply to say that, in themselves, they present the argument from the experience of olher States in a light so forcible as to render comment un necessary.
In former official papers I have had occasion to state the grounds on which the local policy commends itself to our adoption, but as the question is one of very great importance, it may be proper briefly to re-state them.
I remark first, then, that the local policy makes the question of the support of schools and the amount of that support entirely voluntary in every community. The State comes with the offer of a small sum, sufflcient to stimulate to action, but not adequate to accom plish all that should be done, leaving to the people themselves to decide whether they shall supplement, and in what amount. The philosophy upon which the policy rests is that which constitutes the basis of republican institutions--that no public measure, how ever necessary to the well-being of society, can be efficiently executed and made fruitful in beneficial results, unless it has the popular approval. With that approval heartily given, any measure will accom plish all that it can be made to accomplish.
In the next place, the good results in the counties that avail themselves of the policy and vote to tax, and the far better results in those counties which make liberal provision, act as a constant stimulus upon those failing to tax and upon those voting meagre supplies, and thus the schools are gradually brought, by enlist ing popular sympathy and support, to the highest degree of efficiency attainable.
In the third and last place, while the wealthier com munities will have better schools than the less wealthy, inasmuch as they are able to make them so; yet since these wealthier communities give their consent in the general levies made by the State to aid the less wealthy, it is found that a greater equalization of the burdens is effected and all are better contented when

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eacli community is left, in large measure, to work out its own destiny.
The different reasons above given have made me the steadfast advocate of the local policy. Under the gen eral law as it now stands, the only mode of supple menting the State fund open to adoption is that of subscription by patrons. I would not have the law in this respect altered. While I am well assured that that mode is not the best, I know that many counties are not yet prepared to adopt any other. We must encourage them in their work under this mode, until they are sufficiently advanced to see their way open voluntarily to adopt a better.
When the general school bill was on its passage be fore the Legislature at the summer session of 1872, a section conferring the power of local taxation was lost. That section is printed in a note to my edition of the school laws, and, with a slight modification, contains my matured views on the subject. I cannot better give my present view's than by quoting from a circular issued by me in October last. In that circular the fol lowing words occur:
"1. I would have the Board of Education author ized to levy the tax. The board is required by law to be composed of freeholders, and would, therefore, rep resent the property interest. They are, furthermore, removeable on the address of two-thirds of the grand jury. These provisions of law make the board an eminently conservative body.
2. I wonld, furthermore, require the board to fix the per centum of the tax proposed, and then submit the question to the popular vote before the levy can be made. The fixing of the per centum by the board would protect property holders from onerous levies imposed upon them by the vote of those owning no property.
3. I would have a tax levied on the property of the whole county for the support of prin ary schools only;

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that is, schools in which onlj7 the present legal branches are taught.
4. Where a sub-district might desire schools of a higher grade, I wonld have the Hoard empowered to levy a tax on the property of that sub-district for the support of these higher schools.
5. I would further require each sub-district to build its own houses, either by taxation or labor, as the peo ple might elect.
6. Such, counties as desire to keep up their schools under the 28th section of the general law, supplement ing the State fund by subscription, as has been done the present year, should be left free to pursue that policy."
I would again most earnestly urge the incorporation of the provisions above set forth into a supplemental law. They leave the whole matter of furnishing the necessary supplemental fund, both as to mode and amount, to the voluntary action of the people, and guard at every point against unjust and burdensome taxation. In making this recommendation, I beg leave to remind the General Assembly that the policy of general taxation is open to adoption under the Con stitution, and to submit for their consideration whether it is not better for us, while we have it in our power to shape the system, to engraft upon it all the elements of a sound conservatism.
I further recommend that the law be so altered as to make the taking of the enumeration of the school pop ulation triennial, or quadrennial, instead of annual. The changes in the population of the counties are not so rapid as to require the so frequent taking of these returns, and a very considerable amount of expense would be saved by the alteration proposed.
At its last session, the General Assembly appropri ated $8,000 to the Atlanta University. Presuming that there may be a disposition at the present session to renew this appropriation, I feel it incumbent upon me to make some remarks upon the subject. This

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Institution, as I am informed, is under the control and patronage of a society at the North, known as the American Missionary Association, composed of mem bers of different religious denominations, but with a largely predominant element hum the Congregationalist Church. It might be well for the General Assem bly to consider the question as to whether the making of such an appropriation does not violate that pro vision of the Constitution which forbids the making of a donation, by any vote, to a sectarian corporation, or association. Whether the appropriation be constitu tional or not, it is very clear that the making of a donation of this amount, to be used by a body of men who are not responsible to the authorities of the State, is a matter of very doubtful propriety. The great want of the colored people at present--a want likely to exist for some jmars to come--is a sufficient supply of competent teachers of the elementary branches of an English education. This want has been deeply felt, and has very much embarrassed onr educational ope rations the present year. I would be liappj7 to see provision made for an annual appropriation in amount equal to, or even greater than, that given to the Atlanta University last year, for establishing and sup porting a normal school for colored pupils, to be manned with teachers of our own selecting, and to be made resjwnsible to our own State authorities.
In June last I issued a circular, calling a convention of the County School Commissioners of the different counties. Seventy-five counties were represented by a body of intelligent, earnest men, fully alive to the great interest with which they are charged. By an almost unanimous vote, this body recommended mak ing provision for the school debt of 1871, the granting the power of local taxation for school purposes, and the making of the enumeration return triennial, instead of annual; and I take pleasure in adding the weight of their authority to the earnest recommendation of these measures contained in the foregoing pages. I

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attribute much of the success of the educational oper ations of the past year to the impulse given to the work by the deliberations of this convention, and I submit the query, would it not be well to give the State School Commissioner express authority, upon the approval of the State Board of Education, to have an annual convention of this kind for consultation, the members to receive a per diem of four dollars for the necessary time spent during the deliberations and in coming and returning ?
I take great pleasure in acknowledging our obliga tions to the Trustees and General Agent of the Peabody Fund, for the material aid furnished the schools at a number of places in the State during the past year. The total amount given to the schools of the State, according to the last report of the General Agent, was $10,200, which was bestowed at the places, and in the amounts designated below :

Atlanta.............................................................................................. $2,000

Augusta................................................................................... .... 2,000

Macon............................................................................................... I,i500

Brunswick....................................................................................... 1,000

Atlanta Colored Normal School..................................................... 800

Savannah......................................................................................... 800

Columbus........................................................................................ COO

Ivinggokl.......................................................................................... 1100

Senoia............................................................................................... SlOO

Daklonega........................................................................................ 800

872d District G. M....................................................................

800

874th District G. M.......................................................................... 800

From the General Agent's last report I make the following quotation, showing the rules adopted for the distribution of funds: "Donations are not made to colleges, academies, or any private, sectarian, or char ity schools. For well-regulated Public Free Schools, continued about ten months of the year, and having a regular attendance of not less than

100 pupils, averaging daily 85 per cent., we pay............................ $ 800 150 pupils, averaging daily 85per cent., we pay............................ 450 200 pupils, averaging daily 85per cent., we pay............................ 000 250 pupils, averaging daily 85per cent., we pay............................ 800 800 pupils, averaging daily 85per cent.,wc pajT............................. 1,000

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In doubtful cases of attendance, the average num ber decides the question. The amount appropriated for larger numbers, in cities, cannot be fixed, but must depend on circumstances. The people are to pay for current expenses at least twice, and usually three times as much as they receive from the fund, and to bear all the expense of erecting and repairing and fur nishing school houses. They are to grade their schools and provide a teacher for every fifty pupils. It is necessary that applications for assistance be made through the Superintendent of each State near the be ginning of the school year. No claim for a share of the fund can be admitted "when a special contract has not been previously made."
I have been acting as the agent of Dr. Sears for this State, at his special request, and I have inserted the rules given above in this report for the information of all communities that may be interested therein.
I conclude this report with a recapitulation of the measures which it recommends. These are as follows:
1. That provision be made for paying the interest on the permanent school fund.
2. That the amount of funds of which this Depart ment was deprived under the operations of the act of July 28, 1870, and not restored by the act of August 19, 1872, be replaced in the Treasury to the credit of the school fund.
8. That the constitutional provision for a school tax upon the sale of spirituous liquors be enforced by appropriate legislation.
4. That all parents, on entering their children in the schools, be required to produce a tax receipt, showing that they have paid all school taxes required of them by law.
5. That the power of local taxation for school pur poses, with proper safeguards against its wrongful exercise, be conferred upon the County Boards of Education.
6. That the law be so changed as to require.' the 3

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enumeration of the school population of the counties to be taken triennially, or quadrennially, instead of annually.
7. That, instead of the appropriation of $8,000 to the Atlanta University, an equal or greater amount be annually given for establishing and supporting a normal school for colored youth, the school to be officered by the State, and to be controlled by a Board of Trustees made responsible to the State authorities.
8. That express provision of law be made for an annual convention of County School Commissioners for deliberation and consultation, the convention to be called by the State School Commissioner only when adjudged necessary by the State Board of Education.
Gustavus J. Orb, State School Commissioner.

Statistical ^afeleS-

COrNTIES.
Baker................................ Baldwin......... .................. Banks................................ "Rfirf.mv.................................. Berrien.............................. Bibb................................. Brooks .............................. "nrvnn...................................
Burke................................ Butts................................. Calhoun............................ Camden............................ Campbell.......................... Carroll.............................. Catoosa............................ Charlton............................ Chatham........................ Chattahoochee................

TABLE No. 1. Return of Enumeration of School Population.

Number of children between the ages of feix and eighteen year?.

While.

JlaU'S. Tomalcs.

465 400 457
o;i 2 01 v>
hot;
1,423 084 WN n:i>
724 507 424 0.74 924: 1,689 707 205 2,131 410

o90 439 490 584 1
'754 1,499
428 240 042 030 485 383 274 815 1,775 072 207 2,179 391

Colored. Males. Females.

Total iriiite. Tot d Colored.

55 787 817 105 811 58 1,084 502 148 302
2,100; 411 014 358 020 177 130: 05
2,000 513;

05 784; 790 159 720 57 1,854 528 150 250 2,247 338 047
311 520 184 118 05 3,033 437

855 839 953 1,255 3,800 B510 2,922 1,312 478
IdlM:
1,35! 992 800 548
1,739| 3,4C4| 1,379
532 4,310
810

120 1,571 1,607
324 1,531 '115 3,538 1,090
298 558
4,353 749
1,291 009
1,140 305 248 130
5,093 950

. colored.
975 2,410 2,500 1,579 5 331 Ce25 0,500 2,402
776 1,872 5,707 1,7-11 2,097 1,217 2j 885 0,825 1,027;
002 10,003 1.7 00-

Confederate soldiers under thirty
years of age.
xouotssmvxaop) looipg 9)vg^ Jo giodo^p

O00
50 7 54 51 238 80 43 100 73 132 113 50 15 408 80

Chattooga. Cherokee.. Clarke....... Clay......... Clayton ... Clinch....... Cobb......... Coffee....... Columbia.. Colquitt.. Coweta.... Crawford.. Dade......... Dawson ... Decatur.. DeKalb.... Dodge....... Dooly.......
Dougherty. Douglas... Early......... Echols .... Effingham. Elbert....... Emanuel .. Fannin.... Fayette.... Floyd....... Forsyth ... Franklin .. Fulton .... Gilmer....
Glascock.. Glynn.......

885 1,710
049 454 423 534 1,886 885 364 313 1,225 498 430 575 7:i1
1,110 394 828 182 585 579 325 354
091 879 959 1,926 1,079 932 3,211 1,214 250 252

907 1,585
070 419 500 449 1,800 415 250 264 1,159 439 421 028 70*3 1,092 339 720 180 571 541 343 342
047 929 941 1,916 1,020 888 3,779 1,070 211 236

210 228 050 457 312 77 012 200 778 10 1,005 539 85
51 71? 800 132 596 1,031 102 040 108 217
308 15 434 777 101 293 2,207 18 57 509

188 190 000 442 205 09 013 210 710 13 919 537 23 74 700 387 128 558 1,088 130 645 114 220
307 141 370 858 151 300 3,073 15 02 500

1,792 3,295 1,319
873 1,183
983 3,746
800 623 577 2,384 937 857 1,203 1,433 2,202 733 1,548 368 1,150 1,120 008 GOG;
1,908 1,900 8,842 2,099 1,820 0,990 S;284
401 488

404

2,196

418

3,713

1,316

2,035

899

1,772

577

1,700

140

1,129

1,225

4,971

416

l',21G

1,488

2 111

29

606

1,924

4,308

1,076

2,013

58

915

125

1,328

1 412

2.845

747

2j949i

200

993

1,154

2,702

2,119

2,487

298

1,454

1,291

2,411

223

890

487

1,188

................

615

1,953

29

1,937

804

2,704

1,035

5,477

312

2,411

593

2,413

5,880

12,870

33

2,317

119

080

1,015

1,503

61 19 81 30 27 52 1
53 5 200 32
47

147 132 10 73 26 30 114

114

45

9

335

113

111

209

62

58 9

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COUNTIES.
Greene ..,. Gordon.... Gwinnett.. Ilabersliam Hall.......... Hancock... Haralson .. Harris....... Hart......... Heard....... Henry....... Houston... Irwin........ Jackson ... Jasper....... Jeflerson.. Jolmson... Jones......... Laurens ... Lee............

TABLE No. 1--Contiitued.

to
03

Return of Enumeration of School Population.

Number of children between the ages of six and eighteen years.

White. Males. Females.

Colored. Males. Females.

Total white find Total white. Total colored. colored.

069
1,390 1,486
041
1,313 554
537 1,270
658 839 1,059
732 296 1,083 508 018 366 447 680

024 1,278 1,351
G38 1,232
542 525
1,188 599
753 1,012
744
255 885 539 009
323 400
070

1,249 171 388 130 174
1,147 42
1,801 207 370
737 2,207
00 308 830 980;
119
091 493

1,080 O1f)8'0J1O0 113 157
1,113 45
1,294
248 335 702 2,224 41 343 788 915 110 018 442

1,293 2,009
2,837 1,279 2,545 1,090 1,002 2,458
1,257 1,592
2,071 1,470
551 1,908 1,047 1,227
089
847 1,302
850

2,335
J)52 721 248 ool 2,200
87 2,085
515
711 1,439 4,431
107 711 1,018
1,895 229
1,309 935
1,949

3,028 8,021 3,558 1,522 2,870
1,149 5,123 1,772 2,303 3,510 5,907
058 2,079 2,005 3,122
918 2,150 2,297 ,yuo

S 3
ill's
! o(A *
93 89 71 100 80 70
125 44 70 88 50
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Liberty......... Lincoln......... Lowndes .... Lumpkin ....
Macon.......... Madison....... Marion......... McDuffie...... McIntosh.... Meriwether..
Miller........... Milton..........
Mitchell....... Monroe......... Montgomery. Morgan.........
Murray......... Muscogee ... Newton....... Oglethorpe .. Paulding...... Pickens....... Pierce....... Pike............ Polk............. Pulaski........ Putnam....... Quitman .... Kabun.......... Randolph.... Richmond... Rockdale.... Schley.......... Screven .. ..

555 243 665 765 836 610 1,061 443 165
662 818 1,279 496 706 850 1,017 927 718 1,110 924 892 900 924 918 427 241 590 905 1,948 9.75 321 594

465 227 577 728 770 570 1,020 488 138
668 789 1,270 409 005 755 1,157 910 682 970 828 889 805 734 982 371 ,205 551 1,010 2,088 955 828 549

802 455 529 08 991 197 949 472 507
99 085 1,570 209 1,100 134 1,077 760 1,050 04 28 147 (>38 870 987 1,129 488 45 700 1,912 800 2130 550

890 899 525 09 975 202 955 532 528
81 583 1,627 179 1,159 100 1,304 762 898
.
81 184 001 318 1,010 1,042
28 70S 2,099
315 458

1,020 470
1,242 1,498 1,006 1,180 2,081
881! 808 1,250
1,825 1,007 2,555:
905! 1,371 1,605 2,174 1,837 1,400 2,080 1,752
781 1,771 1,058 1,850
708 500 1,141 1,915 4,020 1,930 644 1,148

1,758 854
1,054 137
1,900 899
1,904 1,004 1,090 1,518
180 1,208 8,197
888 2,259
234 2,381 1,532 1,954
129 59 28! 1,294 688 1,997 2,171 820 06 1,474 4,01! 575 005 1,008

2,778 1 324
2 290 1 030 8,572 1,579 3 985 i;885 1 398 2,774
450 1,505 2,875 5,752 1,293 3,030 1,839 4,555 8,859 3,354
2 209
1,811 1,002
3,004 2,340 3,8*7 2,98!: 1.092 1.207 8.389 8,OJ7 2,505 1,249 2,151

110 70 88 04 19
42 83
120
40
83 20 81 93 91 00 47 98 98 128 89 34 50 40 07 9
75 g

`.omoissimiuoj poips

Jb

TABLE No. 1--Continued. Return of Enumeration of School Population.

Confederat e soldiers under thirty
years of age.

Report o f Stale School Commissioner.

Number of children between the ages of six and eighteen years.

COUNTIES.

White. Males. Females.

Colored. Males. Females.

Total white.

Total colored.

Total white and colored.

Spalding........ ................................

820

801

747

771

1,630

1,518

3,148

189

Stewart..............................

Sumter...............................

084

1,022

1,348

1,431

2,006

2,779

4,785

130

Talbot......................

700

656

1,164

1,050

1,356

2,214

3,570

48

Taliaferro...............................

282

280

476

442

562

918

1,480

27

Tatuall................................

724

fi13

254

218

1 337

472

1,809

Taylor.....................

538

563

470

500

1,001

970

2|071

49

Telfair...........

251

205

97

98

456

195

651

8

Terrell............

G98

594

821

660

1,292

1,481

2,773

40

Thomas...........

1 332

1 20K

1 189

1 096

2,540

2 205

4,805

Towns............

'468

'366

21

20

834

' 41

875

52

Trouit.....................

1,164

1,054

1,645

1,476

2,218

3,121

5,339

153

Twiggs..............................................

407

407

779

681

814

1,460

2,274

60

Union............

1,048

938

19

15

1,986

34

2,020

13

Upson.............

716

703

595

524

1,419

1,119

2,538

78

Walker...........

845

938

217

219

1,783

436

2,219

134

Walton..........

1,170 1,111

619

539

2,281

1,158

8,489

112

Ware.......

335

312

89

81

645

170

815

28

Warren...

474

455

837

797

929

1,634

2,563

45

Washincton.......................................

1,153

976

1,207

1,025

2,129

2,232

4,361

269

a

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TABLE NO. 2.

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Public Schools.--Consolidation of Teachers' Report.

The State School Commissioner regrets that the following table is not more complete. The following counties are among those reporting that public schools had been put in operation according to the requirement of section 28, school law, viz: Banks, Berrien, Brooks, Bullock, Burke, Bade, Decatur, Bodge, Dougherty, Effingham, Franklin, Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Henry, Irwin, Lee, Meriwether, Miller, Mitchell, Murray, Muscogee, Putnam, Quitman, Kockdale, Sumter, Thomas, Upson, Walker and Wilcox; and all of these, except Bullock, have drawn the school fund of this year. The County School Commissioners -were instructed that the Consolidation of Teachers' Reports must be returned to this office, if possible, by the loth of December, and were notified that failure to make the required reports would, according to law, deprive them of all claims to compensation for official services. Yet at the time this goes to press, January 12th, these school reports have not been received from the counties named. It is to be hoped that it is nothing worse than neglect on the part of those officers.

; Average monthly j cost of tuition.
Orthography. No. of pupils.

Attendance, j

i

No. of School*.

Number of Scholars Admitted.

j

Branches of Study Taught.

COrxi'IES.

White.

Colored.

Total.

White. Colored

i

! White I

Males. ! Females. !

Males.

Fem'cs

White.

Colored

;j

and Colored

I t

Average

1

^ fci)

CJ

.9
a

165 il :!

tfH j 0

f6t

1 ;

tc m

f00t 1 O00

O jii
! 5. i0 V< |1 id

Appling.......... Baker ?.......... Baldwin..........
Banks......... Bartow.........
Bibb..........
Bryan...........

12 i;i

i 150; 120 10 12 270 22: 2981, 188 $1 88 250| 151! 119 8 in: 81 105 175 192 840: 532' 354 1 414 287 252! 144!

20! 54!

30; 118 74i 180

y jo

T

85 i
........

is 1,0351

97 235 185 182 812 457 503 1,847

420'! 002 437 1 52

247 405, 2_79_1j

57j 138 255
..J

960:1 2,807:i 1,060

70

2,041
.. .

1, -;si i

947!1 584i1 4121i

932

ii

8

003;1

302 008 334

905 1,002: 1,907: 1,370 1 13
........

1,907 1,875!

952|

380;!

475 i!

952

!

1

1

1

.......... 1........... i........... j......... !

i. 1

!

i

i

Bulloch ... Burke.... Butts......... Calhoun... Campbell . Camden... Carroll.... Catoosa...

'i

1 ..

T " 'iii

' 6!

; 10;

! 2!

!

.! 14

I.

r- 329 ''"250' 215

105 1271 79

t 490

190

6 25

29: 85

1,084 883;

1 310 238! 27

!

1

!

t

1

218 "'579 '433 1,012; 75 90?j 154 4401

590 1 ' 62 i ' 1,018 276 1 88 ;>0;J

681 251

187 100

875j 54

383 1,258: 191 245

870 010

.2....5.0

1,040; 220;

840 124

1,947!.

1,947 1,002 70? 1,530' 1,206

23 548 50 508

90 525 o50

1.

! ...

5 hi ir>7 '''ioi '"377
189 70 i)i loG ;of; 259 152 510 80 J-f! 43 78
914 202 193 700 207: 7;) 70 209

Report o f State School Commissioner.

Charlton....... Chatham....... 14
Chattahoochee 10
Chattooga.... Cherokee....... 29 Clarke ........... 14 Clay.............. 12
Clayton ......... 1/51
Clinch........... 1!)!
Cobb............. 30!

1,141 201

1,245! 172 182 2,381
105 to 80 300

8;)4 2,740, 2,109- 1 50 2,740! 2,740 2,340,

155 521!

441: 843 270

......

842 131

90 i, 2,340 52! 218

"913 7091 39 "44 1,022 83 1,705! '822

' i',407 '802; 028 184: 1081 400

205 194 405 230 905

211! 147 203' 73 328! 130
181i 8 072i 277

103 470 93 394 109 793 8 417
200! 1,577

310 780! 525 1 40
100 500! 415! 2 00 237 1,030! 0091 1 95 10 433! 274; 1 39 513 2,120 1,002! 1 25

070 409 902 427 1,800

524; 822' 009!
343! 1,846;

387
285
84); 25)1 992

114202;
J u i;
501 220;

171!
Ill
70; :>4 i

351 145
200
150 713

Cofiee............ Columbia....... 10 Colquitt......... Coweta........... 16 Crawford .... 14

133 111 25 15 244 40 284 274'

284 204! 281 . .. J.

192! 150

475 200

422! 193 204 '897 '397 1,294 '692! 1 oos
153 190 140, 359 380 089

089

908 '718: 27 9
840;

244! 540
06 190

Dade............. Dawson....... Decatur......... DeKalb.........

405 370i....1..0 20 841 637 '442!'' 30! 52 1,009

42 ...8..8.3!!. 370,,
88 i'is?; 015 ,

711 474! 813 91 48 102
779; 001 '142 '134 '449

Dodge........... Dooly........... 20|
Dougherty.... .. 1.
Douglas......... 12;
Early............. 7; Echols........... 8:
Effingham....

378 313! 132 'l40i" 'oil 278 907

1 81 847 028!1 43:3 '202 'iie

292 215 43 01 508 1 a 582 829!

880 315; 251

132 100

125 128 115 89 17 20

257 195

243

500! 232

280! 2 14
100;

440 284j 194 174 981

102
198 57
CO

TABLE No. 2--Continued.

Report of Slate School Commissioner.

Xo. of Schools.

Number of Scholars Admitted.

Itranehcs of Study Taught.

COUNTIES.

White.

Colored.

Total.

=

White. Colored

White j

i Males. Fcm'les Males. Eem'Ies White. Colored and |

Colored

!^ j w

A "d &
tc 0
05 K6

Elbert........ Emanuel.... Fannin .. .. Fayette....... Floyd......... Forsyth .... Franklin ... Fulton....... Gilmer....... Glascock... Glynn........ Greene....... Gordon....... Gwinnett... Habersham. Hall...........
Hancock... Haralson... Harris......... Hart........... Heard........ Henry.........

203! 172 20 03?j 485 424 300 1271

18 375 38

413 284| $2 00i 302i 31 0;

1,122 .... 1,1231 548;........... 1,012 285 207

91 724 218 942!...........

022! 012 459

40 171 222
51 357

31:

803! 570 46' 34, 1,433 80) 1,510! 055!

1,4991 872. 025 91 110 479

480! 372 175! 194 848 410 1,258| 7101.

930! 708 74| 51

!........... li 1

1,614234! ..........2! 1,614254!

80?!. 74'.

988 781! 010 194! 242 501

1,427 (>93 530 1031

275

125! 90 90 42!

09

19! 21;

16; 299i 332 395! 458 481 422) 57; 51

031 903

853 1,484! 1,024! 2 19! 108 1,011; 534'.......... ;

8801 558
882 000

299 430

103 145

107 95

707 379

31!

3! 923 074| 54 44 1,597, 981 1,095; 904!..........j l,452j 1,094, 872 173 80 482

i

208)!

215! 141

356

356 197 1 50 339 195! 141

301

4 92

10! 450 329 346; 315 785 661 1,440 884 2 50 1,159 830! 550' 239! 233 548

14

2| 319, 230 00 75 549 135 684 276 1 50 613 501 j 364 169! 83 300

17

4! 444 423 110 81 867 197 1,064 755

841 625 474 152! 107 330

Houston.... ] 21 13i 3C7 2921 344 278 659 622 1,218 901 [ ........ 1,281 780 587 851 129 535

Irwin ......1

.Tnfkson . . .! 12

.Li.spfw..........

f}

! r,!)i 274'. ii 155 1451 29

15 301

GG5 44 345 1 00____

250[ 12!) 289' 207 194

54! 27 124 58 189

Jefferson ... Johnson . ..

1(1

8i 205 !

2471 199 1

184

512

883

895

509!..

83!) 401 473 190'i 210 373

Report of State School Commissioner.

oo
GO

Jones..........

11

Laurens.... 14

Top. . ...

2! 120 9li 7fS 70 217 140 363 293

362 280 2 12 103 114 197

g.i 280 194 Go 57 474 122 590 384 0 75 403 504 421 297 297 304

i

1

Liberty........ 14

T nnnn] n .

0

TiOwnrlefl . .

Lumpkin...

0;`

Oj1 !

207 98

i! 50!)

1801 151

85!

i

i

501 i 29

127 387 181
32 1,070

278 GGo 181
01 1,131

532| 1 ii no O, 630! 1

405 440 875 170 101 280 175 151 138 90 47 121
900 492 435 224: 205 322

jffacon ........

14

Arnrlisnn ....

8 278 239 279 259

554 1,078 7GG

775 608 459 230 204 389 1

Clarion........

14

4 327 243 102 147 570 309 8791..........

535 401 170: 74 297

]\icDuttle.. .

8

IVTolntosh

?o I

91

87

89 104 170 840 238 'l 80

336 22 170 100! 81 102 i

>Ieriwether.!..........

.!

1

i

i

!

Mi'liT . . 1.......... _____1...........1_____ 1 ... .!........... 1.. ..

!

!

f

1

!..........!...........

.... i . . 1

iMilton........ 14

1: 440 3711 14 15 811 2!) 840 381

769 500 830

75! 38 240 i

l\Tnn roe. . . .!..........



i

IW onto-'mir ..... ........ "*'*'!............ I ......... I........... 1...........

i

|

1

i

l. .

i

^Morgan .... 18 3Iurray .... i\hiseocppe . .

81 211 192! 205 201 403 400 810 501 1 56

' \

! ....
........

GG8 519 443 Killi 219 405 i

Hewton.......

14

POffOnTilhpthhnoprn1-.f.i

. . 1.

_____

25

Pierce..........

6

Pike............ 14

o 238 i j 715
ii 585 i 125 ll 313

201! 90 1
585! ___ 449, 12 92 14 31b 44

90 439
1 240 o 1 050 16 '217 40 (>27

625 380 2 00

50 504 611 184' 150 292


1 240 581

1,132

547

0!) 3)18

18 1 050 544-

,794 219

5 i 17 162

80 *247 239

247 247 130 7G| 86 122

84 711 424 2 00 092 580 511 ooo' 227 414

Polk............

1(1

H 22? 15ll 25 38 378 63 441

402 300 173 171 44. 158

Table no. 2.--continued.

Report o f Slate School Commissioner.

No. of Schools.

Number of Scholars Admitted.

Branches of. Study Taught.

COUNTIES.

White.

Colored.

Total.

White. Colored

White

Males. Fem'les Males. FcnVlcs White. Colored and

Colored

Pulaski .... Putnam.... Quitman ... Rabun........ Randolph... Richmond.. Rockdale... Schley........ Screven.... Spalding... Stewart ... Sumter....... Talbot........ Taliaferro.. Tatnall..,.. Taylor........ Telfair....... Terrell....... Thomas .... Towns........ Troup........
Twiggs ....

14

4 211 242 69 67 453 136 589

460 391

851

851

19

7 438 334 147 171 772 318 1,090

7

5 144 ioi 155 133 251 288 589

8

4 134 139 84 56 273 141 413

14

0 837 197 184 180 534 370 904

21

5 831 310 222 249 041 471 1,112

6

3 98 70 38 47 168 85 253

17

327 218

545

545

15

2 248 199 37 49 447 80 533

9

2 109 85 29 31 194 60 254

141

4 287 198 .. 99

76 485 175 600

12

i 403! 248 14 ii Col 25 076

90 13 303 356 311 308 659 619 1,278

131 14 177 141 243 225 318 407 785

880

518

885

089

925

343 50 489

208

409

619 92 836

1 01 1,073 192 2 00 174 527 1 06 545
306 2 25 502
292 2 00 241 2 51 593

355

505

930 2 31 1,108

4161 1 50 733

407
457 1(19 768 578
325 215 255 190
635. I 53' l
803 593 180 143 418 364 390 331 185 134 497 432 280| 178 910! 738 407 280|

120 200

0'i

130

240] 180 518

131 112 J9t> 401 50j 184 188! 251 471

279

583

46'

109

287; 112 371

1081 105 230

77; 02 128

253 206 8,82

88! 5 136 316 291 688 ml 89! 236

Union......... 23

W alker....

Walton....... 28

Ware.........

(1

Warren .... 15

Washington 28

Wayne....... 20

Webster. ..

8

li

Whitfield .. 27

Willrps

14

Wilkinson. . 23

9

Total.... 1,379

12
O 1 8g 2 2
3

706 492 ......
563 492 98 93 195 148 540 442 210 192 165 111 859 81T 633 625

20:1
ioil 13: 179 46, o t1 10:l 59 j

16 1,198 78 1,055 12 191 147 338 8< 982 32 402 80 270
670 83 1,258

36 1,234 212 1,207 25 216 326 064 88 1,005 09 471 40 322
(5/0 142 1,400

5S3:1
.i
"i 200': 1

00 00

979 ........
`''622 35

525
"' 605 50

303 j 73| ........i
027; '"si.i
60/ 30

478. pi 00 063 40; 281 157

705; 1 41 1,031 871 (577, 298

877: 1 80 285 236 157 78

207| 846

300 669

240 839

219; 158

1r2-3.v

905: 1 14 1,22.5 755 461 143:

02 201
/ ''' 484 15 156 '274 008 593 / ) 128 83 190 go 187 175 417

190 131

327

227 390i

6

461 102

301 115

144:1 131

822 217

271 1,093

521! 166;

93

218 978

2G5 710

280! 176: 171 558; 1251 111

251 477

217 124 102; 18; 14 70

356 32,502 25,997 8,945! 8,713 58,499 17,658:76,157 33,224; $1 65 64,641 47,522 35.718 13,475! 11,342 29,750

Report o f State School Commissioner.

Report of State School Commissioner.
TABLE No. 3.
Counties and Cities under Special Laws.
The counties of Bibb, Chatham, Glynn and Rich mond, also the cities of Atlanta and Columbus have been placed under the operation of special school laws. In August last I wrote to the Superintendents of the schools in these counties and cities, requesting them to send me tabulated statements giving informa tion in respect to the number of pupils admitted, average attendance, cost of tuition, the different branches of study pursued, the number of pupils in each branch, etc. Except from the county of Bibb, these statements have not been furnished. Several of the Superintendents, however, have sent school reports, from which are gathered the following facts:

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IX THE CITY OE SAVAHHAU AND COUNTY OF CHATHAM.

Number of teachers in schools--

Male, white, 13; female, white, 37.......................................

50

Male, colored, 1; female, colored, 2...................................

5

Total number of teachers..........................................
Number of scholars enrolled in schools--city schools: Males, white, 1,091; females white, 1,185. County schools, 110....................................................................... -........................ Colored schools: Males 172; females, 182...........................

53
2,385 354

Total number of pupils enrolled.............................. 2,740
Average daily attendance............................................................ 1,853 Cost per scholar on number enrolled......................................... $ 17 GO

ATLANTA PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Number of colored schools........................................................

3

Number of white schools............................................................

7

Total number of schools..........................................
Number of pupils enrolled in colored schools........................... Number of pupils enrolled in white schools..............................

10
1,153 2,441

Total number of pupils enrolled.............................. 3,594

Report of State School Commissioner.

49

Kumber of tcaclicrs in white schools.........................................

43

Number of teachers in colored schools.....................................

14

Total number of teachers..........................................

57

Average daily attendance.......................................................... 3,268

Cost per scholar per annum for instruction................ ............. $ 15 00

Cost per scholar per annum including all expenses.................. 18 29

MACON PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Number of schools--white, 6; colored, 1.................................. Number of pupils--white, 493; colored, 400............................. Number of teachers--white, 14; colored 8.............................. Average cost per scholar per month..........................................

7 893 23 $1 60

UltUNSWICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Number of teachers--white, 5; colored, 4..............................

9

Average daily attendance of whites.......................................... 214

Average daily attendance of colored....................................... ISO

Length of school year, 40 weeks.

TABLE No. 4.



Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.

This tabic is very incomplete. The County School Commissioners have no authority to compel the teachers of private schools to make reports. It is to be hoped that these officers will use diligence, hereafter, to induce private teachers to till up the blanks furnished them, as a complete exhibit of the school work of the State is very desirable.

Report o f State School Commissioner.

Xo. of Schools.
COUNTIES. White. Colored
Appling. Baker ... Baldwin. Banks ... Bartow.. Berrien.. Bibb .... Brooks .. Bryan. .. Bulloch . Burke... Butts.... Calhoun. Camden ,

Number of Pupils Admitted.

si

'D

White.

Colored.

Total.

White Hales. FemaTs Males. Femal's Whites. Colored and
Colored

Brandies tan^c

10 53 59 19 20 112! 39 151

49 54

103

103

Elementary. Elementary.

Average cor?t of tui tion per month. $ 1 74 2 75

81 107

188: 100

9 I Elementary, Classics.. ] ^d,3 00

12 120, 118 8 115 91 6 52 83

30| 45! 288!

313 3 5-0 | Elementary.

20; Ini 20(ij 35 241 4J- | Elementary.

.J ISoL

135 7 `Elcmcntarv.

1 021
j White, 3 25 ( Colored,! 50
1 Ba

Campbell.........I j&f 0 Can-oil.............; . 18 Catoosa.............; .C 4 Charlton......... '......... Chatham ... Chattahoochee Chattooga .... Cherokee....... Clarke............ Clay................
Clayton........... Clinch............

Cobb..............

Coffee .... Columbia. Colquitt.. Coweta...

11 ...

Crawford.

Dade...

Dawson

Decatur.

DeKalb.

10

Dodge.......

Dooly.......

Dougherty.

Douglas ...

Early.......

Echols.......

Effingham .

Elbert.......

Emanuel...

15

Fannin....

325 471 82;

337o80s61'.............n...:;!.

18

Oil!.......... i 011,10 iElcm'y, Classics, Math. 847;.......... ! 847; 54-5 iElementary.................. 180 29: 209' 4 [Elementary..................

4 00 1 71 1 48

118 99 98! 132'

217 .

217! 0 Elem'y, Classics, Math.

a ->>

230

230 7 Elementary..................

1 75

8, 190, 190 3! 23j 10! 152 105
11 105, 1071
58!

380'

380! 41- Elem'y, Classics, Math.;

2 50

28

28, 23- Elementary.

1 02

61 107

1681 425 ! 5 !DVlinemmr.crnn<t>avivy..................!i f( WCohloitree,d, 110400

212 . .

212

131

131 6 Elementary................... I

1 80

80

35;

115

44
6

Elomentiiw

' i White,

,Elementaly................... | ( Colored,

2 00 1 00

10' 205! 150

355

355 44 ; Elementary.

2 00

14 155! 100;

45 'sis 80 395 5 3-14 Elem'y, Classics, Math.

Voi

20' 170 130!.

300

300

[Elementary.

50

Report o f State School Qommissioner.

TABLE No, 4--Continued.

j siioissimmoQ 1007ip^ d'po'jft fo qxoddy;

COUNTIES.
Fayette......... Floyd........... Forsyth......... Franklin....... Fulton........... Oilmer......... Olascock .... Glynn.......... Greene......... Gordon......... Gwinnett...... Habersham .. Hall.............. Hancock....... Haralson....... Harris.......... Hart............. Heard.......... Henry........... Houston....... Irwin.......... Jackson ....... Jasper..........

No. of Schools.

White. : Colored

7.......

c1____

1

!

12'... .

12

Nt'MEEit of Pupils Admitted,

White.

Colored.

Total.

*d 3

1

i White

Idd

Males. FeinaVs' Males. Femal's White. Colored; and Colored.

7! 141 138.........

274'...... 274 4|-

i-M) S.T . . .

i

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18:i

294 .........

214 .. . 009 .........

214 41 00!);!)i

Brandies taught,

Average cost of tui tion per month.

Elementary, Classics...! Elem'y, Classics, Math.1....... Elementary..................!

$1 w 1 50

25 482 501

1,043 ......... 1,043 7

2d! 481: 4221 57! 51 1)03! 108 1,01112 83-90 Elementary.

181 400' 850!

810......... 8101511-14 Elem'y and Classics ,

21: 521I 882

003;......... 903 3 Elementary...........

12, 281 192!

437

437 3 Elementary.

102 79
i-io iio
879 412 124 108

1815.
....!..
'2tii:!!
791! 227:

1810 Elementary. 2G1 5 3-10 Elementary. 791j7 jElementary............. 227l44 'Mainly Elementary.

1 50
2 75
'i'50

Jeflerson.......... j lu;.........

Johnson..........I.....................

Jones...............1.....................

Laurens.......... S.........

Lee.....................................

Liberty.......... ......................

Lincoln............ ' C .........

Lowndes....... ......................

Lumpkin......... 1.........

Macon............ ...........; ........

Madison......................:.........

Marion.......... 10..........

McDuffie.........| 7'.........

McIntosh................... ;..........

Meriwether............... ...........

Miller...........

5..........

Milton......................... !.........

Mitchell..................... 1.........

Monroe......... ........... ;..........

Montgomery............. ' ........

Morgan........... 11...........

Murray........... 1(1..........

Muscogee.................. '.........

Newton......... 20..........

Oglethorpe ... 8.........

Paulding.........; 11..........

Pickens............1 4.........

Pierce............ ;..........'..........

Pike.............. ' t) 2

Polk.............. : 0 1 Pulaski..........1.................... Putnam................................
tjuitman........... ! 11......

19 209 205

524

524 5 548 Elemcu'y, Sciences, &c.

2 20

15 135 98
8 149 128

881I

85

233 272

178

400 51-8 Elementary............... 272 10 !Elementary, Classics .

2 00
3 33

0! 05 05
1 20 '"'ii

180

130 51-7 jElem'y, Classics, Math.

2 05

34

84 3 i Elementary..................

1 00

11 184 151
8 108; 110:

885

385 4 9-20 ;Elem'y, Classics, Math.

2 19

218

218 7 2-7 IElem'y, Classics, Math.!

2 02

84| o 50.

134

184 8 Elementary

2 25

.tdiioissivdiuo;) 2 0 0 i[Dg

17 1001 125
17 oOO; 550

285

285 7 4-11

8 15

1,050

| Elementary................

20 312 312
101 83 14 328 325 4; 123 101

025

025 7 Elem'y, Eng. Sciences.

2 00

184

184 7-4

1 88

048

048 4 8-11 Elementary.

224

224 51- Elementary.

1 25

'' i
11 132 148 50 03: 280 113 393 3 8-11 jElementary. 8: 140 110 18 23 250 41 207 4 25-28 Elementary.

j White, 2 00 ( Colored, 1 00

iii 177 171

848

348 8

3 50 8

pwd9}p

TABLE No. 4--Continued.

Vl

Report o f State School Commissioner.

j No. of Schools.
COUNTIES. ! White. Colored

Rabun....................... Randolph. ... J.........i Richmond .... J.........I Rockdale....... i..........I Schley............ !..........I Screven.......... ! S)j

Spalding......... 13! 2

Stewart..........

Sumter...........

' 'i

Talbot...........

Taliaferro .... 81

Tatnall.........

28!

Taylor............ Telfair...........

8I

Terrell........... 11) 4

Thomas.........

Towns............

Troup ...........

Twiggs........... 11

Union.............

Upson.............

Ntimbeh of Pupils Admitted.

White. ! Colored.

Total.

r

White

Males,

FemarsS Males.

Femal's Whites. Colored

mid Colored

Braridies taudit.

j Average cost of tui| tion i>er momh.

80| 20 . 9 98| 82 .
lyi 203! Iflo! so!

sol.

50T> jElementary.

175!.

175 >4 Elementary.

see! 97 465:41-9 'Elementary.

11 283 270) 31 j 54! 553i

8 111 loo!.,..
39 382 3671....

...! 220 ...! 749

8 137 10l!....

,..! 238

85! 638 5 13-113 Elementary. 220 10 Elementary. 749 9 Elementary. 238 5 7-8 jElementaiy.

15 204: lG3i 98 73: 367 ITU, 538 I 0 6-11 !;Elementarv

11 1271 1181........ !..........I 245| ........ ; 245,59-10 .Elementary.

12 50
White, 2 10 Colored,! 00

! j White, 2 05

', { Colored, 90

2 00

1 50

.!

2 20

11

1 80

Report o f State School Commissioner.

Walker........... -1"1

Walton........... W

Ware......................'

AYarren..........

(1

AAr!ishington .. 13

AYayne............

3

AVebster.......... ; 8 AVhite.............1.......... 1 AVliitfield........'.......... ] AVileox. . . . . . . . . . . i. . . . . . . . . . i Wilkes............ ; 3! AYilkinson....1......... AVorth..............: 3

Total....... 501:

10| 105| 171
29! 581: 510,
7| 80, 91 14; 179! 155 4! 011 30 12: 9 130! 114

320!. 1,0911.

320 4i l,09l!5

117 .. 334!.. 911 20
244!..

mioi
33415 111:74 244;4f

21 20

47

47 84

3!

47

99

99

25! 713! 11,981! 10,382 580| 054:22,303 1,234 23,597

lElcmcntary. 'Elementary.

1 724 2 20

2 50

Elementary.................

2 40

Ele"y...............:{Sw? oo

Elem'y, Classics, Math.!

2 50

Elementary . Elementary.

CCll

TABLE No. 5. Report of High Schools.
[The very incomplete state of this report is also due to the want of power on the part of County Commissioners to compel the filling up of blanks given out by them.]

Report o f Slate School (Jonuaismoner,

C No. ol Pupils stc

COlTsTIBS

Name.

Location.

Name of
Principal.

Is

t-H
* 1 d ft <1

7c-3l s0

C0-t

cB c2
0

Brandies tang lit.

Bartow..... Uillyer's Male School......... Cartersville...... S. G. IJillycr, Jr.

Bartow.....

Cassville......... R. C. Saxon....

Bartow..... Euharlee Acadeinv............ Euharlee......... John 31. Harris.

Bartow..... Bartow.....

Due West......................... Kingston Academy

ICs artersville......

J. fl.

W. Pritcbell. T Linn.......

Bartow..... Adarrsville Academy......... AdaYrsville...... I. G. Hudson...

Bartow..... Stilesboro Institute............ Stilesboro....... J). S. Haynes...

Bartow.....

Country.......... J. G. Ryals......

Calhoun....

Morgan ......... D. H. Miller....

Carroll...... Reese's High School.......... Carrollton....... A. C. Reese ....

Camden.... Camden County Academy.. St. Marvs....... \V. E. Myers ...

Catoosa..... Masonic Literary Institute. Ringgold........ A. J. Roberts...

Chattooga . Arinuehee Acaclemy.......... Dirt Town....... W. L. Kendrick

Chattooga . Fanners'' Academy............ Farmersville ... W. T. Irvine ...

Chattooga . Forest Grove..................... Country.......... Z. D. Cottrell...

Clarke...... Select School..................... Athens............ B. T. Hunter...

Clarke...... Central Hill...................... Athens............ A.M. Scuddcr.

Cobb........ Male Academy.................. Marietta.......... iE. P. Cater......

Cobb........ Red Rock Academy......... Country.......... ,W. B. Farr......

Cobb........ Smyrna Academy.............. Smyrna.......... 'j. W. Baker....

Cobb........ Cobb........

[1 Powder

Springs

Academy..

Powder Springs J. L. Mitchell.. Marietta.......... [Isabel Harrison

Coweta...... jSenoia High School.......... Scnoia............ IW. T. Read....

Coweta...... lExcelsior Academy............ Senoia............ jj. S. Ingraham.

Coweta...... IXewnauMale Seminary.... Nwiian......... ID. Walker.......

1 23

23 4

2 37 32 20 4

3 22 18 40 10

2 1

4077

33
K

80 i iH 37 4

1 3d! 27 43 0

1 1
2 I 2

2ii 17 2i; 24 201

11 G 17 301 37

4( 23 41 54 57

i |
1
j

r>jy
10 0

3 2

481 41

218511

2( 23

81 10

45 4J

10 5

3 1 1 20 2 1

25 3! GO: 44: 43 33 47

22i

1l

1

38'

17 41

11

47 10

8`. 10

tibl 10

441 4

81 50'

3 '<x

88! 8

c

685

7011

30 i 135)

10 10

> 43 43i 85 10

21 47! 1 4" 10

English and Latin................................................. lElemcntary and higher English............................

1

Classics, itathematie*, Science?............................

iClasic$, Math., Sciences and. Elementary branches.

English and Classics.............................................

Classics, Matliemathics, Sciences...........................

!English, Classics, Mathematics.............................

jElementary, Classics, Mathemathics....................

iElementary branches, Classics, Mathematics.........

Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................

Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................

Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................

'Classics and Mathematics.....................................

Classics, Mathematics, Music................................

2a3 t001o0) 222 827.T5^
3 00 S 03 3 33 3 45 3 15 2 TO 2 50 2 50

;Literary and Musical............................................ 3 00

.(.`lassies, Mathematics, Sciences.......... v;.............. ^Elementarybranches, Classics, Math., Sciences ....

5 50
5 00

; Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................ 5 00

:Mathematics and Sciences....................._.............

SElementary branches, Classics, Math., Sciences .... 8 00

d'lasdcs and Mathematics..................................... lLatin, French, English........................................ .

2 00
4 00

Classics, Mathematics, Sciences......... ................. . 'Classics, Mathematics, Sciences........................... .

3 00
2 50

'Classics, Mathematics, Sciences., ..................... 4 00

Coweta.... Haralson High School........jllaratson......... 'AV. L. Cousins.

Coweta.... Kook Spring..................... (District Mo. 2... !A. V.T. Pierce... | Coweta.... Sharpsburg School.............Shurpsburg.......;K. E. Pitman...!

DeKalb ... ........................ ................ iDccatur..............D. Fraser.......... ;

DeKalb ... Decatur Male School........ Decatur........... iD. D. Ware......

DcKalb ... Cedar Grove................... [Cedar Grove....!J. A. AToriis.... i

])eKalb . Stone Mountain Academy 'stone Mountain J. II. Nash......i

DeKalb . ... Lithonia Academy.......... For^'th.

LHiitghhotnoiwa.e.r............. !jcJ.MH.SCtelpahrekn..s.o. n'|

Forsyth. Cumming School....... Cumming........'A. S. Tatum.... j

Gilmer.. Oaklandiligh School.. Cartecay......... .J. W. Jones...

Greene.. Mercer High School...

Pr.enflliU1.......... I 1!i OSvaenrtfoonrda.nd) ) i

Greene......Pine Hill Academy

District No. 1G1. B. Robins..

Greene......Dawson Institute...

White Plains.. ,;X M. Howell..

Greene......Smyrna Academy............... 'Siloam .

A. Howell..

Greene....... Greensboro Male Academy. Greensboro...... ,W* D* AI. Harris.

Greene.......Fuller Academy................. District No. 144. ;M.W. Lewis, Jr. [

Gwinnett.. NorcrossIUgh School...... Norcross...........'Jas. U. .Vincent, i

Heard....... [Franklin High School....... Franklin...........i W. H. Daniel...!

Heard....... ^Farmers'High School....... Country............ 'Leonidas Jones. |

Houston ...lAnthon School.................. ,Wellho'rn`sMills.H. W. Baldwin.

Houston .. . `Henderson Academy.......... Henderson........R. M. Hodge...

Houston ... Byron.................. "........... Byron............... !J. C. Parrott....

JIfafckkes. on....

ALartin.Institute................ Select...............................

Jefferson...........;J. W. Barnesville...... ;W. It.

Glenn.... Pixley...

Pike .

Gordon Institute............... Barnesyillo...... [ -j aA ftopliy t

Pike .

Milner High School.......... Milner............. ;E. M. Hooten..

Pike .

Stafford Academy............. LDistrictNo. 5:13 A. G. Harris.

Liberty.... Excelsior School...............I District No. 24. Liberty Tranquil Institute............. jFlcmington .

J. W. Shivers .W. W. Winn.

Liberty ....

/Tones' Creek... J. P>. Marlin....

Liberty .... /'cademy..........................Walthourville .. A. M. Mclver...

Liberty .... Bradwell Institute............. Hincsvilie.........G. I). Bradwell.

Macon...... Marshallville.....................jMarshallvillc.... G. M. Patterson

Macon...... Blockerhead...................... iBlockcrhead.... M. M. McDonald

McDullic... Columbia Institute............(Thomson..........:J. W. Shank....

McDuffie...

IMcDufficCounty T. M. Steed ....

McDuffie... Thomson High School.. Thomson.........N. A. Lewis....

Murray...... Union Springs.............

. District No. 874.

j S. C. Greer, )_ "j Sam Berry,. J

Oglethorpe.

. Centre.... .... 0. J. Landrum.

Oglethorpe, Crawford High School.. . Crawford . .... J. F. Cheney...

20'
41,

:Classics, Mafhcmatics, Sciences.............................. '('lassies and Sciences............................................

2 24 2 50

4<i:
227
41

'Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................ :English, Latin, Algebra, etc............................ . 'Latin, Greek, Philosophy, Mathematics, Rhetoric... Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................ .

3 50 2 50 3 00

s

101

'('lassies, Mathematics, Sciences............................

50. OG 'English, Classics, Mathematics............................

4000

:English, Latin, Mathematics................................. .Classics, Mathematics, Sciences ...........................

3 00 1 50 1 50

27! 13 j 40 4 lEnglisli, Mathematics, Greek, Latin...................... 2 00

.mimssimmoQ jooips djvgs '}-L0< d^ ll

41! 22; 00 10 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................ 3 50

17| 10 27 8

23( 23' 48' 7

32! 21 38 0

27 ( 3: 80 3

21
74 j

2-1 51 47 121

0M'
10

45 40, 85 0

40 Hi

31 4:

80 15

10
it

20' 0 35 7; f

15 81 18

10 25 50 140 21: 30

10
T-r
10

iCktssics, Mathematics, Sciences............................. 'Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................. English and Classics.............................................. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................. ; English, Latin and Greek.....................................

3 20 3 20 2 50 4 20 2 50

[Elementary and Classics..................................... (Elementary, Latin, Greek, Higher Mathematics, etc Pr mary, Preparatory, Commercial, Collegiate.......

3 30 3 30

('lassies, Mathematics, Sciences............................ jClassics, Mathematics, Sciences............................

3 00

(lassies, Mathematics, Sciences............................ Latin, Greek, French, Mathematics, Sciences......... (Elementary and Classics.......................................

* 3 335 3 08

70 51: 121: 10 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................ 4 00

50 15

40' 14

00 0 20 10

Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............'1......... 'Classics, Mathematics, Sciences........................

28
11

10
18

47 24

10
2

4

13

Classics. Classics,

Mathematics, Mathematics,

Sciences........................ Sciences,_....... ..............

3 07 1 05 1 70

Id 5 2) 5

10
30 47

21
24 30

43. 54' 83

8
4 7

83 20 02 7

11 13 30 10

0 18 21 5

Elementary branches, Mathematics, Sciences.... [(.'lassies, Mathematics, Sciences#..................... (English, Latin, Greek....................................... 'English, Latin, Greek..................................... Elementary branches, Mathematics, Sciences.... Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.......... ..............

2 00
2 80 3 25 4 00 3 no 3 GO

Elementary branches, Larin, Mathematics, etc....... \ 3 O.s

20 30 02 7 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences..............................I 3 00

80 72 152 10 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences...............................1..........

20 20 40 10 English, Mathematics, Latin....................................j 2 80
18 17 35 10 (Classics, MatLemuUcs, Sciences.............................. '.......... 3

TABLE No. G.--Coktijuied.

Report o f State Scttool Commissioner.

No. of pupiL

COUNTIES

Location.

Name

of

c

c z

Principal. 0 M X ; s 7r

" . C=i

Oglethorpe iPhilomath Institute.......... ; Woodstock. 0. T. Boggs....

O<rlethorpc Jiamlstown Academy......... iBnirclstown. w S. McCarty..

Oglethorpe ;Mesou Academy............... Lexington. T. B. Moss......

Kauclolph.. Kuiulolph.. Spahlino:...

Satn'l Railey Male Institute.'1(S tprirtihuyn.V...ale

M C. Edmund. W F. Slaton...

Talbot.." (xeneva........................................ ICeneva...

E. Eullur....

Talbot.. 1 Colli nsvvortii..............................'Ttdbotton.

J. T.McLaughln

Talbot.. Protidence................................ -Talbot Co

w H. Woodall.

Talbot.. Collinsworth..............................iTalbot C'o

J. L. Barker....

Taliafer jCrawfordviile Academy.... | Craw fordviV J). N. Sanders..

Tatnall. Rattle Creek Academy.......... mear Reidsv

John Hughey..

I'atnall. Tteidsville......................... jReidsville .. C. M. Williams.

Taylor . 'Johnson Institute..............(Butler........ .1. T. White....

rrayIor .

Terrel!.. 0. 0. Nelson Institute

Dawson,... I. A. Cornell...

Terrell. Rowers Academy............... Towers.......
)

j W. R. King l I '( Miss Stubbs } ! ( T.B. Russell 1 I

Terrell. ... 1 South Ga. Male Institute.

Dawson. ......

< W. H. Allen [ I J.F. Lowuey j i

Troup....... (Mulberry Grove.............. near Antioch.. E. Calloway....j

Tronj).......'Ho^ansville institute......

Nic'ls Williams.'

Troup....... 'Ririe Grove Academy....... ITt Vernon Dist F. G. McMumiy

Twiuys......]Auburn Institute............. Jeffersonville... J. A. Barclay..

Walker......;St. Mary's Institute........ McLemore'.s J. V. Wood...

Cove.

Walker......| Lookout Church................. High Point. J. M. Henry....

Washington,Mt. Vernon...................... Riddleville. G. A. Holcombe

WushingtonlSandcysville Ilijrh School... Sandersville I. W. Duggan..

Whittieid... [Crawford High School....... Dalton....... W. C. Wilkes..

Whittield... (Dalton Institute................ Dalton....... , J. D. Collins...

1 20 12 32 10

1 11 11 22 3

2 24 30 00 10

1 3T 20

;J

4 128 128 4

2 47 22 00 10

2 (iO

liO 10

2 42 35 77 10

1 25 14 3!) 10

2 25 18 45 3

1 IS 13 31

0 2o| 20 40

3 521 57 100 10

::::! -69 30 ~

2i 25 19' 44j 7 s! <16.... i <i<), 3

4I1t':
11;.

*20!
242S-031i! J
10|

20
410f!1
15!
X0i

3H4T,i 180
41i
12ti. 3

I! 331 2ti! 50, 5b

RJj 24 40 0

Kit: 1()

..( 73, 3

33! 33! (j

nehos Taught.

.('lassies, Mathematics , Sciences.............................. $. 3 00 tCiassics, Mathematics , Sciences.............................. 3 00 ! Elementary branches, Classics, Mathematics.......... 3 50 (Elementary branches, Classics, Mathematics.......... 3 00

1 Elementary, Scientific, Classical.............................. 3 00

; Elementary, Sciences and Languages...................... 2 85

; Elementary, Sciences and Languages...................... (Mathematics, Languages. Natural Sciences, etc.......

33 0000

[Elementary Languages, Sciences............................ 3 00

[Mathematics, Sciences, Languages......................... 3 00

[Elementary, Classics, Mathematics......................... 1 88

[Sciences, Classics, Mathematics.............................. 2 00

[('lassies, Mathematics, Sciences.............................. a 50

j Mathematics, Sciences. Classics.............................. 4 00 Mathematics, Sciences........................................... 3 00

[Mathematics, Sciences, Classics

4 00

[Mathematics, Sciences........................................... 2 00 I Usual studies.............. ......................................... 4 50 [Mathematics, Sciences, Classics.............................. 2 25 jElemenjary, Classics.............................................. 3 30 Mathematics, Sciences, Classics.............................. 2 50

Mathematics, Sciences, Elementary........................ 1 50 Mathematics, Sciences........................................... 2 25 Elementary, Classics, Mathematics.......................... i 3 50 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences....................... j 3 00 lEiementary, Mathematics, Sciences................ !

vrakc?...... Derbeshin Aondomy......

..[Wilkes Conniy.1 jUiOtliDist. G.M.T. A. Xash......

j

1 22!

18;!

40i1 10

\VilVrs Male Academy.............. .. IWashington . .. 1J. R. Anthony.. i 80 ....! 30: 10

Willces...... Burdett Academy......... .. Wilkes County. !T. J. Beck......

Willses...... Wilkinson..

CA hrlanprlppemllyAcademy.......

.. 1 Wilkes County .'J. S. Glaze..... . 1 Irwinton.........iA. Sfosely. ..

Warren.... Warrenton Academy.... Warren .... licynolcUvilie Academy..

..! Warrenton...... R. V. Forrester. ., ii!l59th Dist, G.M. |[ W. A. Paiham .

2 80' 22 01 0

1 1

17 'V 1V)\ 30

24 It) 40

2 88 24 57 10

1 10; 21 40, V-;

Total......

UiT 8228 2222 54501

''Paid 6y Patron f'3,23--balance by Martin Fund.

Classics, Mathematics.......................................

...! 1

3 00
a 3*?

Elementare. Academic, Classic........................ ... 1 5 00

Classics, Mathematics Sciences...................... ... 3 00

Classics, Mathematics, etc................................ ... 7 70

Elementary, Mathematics, Languages...............

Elementary, Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.... ... 3 00

... $3 00

Report o f State School Commissioner.

Or
<3?

e* TABLE NO. 6.
It is not known to the State School Commissioner that all the institutions, which find a place is this table, arc incorporated as colleges. lie has permitted those who make the reports to classify the institutions which they represent. The same remark as to incompleteness and its cause, which has been made in respect to one or two other tables, applies also to this.

Report o f State School Commissioner.

Counties.

Xume.

lllbb..........I Mercer University.............. Bibb..........|WeKk'.yan Female College... Carroll....... Carroll Masonic Institute...

Location.

Name of presiding officer.

= 'c& (1 No. of pupils.

hi 2

1

*r E

b<

Macon...... j A. J. Battle, I). D....................... fij 150

150

Macon...... E. II. Myers, D. 1)........................ ly-.... 225 22:)

Cnrroilton.. T M. Kicliardson, A. M............. 4| 45 2T 72

Carroll. Bowdon College'.

Bowdon .... Itcv. F. II. M. Henderson, A. M..

21 0 33

Clarke... University of Georgia..................... Athens......Bov. A. A. Lipscomb, LL. D.

10: .320 320

Cobb.... . iMarietta Female College................ Marietta.... I...... ...................................

4' 2 70 72

Coweta,.

Newnan. ... ,'M. P. Kellogg, A. M............

!.... 100 100

Greene. . . 'Greensboro' Female Institute......... Greene^boro; A. S. Townes.....................

4! 8 4; 50

Lumpkin . iNortli Georgia Agricultural College. Dahlonega.. Hon. B. W. Lewis...............

4, 115 21(1

Macon .. . I[Spaulding Seminary......................Spalding.... [Hcv. \Y\ C. tVilkcs. A. M.............. rJ m 45 76

Newton . . (Emory College......v........................ I Oxford........iRev. 0. L. Smith, D. D....

7[ 102 102

ItaiKlolph . (Andrew Female College..................jCuthbcrt.... 'A. H. Fleweilen................

5. 123 123

Spaklin; . IGrifHn Female College................... (GOiffin........ Rev. A. B. Niles, A. M. ...

51.... 135 135

Spaldin' ..Central College..............................iGriffin.........!C. A. Hanscll.....................

....[ 2 60 62

Talbot. . . Lc Vert College..............................'xalhotton .. iV. E. Manget.................... Troup... . 'Southern Female College...............ILaGrange... J. F. Cox.......................... Troup... . ILaGrange Female College..............ILaGrange... VL T. Johnson................... Whitlield, . 'Dalton Romaic College...................'Daltonf..... 'Rev. W. A. Rogers, A, M.,

4!.... 01 01

S...... 1 w 14,3

451j...1.5

36 Ol 901 00

Total.

104|l022 11761210S

y' 0

Branches taught.

2=^

5*

0 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.. $ fl (!G ov College Course........................... 10 00 10 Math., Nat. Science, Book-Keep D 00
ing, Kng., Lat., Gr., Fr., Sp.... 10 Majli.. Nat. Science, Lat., Gr., Fr., 5 40
Eugiisli.................................. 10 University curriculum................ 10 00 0 Collegiate.................................. 5 00 10 ('lassies, Mathematics, Sciences.. 5 00
Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.. 4 00 10JO*' English Language, Math., Natural
Science, An. Languages.......... Elementarv, Classics, Math., Sci.. 4 00 10 Classics, Mathematics-, Sciences.. 7 50 10 Regular college course................ 4 50 10 College course............................ 5 00 10 Natural Sciences, Classics, Mathe 4 00
matics, Music......................... 10 Classics. Math., Sciences, Music. 3 25 07; Collegiate branches................... 5 25 10 Mathematics, Classics, Sciences.. 4 66 3 College curriculum..................... 5 22

Report of State ScJwol Commissioner.

Cl

TABLE No. 7.

Apportionment of the School Fund of 1873.

('OUNTIES.
Appling.......... Baker.............. Baldwin .... .. Banks........... Bartow*........... Berrien........... Bibb................ Brooks............ Bryan.............. Bulloch......... Burke............. Butts.............. Calhoun......... Camden.......... Campbell....... Carroll............ Catoosa.......... Charlton......... Chatham ... . Chattahoochee Chattooga. ... Cherokee....... Clarke ............ day .............. Clayton.......... Clinch........... Cobb............... Coffee.............. Columbia........ Colquitt.......... Coweta............ Crawford........ Dade.............. Dawson.......... Decatur.......... DeKalb.......... Dodge............ Dooiy.............. Dougherty .... Douglas.......... Early.............. Echols............ Effingham....... Elbert........... Emanuel........ . Fannin............ Fayette........... Floyd............. Forsyth......... Franklin.......

School Popula tion and Coimtie-1
Confederate Soldiers under pro rata. 30 years of age.

975 $ 068 06

3,406

1.677 08

3,567

1,745 72

1,633

1,110 54

5,331

8,025 41

1.676

1.139 78

6,798

4,623 06

2,488

1,691 99

1,612*

1,096 26

1,873

1,273 07

5,750

3,910 35

18,41

1,252 00

3,170

1,475 73

1,217

827 68

8,017

2,051 75

3,938 I 2.678 08

1.677

1.140 46

677

460 40

10,411

7,080 13

1,840

1,251 31

2,257

1,534 90

3,732

2,537 99

2,710

1,847 05

1,803

1,225 47

1,787

1,215 27

1,181

803 15

4,972

3,381 26

1,216

826 95

2,103

1,470 97

611

415 52

4,514

3,069 80

2,045

1,390 73

> 915

622 26

1,375

935 08

2,845

1,934 77

8,013

2,048 34

1,140

775 27

2,834

1,927 80

2,497

1,698 11

1,537

1,038 45

2,437

1,657 31

920

625 66

1,247

848 04

3,21Of

2,187 08

2,067

1,405 69

1,983

1,347 88

2,713

1,845 01

5,802

3,945 71

2,524

1,716 47

2,324

1,710 47

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Report of State School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 7--Continued.

COUNTIES.
Fulton (county).... Atlanta (city)....... . Gilmer.................. Glascock............... Glynn............. ..... Gordon.................. Greene.................. . Gwinnett............. . Habersham........... . Hall....................... Hancock.............. . Haralson................ Harris..................... Hart...................... . Heard................... Henry.................... Houston............... Irwin....... ......... Jackson................ . Jasper ................... Jefterson.............. . Johnson................. Jones................... . Laurens................ . Lee...................... . Liberty................... Lincoln................. Lowndes.............. Lumpkin.............. Macon.................. Madison................ Marion.................. McDuffie.............. McIntosh............. Meriwether.......... Miller................... Milton.................. Mitchell............... Monroe................ Montgomery......... Morgan................ Murray.................. Muscogee (county) Columbus (city)... Newton................ Oglethorpe........... Paulding.............. Pickens......... Pierce ................... Pike..................... Polk..................... Pulaski................ Putnam................

School Popula tion and | Counties''
' Confederate j ; Soldiers under; pro rata. [30 years of age.

3,535 $ 2,404 02

9,604

0,531 30

2,379

1,617 87

038

433 88

1,512

1,028 25

3,110

2,114 90

3,720

2,529 83

3,629

2,407 95

1,022

1,103 00

2,959

2,012 30

3,432

2,333 97

1,149

781 39

5,238

3,502 16

1,816

1,235 00

2,373
3,593 5,957

1,613 79 2,443 46 4,051 12

658

447 48

2,904

1,974 90

2,665

1,812 36

3,109

2,155 11

947 I

644 03

2,178 j 1,481 17

2,329 i 1,583 86

2,305 I 1,567 54

2,888 I 1,964 02

1,394

948 01

2,334

1,587 26

1,694

1,152 02

3,591

2,442 10

l,517f

1,031 65

4,027

2,738 61

1,968

1.338 36

1,393

947 33

2,774 1

1,88649

l,045f I

710 66

1,625 I 1,105 10

2,875

1,955 18

5,752

3,911 71

\ 1,339

910 60

3,630

2,468 62

1,871

1,272 39

1,905

1,336 33

2,010

1,774 96

3,440

2.339 41

3,446

2,343 49

2,300

1,504 14

l,911t

1,299 6o

1,109

754 19

3,163

2,151 O3

2,411f

1,639 63

3,9 < 0

2,703 24

3,008

2,045 63

Report of State School Commissioner.

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TABLE Iso. 7--Oo^tixued.

COVXTIES.
Quitman........... Rabun............... Randolph......... Richmond....... Rockdale......... Schley............... Screven............ Spalding.......... Stewart............ Sumter (county). Amcricus (city). Talbot.............. Taliaferro......... Tatnall............. Taylor............... Telfair............ Terrell.............. Thomas........... Towns............. Troup.............. Twiggs.......... Union............. Upson............ 'Walker.......... AV alton........... AV'are.............. AAhtrren........... AVashington.. . AVayne ........... AVcbstcr.......... AVhite.............. AVhitfield......... AATlcox............ AVilkes............ Wilkinson....... AVorth.............
Total....... * Estimated, t By return of 1ST1.

School Popula tion and I
Confederate | Soldiers under' 30 years of aec.

Counties' pro rata.

1,306 i $ 1,20:5 ! :5,429 8,104 2,.114 1 1,240 2.220 i
3,337 I -i.OOOf 4,127 i
788 ] 3,018 !
1,507 !
1,809 i
2,120 1 059 ;
2,813 * 4,542f
027 5,492 2,334
2,033 2,016 2,353 0,551
843 2,008 4,GoO 1,300 1,858 1,410 3,010
853 3,710
2,428 1,017

928 90 858 92 2,331 93 5,511 22 1,709 07 849 40 1,513 82 2,209 30 2,787 57 2,800 (il 535 89 2,400 40 1,024 85
1,230 23 1,441 73
448 10 1,913 01 3,088 84
030 42 3,734 90 1,587 20 1,382 50 1,779 04 1,000 18 2.414 90
573 29
1,773 00 3,148 08
928 90 2,vi)*5 r>A
958 89
2,040 98 580 09
2,523 03 1,651 19
091 02

507,014 $250,000 00

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Report of State Setiool Commissioner.

Department of Education,
Atlanta, Ga., July 23, 1873.

To his Excellency, James M. Smith, Governor:
Dear Sir : I have the honor and the pleasure of laying before you, in the foregoing pages, the appor tionment of the fund of $2o0,()()0.00 to be used for the support of the common schools of the State the present year.
The counties of Bryan, Elbert, Madison, Miller, Pickens, Polk, Stewart and Thomas have not made a return of the enumeration of the school population. All of these counties, except Bryan, made a return in 1871, and when the apportionment of the fund for paying teachers and school officers of 1871 was made last winter, the school population of Bryan was care fully computed. As the returns made this year, show a very slight increase in the school population, owing in part to the fact that Confederate soldiers under thirty years of age are included, I determined to use the actual and estimated returns of 1871 for the fore going counties in making the present apportionment.
The method of apportionment was as follows: The fund to be apportioned, $250,000.00, was divided by 367,614, the entire school population of the State, giv ing $.68006115, or a small fraction over sixty-eight cents a head to every child of school age. The decimal obtained as above was multiplied by the school popu lation of the respective counties, giving the results as tabulated. The method proved to be remarkably ac curate, as the sum of-all the amounts apportioned to the several counties was only five cents less than $250,000.00, the entire sum to be apportioned. In order to balance, one cent was added to the amounts apportioned to five of the counties.
With the highest respect, your obedient servant, Gustayus J. Orr,
State School Commissioner.

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TABLE No. 8.
Apportionment of the Special Fund for paying the School Debt of 1871.

eorxTiEs.

Pro rata, as ap Pro rata, as ap

School population.

Entire as portioned reported. Dec. 21, 1872.

portioned Sept. 13, 1873.

Appling............... Baker...................! Baldwin............... ( Banks.................. ' Bartow.................` Berrien................ Bibb.....................: Brooks.................: Bryan .................. Bulloch............... Burke................. ; Butts.....................! Calhoun.............. Camden.............. Campbell............. 1 Carroll................ Catoosa............. Charlton............. Chatham............. Chattahoochee... Chattooga........... Cherokee............ Clarke................. Clay..................... Clayton.............. ; Clinch.................! Cobb................... Coftee................... Columbia............. 1 Colquitt............... : Coweta................. > Crawford............. ; Dade.................... ; Dawson.................i Decatur............... ! DeKalb................ ! Dodge.................. ! Dooly.................. ! Dougherty............1 Douglas............... 1
Early....................i Echols.................. | Effingham........... Elbert...................; Emanuel.............. Fannin................ Fayette.............. * Floyd...................i Forsyth................ j Franklin...............I
5

725*

1

1,092 $ 871 75*

2,024 1,7 >) 00

1,068 1,705 00

4,841

3,914 G4||;

1,024

1,439 151|

0,485

70 00

11,141

l,G12f

2,088* 1,000 00||

5,77;; 4,907 37

1,753 2,841 15

1,974 2,110 00

1,058

2,234 3,200 50

3,705 5,074 00

1,307 1,511 78

000

8,088

i;54i 2,770 00

2,584 3,337 00

3,331 4,248 00

3,108 2,200 CO

1,038 1,575 00

1,835

720 00|j

1,427

1,294 00i

4,112* 979)

334 75

2,493' 2,737 42

072 1,155 00

3,721 5,301 00

2,315

1,500 00|

1,049 1,050 00

1,408 2,721 75

3,423 1,342 OOS

2,988 3,005 00

1,200

003 00

3,201

03 00

4,013

459 00

1,707 1,181 50

2,057

410 27:;:

475

490 00

1,054 2,880 00

3,210 ' 2,001 91

2,014 2,509 00

2,090 2,053 25

2,042 | 1,807 781

5,419 ; 9,471 50

2,915 : 3,343 00

2,542 ! 3,348 33

420 05 $ 401 81
710 18 455 20 1,321 37 443 25
1,709 98 857 29
439 97
409 72
1,575 05 478
538 77 452 53 009 74 1,027 60 373 11 180 13 2,207 50 420 00 705 20 909 15 804 05 447 07 500 84 389 48 887 32 207 20 080 42 183 41
1,015 59 031 83 280 30
400 07 934 20 815 52 327 53 890 02 1,259 04
482 28 501 43 129 04 287 09
877 70 549 0!) 570 43
721 09
1,479 03 795 00
093 80

145 00 339 77 520 98 3o4. 95 972 13 320 12 1,302 20 030 75 323 71
410 30 1,159 28
351 82 390 40 332 94 448 61 750 05 274 51
132 54 1,024 10
309 45 518 90 008 90 630 17 328 93 808 50 280 56 825 73
190 60 500 62 134 94
747 22 404 88 210 65 294 80
087 38 000 02 240 97 054 84
926 34 354 83 413 07 95 40 211 05
045 81 404 43 419 70 530 54 1,088 1!) 585 30
510 40

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Report of Slate School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 8--Coxtixued.

(.'OL'N'l'IES.

: Pro rata as ap Pro rata as ap

School Entire: debt, as portioned

portioned

population. reported. Dec. 21, 1872. Sept. 13, 18T3.

Fulton.................... Gilmer.................. Glascock .............. Glynn.................... Gordon.................. Greene.................. Gwinnett.............. Habersham.......... Hall...................... Hancock.............. Haralson.............. Harris.................... Hart........................ Heard.................... Henry.................... Houston................ Irwin...................... Jackson ................ Jasper.................... Jefferson................ Johnson.............. Jones................... Laurens.............. Lee....................... Liberty......... ... Lincoln.............. Lowndes............. Lumpkin............. Macon.................. Madison............
McDuffie............. McIntosh............ Meriwether......... Miller.................. Milton................ TVntnliell............... Monroe............... Montgomery....... Morgan.............. Murray................ Muscogee, county Columbus, city... Newton.............. Oglethorpe.......... Paulding............. Pickens................ Pierce.................. Pike..................... Polk .................. Pulaski................ Putnam.............. Onitman.............. Rabun................ Randolph...........

8,265 $2,562 45

2,615 3,827 25

856 340 00

1,471

720 00

2,770 4,089 00

4,248 5,623 75+

4,180 3,500 00

1,008 2,352 16

6,222 4,911 30

3,908t 1,500 OOjj

1,455 2,810 10+

4,066 3,600 00

2,600 2,520 02

2,715 2,350 OOS+jj

3,08!) 1,300 00j|

7,675 3,008 39

681

049 00

3,007 4,710 87

3,152 2,008 00

4,643 3,084 75

1,196 1,418 00

2,490

75 oo*:

2,102 2,532 00

1,755

518 1SS

2,578 227 35

1,565 1,684 30}

2,646 2,793 05j

1,759 1,371 40

4,469 3,071 68

1,517

500 00[|

2,455f

1,654 1,458 OOg

1,455 1,210 00

3,476

33 00

1,045

67 00

1,588 1,284 41

3,187*

4,893 6,664 67

1,335 3,404 00

3,544 2,848 25

2,253 3,206 00

2,319f

2,794*

2,225 2,550 OOil

2,668

60 00

2,873 3,200 001:

1,911 2,852 50

957 1,263 85

3,832 4,908 88*

2,411 3,418 77

3,509 1,484 00

3,784

100 00

1,220

038 20t

1,403 1,303 45

3,305 3,518 00}

8 2,255 81 631 84 228 17 401 49 756 03
1,159 43 1,143 32
520 76 87!) 40 990 21 390 58 1,355 39 712 08 741 01 843 10 2,012 34 185 87 845 28 860 30 1,267 23 320 42 67!) 61 598 27 47!) 00 703 62 427 15 722 18 480 0!) 1,219 74 414 04 670 05 451 44 397 12 948 72 285 21 433 42 555 42 1,335 19
364 37 967 28 614 92 632 94 762 58 607 28
728 19 784 14 521 58 261 19 1,045 89 658 04 957 73 1,032 7!) 332 98 382 92 1,051 8!)

8 1,65!) 70 464 88 167 88 295 40 556 25 85!! 05 841 20 383 15 647 01 802 84 291 78 997 23 523 92 545 20 620 31
1,480 58 136 75 621 91 632 96 932 37 240 17 500 02 440 1 8 352 43
517 70 314 27 .531 35 353 23 897 43 304 63 493 00 333 14 292 18 698 02 209 83 318 90 639 98 982 37 268 08 711 67 452 43 405 68 561 07 446 80 535 76 570 93 383 75 192 18 769 51 484 16 704 65
759 87 245 00 281 74 v/t> 13

Report of State School Commissioner.

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TABLE No. 8--Continued.

COUNTIES.

Pro rata, as ap Pro rata, as ap

School population.

Entire debt, as portioned reported. Dee. 21, 1373.

Seppto.rtIido,niesdid.

llichmond............ Rockdale.............. Schley....................
Screven................ Spalding................
Stewart.................. Sumter..................
Talbot.................... Taliaferro............
Tatnall.................. Tavlor.................... Telfair..................
Terrell.................. Thomas................ Towns.................... Troup....................
Twiggs.................. Union....................
Upson...................
Walker.................. Walton................ Ware................... Warren................ Washington....... Wayne.. ......... Webster.............. White.................. Whitfield............. Wilcox................ Wilkes................ Wilkinson........... Worth..................

8,449 $ 8,000 00 $ 2,300 03 $ l,0i)6 65

2,130 2,091 93

581 35

427 78

1,402 1,575 00

882 00

281 54

2,038 1,350 00

719 99

529 74

3,3224: 4,000 00

851 29

007 09

4,099

1,118 70)

823 12

5,249 1,500 00g|| 1,432 05 'i.,054 06

3,773 3,875 00

1,030 38

758 06

1,599 3,089 20

430 43

321 10

1,601 1,615 00

453 35

335 55

2,552 2,375 00t

696 53

512 47

700

807 40

209 00

153 82

2,445 8,290 80

007 32

490 98

4,542 4,425 OO11

1,239 67

912 08

758 1,950 00

206 88

152 21

5,878 2,409 00+

1,604 80 1,180 37

2,388 2,249 00

651 78

479 54

2,022 2,144 00

551 87

400 04

3,178 3,702 00

807 39

038 18

3,249 4,344 50

880 77

652 43

3,405 5,694 02

929 35

085 76

580

500 00|i

159 94

117 68

2,603 3,074 00

710 55

522 71.

4,904 2,549 00

1,354 84

990 83

981

267 74

197 00

1,814 2,988 50

495 11

364 27

1,835 1,208 50+

500 84

368 50

3,463 3,503 00

945 18

095 41

807 1,182 84

^36 63

174 10

1,704 2,238 807
3,380 1,000 OOs+j!

405 08 924 16

342 18 679 95

1,193

193 00

325 61

239 57

Total............. 308,505 $296,675 36 * Return made since December 21,1872. + Estimated. % Corrected since December 21, 1872. II Approximate. Renorted since December 21, 1872. 1 Partial.

$100,000 00 $ 74,000 00

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.Report of Stale Scltool Commissioner.

Department of Education,
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 13, 1873.

To his Ei'ccllcncy James M. Smith:
Dear Sin: I lay before yon, in the foregoing pages, an estimate of the apportionment of $74,000, being a second installment of the fund realized from the tax levied under "an act to provide for the payment of the debt due to teachers and school officers who did service under the public school law in the year 1871," ap proved August 19, 1872. The estimate is given in a table which contains, in addition to the present pro rata of the counties, the pro rata apportioned the 21st of December last, the school debt of the several coun ties and the schoolpopulation. You will find a few changes in the columns giving the school population and the debt. Some of the County Commissioners of counties from which no enumeration return had been made at the time of the former apportionment, have since forwarded returns; and a few others have cor rected mistakes in returns which were on file in this office at that time. Quite a number of the commis sioners have made changes in the reported debt. The table herewith submitted has been corrected up to date. The same method of compulation was followed as in the last apportionment. The final summing np of the amounts apportioned to the respective counties demonstrates the accuracy of the method pursued.
With the highest respect I am your obedient servant,
Gustavus J. Cue,
State School Commissioner.

Report of State School Commissioner.
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Governor, Attorney General, Comptroller General, Secretary of State, and State School Commissioner. Gustavl's J. Okb, State School Commissioner, Atlanta.
Henry T. Lewis, Clerk, Atlanta.
I.IST OP COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

COUNTY.

rOST-OTTICE.

Appling............ Lewis Thomas....................... Holmesville,

Baker............... Thomas W. Fleming ...........Newton.

Baldwin.......... John Hammond..................... Milledgeville.

Banks............... T. C. Chandler.......................Homer.

Bartow............ Rev. T. E. Smith..................Cartersville.

Berrien............ James F. Goodman................Nashville.

Bibb.................. B. M. Zettler*.........................Macon.

Brooks............. Rev. Charles D. Campbell... Quitman.

Bryan............... A. G. Smith...........................Eden.

Bulloch............ Dr. George W. Sease............. Mill Ray.

Burke............... A. II. A. Bell......................... Waynesboro.

Butts................ S. E. Pound...........................Indian Springs.

Calhoun........... J. J. Beck.............................. Morgan.

Camden

F. M. Adams.......................... St. Marys.

Campbell.........|Capt. J. W. Beck...................'Fairburn.

Carroll.............i Samuel A. Brown...................IBowdcn.

Catoosa............ ID. W. Williams...................... Ringgold.

Charlton.

lames Thompson.

Cole Rain.

Chatham....... W. H. Baker*.........

Savannah.

Chattahochee. Dr. C. N. Howard...

Cusseta.

Chattooga .... W. T. Irvine.

Summerville.

Cherokee........ James W. Hudson...

Canton.

Clarke........... Emory F. Anderson.

W atkinsville.

Clay............... R. E. Kennon..........

Fort Gaines.

Clayton.......... Rev. Robert Logan..

Jonesboro.

Clinch........... H. D. O'Quin..........

Homerville.

Cobb............. William F. Groves..

Marietta.

Coffee............. Dr. John W. Barber.

Douglas.

Columbia....... .1. T. Smith..............

Appling.

Colquitt......... Dr. B. E. Watkins..

Moultrie.

Coweta........... Rev. R. E. Pitman..

Sharpsburg.

Crawford....... John W. Ellis..........

Knoxville.

Dade......... James C. Taylor....

Trenton.

Dawson............jD. E. Smith.

Daw-sonville.

Decatur........... Daniel McGill

Bainbridge.

DeKalb............. E. A. Davis...

Decatur.

Dodge............... James Bishop

Eastman.

Dooly......

O. P. Swearingen....

Vienna.

Dougherty....... L. E. Welch... .......

Albanny.

Douglas............ John C. Bowdon.......

Salt Springs.

Early............... Joel W. Perry...........

Blakely.

Echols.............. J. P. Prescott f..........

Statenville.

Effingham........ Samuel S. Pittman...

Springfield.

Elbert.............. Dr. B. A. Henry.......

Elberton.

Emanuel.......... Josephus Camp.........

Swainsboro.

Fannin............. J. F. Adams..............

Morganton.

Fayette............. Samuel T. W. Minor.

Fayetteville.

Floyd............ M. A. Nevin..............

Rome.

Forsyth............ Isaac S. Clement.......

Gumming.

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Report of State School Commissioner

hist of County School Commissioners--Continued.

COUNTY.

NAME.

rOST-OFFICE.

Franklin...........Major Thomas T. Borough .. Carncsville.

Fulton.............. Jethro AV. Manning............... Atlanta.

Gilmer............. Dr. E. AV. AVatkins................. Ellijay.

Glascock......... Seaborn Kitchens....................Gibson.

Glynn.............. Dr. J. J. Harris....................... Brunswick.

Greene...............lames A. Thornton...............Union Point.

Gordon.......... II. C. Hunt...............................Calhoun.

Gwinnett.........Rev. J. D. King....................... Lawrenceville.

Habersham.... Thomas J. Hughes,Sr............ Clarkesville.

Hall................. Dr. H. S. Bradley.................... Gainesville.

Hancock........ W. H. Bass...............................Devcrcaux.

Haralson.........Thomas Philpof....................... Buchanan.

Harris..............i.Joel T. Johnson.......................Hamilton.

Hart .............. j Dr. C. A. AVebb...................... Hartwell.

Heard............. jJohn J. Bledsoe.......................Franklin.

Homy................. jtj. R. Is ohm................ ... McDonough.

Houston.......... !l). M. Brown................... Perry.

Irwin............... iMamisseh Henderson, Jr. Irwinville.

Jackson........... !g. J. X. AVilson.................

Jefferson.

Jasper..............TV. R. Berner................... Monticello.

Jefferson.......... I Rev. David G. Phillips'.. Louisville.

Johnson..........'James Hicks..................... Wrightsville.

Jones............... j David AV. Lester.............. Haddock, M. & A. R. R.

Laurens..........Rev. AAr. S. Ramsay.......... Dublin.

Lee.................. William II. Baldy.

Starkville.

Liberty............. John B. Mallard .

AValthourville, Xo. 4, A. & G. R. R.

Lincoln............ C. 11. .Strother.................. Lincolnton.

Lowndes......... Rev. A. J. Bcssent........... Valdosta.

Lumpkin.......... B. F. Sitton....................... Dahlonega.

Macon............ B. A. Hudson.................. Oglethorpe.

Madison.......... John M. Skinner.............. Danielsville.

Marion............ A\L A. Singleton.............. Buena Vista.

McDuffie ....... R. H. Pearce..................... Thomson.

McIntosh.......... Dr. S. AV. AVilson............ Darien.

Meriwether. ... AV. T. Revill..................... Greenville.

Miller.............. AArestley Sheffield.............. Colquitt.

Milton............ Thomas L. Lewis............ Alpharetta.

Mitchell........... James II. Powell.............. Camilla.

Monroe ....... Andrew Dunn................ Forsyth.

Montgomery... John L. Matthews............ Mount \rernon.

Morgan............ AV. H. Cocroft................. Madison.

Murray........... Rev. S. II. Henry............ Spring Place.

Muscogee ... X. G. Oattis..................... Columbus.

Newton...........Dr. H. T. Shaw................. Oxford.

Oglethorpe ... jThomns H. Dozier.......... AVintervillc.

Paulding.........|L. J. Spinks..................... Dallas.

Pickens.......... [A. P. Mullinax.................. Jasper.

Pierce.............. jl)r. A. M. Moore............... Blackshear.

Pike................A. P. Turner...................... Milner.

Polk................|T. L. Pittman.

Cedar Town.

Pulaski

Rev. G. R. McCall......... Hawkinsvillc.

Putnam

William AV..Turner. ... Eatonton.

Quitman.

Joel E. Smith......................... Hatcher's Station.

Rabun.............jF. A. Bleckley........................jciayton.

Randolph....... jThomas A. Coleman.............[Cuthbert

Report of State School Commissioner.

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List of County School Commissioners--Continued.

COUNTY.

NAME.

rO^T-OFFTCE.

Kichmoncl........ Major A. IL McLaws............Augusta. Rockdale......... T. 0. Barton......................... jConyers. Schley............. Rev. John N. Hudson.......... 'Ellaville. Screven............ Dr. tV. L. Matthews............ Ogeechee. Spalding........... It. E. Morrow.......................'Griffin. Stewart........... W. H. Harrison.....................iLumpkin. Sumter............ Major William A. Wilson... {Americus. Talbot.............. W. R. Warthen................... Talbotton. Taliaferro....... Rev. Henry D. Smith............ ICrawfordville. Tatnall............ Dr. Robert F. Lester............ IReidville. Taylor............. Rev. Julius Gardner..............Butler. Telfair............. Alexander McDuffie............ . (Lumber City. Terrell............. L. M. Lennard.......................'Dawson. Thomas........... II. A. Carr X- .....................Tliomasville. Towns............. W. R. (McConnell..................(Miwassee. Troup.............. John E. Toole.............. .... LaGrange. Twiggs............ A. E. Nash............................. 'Griswoldvillc. Union.............. Edward D. Rogers.................Blairsville. Upson.............. L C. McMichael................... (Thomaslon. Walker............. D. C. Sutton.......................... 'LaFayette. Walton............. G. A. Nunnallyf................... 'Monroe. Ware.............. Burrell Sweat.........................1 Waresboro. Warren........... A. S. Morgan.........................,Warreuton. Washington ... Dr. Horatio N. Hollifleld.... jSandersville. Wayne............. Rev. A. Clark........................ !Jessup. Webster........... N. A. Windsor... ................ iPreston. White.............. Rev. J. J. Methvin.............. (Cleveland. Whitfield......... Rev. W. C. Richardson......... [Dalton. Wilcox............ Stephen Bowen.............. . .(Abbeville. Wilkes............. Rev. F. T. Simpson............... Washington. Wilkinson....... Franklin Chambers............... ilrwinton. Worth....... :.. J. M. 0. Holamon................. (Isabella.
* Snperinterulenl of Schools for city and county. i' Former Commissioner; still in oflicc, no successor having been chosen and (inah'ficiL X Has been elected, but has not, as yet, been commissioned.