Fourth annual report of the State School Commissioner submitted to the General Assembly of the State of Georgia at its session in January, 1875 [1875]

FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SUBMITTED TO THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE
STATE OF GrEOKGIA,
AT IPS
Session in January, 1875.
SAVANNAH, GA.: J. H. ESTILL, Public Printeb.
1875.

Department of Education, Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 12th, 1875.
To His Excellency James M. Smith: Dear Sir.--I submit herewith my third annual Report
for transmission to the General Assembly. With sentiments of the highest respect, I remain your
obedient servant. GUSTAVUS J. ORR,
State School Commissioner.

REPORT.
Since my last annual Report, there has been a decided advance in public sentiment in favor of public schools. Many, who were opposed to the system, have become friendly; many others, who entertained grave doubts as to the policy of the system, have settled down into the conviction that it is the part of wisdom to give it a fair trial; others, who were, and are still enemies, oppose, with much less bitterness; while the original friends of the cause are becoming every day strengthened in their favor able opinion and are more earnest in its advocacy. Every county in the State now has a local school organization. One hundred aud twenty-five counties have: had public schools in operation this year. Notwithstanding the inad equate allowance for the support of these schools, the tes timony of many school officers is to the effect that they are accomplishing much good. With the opportunity of attending a three months' school each year, from six to eighteen years of age, the youth of the State will be with out excuse if they grow up to maturity without acquiring at least a good elementary English education. To say nothing of the attendance of the colored children, the number of whites annually admitted into the schools since the inauguration of the public school system is, in many of the counties, more than double that admitted into pri vate schools any year previous to that time since the close of the war. Bqt for the public schools, many of these white children, and almost all of the colored, would grow up entirely without educational advantages. From exten sive correspondence and repeated interviews with intelli gent men from all portions of the State, I feel justified in saying that at least one-half of the white population, and nearly the entire mass of the colored, are now decidedly

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in favor of a liberal public school system. In the facts above stated, there is much to give encouragement. A well-planned public school system, with all the facilities and appliances necessary to render it thoroughly effective, is not the work of a day. It is a growth, and, following the analogies of animal and vegetable life, it will be found, within certain limits, to be hardy and vigorous in propor tion to the slowness of its maturity. We have made a good beginning, and not "despising the day of small things," we should press forward, furnishing to our public schools a more liberal support as our means increase, till we make them the chief pride and glory of the State.
The following is a statement of the school finances : There are now in the hands of the Secretary of State, school bonds to the amount of $350,000. These bonds Were executed under authority of an act passed in 1858. They are made payable to the Secretary of State as trus tee of the educational fund, and bear interest at 6 per cent., per annum. By referring to the act it will be seen that only the interest on these bonds was to be paid, and that was to constitute a perpetual school fund. The con stitution of 1868 set apart and devoted " any educational fund now belonging to this State--except the endowment of, and debt due to, the State University," to the support of common schools. There can be no doubt but that this provision of the constitution converts the proceeds of these bonds into a common school fund. This is the opinion of the highest legal authorities of the State. I am clear in the opinion that this Department has a lawful claim to all the interest that has accrued on these bonds since the 13th day of October, 1870, the date of the passage of the first public school law. The reasons for this opinion have been given at length in former official papers, and it is unne cessary to repeat them here. The amount of interest due under the claim above set forth, up to October 13th, 1874, is $84,000. I have repeatedly, but hitherto ineffectually, brought this claim to the attention of the General Assem

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bly, seeking to obtain at least a recognition of its validity. I again respectfully ask that appropriate action be taken. If the State is not in a condition to pay the demand, let something be done showing the claim to be an honest one.
The net amount of school fund collected from all sources from the adoption of the pres ent Constitution up to Dec. 1, 1873, after paying the expenses Of this Department and for the support of schools in 1873, was....... $489,722 42
There has been received at the Treasury between the dates of Dec. 1, 1873, and Jan. 1, 1875, as follows:
From poll tax........................................................... $ 34,518 90 From tax on shows and exhibitions.................. 1,665 00 From half rental W. & A. R. R....................... 150,000 00 From dividends on Ga. R. R. stock.........................................

$186,183 90 There has been paid out between the dates last named, as follows :
Expenses of this Department, including sala ries, postage, stationery and printing........ . . $ 4,071 84
Apportioned for the support of schools in 1874......................................................................... 265,000 00
By the act of February 28, 1874, the poll tax collected since that date is retained in the counties.
The amount of this tax assessed for the year 1874, as reported to the Comptroller General's office, is $199,550.
The aggregate amount of the same, estimated as col lected, is $133,000 00,
I make no statement of the amount collected 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," approved Aug. 19, 1872. At the time of my last annual Report, there had been collected, under this act, $176,237 01, of which amount there had

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been apportioned to the counties $174,000. By reference it will be seen that that act was passed to " replace in the treasury all the funds appropriated by law to the support of common schools, which have been drawn out and used for other than school purposes, since the 4th day of No vember, 1871." The net amount collected from all sources from the time of the adoption of the constitution up to August 19th, 1872, the date of the passage of the act, -was $408,417.37. Of this amount there was bonded on the 6th day of August, 1870, $242,027.62, under the act of July 28th, 1870. The amount thus bonded had been un lawfully used for other than school purposes. Taking the latter sum from the former, there remains $166,389.75. This amount, then, is all the school fund that had passed into the treasury from the 6th of August, 1870, up to August 19th, 1872. Upon the supposition that all school funds that had passed into the treasury from August 6th, 1870, up to November 4th, 1871, still remained in the treasury at the latter date, the amount of the tax raised under the act of August 19th, 1872, already apportioned,, viz: $174,000, more than replaces any funds that may have been used for other than school purposes between the dates named in the act by $7,610.25. In view' of the showing above made, the Governor does not feel that he would.be justfied in ordering any further apportionment of funds collected under the act we have been considering, since he does not consider any further sums that may have been collected as appropriated by the act, and hence I do not deem it necessary to make a statement of the receipts under it.
The only diversion of school funds to other uses which has taken place at any time is that which occurred before the I9th of August, 1872, under the operation of the act of July 28th, 1870. As has already been shown, the amount raised under the act of August 19th, 1872, ancf already apportioned, has more than replaced the unbonded portion of the sum diverted by $7,610.25. It is clear that

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this last sum ought to be considered a credit on the bonded debt. The amount bonded was $242,027.62, which, di minished by the sum just named, $7,610.25, leaves $234,417.37 as the principal sum rightly due from the State to this department. The bonds deposited with the State Treasurer in lieu of the diverted funds, as I have repeat edly set forth in official papers, were illegal, never having received the signature of the Treasurer. I recommended in a report to a former General Assembly a plan of settling this indebtedness by the issuing of small bonds ; but the plan met with so little favor that I am reluctant to repeat the recommedation. The claim is unquestionably a just one; and if the General Assembly can see no feasible plan of providing for its liquidation at this time, I beg of them to take such action as shall stamp upon it their recognition of its validity.
The last General Assembly, at their second session, passed an act for the paymont of the school debt to teach ers and others, left unpaid in consequence of the diversion of school fund which has just been under review. This act appropriates the school fund to the payment of this debt, requiring an apportionment to be made every six months for that purpose. There are two provisos to one section of the act, one of which empowers the grand jury to levy a tax to be used instead of, or in supplement of, the school fund for paying the debt; and the other declares that the provisions of the act shall not apply or operate in any county after any grand jury thereof shall otherwise recom mend. In the early part of the year, I instructed the County School Commissioners to procure from the Clerks of the Superior Courts of the several counties an exemplifica tion of the record, embodying so much of the general pre sentments of the grand jury as might relate to this subject, and forward the same to me. Up to this date, I have received the required information from only sixty-three of the counties in which there exists indebtedness. The grand juries of only twenty-seven of these have taken such action as

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implied that it was their wish that the school fund should, either in whole or in part, be applied to these old claims. I am satisfied that the act has failed to receive the approval of the great majority of either the grand juries or of the school officers of the State. It is not surprising to me that it should be received with disfavor. Any reader of the constitution must be convinced that it was the inten tion of the framers of that instrument that the small school fund, for which it provides, should be used, from year to year, for the benefit of the children of the State. It is not only in opposition to the spirit of that instrument, but to the principle of common justice, to rob the children of this and succeeding years of the privilege of attending school for the purpose of paying claims which were, in some counties, so injudiciously created as to monopolize in their payment the quotas of the school fund that might be apportioned to those counties for three or four years in advance. Since my induction into office, I have uniformly each year instructed the county school officers to promise to teachers only their pro rata part of the fund that might be apportioned to the county. This is what I understood to be the spirit of the constitution and of the laws, as well as the dictate of sound policy. I have yet to hear of any debt having been created in any of the counties, or of any complaint against the policy adopted. On the contrary, I have met with the warmest commendations from all quar ters. I do not believe that the teachers of 1871 are enti tled in justice, or by the spirit of the constitution, to any portion of the school fund accumulated after the expiratiop of the year in which they rendered service. They are en titled to the proceeds of whatever provision the General Assembly may make for replacing the funds misapplied under the act of July 28th, 1870, passed and published a year before they performed the service. And out of this provision only those are entitled to compensation who held teachers' licenses, had made contracts with the proper school authorities, had performed the service for which

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they had contracted, and had, in short, complied with all the requirements of the school law under which the teach ing was done. I fear that much of the clamor that we have heard in behalf of the teachers of 1871 has been raised by men who took advantage of the necessities of the hold ers of the claims, and bought them up for a trifle. I have spoken very frankly upon this subject, for I feel it to be one of the duties of my position. I am not afraid of misconstrnction. It is well known to the members of the Gen eral Assembly of 1871 and 1872 that the teachers of 1871 are largely indebted to efforts made by me for the passage of the act passed in the summer of the latter named year, from which they realized all that they had received previous to the present year. I desire to see provision made, in a proper way, for the payment of legal claims for service hon estly and faithfully rendered; but I am opposed to depriv ing the children of this and succeeding years of school privileges for the purpose of paying for benefits conferred upon the children of 1871. In addition to the injustice and unlawfulness, as I view it, of the act we are discussing, it is liable to other grave objections. Some of its provis ions are of such doubtful construction as to render its proper administration a work of extreme difficulty. Many of the grand juries seem to have misconceived some of its pro visions, and intelligent school officers have been in doubt as to their proper interpretation. For the different reasons stated, I most earnestly urge the repeal of the act.
On my entrance into office in 1872, finding a large debt in existence, contracted for the support of schools the pre ceding year, with no resources for its payment, and being; entirely destitute of the necessary funds for sustaining schools for that year, one of my first official acts was to issue a circular, discouraging the establishment of public schools that year, and urging an exclusive reliance upon the private schools that might be put into operation. I felt that the public school system had received a blow from' the maladministration of the previous year, from the effects-

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of which nothing but the wisest management could save it. I clearly saw that to husband our resources for one year, so as to enable us to meet our obligations for the next with the most scrupulous punctuality, was the only policy which would assuredly command public favor. The General Assembly, sympathizing in these views, passed, in the sum mer of 1872, the present school law. This law provides that by the 1st of July of each year, or as soon thereafter .as practicable, the apportionment of the school fund shall take place. The first apportionment during my adminis tration of school affairs occurred in July, 1878, and the second in the same month of the present year. In both cases, the fund apportioned was that which had been accu mulating the preceding academic year, that is, from July 1st to July 1st. The same law, after designating what shall constitute the school fund, provides that " When said common school fund shall be received and receipted for, from whatever source received, it shall be the duty of the officer authorized by law to receive such fund, to keep the same separate and distinct from other funds, and said funds shall be used for educational purposes, and none other, a.nd shall not be invested in bonds of this State, or in other stocks, except where investment is necessary to carry out the conditions of an endowment, devise, gift or bequest) etc." The object of incorporating this provision in the law was to prevent such misapplication of school funds as had occurred in 1870 and 1871, and to render it certain that whenever school funds were lawfully applied for they would 'be found on hand. The school law further provides that when any " County Board shall communicate satisfactory evidence to the State School Commissioner that arrange ments have been made by them, by taxation or otherwise, for continuing primary schools, free to all, in operation for three months in the year throughout the entire county, or for two months when it is adjudged necessary to establish ambulatory schools, as hereinafter provided, said county .shall be deemed and held entitled to draw her proportionate

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part of the State fund, through the appointed channels, whenever said fund is ready for distribution." Both last year and this, by order of the Governor, soon after the apportionment of the fund was made, I sent out to each County School Commissioner a circular, giving notice of the fact that the apportionment had been made, and of the amount apportioned to his county. In quite a number of cases last year, when the Commissioners made application at the treasury for this money, all the requirements of the law having been complied with, they were told that there were no funds on hand. As the reasons given for the fail ure to pay last year were connected with the remarkable financial panic which fell upon the country last fall, I did not feel it incumbent upon me to make reference to the subject in my last annual report. The same thing has been repeated this year, and in a much larger number of cases. The Commissioners were clearly entitled by law to receive the money on applying for it, all the conditions precedent having been complied with, and as I am reliably informed that the failure to receive the money has acted prejudicially to the interests of public schools, I feel constrained to set forth the plain recital of facts above given. It is proper to remark that the matter complained of has been simple delay. In every case, so far as I am informed, payment has been subsequently made, either in currency or by an order upon the Tax Collector of the county interested. To a very considerable extent in the popular mind, this de partment has been connected with the delay above alluded to. It is well known to all who have taken the pains to inform themselves, that no public funds of any kind pass through my hands, and that I am in no wise responsible for the holding or disbursing of the same.
I would not be understood, in what has been written, as impugning the motives of the State Treasurer. In common with the great body of the people, I have unbonded confi dence in his integrity. The reason given by him for the absence of the school funds from the treasury when applied

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for, was the fact that they had been used in meeting the maturing indebtedness of the State abroad; and it was his great desire to preserve the credit of the State, doubtless, that led to the application made of the funds. I simply present the facts, as I have felt it my duty to do, for the information of the General Assembly and the people.
As connected with this subject--not, however, as a rem edy for the evils complained of--but purely upon the merits of the recommendation, I submit for the considera tion of the General Assembly, a change in the mode of disbursing the school fund. I recommend that the school law be so altered as to make it the duty of the State School Commissioner, as soon after the apportionment of the State school fund has taken place, as he receives offi cial notice from the County School Commissioner of any county that the public schools of the county are within three weeks of closing, to execute an order for the coun ty's quota upon the Tax Collector of the county in fayor of the County School Commissioner, affixing to the order his official seal, and transmitting it to the last named offi cer in payment of the county's claim. It should be made the duty of the Tax Collector to retain in his hands a sufficient amount of funds to meet the order promptly when presented, and of the State Treasurer to receive it as so much cash in settling with the Tax Collector. The chief argument in favor of this change is economy in the transmission of funds. It is also believed that it would work no injury to school interests. As the law now stands, a County School Commissioner can not settle with teachers till the schools are all closed and the teachers' re ports are filed in the office of the Commissioner. The change proposed would, therefore, cause no delay in set tling with teachers, and would secure promptness of pay ment at the expected time.
Within the past year, certain abuses have come to my knowledge which, in my judgment, demand action on the part of the General Assembly. In the last few years it has become somewhat difficult for an officer to make a good

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and sufficient bond. In certain cases, County School Commissioners experiencing this difficulty, have entered into an argreement with parties considered responsible, promising these parties that in consideration of going upon their official bonds, they would make them the real custo dians of the fund. Whenever payments were to be made, the Commissioners were to draw upon these parties. Un der the school law, as it now stands, a Commissioner is entitled to receive, at the State treasury, his county's quota of funds whenever arrangements have been made for keep ing up public schools for three months of the year, thoughout the entire county. This money cannot be paid out, as elsewhere stated, till the schools are closed. In some cases, Commissioners have promptly reported the arrangements for the three months schools, and soon after have applied for the funds which, when received, were turned over to their securities, to be used by them in con ducting their private business. Such an improper use of public funds deserves the severest condemnation. I am convinced that instances of the kind cited have been rare. Yet we cannot guard too jealously a fund set apart by the State for the benefit of the children within her limits. I therefore recommend that a law be passed providing severe penalties against any custodian of school funds who shall himself use said funds, or permit any other person to use them for private advantage.
In former reports I have repeatedly urged upon the General Assembly the necessity and importance of en grafting the power of local taxation, in some form, upon our school law. On the 27th of August last, I prepared the following circular, and sent a copy to each of the County School Commissioners of the State :
"Dear Sir: From the returns of the gross amount of taxable property in the several counties of the State, as contained in the last annual report of the ComptrollerGeneral, I have carefully computed the table given below.
Table showing the amount of tax on each one thousand

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dollars' worth of property necessary to be levied in the several counties in order to raise, in each, a local school fund equal to that received from the State in 1873:

A pnlincr................... ......$1 43 Douglas............... ......... $1 50

Baker......................

9 29 Early................... ......... 1 53

Baldwin.................. ...... 1 29 Echols..................

9 76

Banks....................... ...... 1 84 Effingham........... ......... 1 19

90 Elbert.................. ......... 1 44

Berrien.................... ....... 1 69 Emanuel............. ......... I 27

Bibb.........................

49 Fannin................. .......... 2 71

Brooks.....................

79 Fayette................ .......... 1 97

Bryan...................... ...... 2 11 Forsyth............... ........ 1 63

Bullock................... ....... 1 42 Floyd...................

79

Burke....................... ...... 1 36 Franklin.............. ......... 1 82

Butts........................ ....... 1 59 Fulton.................

45

Calhoun.................. ...... 1 79 Gilmer................... .......... 3 37

Camden................... ...... 1 43 Glasscock ........

99

Campbell................ ....... 1 49 Glynn...................

71

Carroll.................... ...... 1 18 Greene................

98

Catoosa................... ...... 1 17 Gordon................ .......... 1 08

Charlton................ .... 2 01 Gwinnett............ .......... 1 07

Chatham................

27 Habersham........ ........ 1 76

Chattahoochee...... ...... 1 59 Hall..................... ......... 1 19

Chattooga.............. ...... 1 10 Hancock..............

86

Cherokee................. ....... 1 75 Haralson............ .......... 1 67

Clarke.....................

42 Harris................... .......... 1 65

Clay.......................... ....... 1 57 Hart..................... .......... 1 51

Clayton ................. ...... 1 05 Heard.................. .......... 1 39

Clinch..................... ...... 1 29 Henry.................. .......... 1 28

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

94 Houston............. .......... 1 32

Coffee..................... ...... 1 32 Irwin..................... .......... 1 15

Columbia................ ....... 1 39 Jackson................ .......... 1 47

Colquitt.................. ...... 1 72 Jasper................... ........ 1 23

Coweta....................

86 Jefferson............. .......... 1 14

Crawford................. ....... 1 62 Johnson............... ......... 1 28

Dade........................

82 Jones................... .......... 1 16

Dawson.................. ...... 1 93 Laurens.............. ......... 1 26

Decatur..................

90 Lee......................

98

DeKalb...................

85 Liberty................

2 79

Dodge..................... ...... 1 29 Lincoln................ ..........i 28

Dooly....................... ....... 1 30 Lowndes............. .......... i 33

Dougherty.............

60 Lumpkin.............. ........ 2 66

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Macon.............. ............... 1 48 Screven.................. ........ 1 82

Madison.......... .............. 1 38 Spalding................

86.

Marion............ .............. 2 09 Stewart.................. ....... 1 36.

McDuffie....... .............. 1 07 Sumter....................

88.

McIntosh....... ............... 1 42 Talbot..................... ....... 1 56

Merriwether... .............. 1 00 Taliaferro............... ....... 1 34

Miller.............. ............... 1 98 Tatnall.................... ........ 1 42

Milton............. .............. 1 62 Taylor................... ........ 1 63

Mitchell........... ............... 1 77 Telfair.....................

98

Monroe........... .............. 1 47 Terrell..................... ........ 1 22

Montgomery.. ............... 1 86 Thomas................. ....... 1 05

Morgan............ .............. 1 29 Towns..................... ....... 2 50

Murray............ ............... 1 13 Troup.....................

96

Muscogee....... Newton..........

39 Twiggs.................. ........ 1 98

96 Union.....................

O 03

Oglethorpe.... ............. 1 36 Upson....................

99

Paulding......... .............. 1 35 Walker................... Pickens............ ............... 2 59 Walton..................

90 9 21

Pierce............... .............. 1 59 Ware...................... ........ 1 18

Pike................

80 Warren................. ....... 1 34

Polk.................. Pulaski.............

88 Washington......... ......... 1 13 9 00 Wayne................ ........ 1 76

Putnam............ ............... 1 11 White................... ....... 2 04

Quitman......... ............. 1 33 Whitfield...............

99

Rabun............. ............... 3 05 Wilcox.................. ....... 1 60

Randolph........ ............... 1 17 Wilkes..................

82

Richmond......

31 Wilkinson............. ....... 1 02

Rockdale....... .............. 1 29 Worth................... ........ 1 17

Schley............. ............. . 1 20

I send this table that the Boards may be better prepared to consider and act upon the question of local taxation. In my circular of the 16th of April last, I requested you to obtain the views of your Board of Education upon thepolicy of local taxation, recommended in my last annual report, for transmission to this office. I have received answers, thus far, from only twenty counties. These an swers show that, in some cases, the Boards misconceived the question upon which I desired them to take action. In. the cases alluded to, the Boards seemed to think that I wished their opinion as to whether it is desirable at this time to actually levy a local or county tax to supplement the
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school fund; whereas, I simply wanted to know their opinion upon the policy of giving, by legal enactment, the power to do so, leaving the question as to whether the tax should be actually levied, at any time, to the people of the county. To avoid misapprehension, I will state explicitly what I wish embodied in the form of an amendment to the present school law.
I desire that the Board of Education of the several counties, be empowered to authorize the levy of a tax for the support of schools in their respective counties. The Boards are required by law to be composed of free-holders, and thus, representing the property interest, they would not be likely to be oppressive in their exactions.
I would have the amount of the local tax thus to be levied, limited by law to a certain per centum on property, beyond which the Boards should not be permitted to go. This provision of law, you will readily perceive, would be absolutely necessary for the protection of property-holders.
The proposed tax should be submitted to the popular vote, and should be levied only after ratification by the people.
The fund raised by the levy of a tax upon the people of a county, as above proposed, should be used for the sup port of schools, in which only the elements of an English education are taught.
Power should be given to levy a tax upon the property of any sub-district of a county, for the support of a higher school in that sub-district, the exercise of the power here, also, being conditioned upon the approval of the people of the sub-district, by popular vote.
The building of houses should be left to the voluntary action of the people, to be done by subscription, by labor, or by taxation, as they may elect.
As connected with this scheme, and with a view to equalizing the bin dens of the system, I desire to sec the constitution so altered as to fix the amount of poll tax that may be levied at three dollars, per capita.

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I will not argue these different propositions. You will find nearly all of them discussed in my last annual Report, to which I refer you.
It is well known to all the subordinate school officers that I have been advocating the policy set forth above ever since my entrance into office. Bills embodying it have been introduced into the Legislature on two occasions. They were defeated, in one case, by a tie vote in the Sen ate, and in the other by the same vote in the House. Our school system, which is doing much good, crippled as it is by the lack of money resources, in order to its full effi ciency, must be strengthened by the means above pro posed.
Let a copy of this circular be placed in the hands of every member of your Board, and, after due reflection, let action be taken, and then let the result of that action be communicated to me. I wish the voice of the Board to be heard at the next meeting of our General Assembly. Let every Board speak out. Whether an effort will be made for a general law, or for a special law, for such counties as are favorable, will depend upon the responses of the Boards.
Let not the Boards decline action on the questions here in presented, because of the pendency of the Civil Rights bill. Let them give their views of the questions on their merits. I do not believe that the Civil Rights bill will ever be passed. Should it ever become a law, I have in my mind a plan of testing its validity, which will probably prevent its being put into practical operation, and without risk to the State agents of our school system. This plan will be given in due time. When it is definitely decided that mixed schools are to be forced upon us, every true Georgian, including the most ardent friends of public schools, will array himself against the system itself.
I reproduce this circular, because it sets forth fully and clearly the legislation which I think necessary upon the subject of which it treats. I do not propose here to enter into a lengthened discussion of the measure proposed, for

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the reason given in the circular. Answers to the circular have been received, up to this writing, from sixty-nine counties. According to the best analysis which I can make of these answers, the Boards of thirty-eight counties are favorable to the views expressed in the circular; while those of thirty-one counties are adverse. Quite a number of the Boards set down above as opposed to granting the power of local taxation, expressed views favorable to the proposed increase in the poll tax. The views expressed by the Boards of some counties have been put in such form that I have not been able to classify them as either in favor of, or opposed to, the proposed legislation; and these counties have not been included in the summing-up above given.
It is very evident that without the power of local taxa tion, we cannot make our public schools efficient. The State fund now pays, in some counties, one-half, in some two-thirds, and in others the whole expense of schools of three months' continuance. The plan that has been pur sued has been to obligate patrons to pay teachers the ne cessary supplemental amount required to insure reasonable compensation. The schools are thus made only partially free. A local levy, equal in amount to the sum appor tioned by the State, would secure schools in the different counties absolutely free, from three to six months of the year. This amount, in many of the counties, would be so trifling as to be hardly felt at all, and when heaviest it would not be burdensome, as will be seen from inspection of the table above given. Our population being mainly agricultural, a school of from three to six months is all that would be practicable or desirable in many counties. The sons of farmers cannot be spared from labor in the fields for many months of the year, and their daughters ane required at home, much of the time, to render assist ance in domestic work.
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mentary schools only. Many communities would desire and could afford better school privileges for their children. The part of the plan above sketched which proposes to grant the power of levying a tax upon any sub-district of a county for the support of a higher school, is intended to meet the wants of these. Most of our villages are so located with respect to the sub-district as to make them eligible as sites for these higher schools. By taxing the whole sub-district, a fine central graded school might be supported, accessible to all the older children of the sub district, while the younger could be provided for in the elementary school located near the residence of the parent. The experience of the cities of the State show, too, that in communities of more than average denseness of popula tion the entire school population can thus be educated at an expense but a trifie greater than that which is paid, at present, for educating perhaps only a moiety of the children in our expensive private schools.
It will be remembered, too, that what is proposed is not the levying of a tax, but simply the conferring of the power upon the people to levy a tax upon themselves-- and not even upon the people primarily. This last would evidently be improper in communities where a large num ber of the voters are not property-holders. It is evidently right to place between the voters and property a body of men who represent property, as is proposed, to prevent the abuse of tne taxing power, and to restrain these last by fixing by law a limit upon their power of even recommend ing. This legislation is so necessary and so reasonable that I cannot bring myself to believe that the General Assembly will refuse it.
At the last session of the General Assembly consider able opposition developed itself to the office of County School Commissioner, on the ground of economy. It was alleged that large amounts of the fund of the several coun ties were consumed in paying the compensation of these officers. The law does not require the items of expense in

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the counties to be reported to this office. I was not pre pared, therefore, to state officially whether the reports were well or ill-founded. I dispatched, at once, letters of inquiry to every County Commissioner. Soon I was in possession of replies from over ninety counties, These replies showed that the entire local expense for the counties heard from averaged a little over nine per cent, of the funds disbursed. There were not more than four or five counties in which the charges would have been considered as excessive by a reasonable man. In a few of the counties, the whole ex pense amounted to only about to 3 per cent, of the funds handled. These officers are required to take the enume ration of the school population, to examine all applicants for license to teaeh, to be present at every meeting of the County Board, to visit each of the schools in the county twice during the term, to receive and consolidate the teachers' reports for the county, and to receive and pay out to the teachers the school fund of the county. For all this service the law allows them a per diem, not to exceed three dollars, to be determined by the County Board; and it is made the duty of the Board to determine the number of days in each year for which the Commissioners shall be allowed to charge for services. I doubt very seriously whether so much public service has ever been rendered at a cost so moderate by any other body of officials as that performed by the County School Commissioners of 1873. The provisions of law above cited place the compensation of the County School Commissioners in the hands of the local school authorities, and, in my judgment, they are the proper depositaries of this power. The law further places it in the power of the several grand juries of the counties to remove their county school officials from office. With these checks, there is little danger of extravagance in com pensating these officials. With all the citizens of a county interested in having the amount dispensed for the benefit of the children as large as possible, and ready access to the grand jury, before whom they can lay in their complaints,

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the danger is that the compensation of the County Com missioners may be so reduced as to be insufficient to com mand the services of competent men. I refer to this subject because complaint has been made, and not because I fear adverse action on the part of a body so intelligent as the General Assembly, when ail the facts bearing upon the subject have been placed before them. As a body, the County School Commissioners are much more competent and intelligent than any other class of county officials; and my experience will justify me in saying that the office of County School Commissioner is much the most important school office in the county. In counties where this officer is intelligent, efficient and faithful, he makes his impress very deeply upon the school interests. At the last session of the General Assembly a law was passed making the enumeration of the school population a quadrennial instead of an annual duty. This measure was wise, and will here after greatly reduce the expense of school operations in the counties. It would be very unwise, however, to take any steps which would cripple our county superintendendency, an arm of the school service endorsed not only by our own limited experience, but by the experieuce of nearly every State in the Union with a thoroughly efficient school system.
Much complaint has reached mejfrom many portions of the State in relation to the lack of an adequate supply of competent teachers. Many of the teachers employed in the white schools of the State, are the equals of those in the schools of any State in the Union. A considerable number of these, however, it must be admitted, are incom petent for the work they have undertaken. Nevertheless, in view of the smallness of our State school fund, and the general condition of the people, I cannot recommend the expenditure of money, at present, for their improvement, either hy the establishment of the Teachers' Institutes, or normal schools, or by the endowing of a department for training teachers in the State University, or in the colleges

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of the State. We must, for the present, trust for our sup ply to such of the young men and young ladies coming out annually from the University, and from our colleges and high schools, as may voluntarily adopt the teachers' pro fession.
The want of suitable teachers for our colored schools is a much more serious matter. The number of colored men or women capable of teaching, is very small--so small as to interfere seriously in many places with the chance of establishing colored schools. To employ the rude and untutored, is evidently a waste of money, and yet it has often been found necessary to relax the requirements for obtaining a teacher's license very much, in order to pro cure a teacher at all. I have, on many occasions, given the weight of my personal and official influence in favor of employing white teachers, as far as practicable, for the colored schools. Any well qualified white teacher,, who will engage in the work of teaching a colored school, as has been done in some places, is doing a service for which he deserves the highest commendation. He is conferring a benefit upon the colored race by devoting to their im provement his superior abilities, and upon the white, by having the inferior race put under his control at the only time which gives promise of so moulding them as to form them into peaceable, virtuous and useful citizens. Every good citizen should give countenance and encouragement to any of our white teachers who may be inclined to enter upon this work, so necessary to the well-being of both races. We cannot trust, however, to this inadequate source of supply. If we mean seriously to seek the ele vation of the colored race, we must take steps which will at least gradually insure them a supply of teachers from their own ranks. At the last session of the General As sembly an. Act was passed, doubtless, partly with a view to this end, which appropriates annually the sum of $8,000 to the Atlanta University. This institution was establish ed by an association known as the American Missionary

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Society, composed almost in whole of Northern people. The Board of Trustees consists, in part, of men who re side in the different Northern States. The resident por tion is composed of new arrivals and of men but little known in the State, some of whom are ignorant colored men, who, however deserving they may be in their proper sphere, are utterly unqualified to manage the interests of a literary institution. I can say of the teachers employed in the institution that they are well qualified for their work, and appear to apply themselves assiduously to its thorough execution. They are furnishing, from time to time, a considerable supply of the best qualified teachers that have entered our public colored schools as instructors. While candor requires me to make these statements, yet I must be permitted to express it as my firm conviction that the appropriation is an exceedingly unfortunate one. While the teachers disclaim giving any formal instruction which inculcates the idea of social equality, they are, neverthe less, living' in the constant practice of it, thus teaching it by example--the most efficient of all modes of instruction. The white teachers eat at the same table with their colored pupils, and, as I am informed, have accepted invitations to social entertainments given at the houses of colored citi zens. Thirty or forty of their pupils go out each year, and are employed as teachers in our colored schools. The influence exerted by them will, in the course of a few years, unless I am deceived, cause serious troubles between the races. We have no right to interfere with the social tastes of the founders of the institution, or of the teachers employed to give instruction in it. We have, neverthe less, the right to say whether we will choose that agency for providing a supply of teachers for our colored schools. What I have to propose is that we exercise that right. I therefore recommend the repeal of the Act referred to, and the appropriation of the same, or of a larger amount, if necessary, for establishing and supporting a school for thoroughly preparing colored youth for becoming teachers

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in the colored schools of the State. I have no doubt but that grounds, and perhaps the necessary buildings to begin with, would be tendered, free of cost to the State, in some of our Southern counties.
It would not be necessary at this time to make the in stitution of collegiate grade. A colorod youth with colle giate training, in the present condition of his race, would find but few avenues to employment open to him. Should he enter any of the secular professions, he could find pat ronage only among those of his own race, from which he could derive but little remuneration for services performed. Should he devote himself to teaching, his higher attain ments would be of little value to him in the elementary schools---the only schools for which his people will have occasion for years to come. It would be sufficient, at present, to seek to give the pupils a thorough elementary English education, thus fitting a much larger number of them, with the same expenditure of means, for making themselves useful to their race in its present condition.
The laws of the State should also provide that the county school officers should give the preference to pupils from the State school in employing teachers for our colored schools. In making the foregoing recommendation, I have been influenced solely by what I believe to be the true interest of both races.
The people of Georgia are under renewed obligations to the trustees of the Peabody fund, and to their general agent, Rev. Dr. Sears, for aid furnished to schools in this State during the year 1874. Aid was promised to schools at the places and in the amounts named below :

Atlanta..................................................................................... 52,000

Macon...................................................................................... 2,000

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

Savannah...........................................................................

800

Normal School (colored), Atlanta.................................. 800

$6,600

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Brought forward...................................................................$6,600

Columbus............................................................................... 600

Dahlonega, (North Georgia A. College)..................... 450

556th Militia District, (Rabun county).......................... 3OO

Dalton...................................................................................... 300

Morganton............................................................................. 300

Grove Level, (Whitfield county)...................

300

Monroe................................................................................... 300

Cartecay, (Gilmer county)..........................

300

Liberty county...................................................................... 300

874th Militia District, (Murray connty)....................... 300

Laurel Hill Academy, (Hall county)............................ 300

Total........................... .................................... .................$10,350

To most of these schools the money has already been paid. In two or three cases the promised amount will probably not be paid, on account of inability on the part of the parties interested to comply with the conditions upon which the aid was promised.
For the information of the General Assembly, and of the people of the State, I again give these conditions, as copied from one of the reports of the General Agent: " Donations are not made to colleges, academies, or any private, sectarian, or charity 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 150 pupils, averaging 200 pupils, averaging 250 pupils, averaging 300 pupils, averaging

daily85 per cent., we pay.......$ 300 daily85 per cent., we pay........ 450 daily85 per cent., we pay........ 600 daily85 per cent., we pay........ 800 daily85 per cent., we pay. 1,000

In doubtful cases of attendance, the average number de cides the question. The amount appropriated for large numbers, in cities, can not be fixed, but must depend on circumstances. The people are to pay for current expen ses at least twice, and usually three, times as much as they

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receive from the fund, and to bear all expense of erecting and repairing and furnishing 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 beginning of the school year. No claim for a share of the fund can be admitted when a special contract has not been previously made."
The conditions cited require that schools, in order to re ceive aid, must be free, and must be kept up for about ten months of the year. These conditions make it very diffi cult for any of our schools except the city schools, which are operated under local laws giving the power of taxation; to receive aid. The amount of this fund appropriated for the benefit of the State of Tennessee for the year 1874 was $36,800. Dr. Sears assured me, a year ago, that he would do as much for our State if our school law was sufficiently liberal to allow of the fulfillment of the conditions estab lished by the trustees, on the part of a larger number of schools throughout the State, and I have no doubt but that he will yet comply with this promise whenever the state of the Peabody fund and the condition of our school interests will justify.
Within the past twelve months the ardor of the friends of public schools has been somewhat damped by the pen dency before Congress of the Civil Rights bill. The agi tation upon this subject has developed some strange things. It has seemed strange that the claim should be seriously put forward that Congress, composed of a body of men four-fifths of whom represent constituencies having no di rect interest in the matter, has the right to control the ap plication of funds raised by taxation under State legislation. It has seemed strange, further, that an effort should be made to compel, under heavy pains and penalties, a per sonal association distasteful to both the races to be affected by the legislation. But the strangest part of all is that the attempt should be made by our law-makers to force the

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white children of the South into daily contact with moral

pollution. Notwithstanding the colored people have been

elevated, even in a state of slavery, by contact with the

whites, every Southern man knows that, even now, to be

unchaste, untruthful and dishonest, is the rule among that

class of our population ; and to practice the opposite vir

tues, the exception. The loss of virtue, on the part of

females, expulsion, upon the most conclusive evidence of

guilt, from a church, nay, even conviction of a felony be

fore the legal tribunals of the country does not operate the

forfeiture of caste among this people. Whatever others,

less conversant with the true condition of Southern soci

ety may think, we know that we are right in our opposi

tion to this forced intermingling of the races. It is a thing

to which we never will consent. We are willing to do

what we can towards elevating the inferior race. We are

even now dispensing the benefits of our school system, as

far as we are able to do so, without any discriminations in

favor of the one race, or against the other, and this, too,

in the face of the fact that the white people pay twenty-

nine-thirtieths of the taxes.

The public mind is becoming more and more inclined to do

what can be done for the colored people. We feel, however,

that this is our question--that we are better qualified to

deal with it than the people of any other State, or of all

the States--and all that we ask is to be let alone. I had

intended to devote more space to the consideration of this

subject; but the people have recently spoken, and I am

relieved of the duty.

GUSTAVUS J. ORR,

State School Commissioner.

STATISTICAL TABLES.

TABLE No. 1.
Return of Enumeration of School Population and Statistics of Illiteracy.

Slate School Commissioner.

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

COUNTIES*

White.

Colored.

Male. Female Male. Female

Appling.................... Baker............................
Baldwin......................... Banks...........................
Bartow........................... Berrien........................... Bibb...............................
Brooks............................ Bryan...................... .
Bulloch..................... ... Burke............................
Butts.............................. Calhoun.......................... Camden.......................... Campbell.......................... Carroll............................ Catoosa..........................
Charlton......................... Chatham........................

503 340 450 729 1,829 779
T6\) 247 670 1,215 542 408 208 877 1,789 079 237 2,287

432 198

80

260 724 733

500 1,078 959

048 154 151

1,750 677 773

732

61

45

733 218 084 1,014 513 474 203 788 1,854 092 232 2,460

639 517

169 160

293 274

3,070 2,920

489 393

700 683

658 . 591

633 508

196 218

135 119

64

56

4,311 5,022

3 *
<3
tO-f
935 626 965 1,377 3,579 1,511 2,786 1,472 465 1,360 2,229 1,055 742 531 1,065 3,(548 1,371 409 4,753

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o

i3

"q

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197 1,457 2,032
305 1,450
106 4,053 1,150
329 507 5,990 882 1,383 1,249 1,141 414 254
120
9,333

1,132 2,083 2,997 1,682 5,029 1,017
2,028 794
1,927 8,219 1,937 2,325 1,780 2,800 4,057 1,625
589 14,086

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Number of Illiterates.

g'S

*1 o ^k
2

Number persons between the ages of ten anc eighteen unable to read-

Number of persons orer eighteen unable to read.

,'<Cu ofc>t
White. Colored Total. White. Colored. Total.
5

14 To 51 47 119 50
*212
24

241

101

89 685

120

995

05

79

419 534

213

64

*729 *1,428

202 281

342 774
1,121
144 953 277 *2,157 483

14 04 107 48
101
*319 108

GO 2,191 2j441
80 1,320
67 *3,049
197

140 2,255 2,548
128 1,657
168 *3,308
305

55

43 425

408

61

515

576

70 127 3,381 3,508 197 2,882 3,079

94

7`6 382

455

57

96. 1 (US

60

70 002

972 129 1 336

16

48 608

43 138 179

oSc 317

19484^

1,263 1,043

1307
1 241

92

19

85

121

200

193

197

290

11

20

25

51

19

150

172

417

93 945 1,038 205 5,068l 5,273

TABLE No. 1 --Continuei>*

oMs*-.

Return of Enumeration of School Population and Statistics of Illiteracy.

State School Commissioner.

Total white. Total colored.
!
Total white and colored
. C onfederate so u n d e r 30 year

COUNTIES.

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

White.

Colored.

Male. Female. Male. Female

Number of Illiterates.

of1

Number persons between the ages of ten and eighteen unable to read.

Number of persons over eighteen unable to read.

White. Colored Total. White. Colored. Total.

Chatlaboochee...............

407

892 484 508

749

992 1,741

80 186 895 1,081 245 1,519 1,764

Chattooga.......................

878

913 257 258 1,791

515 2,300

46 158 146

304 178

450

628

Cherokee........................ 1,785 1,678 325 223 3,463

548 4,011

12 962 295 1,257 1,110

803 1,413

Clarke.............................

854

954 861 903 1,808 1,764 3,572

72

42 37ii

412

92 2,065 2,157

Clay................................

473

441 430 465

913

945 1,858

32

74 387

452

62

483

545

Clayton..........................

fi28

582 319 239 1,205

558 1,763

6

6

20

26

8

62

70

Clinch.............................

55fi

450

66

50 1,006

122 1,128

33 128

23

151 253

85 288

Cobb............................... 1,959 1,906 628 661 3,865 1,289 5,154

Coffee..............................

420

439

49

57

859

106

965

246 550
is 572 90

796 610 1,608 2,218 662 *400 *475 *875

Columbia.......................

381

273 777 723

654 1,500 2,154

42 286 1,152 1,438 438 1,430 1,868

Colquitt..........................

364

338

24

11

697

35

732

23

81

17

98

44

16

60

Coweta........................... 1,294 1,221 11,29 1,036 2,515 2,165 4,680 208 282 707

989 201 1,843 2,044

Crawford........................

463

439 542 60i

902 1,143 2,045

27

86 618

704 155 1,965 2,120

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

526

493

81

53 1,019

134 1.153

14

Dawson..........................

622

601

33

30 1,223

63 1,286

13 243

58

301

19

26

45

Decatur.................... ....

856

783 863 843 1,639 1,706 3,345

95

78 358

436

41 1,513 1,554

DeKalb.......................... 1,318 1,217 512 493 2,535 1.005 3,540 85 194 193 387 100 406 506

Dodge.............................

382

359 151 134

741

285 1,026

97 204 167

371 272

332

604

Dooly.............................

793

721 630 600

514 1,230 2,744

96 193 567

760 187 1,650 1,837

Dougherty......................

194

198 1,237 1,211

392 2,448 2,840

11 *58 *2,086 *2,144 *82 *4,120 *4,202

Douglas..........................

633

611 191 176 1,264

367 1,631

44 240 332

572 299

358

657

Early..............................

436

432 602 670

868 1,172 2,040

25 180 809

989 211 1,575 1,786

Echols ...........................

390

392 134 152

782

286 1,068

37 206 184

390 491

130

621

Effingham......... ............

435

397 263 295

832

538 1,370 105

61 380

441

44

46

504

Elbert.............................

702

680 894 731 1,382 1,625 3,007

79 187 532

719 228 1,499 1,727

Emanuel.........................

737

763 400 414 1,500

844 2,344

19

23 205

228

27

319

346

Eannin........... 1,037

945

21

22 1,982

43 2,025

31 104

43

127

38

28

06

Fayette .........................

993

977 470 425 1,970

895 2,865

12 255 422

677

93

744

837

Floyd.............................. 1,926 1,997 750 805 3,923 1,555 5,478 228 680 427 1,107 547 797 1,344

State School Commissioner.

Forsyth.......................... 1,148 1,100 142 147 2,248 289 2,537 99

Franklin.........................

932

916 303 285 1,848

588 2'436

59 374 266

640 308

456

764

Fulton............................ 4,900 5,255 1,990 2,280 10,155 4,270 14,425 169

18 195

213

6

667

673

Gilmer........................... 1,387 1,269

21

22 2,656

42 2,698

54 COO

30

620 300

15

315

Glascock.......................

264

216 117 111

480

228

708

39

46 174

220

113

113

Glynn............................

242

250 627 571

492 1,198 1,690

42

27 446

474

48 1,262 1,310

Gordon........................... 1,383 1,214 177 184 2,597

36. 2,958

54 248 . 124

372 222

188

410

Greene............................

618

671 1,498 1,412 1,289 2,910 4,199 105

40 716

118

28 2,232 2,260

Gwinnett........................ 1,765 1,691 415 '871 3,456

786 4,242 143 544 349

893 663

603 1,266

Habersham....................

961

835 134 156 1,796

290 2,086

34

40

19

59 154

281

435

Hall................................. 1,350 1,277 183 170 2,627

353 2,980

50 650 297

947 287

419

706

Hancock.........................

682

641 1,419 1,422 1,323 2,841 4,164

20

79 1,219 1 298

21 1.947 1,968

Haralson......................

655

640

52

34 1,295

86 1,381

36 440

60

500 365

59

424

Harris............................. 1,226 1,152 1,580 1,528 2,378 3,108 5,486 105 205 2,363 2 568 183 3,051 3,234

Hart................................

677

609 272 252 1,286

524 1,810

60

190 222

'412

173

334

507

Heard.............................

846

783 883 388 1,629

721 2,350

55 222 296

518 870

837 1,707

Henry............................. 1,018

962 818 741 1,980 1,559 3,539 111 137 582

719 125 1,147 1,272

Houston.........................

795

760 2,139 1,951 1,555 4,090 5,645 121 142 1,616 1,758 156 4,712 4,868

Irwin............................... 230 232 35 35 462

70

532

100

18

756 103

27

130

Jackson.......................... 1,294 1,044 494 435 2,338

929 3,267 155 329 692 1 021 369

792 1,161

Jasper...........................

599

609 948 878 1,208 1,826 3,034

73 780 '853

38 2,040 2,078

Jefferson.........................

718

693 1,210 1,153 1,41) 2,363 3,774

62 215 1,216 1 431 234 2,764 2,998

Johnson.......................... 1393

320 161 139

718

300 1,013

26

77 168

'245

61

221

282

Jones..............................

474

395 974 883

869 1,857 2,726

5

25 958

983

34 1,943 1,977

TABLE No. 1--Continued. Return of Em:meration of School Population and Statistics of Illiteracy.

State School Commissioner.

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

Number of Illiterates.

COUNTIES.

"White.

Colored.
2


Male. I'emale. Male. Female

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Numoer persons between the ages oi ten and eighteen unable to read.

Number of persons over eighteen unable to read.

White. Colored Total. White. Colored. Total,

E-t

H

Laurens........................ Lee..................................
Liberty........................... Lincoln........
Lowndes ....................... Lumpkin...................... . Macon............. .............. Madison......................... Marion............................ McDuffie......................
Mclptosh........................ Meriwether.................. Miller..............................
Milton ........................... Mitchell.......................... Monroe........................... Montgomery.................. Morgan...........................
Murray.................. ......

794 304 507 279 603 821 759 540 1,066 520
1,135 273
6h6
780 1,414
560 793 901

768 538 548

281 1,067 1,068

441 911 794

229 566 511

608 576 557

799

71

77

777 1,030 956

534 290 288

983 948 967

501 668 571

869 240 676 698 1,313 445 747 790

935
110
96 725 1,716 225
1.200
153

943 91 78
570 1,033
201
1,254 162

1,562 58. 94 50!
1,271 1,620 1,536 1,074 2,049
1,021
2,004 513
1,342 1,478 2,727 1,005 1,540 1,691

1,086 2,135 1,705 1,077 1,133
148 1,984
578 1,915 1,239
1,878
201
174 1,295 3,319
426 2,453
315

2,648 2,720 2,653 1,585 2,404 1,768 3,520 1,652 3,964 2,260
3,882 714
1,516 2,773 6,046 1,431 3,993 2,006

i56
37
110
24 29 55 18
12
19 65
"40 100
50

414 770

28 698

62 279

45 538

101

893

224

35

43 811

221

262

289 1,702

no 596

181 1,193

100

302

75

529 987

47 100 383

18

75 1,989

*142 *63

1,184 368

726

63

341

47

583

44

994 252

259 206

854

25

483

1,991 . 116

706

90

1,374 113

100

22

377 178 1,516 402

483

65

2,059

70

*205

621 3,590 1,255 1,300 2,633
CO 603
1,996 1,396
668
175 134 1,353
523
2,000

989 3,653 1,302 1,410 2,885
266
688
2,112
1,486
781 197 312 1,753
588 2,070

Muscogee....................... 3,021 1,099 1,414 1,381 2,120 2,795 4,915 32 119 1,078 1,197 169 2,574 2,743

Newtou..........................

949 943 787 750 1,892 1,537 3,429 86 87 1,889 1,976

Oglethorpe.....................

678

679 1,145 1,058 1,357 2,203 3,500 102 105 928 1,033

99 2,273 2,372

Paulding.............. ....... l,47o 1,374 138 117 2,849 255 3,104 92 301 136 437 178 125 303

Pickens........................... Pierce.............................

835 443

728 26 19 1,563 445 139 116 888

45 1,608 255 1,143

35 824

35

43

94 103

359 197

286 81 ""iii

236 193

Pike................................

967

891 717 716 1,858 1,433 3,291

80 101 503

G04

70 1,500 1,030

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

916

824 460 414 1,740

874 2,614

64 120 400

520 171

819

990

Pulaski...........................

857 834 1,142 1,149 1,681 2,291 3,972 145 544 1,123 1,067 514 3,532 4,046

Putnam..........................

457

396 1,099 989

853 2,083 2,941

42

41 871

912

24 2,156 2,180

State Schosl Commissioner.

Quitman.........................

310 332 368 364 648 732 1,380 28

76 532

008

30

639

669

Katmn............................

626 583 20 21 1,209

47 1,250

29 279

15

294 206

41

247

Randolph.......................

962

894 878 866 1,856 1,744 3,600

20 439 1,162 1,601 338 3,333 3,611

Richmond...................... 2,096 2,131 1,934 2,058 4,217 3,992 8,200 214 199 1,012 1,211 363 5,069 5,432

Rockdale........................ 1,033 958 329 289 1,991 618 2,609

8 137 477

614 126

451

577

Schley............................. 388 387 473 471 775 944 1,719

2 *75 *400 *475 *75 *600 *675

Screven..........................

626

615 652 015 1,241 1,267 2,508

86 126 589

715

39 1,481 1,520

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

947

919 801 821 1,86 1,622 3,488 146 143 873 1,010 148 2,715 2,863

Stewart ........... ........... 749 695 1,502 1,399 1,444 2,900 4 345

Slimier........................... 1,043 1,032 1,424 1,496 2,135 2,920 fwuri fi-u

Talkot............................

743

685 1,197 1,087 1,433 2,3 4 3,717

40 148 1,045 1,193 112 3,570 3,088

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

303

299 578 516

601 1,094 1,695

45

23 460

483

11 1,026 1,037

Tatnall...........................

859

859 388 382 1,718

770 2,488

43

101

018

719 143

337

480

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

585 558 669 503 1,143 1,172 2,215 40 281 512 795 95 898 993

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

238 233 106 101

471

207

678

21

70 168

238

52

155

207

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

759

629 889 718 1,388 1,007 2,995

34 249 1,127 1,376 142 1,422 1,563

Thomas ........................ 1,213 1,241 1,740 1,637 2,453 3,367 5,820

Towns............................ 505 353 20 19 863

39

902

77 232 1.532 1,764

37

13

13

36 1,257 1,294

2

8

10

Troup............................. 1,139 1,033 1,970 1,764 2,163 3,734 5,896 140 117 1,255 1,372 96 2,345 2,441

Tw iggs...........................

435

384 739 676

819 1,415 2,234

42 118 440

558 175 1,191 1,366

Union............................. 1,077 909

9

7 1,986

16 2,002

25 194

9

203 226

6

232

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

781

709 658 569 1,490 1,237 2,717

41

60 336

396

58 1,309 1,427

Walker........................... Walton...........................

1,026 1,100 1,459 1,453

281 781

257 2,136 538 2,664 701 2,912 1,485 4,397

116 91

813 117

408 1,221 1,570

574 2,144

9081 1,025

97 1,128 1,225

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TABLE No. 1--Continued.

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Return of Enumeration of School Population and Statistics of Illiteracy.

State School Commissioner.

[
Total colored.

COUNTIES.

Number of children bet ween the ages of six and eighteen years. r ^O

Number of Illiterates.

!

Total w hite and colored.

'c U

Total white.

White.

Colored.

SO

Number persons between the ages of ten and eighteen unable to read.

Number of persons over eighteen unable to read.

Male. Female. Male. Female

^OtS-' '4sd>Os a3

White. Colored Total. White. Colored. Total.

1

Ware ............................
Warren........................... Washington................... Wayne............................ Webster..........................
White............................. Wliiifield........................
Wilcox...........................
Wdkes............................ Wilkinson...................... Worth.............................

428
528 1,807
574 489 720
1,335 329 541 964 484

381 505 1,221 526 432 748 1,323 292 512
808 495

169
790 1,253
129 433 47 215
80 1,009
654
191

148 681 1,313 127 422 53 249
To 957
628 164

809
1,033 2,528 1,100
921
1,468 2,660
621
1,053 1,772
979

317 1,471 2,566
256
855 100 524
155 1,966 1,282
355

1,126 2,504 5,094
1,356 1,776 1,568 3,184
776 3,019 3,054 1,334

41 100 82
78 208 621 189 94 874
40 305 174 75 123 407 19 1.040 100 57 190 116 20 132 52 72 163 1,204
98 571 616 45 301 156

182
829 968 479 530 1,140
306 184
1,367 1,187
457

61

44 105

115 1,683 1,798

108 1,411 1,519

332 273 605

123 794 917

487

50 537

107 124 231

53 133 186

88 2,707 2,795

359 1,574 1,933

249 472 721

Total....................... 111,598 107,135 90,517 84,787 218,733 175,304 394,037 8,036 26,552 79,692 106,244 23,299 145,208 168,507

^Estimated,

TABLE No. 2.

Consolidation of Pzibnc School Teachers' Reports.

State School Commissioner.

[I regret the incompleteness of tables Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. I have kept these tables open to the latest moment possible, having just now, January 8th, placed the manuscript in the hands of the printer. By law, the school year runs with the calendar; and, in some counties, the schools were continued through the month of December. This will doub'less explain, to some extent, the incompleteness of the tables.--Gustatus J. Orr, Slate School Commimoner.]

W hite & Colored. Average attendance.
1
Average m onthly cost of tuition per pupil.
Am ount of this m onth ly cost of tuition paid
by the State.

No. Snhools.

Number of Scholar* admitted

White.

Colored.

Total.

Branches of Study Taught

COUNTIES.

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Baker........................ 12 11 12(1 98 161 144 224 305 529 3351 $2.09 $1.57

Baldwin.................... 12 11 199 228 279 244 427 523 950 034 .877 ' .70

Banks......................

Bartow..................... 47 11 1058 892 303 347 1910 650 2.600 1091 1.48

.98

Berrien..................... 20 1 328 223 lo 6 551 21 572 389 1.765 1.092

Bibb..........................

Brooks...................... 13 8 220 167 158 102 387 320 707 534-

1.50

Bryan....................... 14 3 141 127 44 30 2G8 74 342 265 1.33* Bulloch....................

Burke....................... 14 11 228 221 240 187 419 427 876 719 1.36 1.36

Butts......................... 13 0 246 209 123 109 455 232 687 519 2.00 1.10

512 310 176 77 80 138 904 569 379 49 178 346

232$ 1632 12 54 595 490 1156 564 378 299 79 29 173

010 410 084 10.*i 187 aas
9*0 9,9.4 100 41 37 118

729 503 362 181 233 351 644 492 3 73 105i 38 277

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TABLE No. 2.--Continued.

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Coasolidation of Public School Teachers'' Reports.

W hite. ! Colored.
W hite & Colored. i Average attendance.
Average m onthly co?t i of tuition per pupil, j
A m ountof this m onth ly cost of tuition paid
by th e State. Orthography. |

State School Commissioner.

No. Schools.

Number oi Scholars admitted.

White.

C< >Iorcd.

Total.

COUNTIES.

W hite. M ales. Fem ales.







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a Ijh

Cflllimm.................... 11 3 215 194 62 32 409 114 523 3~)7% 1.50 Camden.................... 0 5 47 49 122 127 96 249 345 309 1.25 Campbell.................. 22 10 576 458 289 289 1034 548 1582 10774 1.00

Carroll...................... 49 2 1247 945 45 53 2192 98 2290 13304 1,55

C itooaa..................... 18 2 447 304 66 56 751 122 873 5761 .96

Charlton...................

8 1 102

94

8 12 196 20 216 158

.77

Chatham...................

Chattahoochee......... 12 4 210 169 107 Chattooga................. 10 3 229 186 70 Cherokee.......................

96 379 203 63 415 133

582 375 1.70 548 264| 1.67

Clarke...................... Clay.......................... Clayton....................
Clinch....................... C `bb......................... Coffee........................

28 11 439 369 14 0 206 240 14 6 453 473 17 1 206 147 39 13 1076 888

242 300 808 542 1350 1129 1.45

139 133 446 272 718 600 2.00

155 135 926 290 1216 682 1.50

10

11 353

21

374 287f 1.42

384 378 1964 762 2726 1486 1.75

oi Columbia................. 13 3 131 129 110

260 239 499 473 2.10

Colquitt.................... 13

134 116

250

250 163 1.60

Branches of study taught. 5

No. of pupils. i

J

Arithm etic.

G eo g rap h y .

W riting. No. of pupils. j

C C c

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1.19 1.18

502 337

118

325 ; ,75 157 30

05 239 64 127

.60 1560 1121 873 496 52(1 713

.411 1906 1516 993 296 201

.48

500 438 336 145 92 306

41 39 28 28 28

1.G7

477 367 288 134 496 68 238 90

71 249 39 225

.66 1.00
.80 1,04
.75

1309 1088 809 272 313 718
703 P 77 366 152 202 327

1068 722 424 140
374 285 220 40

90 455 25 101

2483 1946 ,380 350 424 1216

1.95 1.36

499 432 401 322 321 313

198 160 87 12

9 63

Coweta..................... do 17 090 575 523 469 1265 992 2257 1487 1.50 Crawford.................. 18 10 316 251 214 227 507 441 1008 077 1.59 Dade.........................

1.10 1920 1680 1120 414 404 759 .85 816 540 387 83 66 310

Dawson....................

Decatur.................... DeKalb.....................
Dod^e....................... Dooly....................... Dougherty............... Douglas.................... Early........................

an 21 500 388 4ol 437 888 888

27 8 834 612 217 194 1446 411

12 2 214 175 30 33 389 03

24 8 481 357 171 179 838 350

4 19 71 102 535 574 173 1109

16

390 323 68 43 713 111

1776 :372 1857 1007 452 280 1188 600 1282 1282 824 423

1.70 1.621
1.88 .52 1.03

.91 1590 1007 712 261 30G 558

.81 1762 1237 930 237 170 G53

i.66

452 299 218 55 71 155 1099 740 492 142 119 399

.52 927 572 310 IOC1 181 403

.97 537 430 351 71 72 250

State School Commissioner.

Echols...................... Effingham................
Emanuel.................. Eannin..................... Faye tie..................... Floyd........................

12 20 0 21 5 20 8 24 18 5

185 126 204 151 82 427 347 229 374 300 78 073 490 559 388 149

an
91 415 173 193 774 422 66 614 143
1168
121 947 270

311 90,0 588 468 1190 749f 817 383 11 68 nan
1217 714

A V->.X-
1.83 1.62 1.42
61 2'. 00

A OA.S,
1.38 1.50 1.42
44 '.05

39(1 828 014
999

301 724 470
748

472 456 398
035

ol 286 300 170 150
61 78 o
153 83

103 314 309
215 229
550

Forsyth..................... Franklin................... Fulton................ Gilmer......................

29
27 19
39

3 2
9 1

784
671 504 930

598
583 480
752

60 107 273
5

59 1342
120 1254
273 984 16 1682

114
227 140 21

1456 710* 1481 853 1487 942 1718 f37

1.40 1.20 1.331 1 ai

.80 .75 1.26

1245 861 595 90 115 384 1329 798 541 74 52 290 1134 985 633 210 366 644

Glascock.................. 7 2 193 132 24 ii 325 35 360 108 1.60 Glynn.......................

1.40

337 221 178 41 18 131

Gordon.....................

Greene...................... Gwinnett..................

19 14 353 312 345 44 4 1218 1023 93

419 605 100 2241

764 193

1429 1110 2434 317

156 1.45

Habersham.............. 25 i 587 419 Hdl.......................... 19 i 504 881

14 15

11 1006 19 941

25 1031 930 84 370 839,

1.60

Hancock.................. 20 17 344 304 408 358 648 760 1414 991 3.25

Hai alson..................

3u3 248

546

/Ufi 91 n 1 HO

.69| 1628 944 650 341 315 479

.90 1864 1435 1052 264 159 645

.75

1011 693 332 R93

37 75

37 240

1.25

1322 1006 91^

613

228

300

698

Harris....................... Hart.........................

36 17 23 6

751 482

623 348

606 138

713 1374 1379 105 780 243

2753 18881 1023 593

1.55 1.45

Heard...................... 25 4 554 448 162 121 1002 283 1258 866 1.60

.90 2330 1508 972 382 428 909 .65 973 687 512 142 107 359 .534 1103 805 585 173 126 450

COUNTIES.
Henry... Houston. Irwin.... Jackson., J asper... Jefferson. Johnson. Jones... . Laurens. Lee......... Liberty.. Lincoln.. Lowndes. Lumpkin Macon... Madison. Marion.. McDuffie.

TABLE No. 2.--Continued.

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State School Commissioner.
00 >rt< . "T <

W hite. Colored. W hite & Colored. Average attendance.
i
t" 1 i-1 1 Average m o n th ly cost
| of tuition per pupil. g | English Grammar)

No. Schools.

Number ot scholars admitted.

White.

Colored.

Total.

s

o 'n

c3 a

S

s '3 s

o

'dOhiI

B<V

S

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26 9 592 45? 354 298 1049 652 1701 898 26! 18 447 374 422 394 821 816 16157 1240
1l

25! ] 713 547 51 36 1260 87 1347 772 1.40

21| 11 3ii7 303 259 240 640 499 1139 8411 2.09

18! 4 270 242 98 72 512 170 682 431 2.82

fit

217 127

344

344 166 2 17

180 147 207 238 327 445 772 598J 1.54*

10! 10 136 102

20| 17 233 198

12

154 110

22] '<) 395 331

2! 2 454 371
10i 9 . 383 398 1

23] 3 521 475 8! 7 174 140

259 220 238 479 440 439 431 879
264 195 153 726 348
40 51 825 91 290 35o 781 643
135 155 896 290 102 91 314 193

717 525 1310 1012
2(54 101 1074 671
916 4794 1424 1046
1180 003*8 507 8o4

.74 2 40
2.00 1.22 2.00
1.00 2.12

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Trauches of Study taught.

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1.08* 1471 1015 668 163 1 35 548 .75 1637 916 746 363 42 623

93* 428 212 76 190 150 291

.70 1073 40 ' 564 106 114 430

1.00
82

559 465 418 167 1 71 331

233 205

44 16 130

.79* 740 444 337 126 127 275

1.30 .74
2.40 1.59
2,00

717 285 100 80 100 127 1053 905 P 76 191 286 491
201 206 176 78 87 147
1072 738 535 152 103 424
8 50 451 250 45 35 121
1223 ? 09 627 410 340 052

.76 1.37

1130 682 548 214 115 449 458 360 280 130 121 242

Arf.lrUosh . . ...
Meriwether.............. Miller ...................... Milton....................... Mitchell.................... Monroe.................. Montgomery............ Morgan..................... Murray..................... Muscogee................. Newton.................... Oglethorpe............... Paulding................... Piekens Pierce....................... Pike ........................ Polk.......................... Pnlaski ............... Putnam....................
"Rahim . .
Handolph..... ...... Rirhmnnrl
Rockdale.................. Schley...................... Screven.................. SpalHmjp
Stewart.................... Sumter................. Talbot........... Taliaferro................. Tatnall...................... Taylor...................... Telfair......................

88 9 768 597 286 11 1 149 152 30 16 2 470 408 41 19 6 177 220 113

12 1 180 155 19

18 7 273 238 196

22 8 685 630 128

18 6 205 179 142

16 9 349 275 398

26 14 370 849 419

81 1 868 579 15

25

711 526

13 2 222 142 49

24 10 538 457 285

21 5 476 383 165

17 4 252 279 99

18 13 193 214 419

s 4 136 124 72

17

448

23 15 465 400 458

14 6 387 437 171 10 7 203 192 158 12 6 238 227 153

23 18 487 384 547

29 13 377 385 395

18 7 857 271 239

12 6 155 129 107

19 1 864 330 16

24 5 451 350 159

9

95 99

354 1365 640 29 301 59 21 887 62 118 403 231
12 335 31 205 511 401 100 1315 228 132 384 275 395 624 793 401 719 820
16 1447 31 1237
40 364 89 303 995 588 190 859 355 92 531 191 388 407 807
260 148 815 404 865 802
183 824 354 161 395 319 135 465 288
523 871 1070 382 762 777 218 028 457 133 284 240 12 694 28 135 801 294
194

2005 1325 360 207 949 444 634 440i
366 273 912 642 1543 728 558 458 1417 722 1539 988| 1478 724 1237 614 453 370 1583 1070 1214 699 7^9 497 1214 757 408 288 815 518 1727 1233
1178 674 714 452 753 3754
1941 1320 1539 1088 1085 681 524 370 722 050 1095 768 194

1.51 2.184 1.49 4.50
2.14 1.30 1.00 2.02 1.45 1.34 1.40 1.25 1 22 1.90 1.81 2.09 4.00 2.50 1.184 2.50
1.90 1.32 1.25
1.41 1.40 1.82 2.00 1.40 1.39

! 1.35|- 1493 1277 981 374 323 753 1.27 70 61 75 49 45 60 1.44 779 569 388 76 23 240 1.67 544 414 331 151 138 284
1.78 366 306 248 96 68 215 1.24 784 614 496 240 240 470 .90 825 758 840 200 300 427 1.39 546 442 307 17t, 172 278 1.45 1181 768 485 131 217 458 .93 1122 932 688 258 272 459 .89| 1297 789 569 69 69 419 .85 1072 524 393 69 22 154 .66 363 241 222 55 68 135 .624 1583 1019 752 311 287 668 1.08 1072 785 621 210 151 462
605 500 388 119 114 372 3.51 904 672 414 142 212 383
392 326 302 260 112 284 .43 725 425 255 99 23 208 .75 1727 1077 774 302 251 579 1.20 1077 666 473 166 117 390 .53 700 447 314 123 120 214 1.25 692 4ov 314 79 103 234 1.10 1865 liis 722 35 334 728
1559 1276 843 271 491 673 1038 778 604 320 277 565 1.20 400 330 247 78 90 162 1.00 621 702 561 89 176 489 .58 976 763 552 182 150 476 140| 131' 118 30 20 75

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.
Terrell.......... Thomas........ Towns......... Troup.......... Twiggs........ Union......... Upson.......... Walker... . Walton........ Ware........... Warren........ Washington. Wayne......... Webster.... White ......... Whitfield... Wilcox........

TABLE No. 2.--Continued.

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No. Schools.

N umber ot scholars admitted

White.

Colored.

Total.

Branches of study taught.

j No. of pupils, I No. of pupils. j English Grammar^ 1 No of pupils | Arithmetic.
No. of pupils. |

Orthography. |

by the State.

ly cost of tuition paid

Amount of this m onth

Average m onthly cost of tuition per pupil.

j Colored.
I
W hite & Colored. | Average attendance.

J

j

j

|

W hite.

Colored.

Males.

Females.

Males.

; Females.
i

23 6 386 352 163 139 738 302

33 13 407 377 240 271 784 511

12

393 241

634

30 29 591 531 1031 964 1122 1995

12 5 189 156 119 101 345 220

20 1 741 591

10

9 1332 19

1040 627 1295 1107
634 362 3117 1938i
565 316 1351 716

2.68
3.89 .74
1.82 2.18 1.061

W hite.

95*

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1

1.12

963 657 598 362 290 556

i.ii 1293 1037 714 296 281 470

.74

559 294 145 81

2 138

.451 2813 2090 1419 452 463 1177

1.50

565 336 224 64 56 174

1064 540 340 144 25 229

37 7 691 538 210 161 1229 377 1606 1060

148 115

203

263 263

15 6 203 221 286 227 484 513 997 603

33 4 721 538 105 109 1259 214 1473 1015

20 3 332 276 57 65 608 122 730 605

19 4 497 428 40 52 925 102 1027 521 33 6 916 788 180 153 1704 83^ 2037 1282

1.80
1.00
1.75 1.90
1.00
1.31 1.15

1422 1063 7 99 286 162 632

75 105 59 30 15 38

.94

972 512 370 155 185 56

.94 1449 1154 851 364 368 709

.70

598 488 370 115 74 297

.67 1020 405 259 110 71 245 .73 1666 1230 708 285 190 669

State School Commissioner.

State School Commissioner.
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Wilkes.... Vilkinsor,.
Worth....

14 2 203 15& 67 56 359 123 482

1.44

27 6 564 391 102 123 955 285 1240 669 2.18

19 2 283 252 28 32 585 60 595 408 2.CO

872 370 847i 211 214i 339 .93 1180 918 070 148 180 497 .891- 550 805 212 - 55 40l 156

29.23 699i45oo9 39114 18814 18453 84673 37207 121940 76234 $1.70 $1 09 104108

5210119218 1808613257

[Reports f;om Haralson, Meriwether, Sumter and Stewart were received after the average cost of tuitioa per pupil was esti

mated.}



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State School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 3. Report of Public Schools under Local Laws.

COTNTY OR CITY.

Number of Schools.
'tt0JJ) a &

Bibb..............................................................

19

5

i

Chatham............................ ................................ 10

9

2

Richmond.......................................................... 28 20

2

City of Atlunta............................ ..

10

2

Citv of Colnmhns...........................................

3

1

City ol Griffin...................................................

3

2

Tot al............................................................ 57 50 10

Graded. i High ' Schools. Males.
i
Males. 1
Females. ! Total. A v erag e AtU

Number of Scholars Admitted.

White.

Colored.

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732 645 765 509 2,651 6in count'y 1,415 $ 2 07

1,148 1,311 608 636 3,703

10

2,840

1 49

697 552 401 379 2,029

94

1,196 1,258 645 523 3,622

10

279 326 244 243 1,092

sr

160 190

71

83 504

10

1,766 2,271
833 480

1 00
1 571 1 29 f
1 621

4,212 4,282 2,734 2,373 13,601

n

9,605 *1 50 411

COUNTIES.
Appling.... Baker......... Baldwin... Banks........ Bartow.... Berrien.... Bibb........... Brooks....... Bryan ...... Bulloch. .. Burke........ Butts.......... Calhoun ... Camden.... Campbell... Carroll....... Catoosa... Charlton... Chatham...

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No. 4.

Consolidation of the Rtj. eftsi'j of Private Elementary Schools.

Number of Pupils.

a
P<=0t

22

16

319

259

578

5

5

38

35

7?

15

15

230

255

485|

19

24

417

375

'A',.

4

4

92

62

X

Brandies Taught.
Elementary............................................... Elementary............................................... Elementary, Latin, Higher English, etc. In general, elementary branches. Elementary............... !.................

4 7

4 7

76 118

M
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142 44 Elementary and Classics....................... 260 44 Elementary.............................................

e

6

64

130 64 Elementary.............................................

5

7

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283 6 Elementary, Intermediate and Higher.

20
3

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5i Elementary and Higher Mathematics.. ii Elementary.............................................

2

/ 2

91

ii Elementary.............................................

2 15 1 70
2 20 about

2 00

2 46

1 43

2 24

1 40

1 30

3 00

t-lai.

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.;

table no. 4--continued.
ConsoUda'tU)'n,,i~-fAe Reports op Private Elementary Schools.

BO

'Number of Pupils.

eSJ

Si j*s
A

Branches taught.

C'hat'hooehec

6

6

68

76

i44 5J (Elementary, Algebra, Latin, Greek, etc.

Cliattooga...

12

12

196

211

407, 5| ['Elementary............................................

Cherokee....

Clarke..........

Clay............. Clayton........

175

180

355 VN6 In the main, elementary.

Clinch..........

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

157

145

302 7 Elementary.

Coffee...........

Columbia ...

y

Colquitt.......

2

2

20

1'

37 3 Elementary.

Coweta........ Crawford....

17 8

25 8

351 97

37' 83

728 180

5ft

Elementary. Elementary.

Dade...........

Dawson.......

D catur....

DeKalb........

18

19

321

293

614

^Elementary...............................................

Dodge..........

Dooly...........

16

16

193

170

363 4 jElementary, Mathematics and Sciences.

ctioa.
Average monthly cost of tuition per scholar.
$2 U6 1 67
2 00 to $5 00 l'75"" 1 60 2 124 2 00
1 88 1 91

State School Commissioner.

Douehurtr.. Douslas........ Early............ Echols......... Effingham... Eloert.......... Emanuel.... Fannin......... Fayette......... Floyd......... . Forsyth........ Franklin.... Fulton.......... Gilmer......... Glascock.... Glynn........... Gordon. ...
Gwinnett... Habersham.. Hall.............. Hancock... . Haralson.... Harris......... Hart............. Heard.......... Henry......... Houston .... Irwin........... Jackson.... Jasper..........
Jefferson.... Johnson ....

10

11

159

154

313 4-t Elementary............................................................

15

16

275

250

525 5 Elementary and Scientific.................................. 2 00

7

8

192

158

350 0 Elementary........... ................. ............... ............. 2 48

................. "..............................................................

14

14

242

240

482

Elementary............................................................ 1 10

11

12

179

201

380 4.52 Elementary........... ................................................ 1 96

4

4

80

70

150 5 Elementary............................................................ 1 00

18

24

804

319

023 5 Elementary.............................. .............................. 2 15

20

21

433

345

778 m In the main, elementary....................................... 1 45

8

8

100

75

H Elementary............................................................. 1 05

11

IB

20

20

8

8

is

15

18

18

14

IS;

220
352 78
212
209
220

217 243
09
' 198
211 212

443 6 Elementary and Intermediate............................ . 2 00 595 4i Elementary............................................................. 2 00 147 H Elementary............................................................. 2 31i
410 7 Elementary............................................................. 1 50 420 5 Elementary and CMaswdf:....................................... 2 70 432 5 Elementary and Sciences...................... .............. 2 25

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES..

.Tnnpa

T.nnrpns I ,pf

T .ihovty 1 ,i n r*r>1 Vi

Lowndes... T ,n mphin Af o

1VI *1

.

1V1 i-inn

ATpT^n ftip

1VI pri wpt hpv
IV'Ii 11 pr jA,'T11i1! 1 ii . . AT i t r1p11

Montgomery Morgan..........

'jCoooaO o d yA
11
7
7 14
g
19, 13
8 12
23 8

No, of Instructors. 1 Average num ber of i mouths taught.

TABLE No. 4--Continued. Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.

Nui iber of Pu >ils.

tVo rt

Ts aa*

o

h

H

Branches taught.

Average monthly cost of tuition per scholar.

11

105

152

347

6 Elementary.........................*................................................... 1 85

7

04

55

119

3 Elementary........................... .................................................... 2 00

7

82

70

152

6 Elementary............................................................................... 2 75

15

222

190

412

G Elementary.......................................... .................................... 2 00

11

173

128

301

Elementary, and Algebra, Latin, etc......................

13

295

193

418 4 19 Elementary branches and Sciences, etc............... .. 1 71

13

177

183

360

0| Elementary, Classics, and Sciences.......................... 2 00

i

ft

150

100

340

44 Elementary.................. ..

............................................. 1 34

14

175

240

10 English, Latin, Greek, Music.......... ............................. 4 50

24

260

235

495

2 Elementary............................................................................... 2 50

<1

114

101

215

GL Elementary.............................. ................................................ 2 0Ci

State School Ccmntissioner.

Murray........

Muscogee....

15

16

199

197

390

Elementary............................................................ 1 871

Newton.......

11

11

172

145

317 4i Elementary Algebra........................................... 2 00

Oglethorpe. .

9

9

130

115

245 O-fs Elementary and Higher Mathematics................ 1 81tf

Paulding....

IS

15

291

138

429 44 Elementary........................................................... 1 50

Pickens........

S

3 . 53

45

98 4 Elementary, Algebra, etc...................................... 1 35

Pierce.........

3

3

40

35

75 4 TClpmonbiiy ................................... ......... 2 00

Pike.............

16

16

251

252

503

Elementary............................................................ 2 00

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

State School Commissioner.

Pulaski.,.. . .

14

16

182

227

409 7-is. Elementary...................... ...................... .....

Putnam.......

13

13

155

170

325 44 Klementn.ry................. .......................................... 1 87

Quitman....

9

9

108

102

210 8 Rlementary............................. .....: ........... .... 2 50

Kabun..........

Randolph...

2

3

30

47

77 7 Nat. Sciences, Mathematics and Lang's............. 3 50

Richmond,..

Rockdale....

9

15

270

257

527 6.44 Elementary,.......................................................... 1 63

Schley.. ,.

o

3

60

70

130 5 Elementary, Algbera and Rhetoric..................... 2 50

Screven........

8

8

77

79

156 5 Elementary............... ............................. .............. 2 08

Spalding... .

Stewart........

Sumter.........

Talbot..........

17

19

359

320

679 54 Elementary, Sciences, Classics............................ 1 82

Taliaferro.. .

G

6

84

79

163 10 00 Elementary........................... ................................ 2 50

Tatnall........

23

23

298

254

552 4 Elementary........................................................... 2 00

^Taylor.......... Telfair......... Terrell......... Thomas,....

6

6

89

74

163 4 Eieinenturv....... ........................ ..........................

i !

Towns.........

Troup..........

15

17

280

206

486 6 Elementary............................................................. 2 56

Twiggs.........

5

5

09

70

139 o Elementary..

.

..

..................... 2 75

Union..........

Upson.........

...........

TABLE No. 4.--Continued.

obO

Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.

No. of Schools. No. of Instructors. Males.
c
So*
Total. Average num ber of
months taught. Average m onthly cost of tuition per scholar.

uber of Pu

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES. 9o>9
aa>

Branches Taught.

Walker.......... Walton .... Ware............... Warren.......... Washington. Wayne............ Webster.......... White.............. Whitfield.... Wilcox . ... Wilkes.......... Wilkinson... Worth.............

10

10

105

189

244

4f Elementary................... .

...................................... 1 41|

26

27

519

489

958

41- Elementary................................................................................. 1 80

9

10

126

187

263

5 Elementary............................................................................. 2 05

14

14

191

138

329

44 Elementary............................................................................ 2 00

7

7

96

87

183

4 Elementary, Algebra, etc................................................. 1 00

14

17

241

148

389

5f Elementary........... ............................................................ 1 99

7

220

135

855

64 Elementary................................................................................ 2 44

8

8

182

111

243

6 Elementary............................................................................... 2 31i

Total...

617

678 18,482 12.263 25,745

54

$2,035

TABLE No. 5. Report of Private High Schools.

Average m onthly cost of tuition per pupil.

No. of M onths taught.

%.

No. of Instructors

State School Commissioner.

No. of P

COUNTIES

Name.

Location. Name of I'rincipal.

Bartow........ Cartersville Seminary........... Cartersville....... S. F. Brame....... Bartow........ Due West................................... Cartersville....... J. W. Pritchett.

Bartow........ Kingston Academy............... Kingston............ J. T. Lin.............

Bartow........ Etowah High School............. Bartow countv.. S. S. Kingsbury

Bart >w........ oak Grove Academy............. Bartow county.. J. J. McDavitt..

Bartow........ Aclairsville Academy.... Adairsville........ Emma E. Jack-

st>n....................

Pn.rtprsvilIp TTicrb Rf'hortl Car;crsville..... Ronald Johnson

B Hall SpIpiT. Sphnnl Macon............. W B Hall...........

Cimd n...... Camden Countv Academy... St. Mary's.......... Wm. J. Green...

Campbell ... i almetto High School........... Palmetto............. Jas. S McDowell

Camp'iell.... itichardson's High School... Liberty Hill..... H.E.Itichardson

Catoosa........ Masonic Literary Institute.. Kxnggold............. J. D. Scott.........

Chatham.... Select Classical school........... Savannah........... C. C. Talliaferro

CMinttoOffl A Ipine > cademv

Alpine................. J. W. Waddell..

Chattooga... Faimersville High School... Dirt Town.......... T. J. Hoge.........

Chattooga... Summerville Academy........ Summerville..... J. T. Slittle.......

Cobb............. Marietta Male High School.. Marietta............. Chas. Lane.........

Marietta Male Academy..... \i arietta

F.rl win P Carter

Cobb............. Acworth High School.......... Acworth............. J. C. Holme?.....

Cobb............. Mizell's High School............. Powder Springs L. W. Mizell.....

Cobb............. Simrna Academv................... Smvrna............... J W. Baker......

Elbert.......... Andrew Male High School.. Eiberton............. P. E. Davant.....

Elbert'......... Flatwood's Academy............. Elbert county... J. W. Smith.....

"Kn.mum Ppobody Tn^t.itnte

Morganton........ M C. Bryant...

Greene........ Fuller Academv...................... Greene Co.......... J. H. Lewis.......

Total.

>0-5c

a> a a

a>

s tn

3 12 35 47 2 2G 26 52 1 9-> 24 47 1 18 14 32 2 24 14 38

1 30 23, 53

2 41 2;s 64

1

18

1 7 16 b

2 40 25 05

2 52 39 91

3 39 37 76

2 30

30

1 27 22 49

2 45 25 70

2 38 2 63

1 26

26

2 53

50

3 38 1 20 2 30 T 46 1 12 3 -|<>5
2 27

42 80 15 35 16 46
46
8 20
65 190 21 48

Branches Taught.

5 Ancient Classics, Mathematics arid Sciences

$ 3 50

814 Ancient Classics, Sciences and Mathematics................ 3 00

10 Ancient ('lassies Mathematics ami Sciences

2 50

10 Enelish, Mathematics and Sciences

1 80

Classics, Mathematics and Sciences

3 00

5 Ensdisb, T/itin ami Mathematics

1 75

*3 on

10

e nn

9 Classics, Mathematics and Sciences................................. 3 00

3 Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences............... 3 60

8 Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences............... 3 25

10 Classics, Mathematics and Sciences

2 33^

10 Ancient and Modern Languages and Mathematics... 10 oo'"

10 A nc't- and Moil 1.anefliases \fnthem ,tii'S tr Sciences, 9 50

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

2 50

9 .Ancient Classics and Mathematics .....

2 00

9 I'lnitlish. Ancient. Classics Mathematics

4 00

11 Preparatory branches Ancient. <'!nIre Mafhpmot-

ics, Sciences................................................. ......................... 5 00

10 English Ancient l.an^niures Matliein-itics

a on

10 Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences.............. 2 50

7 A neient Class'es Sfathemaries Sciences

3 00

10 A ncien t. ( Massii-s, Mat hern a tics Si iences

4 00

10 Classics, Mathematics, etc................................................... 2 50 8 Mathematics Sciences, Ancient ('lassie^ etc

7 M.athematics. Classics and Sciences................................ 3 00

TABLE No. 5--Continued.

O4^t

Report of Private High Schools.

j

per pupil.

cost of tuition;

Average m onthly

M onths taught.

No. of

j No. of Instructors|

No. of Pupils

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES

Name.

Location. Name of Principal.

Greene......... Greensboro Eem. Seminary Greensboro'...... M. W. Lewis, Jr Greene......... Dawson Institute.................... White Plains..... J. M. Howell..... Greene......... Mercer Hi^li School............. Pemield.............. V. T. Sanford... Greene......... Bairdsiown Academy........... Bairdstown ..... W. S. McCarty.. Hancoek..... N e w tna n ' s Se; ec t Sc bool....... Sparta.................. J. S. Newman... Hancock..... Sparta High School................ Sparta.................. T. A. Murray... Hancock..... Washington Institu e............ L titoti................. Thus. J. Adams Hoard........... Franklin High School........... Franklin............. A. F. r\ rimble... Heard........... Corinth Academy......... ........ Covin h............. J. II. C vin....... Heard........... Farmers' High School........... ilou ton.............. Leonidas Jones. Houston...... Cherrv Academy..................... Houston Co....... A. B. Parrott..... Houston...... Houston Factory Academy.. Houston Fact'y J. L. J). Hillyer. Houston...... Male School.............................. Perrv................. Sidney Lewis... Jnes............ Clinton Academy................... Clinton................ J. H. Ch ippch. Jones............ Plcntitude................................. Hawkins' Hist... Jas. K. Dykcr... Lee................ Suuthville Academy............. Smithville...... . T. C. Newton.... Lee................ Gr 'enwood................................ Lee Co................ F. C. Moore....... Lee................ Leesburg Academy................ Leesburg............. J. F. Hillyer..... Libertv ....... Walmourville Academy..... W'aithourville... A. M. AIcJ vcr... Liberty ....... Brad well Instil uto................. Hincsyille.......... S. U. Bradwell..
VV IV Winn Liberty...... Joii'-s' Creek Academy......... Jones' Creek..... Jos. B. Martin..
Morgan....... Behoboth Male and Female 1 Academy................................!Wellingfcon Dis.. Jno. A. Harris..

3

~G "cS

2

p

y u 31 42

1 21 18 39

4 (is 42 110

1 25 23 48

1 15 9 24 2 20 20 4u

1 15 15 30

1 20 18 44

2 40 29 75

2 42 2: 05

1 14 10 24

1 21 21 42

] 37

37

1 13 13 26

1 39 6 25

1 27 20 47

3 15 18 33

1 32 15 47

2 21 14 35

4 3J 24 03

1 lu j 3 23

1 10 9 19

31

23 27 50

2 28 29 57

1 26 14 40

|

Branches Taught.

10 AneieiP Classics, Mathematics, Sciences....................... 7 Mathematics, Classics, Sciences......................................... 10 Ancient Classics, Mathematics,Sciences....................... 6 Chosies, Mathematics, Sciences........................................ 6 English, Classics, Mathematics, Natural Sciences..... 0 Lngl.sh, Classics, Natural Sciences................................ G English, Classus, Natural Sciences................................. 9 English. Ancient Classics, Mathematics....................... 9 From Primary to Collegiate............................................... 6 From Primary to Collegiate............................................... 634 Classics, History, Higher Mathematics......................... 6 English, Latin, Mathematics............................................ 10 English, Mathematics, Classics........................................ 7 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences....................... 7 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences....................... 3 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, English, etc............... Engli.-h, Ancient Classics. Mathematics........................ 8 English, Mathematics, Ancient Classics....................... 10 English, Latin, Greek, etc...................................................
10 Eng ish, Latin, Greek, etc.................................................. Enodivsh T.nthi Greek, fUe .................................................
10 EngPsh, S deuces, etc............................................................

4 00 4 00 3 50 3 00 G 00 4 50 3 60 3 20 2 85 3 00 3 60 2 77 3 50 3 27 2 50 3 38 3 23K o 80 2 80 3 GO
1 72 2 25 2 00 3 50

7 [Languages, Sciences and Mathematics..........................

Morgan...... Morgan....... Morgan.......

Forest Home School............... C. B. Barrow's Male School. Rutledge High. School...........

Madison.............. Madison............. Morgan Co.........

Mrs. C. B. T. H

E. Nebhut Barrow..... Burruss...

Moigan....... Murray......

Pine Grove................................ Union Springs Academy.....

Morgan Co......... Si 1th District...

W. H. Lewis

Coerofr... Greer.....

Oglethorpe.. Meson Academy...................... Lexington.......... Thus. B. Moss...

Oglethorpe.. Philomath Institute............... Woodstock......... C. T. Boggs......

Oglethorge.. Pierce.........

Crawford High School........... Blackshear Academy...........

Crawford............ Blackshear.........

Jno. F. Cneney. W. E, Mvers.....

Pike............. Milner High School.'............ Milner................ E. M. Ifooton...

Pike............. Bamesville SVJecc School..... Barnesviile........ \V. R. Plxl-r...

Pike............. Liberty Hill High School... Libertv Hill..... J. W. Itudi-iil..

Pike............. Gordon Institute..................... Barnesvilie....... C. E. Lambdin..

Pike............. Pulaski....... Rahun........ Rockdale....

Pritchard's High School.....
Hawkinsvillc High School.. Rabun Gap High School..... Co iyers Male and Female

Zebulon.............. Hawkinsvillc ... Rahun Gap.......

W.H. Pritchard
M. N. Mi-Call... Wr. A. Curtis.....

High School......................... Convers............... J. F. M'Cfelhmd

A J. M. Britton

Screven....... Talhot.........

Sylvania High School........... Collins worth Institute.........

Sylvania............. d albotton..........

W. C. McCa 1... J.T. V'Laughliu

Taylor......... Johnston Institute................ Butler.................. Jas. T. White...

Terrell......... O. 0. Nelson Institute........... Dawson............... A. J. CarswtlU

Terrell

So. Ga. Male Institute.

N. A. Windsoi Dawson............... W. H. AIb n A

Thomas.......

Fletcher Institute...................

rhomasville......

J.W.F.Lowrey O. D. Scott.........

Troup........... LaGrange High School......... LaGrange........... J. H. Wilson.....

Troup........... Hogansville Institute............ Hogansville....... Nicholas Wil

Twiggs... Warren.

liams................ Auburn High School............. Jefferson uille.... J. A. Barclay ... Warrenton Male and Female

Academy............................... Warrenton......... L. H. Carter...... Washington Kelly Springs High School.. W ashing ton Co. M. R. Gravbill.. Washington Sandersville High School..... Sandersville...... Ivr W. Duggan.. White.......... Cleveland High School......... Cleveland........... J. J. Methoin ... Whitfield ... Grove Level Peabody School Grove Level...... M. P. Berry...... Whitfield ... Tunnel Hill Institute........... Tunnel Hill...... A. J. Robert..... Whitfield ... Crawford High School.......... Dalton................. W. C. Wilkes ... Wilkes......... Washington Fein. Seminary Washington...... B. S. Iiyi i......... Wilkes......... Bmdelt School...................... '. Wilkes county.. Thos* J. Beck ...

33 1 45 2 29 1 22 2 103 2 97
1 21 2 30 2 22 2 55
1 19 1 26 4 56 1 23 2 65 2 61

26 29 45
28 57 13 35 56 164
32 59 11 32
28 53 12 34
52 107 13 30 27 53 5ij 106
19 42 41 106
44 105

2 105 1 25 2 49
3 58

70 175 9 34 2 44
57 115

3

75 75

2 77

2 66

60

1 26

26

2 27 36 63 1 22 20 42

1 15 11 5 76 2 30 2 80 1 42 1 101 2 2 29

6 21 14 30 8o 156 32 62 60 140 40 82
P-1; 37 33 42

Total.

165I2949 2008 4957

1100
10

English, Mathematics and Languages............................ English, Mathematics, Sciences, Languages................. English, Latin and Sciences...............................................

2 80
42 09f0>}

7 10 10 10

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

3 00

Classics. Mathem itics..................................................... Free.

English, Mathematics, Ancient Classics, Sciences... 3 50

Ancient and Modern Languages, Math., Sciences..... 3 00

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

English, Math., Natural Sciences, Ancient Classics... 3 06

99
10 10

Ancent Classic'', Mathematics, Sciences, etc.............. English and Classics..............................................................
Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences............... Math., Sciences. Ancient and Modern Languages.....

3 00 4 00
3 29 4 00

73^ 10
10

Elementary and Intermediate...............................

3 00

Sciences, Ancient Classics, Mathematics..........."!!!!!" 3 14

English, Mathematics and Sciences................................ Free.

10iom English, Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences..... English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek, Hebrew............ 10 English, Ancient ('lassies, Mathematics, Sciences..... 10 English, Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences....

2 80 2 25 3 50 3 50

9 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences, &c........ .

4 00

10 Languages, Mathematics, Sciences................................... 4 50

in

^aPS cs> Math., Sciences, Mod. Languages.. 5 00

10 English, Mathematics, Sciences and Classics............... 3 50

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

4 00

Classics, Mathematics and Sciences

3 00

4^ i Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences...............

6 10 10
10 10

English, Classics and Mathematics................................ . 2 50

English, ('lassies and Mathematics.............

. 3 50

English, Mai hematics, Sciences. Ancient Classics.... . 2 00

English and Sciences........................................................... . Free.

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

. 2 00

10 .Full Colb'ge Course............................................ .................... 3 50

English, French, Latin, MatiicinaticsVMusicli.'^^'.*.'.*.'.*." 5 50

10 lAncxeut Classics, Mathematics, etc

3 00

Is 3 32
Or

State School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 6.
[Quite a number of the most prominent collegiate institutions of the State, including the State University, are not embraced in the following table. Blanks were distributed; but, in many cases, no reports have been received.]
Report of Colleges.

State School Commissioner. f , | TUOX

Counties.

Name.

Location.

No. >f Pi

3 Name of Presiding Officer.

& y,

o

o *3

*73 S

iSn

Branches Taught.

o

r^k'

o mo

^Sh A

Carrol}........ Bowdon College..................................................

Bowdon....... F. H. M. Henderson ..

Cobb.............Maiierta Female College................................

MaricHfl T. R. Branham .........

Jackson...... Martin Institute.................................................

JettVrson..... J. W. Glenn...................

^ North Georgia Agricultural and Mechanica

Lumpkin.... Col ege.............................................................

Dahlonega... David W. Lewis..........

Morgan*....... 'Georgia Female

College...............M....a..d..i..s..o..n........ Geo. Y . Browne...........

llockdale.. Jconyers Female College...............................

Convers Henrv Quigg.................

Talbot......... iLeVert College................................................. ..............T...w...l.h. uttnn. V. F,. \Lmp.-t..............

Troup........ . West Point Female College.........................

West Point. A. P. Mooty..................

Troup...... LaGrange Female CollegeTroup..... Southern Female College... WMtiieid.... Dalton Female College....... .

I'.fl Grange J. T. Johnson ... .... r.nGrniigc.. I. F Cox........................ Dalton....... W. A. Rrvrors___ ___

Total..

Classics, French, Higher Mathematics,

2 30 H 44 Natural Sciences, Rhetoric..................... S 5 40

6

50 50 Mathematics, Sciences, Classics................. 5 00

4 75 51 126 Branches usir Uy taught in colieges........ 3 40

English, Mathematics, Sciences, An.

6 100 GO 160 Languages...................................................... Free..

5 1 34

Usual Collegiate and Ac-.demle Branches' 5 00

6 40 108 148 Bran, usually t night in iemale eoUeg

2 70

4

80 80 Bran, usually taught in feunle coileg

3 50

Those usual in feamale colleges, gram

5 3 58 61 mar schools and primary schools........ 4 00

Elementary branches and usual col

3

legiate blanches.......................................... 4 60

8 4 125 120 Bran, usually taught iutemale colleges.. 4 50

6

Uegular college course.............................

3 00

55|, 253 580 833 ...............................................................................$ 4 20

State School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 6.--Continued. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.

County.

Name.

Location.

<-< No. of Pupils

I Name of Principal. e o 4>

i 3

o Eh

Branches Taught.

2&
31S|"|
c; ft ftiH
e a* ft W

English Language, Geography, Arith Flovd........... Georgia Institution for the Peaf and Dumb.. Cave Spring W. 0. Connor............... 5 26 25 51 metic, Composition, Penmanship..... .. S235 29

Academy for the Blind.

Bibb.............. Academy for the Blind........................................ Macon.......... W. D. Williams...........

|

Indigent, free;

English, Geography, Arith- maximum charge

metic, Sciences, Music*, sev- for the paying,

21 30 511 eral branches of handicraft $2 50 per annum.

-cJn

58

State School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 7.

Apportionment of the School Fund of Vifi^.--Amount Ap portioned, $265,000.

COUNTIES.

Appjij-ig... 0'iker... _ BBaanldkws. i.n............

Bartow.

Berrien.

Bibb..

''

BBrroyonkns............

Bulloch..'.'/''

Burke.. Batts..'.'// " '

Calhoun. Camden ' ` ' Campbell.'.'//

^arroJJ. Catoosa..''' Charlton. "

Chatham Chatta0Ch"

Cherokee CCllaayrk..e................. Clay-ton.'.'.' '" ' CColibnbch.. .......... Coffee.'.'/'/'"
Columbia. Colquitt. . Coweta. .. " " Crawford.' " " Dade......... ' "
DDeacwastounr... ........ DeKalb.. .7.7.
Dodge. Dooly., . . 7 " '
Bougherty Douglas... Early........' `' Echols...'/'" Effingham... '' Elbert.. Emanuel. .7.7.
-tannin... Fayette.

School popula

tion ami Con-

fe lerate Sol- Counties' pro

diei s under o0

ratii.

years of age.

1,140 $ 754 50

2,150

1,419 48

3,048

2,000 76

1,729

1,138 35

5.148

3,389 37

1,007

1,097 53

7,063

4,050 17

2,052

1,740 04

776*

510 90

1,982

1,304 92

8,289

5,457 35

2,031

1,337 18

2,385

1.570 25

1,7%

1,182 46

2,851

1,877 06

4.149

2,731 64

1644

1,082 39

077*

445 73

14,503

9.548 56

1,821

1,198 92

2,352

1.548 52

4,023

2,648 68

3,644

2,399 16

1,890

1,244 35

1,769

1,104 68

1,161

764 39

5,154

3,393 32

1,216*

800 60

2,196

1,445 80

755

497 08

4,888

3,218 19

2,073-

1,364 17

915*

602 42

1299

855 24

3,440

2,264 84

3,625

2,380 Go

1,123

739 37

2,840

1,869 81

2,851

1,877 06

1,075

1,102 80

2,005

1,359 57

1,105

727 52

1,475

971 12

3.086

3,031 78

2,303

1.555 76

2,056

1,353 64

2,713*

1,786 20

State School Commissioner.

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COUNTIES.
Fk>yd.................... Forsyth....... Franklin............... ' Fulton (county)... Atlanta (city)......... Gilmer............... Glasscock......... Glynn................ .. .. Gordon............ Greene............... Gwinnett...............'
HHaablle..r..s..h..a..m......... " " ' Hancock.......... ..." Haralson................ Harris................. Hart.............. Heard............... " Henry............... Houston............. Irwin...................... ' Jackson.................. Jasper.................. " J efferson................. Johnson............... ..' Jones....... . ..' _ ' '
Laurens.................. Lee................. Liberty............. Lincoln..................'.
Lowndes............ Lumpkin.............. " Macon.................. Madison.................' Marion.................. ' McDuffie................ McIntosh............... Meriwether... Miller................. Milton..... Mitchell.......... '.7//
Monroe................. Montgomery...." (Morgan..................[ Murray.................. ' Muscogee (county)!
Columbus (city). (Newton.................. Oglethorpe.. .. Paulding................. Pickens. ............... Pierce................. Pike.................

School popula

tion and Con

federate Sol diers under30

Counrtaieins.'

pro

years of age.

5,802* $ S.OliO 2,405 4,150 10,444 2.753
747 1,732 3,012 3,54(1 4,385
2,120
3`030 4,184 1,417 5,591
1,870 2,405 3.050 5,700
532 3,422 3,034 3,109* 1.039 2,731 2,084 2.757 2,703 1,609 2,433 1,823 3,538 1,064 3,983 2,325 1,393* 3,993
814 1,560 2,773 6,046 1,478 3,993
2,000
2,478 2,409 3 515 3,002 3,196 1,043 1,180 3,371 1

3,819 95
1,735 50 1,643 67 2,732 30 6,876 17
1,811 88
491 81 1,140 32 1,983 06 2,334 63 2,887 02 1,395 78 1,994 91 2,754 68
932 93 3,681 03 1,231 18 1,583 42 2,403 11 3,790 25
350 26 2,253 99 1,997 54 2,086 42
084 06 1,798 05 1,707 11 1,815 17 1,819 12 1,059 34 1,601 85 1,200 24 2,329 37 1,095 55 2,022 35 1,530 75
917 13 2,628 27
535 93 1,031 03 1,825 70 3,980 60
973 09 2,628 93 1,320 72 1,631 48 1,025 55 2 314 22 2 411 01 2,104 20 1,081 73
780 84 2,219 42

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State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.

School papula-

tion and Con-l

federate Sol-1 Counties' pro

diers under 3o|

rata.

years of age.

Polk......... Pulaski..
Putnam .. Quitman.. Rabun .... Randolph. Richmond
Rockdale. Schley....
Screven.., Spalding . Stewa.it... Sumter...
Talbot....
Taliaferro. Tatnall... Taylor... Telfair... Terrell...
Thomas.. Towns... Troup.... Twiggs... Union.... Upson......... Walker........
Walton....... Ware......... Warren....... Washington Wayne........ Webster.... White.........
Whitfield... Wilcox........ Wilkes....... Wilkinson.. Worth........

$ 2,078

$1,763 16

4,lj7

2,710"57

2,983

1,963 96

1,408

927 01

1,283

846 02

3,020

2,383 35

8,423

5,545 58

2.017

1,722 99

1,721

1,133 08

2,594

1,707 85

3,034

2,392 57

4,345

2,860] 68

4,234

2,787 60

3,757

2,473 55

1,740

1,145 59

2,531

1,066 37

2,255

1,485 65

699

460 21

3,029

1,994 25

|5,897 13,882 49

939

618 22

0,042

3.977 96

2,270

1.498 48

2,027

1,334 55

2,758

1,815 83

2,780

1,830 31

4,488

2,954 83

1,167

768 34

2,582

1,699:95

5,283

3,478 25

1,396

919 11

1,851

1,218 67

1,410*

928 32

3,241

2,133 83

853*

561 60

3,710* 2,442 61

3,152

2,075 23

1,379

907 91

Amount

402,500 $ 205,000 00

f By return of O. D. Scott, made November 7, 1874. * Enumeration return of 1873

State School Commissioner.

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Office of State School Commissioner, Atlanta, Ga,, July 30, 1874.
To his Excellency James M. Smith: Dear Sir.--The apportionment of the school fund of
1874 has just been made, and I have the honor to lay be fore you the result in the foregoing pages.
As you are aware, there has been some delay, occasioned by the failure of the County School Commissioners of cer tain counties to make their returns of the enumeration of population in proper time. On the 1st instant thirty-two Commissioners were delinquent, and even now returns have not been received from the following eleven counties, viz.: Bryan, Charlton, Coffee, Dade, Fayette, Floyd, Jefferson, McIntosh, White, Wilcox and Wilkes.
In making the apportionment, I have used for the coun ties named the figures which constituted the basis of the apportionment of last year.
The work has been very carefully done, the sum of the amounts apportioned to the several counties differing only four cents from the entire amount to be apportioned.
With the highest respect, Gustavus J. Orr, S. S, C

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Report State School Commissioner.

Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commissioner. Henry T. Lewis, Cierk.

LIST OF COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

COUNTIES.

NAME.

POST-OFFICE.

Appliug.. ...... Lewis Thomas......................... Hohnesville.

Bakec.............. Thomas W. Fleming............... Newton.

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

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

Bartow.............. Kev, T. E. Smith.................... Cartersville.

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

Bibb................... B. M. Zetller*......................... -Macon.

Brooks.............. Bev, Charles D. Campbell.... Quitman.

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

Bulloch............. Stephen H. Kennedy f........... Statesboro.

Burke-............... A. H. A. Bell........................... Waynesln ro.

Butts.................. E. E. Pound............................. Indian Springs,

CalUouu............ J. J. Beck................................ Moigan.

Camden............. F. F. Adams............... ............. St. Mary's.

Campbell.......... J. W. Beck............................... Fairburn.

Carroll.............. Samuel A. Brown................. Bowden.

Catoosa............. D. W. Williams ................... Kingold.

Charlton........... James W. Deign....................... Centre Village,

Chatham.......... W. H. Baker ........................ Savannah.

Chattakoockne.. Dr.jC. N. Howard.................... Cusseta.

Chattooga.......... W. T. Irvine.......................... .. Summerville.

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

Clark................. Kev. Emory F. Anderson....... W atkinsville,

Clay.................. K. E. Kennon................... ... Fort Gaines.

Clayton............. Kev. Hubert Logan................. (Jonesboro.

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

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

Coffee................ James M. Wilcox......... .......... Douglas.

Columbia......... Jerry T. Smith......................... Appling.

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

Coweta.............. Kev. K. E. Pitman................. Sharpsburg.

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

Knoxville.

Bade.................. James 0. Taylor.

Trenton.

Dawson............. D. E. Smith.......

. Dawsonville,

Decatur .........

Delvalb............. E. A. Davis............................ Decatur.

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

Dooly................ O. P. Swearingen.................. Vienna. Dougherty......... L. E. Welch........................... Albany.

Douglas............. John C. Bowden................... Salt Springs.

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

Echols............... J. P. Prescott......................... Statenville.

Effingham......... Samuel S. Pittman................. Springfield. Elbert............... Augustus Bailey..................... Eiberton.

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

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

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

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

Forsyth............. Isacc S. Clement.................... Gumming.

Franklin........... Lemuel N. Tribble................. Carnesville.

Fulton (county). Jethro W. Manning............. Atlanta.

State School Commissioner.

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COUNTIES.

NAME.

Atlanta (f.ity).., Bernard Million J...

Gilmer...............jDr. E, W. Watkins

Glascock.......... [Seaborn Kitchens.

Glynn........ Gordon.......

Stephen C, DeBruhl f. II. 0. Hunt.................

Greene........ James A. Thornton...

Gwinnett... Kev. J. L. King..........

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

Hall...................iPKH' S` Bradley.... Hancock.... W. H. Bass .

Haralson.... Thomas Philpot.............

Harris......... Joel T. Johnson.............

Hart............ Dr. C. A. Webb.............

Heard.......... John J. Bledsoe............

Hemy.......... Q. R. Nolan....................

Houston .... D. M. Brown...................

Irwin........... Janies Fle'cher, Jr.........

Jackson..... G. J. N. Wilson.............

Jasper...... W. R. Berner.................

Jefferson.... Rev. David G. Phillips .

Johnson .... James Hicks...................

Jones........... David W. Lester...........

Laurens....... Rev. W. S. Ramsay.......

Lee......... William H. Baldy.........

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

Lincoln.... C. R. Stother......

Lowndes... Rev. A. J. Bessent.

Lumpkin,.. B. F. Sitton...........

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

Madison ... John M. Skinner..

Marion....... W. A, Singleton...

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

McIntosh g.

Meriwether. Alonzo H, Freeman

Miller......... Dr. P. 0. Wilkin ...

Milton.

Thomas L. Lewis...

Mitchell.............(James H. Powell..

Monroe............. j Andrew Dunn,. ...

Montgomery .. . John L. Matthews.

Morgan.,......... |W. H. Cocroft....

Murray....... .. Jllev. S. H, Henry .

Muscogee (co.). .|N. G. Oattis...........

Columbus (city). George M. Dews J.

Newton

Dr. H. T. Shaw.

Oglethorpe Thomas H. Dozier...

Paulding.

L. J. Spinks.............

Pickens.

A. P. Mullinax..........

Pierce

Dr. A, M. Moore.......

Pike....

A. P. Turner..............

Poik......

T. L. Pittman...........

Pulaski

Rev. G. R. McCall...

Putnam

J. B. Reese.................

Quitman.

Joel E. Smith...........

Rabun..

F. A. Bleckley...........

Randolph

Thomas A. Coleman.

post-office.
Atlanta. Ellijuy. Gibson. Biunswick, Oa lioun. UnionPoint. Lawrenceville, Clarkesviiie, Gainesville. Sparta. Buchanan. Hamilton. Hartwell. Franklin. McDonough, Perry, Irvinville. Jefferson. Mouticello. Louisville, Wrightsville, Haddock, M. & A. R, R. Dublin. Sbarkville. VV'allhourville, No. 4, A,
& G. R. R. Lincolnton. V aldosta. Dahlonega. Oglethorpe. Dau ielsvilie, Buena Yista. Thomson.
GreenvilleColquitt. Alpharetta, Camilla. Forsyth. Vlount Vernon, Madison. Spring Place. Columbus. Columbus. Oxford. Whiten ille. Dallas. Jasper. Blackshear, Milner. Cedartown. Hawkinsville. Eaton ton. Hatcher's Station, j Clayton. Cutkbert.

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State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.

NAME.

POST-OFFICE.

Jli eh m rtn d......... Major A. H. McLaws........ Augusta. Roe.kfhde......... ,T. (T Barton............ . ......... Conyers. Rohlev............... Rev. John N. Hudson.......... Ellaville. Rereven ....... Ur. W. L. Matthews............... Ogeechee. Spalding............ H. E. Morrow.......................... Griffin. Stewart............. W. H. Harrison....................... Lumpkin. Sumter (county). William A, Wilson.......... ... Americas. Americas (city)> Talhot............ . . IV. G. Wartben....................... Talbotton. Taliafeiro........ Henrv T). Smith....................... Oawfordville, Tatnall............. John Hughev............... ........... Reidsville.* Taylor............. Rev. Julius Gardnes............... Butler. Telfair............... Alexander McDuffie............... McRae' Terrell............... L. M. Lennard........................ Dawson. Thomas............. 0. !) Scott............................. Thomasville. Towns............... W. R. McConnell............... . . Hiwassee. Tronp ........... John E. Toole..................... LaGrange. Twiggs............. A. E. Rash............. ............... Griswoldville, Union............... Thomas J. Butt..... .............. Blairsville. Upson................ J. C. McMichael...................... Thomaston. Walker............. D. C. Sutton................ .......... LaFayette. Walton.............. Rev. (4. A. Nunn ally............. VI on roe. Ware.................. Burrell Sweat... ................... Way Cross. Warren............. A. S. Morgan........................... Wan enton. W asbington...... Dr. Horatio N. Hollifield ... Sandersville. Wayne............. Rev. A. Cl ub.......................... Jessup. Webster............ John T. Stnpleton................... Preston. White............... Rev. J. J. Metbvin................. Cleveland. Whitfield......... Rev. W. C. Richardson......... Dalton. Wiicox.............. John A. Tomberlin................. Abbeville. Wilkes............... Rev. F. T. Simpson............... Washington. Wilkinson......... Franklin Chambers................ Irwintou. Worth................ J. M. C. Holamon................. Isabella.
Superintendent of schools for city and county. {Has been elected, but has not, as yet, been commissioned.
Vacancy caused by resignation of Hon. D. McGill is at present un filled.
| Superintendent of city schools. Vacancy caused by death of Dr. S. W. Wilson is, at present, un filled.