SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
StateSchoolCommissioner
SUBMITTED TO THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Georgia,
Session in Jannary, 1877.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA: Jas. P. Harrison & Co., Publishers and Printers.
1877.

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Department of Education,
Atlanta, Ga., January 9, 1877.
To His Excellency James M. Smith: Dear Sir--I have the honor and the pleasure to lay be
fore your Excellency the sixth annual report of this De partment for transmission to the General Assembly.
With the highest respect, I am very truly yours,
GUSTAVUS J. ORR, State School Commissioner,

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REPORT.
It seems proper that in this, the last annual report of my present term of office, I should give a condensed his tory of the operations of this Department since it was placed under my charge. I was qualified on the 19th day of January, 1872, having been appointed to fill a vacancy caused by the resignation of my predecessor. On assum ing the duties of the office, I found myself confronted by difficulties of a peculiar kind. Public schools had just been inaugurated the year before, under the act of Octo ber 13th, 1870, the first public school law passed under the present Constitution. A debt of about $300,000 had been created in the several counties, and the entire school fund officially reported as paid in up to October 1st, 1871, amounting to $327,083.09, had been unlawfully appro priated to other uses. Claimants on the fund, from one end of the State to the other, were clamorous for payment, and there was not a cent in the treasury wherewith to meet these demands. Our people were unaccustomed to public schools, and the masses knew but little of their advantages: They were inclined to look upon them as a badge of our subjection to another portion of the Union with which we had recently been at war. The number of intelligent men among us,, who, from thorough study of the system, had come to approve of the philosophy upon which it rests, who saw its utility and felt the necessity of its successful establishment in the altered condition of our people, was comparatively small. In this state of affairs, it was evi dent that nothing could save the system from the effects of the blow which it had received at the hands of its pro fessed friends, but the exercise of the greatest prudence in its administration. Accordingly the year 1872 was

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spent in efforts to repair the wrong done, to perfect exist ing laws, and to more fully systematize the work. One of my first official acts was to give notice to the public that no schools would be put in operation that year, on account of the lack of funds, and that our resources would be husbanded for the work of the year following. A thorough investigation of the condition of the school finances was made, and a pamphlet on "The Sources and State of the School Fund" was published and distributed among the school officers. The summer session of the General Assembly held that year was marked by the pas sage of two very important acts bearing upon the school interest. One of these provided for levying a tax on property for the purpose of paying the school debt of 1871; and the other was a new school law, which retained all that was thought worthy of being retained in the exist ing law, and embodied many new and valuable provisions. Under the operation of the first, $174,000 was raised, which was apportioned among the counties, and paid out to claimants, po tala, according to law, by the local school authorities. By means of the provisions of this act and of that of March 3d, 1874, the entire school debt of 1871 has been extinguished in almost every county in the State. No new debt has been created. It was determined at the very outset of the present administration, to use the annual school fund, from year to year, with the most scrupulous fidelity, for the support of schools. The county school officers were instructed to make no debts, and were noti fied that disregard of this instruction would insure an ad verse decision on the part of the State School Commis sioner, upon the claims of any teacher that might be brought in question before him. As a consequence of this policy, not a single well-grounded complaint of the non-payment of a claim, contracted under the present ad ministration, has ever reached this office from any portion of the State. To give emphasis to this declaration, I sub

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join a statement of the amounts paid out, from time to time, up to the end of the year 1876 :

For paying the debt of 1871.....................................................................$ 174.000 .CO School fund of 1873................................................................................... 250,000.00 School fund of 1874 ..................................................................................... 265,000.00 School fund apportioned in 1875.............................................................. 151,394.00 Estimated amount of poll tax, same year............................................... 140,015.00 Apportioned fund and poll tax of 1876. (estimated)............................ 290 000.00

Aggregating....................................................................... j.............. $1,270,319.03

It is doubted whether the past history of the State fur nishes a single example of greater fidelity in the disburse ment of so large a sum of money, and by means of agents so numerous and widely separated. As a natural effect of this fidelity, universal confidence has taken the place of wide-spread distrust, and many good citizens, who, at first, were enemies to the public schools, have become friends and patrons. The hold which the system has been gradually taking upon the minds of the people, is set forth in the following figures much more strongly than it can be expressed by words. The figures are taken, in part, from my last annual report: "In the year 1871, there were en rolled in the schools as follows : White pupils, 42,914 ; col ored pupils, 6,664; total, 49,578.

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` 'In 1873, the attendance was as follows: Whites, 63,922; colored, 19,755 ; total, 83,677, being an increase over the attendance of 1871 of 34,099. The enrollment in 1874 was as follows: Whites, 93,167; colored, 42,374; total, 135,541; increase over the attendance of the former year, 51,864. For the year 1875, the attendance, as reported up to the date of this writing, has been as follows: Whites, 105,990 ; colored, 50,358; total, 156,394; increase over the attendance of 1874,20,808." The attendance for the year 1876 has been as follows : Whites, 121,418 ; colored, 57,987; total, 179,405 ; increase over the attendance of 1875,

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23,011.* I cannot but consider the results achieved as being very remarkable, in view of the very limited monetary resources placed by law at the command of this Depart ment. Intercourse with the people, in all sections of the State, during the past year, has satisfied my mind that the successful labors of the past five years have made our sys tern of public schools so strong, that it will be hardly possible to effect its overthrow, provided wisdom of ad ministration can be secured in the future.
According to a statement furnished to this Department by the Comptroller General, the receipts and expenditures of school funds, from July 1st, 1875, <-o July 1st, 1876, were as follows :
Half rental W. & A. B. R......................................................... $150,000 00 Tax on shows and exhibitions ............................................. 3,139 91 Dividends on stock of G. R. R. & B. Co.............................. 3,720 00 Salaries and expense between same dates.. .$ 6,390 33 Balance in treasury..............................................150,469 58
$156,859 91--$156,859 91
In the item " salaries and expenses," &c., the printing account of two years is included. It is proper also to ex plain that an error occurred in this item as originally fur nished by the Comptroller. By an inadvertence, the salary and expenses of the second quarter of 1875, amounting to $1,004.60, were included, making the item $7,394.93. This statement left a balance in the treasury, for apportion ment among the counties, of $149,464.98, which is the amount that was actually apportioned. The true figures, under a correct statement, are as above given.
The entire school population of the State is 394,037, while the enrollment and average attendance for the year 1876 are, respectively, 179,405 and 115,121. It is impos sible to give the exact amount expended by the State in

* These figures for 1876, include returns from all the counties except Charlton and Glynn. There were no schools in the former, and none, perhaps, in the latter. There were schools in all the other counties. It will be seen from table No. 2, that ten other counties failed to report. In arriving at the figures given above, reports from these ten counties for preceding years were used.

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support of schools any given year, as the poll tax, which constitutes a large portion of the school revenue, is not sent forward to the State Treasury, but is retained and ap plied in the counties. The amount, as computed for the year 1875, was $291,319; this, it is believed, is a very close approximation. The sum expended for 1876 did not differ materially from that expended in 1875. Using these figures and the figures given above as repre senting school population, enrollment and average attend ance, and we find that the State paid for supervision and instruction,/fr ra/zV#, for the year 1876, as follows :
On school population........................................................................... $ 75 On enrollment................................................................................... . 1 62 On average attendance........................................................................ 2 53
There was raised for school purpose, by local taxation, in counties and cities under local laws, the sum of $142,727.63. Add this to $291,319, the amount of the Stat^ fund, and we have $434,046.63, as the sum expended in the State for the support of schools in the year 1876. Using these figures, as above, we find the entire amount expended in the State for supervision and instruction, per capita, as follows :
On school population.......................................................................... $ 1 10 On enrollment...................................................................................... 2 42 On average attendance...................................................................... 3 77
The general school law of the State provides, "That it shall be the duty of the State School Commissioner to visit, as often as possible, the several counties of the State, for the purpose of examining into the administration of the school law in said counties, of counselling with school officers, of delivering popular addresses, of inspecting school operations, and of doing such other acts as he may deem subservient to the interests of popular education." I devoted much of my time, during the year 1875, to a w'ritten discussion of our school system. Twelve articles, prepared with much care, were first published in a number of the leading newspapers of the State, and were after-

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wards embodied in more permanent form, in my annual report. The interest with which these articles have been read by many of the leading men of this State, and the frequent applications made for copies of the report concontaining them, have satisfied me that the labor of pro ducing them was well expended. At the beginning of the year 1876, I felt that it was very important that discussion through the press should be followed by oral discussion. There was ample warrant in the provision of law above quoted for my engaging in the work, but the question arose : How can the means be provided for meeting the necessary expenses incident to frequent and protracted ab sence from home ? Another provision of the school law, relating to the State School Commissioner is &s follows: "All his necessary travelling expenses, incurred in the performance of his official duties, except board and hotel bills, and all postage and other expenses absolutely neces sary, arising in his office, shall be paid by the State. Not withstanding the ample authority in this provision of law, for doing the work in question at the expense of the State, I felt that I would not be sustained by the public in draw ing for this purpose upon the school fund, already too small for accomplishing the great end for which it has been set apart. Feeling the work to be so important that it could not be dispensed with, I applied for aid to the Rev. Dr. Sears, General Agent of the Peabody Fund, who very generously put at my disposal a fund sufficient to enable me to employ the additional clerical assistance necessitated by my -absence from home, and to meet hotel bills and other unavoidable expenses. I also applied to the Rail road Superintendents of the State for free passes, nearly all of whom very promptly granted the favor asked. I hereby make public acknowledgement of my own per sonal obligations, and of the obligations of the people of the State, for these acts of kindness, to Dr. Sears, and to the Superintendents of the following Railroads, viz: the

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Central Railroad, the Southwestern Railroad, the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, the Georgia Railroad, the Atlanta and West Point Railroad and the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railroad. Having thus made provis ion for the expenses of the work, I commenced my labors the first week in April last. I visited the following coun ties in the order in which J;hey are named, viz: Early, Dougherty, Effingham, Clinch, Thomas, Sumter, Worth, Schley, Decatur, Liberty, Lowndes, Terrell, Houston, Gwinnett, Talbot, Marion, Monroe, White, Troupe, Catoosa, Polk, Walton, Baldwin, Talliaferro, Jackson, Mor* gan, Coweta, Elbert, Newton, Hall, Columbia, Bartow, Carroll, Harris, Hancock, Henry, Oglethorpe, Union, Fannin, Towns, Pulaski, Jefferson, Quitman, Burke and Cobb. Two of these counties, viz: Troupe and White, owing to peculiar circumstances, I visited twice. I closed the work on the 9th of December, having spent eight months in these labors. I usually met the County Boards of Education, and I made public addresses at almost every place visited, delivering, in all, forty-four addresses. My visits were made, in most instances, during the sitting of the Superior Courts of the counties, and in this manner good audiences were generally secured. My appoint ments were generally on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and, as a rule, I returned to Atlanta and devoted Friday and Saturday to the supervision of office work, and to the per formance of such official acts as are required to be per formed by the Commissioner in person. I hereby express my acknowledgements to the Judges of the Superior Courts for earnest co-operation, in some cases, and, in every instance, for courtesies extended. I feel convinced that much good has been accomplished by this canvass. Wrong impressions have been removed, information has been disseminated, and a much wider and more general in terest has been awakened. In many instances, intelligent,

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influential men have approached me, at the close of my addresses, saying that they had hitherto been opposed to public schools, but that the arguments presented had wrought a change in their minds, and that hereafter 1 might be assured of their co-operation. The entire ex pense to the State, of the large amount of labor expended in this canvass, has not exceeded forty dollars.
At every session of the General Assembly since my in duction into office, I have urged legislation providing for increasing the present inadequate school fund by local tax ation in some form. The new school law passed in the summer of 1872, as it was originally drafted, contained a provision of this kind. The section containing the pro vision was defeated in the Senate by the casting vote of the President. At a subsequent session, a similar measure was introduced into the House,,and received a majority of one vote; but the Speaker, claiming the right to vote, voted nay, thus causing defeat by a tie vote. The third and last time legislation of this kind was attempted, the measure was defeated in the House by a small majority: We shall never be able to make our school system what it should be, till we obtain, in some way, an increase of funds. Experience has demonstrated, in the States of this Union which have well established school systems, that the most eligible method of doing this is by local taxation. The State of Connecticut furnishes from her State school fund only about one dollar pet capita of the school popu lation for the support of her schools, and the State of Massachusetts furnishes even a less amount. Even in the States of the Northwest, where permanent school funds have been obtained from the sale of the public lands, the portion of school expenses paid out of the State school fund is comparatively small. In almost every one of these States as much as three-fourths of the entire school ex penses is paid by means of local taxation, and in many of them, much more than this. In 1873 I wrote to the Su-

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perintendents of all the States for the purpose of obtaining

information as to the comparative amount of the expenses

of the schools met by the State fund and by local taxation.

I refer to my last report for an embodiment of the infor

mation obtained. Reference to this will be found very in

structive on the point now under discussion. No two of

the bills defeated at former sessions of the General As

sembly were identical in their provisions. What I now

have to propose on this subject is different from anything

hitherto recommended. I suggest that a law be passed,

giving the Boards of Education of the different counties

the right to submit the question of a tax, not to exceed a

certain fixed per centum, for the support of schools in

which are taught Spelling, Reading, Writing, English Gram-

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mar, Geography and Arithmetic, to the voters of the

county, and that the law be so framed as to permit no one to vote on this question except those who pay tax on a

certain amount of property. The fund thus raised should be added to that derived from the State, to be used to gether with that fund, for the support of elementary schools for the children of both the white and colored races.

I recommend, further, that the proposed law contain a

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provision empowering the Board of Education of any

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county, at the request ofa respectable number of the white

citizens of any sub-district of the county, to submit the

question of a tax for higher schools for the children of the

white race, to the white voters of the sub-district, and that

only those white voters be permitted to vote on this ques

tion, who pay tax on a fixed amount of property ; and let the law further provide for submitting the same question, under like conditions and restrictions, to the voters of the colored race, thus putting the very same privileges in the law for the two races.

It will be'observed that two distinct things are proposed in the legislation above recommended, and I desire to sub

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mit briefly a few thoughts on each. The first proposes to provide simply for what may be called elementary instruc tion. It is clearly right that society should seek to pro tect itself against ignorance. Especially is it true that re publican institutions are imperiled by the prevalence of ignorance and vice. Hence it seems proper that all who are permitted to take part in deciding public measures, should have the privilege of being instructed in the ele ments of an English education, that they may become fitted for the intelligent discharge of the duties which so ciety imposes^ For these reasons, the measure first pro posed admits to the privileges of the grade of schools for which it provides, the children of both races.
The first recommendation proposes to fix a maximum limit to the per centum of tax to be levied. I am some what at a Toss whatcentum to recommend. In my last annual report will be found a computation showing the amount of the fund which would be raised by a tax of onetenth of one per cent, in each of the counties of the State. In almost every one of the forty-five counties visited by me during the past summer, I inquired of the County Boards of Education how long the school fund of the county, increased by the amount raised by this tak on the property of qne-tenth of one per cent, would support free schools. The answers varied, in no case going below three months; and in some, rising as high as six. I do not doubt, in the least, but that this small tax of One dollar on each1 one-thousand dollars' Worth of property would sus tain schools in the different counties, upon an average, four-months of the year, provided the Boards of Educa tion-should locate the schools wisely, putting them as fas apart as the convenience of pupils might allow, and thus reducing the number established in the respective coun ties to a minimum ; nor do I entertain less doubt of the willingness of the people to impose this small tax upon themselves whenever they can be brought to understand

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the great results which will be effected thereby. It might be best to fix the maximum limit at one fifth of one per cent., as the tax-payers, who are to decide the question, would not be likely to impose unreasonable burdens upon
themselves.
In both the measures recommended, it is proposed to restrict the right of voting to persons who pay tax on property. This proposition is not liable to the objection of being an attempt to restrict the right of suffrage. The voting proposed is no common case of suffrage. It is simply giving to those who own property the right to say whether they will tax their property for the purpose of educating the children of a//--their own children and also those of non-property-holders. I demonstrated, as I think, in my last annual report, that when a tax is levied on property, the burden does not fall exclusively upon the tax payer, but is distributed among all classes of the com munity. While I hold to this doctrine and would urge it, if the legislation for which I ask is obtained, upon property holders to induce them to vote for a tax, I could never consent to place the property of the country, in respect to exactions of this kind, at the disposal of those who own nothing, constituting, as this class does, in many portions of the State, a large majority of the population. The principle under lying the proposed legislation is eminently conservative, and cannot fail to commend itself to right thinking men.
The policy of local taxation, as set forth in the second measure above recommended, requires separate considera tion. Elementary education, as already argued, is an ab solute necessity where universal Suffrage prevails. Not so with the education^contemplated in the measure just refer red to. This higher education is exceedingly desirable, and the more widely the privilege of obtaining it is ex tended, the better will it be for the interests of the State, but, unlike the lower education, the existence of our pop-

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ular institutions does not depend upon making the privilege universal. We can afford, therefore, to permit the races to separate in respect to this higher education, giving to each race the same privileges of law, but leaving to each the providing for itself of the means necessary to make the privileges available. The necessity for the adoption of this policy is apparent, in view of the large numbers and. the poverty of the colored race. The aggregate value of the property of the State is still considerably less than onehalf of what it was before the war, and it could hardly be expected that the owners of this property, who belong al most exclusively to one of the races, would consent to see it burdened by a tax for providing higher education for all the children of the State, without discrimination. Their consenting to have their property taxed for the ben efit of the children of their own race would be no wrong to the children of the other race. This I think they could be induced to do, in many places, if the recommendation herein made should prevail. The Boards of Education of the counties now have full power over locating the bound ary lines of the sub-districts. If these dividing lines were so located as to make the sub-districts about five miles square, a school at the centre would be accessible from all parts of the sub-district. In large numbers of the coun ties sub-districts could be created sufficiently populous to admit of the establishment of graded schools at the cen tres. This would be true especially of the sub-district con taining the county site, in many of the counties, and would likewise be true in many of the more densely popu lated country communities. In many of these densely populated communities, the entire white school population can be furnished school privileges, ranging from the pri mary to the academic grades, for the same amount of money formerly expended for educating, in private schools, only a limited number of the children. In many other such communities, there would be, to say the least, great

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reduction in the cost of education. I verily believe that I see, in the measure which I am urging, the educational re demption of our people. Certain facts relating to the topic I am now discussing impressed themselves upon my mind during the past year, as I traveled from one portion of the State to another, mingling with the people, which I now beg leave to present. Many of the female colleges, which were flourishing before the war, have been in a lan guishing condition since. Some of them have gone down. Others are dragging out a sickly existence. In no single instance within my knowledge is one of these institutions enjoying its ante bellum prosperity. Many flourishing academies and high schools have closed. The number of institutions of this class is much reduced, and there is a great decline in the prosperity of nearly all of them. The same things are true, to a considerable extent, of our male colleges. Each member of the General Assembly, a body of men numbering, in all, two hundred and nine teen, has the right of nominating one beneficiary to the College of Agriculture at Athens, and you will not find more than one out of four of their number who has suc ceeded in sending a young man to that institution. The facts, as I have recited them, can not be questioned, and now, I ask, how is this state of facts to be explained ? Only one solution can be given, and that is the poverty of our people. As a rule, the people are unable to send their * children from home for higher education in consequence of theheavy expenses of boarding, and furnishing other in cidentals. necessitated by residence abroad. What I pro pose, in the legislation above suggested, is to bring the teacher of the higher branches to the children, instead of sending the children away from home to the teacher. The parents of the children are bound, any way, to feed and clolhethem ; and while they can not send them from home, they can bear a small tax sufficient to procure the privileges of, at least, academic instruction ; and this is a grade of in-
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struction high enough for the masses of the children, as is abundantly demonstrated by the large number of failures, in life, of those among us who, in the past, attempted to go higher. Under the operation of the scheme herein proposed, however, a much larger number of the youth would ultimately reach the colleges. A larger number would be brought up to the stage of preparation for admis sion to the college; and the larger the number of those who are thus prepared, the larger will be the number of those who, by self-denial and extra effort, will succeed in going higher. I am fully persuaded that the legislation I am now advocating, will, if adopted, promote the interests of education, in all its grades, and hence I can not press it upon the consideration of the General Assembly with too great earnestness.
As a companion measure to the foregoing, I recom mend that the Constitution be so altered as to fix the min imum amount of poll tax that may be leviedjat one dollar, and the maximum at three dollars per capita, leaving it for the General Assembly to determine, from time to time, in the customary tax acts, the amount to be actually assessed. I make this recommendation for the reason, that, while I believe every property owner, whether he has children or not, is interested, and about in proportion to the amount of his property, in the general diffusion of education, yet no man can be as much interested in the education of any particular child as the father of that child. Hence it seems reasonable that the tax for education should be, to some considerable extent, a personal tax.
I also recommend that the law be so altered as to pro vide for the appointment of school trustees for the sub districts. Perhaps three trustees to the sub-district would be sufficient. They should be appointed by the County Boards of Education, and, at the time the first appoint ment is made, one should be appointed to serve for one year, one for two, and one for three, and subsequently, as

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the terms of office expire, the vacancies should be filled with appointees to serve for three years. The law should provide that, when an appointment of this kind is made, the fact of the appointment be recorded in the minutes of the Board, and that the appointee receive from the County School Commissioner a certificate of his appointment,, which certificate should be made his sufficient warrant for entering upon the duties of his office. It should be made the duty of these trustees to visit and supervise the schools of their sub-district, and to act as an advisory body~ to the County Board, in respect to the local school inter ests, and they should be required to submit a written re' port to the Board of Education, at least, once in the year. It should be further made the duty of the Board of Educa tion, in supplying teachers for the schools of any sub-dis trict, to employ from among persons found qualified accord ing to law.B-the teachers recommended by the Board of Trustees of the sub-district. The law should also require the trustees to recommend for employment, as teachers, those persons who, in their opinion, will be most ac ceptable to the communities to be served. I make this recommendation because I believe it to be a sound princi ple to submit, as far as practicable, the school interests of any community to local control.
According to our school law, the school and calendar years are made coincident. In some portions of the State, a desire has been expressed by the school officers for au thority to put the three months' schools, now provided for by law, into operation so near the end of the year as to run, before the term is completed, into the year following. In some of the counties, it is thought best for the schoolsto run through the .months of December, January and February. Whatever may be the length of the school term provided for by law hereafter, I am in favor of con ferring upon the county authorities the power of ordering it to begin and end at whatsoever periods of the year

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may be thought most convenient to the people. I, there fore, recommend that this power be conferred upon the Boards, but that they be required to order the County School Commissioners to report the schools to the State School Commissioner, as of the year in which the term closes.
The people of our State have been long accustomed to having the books and official acts of certain county officers submitted to the supervision of the grand juries of the counties. Our. school law requires that no claim against the school fund shall be paid till it is ordered to be paid by the Board of Education of the county, and while, at the time of the passage of the law, this requirement was thought to be ample security against the misapplication of funds, yet, in some of the counties, the desire has been expressed that, among county officials, no exception, in respect to the matter under consideration, fce made in favor of the County School Commissioners. Inasmuch as it is difficult to be too watchful in regard to the expendi ture of public funds, or in regard to the management of an interest involving the rights of so large a number of the people, I recommend that the school law be so changed as to require the County School Commissioner of each county to make a written report of the school operations of the preceding year, including the management of the school finances, to the grand jury, at the spring term of the court, and that the books kept by the Commissioner be also placed before the jury for inspection, and that it be made the duty of the jury to notice the condition of the school interests, and the management of the school financies, in the general presentments.
I renew the recommendation made in my last annual report, that 10,000 of the annual school fund be set apart and appropriated for the establishment and support of two normal schools for white pupils, one to be located in the northern and one in the middle or southern portion of the

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State, and that the law appropriating $8,000 to the At lanta University be repealed, and that, in lieu thereof, $10,000 per annum be appropriated, from the general fund in the treasury, for the establishment and support of a normal school for colored pupils. I refer to my last and preceding reports for a discussion, in full, of these recom mendations. I beg leave, however, to state certain views, in relation to the last thing recommended, not hitherto expressed. The $8,000, now appropriated to the Atlanta University, secures ov\yfree tuition to a limited number of pupils. I have in my mind the details of a plan by which at least sixty pupils could not only be taught, but boarded, free of charge. Of course, it would be necessary to ap propriate the funds, for a short time, to the procuring of the grounds and the erection of the required buildings. The location should be in the region of the State having the largest colored population, and in a country place, in preference to a town or city, in order to insure greater economy. As to the buildings, the chief element to be looked to should be durability and comfort. The build ings once ready, the fund could then be expended in employing teachers, and in boarding pupils. Three teachers would be sufficient. These could be employ ed at a cost not exceeding $4,000. This would leave $6,000 to be expended in boarding the pupils. Al lowing $100 for the board of each pupil, it is evident that sixty pupils could thus be sustained. The law might pro vide for the appointment of the beneficiaries by the State Senators, giving to each of the twenty-eight Senators rep resenting districts having the smallest colored population the right of nominating one, and to each of the remaining sixteen Senators the privilege of naming two. Of course, as many paying pupils as could be accommodated might be admitted. The leading object of the school should be the preparation of colored youth for teaching in our public schools, and, in order to the greatest efficiency in this field

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oflabor, there should be given them a very thorough drilling in the elements of an English education, and in the theory and practice of teaching. In addition to the reasons hitherto urged in favor of the recommendation last made herein--reasons which, to my mind, have lost none of their cogency, I give the additional one, that the good of the colored race, as set forth in the considerations just present ed, demands the change.
It affords me pleasure to testify to the wisdom of the trustees of the Peabody Fund, as exhibited in the man agement of the interest committed to them, and to the zeal, efficiency and ability of their General Agent, the Rev. Dr. Sears. In order to show what was done for Georgia, from August, 1875, to August, 1876, I submit the following statement taken from the last annual report of the General Agent, made at the last mentioned date:

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

Agency for Georgia.................................................................................. 1,500

Macon......................................................................................................... 1,000

Columbus.............................................................................

600

Brunswick...........................................................................

600

Dahlonega.................................................................................................. 450

Atlanta Normal.....................................................................................

School (colored)....................................................................................... 300

1138th Military District.......................................................................... 300

Journal of Education........ ..........

200

Teachers' Institute......................................................

100

956th Military District........................................................................... 300

Brown Institute......................................................................................... 300

Cedar Town.......................................................................................

300

Liberty County, (colored)....................................................................... 300

Laurel Hill................................................................................................. 300

Note.--The last five were paid this year for last year."

$8,550

Although $1,500 was set apart for the agency for Geor gia, I have applied for only the amount needed, viz: $1,000, and have received of that amount, as yet, only $800.
For the information of those interested, I republish the

State School Commissioner.

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``Rules for the Distribution of the Fund," and "Instruc tions to State Superintendents." The former is as fol lows : " Donations are not made to Colleges, Academies, or any private, sectarian or charity schools. For well reg ulated public free schools, continued about ten months of the year, and having a regular attendance of not less than

100 pupils, averaging daily 85 per cent., we pay at most..................$ 300

150 "

"

"" "

""

"

450

200 "

"

" " " " " " ........................... 600

250 "

"

"" "

""

"

800

300 "

"

"

"

" " " ....................1,000

In doubtful cases of attendance, the average number de cides the question. The amount appropriated for larger
numbers, in cities (never exceeding $2,000), can not be
fixed, but must depend on circumstances. The people are to pay for current expenses at least twice, and usually
three times as much as they receive from the fund, and to bear all the expense of erecting and repairing and furnish
ing school houses. They are to grade their schools, pro vide a teacher for every fifty pupils, and make them model schools. It is necessary that application 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 where a special contract has not been previously made; and no contract is made for a longer pe
riod than one year. It may or may not be renewed. No
notice, therefore, is given that an appropriation will not be continued."
The " Instructions to State Superintendents " were
adopted at the meeting in August last. They are as fol lows :
"1. Make all your engagements with public school offi cers only.
2. Listen to no request that we should alter our terms. 3. Forward to me no application which you do not fully approve and indorse. 4. Assist no school which will cease to exist when we cease to help it.

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State School Commissioner.

5. Accept no private school which proposes to become a public school for the time being only.
6. Give the preference to good and efficient schools. 7. Let all your engagements be for the future, and make no promises for past services. 8. Always keep in view the improvement of the State system of public schools. 9. If it seem expedient, you can diminish, but not in crease, the published rates of assistance. 10. Specify in every instance the amount you recom mend to be given. 11. Different schools cannot be counted together to make up the requisite number. Different grades of the same school may be counted together. 12. Money appropriated to one school cannot be given to any other school; nor can money that is forfeited be transferred. It must remain unpaid. 13. All engagements authorized by me should be made in writing. Oral promises and reported conversations between you and the applicants cannot be recognized, They only lead to misunderstandings. 14. No school officer is to charge a commission for re ceiving and paying out money from the Peabody Fund. If the Treasurer of a school Board demands a certain per cent, for what passes through his hands, the money can be paid to the chairman. "
I am still acting as agent for the Peabody Fund for the
State of Georgia. I have prepared a form of application
for aid from that fund, in accordance with the instructions
copied above, a copy of which will be sent to any teacher
or school officer who may desire to see the same.
I now close this report, asking of the General Assembly
their earnest consideration of the various measures herein
recommended, and hoping that such of these measures as
shall meet with approval, may be put into the form of law.
GUSTAVUS J. ORR,
State School Commissioner.

STATISCAL TABLES.

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

Total White.
1
Total Color'd Total white and colored.
Confederah diers under 3< of age.

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.

Number of children between the ages of 6 and 38 years.

White.

Colored.

Male. Female. Male. FemTe

Number of Illiterates.

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

Number of over eighteen to read.

persons unable

White. Color'd Total. White. Colored. Total.

Appling........................

503 432 108 89 935 197 1,132 14 241 101

342 74

66 140

Baker.............................. 340 286 724 733 626 1,457 2,083 73 89 685 774 64 2,191 2,255

Baldwin.........................

459 506 1,078 959 965 2,032 2,997 51 126 995 1,121 107 2,441 2,548

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

729 648 154 151 1,377 305 1,682 47 65 79 144 48

80 128

Bartow.......................... 1,829 1,750 677 773 3,579 1,450 5,029 119 419 534 953 331 1,326 1,657

Berrien..........................

779 732 61

45 1,511

106 1,617

50 213 64 277 101

67 168

Bibb............................... Brooks............................

2,786 4,053 6,839 *212 *799 *1 49K *9 1/V7 *319 *3 049 *3,3GK

739

733 639 si7 1,472 1,156 2,628

24 202 281

483 108 '197 305

Brvan.................... Bulloch..........................

247 218 169 160 465 329 794

676 -684 298 274 1,360

567 1,927 'sil 43 425

468

61

515 576

Burke.............................. 1,215 1,014 3,070 2,920 2,229 5,990 8,219 70 127 3,381 3,508 197 2,882 3,079

Butts ............................

542 513 489 393 1,055 882 1,937 94 73 382 455 57 961 1,018

Calhoun ........................

468 474 700 683 742 1,383 2,325 60 70 902 972 129 1,336 1,465

Camden..........................

268 263 658 591

531 1,249 1,780 16 48 608 656 44 1,263 1,307

Campbell......................

877

788 633 508 1,665 1,141 2,806 43 138 179 317 198 1,043 1,241

Carroll.

1,789 1,854 196 218 3,643 414 4,057 92

Catoosa..........................

679 692 135 119 i;37l

254 1,625

19

85 121

206 i93

197 390

Charlton........................ 237 232 64 56 469 120 589 11 Chatham...................... 2,287 2,466 4,311 5,022 4,753 9,333 14,086 41T

26 93

25

51

945 1,038

16 156 172 205 5,068 5,273

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TABLE No. 1--Continued.

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Return of Enumeration of School Population and Statistics of Illiteracy.

Total White. Total Colored. Total White
and Colored. terate soldiers 30 years of age.

'State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.
Chattahoochee. Chattooga........ Cherokee......... Clarke. ........ .. Oconee............ Clay........ ......... Clayton........... Clinch........ .. Cobb................ Coffee .............. Columbia........ Colquitt............ Coweta............ Crawford .... Dade................ Dawson.......... Decatur............ DeKalb............ Dodge.............. Dooly..............

Number of children between tb.e ages of six ,*nd eighteen years.

Number of Illiterates,

White.

Colored.

Male. Female. Male. Female.

407 878 1,785
854
472 623 550 1,959 420 381 364 1,294 463 526 622 856 1,318 382 793

392 913 1,678
954
441 582 450 1,906 439 273 338 1,221 439 493 601 783 1,217 359 721

484 257 325
861
480 319
66 628
49 777
24 1,129
542 81 33
803 512 151 630

508 258 223
903
465 239
56 661
57 723
11 1,036
601 53 30
843 493 134 600

749 1,791 3,463
1,808
913 1,205 1,006 3,865
859 654 697 2,515 902 1,019 1,223 1,639 2,535 741 514

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

Number eighteen

of persons over unable to read.

White. Colored Total, White. Colored Total.
<3

992 ,741 515 2,306 548 4,011

80 186 895 1,081 245 1,519 1,764 46 158 146 304 178 450 628 12 962 295 1,257 1,110 308 1,413

1,764 3.572 72 42 370 412 92 2,065 2,157

945 1,858 32 74 387 452 62 483 545

558 1,763

6

6 20 26

8 62 70

122 1,128 33 128 23 151 253 35 288

1,289 5.154

246 fisn 796 610 1 608 2 218

106 965 15 572 90 662 *400 *475 *875

1,500 2,154 42 286 1,152 1,438 438 1.430 1,868

35 732 23 81 17 98 44 16 60

2,165 . 4,680 208 282 707 989 201 1,843 2,044

1,143 2,045 27 86 618 704 155 1,965 2,120

134 1,153 14

63 1,286 13 243 58 301 19 26 45

1,706 3,345 95 78 858 436 41 1,513 1,554

1,005 3,540 85 194 193 387 100 406 506

285 1,026 97 204 367 371 272 333 604

1,230 2 744 96 193 567 760 187 1,650 1,837

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

194 193 1,237 1,211 392 2,448 2,840 11 *58 *2,086 *2,144 *82 *4,120 *4,20g

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

633 611

191

170 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..............................

890 392 134

152 782 286 1,068 37 206 384 390 491 130 621

Effingham........................ 435 397 263 295 832 538 1,370 105 61 380 441 44 460 504

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

702 680 894 731 1.382 1,625 3,007 79 187 532 719 228 1,499 1,727

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

737

763 400 444 1,500 844 2,344 19 23 205 228 27 319 346

Fannin.................... ;..

1,037 945

21

22 1,982

43 2,025 31 104 43 127 38 28 66

Fayette.............................. 993 977 470 425 1,970 895 2,865 12 255 422 677 547 744 837

State School Commissioner.

Floyd................................ 1,926 1.997 750 805 3,923 1,555 5,478 228 680 427 1,107 93 797 1,344

Forsyth............................ 1,148 1,100 Franklin ........................ 932 916

142 303

147 2,248 285 1,848

289 2 537 588 2,436

99 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 54 600 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 2,597 361 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 1 691 415 371 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 m 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 ..............................

846 783 383 338 1,629 721 2,350 55 222 296 518 870 837 1,707

Henry................................ 1,018 962 818 741 1980 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 1021 369 792 1,161

Jasper................................ 599 609 948 878 1,208 1,826 3,034

73 780 853 3y 2,040 2,078

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

718 693 1.210 1,153 1,4H 2,363 3,774 62 215 1,216 1,431 234 2,764 2,998

Johnson............................

393 320 161

189 713 300 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

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

TABLE No. 1--Continued.

Return of Enumeration of School Population and Statistics of Illiteracy.

Number of children between the ages of six and eighteen years U tdO

Number oIlliterates.

White.

Colored.

Male. Female. Male. Female.

794 304 507 a?9 t)t)b 821 759 540 1,060 520
1,135 273 060 780
1,414 560 793 901

768 281 441 229 608 709 777 534 983 501
869 240 676 698 1,313 445 747 790

588 1,067
911 566 576
71 1,030
290 948 668
935 110 96 725 1,716 225 1,200 153

548 1,068
794 511 557
77 956 288 967 571
943 91 78
570 1,633
201 1,254
'162


3
1,592 585 948 508
1.27) 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

'd U O ro
"os
1,086
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

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2a
O 8* H
2,648 2,720 2,658 1,585 2,404 1,768 3,520 1,652 3,964 2,260
3,882 714
1,516 2,77b 6,046 1,431 3,993 2,006

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

Number of nersons over eighteen unable to read.

a)-oSL3t White. Colored. Total. White. Colored. Total.

36 414

37

28

110 62

24

45

29 101

55 224

18
12

43
221

19 289
65 110

40 isi 100 . , ...
50 302
529

47 100

18

75

*142

770 698 279 538 893 35 811 262 1,702 596
1,193
100
75 987
383 1,989
*63

1,184 726 341 583 994 259 854 483
1,991 706
1,374
100
377 1,516
483 2,059 *205

368 621 989

63 3,590 3,653

47 1,255 1,302

44 1,366 M10

252 2,633 2,885

206

60 266

25 663 688

116 1,996 2,112
90 1,396 1,486

113 668 781 22 175 197
178 134 312
402 1,353 1,755

65 523 588
70 2,000 2,070

State School Commissioner.

Muscogee................
Newton.................. Oglethorpe............. Paulding................
Pickens................. Pierce,................... Pike........................
Polk........................ Pulaski................... Putnam.................. Quitman..............
.................
Kandoph................ Richmond..............
Rockdale................
Schley..................... Screven........ ..........
Spalding................. Stewart................... Sumter....................
Talbot..................... Taliaferro...............
Tatnall................... Taylor..................... Telfair.....................
Terrell.................... Thomas..................
Towns.................... Troup..................... Twiggs.................... Union...................... Upson..................... Walker................... Walton.................

1,021 949 678
1,475 835
443 967 916 857 457 316 626 962 2,096 1,033
388 626 947 749 1,043 748 302
859 585
238 759 1,212
505 1,129
435 1,077
781 1,026
1,459

1,099
913 679 1,374
728 445 891
824 824
396 332 583 894 2,121
958 387 615 919
695 1,082
685 299 859
558 233 629 1,241
358 1,033
384
909 709 1,100 1,453

1,414
787 1,145
138 26 139 717 460
1,142 1,099
368 26 878 1,934
329 473 652 801
1,502 1,424
1,197 578 388 669 106 889
1,740 20
1,970
739 9
658 281 784

1,381 750
1,058 117 19 116
716 414
1,149 989 364 21
866 2,058
289 471 615 821 1,399 1,496 1,087 516 382 502
101 718 1,627
19 1,764
676 7
569 257
701

2,120 1,892 1,357 2,849 1,563
888
1,858
1,740 1,681
853
648 1,209
1,856 4,217
1,991 775
1,241 1,866 1,444 2,125
1,433 601
1,718 1.143
471
1,388 2,453
863 2,162
819 1,986 1,490 2,126
. 2,912

279 1.537 2,203
255 45
255
1,433 874
2,291 2,088
732 47 1,744
3,992 618 944
1,267 1,622 2,900 2,920
2,284 1,094,
770
1,172 207
1,607 3.367
39 3/734 1,415
16
1,227
538
1,485

4,915 3 4^-9 3,560 3,104 1,608 1,143
3,291 2,614 3,972
2,941 1,380 1,256
3,600 8,209
2,609
1,719 2,508 3,488 4 345 5 045
3,717 1,695 2,488 2,215
678 2 995
5 820 902
5,896 2,234 2,002
2,717 2,664
4,397

32 86 102 92 35 43 80 64 145 42 28 29 20 214 8 2 86 146
134 49 45 43 40 21 34 77 37 146 42 25 41 116
9l

119 1,078 1,197

87 1 889 1 97fi

105 '928 1,033

301 136 437

324

35 359

94 103 197

101 503 604

120 400 520

544 1,123 1,667

41 871 912

76 532 608

279

15 294

439 1,162 1,601

199 1,012 1,211

137 477 614

*75 *400 *475

126 589 715

143 873 1,016

169 2,574 2,743

99 2,273 2,372

178 125 303

236

236

81 111 192

70 1,560 1,630

171 819 990

514 3,532 4,046

24 2,156 2,180

30 639 669

206

41 247

338 3,333 3,611

363 5,069 5,432

126 451 577

*75 *600 *675

39 1,481 1,520

148 2,715 2,863

148 1,045 1,193 112 3,576 3,688

23 460 483

11 1,026 1.037

101 618 719 143 337 480

281 512 795

95 898 993

70 168 238

52 155 207

249 1,127 1,376 142 1,422 1,564

232 1,532 1,764

36 1,257 1,294

13

13

2

8

10

117 1,255 1,372

96 2,345 2,441

118 440 558 175 1,191 1,366

194

9 203 226

6 232

60 336 396

58 1,869 1,427

813 408 1,221 1,570 574 2,144

117 908 1,025

97 1,128 1,225

State School Commissionet.

0to3 TABLE NO. 1--Continued. Return of Enumeration of School Population and Statistics of Illiteracy.

Confederate soldi under 30 years of

Total white and colored.

Total white.
1

Total
1

i

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.

Number of children between the nges of Fix and eighteen years.

colored.

White.

Colored.

Mate. Female. Male. Female

Number of Illiterates.

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

Number eighteen

of persons over unable to read.

White. Colored Total. White. Colored. Total.

Ware............................... TVarreD............................
W ashington.................... Wayne............................ Webster.......................... White.............................. Whitfield......................... Wilcox............................. Wilkes............................. Wilkinson....................... Worth..............................

428 528 1,30? 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
47 275
80 1,009
654
191

148 681 1,313 127
422 53
249 75
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
1,36? 1,187
457

61

44 105

115 1,688 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 90,51? 84,787 218,733 175.304 394,037 8,036 26,552 79 692 106,244 23,299 145,208 168.507 * Estmmieu.

TABLE No. 2.

Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.

Number
01
Schools.

Number of Scholars Admitted.

White.

Colored.

Total.

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1

Branches of Study Taught.

|

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No. of Pupils. j

| Eng. Grammar. |

i No. of Pupils. |

| Arithmetic.

1Writing.

j Heading.

White.
, Colore< | Male?.
i
Males,

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.

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7 173 417 106 381 17
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434
931 2,221
706 642 299 647 492 638 376 371 792 2,772 959

20 640 359 656 616 1,300 216 1,147 709 2,930 48 754 623 1,265 21 320 99 746 344 836 354 992 350 726 ol>3 534 444 1,236 202 2,974 110 1,069

433 $1.35
429 3.28 x 780 1.36
536 1.08 2,054 1.08
448 1.81 89G7 1.50 26!- 1.33 552 1.38 717 2.06 632 1.54 478% 1.25 404 1.15 776ri3 1 40 3,519-- 1 46 760100 .98

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636 436 331

648 379 220

1,193 975

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494 380

2.455 2,098 1,380

754 496 814

1,142 809 124

320 241 171

720 499 417

699 585 497

374 584 380

704 427 306

508 410 266

1,110 825 487

3.381 ,3.892 1,235

884 U5 323

29 55 146 102 561 102 244 62 92 212 125 85 51 231 394 120

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76 200

261 76

457 312

725 1,315

65 258

228 446

24 163

72 262

328 447

101 88

324 209

107 129

228 485

326 1,054

127 365

90 00 350 00 300 00 75 00 250 00 100 00 290 00 50 00 125 00 450 00 147 00 150 00 125 00 300 00 105 00

Chattahoochee*....... flhnt.tnnjrq, ............. Chpmkpp...... ......... Clarke.....................

10 27 48 36

2 256 198 5 640 518 6 1,399 1,040 39 215 161

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43 454 95 1,158 125 2,439 36S 376

86 540 209 3,367 243 2,682 716 1,092

348 1.45 764% 1.44 1,441 1.24 785 1.00

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155 142 35 35

873 297 1.170 600 70 670

687 464

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COUNTIES. Cobb......... Coflee....... Columbia*. Colquitt.... Coweta..... Crawford... Bade........ Bavson.... Decatur.... DeKalb.... Dodge........ Dooly........ Dougherty. DouglasJ.... EarlyJ...... Echols....... Effingham Elbert....... Emanuel... Fannin...... Fayette.... Floyd....... Forsyth.... Frankliu...

White. Colored. Males. Males. Females. White. Colored.
1
White and Col ored,
Average Attendance. Average Monthly Cost 0 !
Tuition per Pupil. Amount of this Monthly
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TABLE No. 2.--Continued. Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.

H umber of
Schoils.

Number of Scholars Admitted.

White. Colored.

Totel.

jS

| &

GO 24 1,303 974 485 512 2,277 997 3,274

9 43 22
20 10

98 82 420 180 600

119 103

215

215

815 702 633 610 1,517 1,273 2,790

311 248 234 278 559 512 1,071

22 1 629 503 23 17 1,132 40 1,172 44 21 616 516 498 508 1,132 1,006 2,138 31 10 881 617 238 276 1,498 514 2,012 18 4 235 186 72 80 421 152 573 34 9 660 487 184 195 1,147 379 1,526 7 26 100 93 61 616 198 1,257 1,450 19 3 462 863 62 53 S25 11. 940 23 13 249 262 256 226 511 482 993 11 3 139 188 32 33 272 65 337 24 7 180 160 90 110 340 200 510 26 13 485 436 438 425 921 863 1,754' 33 4 "495 361 83 63 806 146 1,002 3D 1 778 632 20 15 1,410 35 1,445 21 1 531 370 324 803 901 627 1,528 60 21 1.126 944 489 429 2,070 918 2,988 41 3 1,015 771 46 46 1,7-6 92 1,878 3 9 837 $52 2S3 275 1,639 ' 563j 2 252

2,121 $1.52
540 116 1.60 1,902 1.50 599 1.80
5TS-Ir .98 1,466 20 1,107 1.27
318 1.89 802 1.16 1,048 .80 527 1.78 738JU 1.18 244 1.65 491 1,145 1.80 595 2.00
686 1.12
870 1.50 1,914 1.54
761 1.10 1,083 1.20

S 66$ 1.4 L .53 .91
.70 .74 .89 1.03 .73 .50 1.18 .56 .84 .85 1.06 .40 .70 .70 .eiH

Branches of Study Taught.

CS 3

5~-g.a2i

CfG4l)..GOOv

1,813 1,474 1,057

244 770 $ 90 00

COD 512 426 346 358 301 215 150 68 4 4 49 2,411 1,771 1,176 530 727 846 9G7 601 3S7 111 121 370

185 00 40 00 300 00 170 75

1,110 610 424 192 50 245

1,898 1,795 1,118 967 785 887

1,838 1,402 474 364

931 254

26860

200 101

781 170

1,430 947 723 188 143 639

1,043 742 460 139 220 353

697 631 357 99 68 324

955 586 425 135 156 334

315 198 13) 35 20 92

298 237 206 160 151 304

11.,06D032

1,266 890

859 803

302
102

28867

720 740

1,222 628 350 95 21 288

1,381 1,089 612 198 170 575

2,651 1,746
2,2 >2

1,983! 1,151] 1,015!

1,267718252

419
110
164

458 1,128 ro 56! 591 586

81 00 3C0 00
63 00 225 00 186 00 45 00 125 00
100 00
282 00 290 00 24 00 60 00
2-0 00
285 00
100 00

State School Commissioner.

Fulton............... . 20 Gilmer.................... 39 Glascock................. 12

8 527 433 1 1,<;89 855
5 149 105

ZS1 ZOO

960 485 1,-Mi

Sf2

15 15 1,914 30 1,974 1,208

69 58

254 127 381

286

1.20 1.20 .94 .47 2.00 1.00

1,155 1,167 734 211 286 683 1.548 927 543 187 127 378
381 197 128 31 20 115

Gordon.................. 28 5 577 465 89 101 1,012 199 1,232 714 1.60

1,136 849 534 173 174 505

Greene.................... 27 17 538 383 433 505 921 938 1,859 1,376 Gwinnett............... 6i 9 1,435 1,123 240 215 2,558 455 3,018 1,629

1.29 1.24

.76 1,701 1,305 891 371 471 903 i74 2,761 1,928 1,253 343 317 829

Habersham............ 35 3 788 590 Hall...................... 49 4 1,114 902

61

54 1,378 115 3,493

830

90 83 2,016 173 2,189 1,100

1J)0 .54 1,492 895 426 133 124 335

1.00

1,952 1,203 813 207 170 590

Hancock................. 36 15 352 288 450 465 610 915 1,555 1,155 2.50 .65 1,555 1,318 1,098 410 400 ' 620

TTju*alsrm ................ 17

442 359

Sni

fcirt 41734 1.25 .33 668 379 231 39 17 210

Harris.................. . 38 18 620 436 513 510 1,106 1,023 2.139 1,441, . 2.00 1.00 1,919 1,476 986 428 523 907

Hart........................ 35 10 521 548 138 165 1,069 303 1,372

Heard.......................... 147 8 5!4 436 266 187

950 353 1,303

772io4 1.42 809 1.60

6334 .61

1,307 1,187

1,110 857

943 550

691 189

589 139

672 525

Henry.................... 38 u 764 578 457 455 1,342 912 2,254 1,535 1.60 .60 2,016 1,632 895 273 287 842

Houston.................. 39 27 456 868 542 529 824 1,071 1,895 1,381 1.69 .70 1,895 1,154 847 338 385 730

Irwin...................... 12 1 81 54

a 18 138 26 164 130 1.80 .85

150 94 70 17 14 42

Jacksoh................ 34 11 729 514 218 239 1,243 457 1,700 978 1.38 .67

683 844 176 135 115 247

Jasper..................... 25 15 334 354 812 244 688 556 3,244 904 1.75 .78 1,219 898 632 172 234 454

Jefi'erson................. 24 Johnson.................. 17

9 411 298 304 *2u7

190 122

2

2

Jones...................... 18 19 212 176 441 445

709 312 1,021

511

MS

383 886 1,274

721 1.55 1.39 272 2.16 1.05

894 798 650 181 17! 509 459 307 264 54 19 183

976 1.27 .95 1,067 781 5 3 151 284 487

Laurens.............. . Lee......................... Liberty.................. Lincoln.................. Lowndes................. Lumpkin............... Macon.................... Madison.................

35 4
n 10 29 22 14 7 28 10
26 1 22 11

422 392 176 152 277 259 180 138 441 835 650 550 427 381

123 78

814 196 1,010

793 2.00

940 159 328 399 727 498 1.82

554 555 536 1,109 1,645 3,374

.44

no 94
307 321

318 210 526 776 628 1,404

835997.^. .91

15 23 1,200 38 1,238 620 1.00

258 280 808 538 1,346 878 2,23

.80 1,010 784 780 3T5 396 404 .80 703 493 300 103 128 206 .44 1,608 1,584 973 268 425 968 .75 462 413 336 159 129 270 .5334 1,357 910 717 166 154 591 .69 973 589 293 76 89 205 .75 1,289 912 868 267 265 729

Marion................... McDuffie................ McIntosh............. . Meriwether............ Miller.................... Milton..................... Mit hell.................. Monroe..................

22
17
5
42 10
17 19 30

6, 7 5 7 1
2 5
25

660 277
55
719 114
511 196
578

462 223 86 522
99 352. 224
468

152 179
78 243
27
37 60 665

152 189
71 212 10
31 65
718

1,128 50J 91
1,241
213
863 420 1,046

304
368 149 455 37 68 125
1,333

1,432 868 240
1,696 250 931 545
2,429

569 . 1.46 1.00, 1,369 1,111 889 '669 540* f 1.6 IK 1.04^ 838 649 432 180 206 1.66 1.26 181 136 105 31 1,207 . 1.51 .70 1,508 1,174 913 329
2.00 1.02 250 150 123 46 42l}f 1.40 .90 903 577 412 88 370 2.56 1.56 520 401 286 119 1,546 1.86 .84 2,356 1,607 1,24s1 456

304 600 178 382 53 69 311 762 59 90 49 293 121 291 558 1,046

TVInntfmmorv............. 18

188 152

340

340 289

Morgan.... .............. 31 15 404 334 292 236 738 528 1,266 955

Murray................... 28 4 829 664 Muscogpo ................

89 105 1,493 194 1,687 1,073

1.60 1.80 1.00

.80 . 325 300 234 102 85 200 .80 1,143 904 681 269 349 760 66% 1,563 824 450 234 119 484

Newton.................. Oconee................... Oglethorpe..........

22 14 14 5 22 15

413 241 375 367
189 179 113 128
39 j 379 298 275

654 742 1,396

875

368 241 609 485

769 573 1,342 1,033

2.00 1.20 1.68

1,057 821 531 168 229 471 .60 520 374 264 97 67 220 .98 1,342 1,001 057 40 S 460 521

100 Qtf 60 00 180 00 300 00 150 00 75 00 300 00 150 00 50 00 250 00 200 00 150 00 300 00 21 00 300 00 195 00 89 00 58 44 108 50 180 00 190 20 165 00 100 00 300 00 31 00 275 00 255 00 150 00 75 00 250 00 13 80 70 00 135 00 324 00 45 00 200 00 150 00 230 00 300 00 300 00

Sfafc School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 2--Continued,

0o5s

Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports,

I Colored. White <*nd
Colored. Average Attendance. Average Monthly cost of
Tuition per Pupil. Amount of this Monthly
Cost of Tuition paid by the State. , Number Pupils, j

Stale School Commissioner.

Number of
Schools.

Number of Scholars Admitted.

White. Colored.

Total.

|

Branches of Study Taught.

S3

j

Compensation of (
ty School Coi
sioners.

| Number Pupils. |

| Number Pupils. Arithmetic. |

| Number Pupils. |

| English Oram marj

1Number Pnpils.

COUNTIES. Paulding............... Pickens................ Pierce.................... Pike...................... Poik.................... . Pulaski'................. Putnam................ Quitman............. Kabun................... Randolph.............. Rockdale............... Schley................... Screven................. Spalding............... Stewart................. Sumter..__ . Talbot.................. Taliaferro............. Tatnall................. Taylor.................. Telfair..... ........... Terrell.................. Thomas................. Towns..................

White. Colored. Males. Females. Males. Females.

50 4 1,144 767

31 3 810 696

18 2 211 143

29. 11 655 518

25 7 538 464

2-J 6 433 387

22 16 259 232

7 2 103 119

21

473 319

25 16 509 361

20 10 417 316

12 10 244 197

26 15 394 253

16 8 325 260

22 18 399 328

15 6 245 207

16

136 97

35 6 443 326

25 7 416 859

25 11 883 349 35 18 634 476 15 11 443 278

2

50 47 1,913 97 2,008 1 007

lili ID ]'506 20

57 46 '354 103 457 340

409 369 1,173 778 1,951 1,142

154 121 1,002 275 1,277 648

111 112 820 223 1,043 659

496 461 491 957 1,448 984

63 72 22 135 357 195

852

400 300 870 700 1,570

259 240 168 376

733 499 1,232 441 344 785

630 415

236 253 647 489 1.186 700

222 226 585 448 1,033 695

525 598 727 1,123 1,850 1,169

176 180 452 356 808 616 94 81 233 175 408 240 97l 84 769 181 950 673 168 160 775 328 1,108 779

196 186 732 382 1,114 810 392 359 1,110 751 1,861 1,396 10 5 721 15 736 450

Geography.

| Writing.

2Aa,
to
0 tO

`5s,

ta5> *c33 Ph

pa

1,589 963 692 114 116 519

1.336 6.78 358 93 22 267

$1.84%
1.68

..6868%$

400 312 1,797 1,272

219 924

35 343

56 330

146 768

1.50

1,218 918 549 185 157 411

2.28 1.30 1,006 743 616 20G 171 457

1.75 .70 1,327 985 584 1T3 258 579

1.75 1.40

212 201 196 139 103 184

.90

788 441 212 113 39 226

1,570 900 750 300 251 851

1.60 .85 1,232 913 877 391 388 507

1.50 .47

782 414 315 119 159 288

1.78 .97 1,036 889 5S7 193 275 533

1.75 .72 1,004 656 446 161 191 437

1.40

1,822 1,211 766 296 316 726

2.00 .45 1.60 .77 1.90 .36

792 638 469 161 148 470 373 260 143 61 53 125 931 769 533 116 66 336 1,007 700 517 1S3 164 386

1.72 1.44

1.31 1,098 896 569 .85% 1,609 1,311 1,016

340 27f

3234 0S

609 826

.75 .62 | 673 228 125 60 9 158J

$180 00 75 00 180 00 148 25 155 20 270 00
200 00
60 00 85 00
200 00
150 00
100 00
590 00 150 00 2C0 00
25() 00
120 00
135 00
200 00
420 00

Ttoup................... Twiggs.................

41 32

29 8

639 478 202 IBS

981 170

9S2 1,017 1,963 2,980 144 840 314 654

Union.................... 26 Up^on................... 21 11 Welker.................

863 568

637 424

330

307

1,500 92

1,500 637 1,629

Walton................. Ware.................... Warren................. Washington ......... Wayne................. Webster............... "White.................. Whitfield............. Wilcox.................

48 18 28 45 20 32 18 36 16

36 3,i68 4 175 8 269 10 917 3 231 6 182 2 549 11 883 1 346

762 325 251 683 192 359 453 680 ICO

365 55 46 00 44 114 47 206 32

340 45 251 220 49 107 38 247 11

1,830 300 520
1,600 423 341
3,002 3,563
306

705 2,535 100 400 496 1,016 520 2,120 93 516 221 562 85 3,087 453 2,016 23 329

Wilkes................. 8 2 322

65 54 199 319 318

Wilkinson............ 33 Worth.................. 20

4 3

650 532 125 102 JJ 62 227 1,389 230 212 67 48 432 115 547

Summary....... 3,15'; 1,075 59,652 47,3"8 24,686 23.95- 107,01f,|48,C43 155,653

1,937 392 813 906
1,780 347 625
1,273 422 357 568
1,232 202 204 844 358
97,996

s':Report received after the foot note on page S was written.

1.50 .68 2.00 1.25 l.Ou 1.28 .79

2,682 1,907 1,177 568 394 277

495 92

552 1,075 j 100 235

1,225 1,429

533 32S 158 13 297 960 692 233 830 621

SOO 00 120 00 lr 00 100 00

1.60 .60

1.25

1.50 .70

1.80^ 1.00

1.20 ~ .80

1.80 .66

1.03 .60

1.07 .75

2.06 1.68

.61* .65

1.91 .93

1.70 .85

2,207 1,570 1,070 256 280 125 187 39 998 607 429 167
2,061 1,714 1,387 1,165 403 385 255 85 562 366 257 131
1,037 440 239 164 1,813 1,473 614 311
329 158 108 19 267 210 188 75 1,316 991 743 185 515 811 240 48

178 27 189 566 56 110 103 341 16 86 173 35

757 177 398 526 208 246 288 684 80 59 583 161

250 GO 100 00 200 00 240 00 105 00 66 00 75 00 80 00 53 41 210 00 21 75 150 00

Si.50 8 .79 137 551 100,328 58,934 25,472 25,067 55.856 $18,619 29

State School Commissioner.

CO *4

CITY OR COUNTY

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

Number of Schools,

Number of Scholars Admitted..

White.

CoU red.

Total.

Pupil.

cost of tuition per

| Average monthly

Average Attendance.

White i and
Colored. Length of school
Term in months.

Colored.

White.

Females.

Males.

Females.

Graded. High
Schools. Males.

Ungraded.

[

i

State School Commissioner.

Bibb........................:............................... 36 10

Chatham.................................................. 13

7

2

797 792 747 817 1,589 1,564 3,153 8 1,654 $ 1 02

2 1,198 1,344 961 899 2,542 1,860 4,402 9 3,433 1 10

Richmond................................................ 34 28

6

703 680 530 573 1,383 1,103 2,486 9 1,910 1 00

10

2

2,558 1,251 3,809 10 2,813 1 67

City of Columbus............................ ....

a

l

290 313 265 295 603 560 1,163 9

841 1 10

Total.................................................... 73 58 13

8,675 6,338 15.013

10,650 $ 1 18

Bibb--Of the Ungraded Schools, 13 were white and 13 colored; of the graded, 6 white and 4 colored. The High Schools were white. Of Ungraded Country Schools, 3 embrace High School course. The average monthly cost of salaries oi teachers per pupil was 86c. Chatham.--The Ungraded Schools were in country dit-tricts. Glynn.--Owing to the yellow fever and other causes, hut little communication has been had by this Office, with the School authorities of this county. There were probably no Schools in operation. Richmond.--Of the Ungraded Schools, 24 were white, 10 colored. Of the Graded, 18 white and 10 colored. The High Schools were white. In some districts the School Term exceeds nine months; in others it falls short of that number. The average mor thl y cost of tuition per pupil leaves out of the estimate the High Schools. Columbus.--The 3 Graded Schools include 17 School rooms, The average monthly cost of tuition per pupil on total enrollment is 80c.
Sources of Revenue.--During the School Year, above reported, tbe sumsreceived by these Schools were as follows: Bibb.--Fromlocal taxation, $25,000.00: by State School Commissioner's order on Tax Collector, $4,850.17; poll tax, $2,241,09; from Peabody Fund, $2,000,00--$33,891.26. Chatham.--From local taxation, $45,000.00 ; from County Educational Fund, $836 37; by State School Commissioner's order on Tax Collector, $5,407.18 ; from poll tax, $1,824 05-- $53,067.60. Richmond__From local taxation, $21,000.00; by State School Commissioner's order on Tax Collector, $3,140.36; from poll tax--r. Atlanta.-- From local taxation, $35,000.00 ; by State School Commissioner's order on Tax Collector, $3,911.77; poll tax, $4,045 15; from Peabody Fund, $2,000.00; non resident pupils, $629.00--$15,615.92. Columbus.--From local taxation, $9,000.00; by State School Commissioner's order on Tax Collector, $920.52 ; from pupils for use of books, $1,943.00; from Peabody Fund, (aid to colored schools,) $600.00; from poll tax--.

No. of Schools. No. of Instructors. Males. Females,
j
Males. Females. Colored. W hite
and Colored. Ayerage number of months taught. Average monthly
cost of 1tuition per pupil.

COUNTIES'

TABLE NO. 4.* Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.

"White.

Number op Pupils.

Colored.

Total.

Branches taught*

State School Commissioner.

Appling..........

Baker............... 8 8 55 50 18 19 105 37 149, 5 Filamentary............................................................. $ 1 44-J

Baldwin..........

Banks.............. 8 8 172 130

302

309 4 Richer Math, ami "Rlementary Branches.. . 1 20

Bartow........... 4 5 40 39 60 71 85 131 910 44- Fhpmenta.ry Branches......................................... 1 20

Berrien........... 5 5 58 52 Bibb.................

110

110

Filamentary Branehes....................................... 2 15

Brooks............ 4 4 28 26 Bryan.............

54

54

Fhementnry.................................................. ..

1 50

Bulloch...........

Burke .......

Butts................ 14 14 126 124 61 G4 250 125 370 4 Rlementary......... ................................................... 1 64

Calhoun..........

11

82

78

18

22 1fi0

49, 200 64 Frlementavy Br^pehea

............................. 3 00

Camden......... 8 8 17 31 Campbell....... 11 12 228 212

17

19 48 440

36 84 U8 Flpmentary Brprmhps

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

440 A Flementary...................................................... ..

1 46 2 07-1-1

Carroll............ 25 29 394 369

763

763 44 Rlamentary ...................................................... 1 52' "

Catoosa........... 0 6 116 94

210

Elementary............................................................. 1 25

Charlton......... 7 7 70 64

134

134 5* English..................................................................... 1 55

Chatham........

*T1xj incompleteness of this table results from inability to secure reports from private leachers.

TABLE NO, 4--Continued.

O4^

Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.

Average monthly tu itio ncopsterof pupil

mber taught

; No. of Instructors
i
Females. Males. Females.

State School Commissioner.

02

COUNTIES.

4Tooo3fl

o

d ' fc

Chat'lioochee
Chattooga.... 12 12 Cherokee.... Clarke.............
Clav............... Claytou......... Clinch............ 1 1 Cobb...............
Coffee.............
Columbia.... Colquitt.........
Coweta........... 15 20 Crawford.... 13 13 Dade............... Dawson.......... 5 5 Decatur......... DeKalb........ 15 10 Dodge............ 2 2 Dooly............ i 7

| Colored, i

Wliite. <8

Number of Punus.

Colored.

Total.

d

202 207

409

5 10

15

275 250 150 161 525 311

134 107 30 32 241

62

154 12G

280

251 250

9 16 501 25

21 24 27 28 45 55

114 70

190

Wahnitde j
Colored.

Aovfermaognetnh

u s

Branches taught.

|

409 5 Elementary Branches........................................ $ 1 55

15 3 Elementary........................................................... 1 33

876 5 Elementary............................................................. 303 4 Elementary.................... :......................................
280 5l- Elementary Branches......................................
526 4f Elementary........................................................ 100] 9 Elementary...................................................... . 190l 33 Elementary........................................................

2 00 1 80
1 09
1 72 2 89 1 93

JDougiierty... "Dmifflaa........

State School Commissioner.

Echols..........

Effingham...

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

Emanuel.... 25 00 890 302 40 32 092 72 764 5 Elementary, Academic and Classical..........

Fannin..........

Fayette.......... 15 15 194 202

396

396 3|i Elementary....... .............

1 68

Floyd............ 19 19 250 200 95 65 450 160 610 8 Usual Branches............... .............................

2 00

Forsyth......... 10 10 184 184 .

308

378 44 Elementary Tinny nnrl TTiirher Math

Franklin.... 11 12 207 208 20 33 415 53 468 4| Elementary........................ "..........................

Fulton........... 10 10 118 92 26 18 205 44 249 4i Elementary, Algebra, Entin, Greek etc.

Gilmer..........

Glascock.... a 8 100 77

177

177 6 Elementary

2 00

Glynn..........

Gordon.......... 5 0 116 106 Greene...........

222

222 5y Elementary nnrl fllncsiem

1 58

Gwinnett.... 25 80 468 450 Habersham..

918

918 44 Elementary nrul Gln.ftQics.

1 65

Hall................

Hancock.... a 3

25

28

81

90

53 171 224 6 Elementary.............................................. ..

Haralson..,..

2 50

Harris............

Orthog.,Reading, Writing, E.Gram., Geog.,

Hart............... 40 41 476 482 120 132 958 252 1,210 5 Arith.,Math.,Lang.,Latin, Greek, etc.... 1 42

Heard............ 10 11 136 145

281

281 5 Elementary.

1 60

Henry............

Houston........ s 8 83 70 21 20 153 47 200 5y Elementary............................. ................. 2 18

Irwin.............

Jackson........ 9 9 180 135

315

315 6 Elementary............

1 47

Jasper............ 21 21 181 220 06 49 401 115 516

Element.,Nat. Philos.,Latin, French, Aig.. 2 25

Jefi'erson....

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

No. of Instructors. Males.
i
Females Males. Females | Colored. W ah intde Colored. Average num ber oi
months taught. Average m onthly tu itiocnopsterofpupil.

State School Commissioner.

I

COUNTIES* m o o 6

Johnson.
Jones............... Laurens.......... Lee................. Liberty...........

20 21 77 33

Lincoln,.......... 13 15 Lowndes........ 11 12 Lumpkin........ Macon............. 7 7 Madison.,...
Marion...........
McDuffie........ 14 14 McIntosh. ... Meriwether.. Miller............ Milton............ G 6 Mitchell......... Monroe..........

white.

Nttmbeb of Pupils.

Colored.

Total.

O %

175 152 48 51 327 99

213 105

318

33 38

71

115 96 74 53 211 127

141 123 13

7 264 20

88 52 22 18 140 40

146 121 43 42 267 85

113 128

241

Branches taught.
426 5f Elementary and Science.................................... $ 1 79 318 10 Legal Branches, Classics and Nat. Science. 2 50
71 6 English and Latin and Primary..................... 2 50 Legal Branches, History, Math,, Latin,
338 6A Greek, French, Philos., etc,........................ 289 3-A: Elementary and Classics........................... ........ 2 47 180 4* Elementary............................................................. 2 03
350 5 Elementary, Math., Lang, and Science.... 1 75
1 50

Montgomery..
Morgan.......... 11

80 70 13

150 19 109

Murray..........

123 101

224

Muscogee....

Newton......... 10 10 205 171 13 15 376 28 404

Oconee..........

Oglethorpe... 15 16 191 206

897

397

Paulding........ 21 21 319 271

590

590

Pickens..........

Elementary and English. Elementary......................
Elementary.
Elementary., Elementary..

1 80 1 00
2 00
2 37 1 50

State School Commissioner.

English and the Classics and Ornamental

Pierce............ 3 3 10 15 Pike................ 22 27 288 243 58
Polk. ............

25

25 10 Branches............................. ................... t

93 531 151 682 u Elementary..........................................

2 33i
1 75

Pulaski.......... ,17 17 253 240 29 Putnam.........
Quitman........ "e "e "50 "50
Kibun............

34 493 '166

63 556
"ios

Elementary and Classics........ Elementary and Classics..............

2 16i
'h'bb"

Eandolph. ... "2 "4 "92 "29

'121

'121

Lang., Science and Higher Math'..

Richmond ...

Rockdale....... Schley........... 3 3 50 60

110

no

Screven.......... 11 12 102 94 44 45 196 89 285

Spalding........ 10 10 140 110 18 20 250 38 288

Stewart.........

Sumter..........

Talbot............ 10 12 78 89 85 89 167 174 341

Taliaferro....

Tatnall.......... 15 15 160 140

300

300

Taylor........... 6 6 79 70

149

149

Telfair............ 12 11 80 69 27 39 149 66 215

Terrell............ 36 38 382 324 178 174 706 352 1058

Thomas.......... 4 5 95 72 36? 36? 167 72 167

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

Legal Branches, Latin, Alg. and Rhet. Elementary................................................ Elementary......................................
Elementary Science and Classics.
Elementary.......................................... Elementary.......................................... Elementary.................................. [. |' Elementary and Higher Branches., Usual Elementary............................. .

2 00 1 99 2 00

2 25

1 50

2 98

2 00

1 72

2 00

W6^.

No. of Schools. No. of instructors. W hite
and Colored. Average number ot
months taught. Average m onthly
Cost of tuition per pupil.

State School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 4--Continued.

[Consolidation of Reports of Private Elementary Schools'

Number of Pupils.

COUNTIES.
Troup.............. Twiggs........... Upson............. Walton........... Warren.......... Washington.. Wayne.... N..

16 16 88
19 19
25 SO
12 13 18 21
99

White,

lC/l.

GC

3

B

fa

271 222 60 53
i72 180

404 385

92 82 254 222
65 62

Colored.

W

tVo

*3
aa>

26 20
38 35
50 35
30 35 40 37 23 21

Total.

6

H03>

O

*

oO

493 113 46

352 73

849 85

174 65
476 77 127 44

Branches taught.

6 Elementary............................................................. 2 50 159 54 Elpmentary................................. ............................ 2 00 725 4i English, Ancient Classics and Mathematics i 62

934 44 E'.lpmpntnw

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

239 5

vy .................................

553 4i Wn vlich Rra nelu*

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

171 3 T^jpfnpntary

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

1 60
1 80
2 10
1 60

Whitfield ... Wilcox........... Wilkes............
Worth.............
Total...........

17 19 146
9 10 92
8 3 30 814 877 11,098

160 90
25
9,940

12 9
15
1,803

11 306 11 182
12 55 1,816 21,038

23 349
20 202
27 82 3,619 24,657

3 P.lpmpntflry............................. .............................

6 Ti'.lm-npnforir

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

5i Pllompnfn.ry. . . ..................................................

2 06 2 17
2 66

5f

$ 1 88

TABLE No. 5.

Report of Private High Schools.

State School Commissioner.

o2

No. of Pupils

COUNTIES

Name.

Location.

Name of Principal. Ma

o

3"Eo-t

"Rnrtnw.... Cartersville High School..... Cartersville..... R Johnson..... 2 36 20 56 Rarthw.... New Hope Academy......... Cartersville...... Irby G. Hudson 1 20 25 45

"Rarfftw. . Pine Log Masonic Institute Pine Log.......... Aug. W. Fite... ] '50 41 91 "Bartow... Wofford Academy............... Cass Station...... Mat. Marshal... 2 29 25 54

Bartow.... Erwin Street High School... Cartersville..... L. B. Millican.. 2 39 25

Bartow. Kingston Academy............ Kingston.......... . James T. Lin. Brooks.... Quitman Academy................ Quitman............ W. S. White.....

03

24
56

24 48
50 106

Broolrs..... Hickory Head Academy.... Grooverville.... E. B. Carroll.... 1 23 19 42 Brooks......... GrooYerville Academy-....... Groovervide..... C. S. Rockwell... 2 30 26 56

Brooks. Pine Grove Academy........... Grooverville..... J. R. Meadow... 1 14 16 30 Campbell,... Palmetto High School........... Palmetto............. L. T. Rodgers... 1 38 37 35 Campbell... Fairborn Academy............... Fairborn........... W.H. Andrews 2 40 45 85

Catoosa..... Masonic Literary Institute. Ringgold............. A. G. Thomas...

* ihat'ahVhp Cusseta M'le <& Fern. School ClISRPtfl . ....... J. B. Huft'...........

Chat'ab'cbe Cnssp.ta "High School.

Cnssfita. ... ....... A. E. Murphy

A M. A. Hooton

Chat'nbVhf* .Tn.mAHtnwn Afnd<vmy............ .Tn'npatrtwn ... Jas Castleberry

Chattooga... Summerville Academy........ Summerville..... Ossian Huggins

Chattooga,. Birt-Tfr^n Academy,,',

Dirt. Town....... A. A. Marshal..

Chattooga... B'armersvjlle High School... "Dirt, Town........ "R,, M, TTodgp ,,,

Clayton....... Clayton Institute................... Jonesboro ........ G. 0. Looney...

Cobb........... Marietta Male Institute..... Marietta.......... G, F. Gober.....

3 12
1 26
2 15 ]9 2 44 g 60
3 58
8 J01
1 30

tj 19 16 42
15 30 17 26
23 67
37 97 39 97
82 383 30

J Males, | Females.
No. oi Months ta

.. . AtSo3

.?o a'S

Branches Taught.

CJ>ab_>Se-W1-s ,t4P-><f? <5

30 A ncipn t. Classips. Mathpmfltips. NHpnpps. p4.p

$3 00

9 Elementary and Ancient Classics, Mathematics,

Sciences...... ........................ .............................. 2 25

Elementary, Algebra and Rhetoric......................... 1 75

10 Elementary, Languages,Astronomy, History,Rhet-

orie and Music..................................................

4 Mathematics, Classics and Science................................ 2 50

4 Languages and Mathematics,..........................................

10 Elementary, Ancient Classics, Mathematics and

Sciences.................... ....... .

3 0)

9 Ancient. Classics and Mathematics......................... . 1 75

10 Elementary, Ancient Classics, Mathematics and

Natural Sciences..... ......................... ......................... 2 82

6 Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences............. 2 00

6 Mathematics. Latin and English Branches............... 2 50

7 Elementary Branches, Mathematics and Ancient

Classics...................................................................... .

2 50

10 Mathematics and Sciences.......-.....................................

6 Elementary and Higher Mathematics......................... 3 50

sy4 Elementarv and Higher Branches............................... 6 F.lementarv, Mathematics. Sciences ................... 3 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............................ 30 Classics, Mathematies, Sciences and Music............... 8 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences, etc....................... 10 Classics! Mathematics! Sciences and Eng. Branches 10 Collegiate Couise............................... ............. ......

2 56
2 66% 2 21
2 50
2 59
4 00 4 00

TABLE No. 5--Continued. Report of Private High Schools.

!

1 per pupil.

, cost of tuition

Average monthly!

Months taught.

| No. of Instructors

State School Commissioner.

No. Of Pupils

COUNTIES

[Nr me.

Location.

Name of Principal

75 2

DpKalh .... Decatur M. & F. H. School. Decatur.......... T. A. Murray... 2 38

Elhprt.

Elbert Collegiate Institute.. Elberton..... . Mrs, S.E.Capcis 3 5

ElhArt

AndrAw Mfllp TTi^h Sphonl Flhcrton ........ P. E. Davant....

ElhArt Flatwood Arademv..... ...... E hert county... H. P. Sims.......

`PayptfA Flat.CrpAlr Hii?h S?*hnol... . Fayette county W. L. Jackson-

Fayette..... Sharon Groye Iligh School.. Brooks Station.. Thomas B. King

1 39 1 11 ] 2(i 1 3i

Franklin.... Franklin County Institute Carn^sville...... S. K. Burruss... 2 4:

Flryt

TTAnrn School............... iCavA Spring__ P. J. King.......

Floyd*....... Cave Spring Female School Cava Spring..... J. S. King.........

Floyd . Rome Military Academy.... Romo............... E. J. Magruder

OrAAnft...... Dawson Institute............... White Plains.... J. M. Harrell...

fJrppnp Male Academy...................... firccn shorn.. . W Tra Smith .

fTrAATIft. . . Fuller Academy................ Greene county.. J. H. T.awis

OrAAnft. Union Point High School... Union Point/... W. E. Revnolds

Otaatip..... Mercer High School............ pAnfield........... V. T. Sanford...

Hancock.... Washington Institute......... Linton............. R. S Baker.... .

Hancock.... Sparta Academy................ Spnita..... ...... W. M. Slaton-..,

Hancock.... C. B .Beman School............ Sparta.............. F. P. Mnllaly...

Hart..........

Hartwell........ M. V. T.c.onpy A

A. B. Looney...

1 85 12 3 45 3 40 3 16 3 15 ] 17 2 2?-
31 1 21 2 If 3 1` 3 54

Heard........ Farmers' High School........ [Houston.......... Leonid an .Tones 12 4<

| Females.

73 "Ho 32 70 65 70
39 15 26 6 32 27 57 16 56
35 16 38
45
40
19 35 15
6 23 28 56 20 53 17 38 18 28
28 49 103 4 8f

|

No of

Branches Taught.

i

8 Elementary, Latin, Greek and Rhetoric................ *3 00

English, Mathematics, Ancient and Modern Lan-

10 EnErfish Glassies and Higher Mathematics

$3 75 4 00

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

6 Mathematics, Sciences and Ancient Classics.......... 3 50

9 English Course. Higher Mathematics aud Langua-

8 English, Mathematics, Latin, Greek and Book

keeping.............................................................. 1 60

10 English, T-at.in, Gr^k arid Mathematics................. 3 00

4 Arithmetic, Latin and Algebra............... ............... 3 00

10
ID

Classics, etc*....................Z......................................

4 00
4 50

6 English, Mathematics and Classics......................... 3 20

5 Elementary, Latin, Greek..................................... 3 50

5 Elementary, Algebra, Geometry, Latin & Greek.., 2 50

6 Elementary, Ancient Classics, Mathematics.......... 3 00

7 Mathematics, Classics and Sciences........................ 3 50

6 Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences........ . 2 27

6 Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences............ 3*00

7 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences................ 4**00

9 Elementarv, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry,

Latin, Greek............................................ ......... 4 00

9

Elementary, Languages, Mathematics, Science and Music..'............................. ................................

a oo

Heard..,..... Houston.... Houston.... Houston.... Jones......... Jones......... Lee............

Franklin I natit ute.......... Ft. Valley Female Seminary Fort Valley Academy........ Perry Male School............ Plentitude........................... Innominata......................... Hillyer Institute................

Franklin......... Fort Valley..... Fort Valley.... . Perry............... Hawkins Dist... Sanders* District Leesburg.........

T.E.Pendergrast T. B. Russell.... H. A. Mathews Sidney Lewis... J. K. DyKes...... \V H Blackmore W.. H. Baldy &
* Sallie Long

1 111 11
2

Liberty]..... Liberty ..... Liberty..... Liberty;.... Macon.......

Jones* Creek Academy....... Franqnil Institute............... Taylor's Creek Academy.... Walthourville Academy.... Oglethorpe High School....

Jones' Creek.... Flemington..... Taylor's Creek.. Walthourville... Oglethorpe.......

t. B. Martin..... W. W. Winn.... R. N- Andrews.. A. M. Atclver...

Macon....... Macon....... Macon..... . Macon....... Marion ......

MarshallTille High School... Montezuma High School... Pine Level High School..... Spaulding Seminary.......... Buena Vista High School....

Marshallville.... Montezuma..... Pine Level,..... Spaulding........ Buena Vista.....

Dunham and Kenni*rly

11
2 2
3
2 2
3 3
2

Marion..... Marion..... Marion..... Marion....... McDuffie. ... Morgan..... Morgan..... Alorgan..... Morgan..... Morgan..... Morgan...... Morgan...... Morgan..... Murray..... Oglethorpe.. OglethorpeOglethorpe.. Pike........... Pike........... Pike......... . Pike........... Pike........... Pulaski.....

Oak Hill School.................. Taa'welL School................ Charter Oak School............ Mt. Tabor School................ Wrightsboro Academy........ Rhehoboth' M <fc F H School Forest Home Institute........ Temperance Hill H. School Campbell's Home School... Leveret Grove School......... Rutledge High School......... Madison Male High School. Braswell High School......... Sumach Seminary............... Crawford Academy............ Meson Academy-............... Philomath Institute............ Liberty Hill High School.... Milner High School............ Planters' High. School......... Academy............................ Gordon Institute................ Hawkinsville High School.

Dorman Dist. Tazwell.x.... Buena Vista DJs Jacksonv'lle Dis McDuffie Co..... Rhehobothv'lle Madison....... Morgan county Rutledge.......... Putnam...... . Rutledge..... . Madison..... . Morgan county U)39th Dist G.M Crawford.......... Lexington....... Woodstock..... Liberty Hill.... Milner............. Holtouville..... Z;bulon........... BarnesTslle...... Hawainsville ...

Alice Mathf ws.. M, K. Gray bill.. Ida Muotro..... E. H. Briggs.... N. E. Ware..... T. J. Walker..... Mrs. E. Nebhut W. H. Coeroft... D. Campbell.... J. A. Avery..... T. H. Burruss... E. W. Butler.... J. A. Saye....... E JFCbenuerly J. F. Cheney.... T. B. Moss......... C.T Boggs....... J. W. Rudisell.. Garland Head... J. N. Brooks.... W.H. Pritchard C. E. Lamdin.. W. J. Harvard A M. T. Hodge

13 13
2 2
3 3
2 1 2
a21
3
2121 13
6
2

Pulaski. Wynns' School,

Cochran

C. W. M. Wynn 2

5 English, Mathematics, Languages, Natural Sciences 3- #</

10 Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences............ 6 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences........................-..... 8% English Classics, Mathematics................................. 9 Elementary Classics and Sciences...........................

23 05o0
3 00 2 16

9 Elementary Classics and Sciences.......................... 1 4T

9 English, Higher Mathematics* Classics and French 3 25

5 Lat.n, Mathematics and Sciences............................ 2 00

35 910
7
6

Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences ......... Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences......... English, Latin, Greek* French, Mathematics......... English, Higher Mathematics, Latin...................... Classics, Mathematics, etc....................................... English, Higher Mathematics, Latin......................

3 00
2 80 3 00 3 00 3 00

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

3 00 3 00

6 Classics, Mathematics and Sciences........................ 3 25

55
5 3

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

2 00
2 55 2 75 3 33>a 2 50

9 English and Classics................................................ 2 50

10
7

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

2 80

9 Ancient Classics, Higher Mathematics, Elementary

5
109

English and Classics................................................ Natural Sciences,Eng.,Latin, Greek & Mathematics

2 25 2 50 4 50

5
10
9

Elementary and Classics......................................... English and Latin................................................... Classics, Mathematics and Sciences.........................

2 00
75 3 00

7 Elementary, English, Mathematics and Languages 3 50

10 10

Ancient Classics, Mathematics1 and Sciences.......... Mathematics, Ancient Classics, Sciences............... Latin, Mathematics, Sciences, English Branches...

2 90 3 00

51%

Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Sciences.......... English................................................. .................

2 02
3 (10

10
3110

Ancient Classics, Mathematics and Science, Mod ern Law, Music.......................... ;.......... ;........
English Branches, Mathematics,Classics & Sciences English Course................................................... .

4 00 3 75 2 50

-<1

Sfafe School Commissioner.

TABLE No. 5--Continued.

S/afe School Commissioner.

Repot t of Private High Schools.

COUNTIES

Name.

Location.

2 SJ

No. of Pupils.

Name of # Principal.

"hcH5



a <4-1
525

'cJ s

'3
&

"cS " H

Pulaski.. Cochran High School. Quitman, Georgetown Academy,

Cochran........... D. C. Walker... Georgetown.... J. S. Dobbins...

Bandolph... Benev'lence M & F H Scho'J Benevolence.... W. H. Allen....

Conyers............ J.F. McClelland

Boekdale...

& J. M. Brittain

Screven..... Sylvania High School.. Screven...... Paris Hill Academy....

Sylvnuia.......... TM.Hazlehurst ?/- C R R....... B. S. Crane.......

Talbot.......

Talbot county... W. H. Woodall..

Taylor....... Butler F Coi. & M Institute. Butler............. JamesT. White

1 27 21 48 2 28 24 52 2 24 37 61 2 82 38 120 1 26 15 44 ] 9 7 16 2 26 30 56 5 49 61 110

Taylor... Reynolds Academy..

Thomas., Fletcher Institute.....

Troup....

Troup.... Long Cane High School..

Troup.... LaGrange High School....

Troup

Hogansville Institute.....

Twiggs.... Auburn High School......

Twiggs..., Lodge Academy.............

Washingt'n

Washingt'n White Oak.................

Washingt'n Mt, "Vernon Institute..

White

Wilkes

Roynnlds.......... W. B. Walker... O. D. Scott.......
West Point..... John T. Graves Troup Co......... W. W. ArnoldTifl.frrn.ngp........ T. C. Newton... Wnprsmtsvillp J. H. Covin..... Jeffersonville... J.'A. Barclay,Ji Near Marion.... B. S. Fitzpatrick SandersvUle..... Ivy W. Duggar Davisboro.94 dis J. B. Williams. Riddlesville..... John J. Hyman Nacoochee....... J. J. Methvin.. Washington.*... J. I. Ingraham.

1 18 2 58 ] 18 1 11 1 47 3 31 2 23 ] 32 6 108 ] 21 2 26 3 32 1 29

11 29 58 18 18 47
31 62 19 42 1( 23 97 205 17 38 35 43 31 63
29

Summary..

17()l3245 235C 5GCl!

No. of Months Taught.

"2

II .

Branches Taught.

a

2 CO ^
p> CJ fit. <

10

3 2n

5

3 00

10

3 00

10 6

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

2 00 2 25

7 Elementary, Ancient Classics and Mathematics.... 5 35

10 10

Classics and Sciences................................................ Ancient and Modern Law, Mathematics, Sciences,

3 00

9

etc...................................................................... Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences................

3 00 3 50

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

3g,k

Ancient Classics, Mathematics, English.............. . Elementary, Classics, Sciences, Mathematics........

3 25 2 50

9 English, Classics, Mathematics............................... 3 50

10 Elementary, Languages, Mathematics, Sciences.... 3 00

10 Elementary, Latin, Greek, Algebra....................... 3 50

10 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............... . 4 00

10 G

English Classics, Mathematics................................. English Branches....................................................

2 80

6 Eiementary and Classics........................................ . 2 50

10 3

English, Ancient Classics, Mathematics, Sciences... '1 25 Elementary, Sciences, Classics, Mathematics........ 4 00

7-.<6h; ....................................................................................................$2 95

TABLE No. 6.

Report of Colleges.

State School Commissioner.

i No. of Instructors. | Males.
Females. Females.

1 No. <)f Pupils.

COUNTIES

Name.

Location. Name of Presiding Offi cer.

White. Colored.

oG>O

a

Rthh

ATArnpr TTrnvArsifry

Macon........... A. .1. Rflt.tla . .

6 133

Rihh.......... WAstftyan

Macon........... W. C. Bass.,.................. 13 210

TTnlvArsit.y rtf (rArtrgHn i

Athens.......... H. H. Tucker... .

13 203

C.larlrA , Fiiicv Cobh Institute............... Athens.......... Mrs. A. E. Wright and

P A . HAard

8

98

TnEh PnwAtn Plnyr!

MflriAti.n T^AmalA CnllAgfA Marietta....... T. R Rranham

3

CnllAffA TAmplft,............... Newnan........ M. P. Kellogg............... 7

ChArrtlrAA Roptist. Fai CrtIlAjirA Rome...... ...... R. T). ATa11orv-

7

34 100 119

TTlnyH

Rnmp. FAmfllp CaIIa^a

Rome............ .1. Af. M. On/dwAll

TTmiafrnn.. Urtnstrtn PAtnalfi CrtllAgA . Perry............ (rAorp-A R. Rripj'H

6

102

2

60

.Thnlrsnn Martin Institute........7........... Jefferson.. John~W. Glehii............ 4 71 46

Afrtrrran frArtrgnfl FpmalA CnllApA.

Madisnn Gaa^a T'. RrnwnA

5 54

lEinrtrv CaIIa^a. ...

Oxfard ..... AtticiiR G. TTfl.vpnnd

"NToto+ati Rrtnt.b'rn Mnartnip ffAm CaITa^a Coving'tAn .1. "W. RraYlshaw

"RnoVrlolA CnnyArs PpiuoIa CnMAgfA.... ConvArs

Thoa B. Bailey...........

9 156 7 5 85 6 12 45

Spalding.... Tnlhnt. G

flrtflRn PAmnlA IrfiVArt. CaIIacta

CrtllAgfA ..

tlri ffi n Talhnttnn

A. B. Niles.................... G. W. Maxson..............

T'HArilao VAiinp FAmalA CnllAyA .. ThornaRvillA .Tnhn R. RaVat.

SAiifhArn PAmnlA CaIIa^a. T/RprTAngA I. F. Cox.......................

Iroup......... LaGrange Female College..... LaGrange..... J. R. Mayson...............

6 105

2 24 39

5

93

9 9 93

5 10 55

Branches Taught.

3


138 Languages, Sciences, Philosophy and Law $6 66%
210 Branches usually taught........................... 7 50 203 Usual branches taught in colleges............. 7 50

98 Those usually taught in female colleges... 34 English, Latin, French.............................. 100 Collegiate course in full............................ 119 All usually taught in colleges................... 102 Branches usually taught in colleges......... 60 Branches usually taught in colleges.......... 117 Usual branches.......................................... 54 Mathematics, through Calculus, Physics,
Literature, English, Latin,French,Draw ing and Painting, Music, vocal and in strumental........................................... . 156 The full collegiate course.......................... 90 A full college curriculum......................... 57 English branches in primary department. Classics, Mathematiis, and Sciences in collegiate department............................. 105 Regular college course............................... 63 Elementary, Sciences and Classics............ 93 Branches usually taught in colleges........... 102 College course..^...... ................................. 65 Branches usually taughtin female colleges

4 00 4 00
4 00 4 00 3 50 3 20*
4 00
6 00 2 55
4 25 3 00 4 25 4 00 5 00

'Troiip......... West Point Female College.... West Point.... A. P. Mooty................. 4 9 36

Total.......

126 -6-S-6---1L.3--20

* Of this sum, only $2.10 is paid by patrons, the remainder being paid by the Martin Fund.

45 Branches usually taught in female col leges.................. ......... ..........................

6 00

S

2,006

4 52

State School Commissionet,

State School Commissioner.

51

TABLE No. 7.

Apportionment of the School Fund of 1876. Amount Ap portioned, $149,464.98.

COUNTIES.

School popula tion and Con federate Sold iers under 30 years of age.

Counties1 rata.

pro

Date of the State School Com
missioner's order on Tax CollV

Appling........... .........................

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

Baldwin......................................

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

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

Berriea....... .................................

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

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

Bryan...........................................

Tinllonh................. .

...

Burke............ ..............................

Butts.............................................

Calhoun....................................

Camden.......................................

Campbell.....................................

Carroll..........................................

Catoosa........................................ Oharlton....................................

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

Chattahoochee...........................

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

Cherokee.....................................

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1,146 $ 2,156
3,048 1,729 5,148 1,667 7,063 2,652
794 1,982 8,289
2,031 2,385
1,796 2,851 4,149 1,644
000
14,503 1,821
2,352 4,023 2,335 1,890 1,769 1,161 5,154
980 2,196
755
4,888 2,072 1,167 1,299 3,440 3,625 1,123
2,840 2,851
1,675 2,065 1,105 1,475 3,086 2,363

427 27 Dec. 6, 1876.
803 83 Nov-1, .. 1,136 39 Oct. 9,
644 63 Oct. 12, .. 1,199 34 Oct. 9,
621 51 Nov. 16, .. 2,633 31 Dec. 30,
988 75 Nov. 8, 296 03 Dec. 11,
738 95 3,090 40 Nov. 22,1876.
757 22 Sept. 28, 889 20 Oct, 13, .. 669 61 Nov. 20, ..
1,062 94 8ept. 16,
1,546 88 Nov. 2 612 94 Nov. 20, ..
223 70 5,407 18 Nov. 23.1876.
678 93 Sept. 28, .. 876 90 Oct, 23, . 1,499 90 Sept. 18, .. 870 56 Nov. 18, 704 65 Nov. 8, 659 54 Nov. 29, ..
432 86 Dec. 1, 1,921 58 Oct. 17, ..
365 38 Dec. 12, 818 74 Oct. 20, 281 49 Nov. 2, .. 1,822 40 Nov. 1, 772 51 Nov, 6,
435 09 Nov. 18, .. 484 31 Nov. 10, .. 1,282 54 Nov. 27, ..
1,351 52 Nov. 8, 418 69 Nov. 8, ..
1,058 84 Oct. 19, .. 1,062 94 Oct. 6,
624 49 Oct. 20,
769 90 Oct, 31, ..
411 98 Jan. 1, 1877.
549 93 Jan. 5,
1,150 56 Nov. 4, 1876.
881 00 Nov 1,

This order was lost or mislaid after reaching the county and a duplicate, dated Dec. 16, 1876, was executed and forwarded.

52

State School Commissioner.

COUNTIES.

School popula tion and Con federate Sold iers under 30 years of age.

Counties' rata.

Date of the State pro School Com
missioner's order on Tax Coll'r.

Fannin.........................

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

Floyd.............................

Forsyth.............................

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

Fulton (county)..........................

Atlanta (city) .......... .............

Gilmer................................

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

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

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

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

Gwinnett...........................

Habersham.......... .. Hall......................

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

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

Harris....................

Han......................

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

Henry.................

Houston ... .:..

Irwin................................

Jackson..............

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

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

Jehnson ............

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

Laurens................

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

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

Lincoln..............

Lowndes..........

Lumpkin......................

Macon................

Madison................

Marion....................

McDuffie.......

McIntosh..............

Meriwether........ Miller............

Milton............

Mitchell.........

Monroe........

Montgomery .

Morgan..

Murray...............

Muscogee (county!............

Columbus (city')...'..

Newton.......

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

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

Oconee......................

Paulding..................

2,056 $ 2,877 r, 7ng 21636
2,556 4,150 10,444 2,752 , 747 1,732 3,012 4,304 A qs?;
2,120 $ 030 4A84 1 417
1
9 405 3,650 5^766
530 349,9.
3 034 3,836 1 07Q 9 791 9 044 9. 757
2,763 1,609 2,433 1,823 3,538 1,664 3,983 2,325 1,393 3,922
814 1,566 2,773 6,046 1.478 4,011 2,006 2.478 2,469 3 515 3 66
3,196

766 54 Nov. 8, 1876. 1,072 64 Sept. 20, ..
DO Dec. 9, Nov. 23, ..
00a yb Oct. 17, .. 1,547 25 Oct. 3, 8,893 86 Oct. 20, ..
1,026 03
278 51
645 75 1,122 97 Oct. 23, 1876. 1,604 67 Nov. 10, 1.634 87 Sept. 16, ..
790 40 Nov. 2, 1,129 68 Oct. 11, .. 1,559 93 INOV. 14,
528 30 vec. id, 2,084 50 Dec. 13,
697 20 Nov. 8, 896 66 uct. 0, 1,360 84 Nov. 8, 2,149 75 Nov. 16, .. 198 35 Oct. 17, .. 1,275 83 uct. /, . , 1,131 17 Dec. 14, .. 1,430 18 i\ov. ^y,
402 29 Noy. 18, .. 1,018 20 Oct. 28,
985 77 Nov. 15, .. 1,027 90 Nov. 24, .. lUoO lo Nov. 15, .,
599 89 UCT. ^4, yuf lu Nov. 8, b/y b7 UCt. 4iy
1,319 08 uct. b, JNOV. iU,
1,484 99 Oct. 27, ..
Sept. 26, ..
Nov. 10, ..
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1,191 57 Oct. 6,

State School Commissioner.

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COUNTIES,

School populalation and Con federate Sol diers under 30 years of age.

Counties' rata.

pro

Date of the State School Commis sioner's order on Tax Collector.

Pickens....................................... Pierce.......................................... Pike.............................................. Polk..-........................................... Pulaski........................................ Putnam....................................... Quitman..................................... Rabun.......................................... Randolph.................................... Richmond.................................. Rockdale................................... Schley......................................... Screven....................................... Spalding (county).......... ........... Ariffin (nity)..............................
Stewart.,."/............................... Sumter (county)......................... Americus (city).......................... 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.......................................
Total........................................

1,643
1,186 3,371
2,678
4,117 2,983 1,408 1,285 '3,620 8,423 2,617 1,721 2,594 2,345 1,289 4'345
4,234 945
3,757 1,740 2,531 2,255
699 3,029 5,897
939 6,042
2,276 2,027 2,758 2,780
4,488 1,167 2,582
5,283 1,396 1,851
1,587 3,241
796
3,091 3,152
1,379

612 56 Oct. 13, 1876 442 18 Oct. 30, .. 1,256 82 Oct. 6, 998 44 Sept. 27, 1,534 95 Nov. 29, .. 1,112 16 Sept. 30, .. 524 95 Sept. 16, .. 479 09 Oct. 31, .. 1,349 65 Oct. 11, .. 3,140 36 Nov. 10, 975 70 Oct. 17, .. 641 64 Oct. 6, 967 13 Nov. 16, .. 874 29 Nov. 22, .. 480 58
1,619 96 Dec. 30, 1876 1,578 57 Oct. 20,
352 33 Sept, 23, .. 1,400 73 Nov. 20, ..
648 73 Nov. 23, .. 943 64 Dec. 28, 840 75 Nov. 10, .. 260 61 Dec 18, .. 1,129 31 Dec. 27, .. 2,198 59 Sept. 18, .. 350 09 Oct. 10, .. 2,252 65 Oct. 7, 848 57 Nov 14, .. 755 73 Jan'y. 6, 1877 1,028 27 Sept, 29,1876 1,036 47 Nov. 13, .. 1,673 27 Oct. 17, .. 435 09 Dec. 12, 962 65 Nov. 1, 1,969 67 Oct. 24, 520 47 Dec. 15, 690 11 Sept. 28, .. 598 69 Nov. 11, .. 1,208 35 Nov. 20, .. 296 77 Oct. 11, 1,152 42 Nov. 6, 1,175 17 Oct. 17, .. 514 14 Sept. 25, ..

400,891 $ 149,464 98

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State School Commissioner.

Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commissioner.

Henry T. Lewis, Clerk.

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LIST OP COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.

COUNTIES.

NAME.

POST-OFFICE.

Appling.............. Benjamin Milliken.... Baker................... Thomas W. Fleming.
Baldwin.............. R, H. Ramsay............
Banks................... T. C. Chandler.........
Bartow................ Rev. T. E. Smith . Berrien................. James F. Goodman.. Bibb .................... B. M. Zetler*............
Brooks................. M. C. Raiford..............
Bryan................... A. G. Smith...............
Bullock........ . Burke................... A. H. A. Bell........
Butts..................... E. E. Pound .. .. Calhoun............... J. J. Beck.............. Camden ............... F. M. Adams......... Campoell............. Jas. H. Luck........ Carroll................. Samuel J. Brown .
Catoosa............. D. W. Williams... Charlton.............. James W. Leigh.. Chatham............. W. H. Baker*....
Chattahoochee... James Castleberry. Chattooga.......... W. T. Irvine......... Cherokee ....... , James W. Hudson Clarke.................. H. R. Bernard. .. Clay..................... R. E. Kennon ....
Clayton.............. John M. Huie........ Clinch.................. H. D. O'Quin. , ,.
Cobb..................... J. T. Burkhalter.. Coffee................... James M. Wilcox.. Columbia............ Jerry T. Smith.... Colquitt............... Henry Gay.............. Coweta............... Rev. R. E. Pitman
Crawford........... John W. Ellis........
Dade .................. James C. Taylor...
Dawson............... Samuel Harben...,
Decatur.............. DeKalb................ E. A. Davis....... Dodge.................. John J. Hamilton.. Dooly................... O. P. Swearingen..
Dougherty........... L. E. Welch...........
Douglas................ John C. Bowdon... Early................ Thomas F. Jones..
Echols.................. J. P. Prescott........
Effingham....... Samuel S. Pitman
Elbert................. Augustus Bailey... Emanuel........... Josephus Camp.... Fannin............... J. F. Adams.......... Fayette................ W. T. Glower........ . Floyd.................. M. A. Nevin........ Forsyth.............. IsaacS. Clement.. Franklin............. Lemuel N. Tribble.
Fulton.................. Jethro W. Manning

Hnfmesville. Newton. Milledgeville. Homer
Cartersrille. Nashville. Macon. Quitman. Eden
W aynesboro Indian Springs. Morgan. St. Marys. Fairburn. Carrollton. Ringgold. Centre Village. Savannah. Cusseta. Summerville. Canton. Athens. Fort Gaines. Jonesboro. ' Lawton. Marietta Douglas. Appling.
Moultrie.
Sharpsburg. Knoxville. Trenton. Dawsonville. Bainbridge. Decatur. Eastman. Vienna. Albany. Salt Springs. Blakely. Statenville. Springfield. Elberton. Swainsboro. Morganton. Fayetteville. , Rome. Gumming. Carnesville. Atlanta.

State School Commissioner,

55

COUNTY.

NAME.

POST-OFFICE.

Atlanta (city).... Bernard Mallonf. .
Gilmer................ Dr. E. W. Watkins Glascock............. Seaborn Kitchens...
Glynn................... Gordon................. H. C. Hunt.......................... Greene............... Rev. Henry Newton.......... Gwinnett............. Thomas E. Winn................ Habersham.......... James J. Kimsey................ Hall...................... Dr. H. S. Bradley............... Hancock............. W. H. Bass........................... Haralson............. Thomas Philpot.................. Harris.................. Joel T. Johnson.................. Hart..................... C. W. Seidell...................... Heard................. John J. Bledsoe................... Henry.................. David Knott........................ Houston.............. D. M. Brown........................ Irwin................... James Paulk, Sr.................. 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................ Thomas T. Wilheit... Lowndes............ J. H. Zant...'...... .. Lumpkin............. Eugene H. Beck.......... Macon.................. B. A. Hudson.............. Madison.............. John M. Skinner........ Marion............... Rev. W. A. Singleton, McDuffie............. R. H. Pearce................ McIntosh .......... Isaac M. Aiken .......... Meriwether.......... Alonzo H. Freeman.. Miller.................. Dr. P. C. Wilkin........ Milton.................. Thomas L. Lewis........ Mitchell............... James H. Powell......... Monroe................ Andrew Dunn............. Montgomery .... John L. Matthews.... Morgan................ W. H. Oooroft.............. Murray................. Rev. S. H. Henry...... Muscogee............. N. G. Oattis................. Columbus (city).. George M. Dewsf........ Newton.............. Dr. H. T. Shaw.......... Oconee............... Rev. E. F. Anderson. Oglethorpe.......... Thomas H. Dozier.... Paulding............ L. J. Spinks........ ... Pickens................. C. J. Cornelison.......... Pierce.................. Dr. A. M. Moore........ Pike...................... A. P. Turner................ Polk..................... T. L. Pitman................ Pulaski................. Rev. G. R. McCall. .. Putnam............... J. B. Reese ................. <Quitman............ Joel E. Smith............... Rabun .............. LaFayette Wall...........

. Atlanta.
, Elijay. , Gibson.
, Calhoun. , Union Point. . LawrencevilK . Clarksville. Gainesville. Sparta. Buchanan. Hamilton. Hartwell. Franklin. McDonough. Perry. Irwinville. Jefferson. Monticello. Louisville. Wnghtsville. Haddock, M & A R R. Dublin. Starkville. Walthourville, No. 4 A.
&G. R. R. Lincolnton. Valdosta. Dahlonega. Oglethorpe, Danielsville. Buena Vista. Thomson. Darien. Greenville. Colquitt. Alpharetta. Camilla. Forsyth. Mount Vernon. Madison. Spring Place. Columbus. Columbus. Oxford. Watkinsville. Winterville. Dal as. Jasper. Blackshear. |Milner. ICedar Town. Hawkinsville. Eatonton. [Hatcher's Station. (Clayton.

56

State School Commissioner.

COUNTY.

NAME.

POST-OFFICE.

Kandolph............ Thomas A.'Coleman.. Richmond.......... A. H. McLaws.......... Rockdale............. J. C. Barton................. Schley................. Rev. John N. Hudson, Screven .............. Dr. W. L. Matthews... Spalding............ James O. A. Miller... Stewart............ . W. H. Harrison....... ... Sumter................ William A. Wilson... Talbot.................. W. R. Warthen.......... Taliaferro........... Henry D. Smith........... Tatnall................. John Hughey............... Taylor................ Rev. A. M. Rhodes.... Telfair.................. J. D. Wynne................ Terrell.................. L. M. Leonard............. Thomas................ O. D. Scott.................. Towns.................. W. R. McConnell........ Troup................. John E. Toole.............. Twiggs................. A. E. Nash.................. Union................... Thomas J. Butt............ Upson.................. Augustus J. King........
Walker................. W. W. S. Myers.......... Walton................ Ware.................... Burwell Sweat..................
Warren............... A. 8. Morgan.................... Washington .... Dr. Horatio N. Hollifield, Wayne ............... Rev. A. Clark....................
Webster............... H. L. McLendon.............. White................... Rev. J. J.'Methvin............ Whitfield............. J. P. Ereeman....................
Wilcox................ John A. Tomberlin..........
Wilkes................ Rev. P. T. Simpson..........
Wilkinson........... Franklin Chambers.......... Worth.................. J. M. 0. Holamon ...........

Cuthbert. Augusta. Conyers. Ellaville. Ogeechee. Sunny Side. Lumpkin. Americus. Talbotton. Crawford ville. Reidsville. Butler. McRae. Dawson. Thomas ville. Hiwassee. LaGrange. Griswoldville. Blairsyille. Thomaston. LaFayette.
W anesboro. Warrenton. Sandersville, Jessup. Preston. Nacoochee. Dalton. Abbeville. Washington. Irwinton. Isabella.

^Superintendent schools for city and county. {Superintendent city schools..