REPORT
OF THE
tate Skm Commissioner
OF G-EOHGTA.
TO THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
Submitted in November, 1880, and covering the Educational Operations of 1879 AND l88-
ATLANTA, GA.:
JAS. P. HARRISON & CO., STATE PRINTERS.
1880.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Atlanta, Ga., November 3, 1880.
To His Excellency, Alfred H. Colquitt : Dear Sir,--I have the honor of placing in your
hands, for transmission to the General Assembly, my Report as State School Commissioner, for the years 1879 and 1880.
With sentiments of the highest respect, I am Very truly yours,
Gustavus J. Orr,
State School Commissioner.
NOTE.
Of this Report a limited number of copies has been bound without the tables for 1880, for the use of the-General Assembly. The schools for 1880 will not all close till the end of the year. As soon as they have closed, the subordinate school officers can forward their reports. A full set of tables for 1880 can then be prepared. As soon as this can be done, the report, complete for 1879 and 1880, will be bound and distributed.
REPORT
In my last two reports I gave the enrollment in our public schools for successive years since their inauguration, bringing the statement down in each case to the date of the report. Inasmuch as a statement of this kind presents in brief compass a view of the rapid and continuous growth of the system ; and inasmuch as many readers who may not have access to our whole set of successive reports, may desire this information, I again repeat the statement. There have been enrolled, then, in our public schools in successive years since the commencement of our public school work as follows: In 1871, white pupils, 42,Old ; colored, 6,664; total, 49,576: in 1873, white, 63,922; colored, 19,755; total, 83,677 ; increase over the attendance of 1871,34,099: in 1874, white, 93,167; colored, 42,374; total, 135,541; in crease over the attendance of 1873, 51,864 : in 1875, white, 105,990; colored, 50,385; total, 156,394; increase over the attendance of 1874, 20,808: in 1876, white, 121,418 ; colored, 57,987; total, 179,405; increase over the attend ance of 1875, 23,011: in 1877, white, 128,296; colored, 62,330; total, 190,626; increase over the attendance of 1876, 11,221: in 1878, whke, 137,217; colored, 72,655; total, 209,872; increase over the attendance in 1877, 19,246: in 1879, white, 147,192; colored, 79,435; total, 226,627; increase over the attendance in 1878, 16,755.
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By adding together the sums total in the proper columns of tables Nos. 1 and 2 of the statistical tables for 1880, pub lished herein, the reader may find for himself the results of that year corresponding to those given for the successive years above named.
From information in relation to the receipts and expend itures for school purposes communicated to this Department by the Comptroller-General, I am enabled to make the fol lowing statement:
For the school year beginning July 1st, 1878, and ending July 1st, 1879, there was received as follows :
From Half Rental W. & A. It. It.................... $150,000 00 From Tax on shows and exhibitions................ 1,716 74 From Liquor Tax............................................... 7,474 50
$159,191 24 Total expenses including salaries of State School
Commissioner and Clerk, and office expenses, and for printing blanks to be distributed and used throughout the State............................ 3,920 93
Amount apportioned among the counties for
school purposes.................................................. $155,264 31
For the school year, beginning July 1st, 1879, and ending
July 1st, 1880, the following is the corresponding statement:
There was received as follows :
From tax on shows and exhibitions................ $1,467 00
" Liquor tax.........................
35,384 29
" Dividends on Ga. Railroad stock............ 3,441 00
" Half rental W. & A. R. R..................... 150,000 00
$190,292 27 Total expenses, including, as before, salaries of State School Commissioner and Clerk, office expenses, and printing blanks for the en tire State.............................................................. $4,502 73
Leaving to be apportioned among the counties $185,789 54
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The Statements above,- as I have said, were obtained from the office of the Comptroller-General. One item of expense of $843.65, set down as belonging to the second period above mentioned, really belongs to the first. The warrant covering the expenditure bore date of the second period, and thus the expenditure was reported as of that period.
I am required, by law, to keep an itemized account of all the expenditures of this office, including salaries, postage for the transmission of letters, and all mail matter, and all incidentals, embracing, m short, every expense except that of printing. My books, which are open to inspection, show that this expense amounted, for the period first named above, to $3,412.90; and for the second period, to $3,465.10. Add ing these two sums together, and we have $6,878.00. Sub tracting this from the whole expense of the two periods, as reported by the Comptroller, viz : $8,429.66, and there remains $1,551.66, which would seem to be the expense of printing for the two periods. The real expense of printing, as charged on the books of the Public Printer, is $504.70 for the first period ; and $617.86 for the second. The seem ing discrepance grows out of the fact that the Comptroller reports the sum of. the warrants for the two periods, while the Public Printer's account shows the expense of the print ing actually done. The entire actual expense, then, is as follows : for the first period, $3,917.60, and for the second, $4,082,96.
The poll-tax is a part of the school fund, but it is not included in the apportionment made at this office, as the law requires it to be retained and applied to the support of schools in the counties where it is collected. I learn at the Comptroller's office that the number of polls entered on the book of the Peceivers of Tax Keturns, for the year 1879, was 223,335. The entire number allowed by the variolas ordinaries, as an insolvent list, amounted to 50,525. After allowing for cost of assessing and collecting, the net sum paid into the hands of the various County School Commis-
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sionej's to be used for school purposes was $160,484.37. If this be added to the sum apportioned at this office, it will make $315,748.31, as the amount provided by the State, that year, for the support of schools. The school population being 433,444, the enrollment being 226,627, and the aver age attendance 132,000, this appropriation amounts to 73 centsyw capita upon school population, $1.39 upon enroll ment, and $2.39 upon average attendance.
Supposing the net amount collected on polls to be the same in 1880 as in 1879, and adding this to $185,789.54, the amount apportioned for the first named year, and we have $346,273.91 as the appropriation for that year. This makes 80 cents yw capita on school population.
We have not as yet realized a full year's yield of the liquor tax appropriated by the last General Assembly to the support of schools. That yield will be about $65,000. .Now add tq this $155,000, the maximum apportionment made at this office before the appropriation of the liquor tax to schools, and $160,000, which may be counted on as the net yield of the poll-tax, and we have $380,000 as the total amount of the State appropriation that we may reasonably expect to realize under existing laws. Now, judging by the continuous increase in school attendance, from year to year in the past, I think we may safely put down 240,000, in round numbers, as the probable enrollment for next year, and 160,000 as the average attendance. This would give us--and the estimate is a liberal one---a, per capita on school population of 88 cents, on eni'ollment of $1.60, and on aver age attendance of $3.00.
Certain cities and counties in the State raise for school purposes by local taxation an aggregate sum of about $150,000. Ad^ this to $380,000, the amount of the State appro priation used in the last estimate above, and we have $530,000. Dividing this by the school population of the State and by the numbers used as enrollment and average attend ance in the last estimate above, and we have $1.22, $2.20,
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and $3.31 as the probable sums to be paid, respectively, on school population, enrollment and average attendance for another year under existing laws.
In discussing the facts given above and all that is sug gested by them, I shall be compelled to go over again much of the ground occupied in former official Reports. Our educational condition and the needs of our school system have not materially changed since my first biennial Report was submitted to the last General Assembly. The new Con stitution made certain changes and, in seeking to provide for the needs of the system just mentioned, it became necessary to adapt the measures proposed to these changes. This necessitated a pretty'full discussion of these needs in connection with wdiat may be done under the Constitution toward supplying them. If, therefore, I shall repeat much of what was said in the last Report, I hope it will be under stood that I have consented to sacrifice literary propriety to practical utility. Unless I repeat, to some extent, the dis cussions of that Report, these discussions will not reach the members of the present General Assembly, as the orig inal edition of that Report is so well nigh exhausted as to leave but a very few numbers on hand.
In discussing what has been above presented, I would first call attention to the very remarkable fact of the con tinuous increase, from year to year, in the attendance upon the schools, beginning with 49,576 in 1871, and ending with 226,627 in 1879. Does any one doubt that vast mul titudes of these children, without a school system, would never have entered a school room? Without such a sys tem, what would have become of the 79,435 colored chil dren who were in the schools of 1879 ? Without it, what would have been the fate of nearly one-third of the 147,192 white children whose parents are as poor as the great bulk of the colored population ?
The provision of our law which requires the withholding from a county of its pro rata of the State appropriation
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till arrangements have been made "by taxation, or other wise," for keeping np public schools free to all children of school age, throughout the entire county, for at least three months of the year, has enabled us to have schools estab lished, for years past, in every militig. district throughout the State. It is a grand result that every child in the State has had the privilege vouchsafed to it of attending school at least three months of'the year, and that 226,627 of them asserted, and at least partially enjoyed, the privilege in 1879, I must repeat, here, what I have often said before the people, and what I may have said likewise in former Reports, that though my reading of the reports of school operations has been extensive, I.have yet to learn where the same amount of money expended by us has, in any State of the Union, been made to accomplish equal results. Men have, very often, risen up to criticise what has been done. I do not remember a single case where any of these critics have been able to suggest anything better. It is easy to seek to pull down, but very hard to build up that which is of real value. If the energy expended in seeking to overthrow were applied, in a well meant effort, to aid in building up, we should perhaps make much more satisfactory progress.. The people have spoken, first in convention, and after wards at the ballot-box. The language uttered in conven tion and proposed as a part of the fundamental law was tothe effect that we muni have a thorough, public school system, and, what was thus proposed, was ratified at the ballot-box by 80,000 majority. It seems then, to me, to be the duty of every good citizen, every citizen who thinks it right to render obedience "to the powers that be," what ever may be his private views, to at least acquiesce in what has been accomplished. No one is more sensible of the great defects in what has been done, or has regretted them more, or has labored harder to supply them than the writer. Some of those who criticise have suggested that our present system is too expensive, and have proposed, in order to
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perfect, it, to lop off a little expense here, and a little there. I have repeatedly shown that the whole expense of the system, including State and county supervision, printing blanks and forms, the custody and disbursing of funds, and, in short, every out-lay, amounts to about seven per cent, of the fund. Now, while there may have been too large an outlay, now and then, for certain purposes, I challenge the objector to point to any branch of the public service in the past, where an equal amount of labor has been performed, and an equal amount of responsibility in holding and dis bursing funds has been incurred, at an expense to the State as small. I am in favor of economy that is economy ; but it is not by any means every proposed reduction of expense which can be so classified. When men come forward, however, and propose io perfect a system which provides a State appropriation of 88 cents per capita by lopping off little expenses here and there, I must be excused from going with them to the conclusions which they seem to to have reached. I have shown, repeatedly, that our system is a good one. I have demonstrated, time and again, that in its main features it has the approval of the leading educators of the Union--of men who have devoted their lives to the work of supervision and instruction. Its great need is more money for its support, and this need I have been urging upon the people, and upon the successive General Assemblies, by tongue and pen for the last nine years. And this must be the burden of my appeal in coming before the present General Assembly. We cannot make an efficient school system with the present appropria tion. Feeling very deeply the truth of this statement, I propose now to discuss briefly the different modes by which our present very inadequate appropriations may be increased.
In my last Report to the General Assembly, I showed how the words of the Constitution of 1877, which set apart and devote "any educational fund now belong ing to the State (except the endowment of, and debt
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due to, the University of Georgia) to the support of Com mon Schools" took effect on the half rental of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, which was then a school fund, by law, and converted it from a statutory into a Constitutional School Fund. This Constitutional provision absolutely secures to us this half rehtal as a part of the school fund till the expiration of the present lease.
From this and the one hundred and eighty-six shares of the capital stock of the Georgia Railroad & Banking Co., made a school fund in the same way, and from the tax on shows and exhibitions we may safely count upon a school .fund every year of about $155,000.
The Constitution also sets apart and devotes to school purposes the poll-tax. I have already shown, in the fore going part of this Report, that out of the 223,335 polls re turned in 1879, 50,525 were allowed on the insolvent list, and that there was made a net collection of only $160,484.37. It is thus seen that there is, in the collection of this tax, a most unreasonable default. The question arises, canot measures be taken which will insure a much more thorough collection of this tax ? I believe that an affirma tive answer may be given to this question. I would reccommend, as a means of accomplishing this result, the fol lowing: Let the law be so changed as to make the enter ing of the poll-tax upon the book of the' Receiver of Tax Returns, operate at once as a lien upon all the property of every kind owned by the tax-payer and upon any debt's due him, or that shall afterwards become due to him. Let it be further enated, that each year, as soon as the insolvent list is allowed to the Tax Collector, that officer be required to turn over to the County School Commissioner, the names of all defaulters on the poll-tax ; together with the Jl. fas. issued against them, and let the latter officer be empowered to use all measures now known to the laws, either by himself, or other duly authorized officer, for levying and collecting the same.
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The County School Commissioner, as a stimulant to the zeal already felt by him in the cause of education, should be permitted to retain for himself a liberal percentage, to be fixed by the General Assembly, of the amounts collect ed on these fi.fas. as compensation for his time and labor. He should also be required to keep an account in a book of the number of polls turned over to him, from time to time, and cf the number oifi. fas. levied, and of all sums thus realized, and make a full report of the same to the grand jury at each term of the Superior Court. I can see no reason why a law of the kind just recommended might not make a net yield from the poll tax of at least $200,000.
The Constitution also authorizes the levy of a tax "on the sale of spirituous and malt liquors" for educational pur poses. In my last Report I recommended the passage of a law similar to what was known as the Moffit liquor law of Yirginia and the appropriation of the proceeds to the sup port of common schools. I had evidence then in my possession to show that Virginia had collected from this tax in three-fourths of a year about $370,000. Prominent citizens of that State, including the leading State officials, expressed to me, in letters and in private interviews, the opinion that the law, with certain amendments providing for greater efficiency in the collections, could be made to yield from $600,000 to $700,000. I took the trouble of investi gating the comparative statistics of the liquor traffic in the two states of Virginia and Georgia, as found in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at Washington, and by this means I fully satisfied myself that what hVl been done in Virginia could be duplicated in Georgia. I did not see why, at the time of making the recommendation, such a law could not be made to yield us an immense school in come. I am not satisfied still that such a law cannot be made to operate in this State, and to operate successfully. Since I made the recommendation, however, the State of
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Yirginia has repealed the law referred to. I have deter mined, therefore, not to urge the passage of a similar law here, at this time.
Our own General Assembly, instead of carrying out my recommendation, passed a law levying a jper capita tax of $25 upon all lirpior dealers, and appropriated the money thus raised to the support of common schools. It is this tax that I have already mentioned as yielding, under the present provisions of law, about $65,000 per annum.' I refer to the subject for the purpose of making certain, recommendations looking to an increase in the yield of the law, and in the efficiency of its operation. The income from this source could, in my opinion, be greatly increased by the following changes in the law : In the first place, let the tax be made $50pe?: capita, instead of $25. Then, in order to insure a thorough collection, require every dealer, under heavy penalties for failure, to register his name, as a dealer, in a book to be kept by the Ordinary for that pur pose ; and make it the duty of the Ordinary to report to the Comptroller-General, at the end of each quarter of the year, the number of persons and the names of the persons that have so registered, to be entered on record in the office of the latter officer. This tax should be collected and paid into the State Treasury quarterly, and the Tax Collector should be required, at every settlement, to report to the ComptrollerGeneral the several amounts collected, and from whom col lected. A law of the kind just recommended would undoubtedly insure faithfulness in the collections and would greatly increase the income, bringing it up to at least $130,000, and perhaps to $150,000.
The Constitution also provides for levying a tax for edu cational purposes, upon "such domestic animals as, from their nature and habits, are de-i ructive to other property." In my last Report, in order to the carrying out of this pro vision of the Constitution, I recommended the levying of a tax of one dollar a head upon dogs. The State of Ohio
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has such a law and realizes therefrom a large revenue. Such a law would not only increase the school fund, but it would have the effect of encouraging sheep husbandry, an industry which is already yielding great profits in this State and which is, to a considerable extent, attracting the attention of capitalists abroad. It would also diminish greatly the number of dogs--as the owners of useless animals of this kind would get rid of them--and would thereby result in a great saving of food now wasted in this-way.
Some have made the objection to this tax that it could" not be collected, inasmuch as many persons who would be liable to it have no property out of which the money could be made. I think a law might be framed which would secure very close collections. For instance, the law might require the Tax Collector to turn over the names of all defaulters on the dog-tax to the overseer of the road-beat in which they reside, and make it the duty of this last named officer to summon all of said defaulters to meet him at a certain time to work upon the highways, and to require them to labor till they have worked out, according to the ordinary prices of labor, double the value of the tax. The law might further provide, in order to the relief of harsh ness of operation, that the producing of satisfactory evi dence to the overseer of the road that the dog on which the tax was due had been killed, should relieve the tax payer from the payment of the tax by labor. I do not doubt but that a law of this kind could be made to yield a revenue of at least $200,000.
The last two taxes discussed, viz.: the liquor-tax and the dog-tax, have two things connected with them to which I would invite special attention, and which very strongly re commend them. Ip the first place they are both voluntary. The liquor-tax really falls upon the consumer in the in crease of the price which it causes, and he can get rid of paying it by ceasing to drink the liquor, while any one lia ble to the dog-tax can get rid of it by disposing of his dog.
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raise them above the commission of crime, than to tax for its punishment and suppression ?
I would, further, call attention in this connection to other statistics. In 1878 I had the number of illiterates over 18 years of age taken and returned to this office. The number reported was as follows : Whites, 20,839; colored, 148,494; total, 169,333. Nearly one-half of these are voters. Are our institutions safe with this amount of illit eracy among the voting population ? Is not the removal of it necessary to our self-preservation as a State ? And can not the State tax property in order to save itself from over throw? Is it not wise in the citizen to consent to such a tax when we remember that the protection of life, of liberty, of property, in short of everything which we hold dear, is involved in good government 2 I might go on to multiply arguments in favor of the propriety and righf of taxing property for educational purposes, as I have done on a hundred other occasions. But why should I do so ? The people have said in the fundamental law to which I have already referred that there shall be a thor ough system of common schools ; and in order to provide the necessary means, they have given the right to tax pro perty, and this is an end to the argument.
I have said above that I sought to have the last General Assembly authorize the levy of a tax on property of onetenth of one per cent, for the support of common schools and I now renew the recommendation. One-tenth of one per cent, would be one dollar on each one thousand dollars worth of taxable property, and would be very little felt by the people, while it would yield a net income of at least $200,000 in round numbers.
Now let us sum up and see what -would be our school re sources should the General Assembly give us the various revenues for which we have asked. We should have as follows:
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raise them above the commission of crime, than to tax for its punishment and suppression ?
I would, further, call attention in this connection to other statistics. In 1878 I had the number of illiterates over 18 years of age taken and returned to this office. The number reported was as follows : Whites, 20,839; colored, 148,494; total, 169,333. Nearly one-half of these are voters. Are our institutions safe with this amount of illit eracy among the voting population 1 Is not the removal of it necessary to our self-preservation as a State ? And can not the State tax property in order to save itself from over throw? Is it not wise in the citizen to consent to such a tax when we remember that the protection of life, of liberty, of property, in short of everything which we hold dear, is involved in good government ? I might go on to multiply arguments in favor of the propriety and rigid of taxing property for educational purposes, as I have done on a hundred other occasions. But why should I do so ? The people have said in the fundamental law to which I have already referred that there shall he a thor ough system of common schools ; and in order to provide the necessary means, they have given the right to tax pro perty, and this is an end to the argument.
I have said above that I sought to have the last General Assembly authorize the levy of a tax on property of onetenth of one per cent, for the support of common schools and I now renew the recommendation. One-tenth of one per cent, would be one dollar on each one thousand dollars worth of taxable property, and would be very little felt by the people, while it would yield a net income of at least $200,000 in round numbers.
Now let us sum up and see what wmuld be our school re sources should the General Assembly give us the various revenues for which we have asked. We should have as follows:
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From half rental "W. & A. Ti R., tax on shows and Georgia Railroad dividends............ $155,000
" poll-tax under amended law................. 200,000 " tax on liquor dealers under new law. . 130,000 " " " dogs .......................................... 200,000 " property tax............................................. 200,000
Total................................................................$885,000
What could^be done with this amount of money? The school population being, as already several times stated, 433,444, should the enrollment and average attendance for next year be respectively 240,000 and 160,000, as I have supposed in another place in this Report, we should have a per capita as follows: on school population $2.04, on en rollment, $3.68 and on average attendance $5.53. I do not hesitate to say that the sum of money mentioned in this es timate would sustain common schools in the different coun ties for an average term of five months. One dollar month ly per scholar, I feel sure, would secure five months' term for our schools.
Actual experience in the past would seem to justify a more favorable estimate than that just given. When our school fund has aggregated about $300,000, we have paid the teach ers in the different counties in amounts varying from onehalf to the whole of what was due them for the three months' term. The cost of living in different portions of the State is quite variable ; and this causes the cost of all kinds of la bor, including the labor of teaching, to vary proportionate ly. As the school fund is apportioned on the basis of school population, it is thus seen how one Goxmiy's,prorata will pay the teachers for a longer term than the pro rata of another. The fact has been as I have stated it above. If $300,000 would pay the expenses of schools from one and a half to three months, $900,000 would pay for terms varying from four and one-half to nine months. The at tendance, in the preceding estimate, is put down as much
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greater than formerly, an assumption justified by past ex perience. Remembering this, and the further fact that the average period for which the public fund would have paid, in the past, was considerably less than an arithmetical mean, I think ! am justified in concluding that the foregoing esti mate is safe and reliable.
I have now discussed the different modes provided in the Constitution for raising an adequate State school fund, and I have given frankly my own views as to what should be done. I am not wedded to the views which I have present ed. If anything better, in part, or in whole, can be sug gested I will promptly give up my plans and come to the support of those better. It has been suggested by intelli gent gentlemen in different parts of the State that it would be better to appropriate the other half-rental of the W. & A. R. R. and the whole sum of all special taxes, such as the taxes on the privilege of pursuing certain callings and professions, to school purposes than to levy a school tax on property. This would give us about the same amount of money as the tax of one-tenth of one per cent, on property, which has been recommended, and has many things in its favor. Should this or any other reasonable substitution, either in part or in whole, be agreed upon, I shall give a hearty co-operation in adopting and executing whatever may be proposed. I desire to press it upon the attention of the General Assembly, however, that we must have a State school fund of about $900,000. Without it, we can not approximate what the Constitution requires, viz.: the providing of a thorough system of common schools. I know it has been said that we are in no condition to accom plish this at present--that we are not able to do it. In the counties of Chatham, Richmond and Bibb, and in the cities of Atlanta and Columbus we are teaching in the public schools three times as many children as were taught by pri vate teachers before public schools were inaugurated and for a less sum of money. While we cannot cheapen nigh
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as much, taking the -whole State for the field of our opera tions, I have demonstrated, time and again, that we can make a very great reduction. It follows, then, that if we are too poor to do what has been asked, we are too poor to educate the youth of the ^tate at all. I do not believe that the members of the present General Assembly will be con tent to rest in this conclusion.
What has been presented above is the sum of what I have to ask in relation to the providing of a State school fund. In all the States of the Union having school sys tems of longstanding, from one-half to three-fourths of the entire sum expended on schools is raised by self-imposed local levies. Experience has shown this to be the wisest policy everywhere. Our newT Constitution, Sec. 4, Art. 8, in pursuance of the same policy, gives the General Assem bly the right of granting to the counties and to municipal corporations, under . certain restrictions, the power " to es tablish and maintain public schools in their respective limits by local taxation." I have repeatedly, in past years, sought to have this power granted by statute but have been hither to invariably unsuccessful. During the sitting of the last General Assembly I prepared, with very great care, a bill for this purpose, and had it introduced into the House by a friend. It was never acted upon finally, but as it embraces, in my opinion, the best that can be done under the Consti tution, I subjoin a copy of it as the best means of express ing my views on this subject: .
"A BILL,
To be entitled An Act to carry h.to effect Sec. 4, Art. 8, of the Constitution.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that authority is hereby granted to the counties, upon the recommendation of two grand juries, and to the municipal corporations of the State, upon the
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recommendation of the corporate authority, to establish and maintain public schools in their respective limits by lo cal taxation.
Sec. 2. When two grand juries of any county have recommended the establishment of a system of public schools for the county, .and have named in their recommen dation the rate per centum of the tax to be levied upon the property of the county for that purpose, it shall be the duty of the Receiver of Tax Returns and of the Tax Col lector of the county to assess and collect the same, at the time they assess and collect other taxes. These officers shall assess and collect the tax according to the rate of tax ation agreed upon by the two juries, if there be an agree ment, but according to the lower rate if the juries have dif fered as to rate. If any municipal corporation of the coun ty has established a school system, as hereinafter provided, or as provided in laws now existing, no tax shall be assessed and levied on property within the corporate limits of said municipalities for the support of the county system. The money collected from this county school tax shall be paid over to the County School Commissioner, and shall be ap plied to the support of the schools of the county under the direction of the County Board of Education, and according to the provisions of the school laws of the State.
Sec. 3. When the corporate authority of any town or city of the State has recommended the establishment of public schools within the corporate limits, it shall be the duty of the Mayor and Aldermen, or other corporate au thorities, to provide by ordinance for the creation of a Board of Education, with full powers to establish and con duct said schools for the benefit of the citizens of the cor poration. The ordinance herein authorized may confer upon the Board of Education, which it creates, full power to make such rules and adopt such measures as may be necessary to the successful conduct of the schools ; provided that such rules or measures are not in conflict with the
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school laws of the State, or with the Constitution. The corporate authority, when they recommend the establish ment of public schools, shall fix the rate per centum of the tax to be levied for their support; and it shall be the duty of the officers charged with the duty of assessing and col lecting other municipal taxes to assess and collect the same, and the moneys thus collected shall be paid over to the cus todian of the school fund appointed under municipal authority, and shall be applied under the direction of the Board of Education to the support of the public schools according to the school ordinance, the school laws of the State and -the Constitution. Any municipal corporation putting schools in operation under this act, shall be entitled to receive, through the proper officer of the corporation,, the quota of the State school fund, apportioned from time to time to said corporation.
Sec. 4. This act shall not go into effect in any county, or within the limits of any municipal corporation, till the conditions in respect to the recommendation by two grand juries, in the one case, or the corporate authority in the other, have been complied with, and not in that case till the question of its going into effect has been submitted to the vote of persons qualified to vote at other elections and twothirds of the persons qualified to vote have voted in favor thereof. When two grand juries, in the case of a county, or the corporate authority in the case of a town or city, have recommended the establishment and maintenance of public schools, as herein provided, the Ordinary, or Board of County Commissioners, in the former case, or the Mayor or other chief executive officer of the corporation, in the latter case, shall order an election on the adoption of the provisions of this act, publishing the act in the paper in which the county advertising is done, for thirty days before the election is to take place. The election shall be conducted by the same managers as other elections. The voters in favor of the adoption of the act shall write on.
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their tickets, u For adoption," and those opposed to adop tion, "Against adoption." The managers, in the case of a county, shall report the result of the election to the County Board of Education, to be recorded in the minutes of the Board, and, in the case of a municipal corporation, to the Clerk of said corporation for record. When two-thirds of the persons qualified to vote have thus been found to be in favor of the adoption of this act, it shall at once go into operation.
Seo. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed."
It will be observed that this bill is, in its character, very conservative--even more so than the Constitution. It re quires the grand juries to fix the per centum of tax which they recommend, and in case of a difference in the per cen tum recommended, it provides that the smaller shall be sub mitted to the people. It also requires the corporate author ities, in the case of a municipality, to fix the per centum of tax to be voted upon. I can see no reason why the people, under the conditions imposed, may not be permitted to say what they will do with their own in a matter so vital as the providing of the facilities of education for their children.
One other remark on the bill I beg leave to make before dismissing it. The Constitution limits what may be done educationally by the State, or by a county, to the elemen tary branches of an English education. No such limitation is put on what a municipal corporation may do. Should the bill become a law, therefore, any town in the State, with a sufficient population, might provide a good system of graded schools, including high school privileges; and there are, within my knowledge, at least forty towns in the State that might, by a well devised system of public in struction, constructed in accordance with the provisions of this bill, greatly cheapen the education of the youth within their their limits, and, at the same time, become feeders to our State University and to our various colleges.
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In connection with the modes of increasing the school revenues herein suggested, it seems appropriate that I should again call attention to a measure of the same kind now pending before the Congress of the United States. I allude to what is known as the Goode bill. This bill sets apart the entire proceeds of the sales of the public lands for the support of common schools, the fund to be appor tioned among the States for the first ten years on the basis of illiteracy, and afterwards upon the basis of school popu lation, and to be applied to the object designated under the school laws of the various States. If the bill should be come a law, Georgia "would realize under it annually, according to an estimate made by General Eaton, United States Commissioner of Education, about $80,000. I have felt"great interest in the adoption of a measure of this kind from the very beginning of the agitation on the subject; and have uniformly done all in my power towards the bringing about of that result. The last General Assembly adopted resolutions requesting our Senators and Represen tatives in Congress to give their earnest support to any well guarded measure, proposing the objects above set forth, and I now refer to the subject to ask the present General Assembly to do the same.
I have now concluded all I have to say in reference to financial plans for rendering our school system more efficient. With the additions to the State School Fund asked for herein, and the privilege bestowed upon the people of adding thereto at pleasure. I shall confidently look forward to a future, at most, not many years distant, when the State of Georgia shall take her position, educa tionally, among the more advanced of her sister States.
A great educational want, deeply felt throughout the entire State of Georgia, is a sufficient corps of thoroughly prepared teachers. With partially qualified teachers, money applied to schools is not most effectively applied ; and when the want of qualification rises to a certain height,
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money thus applied is absolutely squandered. In many of the States teachers' institutes have been used, for years past, as a most efficient instrumentality for the improve ment of the body of the teachers. These institutes are simply schools kept up for brief periods of the year for the benefit of teachers actually in the field. Within the past twelve months institutes of this kind have been held in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Arkansas, with most beneficial effect. I had the privilege of attending for a short time the one held at Spartanburg, South Carolina. I was deeply impressed with the work done there. A body of teachers collected together and instructed, even for a brief period, by proficients in the new methods, cannot fail to be deeply impressed for good themselves, and to so impress by example all their fellowworkers who come within the sphere of their influence, after they have dispersed to their several fields of labor. I desire very much to see from three to five of these insti tutes held in,.our State the next year. In order to accom plish this, it will be necessary to use a small sum of money, for the experienced teachers who do the teaching must be paid a reasonable compensation for their services. For this purpose, I ask the General Assembly to set apart $1,500. I have no doubt but that the Trustees of the Peabody Fund could be induced to add a small supplemental sum. The whole, or a part of the fund thus set aside, might be used in the discretion of the State School Commissioner, the mode of disbursement to be accounted for in a state ment, in detail, to be made to the next General Asse nbly.
The appropriations made by the Trustees of the Peabody Fund for the benefit of the State of Georgia in the last two years were as follows :
Foe the Yeak 1878-9. Savannah......... . .................................................... .$1,000 00 Augusta................................................................... 500 00 West Point............................................................. 300 00
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North Georgia Agricultural College.................... 400 00 Columbus.................................................................. 200 00 Brunswick................................................................ 300 00 Atlanta University................................................. 200 00 Sumach Seminary (Murray county)...................... 100 00 Rabun Gap High School........................................ 100 00 Georgia Agency...................................................... 800 00 Scholarships in Normal College, Nashville.......... 3,000 00
$6,900 00 For the Year 1879-80. Scholarships in the Normal College, Nashville. ...$4,000 00 Scholarships in Atlanta University........................ 1,000 00 State Agency............................................................ 800 00
$5,800 00
The appointees to scholarships at Nashville receive $200 each, and free tuition. On entering the Institution they sign a written statement to the effect tlmt it is their purpose to devote their lives to teaching. Inasmuch as it would evidently be improper to bind one to a certain pur suit for life, they are required to bind themselves absolutely to teach, only for two years. It is expected, however, that all who thus enjoy the benefits of free education, shall, in good faith, devote themselves to teaching, unless circum stances shall so change as to absolve them from their obli gation, and thus make it proper and right for them to change their calling. The making of appointments to scholarships, and the mode of making them, has been left to the State School Commissioner, and they have always been made upon a competitive examination, except in cases where the time allowed was too short.
For the $1,000 appropriated to the support of scholar ships in Atlanta University, President Ware has kindly con sented to take fourteen pupils and board and instruct them. The conditions of receiving the benefit are the same as in
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the case of the Nashville appointees, and a similar mode of appointing has been pursued.
The amount mentioned as appropriated to the State Agency was for the purpose of paying the traveling expen ses of the State School Commissioner, and of enabling him to procure' the additional clerical aid necessitated by his absence, while conducting an educational canvass of the State. By means of the aid thus furnished, I have visited forty-six places, many of them in remote portions of the State, and delivered sixty-eight addresses on popular edu cation, and all without the expense of one dollar to the State.
The late General Agent of the Peabody Fund, always alive to everything that looked to the promotion of popular education, also kindly put at my disposal for award, on the ground of excellence, to the pupils of iii'st-class public schools, seventy-five Peabody medals. These were sent by me for award to the schools of the counties of Bibb, Chath am, Glynn and Richmond, and of the cities of Atlanta, Columbus and West Point.
The award in the city of Atlanta was as follows:--
Girls' High School.
For best composition...................................... Georgina Fenton. For best reading............................................... Lizzie McAllister. For best Latin Grammar.............................Maria Harmsen.
Bovs' High School.
For best declamation...................................... Augustus Greene. For best Latin Grammar.............................George Gershon.
Ivy Street School, First Grade.
For best general average................................. Glenn Waters. For second best general average................... Eugene Mitchell.
Crew Street School, First Grade.
For best general average................................. John Fain. For second best general average................... Ida Richards.
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Walker Street School, First Grade. For best general average................................. Maggie Orr. For second best general average................... Aaron Guthman.
Marietta Street School, First Grade. For best general average..................................George Ficken. For second best general average................... Charles O'Conner.
COLORED SCHOOLS.
Summer Hill School. For best general average..................................Simon Kelly.
Wheat Street School. For best general average................................. Solomon Luckie.
Hayne Street School. For best general average..................................Lillie Turner.
For best declamation or reading in all white Grammar Schools...................................... Corinne Stocker.
For best composition in white Grammar Schools......................................................... Maggie Orr.
In the city of Macon and county of Bibb, the award was as follows:
For best recitation/Laura Boykin; for best speech, Tarpley Holt; for excellence in scholarship: Gwrge W. Smith, Hannah S. Hines, Gussie L. Bacon, Dellie 8. Freeman, Charlie Boifeuillet, James Craig, Leila Aultman, Berta Hardeman, Joseph Palmer, Florence Gofer, Hattie Sullivan, Julia Jones.
In the city of Augusta, county of Richmond, the award was as follows :
For General Excellence. Hephzibah High School, Lul a M. Miller; Tubma.i High School, Class B, Hattie B. Latimer, Class C, Josie Markwalter; City Grammar Schools, Leila Benson, Sarah E. Simmons, K. F. Reith, James P. Richards, Jr., Gano W. Coleihan, James Boulin-
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eau; City Colored Grammar Schools, Thomas Malone, Grace Brown; Schools out of the city, Orlando Smith, Fannie Boston, Charlotte Wardiaw, Fannie Smith (colored).
The award for Brunswick was as follows :
White Schools, for excellence in scholarship, Maggie O'Connor.
Risley School (colored) "
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Emma Clarke.
If the award had been made in the cities of Columbus and West Point at the close of the school year, it would
have been made on the basis of only half a year's work. The school authorities, therefore, declined to make the award and are holding the medals over till opportunity is given for a full year's competition.
The medals having been awarded only in part in the city of Savannah, I prefer to withhold the statement from pub lication till it is complete.
It is proper to say that the statements above are jus't as they were furnished by the several City and County Super intendents.
The question of the removal of the Peabody Normal Col lege, located at Nashville, Tenn., to the State of Georgia, which was agitated during the past twelve months, is one which awakened much interest in the public mind. As the head of the common school system of the State of Georgia, it fell to my lot to take a leading part in the negotiations looking to removal. As the matter was one of State con cern, it will be expected of me that I give an official ac count of what was done. The duty is a delicate one. There were quite a number of parties interested in the dif ferent questions that arose during the pendency of the ne gotiations. To do all these even-handed justice and, at the same time give a faithful account of what took place, is the problem before me. The best solution of the problem, as it seems to me, is to permit the parties, as far as possible, to speak for themselves. I have determined, therefore, to tell the story by giving extracts from the correspondence, put
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ting in only such words of my own as may be necessary to keep up the connection and make the whole intelligible.
"Removal was first suggested by Dr. Sears, Gen'l Agent of the Peabody Trustees, in a letter addressed to me, dated Nov. 9th, 1878. In it he says: "Will not Georgia utilize its unoccupied buildings and establish a Normal School 1 If Tennessee does not soon make an appropriation for the Nashville Normal College, the question will be open for its removal so far as we are concerned."
Again, Feb. 18th, 1879, in a letter of that date, he says : " If the Tennessee Legislature makes no appropriation to the Nashville Normal College, the question of removal may come up before our Trustees at their next meeting.
"If we should find it necessary to remove it to some other State, do you think the city of Atlanta would furnish a suitable site and buildings in consideration of the advantage of having it there, and that the State would appropriate $6,000 a year for current expenses, if the Peabody Trustees would do the same V
Under date of March 3d, following, I replied as follows: " What you say in relation to the removal of the Normal College, in a certain contingency, impresses me very much. There is some doubt about the constitutional power to es tablish a school of the kind separate from the University. There is no doubt about the power to establish it, making it a part of the University. I am having the question of constitutional power investigated by one of our ablest law yers. I am confident I can have the appropriation made. I will write you in fall soon."
Dr. Stearns, Chancellor of the University at Nashville and Head of the Normal College, writes to me under date of March 17th, 1879 : " I am, at present, hard at work upon our Legislature, trying to induce them to devote a portion of the income of the school fund to aid in our support. Concerning the result, I am not very sanguine--but I mean to do all I can, if Tennessee loses the College, to save my self from blame."
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April 5th, 1879, I wrote to Dr. Sears : " I write this to say that the contemplated removal of the Normal College at Nashville is gaining some currency here, and to ask of you not to commit yowself to any particular schema or policy in regard to this matter, should you be approached by persons from this State, till ypu hear from me. I shall first seek to find out, from gentlemen of eminent legal abil ity, the possibilities under our Constitution, as to the carry ing forward of such an enterprise by the State ; and then I shall make my suggestions and recommendations solely with a view to the best interests ofpopular education P
April 18th, 1879,1 again wrote to Dr. Sears: " I am not ready to speak in relation to the question of the removal of the Normal College to this State. All the gentlemen whose opinion I have asked on the constitutional question have ' not answered."
April 22d, 1879, Dr. Sears writes, in reply to the letter of the State School Commissioner of April 5th : " I am en tirely uncommitted in regard to the Normal School and shall continue to be so. I am obliged to you for the cau tion."
May 31st, 1879, I wrote to Dr. Sears: "I have been carefully considering the matter of the removal of the Nor mal College. Several of the legal gentlemen consulted by me have not yet given me their opinion as to the possibili ties under our new Constitution. They doubtless will. Ex-Governors Brown, Smith, and Johnson have responded. They all agree that the State cannot appropriate money to establish a Normal College as a separate school; but that it can be thus appropriated to establish a Normal College as a branch of the University. Two of them think that the Normal College could be placed under a different Board of Trustees, connecting it with the University by simply plac ing it under the supervision of the same Chancellor, while the third thinks that the Normal College would have to be put under the direction of the Trustees of the University.
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1 would prefer to have it established as a separate school. It could be made to do well, put under a different Board of Trustees, but connected with the University as to supervis ion. I doubt whether it could be made effective, placed under the same Board. It would be an accident if the Trustees of the University were public school men. The men who manage the Normal School ought to be in full sympathy with our public schools. I could not recommend your Board to appropriate money to an institution to be managed by men not out and out advocates of public schools. As we cannot have a separate school, I am for the school, placed under its own Board and connected with the University in the matter of supervision only, if this can be established--and I believe it can. I should insist upon the law being so framed as to put public school men in the Board of Trustees. I feel confident that I can get an appropriation of the amount named by you, viz. $6,000, ^ to be duplicated by your Board. There is a building in Athens that could be utilized in this connection. The ex ecutive mansion and the old capitol at Milledgeville could be thus employed. It may be that Atlanta would furnish the buildings. I know that the other buildings could be obtained. I have written as above to prepare you, to some extent, to make suggestions at the approaching meeting of your Board. Let me hear from you."
Dr. Sears replied June 6th, 1879, to my letter of May 31st: "Your letter concerning the Normal School is received. No reply to it seems at present necessary. Atlanta would, of course, be the best location for such a school. I do not know how good the buildings at Milledgeville are for such a purpose, but I suppose the place is somewhat inaccessible. What Tennessee will do, I do not yet know."
The State School Commissioner, in a letter of June 5th, having recommended the appropriation of the bulk of the quota of the Peabody Fund assigned to Georgia to the sus taining of scholarships in the Normal College, Dr. Sears,
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in a letter of June 10th, after referring to similar possible recommendations from other States, says:
"Now this will hasten the question of removal. One of our great embarrassments at Nashville is the occupancy of a part of the College buildings by the Montgomery Bell Academy, and the refusal of the University Trustees to remove it. They say they are bound by contract, and I suppose they are. A Jarge increase of scholarships from abroad, will make it absolutely necessary to remove, or have more room provided for us. The people of Tennessee seem either to be indifferent, or to think it is all mere talk about removing. This influx of students from other States will be a practical proof of a tendency towards a great Cen. tral Southern Normal School, making it desirable for any State and city to have it. As Tennessee is making no move ment whatever, it is my opinion that if Atlanta could be fixed on as a location, you would get this great and prosper ous school in Georgia. It will probably have a department, at least, for advanced scholars, especially for those enjoying scholarships, above ordinary State normal schools, so that if other States establish such, still this will tower above them all. I think the Peabody Trustees will concentrate its greatest patronage on this one school. Let other States have schools of their own for the great body of their dis trict or country teachers, or primary city teachers, while teachers of a high order shall resort to this more elevated institution. A dozen teachers from each State thus thor oughly trained would operate like leaven in their respective States, and lead on in the improvement of the rank and file teachers who have had less opportunities for professional training.
"These are my present views, and I shall lay them before the Peabody Trustees."
I wrote to Dr. Sears, June 16th, 1879, as follows : "You remember the adjourned session of the Legislature begins in July, first week. Shall I go forward and try to obtain the
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legislation necessary to secure the removal of the Normal Col lege to this State ? I include under the words `legislation necessary,' the annual appropriation of $6,000, the provid ing of the necessary building and grounds, and the secur ing of a Board to manage the enterprise, composed of public school men in full sympathy with us in our efforts to per fect our public school system. The legislation could be conditioned on removal, and on receiving the full support and patronage of your Board. If we do not move in this matter now, action will be postponed two years, as the ses sions of our Legislature are now biennial.
"Please answer me as to whether I have your permission to go forward with a view to securing the legislation to which I have alluded."
June 19th, 1879, Dr. Sears, in further reply to the State School Commissioner's letter of May 31st, writes: "In re gard to the removal of the Nashville Normal College, I can only say that evry day increases the probability of it. We cannot go on long in the present way. We must have more room ; and nobody stirs toward providing it. There is difficulty, if not inability, and certainly an indisposition, on the part of the University Trustees to do anything, and the State Board of Education, having no funds, has no power to act in the case."
After speaking approvingly of the Tennesssee State Board of Education, Dr. S. continues in this letter to say of them:
They can move neither the Legislature to give anything, nor the University Trustees to devise measures of relief. We are already crowded and our number is rapidly increas ing. The promised $6,000 aid from the Nashville funds have dwindled to $2,700.
" I do not know what our Trustees will do on the subject, but I shall recommend removal and urge it strongly. I believe the thing will be done."
July 1, 1879,1 wrote to Dr. Stearns: " As to removal, I shall do all in my power with the
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Legislature, which convenes to-morrow, to procure the needed legislation, conditioned upon the action of the Trustees of the Peabody Fund, at the approaching annual meeting."
Dr. Stearns writes to me, July 1st, 1879, "Should it be deemed advisable to remove our college from Tennessee, as now seems at least possible, I sincerely hope Georgia may find it a home, and that Atlanta may be its future' location. If the Normal College is to become a great cen tral institution for the Southern States--and this will undoubtedly be the case, sooner or later--I think your State, from its position, healthfulness and the spirit of its .people more and better adapted to give it full scope than any other State." After describing what the location, grounds, and buildings should be, he says: " Can not you meet the constitutional difficulty which restricts State ap propriations to the University, by making the Normal Col lege a part of your common school system and giving it a portion of what is designed for the schools ? Can you not injsome way avoid University control, or subordination to another institution ? I think the prosperity of the college requires that it should stand, as far as possible, alone. Of course it would be desirable to have one or more public schools in the vicinity connected with it for model and training schools."
September 4th, 1879, I wrote to Dr. Sears : " There has been"apparently some change in the temper of our Legis lature, and I now have strong hopes of getting a bill through, a copy of which I enclose herewith. I had a joint meeting oUthe_Committee on Education of the Senate and House called yesterday. I read the enclosed bill, and accompanied the'reading with the proper explanations. At the close of the reading a motion was made to request me to have the bill at one introduced into the House. On putting the mo tion all voted in favor, except three members, who had some constitutional scruples. The ablest1 lawyer, however,
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on the Committee was very decided in the opinion that there was no constitutional bar. The Committee instructed me to have it stated in the House, at the time of introduc tion, that the-bill went in with the approval of both com mittees.
" I am the author of the bill. I would have preferred a separate school; but under the Constitution it could not be so made. If the bill passes, I feel confident that we shall have quite a number of tenders of buildings and grounds.
" Please write me what you think of the bill." The bill referred to in the foregoing was the Normal College bill as it passed, without the condition in respect to removal. In reply to the foregoing letter, Dr. Sears writes, under date of September 18, 1879: " Our annual meeting is so near (Oct. 1.) that I thought it better to delay my answer to your letter on the Normal School bill till after it was held. Whatever Tennessee may do or fail to do, we should undoubtedly aid your Normal School." October 11, 1879,1 wrote to Dr. Sears as follows: " I sent you a paper, a few days ago, giving an account of the passage of the Normal College bill by the House. The Senate passed the bill yesterday by a vote of 30 to 6. This is a great edu cational triumph. The bill passed just as it was when I sent it to you, except as to a single additional condition. That condition is removal from Nashville. I regretted to see that condition put into the bill, but it could not have passed the House, in the present temper of that body, without it. We shall have several tenders of buildings and grounds." ' In a letter of October 21, 1879, I wrote to Dr. Sears as follows: " What is the chance of removal ? Let me hear from you. Since the passage of the law much interest has been awakened, Augusta, Milledgeville, Athens, Griffin, Newnan, Bowden, Penfield and Atlanta will probably com pete for the location." In the same letter I say, " I have heard only meagre reports from your New York meeting.
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Did adjournment to meet in February have any significance in relation to this question of removal ? Let me hear from you."
Dr. Sears replies, October 24, 1879: " After rehearsing to our trustees in my report the history of the Nashville Normal College, and the failure of the Tennessee Legisla ture to render us the expected aid, I closed by saying: 4 It has therefore become a serious question whether some change, possibly involving a removal, shall not be made to secure ampler accommodations and better support for the future.' The trustees, after discussing the question, author ized me to remove all our interests in the College, if the State or people of Tennessee should not, within one year, either make or promise to make, all necessary provisions for us. The action was informal but decisive.
" I see Dr. Lindsley (?) has made an appeal in an article of two columns of the Nashville American to thepublic to come to the rescue of the college. I do not know what the effect will be. Unless some decisive action is taken, we shall undoubtedly go to Georgia.
"I think Atlanta, for various reasons, wonjd be greatly preferred to any other location."
" On October 30, 1879, I write to Dr. Seats: " Your let ter of the 24th instant has been received. I expect to go to Athens, the site of the State University, next week, and, on my return, 1 shall write fully in reply."
In a letter of November 20, 1879, Dr. Sears writes: " I now think that if Georgia will offer good grounds and buildings in Atlanta for a Normal School, the Normal Col lege would be removed to that place, and not otherwise. It has been intimated that the Trustees of the University of Nashville will do their part, and give us the accommoda tions which we need; but the State has given no intima tion of trying to make an appropriation."
I replied as follows, under date of November 25, 1879 : "I do not know yet what Atlanta will do in the way of a tender of buildings and grounds. Athens will, I think,
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offer the buildings and grounds of the Lucy Cobb Institute and what they call the Rock College. There is attached to each eight acres of ground. The buildings are large, and cost originally $50,000 to $75,000. They could be made to answer our purposes admirably. Isewnan, it is said, will expend $30,000 to secure the location. Augusta is anx iously inquiring what must be done to put her prominently among the competitors. The question is being agitated, tosome extent, here. I am on the Board that is to decide among the tenders, and am compelled to keep silent.
" Georgia will have a Normal College. We can succeed easily, I think, in striking o"ut the condition about removal, if it should be neceseary to do that, when the Legislature meets next fall, and then your Board will give us, any way, the $6,000 per annum. I desire very much, however, to secure removal now, and thus make our College the great central Normal College for the South.
"Let me suggest some solid reasons which,underlie this desire:
"1st. Georgia is the most central position for the South ern States, and easiest, of access for the territory interested.
" 2d. The upper portion of our State has never been scourged with an epidemic since the first settling of the territory.
" 3d. Our State is the most progressive of the Southern States.
" 4th. The law, as framed, does not require an annual appropriation. The appropriation is made in the act, and is to be paid annually. If your Board should make the donation I do not think the law could be repealed, as that action would conclude a contract between your Board and the State. If I am wrong in this view, and repeal should be considered allowable, it would still be impracticable to secure it under our new Constitution, as under that instru ment it requires a majority of all the members returned toboth branches to repeal a law.
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" 5th. Georgia always meets her obligations when recog nized as just.
l I hope you will weigh well these reasons. " I know your preference is for Atlanta, and she would make a tender in a week's time but for legal obstacles. The new Constitution prohibits the incurring of a debt by a city of over seven per cent, of her taxable property. Atlanta owes more than that now. In the next place, the city charter forbids taxing the people, for all purposes, over one and one-half per cent, of the value of their property, and we are now levying that much tax. I do not doubt but that some way of raising money will be suggested which will cause the city to be heard from soon. " Whatever Georgia may do, I think you are absolved from all obligations to Tennessee. Moreover, the rigors of the winter climate of Nashville and her liability to the scourge of cholera are, as I think, reasons why you should not regret that you are absolved." In a letter to Chancellor Stearns, of December 11, 1879, I say: " I read with much interest the article in the Amer ican. I do not believe that the Tennessee Legislature can be roused to a proper interest, and I shall do what I can to bring about removal." A letter from me to Dr. Sears, of December 29, 1879, says: " I learn that the property at Athens referred to in former letters, together with $8,000 to put the buildings in good repair and to procure good furniture, will be tendered to the Normal College. " Newnan, it is reported, will spend $30,000 on her ten der. " I think 1 can now say that Atlanta will make an ofier. Ton shall hear definitely soon. "lam very anxious to secure the Normal College for Georgia, and if you think it would be proper, I will be in Washington when your Board meets in February, simply to give any information in relation to Georgia that may be desired."
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On January 1st, 1880, I wrote to Dr. Stearns, Chancellor, for plans for buildings, and inquired what would be the probable action of the Tennessee Legislature in voting the necessary appropriations. In reply thereto, under date of January 7, 1880, he sent the plans asked for, expressed great doubt about what Tennessee would do, and closed by say ing : "We have at present eighty scholarship students, who bring into and expend in this city from $16,000 to $20,000, besides what is expended in conducting the college."
In reply to, my letter of December 29, 1879, Dr. Sears, after stating that communications to his Board must be made in writing, as they never acted upon matters coming before them in any other shape; and after expressing per sonally a wish that I might be present in Washington at the February meeting of the Board, goes on to say: " I do not perceive any material change in the state of things in Tennessee. If the people there do not make some decided movement to relieve us, and if Georgia makes an accepta ble proposal, inviting us to Atlanta, I have no doubt I shall, at the approaching meeting of the Trustees, recommend re moval." This was under date of January 5, 1880.
January 22, 1880, I wrote to Dr. Sears: " On receipt of your letter of January 5th, inst., I addressed letters to the authorities of the cities of Athens, Augusta and Atlanta, and to the towns of Newnan and West Point. I send here with a copy of the Augusta letter. The others were the same in substance. I send this to you that you may have an idea of what I am doing. I will post you just as soon as possible as to what can be done at all these places. I may say that a fine offer will come up from Athens. The peo ple there are all agog, and will do something handsome. I have just attended a meeting in this city which I now feel confident will result in a good offer."
The "Augusta letter" above referred to was directed to the Hon. Jno. S. Davidson, bore date of January 13, 1880, and was as follows:
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" The Trustees of the Peabody Fund meet the 18th of next month in Washington, D. C. At that meeting the question of the removal of the Nashville Normal College will be decided; and I now feel confident in favor of Geor gia, if we consult our true interests. The Tennessee Legis lature, recently convened in extra session, adjourned with out making the appropriation necessary to retain the school at Nashville. There will be no other session till 1881; and, consequently, there can be no appropriation made'till then. 1 have been invited to put in writing a statement of what can be done in the way of furnishing a building and grounds in Georgia as information to the General Agent, Dr. Sears, to be considered by him before making the customary report to his Board ; and I shall, moreover, be present to make any supplemental statement, if that be considered desirable by the Board. I wish you to confer with leading citizens of Augusta, and take the necessary steps to put before me definitely what the city will do. You will un derstand the proposition your city may now make is simply a basis for my statement to Dr. Sears. When the State Board of Education, together with Dr. Sears, come to con sider the question of location, should removal to Georgia be decided upon, Augusta will, of course, be at libierty to amend her proposition by offering greater inducements."
In a lettter of January 21, 1880, Dr. Sears says: "We are, of course, committed to our present faculty. There can be no removal if that faculty is to be dropped." He adds an expression of his fears in relation to the University control provided by our law.
In a reply, dated January 24, 1880,1 say : "I do not be lieve it best to retain all of the faculty at Nashville, in the event of removal. The leading members of it might be retained with great advantage. I cannot gb into this deli cate subject fully in a letter without liability to being mis understood. I hnow that I can, in a personal interview, present considerations that would modify the views you have expressed on this point."
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Dr. Sears replied to my letter of January 24th on January 26th, 1880, and closed by saying : "We could understand each other by a few moment's conversation in Washington." , On February 4th, 1880, in a letter to Dr. Sears, I say : "I send herewith the Athens proposition. The printed letter was sent to every member of the Board of Trustees of the University. Answers have been received from all, or nearly all, of the members; and these answers show, as I have been informed, that this large body of influential men are almost a unit in reference to the offer made, and that the Normal College will be received with enthusiasm, and cher ished as one of the most important of our educational agen cies. The endorsement on the back of the letter, the orig inal of which is in my possession, makes the tender official and binding. The buildings tendered will be ample for our purposes, and can be made, by some changes, all that we could desire. The city of Athens is thoroughly roused. One cit izen offers to give a thousand dollars, and to increase the sum to two thousand dollars if necessary, to make the needed alterations in the buildings and to provide the necessary furniture. I am informed that large numbers stand ready to follow this example in contributing what they can towards the enterprise. I think I can safely say that they will will ingly and cheerfully raise all the money that the Board will fix as necessary to accomplish the objects mentioned.
"You will observe that a tender is made of the use of the libraries, chemical and philosophical apparatus, museums, etc. The libraries are entensive and well selected, and the chemical and philosophical apparatus equal to any in the South, as I am informed. I am told further, that the ten der of apparatus includes, not simply the privilege of occa sional use, but the right of constant use in the University Laboratory at such hours as may be agreed upon. I have thought it proper to write this much in explanation of the tender. A more valuable offer can hardly be made any where.
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"I still feel confident that Atlanta will make a tender, and perhaps other places."
Chancellor Stearns having written to me that he would be called upon to give an opinion in relation to removal, and asking for facts, I wrote to him February 10th, 1880, giving him an account of the Athens tender, and presenting the arguments in favor of removal to Georgia. The substance of the letter in respect to both these matters having been already given in other letters, I do not now reproduce what was said therein.
I was present in Washington, D. 0., according to agree ment, during the February meeting of the Peabody Trus tees, already referred to herein. Hon. W. L. Calhoun, Mayor of the city of .Atlanta, was also present. Through me, he communicated to Dr. Sears an official tender from the city of Atlanta. The tender from Athens I had already placed in the hands of Dr. S., and these were the only official tenders made. The Peabody Trustees held several sessions, and dur ing the time, I had two or three interviews with Dr. Sears. During these interviews, the question of retaining the Fac ulty of the Normal College, as then constituted, was fully discussed ; and we parted, as I thought, with an understand ing on both sides that this question could be adjusted by mutual concessions. Indeed, the impression left on my mind by all that passed between us was to the effect that Georgia had virtually secured the location. He did not tell me the precise action taken, but spoke of an early visit to our State, when the whole matter would be settled.
February 25th, 18;0,1 wrote to Dr. Sears : "I reached home yesterday, and I write you thus early because I think it important to do so. While I feel that the decision of the question of removal of therNormal College has been virtually settled, I desire very'much to have it actually settled and to have the decision publicly announced. The interests involved demand an early settlement. You will remember that we were talking about your making us
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an early visit, and I, as I remember the matter, was to in form you when the Governor would be certainly at home. I am just from the Executive Office, and Governor Colquitt authorizes me to say that he will be here at any time within the next three or four weeks, fie agrees with me that a final decision ought to be reached and announced as early as possible. Please write in reply to this, saying when you can come."
In reply to my letter of February 10th, already referred to, Dr. Stearns, on February 25th, 1879, wrote, stating that the University Trustees had become thoroughly roused, and wei'e taking every measure possible to prevent removal. After detailing in full what they were seeking to accom plish, he concludes by saying that it would be better, oh the whole, for the College to remain in Uashville. He expresses personal willingness to go to Atlanta, but fears greatly University control under the provisions of the Georgia law.
The visit of Dr. Sears to Atlanta took place March 21st. Dr. Stearns was also present by invitation, arriving two or three days after that date. During the visit of these gen tlemen, our State Board of Education had three different meetings, the visitors being invited in every case to attend. Dr. Sears, in a letter dated February 26th, speaking of Athens, had said : "I cannot consider that location at all," and now he informed our Board that he had instructions to remove the Peabody interest in the Nashville College to Atlanta, Georgia, if suitable arrangements could be made, with the privilege of considering offers from other points. He took occasion, however, to repeat that if removal was effected, Atlanta must be the site. Our conferences soon developed some differences about other points. Dr. Sears thought it of the first importance that the faculty of the college, as then constituted, be removed intact. It was contended in the Board that success on a new theatre re quired that there should be placed in the faculty some teachers already well known to the people. Dr. Sears
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further stated that if Georgia secured the location, that advantage must be sufficient for her, and that she could have no scholarships, adding that Tennessee had never had the benefit of scholarships. It was urged in the Board that, if Georgia should secure the location, her payment of $6,000 per annum would be a sufficient satisfaction for that, and that she ought not to be deprived of scholarships. It was further stated that our authorities were under a misapprehension on this point from the beginning; and that our Normal College act was passed by the Legislature, with the distinct understanding at the time, that the State would be entitled still to the privilege of scholarships.
During the pendency of these questions, representatives of the City Council and people of Athens, of the State University, and of the City Council of Atlanta, appeared before the Board and made statements. An invitation from the authorities of Athens to visit that place and in spect the property tendered, was also accepted. In this visit, a committee represented the State Board, and Dr. Stearns represented Dr. Sears, who was himself too unwell to risk leaving his room at the time. It may be asked, why visit Athens at all, if there was no chance of her secur ing the location ? The reply is, it could not be certainly foreseen what turn negotiations might take.
After much consultation and discussion, Dr. Sears sub mitted the following paper as a basis of action :
"The Trustees of the Peabody Fund propose to contrib ute annually towards the support of the Georgia Normal College $6,000 on the following conditions:
"1. That the State contribute the same amount. "2. That a suitable building for such a school, on an ap proved plan, and a mansion for the President, with grounds and other necessary accommodations, be provided by the city of Atlanta, or other parties. "3. That the President be nominated or approved by the General Agent, and that the President nominate his assist
ants.
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"4. That the Peabody Trustees, or their Agent, be al lowed to designate the use of the contribution they make.
"5. That this arrangement continue during the pleasure of the parties."
This paper was referred to a committee consisting of the Governor, the Attorney-General and the State School Commissioner. This committee agreed unanimously upon an acceptance of Dr. Sears' proposition, with a number of material modifications. These modifications were to the effect that the faculty was to be accepted as it stood for twelve months, their salaries for that period to be paid by the Peabody Trustees ; that Georgia was not to be deprived of scholarships, and that the Peabody Trustees were to have the right of withholding the appropriation given by them, if at any time the objects for which it was given were not being carried out in good faith. The paper, as thus amended, was submitted to Dr. Sears for his approval. He said he approved it, but could not sign it, till he heard again from Dr. Stearns, who had, a day or two before, re turned to Nashville. That day Dr. Sears left for his home, carrying the amended paper with him.
Frequent reference has been made to the Athens tender. In order to show what it was, I submit the following paper, which was placed before the State Board by a representa tive from Athens:
" List of property tendered by the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia to the State Board of Education for the use of the Normal State College, provided it is located at Athens:
, Use of College Library, valued... ........... ....................... $ 40 000 00 Phi Kappa Library, valued....................................... 3 500 00 Demosthenian Library, valued................. ............. 3 000 00 Lucy Cobb Institute, valued..................... "........... 25 000 00 Kock College, valued................................................ 25 000 00 Chem. and Phil. Apparatus,'valued........................ 30 000 00 College Chapel ....................... .............................. 10 000 00 Mineralogical Museum... ................ ...................... 5 000 00
$141 500 00
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In addition, use of two lecture halls, accommodation 200 each, fitted with gas, water and modern appliances for public lectures, day or night; say, per annum.............
In addition, the citizens of Athens tender to the Board of Education from $6,000 to $10,000, as may be needed, for the purpose of arranging and putting in order buildings above tendered; say, small estimate..............
1 000 00 6 000 00
Total........................................................................$148 500 00
The tender of the city of Atlanta, made in regular form through the Mayor, was--
Cash............................................................................................ $18000 A lot comprising an entire block, offered by Mr. Richard
Peters, valued at........................................................................ 5000 Or the choice of one among three lots, offered by Mr. E. E.
Rawson. To be raised by citizens................................................................... 7000
$80 000."
Dr. Sears left for his home on the 30th of March. Just before leaving he received a dispatch from Dr. Stearns, which, as he informed me, conveyed information that the' Trustees of-the University of Nashville were about to con vene. The next day he wrote to me from Cleveland, Tennessee, where he was delayed by the wreck of a train, as follows:
"I answered, in a word, President Stearns' dispatch yesterday at 4 p. m., and sent it on in the Nashville mail. I have written him fully to-day, but the letter will not go till to-morrow morning, and 1 have telegraphed him to wait for the letter. I state my difficulties with the Nashville offer, (and with anything they well can offer,) and ask him to telegraph to me at Staunton his assent or dissent with the Atlanta plan, and, in order to save precious time, to telegraph to yau, at the same time, `I consent,' or `I do not consent.' You can be governed by his answer, and will soon hear from me fully by letter."
April 2, 1880, Chancellor Stearns dispatched me, "I con sent."
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This, I supposed, settled the matter, and I expected in a few days to have the original proposition of Dr. Sears, as amended by the committee, returned to me with his signa ture, ready to be acted upon by our Board. Instead of this, however, on the 6th of April I received from Dr. Sears the following dispatch: "President Stearns' answer to me not quite satisfactory; wait."
Yery soon thereafter I received two letters from Dr. Sears, one dated the 5th and the other the 6th of April.
The first was as follows: "I confess to you that I do not see any course of action that is not beset with difficul ties. Your Board find that they must act just as they would for a State Normal School. We, on the other hand, have a Southern Normal College on our hands. The more I reflect upon it, the more am I convinced that the Peabody Trustees would not be willing to put all their interests, even Upminally, into the hands of an unsympathizing body of men, representing the University. True, we have the power to withdraw, but such an act would leave us without a College, and with a damaged reputation. We cannot afford to have a quarrel with a State. Possibly it may be better to delay action till your Legislature meets ; and, if the aspect of things does not change, see if you cannot get authority to establish a Georgia Normal School, without the Normal College.
"I see President Stearns feels reluctant to exchange Nashville for Atlanta, thinking he has much to fear, and little to hope. He would have to surrender several things very dear to him. He would leave a safe place where the experiment has been safely made, and hazard his success and reputation under circumstances neither; flattering nor inviting.
"If I should decide to remove, he might feel compelled to acquiesce; but I do not think that would be treating him fairly. The reputation of the College is due to him. He came to Nashville with the expectation that permanency
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there would be certain, if he were successful. Everybody admits that he has been.
"Nashville will try to induce us to extend the time for legislative action to next January, and will promise both money and influence. The utmost we could do would be to promise to wait. We can give no pledges if the State does not; and, of course, cannot nou> make an}' promise for the future to Tennessee. Of course, we could not hold Atlanta or Georgia bound by its present offer. Everything would be as it was at the beginning.
"I do not like to take decisive and final action in a case so dark and doubtful. 1 should be held responsible for results, whereas no one will blame me for remaining where we are.
"N ow, in looking over all the difficulties of the case, you may think it better for Georgia to be free, and to have its own Normal School, we making the same offer as that made to Texas. Over our Southern Normal College we must have a larger jurisdiction than over a State Normal School. We have larger interests, both in the expenditures and in their results. I see that just so far as we press this view in respect to the Atlanta plan, we embarrass you. Perhaps you would willingly be freed from that embarrass ment.
"This letter is merely one of inquiry. I have come to no decision in my own mind."
The following postscript was appended: "p. m. 4 o'clock April 5.--Your telegram is just received. After receiving President Stearns' telegram I wrote to him on the whole subject, and I wish to get his reply before writing to yon. I fear he feels forced to say yes, `if I think it best.' Let us have time for fair play." I had telegraphed to him of President Stearns' consent to removal. I learned afterwards that Dr. Stearns' telegram to Dr. Sears was, "I consent, if you think best." I now give the letter of April 6th. It was as follows :
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"I am constantly revolving in my mind the question whether there is any better way to solve our difficulties than that which we have been considering.
"Might we divide the jurisdiction by resolving the double character of the institution into its two constituent parts, limiting the power of revision on the part of the University to the Gleorgia State Normal School, and leaving the Nor mal College for the Southern States (which the Peabody Trustees support) entirely free from University control ? The first would be established by law; the other (the Col lege) would be a matter of control between the Dniversity or your Board of Education and the Peabody Trustees. Why should one party pay the money, and the other party claim control of the College ? I use the terms Normal School and Normal College merely for convenience. I know there can be no formal division of the two. Still the two joint interests would be so far designated as to free the University from the constitutional obligation to take the oversight of our (the Peabody) part of the concern.
"If some such understanding could be reached, my Trus tees would be better satisfied with my action. We should then in another form have in Georgia substantially what we now have in Nashville as the plan of action. Perhaps you can take this suggestion and work out something better.
"I have written to President Stearns that I shall not take final action till he and I fully understand each other; that if he consents to removal merely because he cannot help it, that will not satisfy me.
"If you should feel as I intimated in my last letter you possibly might, we should have ample time to review the whole ground, and finally act with less risk.
"It would not do for me to break up at Nashville, and then run any real risk of breaking up again at Atlanta. The people would lose all confidence in us. It would be better to suffer hard treatment by the University than to separate on account of dissatisfaction. Our security, there-
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fore, is rather factitious than real. We hold out a quasi threat which we cannot afford to execute. If the intima tion of possible withdrawal produces its effect, all will be well; if it should not, then we shall be in a bad fix indeed.
"This is the reason why I have made the inquiry about the double character of the Normal College (as it is now called.)
"Let us get this matter right, if we can, without sacrifice to any party. I seek nothing but the general good, and wish to act without partiality."
I was absent from home when these letters came. As soon as I returned I telegraphed to Dr. Sears as follows:
"I can remove all your difficulties. Look for me in Staunton next week."
I immediately called on ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown, and explained to him the status of affairs, giving it as my opinion that the chief difficulty in reaching a satisfactory result in this matter was the fear of University control, especially if Atlanta should be chosen as the location, and asking him to give me his opinion, as a Trustee of the University, as to how that Board would receive and treat the Normal College, should it be removed to this State. I subjoin the letter he wrote with its endorsements :*
"Atlanta, Ga., April 12, 1880.
Gustavtjs J. Gee, State Sehool Commissioner, etc., Atlanta, Ga:
"Dear Sir: Referring to our conversation on the Normal College, I have to state that I have examined the act of the Legislature on the subject, and I find it is left with the Board of Trustees of the Normal College and the General Agent of the Trustees of the Peabody Fund to decide among the tenders of location, and accept the one which, in their judgment, is the proper one. Then the duties of the Trustees of the State University are prescribed.
"Now I understand there may be some apprehension as to
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the course the Trustees of the State University might take in the matter, in the event we are not satisfied with the location selected by the authority above mentioned. On this point 1 have this to say, as a member of the Board of the Trustees of the State University :
"I have felt, in common with the other members of the Board, that it is our duty to favor the location of the Nor mal College at Athens; and as you are well aware, I have taken that position ; and while my residence and interests are in Atlanta, I could certainly say nothing against Atlanta as a proper location, under the obligations which I feel resting upon me as a trustee of the State University. I have gone against its location in my own town. But if the Board of Trustees of the Normal College, and the General Agent of the Trustees of the Peabody Fund, decided in favor of Atlanta, or in favor of any other location in the State, that will not, in the slighest degree, change my course in the premises.
"We already have several small colleges located ifi differ ent sections of the State, connected with, and part of, the State University ; and I believe that each and every member of the Board of Trustees of the State University feels it his duty, ad is proud to do all in his power to promote the best interests of each, without any regard, whatever, to its location ; and I have no doubt that the same course will be pursued towards the Normal College, no matter what location may be selected.
"Indeed, I am fully satisfied that our Board would foster it in every way possible. It would be our pride, as well as our duty to do so, and we should expect the subordinate Board to prescribe a proper curriculum and confer such degrees as are usually conferred in a Normal College of the character of the College proposed to be removed to, and connected with, our State University. I have no idea that there would be any capricious disposition shown by any member of the Board, or that there would be any injustice
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done to the Normal College, or any interference with the
action of the subordinate Board in any matter where it was
reasonable and appropriate in an institution of the character
of that over which they would preside. We all have our
individual preference as to location, and some of us may
have duties to perform in reference to a particular location
that we might not otherwise prefer. But when the location
is made, I think I express the whole of it in a word, when
I say we shall be proud of the College as a part of the
University, and shall adopt a liberal, just, and I trust, wise
policy in reference to it. I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed)
Joseph E. Browh."
"I concur in the above, and further express the opinion
that the Trustees of the University of Georgia will not seek
to regulate the studies or methods pursued in the Normal
College, or to prevent the conferring of any degrees upon
its graduates, providing these degrees are not to be consid
ered as the degrees of the University.
(Signed)
H. V. M. Miller."
"I concur in the views above set forth by ex-Governor
Brown and Dr. Miller.
(Signed)
James M. Smith."
"We feel sure that the policy pursued towards the Normal
College by the Trustees of the University of Georgia, should
that College be located in Atlanta, would be as expressed
in the statement made within by ex-Governor Brown.
(Signed)
James Jackson,
Martin J. Crawford,
Alfred H. Colquitt,
S. M. H. Byrd."
It is proper to remark that all the gentlemen, whose names are signed to the several endorsements above, are also Trustees of the University.
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As stated in the telegram, the week following, taking with me the paper above given, I made a visit to Dr. Sears at Staunton, Va. I placed the paper before him, which he read very carefully, and during the day, which I spent with him, we discussed, at length, the different aspects of the removal question. He gave me no decisive answer. I had told him that I believed 1 could procure a favorable endorse ment of Governor Brown's statement from almost every member of the Board of Trustees of the University; and, when we parted, I asked him if I should proceed to the procuring of these endorsements on my return home. He replied that, after corresponding with Dr. Stearns, he would giye me an answer.
On reaching home, I telegraphed Dr. Stearns, April 19th, 1880, as follows: " Do not answer Dr. Sears till I am heard from." On the same day, I wrote to Dr. Stearns: "I have just sent you a telegram, requesting you not to answer Dr. Sears till I am heard from. You will learn, through a^ letter from him, that I was with him last Friday in Staun ton. The final conclusion as to the question of removal from Nashville of the interests of the Peabody Trustees will be made, I feel assured, to hinge upon your answer to his letter.
" The chief difficulty in your mind and in the mind of Dr. Sears in respect to removal to Atlanta, as I understood from repeated interviews when you were both here, was the fear that the power given in our law to the Trustees of the State University to revise the acts of the subordinate Board might be used to hinder the Normal College in its legiti mate work. I went to Staunton with evidence to show that this fear was unfounded. This evidence was a letter writ ten by ex-Governor Joseph E. Brown, with endorsements by ex-United States Senator H. V. M. Miller, ex-Governor Smith, Governor Colquitt, James Jackson and M. J. Craw ford, at present Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and Mr. S. M. H. Byrd, all of whom are Trustees
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of the University. That there may be no mistake about the matter, I give the letter and endorsements entire." Then follows the letter already given in the foregoing. fI further say, "On presenting this letter with its endorse ments to Dr. Sears, I made a statement, of the correctness of which I have not a doubt, that I could procure, as addition al endorsers, almost every member of the Board of Trustees of the University, including the Athens members. He seemed very much impressed, and assured me that the ques tion was still an open one. On my asking him whether I should go home and procure additional endorsers, he replied, that after corresponding with you, he would write me on that point. I feel great confidence in my ability to remove the last vestige of reasonable doubt, and I have felt it my duty to put the matter before you in the light in which it is presented above.
" I cannot close this letter without saying to you that I considered your telegram of the 4th inst., taken in conneeti<?n with Dr. Sears' letter from Cleveland, as final and con clusive upon the subject of removal." [Here I gave Dr. Sears's Cleveland letter of March 31st. It will be remem bered that Dr. Sears, in that letter, said that I could govern myself by Chancellor Stearns's answer. Thp letter pro ceeds] " I was so governed, and when you telegraphed me on the 4th inst., ` I consent,' I had it announced in the pa pers that Atlanta had secured the College. The City Coun cil appointed men to canvass the city to raise the additional $7,000, the double of which, in my opinion, could, and can still, be raised. We shall feel greatly disappointed now if we fail to secure removal, and I shall be personally much aggrieved after near two years of honest, earnest, faithful labor, to witness this result of all my efforts."
In a communication of April 24th, Chancellor Stearns re plies to my letter above, and gives in detail his explanations of the matters therein contained. I regret that his letter is too long to be incorporated herein, and I fear I might do him injustice by simply making extracts therefrom.
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On the 15th of May I wrote to Dr. Sears as follows : " I left Staunton this day four weeks ago. You will remem ber you were to correspond with Dr. Stearns and give me a final and conclusive answer as to the question of the removal of the Normal College. I had expected an answer before this. I do not doubt but that you have had sufficient reason for silence. I do not wish to show impatience, but I desire an answer as early as you are prepared to give it. Much interest is manifested in all parts of the State and I am frequently plied with questions on the subject."
His reply, dated May 18th, 1880, contains the following : " The Nashville papers sent me were a little equivocal on one point. I sent for an interpretation and received the writer's view of the case. I then wrote that if the Trus tees had the same view, I could ask nothing more,-------that I could not under such circumstances remove the Nor mal College. I have been waiting for a reply, but have not yet received it."
This reply indicated an adverse decision. As it was not positive, I wrote again to Dr. Sears, June 2d. To this let ter I received a reply from a member of his family, giving an account of the illness which terminated fatally in July.
I have understood, that, on the return of Dr. Stearns from the Atlanta meeting, the Trustees of the University of Nashville and the citizens generally became thoroughly aroused--that the former agreed to raise $10,000 to meet immediate and pressing wants and that numbers of the lat ter bound themselves to pay annually toward the support of the Normal College various amounts, aggregating even more than had been required, till such time as the Legisla ture shall relieve them by an appropriation. I doubt not, as is intimated in Dr. Sears' last letter, that the question of removal thus became settled. Though settled, probably fi nally and against us, a great institution which keeps contin ually within its walls, sustains and educates, free of charge, from eighty to one hundred young persons who are seek-
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ing to prepare themselves for teaching, as a life-work, is a
priceless benefaction to the South ; and, wherever it may be
located, it deserves, and will receive, the hearty support of
every Southern man who is a true friend of popular educa
tion.
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It will be seen, nevertheless, from the correspondence
above given, that we may yet receive aid from the Trustees
of the Peabody Fund for the support of a State Normal
College; and I would suggest to the General Assembly the
propriety of repealing the condition in respect to removal
in the Normal College act. This would put us in a condi
tion to make any aid of the kind, that may be tendered,
available.
One of the parties to the negotiations, of which the cor
respondence herein reproduced gives an account, can no
longer speak for himself. I have preferred that his own
words, penned while in life, should represent him. The
drift of what he has been permitted to say herein shows
that, in all this business, he had no ends in view except
those which were noble, and that he pursued those ends
only by worthy means. In seeking to provide for the per
manent establishment of an institution which he was main
ly instrumental in originating, his study was to guard well
the interests of the great trust which he represented, and, at
the same time, to do no injustice to any of the other par
ties in interest.
I very much regret the length to which this Report has
been drawn out. On a careful review, however, I do "not
see wherein it could have been abridged. To the many im
portant matters which it discusses I invite the earnest at
tention of the General Assembly.
Gustavos J. Ore,
State School Commissioner.
STATISTICAL TABLES
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. 526 140 666
Baker............................................................... 320 251 914 872 571 1786 2357 18
1
2 78 668 746 116 244-' 2558
Baldwin......................................................... 595 553 1506 1433 1148 2939 4087
Banks.............................................................. 798 787 211 155 1535 366 1901
6
2
2
1 115 101 216 94 194 288
Bartow............................................................ 1899 1860 955 897 3759 1852 5611
474 621 1095 587 1830 2417
Berrien............................................................ 891 793 110 91 1684 201 1885
5
232 99 331 226 U9 345
Bibb........................... ..................................... 1408 3339 2556 2606 2747 5162 79u9
Brooks........................................................ . 866 792 776 706 1658 1482 3140 11
2
2
111 460 571 64 1266 1330
Bryan......................................... -.......... ....... 266 270 152 151 536 303 839
41
1
1
71 113 184 66 412 478
Bulloch........................................................... 764 717 250 205 1481 455 1936
81 12` 202 68 291 359
Burke.............................................................. 1322 1307 3048 3075 2629 6123 8752
3 30 43 92 99 G53 4483 5136 274 3990. 4264
Butts............................................................... 620 561 559 524 1181 1083 2264
3
1
8 63 341 404 69 1067 1136
Calhoun..................................................... .
449 458 772 8i7 907 1589 2496
3
1
2
1
93 932 1025 75 1594 1669
Camden.......................................................... 301 280 676 599 580 1275 1855
5
3
2 5C 339 889 34 1023 1057
Campbell..................................... .................. 9<"0 831 698 506 1781 1104 2885
5
1
4
138 154 292 228 531 759
Carroil..................................................-....... 2333 2086 433 385 441S 818 5237
3
7
5
383 339 72 2 537 823 1860
Catoosa........................................................... 741 676 131 114 1417 245 1662
156 6< 216 214 144 358
Charlton......................................................... 229 231 32 23 460 55 515
1
77 14 91 31
8 39
Chatham....................... ................................. 1928 2103 3265 8621 4081 6886 1C917 32
2 28
8 11 147 2646 2793 219 7485 7704
Chattahoochee.............................................. S02 298 536 52C 60C 1056 1656 Chattooga...................................................... 1013 104S 320 318 2066 638 2694 Cherokee............................................ .......... 1846 1552 375 22S 3396 503 3901
1 4 2
o 1
4
1
1 2
40 3S8 422 116 1224 1340
208 140 348 207 374 681
67
123
Clarke.............................................................. 587 572 62S 571 115 1199 2358
2
3 86 260 346 83 1179 1262
Clay.................................................................. 506 479 66? 672 985 1311 2326
1 93 800 393 35 816 851
Clayton........................................................... 717 679 455 446 1396 901 2297
Clinch................. Cobb.................... Coffee..................
Columbia......... Colquitt.............. Coweta.......... . Crawford............ Dade................... Dawson............... Decatur............... DeKalb............... Dodge................... Dooly......... .........
Dougherty.......... Douglas.............. Early.................. Echols.................
Effingham.......... Elbert.................. Emanuel............. Fannin............... .
Fayette............... Floyd ................. Forsyth............... Franklin............ . Fulton............... . City of Atlanta. Gilmer................. Glascock......... Glynn.................. Gordon...............
Greene.............. Gwinnett............ Habersham....... Hall....... .. .........
Hancock............ . Haralson............. Harris.................. Hart....................
Heard................. Henry.................. Houston.............. Irwin..................
593 519 8n 74 1117 151 1271
2415 2283 1144 11)3 4728 2257 6985
521 489 90 91 1010 181 119!
412 328 767 T27 744 1494 2233
318 299 20 15 617 35 652
2? 1410 1229 1834 1587 2639 3121 6060
516 470 651 703 1016 1354
0
537 524 76 53 1061 129 1190
814 712 51 71 1526 125 165t
1585 1414 1316 1208 2999 2524 55 `3
1536 1.156 705 669 2892 1374 4266
476 418 174 185 889 359 1248
800 772 743 650 1572 1393 2965
186 178 1430 1419 364 2849 3213
690 655 187 176 1315 363 1708
451 466 642 579 920 1221 2141
441 452 147 173 893 320 1213
420 409 830 363 829 693 1522
792 758 1048 938 1550 1986 3535
970 810 395 409 1810 804 2614
1248 1191 15 25 2439 40 2479
995 1020 500 495 2015 995 3010
2005 2082 813 876 4087 16S9 5776 100
1175 1111 198 2t9 2283 407 2693
1205 1099 341 276 2304 617 2921
2127 2117 1099 1102 4244 2201 6445
3598 3568 1596 1598 7166 3191 10360
150i 1377 19 14 2878 33 2911
262867 300 153 136 667 239 956 251 612 611 513 1253 1766
1287 1296 321 320 2583 614 8227
715 615 1500 1382 1360 2882 4242
2070 178; 399 352 3852 751 4603
1091 942 170 175 2033 345 2378
an 1772 1691 270 231 3463 501 3964
615
1108 1530 1226 3238 4464
786 751 24 14 1537 38 1575
1315 1267 1721 1676 2582 3397 5979
1040 89) 594 495 1930 1089 3019
896 886 517 476 1732 993 2725
950 870 748 638 1820 1381 3201
771 680 2199 1933 1454 4132 5586
338 298 72 89 636 161 797
49 47 96 362 564 926 103 31 134 223 1176 1399 50 20 70 95 540 635 90 312 402 65 48 113 162 38 200 704 1069 1773 252 266 518
123 528 651
31 797 828
166 173 339
79 494 573
186 156 342
112 461 573
142 589 731
6! 220 281
29,* 10 300
66 120 186
583 371 954
413 159 572
351 234 585
3 17 20
3 36 39
695 21 716
107 95 202
77 696 77S
134 177 311
21 808 829
343 246 58E
298 117 4!5
776 251 1027
26 101S 1045
301
8 301
56 894 951
651 466 1117
374 535 90
97 499 596
82 1522 1604
27 33 6C
73 167 240 171 949 1120 134 84 218 213 1363 1576 100 20 120 172 1906 2080 206 1204 1410
193 62 255 651 3500 3151 323 972 1295
116 1729 1845
97 4500 4597
105 145 250
150 1245 1895
361 206 569
93 250 343
183 1252 1435
62 433 495
265 15 280
60 222 282
484 679 1163
82 41 123
252 359 611
2 1153 1155
1 1172 1173
807 18 825
193 236 429
18 961 982
132 250 382
39 3138 3177
485 611 1096
578 286 864
5S2 410 992
12C 328* 3308
206
8 214
75 2241 2324
602 588 1190
390 52C 910
76 1074 1158
145 5491 5636
42 M 86
TABLE No. 1.---Continued.
Return of Enumeration of School Population, and Statistics of Illiteracy,
M ales. Females. Males. Females. Total Colored. Total W hite
and Colored. Confederate Soldiers under 30 years of age. Colored. White. Colored. W hite. Colored, T o tal. W hite. Colored. Total.
COUNTIES.
Number of Children between 6 and 18 years.
White.
Colored.
d 3
2o
Blind per Deaf and
Number of Illiterates.
sons betw'n Dumb be
6 and 20 y'rs tween 6 and Number of personf Number of persons
of age.
20 years ol , between 10 anc over 18 unable to
age.
18 unable to read read.
d
3
Jackson..,.............. ..................................... . 1718 1442 712 661 3160 1876 4536
2
327 602 929 289 767 1056
.Tft,ppr.................................. ........... . ..... . 681 678 1228 1106 1359 2:134 3693
8! 619 700 58 15S9 1642
Jefferson................................................ ... 809 776 1571 1442 1585 3013 4598
2
2
'3
1
5 278 1434 1712 396 3354 3750
.TnhnaoTl.........................
412 422 216 203 834 41S 1253
46 116 162
.Tnnps ...... . ..................... .
520 426 883 872 946 1755 2701
8
3
5 127 1029 1166 113 2065 2178
Laurens..............................*........................... 834 776 541 568 1610 - 110J 2719 ' 18
i
3
8
331 695 1026 337 681 968
T.ppi ..................... . .. ..........
322 312 1411 1354 634 2765 3399 18
1
1 35 719 757 34 3067 3101
T.ihfirty ..... ..........................
437 427 970 905 864 1875 2739
2
1
34 823 357 42 1228 1270
Lincoln........................................................... 327 289 652 637 616 1289 1905
3
6
4 44 487 531 56 1889 1345
T.owtiBp ... ...
7Qfi 727 779 775 1523 1554 3077 12
T
288 510 798
Timnpbin ........
*7hr> 771 74 105 1523 179 1702
TVImpoti.............................................
726 643 1119 1019 1369 2138 3507
1
2
2
2 145 466 6H 103 2025 2128
Madison..................................................
621 550 287 241 1171 528 1699
2
5
47 132 179 76 405 481
Marion....................... .................................. 960 1003 870 892 1963 1762 3725
9
275 691 966 101 700 801
McDuffie........................................................ 499 463 675 6'<8 962 1283 2245
2
1
2
15 537 552
5 1464 1469
McIntosh........................................................ 191 171 720 646 362 1366 1728
1
3 65 572 637 sr 1732 1813
Meriwether................... .............. .................. 1072 1047 1094 1087 2119 2181 43)0
2
198 1004 1202 10) 2889 2398
Miller............... .............. ............................... 415 397 175 147 812 322 1134 22
2
63 85 148 37 , 163 200
Mi Itnn...................................
713 692 104 75 1405 179 1584
1
135 47 182 231 170 401
Mitchell......................................................... 859 847 708 599 1706 1307 3013
1
8
3
2
186 344 530 209 850 1059
Monroe ..... ..........
95ft 911 1547 1640 1861 3187 5948
5
2
7 1671 1678
4 1616 1620
Mnnigtnmerv.......................... ......
491 429 240 213 920 453 1373
131 228 359 64 432 496
Morgan.......................................................
676 593 1520 1514 1269 3034 4303
2
2
6 37 1178 1215 63 3137 3200
Murray............................................................ 1083 1023 172 157 2106 329 2435
5
3
1
3
3 138 161 299 285 226 511
Muscogee....................................................... 604 670 946 889 1274 1835 3109
3
2
1 1`2
9 36 190 226 64 1464 1528
City of Columbus.................................... Newton........................ ............................
716 769 643 735 1485 1378 2863 948 880 868 815 1828 1683 3511
3
1 51 87 138 318 398 51G
Oconee........... ............... ............................ 489 493 486 506 982 992 1974
4
3 33 287 320 33 46Q 509!
Oglethorpe................................................. 685 688 1202 1144 1373 2346 3719 19
Paulding............................................. .s.
1849 1559 271 230 3408 501 3909
Pickens....................................................... 1035 947 24 21 19S2 48 2030
4
2 3
1
1 2
1 93 888 981 75 2162 2237 313 331 644 407 311 7'8 383 27 407 468 29 407
Pierce........................................................
501 . 544 801 338 1045 639 1684
329 400 729 175 284 459
Polk...........................................................
956 868 454 465 1824 919 2743
1
1
Pike............................................................. 3061 1023 1102 1087 2084 2189 4273
1
5
1
154 250 404 180 603 773 347 876 1023 197 ' 1977 2174
Pulaski......................................................
782 698 1210 1144 1480 2354 3834
1
2
i
376 1983 2359 246 2786 3032
Putnam....................................................... 467 451 1348 1316 918 2664 3582
4
2
2
Quitman...................................................
333 342 434 429 675 863 1538
2
1 38 J318 1356 112 848 460
19 3567 3586 60 566 6 >6
Rabun......................................................... 657 627 24 21 '284 45 1329
6
4
210 24 234 239 83 272
Randolph................................................... 915 866 968 751 1781 3719 3500
Richmond................... ........................... 2205 2328 2475 2458 4433 4983 9366 22
2
2
4
4 179 1104 1283 583 8176 8759
Rockdale.............................. ................... Schley................... ......................................
862 974 963 330 324 1937 664 2601
314 333 . 439 423 627
1489
]
1 125 583 708 98 494 02
100 400 500 200 1400 1600
Screven...................................................... 828 825 955 885 1653 1840 3493
8
1
4
2 240 688 928 - 101 093 1194
Spalding...................................................
936 865 902 812 1801 1714 3515
4
1
3 2i$ 711 920 103 2523 2626
Stewart....................... ............................. 736 664 1455 1314 1400 2799 4199
2
Sumter........................................................ 987 9e 1345 1423 1948 2768 4711
*City of Americus................................ . 237 236 23C 236 473 472 945
Talbot...................................................... 737 703 1464 1381 1441. 2848 4288
1
2
10 802 812
18 3141 3150
Taliferro..................................................... 342 275 668 664 617 1332 1949
2
67 940 1007
26 14,39 1465
Tatnall....................................................... 837 883 591 55C 1720 1141 287!
141 227 368
65 1fi4 99lQ
Taylor...................... <.............................. Telfair.......................................................
587 564 378 324 1151 702 1853 2IC 206 145 145 416 290 706
1
1
1 90 156 246 101 374 475
7
1 3 3C 4 36
134
Terrell........................................................ 968 77t m soe 1681 1699 3380
2
3 103 1101 1204
78 1919 19Q0
Thomas................................... .................. 1234 1194 1791 1838 2428 3629 6057
3
158 1113 19.71
62 93J4
Towns........................................................ 566 442 34 IS 1008 27 1035
46
46 1Q4
49 146
Troup....................................................... 1041 1013 2008 2021 2054 4029 6083
3
1
4 79 713 792 63 2133 91QR
Twiggs.................... ................................... 508 495 886 845 1003 1733 2736
3
3
Union ..................................................... 1066 957 14 17 2023 31 2054
2
113 768 881 201 2025 2226
94
4 98 1.6 10 156
Upson......................................................... 828 842 1045 897 1670 1942 3612
Walker.................... .................................. 1443 1262 252 2n 2705 471 3176
1
22
1
4 163 670 833 128 1536 1664
J54
88 237 204 969 466
Walton...................................... ............. 1022 985 52S 507 2007 1086 3043
i
3
178 235 413 240 988 1998
Ware........................................................... 472 359 141 105 831 246 1077
150 195 345 133 127 310
Warren. ................................................... 673 075 927 835 1348 1762 3110
4
1
1 279 706 985 156 1716 1S79
Washington ........................................... 3880 33M 1298 1381 2704 2i>79 5383
3
5
59 875 984 74 13K7 143!
wayre.. .r...............................................
585 526 142 137 1111 279 3390
7
195 115 310 203 2Q5, 408
Webster....... ................... ....................... 449 42o 428 418 874 816 1720
6
White.................................................... ..
964 871 104 104 1835 208 2043
2
115 383 498 127 819 946 847 ISO 1037 4'8 HI 529
TABLE No. 1--Continued,
Return of Enumeration of School Population, and Statistics of Illiteracy.
COUNTIES.
Number of Children between 6 and 18 years. WHITE COLORED.
Blind per Deaf and
Number of Illiterates.
sons betw'n Dumb be
6 and 20 tween 6 and Number of persons Number of persons
years of age. 20 years of between lOand 18 over 18 unable to
age.
unable to read
read.
jMales. F em ales. Males. Females. Total White. Total Colored. Total White
and Colored. Confederate soldiers
under 30 years of age.
W hite. Colored. .W hite. Colored.
1
W hite. Colored. Total. W hite. Colored. Total.
S
Whitfield............................. ...................... 1851 1250 308 257 2601 565 3166
i
Wilnrnr
316 233 no 102 6'9 212 881
1
1
1
Wilkes........................................................ . 594 535 1464 1454 1129 2918 4047
1
1
Wilkinson, .............................................. 802 782 698 678 1584 1371
4
2
1
Worth..............................................
458 497 203 165 955 368 1323
Total............................................... 121671 114648 100479 96616 236319 197125 433144 526 135 145
i
2 562 237 799 279 488 767
1 87 86 173 72 109 181
1
5 31 104-1 1075 67 2635 2702
263 76( 1029
49 8; 124 11 114 135
208 22323 63307 85680 20839 148494 169333
*No return has been received from the city of Americus The aggregate number of children of school age given above was taken from the return of 1874. The separation of white and colored, male and female, was made at this office.
TABLE No. 2.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
COUNTIES.
No. .f
No. of Scholars Admitted.
schools.
White. Colored.
Total.
o
2
e'S
5 o
oo a
a &
> 4- O S
S ScS
Branches of Study Taught.
(m fe
J -E o
, as 'Sa.
S 'S
I's
2 d !F 6
s*< *< fe
w'S. aps>fPe
-C 'aa. Os'2L
.o faee o
oSd^
6 `C 6
0125 M^z:
oiz;
023 Sl>soSas
acos oS
Appling....................... 22 3 238 197 29 51 435 80 515 363 $1 25 $1 32 478 397 223 45 68 186 $10 00
Baker........................... 13 9 174 123 248 239 297 487 784 456 1 421 1 121 790 418 257 83 116 202 150 00
Baldwin....................... 23 13 325 342 350 401 667 751 1418 929
72| 47 929 929 929 500 478 495 300 00
Banks.......................... 28 6 634 561 155 119 1195 274 1469 850i 1 10
Bartow........................ 70 32 1173 1121 688 778 2294 1466 3760 2650
80
60 45
1394 866 573 177 146 491 88 00 3511 2856 1971 74C 807 1739 250 CO
Oi Or
Berrien........................ 35 3 426 309 25 20 735 45 780 035H 1 52.1 74.6 780 732 572 149 76 424 130 00
Bibb..............................
Brooks ........................ 29 16 446 375 337 324 821 661 1482 1148.48
64f 1330 967 830 340 447 671 252 30
Bryan.......................... 19 6 233 205 99 83 438 182 620 45j 1 33
58 537 42C 366 92 88 221 75 00
Bulloch........................ 49 6 547 486 101 94 1083 195 1228 840 1 27
1175 896 759 205 217 57^ 100 00
Burke........................... 17 14 305 307 348 257 612 605 1217 890 1 17 i m* 1109 855 601 269 357 575 357 00
Butts............................. 28 11 475 402 2!9 231 877 450il327 846 1 45
60 1279 869 564 139 199 490 147 00
Calhoun....................... 18 14 281 230 263 282 511 5451056 721" 83
83 1028 634 414 132 139 353 100 00
Camden....................... 13 10 81 60 266 249 144 515 659 565
77
603 349 221 46 88 217 180 00
Campbell..................... 29 12 643 481 338 28i 1124 620J1744 1065,If 1 IBf 65 1591 1123 694 360 287 741 125 00
Carrol].......................... 68 11 1736 1211 216 178 2947 394|3341 1908.51 1 42
70 2973 1018 1275 472 342 1200 300 00
Catoosa...'.................... 27 3 551 432 42 40 983 821065 710| 62| 56f 979 701 447 117 168 402 70 00
Charlton....................... 15 127 116
243
243 187 1 331 77 236 159 l'3i 24 25 77 10 79
Chatham.....................
Chattahoochee............ 16 7 220 186 171 197 406 368 774 475M 1 27
QO.iX0. 723 530 353 133 135 292 75 00
COUNTIES.
Chattooga. Cherokee. Clarke....... Clay.......... Clayton ... Clinch...... Cobb......... Coffee....... Columbia. Colquitt... Coweta.... Crawford. Dade....... Dawson.. . Decatur... DeKalb.... Dodge...... Dooly....... Dougherty
TABLE No. 2.--Continued,
Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports,
Males. Females. Males. Females. ! W hite. Colored. White &
Colored.
No. of Schools,
No. of Scholars Admitted.
White. Colored.
Total.
a* hoseS=S
Pa> <v
>
C
I'l
o'S .
a? &> c 2o. <
2*5 a.
es
SoZv
S -65
<
Branches of study Taught.
^.t-sr p^c2lz.
C. oH
a.
^c
p
P*-Ss
OJ O
<6 !
oog
c 2 si .2
'5 GO $ Ccco >*S
gll
goo
692 582 164 154 1274 318-1592 921-.V 1 15.87 70 1505 1120 652 227 146 533 150 00
1635 1248 195 162 2883 357 3240 1530 1 00
57 2980 1567:1183 312 256 960 50 00
240 192 295 339 432 634 1066 864fi
75 1066 835 534 139 291 481 132 00
399 463 667 689
30.7
518 428 250 256 946 506 1452 977?fi 1 37
83f
75 00
eo 1421 876 729 319 268 586 125 00
Ol
03
858 283 44 32 641 70 717 6023$ 1 28
75 683 590 365 10 72 225 72 00
1393 1127 717 678 2510 1395 3915 2517$l
2 50 3487 2497 1 732 619 743 1646 250 00
350 228 60 25 578 85 663 m-i 1 331
55 376 503 327 89 96 329 37 50
279 250 48 68 529 116 645 494 9 50 1 074 645 554 511 401 378 378 200 00
198 139
337 237 i 55
73* 319 212 152 19 11 82 51 00
850 850 m 977 1700 1877 3577 2360 i 50
75 3577 2560 1300 600 625 1215 300 00
374 296 289 277 670 566 1536 788 i 40 1 CO 1194 725 196 120 153 397 150 00
438 379 48 39 8)7 87 904 643-M; 49
22$ 844 591 281 118 65 319
709 821 25 28 1530 63 1583 844|g 96f
62i 1318 821 512 179 68 369 100 00
784 659 766 678 1443 1444 2887 1915 i 25
8Si 2856 1930,1386 505 660 1204 300 00
1714
664 1714 664 2378 1895
294 183 77 98 477 175 652 379|f i 50
95 652 406 267 98 115 229 93 75
548 541 194 204 1089 398 1487 S20 i 15 10 55.77 1410 967 748 223 206 569 175 00
28 143 133 585 647 276 1232 1508 1266
66
59 1208 49 535 108 296 5131 204 00
Douglas.................... ............ Early..................................... Echols.................................... Effingham.......................... Elbert..................................... Emanuel............................ Fannin.................................. Fayette................................. Floyd..................................... Forsyth................................. Franklin..............................
Fulton...................................
Gilmer................................... Glascock.............................. Glynn.................................... Gordon.................................. Greene.................................. Gwinnett............................. Habersham....................... Hall......................................... Hancock.............................. Haralson............. ......... Harris.................................... Hart........................................ Heard..................................... Henry.................................... Houston................................ Irwin...................................... Jackson................................. Jasper...................... ;......... Jetiersou..............................
28 8 639 550 157 15 10 270 279 325 19 3 227 177 34 21 8 151 132 70 25 20 477 4)3 519 44 11 751 607 217 40 1 1048 915 30 27 10 710 649 302 74 26 1203 1108 604 43 9 mi 945 189 34 6 913 785 217 23 8 717 587 274 45 1 1321 1128 12 12 4 248 182 105
43 13 1041 950 91 fi 28 24 535 506 634 60 12 1531 1166 239 42 4 9S6 778 82 56 8 1402 1151 151 39 25 592 401 480 25 1 607 515 45 30 740 588 845 35 14 701 576 261 33 lo 511 449 149 38 23 772 598 512 45 32 555 450 780 18 2 136 113 36 62 17 1216 868 437 23 19 394 343 467 29j 10 458 o75 198
151 1189 308 1497 893$ 1 50
1332 866 543 198 167 478
286 549 611 1160 749
2 00*, 2 42
974 725 548 179 175 414
52 404 86 490 291* l.4|*4| L'^4:i46 480 317 191 31 28 106
65 283 135 418 399
1 35
92 320 280 311 240 190 260
483 890 1002 1892 1039
1 50
77J 1786 1258 793 392 423 743
209 1358 426 1784 1102
1 37
69 1681 1101 913 123 164 620
22 1963 32 1995 1161
79
60 1704 7C0 382 165 72 326
265 1259 567 1826 117.6
1 16
63 i 1716 1155 792 337 278 834
550 2311 1054 3365 2086
1 60
70 3206 2482 1638 583 810 1473
167 2066 356 2412
24 67
2282 1540 1030 245 205 664
150 1698 367 2065 1124$% 1 00
63% 1979 1330 797 144 123 524
242 1304 516 1820 1057
60A-
60* 1656 1365 988 316 409 830
12 2449 24 2473 1592f
50
45 1812 1011 507 181 95 395
85 430 190 620 285U
643 380 230 40 30 200
228 1991 44fi!9437jl585fcf 1 07
626 1041 11602201 1645
73*
239 2697 478 31751705
1 25
70 1764 152:1916 1185^7
60
138 2553 289 28421601^ 1 22J
405 993 885 18781503
1 30
1U2
1122 614
1 17
826 1328 1671 -99912148
1 33
247 1277 508 178511163.83 -1 58
250 960 499 1459 933
1 25
604 1370 1116 2486 1408%$ 1 80
685 1005 1465 2470 1866* 1 10
24 249 60 309 243
71
426 2084 863 947 1720*7 1 45
396 737 863 1600 1095 1 35
195 833 393 1226 804 1 35
2168 1658 QSS 339 325 9^3 64* 2030 14621] 054 493 598 1053 75 2929 1989 1405 309 408 1043 5()-j-(7 1852 1141 564 177 160 434 61% 2670 1649 1045 353 66 932 60 1622 13041028 531 782 945 75 1048 618 381 51 21 291 60 2617 1911 1428 546 655 1266 50 1774 1569 1381 1010 862 992 75 1380 914 580 206 204 501 05 2485 1739 1131 330 515 1080 61.8 2394 1701 1083 462 552 1015 83% 201 218 152 37 44 95
45 2587 1989 1343 483 334 976
72% 1479 1174 904 173 o63 675 1 35 1126 883 764 224 264 637
50 10 125 00
58 00 75 00
126 00 30 00 75 00
225 00 300 00 115 Oo 150 00 150 00
110 00 175 00 150 00
76 50 225 00 147 32
50 00 200 00 150 00 100 00 250 00 250 00
50 00 250 00 195 00 107 78
TABLE No. 2.--Continued] Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
White Colored. Females. Males. i Femalos. Whitee. White &
Colored. Average
Attendance1 ver&ge m cost of : per Pupil mount of monthly i tuition p the State.
COUNTIES.
No. of
No. of Scholars admitted.
Schools.
White. Colored.
Total.
'3 S3
4--O) oO
3-S oS .
oo 3 2 <
Branches of tudy Taught.
xi *5 a
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Johnson................................ 22 4 440 361 76 51 801 127 928 439
76.3
32.8 885 510 345 106 32 254 63 24
Jones....................................... 20 13 259 224 394 381 483 775 1258 989
1 51J
72} 1194 827 588 156 291 515 150 00
.Laurens............................... 29 10 464 249 265 298 713 563 1276 956|ftl 1 60
48J 1276 864 613 382 327 598 180 00
Lee............................................ 14 18 127 121 345 314 248 659 907 757* 3 30
2 88
907 503 365 142 202 23S 126 00
Liberty ................................ 34 32 293 310 558 513 603 1071 1674 1424ff Lincoln................................. 17 3 238 192 60 40 430 90 520 3571 Lowndes............................. 26 15 378 347 434 486 725 920 1645 1157
66 1 46 1 5i
48 1441 1336 962 274 462 755 51 25 89| 430 344 320 127 118 232 125 00 59 1609 1129 889 235 260 640 188 12
aoo
Lumpkin............................. 31 2 683 601 29 38 1284 67 1351 860
1 00
25 1121 572 326 86 58 218
Macon.................................... 20 17 3t8 312 333 325 700 658 1358 953
1 35
60 1340 971 746 268 309 636 200 00
Madison............................... 31 7 500 446 135 127 946 262 1208 614* 1 30{-f
82 1178 849 539 90 119 372 50 00
Marion.................................... 26 7 599 508 375 425 1107 800 1907 869J 1 25
79 1860 1633 1411 516 499 913 200 00
McDuffie............................ 21 12 350 341 342 348 691 690 1381 8411* 1 28
60 1372 923 716 298 307 591 100 00
McIntosh............................ 10 10 118 96 213 178 214 391 605 23
2 57}
63} 526 423 273 65 162 203 100 00
Meriwether........................ 54 20 863 670 446 487 1533 933 2466 1588
1 55
66 2209 1539 1148 427 473 987 150 00
Miller...................................... 17 3 213 224 68 52 437 120 557 3371 u
98
40} 491 356 217 49 35 159 18 00
Milton.................................... 20 3 578 443 41 43 1021 84 1105 477* 1 31
79 1065 666 461 117 95 401 70 00
Mitchell................................ 24 6 3 3 3:3 125 139 626 264 890 445*% 2 50
85
847 644 463 158 219 363 104 00
Monroe.-................................ 38 21 700 632 518 562 1332 1080 2412 1628!
82$
62 2056 1840 1488 537 808 1143 225 00
Montgomery.................... 22 6 330 2i0 80 65 600 145 745 518
1 78
51
708 603 400 200 196 479 52 <0
Morgan................................. 35 28 478 396 530 577 874 1107 1981 1542} 2 00
1 50 1960 1422 1068 336 474 915 210 00
Murray.................................. 29 4 921 911 168 173 1832 341 2173 1420
20
80 114<> 782 620 512 392 610 80 00
Muscogee............................. 13 13 251 220 319 314 471 633 1104 69711 1 07
83 1082 710 544 199 311 505 180 00
Newton........ Oconee......... Oglethorpe. Paulding... Pickens........ Pierce............ Polk................ Pike................ Pulaski......... Putnam........ Quitman.... Babun........... Randolph.. Richmond.. Rockdale... Schley............ Screven....... Spalding...... Stewart......... Sumter......... Talbot............ Taliaferro.. Tatnall......... Taylor........... Telfair....... Terrell............ Thomas....... Towns............
Troup............. Twiggs.......... Union............ Upson............ Walker........
31 20 597 459 468 521 1056 98 f 2045
26 10 339 305 182 221 644 403 1047 781
32 14 499 466 315 301 965 616 1581 U67JS
53 5 1186 821 82 91 2007 173 2180 1175
30 3 1014 848 28 43 1862 71 1933 1136
21 3 225 177 61 58 402 119 521 453
35 10 600 520 165 164 1120 329 1449 917
39 15 753 661 560 525 1414 1085 2499 1570|f
31 16 473 438 380 365 911 745 1656 1277
28 20 358 251 596 621 609 1217 1826 1394
9 4 153 163 107 101 316 208 524 22J
24
521 458
979
979 757
465 362 168 207 827 375 1202 796
97 1 47 1 40
75 1 334 1 50 1 1 58
50 1 25
80
45 91 77 43 66f 1 00 52 81 49 33 44
1860 1288 747 343 412 748
1015 746 532 167 183 454 1489 1166 1027 401 402 634 2086 1123 641 146 161 555 1790 844 501 109 55 3i3
506 414 363 112 144 308 1385 987 663 223 212 581 2416 1751 1252 436 668 1087 1276 1184 985 335 450 718 1657 1335 814 323 497 791
524 471 399 93 61 410 961 618 192 102 46 231 1122 776 569 289 243 480
185 00 100 00 200 00 200 00
55 00 180 00
66 00 172 35 270 00 100 00
60 00 43 00
24 13 497 489 257 245 986 502 1488 833
1 60
70 1430 989 980 515 421 978 76 50
12 8 274 212 198 210 486 408 894 441 29 12 475 386 245 242 861 487 1348 883
1 15 1 224
401 876 670 463 223 163 417 50 00 91 f 1217 903 729 182 324 598 300 00
o
32 13 530 539 393 471 1069 864 1933 1308
1 50
60 1911 1304 953 378 543 931 150 00
31 24 515 403 736 810 918 1546 2464 1615
70
70 2375 1611 1114 335 485 820 200 00
33 26 632 680 964 10261312 1990 3302 1686
54|
541 ' 2292 1643 1068 624 894 1274 162 00
25 9 360 296 339 316 656 655 1311 9361
58-,V0- 35-,V,,- 1205 901 721 342 316 625 199 06
19 13 217 180 239 291 397 530 927 632
1 50
65
731 483 342 166 204 303 135 00
36 12 432 371 177 168 803 345 1148 767.66 1 25
75 1035 831 625 166 165 386 115 00
28 8 550 471 301 249 1021 550 1571 1076
2 12.3
45 1406 1132 963 280 275 483 108 00
24 4 156 149 75 83 305 158 463 412
1 5"
75
360 283 212 47 86 192 70 00
29 14 455 425 261 327 880 588 1468 987
2 68
1 81 1432 903 765 422 389 612 180 00
39 20 686 667 489 461 1353 950; 2303 1845
1 29
66J 2303 1627 1212 463 520 935
15
442 327
769
468
69
62* 742 376 124 88 10 154-
40 41 641 614 1380 1373 1255 27534008 2490J 1 00
46 4008 3040 2214 666 987 1930 300 00
19 20 285 150 310 278 435 5881023 709A% 2 75
2 16
976 954 835 245 292 378 84 00
31 1 1081 797 6 10 1878 161894 1091
1 00
471 1557 870 418 307 74 420
28 12 552 511 366 396 1063 7621825 1161
1 46
73 1795, 1386 961 289 387 785 100 00
42 9 948 755 176 127 1703 303 2006 1331
1 00
06| 1856 1406 737 225 212 688 200 00
TABLE No. 2.--Continued. Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
Arithmetic, No. of Pupils. Compensation of
County School Commissioners.
White & Colored.
Average Attendance.
Average monthly cost of tuition per Pupil.
Amount of the , monthly cost of I tuition paid by
the State. Orthography.
No. o f Pupils.
W riting, No. of Pupils
;F em ales.
COUNTIES.
No. of Schools
No. of Scholars Admitted.
White. Colored.
Total.
1
Females.
White.
Males.
m O
nsOS)
s
o a
Branches of Study Taught.
a
'Si
s'!
MP Ph
'<Sts _
5*bs.n oo.
<m bjc 8d
W hite. [Colored.
:
Walton........................... Ware................................ Warren........................... Washington............... Wayne............................ Webster.......................... White.............................. Whitfield....................... Wilcox........................... Wilkes.......................... Wilkinson..................
Worth............................
41 18 900 700 400 375 1600 775 2375 1375 30 4 311 297 97 78 608 175 783 300 25 15 404 337 513 520 741 1033 1774 1051 55 18 1001 832 728 558 1833 1286 3119 1869 42 3 409 359 59 64 768 123 891 556 17 6 280 235 118 141 515 259 774 512 21 2 604 465 57 49 1069 106 1175 724-J49 11 1090 866 268 268! 1956 536 2492 1605 16 5 174 121 41 44 295 85 380 257 32 15 404 342 282 263 746 545 1291 21H 38 10 682 510 312 282 1192 591 1786 927* 23 1 291 296 41 18 587 59 646 411
$1 50
1 50 1 70 1 45
1 00 46
1 07 1 26 1 20 1 26
Totals and Averages... |400l|l509]TS'iMs)01665 36424| aMSallSrO''?! 72369I209376I 119031 $1 19
70 2375 1400 1390 300 305 900
1 50
275 411 399 88 30
65 1772 1120 801 317 410 776
75.65 3028 2448 1497 1050 686 1265
65
855 709 547 151 163 430
76C 535 415 175 175 402
60 1145 593 340 117 103 321
46 2250 1500 840 375 350 85(
53
371 224 200 34 37 129
79
931 760 588 226 326 472
45 1730 1173 896 244 302 707
1 26J 608 5001 354 83 67 2201
|
188513ll34062
345R9I37542I 78353I
-70
94568
187 50 50 00
200 00 240 00 130 00
75 00 75 00 100 00 60 00 255 00 100 00 100 00
17877 58
TABLE No. 3. Report of Public Schools under local laws.
Colored. \\ hite
and Colored. Length of School term in months. Average
Attendance. Average monthly
cost of tuition per Pupil. Poll Tax.
Ungraded. | Graded.
!
Number of Teachers.
Males. j Males.
j
No. of Schools.
No. of Pupils Admitted.
White. Colored.
Total.
Amount of School Fund,
1
i
Local Tax.
rf. 8. Commis sioner's or der on Tax Collector. .
COUNTY OR CITY.
Bibb.............................. ............................................................ Chatham................................................................................. Crlynn........................................................................................ Richmond.......... .................................................................. City of Atlanta.............................. .. ............. City of Americus.................................................................... City of Columbus............. ................................................. City of West Point................... ............................................
h o /u
&6X1
2R 8 1 21 7 2 19 2 48 30 2
46 8
000)
000)
'a a4>
f7aDe3
2 ts
55 888 681 683 737 151911420
78 1162 1182 926 1058 2344 1984
25 153 174 158 m 327 328
82 1308 1151 673 753 2459 1426
54
2701f 1300
23 315 304 251 357 619 60S
1 1 1 4 99 117
216
2939 8>a 1747 * 84 4328 3323 1 10 655 4 495 1 15 3885 8 2096 89 4001
1227 9 917 93 *216
$904 $28>3 52 $14000 $17717 52
2766 3917 30 30699 37388 02
516 630 00
1146 00
2100 3358 81 32750 38208 81
9114 9114 00
Total.
Totals................................................................................. w 94 14 321 3875 3609 2691 3075 10185 7066 17251 $ * *
*
*
*
Totals in these columns not given because of the blanks in these columns in the reports from Atlanta and West Point.
tEstimated.
TABLE No, .4. Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
j
of tuition per pu-j
Average monthly cost
Number of Schools. N um ber of In st'ctors.
JlMales.
'F em ales.
I
Males. W hite
and Colored Average Number months taught.
White.
Number of ! ^pile.
Colored.
Total.
COUNTIES,
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
00
pil.
"sS 4a> fe
*
fe S
Vo. Oo
Appling.......................... ..........
Baker.............................................. 7 7 28 32 36 53 60 89 149 4 Elementary................................................................................ $2 00
Baldwip............................................ 3ii 42 300 326 339 400 626 739 1365 3 Orthography. Reading, Writing, Gram., Geo., Arith.......
72%
Banks............................................... 10 13 220 300
420
420
j Wr,, At., Or., R. Geo., Gr,, Bis., Rh., N Ph., Al,, 1 1 22
Ba.rf.ow.............................. .............. 10 13 320 140 Rfirriftn........... .....
460
460 9 Elementary..................................................................
1 80
Bihh................................
Brooks...................... Brvfl.n
..............
Bulloch.................. ........................
Burke..............................................
Butts............................................... 24 24 213 238 38 47 451 85 536 8^ Prim. Rh , Log., Com. Ar , Math., Lange.......................... 2 58
Calhoun................................... .
16 17 126 118 47 46 244 93 337 4 Legal............... T.. .../.......... .............. 1........ ~............................ 1 32
Camden.................................... '...... 4 4
5
5 21 41 1C 62 72 4 Elementaiy.................................................................................
Campbell........................................ 13 14 ZT4 191
465
465 4-,-S Eng., El. Latin, etc........................'........................................
Carroll...................... ............ 31 40 6!3 590
Catoosa....................... ,...................
% 96 69
Charlton..........................................
1203
1203 414| Or , Bdg. Wr^ CtM ; Or Ar Algr Crvm 'Rh
1 85
165
165 43a Elemftntflrv
and Latin .......................
..... ........
Chatham........... ....................
Chattahoochee............................... 6 6 38
24 26 83 50 133 Tiegal, Al., His., and Famlr. Science,, ..............................
Chattooga.-.................................... 8 8 103 102 Cherokee........... ...........................
205
205 8% Prirnarv.,,.......................... ................... ......................... i ua
Clarke............................................
Clay..................................................
Clayton...............................................
....... ........................................ ...
Clinch............................................................
Cobb............................................................... 16 17 362 272 43 33 634 76 710 6^ Elementary......................................................................
Coffee..............................................
Columbia........................................
Colquitt...........................................
Coweta...........................................
Crawford.........................................
Dade.................................................
Dawson............................................ 5 5 80 68
148
148
3 Or.. Rdp\. Wr.. Or.; Geo., Arith
.........................
Decatur............................. ...........................
DeKalb........................................................
Dodge............................................................
Dooly............................................................
Douffhertv.................................................
Douglas.......................................................
Early..............................................................
Echols...........................................................
Effingham...................................................
Elbert..........................................................
Emanuel...................................................... 30 23 300 280
40
42 580
82 662
5 Elementary and Academic.................. .............................
Fannin.........................................................
Fayette....................................................... 14 15 216 220
436
436
Floyd............................................................
Forsyth........................................................
Franklin...................................................... 17 17 252 259
8 10 511 18 529
Or j T?dg Wr., fir. Gen , Arith
............ *1 24J4
1 00
1 30 1 49 1 02li
Fulton.......................................................... 17 17 213 196
26
38 409
64 473
Or Rdcr Wr t Gr Gf*o Arith TClnrntinn
i
Gilmer................................ ............. 6 9 198 m
331
381
Or., Rdg., Wr., Gr., Geo., Com.Ph.,Ch , Al., Geom. L. G. 1 12%
Glasscock........................................
Glynn...............................................
Gordon............................................ 3 3 60 70
180
130
Flementarv branches, T.a.t.in and Greelr
1 19
Greene..........................................
9
K>
0O0
Gwinnett.......... ............................. 27 29 4*2 432 Habersham.................................... 2 2 3u 19
884
884 5K P.lompntnry Eno TTitrhpr Af-iths Mnd and An t <vc
49
49
7 W.no- ! ! at.., Or , Rdjr., Wr , Arith , Geo
w
Hall..................................................
Hancock.......................................... 16 16 82 58 96 84 140 180 320
Elementary ..........................................
1 80
Haralson..........................................
Harris..................... ........................
Hart............... ................................. 19 21 445 355 61 53 800 117 917
5 Or Rdg Wr., Gr , Geo , Arith., etc
..........
Heard............................................... 12 12 155 179
334
334 4H Elementary ....... .
..........
1 50
Henry...............................................
TA.BLE No. 4.--Continued.
Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
Average monthly cost . of tuition per pu pil.
Number of Schools. Num ber of In st'ctors. Males. Females. Males. Females.
1
*
COUNTIES.
Houston.......................................... Irwin.................................. ......... Jackson........................................... Jasper.......................................
Jefferson....................................... Johnson........... .......................... Jones ...................................... .. Laurens........................................... Lee............... .................................. Liberty ......................................... Lincoln .........................................
Lowndes........................................ Lumpkin......................................... Macon.............................................. Madison.........................................
Marion..................... ..................... McDuffie........................................ McIntosh........................... ......... Meriwether.................................... Miller.................................... ......... Milton.............................................
Mitchell........................................... Monroe.........................................
34 7 is 22 22
18 is
33 12
8 11 38 18 16 16
99 22 24
White.
Number of Pupils.
Colored.
Totals.
|
!
i 1 - =2 i Js P
BKANCHES TAUGHT.
Colored.
and
IColored. 1
W hite
W hite.
as
VO
> <
1
75 27
102
302 5 Elementary branches. ..
203 198 33 41 399 74 473 Elementary.................................. 149 171 106 111 320 217 537 sh Elementary English 'Rranchps T.fitfn rinmpneitirtn
m 111 75 87 234 162 396 4 Elementary and Classics............
$2 00 i an 1 70
1
307 72 21 13 179 34 213 5g El., Al., Com., Bot,, Ph , Rh., L., His , B. K,, Math.... 1 68-Xr
155 129
284
284 7
165 170 20 39 335 39 374 3% Or..' Sd<r.. Wr.. Geo. Arith 'Gr. 'Com ............................... 1I 9R1
113 137 44 54 250 98 348 5 Elementary, Languages, Sciences, Mathematics........... 1 40
237 178
415
415 1 Elementary ......
213 2531 40 36 466 76 542 49?l6 Elementary Branches, Classics
J1. AM.
1 6614
Montgomery..................................
Morgan........................................... 9 11 68 51 49 98 119 142 261
Elementary English..................................
$1 32
Murray........................................... Muscogee....................................... (jNeton.............. ...........................
conee.............................................
6 67 61 55 32 128 87 215 6 j Or., Rdg., Wr., Arith., Gr., Geo., His., Rh., Ph., Ar., 1 Geom., Al., B. iv., L....................................
Oglethorpe..................................... 12 13 175 146
321
321
Elementary Rnplish..
...
1 75
Paulding......................................... 21 21 387 309 10 12 696 22 7l 6 i o
1 25
Pirfcpns ........
Pierce.............................................. 6 6 48 50
98
98 10 English and Classics.............
2 (0
PnlV ....
....
Pike.................................................. 23 23 232 285 35 50 517 85 602 5 Elementary............................ ................................................... 1 75 Pulaski...........................................
Putnam...................... .................... Quitman.......................................... Rabun..............................................
9 89 76 26 21 165 47 212 6 English, Latin. Greek and Mathematics.......................... 2 00
Randolph. ................................
Richmond.......................................
Rockdale........................................ 18 20 291 313
604
601
Or.. "R . Wr., Gr., Gf>n , Ar Al. T/tt , Phpf
Schley..............................................
Screvin........................................... 14 14 IOC1 90 59 54 190 113 303 3 Elementary...........
Spalding.........................................
1 66
O'Il
Stewart ......................................
Sumter........................................... 22 22 236 254 137 hs 490
9 Engli'h, Mathematics, Latin............... ..................... 1 84
Talbot................................. .
16 19 190 143 75 70 333 145 478 4^ Elementary and Academic..
80-1Au-
Taliaferro.......................................
Tatnall............................... .
10 16 120 132 40 36 252 76 328 8H Elementary..
Taylcr....................................
12 13 181 149
330
330 ilA Or., Rdg.,'Wr., Gr., Geo , Arith., Ph.,Nat, Sciences... 1 26
Telfair.............................................
Terrell.. . . . .................
Thomas...........................................
Towns.............................................
Troup............................................... 14 17 238 208 40 54 446 94 541- 8 Elementary and Higher Branches...............................
1 46
Twiggs...........................................
Union.............................................
Upson............................................. 21 22 234 2o6 48
490 121 611 5 Elementary, English t lassies and Sciences
1 21
Walker............. ..................... 15 15 264 247 11 11 oil 22 533 4% Elementary.......... . . . .....................................
1 20
Walton
Ware ........................................ ..
Warren..........................................
Washington................................... ii 12 119 111 49 32 220 81 301 5 Legal Branches......................................................................... 2 50
COUNTIES.
Wayne.......... Webster....... White............ Whitfield. ., Wilcox.......... Wiikea......... Wi[kingon... Worth............
Totals.
Average m onthly cost of tuition per pu-
TABLE No. 4.--Continued. Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
Number of Pnpils.
White.
Colored.
-g*
%o oa
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
10 45
97 39 136
Or., Rdg., Wr., Gr., Geo., Arith., Phil, and Sciences, Al.
-C45
6 ft 30 42
12
6l 72 IS 90
Elementary................................................
90
11 11 96 104 9
81 200 17 217
Rdg., Wr., Gram., Or., Geo., Arith.
1 75
81S 9929 91621 1794 1925 19091! 3719 22819
TABLE No. 5.
Report of Private High Schools.
Lverage monthly cost of tuition per pupil.
Colored. W hite and
Colored. No. of months taugh
COUNTIES.
NAME.
LOCATION
No. OF PUPILS ADMITTED
|
WHITE. COLORED
Sso
j
TOTAL.
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
PRINCIPALS.
jW hite.
F em ales.
M ales.
Females.
CD
%6
'3 a
Bartow.......... ........................................... jCartersvilie................... Bartow... . Kingston School......... i Kingston...................... Bartow........... Erwin High School....! Cartel svilie....... ........... Bartow........... Oak Grove High School.117th Dist. Bartow Co. Brooks........... Grooverville Academy. IGrooverville.................
Brooks .......... Marvin............................ i Brooks County..........
Brooks ......... Quitman Academ y....... 1 Quitman................. ... Campbell.. .. Palmetto High School.. Palmetto....................... Carroll........... Whitesburg Seminary . \ Whitesburg................ Chattooga ... Dirt Town Academy.. (Dirt Town .................
Clarke.... ... 'Home School. ........... (Athens...................... Cobb............iAcworth High School.. Acworth..................
Cobb............ijRosweJl Academy........ 'Roswell ...................
24 29
2 23 21
1 25 9!>
2 29 2 29 29 21 28
1
5 0 58
! 2i 41
2.11
....
16
22
L9
16
15
30
28
9
16:....
5ft'. . . .
35
27 45 45
41 37 59 57!. .. 18 41 ....
5ft! ... Iflf r' 7fi'
27 3 Eng. Branches, Ma'h'e. Latin, Gr. Fr.. $ 3 00 45 10 English and Classical.................................. 2 40
4 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences ............ 2 10 4 8 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences..., 1 50 41 7 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.............. 3 20 37 9.^ Elementary and Classics............................ 2 20 59 8M Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.............. 3 00 57 3' " English, Mathematic'! and Latin courses 2 59 18 7 An. Classics, Mathematics Sciences ... 3 50 44 5% Mathematics, Sciences, Anc't Classics.. 2 10
Lat., Fr., Ger., Eng. Branches, Vocal 50 914 ahd lost'! Music, Painting, Drawing. 103 10 An Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.. -. 2 70
Ancient Classics, Mathematics and 76 8 Sciences......................................................... 1 50
S. F. Brame. J. T. Lin. L. B. Millican. H. O. Etheridge. E. J. Holmes. T. A. Brown. J. H. Alexander. J. K. Smith. N. S. Culpepper. W. T. Irvine.
S. & C. Sosnowski. J. C. Holmes.
G. Faw.
Cobb............'Smyrna High School. . Smyrna .................... Cobb............ILost Mountain School.. jCobb County............. Fayette........ (Brooksville Academy. Brooks Station........ Fayette....... | Fayetteville Seminary. :Fayetteville..............i Gordon,..___ ;Masonic Institute........Sonora ...................... |
Gordon.........(Oak Grove Academy... (Barrett's Cross Roads.
Gordon____ Habersham ..
(Calhoun Academy........ Calhoun .................... iToccoa Academy__ .. ToccoaCity ............
1
9 14 11
25
Al. R., S., v\ M Ar., Geo., Gr., Com. His.,
25 10 Lat, Phil , Chem. ............................
1; 20 15
: 40 ... 41 9 English, Latin and Mathematics............
1 ! 3? 28
ii
20 ... !
1 61 5 Higher Mathematics and Clacsics............
t 85 .... i 85
Or R.. W , Gr.,Com. Ar., Al., Latin, etc.
2 28 2l|....
5\|.... | 51 m Math's, An'tClassics, Sciences, and Eng.
1 29 171.... i ; 461 ... ; 46 3 Or. R., W., Arith , Geo , Gr., Al..............
2 31 16'.... 1.... 47 1 .. i 47 '0 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences....
2 42 1 21
1 1 63i.... 1 6? 9 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences..............
2 30 Joel Mable. 1 75 John Mable. 2 00 W. W. Mitcham. 1 70 W, S. Beadles. 2 00 E. W. Ballinger.
90ii J. O'Hanlon. 2 50 J. B. Hillhoase, 1 50 E. R. Doyle.
TABLE No. 5.^-Continued, Report of Private High Schools.
No. OF PUPILS ADMITTED. WHITE. COLORED TOTAL.
Average m onthly cost of tuition per pupil.
|N o.of m onths taught.
Colored.
No. of Instructors.
Males. M ales
COUNTIES.
NAME.
LOCATION.
Hancock........ Adams' Practical Scho'l Linton............................
Hart.
Hartwell High School Hartwell....
Heard.............. Franklin High School.. Franklin ................
Houston......... Houston Female Col. . Perry.......... ...............
Houston.......... Perry High School. ... Perry...............................
Houston......... Fort Valley Male Acad. Fort* Valley..................
Macon............. Marshallville H School. Marshallville...............
Macon.. ..... Oglethorpe Academy... Oglethorpe....................
Monroe ... Central Institute............. Culloden........................
Monroe........... Culloden Hign School.. Culloden ......................
Monroe........... Forsyth Male Institute. Forsyth..........................
Monroe.......... Jackson Academy (col). Forsyth..........
Morgan.......... Temperance Hill............ Morgan County.......... Morgan.......... Rehobothville Acad.... Rehobothville.* ........ Morga n.......... Forest Home Institute.. Madison................... ...
Morgan.......... Madison Male H School. Madison......................... Morgan.......... Dogsboro Academy.... Dogsboro........................ Morgan........ Braswell Academy......... Morgan County ....
Morgan........... Centennial........................ Morgan County..........
Oglethorpe.. Meson Academy.............. Lexington................... Oglethorpe... Bairdstown Academy... Bairdstown..................
. BHANOHES TAUGH F.
PKINCIPALS.
[W hite and
Colored.
xn O
XOL
"cS
c5
s
s2
Ps BE
1
1 18 26
44
44 9K An. Classics, Math's, Various Sciences. 3 00 T J Adams A M
2 50 49
2 48 39
3
42
2 50
1 32
1 30 22
1 29 15
2 22 46
1 35 21
1 37
Or., It., W.f Gr., Rhet., Geo., Arith.,
99
99 6 AL, Latin, (reom . Phil His nte
2 50 Rnlm and PpcV
87
87 9 Elementary, Commercial and Classical.. 2 00 Leonidas .Tones
42
42 4 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences
3 00 P \V Johnson
50
50 9 An. Classics. Mathematics and Science,. 2 50 D Quitman Ahhott.
32
32 10 English, Mathematics, Classics................ 3 00 D. N. Sanders.
52
52 10 Mathematics, Sciences, An't Classics. 3 CO J. W. Frederick
44
44 8V An. Class's. Math's, Sc's, Or., Elo., etc.. 3 00 A T Hnrvev
68
68 10 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences
1 75 L P Dictrey A AT
56
56 10 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences
1 2) C. L Floyd*
37
37 10 English and Classical ..............
2 50 \V. D. Thurmond.
Spel. R., W., Geo., Gr., Arith., Al., His..
3
52 49
101 101 g Latin, Greek, Phil..
.......
75 Wm F .TfleVcAii
1 15 12
27
27 7 English and Classics............................
3 00 W. H Cocroft
1 20 14
34
31 7 English Branches and Classics., . .
2 50 Joseph H 'Wilson
3 5 34
19
19 10 An. Classics. Mathematics, Sciences
2 50 Mrs F Atf NoE mu-
2 59
59
59 9 Mathematics, Classics, Sciences....
4 50 F W "Rnfler A M
1 13 12
25
25 1 English, Classics, Mathematics
2 75 P. W. Butler A "R
1 15
30
30 5 Elementary and Classical....
2 o0 fnhn A Snye
1 10 23
33
33 4 Primary, Higher Math's, Latin, etc
2 00 J. J. Wallace.
Elementary, Higher English, ` Mathe-
2 31 21 166
52
52
matics and Languages
2 80 Thomas R Afoss
12
12 5 English, Classicat and Mathematics.... 1 75 John S. Callaway.
Osrie'.horpe... Crawford Academy.... Crawford.......... .......... 2 Pike.... .. .. D. M. Matthews.. . . Pike County............... 2
Pike................ Milner High School.. Milner................... Pike................ Gordon Institute. ... RamPRvilta
2 7
Pike............. Pike.............
Zebulon Academy...... Planters'...........
Zehnlnn Hnllonvillfi
21
Fike............. Liberty Hill H School. T.ihprtv Hill
S
Pulaski........ Hawkinsville Academy. Hawkinsville.......... Pulaski........ Cochran High School .. Cochran........................
4 2
Pulaski.......... Rabun.........
Hawkinsville Institute. Rabun Gap H School...
Hawkinsvillp Rabun Gap................
5 2
Rockdale. ... Conyers Male A cademy. Convert ...................... 2
Rockdale....... Conyers Female Coll... Conyers..................... 1
Screven: .... Screven.........
SSrv*lavrbannr'na
High
School..
Svl vania.....................
2fo 7 C. RR
....
Screven......... Paris Hill Academy.... Cameron
211
Butler Female College
Taylor............ Troup.............
and Male Institute.. LaGrange H S, for boys.
Butler . Lagrange...
.... 48
Upson............ Thomaston H School. Thbmastnn. W'allon........ Johnston Institute...... Monroe................
21
Washington.. Mt. Vernon Institute... Riddleville........ .
2
Washington.. Tennille High School.. Tennille................... Washington.. Sandersville H School.. Sandersville............. White.......... Nacoochee M & F H S. Kaenoe.hee Wilkes......... Washington F Sem.. Wflshhicrtnn
2 5
3 2
Total. ...
138
54 % An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences...
60 9 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sc'nces, etc..
An. Classics, Math's, Sciences, Geo.,
82
Gr., Sp.,R., W..........................................
203 10 Classics, Math's, Art and Sciences.........
All English and Classics, and entire
43 8 course of Mathematics............... ........
53 8J4 An. Classics, Mathematics and Sc'nces.
61 8 An. Classics, Mathematics.........................
Eng., Classics, Music, Drawing, Paint-
128 10 ing. Mathematics and Sciences ........
116 6 Or., R., W., Gr., Geo., Arith..................
All Branches Taught in a High School,
155 1034 with Music, Painting. German.............
101 8 Mathematics, Sciences, etc........................
51 9 Elementary, Mathematics and Classics..
Classical, Mathematica), Scientific and
28 3 Grammatical................................................
55 10 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences....
20 5 An. Classics, Mathematics....... ..............
22 9 An. Classics. Mathematics, Sciences....
English, An't < lassies, Sc'ces, Modern
102 10 Languages, Higher Mathematics........
69 S Usual Academic Branches.........................
91 10 An. Classics, Mathematics. Sciences... 40 7 Usual Branches.............................................
33 5 Mathematics, Sciences...............................
An. Classics, Modern Lang's, Math's,
76 10 Sciences, or., R., W................................
161 10 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.............
83 10 An. Classics, Math's, Sc'ces and Eng.
44 4 English, Math's, Latin, French, Music.
2 50 John F. Cheney. 1 50 D. M. Matthews.
John W. Rudisill. 4 00 Chas. E. Lambdin.
1 50 A. G. Harris. 2 50 V. A. Hamon. 2 00 J. J. McClelland.
3 00 R, C. Saunders. 2 66% M. NT. McCall.
3 00 M. T. Hodge. 2 03 W. A. CurlK 2 r,0 R, A. Gw inn.
3 00 2 00 2 50 2 80
C, A - Hanscll. R. H Loughridge. Miss S. A. Cook. B. L. Crane.
2 85
i 50 3 00 2 50
W. C. Monk.
V. T. Sanford. Geo. A. Harrison. Prof. A. J. Burruss. John J. Hyman.
2 75 3 33 1 50 2 75
Thomas J. Beck. Ivy W. Duggan. Rev. J. J. Methvin,
Miss F. Andrews...
101 4068
REPORT OF INSTITUTION FOR DEAF AND DUMB.
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55
Date of Opening.
During the Year. O
Male.
V
Female.
c
Semi-Mute.
Present Dec. i,'7u T-
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2
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>
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a
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Cb
Trades Taught.
Value or Buildings and Grounds.
Expended Last Year.
No. of Vols. in Library
Appropriation FOR SUPPORT.
'T
-3 08
TABLE No. 6.* Reports of Universities and Colleges.
[in Law. In Medicine.
Value of Real Estate ard other unproductive property.
jEndowm ents including all productive property.
Iln Theology, j In Academic!
course. [
jin Medicine.
Total.
[In Law.
[In Law.
In Medicine. in Academic
course.
In Academic ,
course. In Law. iln Medicine. In iheology. Total. * *
COUNTIES.
NAME.
LOCATION.
Number of Instructors
Number of Pupils Admitted.
White.
Colored.
o>
0G0
Males.
Males. I
3
G
G
I
51
S1
-3
-5 l
Is
43
G'
c.
c_,
< C.
a
j
Annual Tuition Fees
Value of all T'roperty.
!.
In Academic Course.
tt
c
cG
Bibb Rihh
Wesleyan Female College... Macon...
14
Mercer TTnivcrsitv.
Macon................. 6
ClnrlrP
T.ncv Cohb Institute.
Athens....
Cnwptfl
Collccrp Temple
Newnan
5
TTInyrl
Shorter Collecre
Rome. ..
8
Elnvd
P'nlfnr*
Rome Female College ....... R'>me......... Cn Tt.lectic Medical Collecre Atlanta.
C 6
Fulton.
Atlanta University............. Atlanta................. 11
Fnlton .
Atlanta. Medical Collecre
Atlanta ..
12
HnnsitOTi
ht. Valiev Eemale Semin'v Fort Valley
3
.Tnpksrm
Martin Institute
Jefferson... .
4
Lumpkin .... N Ga. Ag. & M'h'l College. Dahionega............ 8
.IWnn rnft
Monroe Female Collecre
Forsyth...
6
Nftwton
Emory College...................... Oxford................. 9
Randolph
Andrew Female Collecre
Cuthbert..
9
Richmond
AnnMrTuv
Medical College of Georgia Augusta.................
12
(-.riffin Female Collecre
'i ritPn.
7
Thomas"
Vonncr Female College
Thomasville..
6
Tronp
T.aeJrnncre Female Colecre Laf-irange
8
Troup.
Southern Female College. I aGrange....
12
Tfllhot
I.eVent (College
Ta.lhot.ton
3
Whitfield Dalton E'emafe College....... Dalton...........
14
6 125
6
35
8
6
6
16
11
12
125
8
4 66
8 244
6
9 157
10
12
71
7
5
8 14
32 18 3 48
222
85 92 175 108
131
38 55
79
9(J
132
113
100 93 95
47 117
Totals .
" 116 30 155 707 212 1603 131
222
$60 00
12>
85
127
20 09 to 50 00
175
108 20 00. 30 00, 40 00 and 50 00
16 113 244
125
18 00
38
121
29 00 to 40 00
323
90
50 00
157
69 00
132
50 On
71
50 00
113
100
40 00
107
113
32 09
95
40 1:0
117
20 00, 30 00 and 40 00
113 2766
*>0,00 50,00
8ioo,ooo
50.001
15,000
100,000 10,000
1.200
5,000
10,000
38,0 0 6,oou
20.000
75,0on 20,'O ' 5 UOo 8,00t
W. C. Has?, D !>., Pres'dont.
A. J. Battle. D. D
A. E. 'Wrii'ht, and P. A Heard. Ass't Prin'ls.
M. P. Kellogg, president, and Proprietor.
K. X). Mallary. President.
J. M. M. Caldwell. President.
S. T. Bigger>, Vice Pre Board of Trustees.
$5,000 Rev. E. A. Ware President.
A. W. Calhoun. M I).. Secretary and Treaa.
Mrs. Mary B Persons President.
15,000 Jno. W. Clenn. President
Mon. 1). W. Lewis, President-
Rev. S. G. Hillyer. D. D.. President.
A. G. Havgood* D. !>., President.
A. L Hamilton. D. I) . President.
G. W. Raines, M. D., i-L.D., President.
A. B. Niles. A. M., X^resident.
,
Jno. E. Baker, President.
J. R. Mayson President.
I. F. Cox. President.
Rev. Jno. T. McLaughlin, A. M., Pres't.
Rufus N. Smith, A M.
$464,700
q.
81
Table No. 7,
Apportionment of the School Fund of 1879. Amount to be apportioned, $155,264.31.
Counties.
School Population and Confederate Soldiers under Thirty Years of Ae.
Counties, PRO RATA.
Appling, . . Baker, . . . Baldwin, . . .
Banks, . . . Bartow, . . . Berrien, . . . Bibb, . . . . Brooks, . . . Bryan. . . . Bullock, . . .
Burke, . . . Butts, . . . . Calhoun, . . . Camden, . . . Campbell, . . Carroll, . . . Catoosa, . . . Charlton,. . . Chatham, . .
Chattahoochee . Chattooga, . . Cherokee, . . Clarke, . . . Clay, . . . . Clayton, . . . Clinch, . . . Cobb, . . . . Cofiee, . . .
Columbia, . . Colquitt, . . .
Coweta, . . . Crawford, . . Dade, . . . . Dawson, . . . Decatur, . . . DeKalb, . . . Dodge, . . .
Dooly, . . .
1,069---Order executed Dec. 31, 1879
2,375---Order executed
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5,611-_ .i
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1,936-_ a
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8,755-_ a
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2,267-
it
2,499-_
44
1,860-_ u
4i
2,890-_ u
it
5,240-_ u
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1,657-_ it
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Oct. 27, 1879 " 28, 1879 " 20, 1879 " 20, 1879 " 24, 1879 " 20, 1879
Nov.15, 1879 Oct. 20, 1879 Nov.ll, 1879
" 11, 1879 Oct, 20, 1879
" 20, 1879
Nov.21, 1879 " 20, 1879
Oct. 31, 1879 " 20, 1879 " 20, 1879 " 20, 1879 " 20, 1879
Nov.28, 1879 Oct. 20, 1879 Nov.13, 1879
" 3, 1879 Oct. 20, 1879
" 22, 1879 Nov.19, 1879
" 22, 1879
" 6, 1879
652-
it
Dec. 4, 1879
6,063-_ tt 2,370--- <4 1,190-_ i 1 1,651-_ 44
44
Nov.12, 1879
it
Oct. 20; 1879
it
Dec. 2, 1879
i<
Oct. 20, 1879
5,523-__ it 4,266-_ it
it
Nov.15, 1879
it
Dec. 13, 1879
1,248---Ord. ex'd Jan. 10, 'SO, for '79
2,965---Order executed Nov, 5, 1879
$382 46 849 72
1,462 23 '682 28
2,007 48 '674 41
2,829 66
1,127 35 '301 61 692 66
3,132 33 '811 08 894 08 665 46
1,033 97
1,874 75 594 62 184 61
3,917 30 '592 84 965 28
1,396 40 843 64 832 19 821 81 455 09
2,499 79 426 11
800 70
233 27 2,169 20
847 93
425 75
590 69 1,976 00 l'526 27
446 51 1,060 81
82
Counties.
School Population and Confederate Soldiers Counties,
under Thirty Years of Age.
PRO RATA.
Dougherty, . Douglas, . . Early, . . . Echols, . . Effingham, . Elbert, . . Emanuel, Fannin, . . Fayette, . . Floyd,. . . Forsyth, . . Franklin, . Fulton (County)
Atlanta (City), Gilmer, . . Glascock, . . Glynn, . . . Gordon, . . . Greene, . . . Gwinnett, . . Habersham,
Hall, . . . . Hancock, . . Haralson . .
3,213--Order 1,708- " 2,141-- " 1,234- " 1,526- " 3,537-- " 2,614-- " 2,479-- " 3,010-- " 5,876-- " 2,693-- " 2,924-- " 6,449-- " 10 364- " 2,912-- "
956- "
1,771-- " 3,230-- " 4,252-- " 4,604- " 2,387-- " 3,969-- " 4,464- " 1,576- "
execauted a a a a <( a a a a a
Oct. 20, 1879 Nov.22,1879 Oct. 20, 1879 Feb. 9, 1880 Dec. 4, 1879 Oct. 20, 1879
" 29, 1879 Nov.17, 1879 Oct. 21, 1879
" 30, 1879 " 20, 1879 Jan. 23, 1880
a a
Oct. 20, 1879 " 20, 1879
a a a
" 21, 1879 " 21, 1879 " 20, 1879
a a a a a a
" 21, 1879 " 21, 1879 " 21,1879 Nov. 4,1879 Oct. 21, 1879 Nov. 4, 1879
a
Oct. 21, 1879
Harris, . . Hart, . . . . Heard, . . . Henry, . . . Houston, . . . Irwin,. . . . Jackson, . . . Jasper, . . . Jefferson, . . Johnson). . . Jones, .... Laurens, . . . Dee, . . . . Liberty, . . . Lincoln, . . . Lowndes, . . Lumpkin, . . Macon, . . . Madison,. . . Marion, . . . McDuffie, . . McIntosh, . . Meriwether,
Miller, . . . Milton, . . . Mitchell, . . . Monroe, . . . Montgomery, .
Morgan, . . . Murray, . . .
6,001-- " 3,019-- " 2,733-- " 3,202-- " 5,589-- "
797-- " 4,536-- " 3,693-- " 4,600-- " 1,253-- " 2,709-- " 2,737-- " 3,417-- "
2,741-- " 1,908-- " 3,089-- " 1,702-- " 3,508-- " 1,699-- " 3,734-- " 2,247-- " 1,728-- " 4,302- " 1,156- " 1,584-- " 3,014-- " 5,049-- " 1,373-- " 4,303-- "
2,440-- "
"
" 21, 1879
a a
Nov. 14,1879 Oct. 21, 1879
a
" 21, 1879
a
Nov.13,1879
a
" 22, 1879
a
Oct. 21, 1879
a
" 24, 1879
a
Nov.21,1879
a Oct. 27, 1879
a a
" 21, 1879 " 24, 1879
a a
Nov.26,1879 Dec. 8, 1879
a Oct. 24,1879
a Nov.28, 1879
a Oct. 28, 1879
a
Dec. 2, 1879
a Nov.27,1879
a
" 13, 1879
a- Oct. 21, 1879
a
Dec. 2, 1879
a
Oct. 21, 1879
a Nov.15,1879
a Dec. 2, 1879
a Nov.17, 1879
a
Oct. 21, 1879
a Nov. 26, 1879
it
" 28, 1879
a Oct. 21, 1879
$1,149 54 611 08 766 00 441 50 545 97
1,265 46 935 23 886 93
1,076 91 2,102 30
963 49 1,046 14 2,307 30 3,708 00 1,041 85
342 03 633 62 1,155 62 1,521 27 1,647 20 854 01 1,420 02 1,597 11 563 86 2,147 01 1,080 13 977 80 1,145 60 1,999 60 285 15 1,622 87 1,321 27 1,645 77 448 29 969 22 979 23 1,222 52 980 67 682 64 1,105 17 608 94 1,255 08 607 86 1,335 94 803 92 618 24 1,539 16 413 59 566 72 1,078 34 1,806 41 491 23 1,539 51 872 97
83
Counties.
Sohooi Population and Confederate Soldiers COU>'TIBS,
under Thirty Years of Age.
PRO RATA.
Muscogee (Co.) Columbus(City)
Newton, . . . Oglethorpe, . .
Oconee, . . . Paulding, . . Pickens, . . . Pierce, . . . Pike, . . . . Polk, . . . . Pulaski, . . . Putnam, . . . Quitman, . . Rabun, . . . Randolph, . . Richmond, . .
Rockdale, . . Schley, . . . Screven, . . . Spaulding, . . Stewart, . . . Sumter (Co.) . Americus(City) Talbot, . . . Taliafero, . . Tatnall, . . . Taylor, . . . Telfair, . . . Terrell, . . . Thomas, . . . Towns, . . . Troup, . . . Twiggs, . . . Union, . . . Upson, . . . Walker, . . . Walton, . . . Ware, . . . .
Warren, . . . Washington, . Wayne, . . . Webster, . . . White, . . . Whitfield, . .
Wilcox, . . . Wilkes, . . .
Wilkinson, . . Worth, . . .
3,112--Order
2,863-- 3,511--
<< u
3,738-- a
1,978-- u
3,909-- u
execauted (4 44 a a
Nov. 6, 1879 Oct. 20, 1879 Nov.19,1879 Oct. 21, 1879
Jan. 15, 1880 Dec. 17, 1879
2,034-- 1,684-- 4,2742,743-- 3,835-- 3,586-- 1,538 -- 1,335--
* (4 << << U
ll u
u
3,500-- ll
9,388 2,601-- 1,489-- 3,501-
ll u a a
3 519-
4,1994,711--
945-- 4,288-- 1,949-- 2,861--
1,853-- 706-
3,380--
u a a
a a a a a 44 44
6,060-- 1,035-- 6,0^3 2,739-- 2,054-- 3,612 -- 3,1773,044-- 1,077-- 3,1145,383-
44 (4 44 44 44 44 44 44 44 (4 44
1,397-- 1,726--
44 44
(4
Oct. 21,1879 " 25, 1879
u
" 21,1879
u 44 44 44 44 44 44 4 44 44
" 21, 1879 Dec. 2, 1879 Oct. 24, 1879
" 24, 1879 " 28, 1879 " 21, 1879 " 20, 1879 " 21, 1879 Dec. 2, 1879 Nov. 3, 1879
44 44 44
Oct. 29, 1879 Nov. 5, 1879
" 12, 1879
44 44 44 44 44 44 44 (4
Dec. 15, 1879 Oct. 24, 1879 Nov.17,1879 Oct. 24, 1879
" 21, 1879 Dee. 5, 1879 Oct. 21, 1879
" 21, 1879
44
" 24, 1879 Nov.13,1879
Oct. 21, 1879
il 44 4 4 44 44 44 44
Nov.17,1879 Oct. 21, 1879
" 25, 1879 " 21, 1879 Nov.17,1879 Oct. 21, 1879 `` 21, 1879 Dec. 17,1879
44
Oct. 27, 1879
2,043-- 44
44 Nov.19,1879
3,166-- 44
44
Oct. 21, 1879
882- 44
44
" 21, 1879
4,048-- 44
44
Dec. 10,1879
2,959- 44
44
Oct. 24,1879
1,323-- 44
44
Nov. 10,1879
$1,113 40 1,024 31 1,256 15 1,337 37 707 68 1,398 55 727 72 602 50
1,529 14 981 38
1,372 07
1,282 99 550 26
477 63 1,252 22 3,358 81
930 58 532 73 1,252 58 1,259 00 1,502 30 j,685 49 338 10 1,534 15 697 31 1,023 60 662 96 252 59 1,209 28 2,168 13 370 30 2,176 36
979 95 734 87 1,292 29 1,136 66 1,089 07 385 33 1,114 12 1,925 91 499 81 617 52 730 94 1,132 72
315 56 1,448 29 1,058 66
473 34
433,970
$155,264 31
STATISTICAL TABLES
FOB 1880.
TABLE No. 2 # Consolidation of PubUo School Teachers' Refarts.
Average attendance
COUNTIES.
No. of Schools.
V2
2
Bt
SoL
Number of Scholars Admitted.
White. Colored.
Total.
1
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s
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Appling..................... 88 6 396 849 45 67 Baker........................ 10 9 149 110 101 169
Baldwin.................... 16 15 345 8C8 453 515
Banks........................ `29 5 665 561 164 122
Bartow.,............... 67 29 1108 1095 70g 710
Berrien...................... 40
573 466
Bibbf .......................
Brooks........... ..
35 16 423 461 355 864
Bryan........................ 20 4 218 .. 189 51 60
Bullock..................... 47 6 589 524 7S 8C
Burkei, ................... 17 14 805 307 348 257
Butts......................... 26 10 437 411 22C 102
Calhoun,................... 12 15 198 178 334 323
Camden.................... 14 8 97 78 245 248
Campbell................. 26 16 666 493 486 372
Carroll................... 70 IQ 1684 1197 201 186
Catoosa ................... .24 5
445 78 56
Charlton................. 21 1 *156 129 12
7
Chattahoochee,.... '20 11 *208 179 80S 345
Chattooga................. 35 10 837 756 286 20S
Cherokee.................. 69 8 1567 1243 190 175
Clarke....................... 24 82 830 289 49C 435
Clay....................
19 12 9.41 259 345 337
Clayton................... 23 J0 525 506 278 302
744 112 856
268 360 628
713 968 1681
1226 276 1502
2208 1418 8621
1039
1089
884 719 1603 407 111 518 1113 150 1272 612 605 1217 848 412 126C 876 657 1033 175 403 668 use 808 1967 2881 887 8'26g 084 134 lllfi 2S5 19 804
382 650 1032 1593 445 2038 2810 365 3175 619 92 * 1544 500 682 1182 1081 580 1611
Branches of Study Taught.
II "ia
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701 $4 0 j <2 50
821
604
433 60 107 301
888 1 13
75
620
392
251
99 101 227
1034 75
75 16S1 1328 1073 293 589 806
808 1 09
66 1453
801
583 138 158 405
2230 1 40
0o 3047 2196 1723 679 778 1659
715 1 51
72 1039
777
601 134 99 480
1126
66 1456 1088
889 330 375 786
890 1 80
70
477
4361 270 125 128 273
888 1 46
65
1202
942
759 327 174 541
890 3 17 1 17 HOC
845
601 269 357 575
879 1 43 65C 72
94 1115
874
644 171 176 586
72 1035
543
374 128 382 338
512 86
637
427
338 36 . 79 236
1243 1 15
80 1892 1263
893 393 342 870
1845 1 15
75 3036 2092 1275 339 288 1109
709 68
59 1069
435
422 174 193 418
257 1 28
84
277
198
137 22 30 98
653 95 1085 1 25 1520 1 00
1086 825 619 1 38
43
988
709
357 145 147 409
78 1936 1397 1009 280 203 671
75 1558
838 1213 3)7 235 935
59 1523 1133
869 249 400 812
1032
791
559 178 245 454
71 1469 1231
818 325 399 701
olSS JS| v3
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$60 00 150 00 300 00
88 00
250 00 130 00
290 00 75 00 126 00 357 00 139 00 100 09 180 00 125 00 800 00 72 50 16 29
75 00 129 00 90 00 132 00 75 00 125 00
^Table No 1 Is published with the Statistical Tables for 1879. JBurke made no report. The following figures are copied from the report for 1879,
Clinch..................... 30 2 370 272 29 29
Cobb.......................... 64 26 1546 1116 677 610
Coffee,....................... 22 5 302 159 29 40
Columbia................. 20 7 210 249 120 128
Colquitt.................... Coweta........... ..
15
188
48 "si 1072
138
2
2
978 1147 1011
Crawford................. 25 15 41T 306 357 399
I?ade........................ 19 J 404 374 35 35
Bawsou..................... 25 1 697 587 26 28
Decatur ................... 50 27 862 760 625 632
DeKalb..................... 42 16 Dodge...................... 14 4
986 268
763 232
388 92
373
111
Dooly........................ 45 12 563 530 229 239
Dougherty............... 10 27 116 97 640 750
Douglass................... 24 8 Early....................... 24 16 Echols....................... 21 2
481 279 228
412 268 178
156 250 39
163 263 3>
Effingham...........
25 9
Elbert........................ 82 29
235 612
213 543
115 657
125 704
Emanuel................... 44 11 632 542 187 196
Fannin..................... 42 1 946 869 13 21
Fayette......... ......... 24 10 715 537 276 271
Floyd....................... 68 29 1237 1156 62d 700
Forsyth.................... 38 8 1098 958 133 154
Franklin.................. 41 11 984 819 317 266
Fulton (county).... 22 10 744 628 399 383
Atlanta (citv)f.......
642 58 700
2662 1287 3949
461 69 530
459 248 707
326
4 330
2050 2158 4208
723 756 1479
778 70 848
1284 54 1338
1622 1257 2879
1749 761 2600
500 203 703
1093 468 1561
213 1390 1607
893 3l9 1212
547 513 1060
406 71 477
448 240 638
U55 1361 2516
1174 383 1557
1815 34 1849
1253 547 1799
2393 1320 3713
2056 287 2343
1803 583 2386
1372 782 2154
456 $1 46 2302
1 50 523 2 25 213 1 31^ 2706 1 00
1 19 592 77 685 1 23 1777 1 26
449 1 50 946 1 25 1194 66 763 1 40 711 83 310 1 82 587 1 05 1645 1 37 99o 1 40 1123 65 1119 1 18 2373 1 45 1175 1 15 1297 1 00 1584 76
$ 69
66
73
1 10
90 65
1 00
56 73 44 87 95 93 62 48 83 90 55 62 69 55 60 70 69
66
76
675 3289 209 707 316 3976 1214
842
1074 2648 2510
703 1527 1381 1103
893 477 390
2516 1550 1786 1772 3584
2124 2277 1922
494 2539 459 687 215 3067 824
628 598 2157 1743 463
1022
781
1000
670 304 314 1425 1125 756 1207 2687 1633 1398 1748
354 75 60 205 1867 558 863 1597 312 87 105 314 601 551 532 484 149 29 21 82 2062 890 1075 2041 605 140 265 504 384 128 106 354 382 127 94 339 1464 602 747 1316 1192 404 483 1070 331 95 143 295 7S1 235 248 670 637 103 269 428 850 315 413 463 511 197 249 448 203 31 20 89 4ifl 211 162 372 3147 527 575 1125 834 211 291 628 398 142 55 298 829 332 374 806 1797 618 799 1601 lo97 255 231 748 846 192 182 374 1403 538 71 1145
$90 00 250 00 37 50
200 00
48 00 300 00 150 00 50 00
100 00
183 00 216 00
186 00
212 00
65 40
100 00
67 45 150 00
125 00 75 00 125 00
325 00 350 00 75 0) 150 00
a
Gilmer...................... 45 1 1371 1190 15
Glasscock.........
11 4 278 192 129
Glynnf......................
13 8S
2561 28 2589 470 *17 687
1636
41
41 2036
989
575 231 138 493 150 00
687
373
225 40 65 187
60 00
Gordon......... .......... 46 10 1142 1051 185 172
Greene...................... 26 23 434 488 791 851
Gwinnett................. 66 16 1713 1327 344 305
Habersham............. 47 5 991 871 92 85
Hall........................... 57 6 16 4 1224 112 123
Hancock................... 3o 28 Haralson....... ........ 31 1
450 683
355 534
6028
518 7
Harris...................... 55 87 754 637 953 934
Hart....................... 45 13 635 579 278 259
Heard........................ 25 12 511 477 3l6 297
Henry........................ 4fi 25 848 70^ 597 612
Houston.................. 33 28 437 432 620 510
2193 357 2550 922 1642 2364 3040 649 3659 1862 177 2039 233' 835 3073 805 112C 1925 1217 15 1232 1491 1887 3378 1214 537 1751 988 613 1601 1543 1209 2757 869 1130 1999
1461 1931 1871 1143 1623 1641
6(4
2390
1132 987 1576 1596
72 1 34
8tt
1U
1 36
1 00
60 1 29 1 30 1 60 1 29
65
65
68
5S 75
60 1 DC
65 1 19
2386
2474 3565 1634 2802
189C 1091 3165 1689
1506 2705
1917
1740
1789 2449 1085 1896 1676 652 2096 159'1
963 1931 1453
1022 408
1301 542 702 1151 1526 417 380 1312 646 197 195 490 794 460 375 1071 695 246 427 627 434 62 21 366 1594 629 804 1375 1186 876 807 869 702 189 226 55C 128 340 512 1158 1107 439 527 1003
175 00 150 00 77 50 225 09 150 00 25 00
200 00
200 Oo
100 00
225 00 250 00
TABLE a\'o. 2.--Continued.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Re-ports.
1
No. of Schools.
Number of Scholars Admitted.
White
Colored. *
Total.
Colored. White and
Colored. .
COUNTIES.
W hite. Colored. Males.
Irwin....................... 17 3 166
Jackson.................... 56 19 1171
Jasper....................... 27 14 45
Jefferson. ............... 29 11 511
Johnson t................. 24 4 342
Jones........................ 19 18 257
Laurens..................... 31 ll 408
Lee ........................... 11 19 124
Liberty..................... 83 33 286
Lincoln................... 20 3 238
Lowndes................... 23 16 346
Lumpkin.............
27 2 7p8
Macon...................... 20 8 831
Madison.................... 34 10 5 0
Marion....... !............ 22 10 504
McDuffie................. 16 10 345
McIntosh.................. 1C 9 118
Meriwether............ 52 16 838
Miller........................ 2C $ 199
Milton..................... 20 4
Mitchell................... 95 8 367
Monroe..................... 29 23 532
Montgomery.......... 21 4 847
Morgan..................... Vi 15 39S
Murray..................... 32 6 824
Muscogee (county). 17 18 286
OD
jD
yCS
a
a
1 r
Ill 43 45 8'3 44 445 489 384 351 473 332 342
a)6 91 79 228 411 438 368 290 327 120 400 366 288 571 541 212 42 45 315 421 432 615 33 41 310 196 215
441 212 203 435 372 392 286 24<1 251
97 214 m 711 415 434 215 42 35 477 78 7( 356 191 221 481 738 793 303 68 78 342 331 331 742 28S 244 262 360 42'
o
2
277 88 365 2027 885 2912 889 735 1624 984 674 1658 638 170 8'8 485 849 1334
776 617 1393 244 766 1010 574 1112 I88 4o0 87 537 691 856 1547 1367 74 1441 * 641 411 1052 951 415 1366 939 764 1708 631 491 1122 215 382 697 1544 849 2393 414 77 49' 1131 148 1279 723 412 1135 1013 1531 2544 f59 146 796 741 662 1403 1566 532 2098 548 780 1528
1 tuition paid by
monthly cost of
Amount o f this
iAverage m onthly cost of tuition per
vo
1
Ca-
cj 6CJ0
03
1
<1
pupil.
26* 811 C6
1858 1 43
1025 1 31
956 143
376 1 54
971 1 (I*
9`J8 1 2! 857 1 30
1360 66
398 1 44
1102
>
84 1 00
770 1 60
633 1.33
1011 1 47
7(fo 1 28
4 8 1 27
1342 1 90
294 1 26
558 1 2o
731 2 75
163,9 84
445 t .60
1066 2 08
1042
80
880 1 17
$ 91 6) 88
1 42 92 7a 80
1m 62
1 32 70
90 .89 75 *6 57
93
51 84 85 66 1 *1 80 8' 89
I the state.
Orthography. No. of Pupils
Wiitinsr. No. of Pupils. [Geography. [No of Pupils. Arithmetic. No. of Pupils. Compensation of
County School Commissioners.
Branches of Study Taught.
'a* 73
fcr* *1
lo
3->9
2756 1589
1573 798
1276 1393
834 1586
537 1475 1203
1015 1297 1617 3077
530 2298 465 1071 .1058 2353 762 1390
900 1296
207
1930
12M 1 `57 522 935 833 594
1K88 458 1027 637 - 721
889 1263 851 42-> 1730 340 797 735 1896
790 1140
780 976
& C Sh O. 4OM faee 0 W "A
197 29 134S 464 10)4 284 b88 226 33.' 67 658 244 629 391 405 124 962 268 3<l 1.92 340 282 361 150 641 2S;> 59') 132 1124 355 572 206 271 72 1405 .526 218 71 .761 112 554 .160 1456 573 413 320 87' 310 482 437 829 245
.46 137 335 1197 4'5 861 858 787 50 208 340 5o`l 3.1 599 20` 333
520 8-6 179 328 30 619
119 381 276 51'2 133 365 8 <7 731 29t 483 163 261 653 1152 69 162 150 337 240 552 924 1372 214 398 512 821 344 781 303 635
$50 00 250 00 2 >l 00 122 00 63 00 150 00 18 1 00 177 80 66 25 12> no 16 2 00
idO-OO
50 < 0
200 00
100 00
110 00
150 00 18 00 70 00
104 oq
180 00 60 00 225 00 82.00 205 oq
Colnmbus (city)....
Newton..................... 3:5 18 628
Oconee...................... 25 9 326
Oglethorpe............... 27 15 477
Paulding................... 62 10 1340
Pickens...........
32 1 970
Pierce ...................... 18 3 223
Polk.......................... 27 7 483
Pike......................... 36 16 714
Pulaski.................... 29 23 928
Putnam........... ........ 26 22 310
Quitman................... 9 5 165
Rabun...................... 27 1 631
Randolph................. 21 20 475
Richmond................ Rockdale. ............. 23 h 479
Schley........................ 15 -10 279
Screven.................... 35 14 484
Spalding................. 25 18 515
Stewart.................. 28 27 436
Sumter (county).... 34 23 541
Americas (city)+...
Talbot...................... 26 11 373
Taliaferro............. 13 11 198
Tatnall...................... 40 14 489
Taylor...................... 28 9 459
Telfair..................... 22 3 141
Terrell..................... 30 11 445
Thomas................... 37 24 643
Towns...................... 17 1 467
Troup (county)........ 41 38 593
West Point (citv)t.
Twiggs...................... 15 13 275
Union........................ 32 1 1040
EPS,1!11.................. 27 12 571
Walker.....................
11 113
Walton..................... 51 20 100C
Ware...................
Ti 5 248
Warren..................... 25 385
Washington.............
25 973
Wavne..................... 36 9 344
Webster.................... 18 9 231
538 460 479
265 177 234
418 317 873
998 151' 131
822
4
7
178 82 75
506 143 189
639 621 693
556 431 481
259 564 579
195 92 108
500 15 11
372 597 590
481 861 249 225 801 280 463 249 272 475 491 551 359 933 919 482 645 768
307 367 324
188 296 251
366 214 199
397 266 232
126 41 34
409 245 281 R9.5 625 KH1
356
9
8
567 14X8 1458
225 253 232
814
9
9
477 380 365
925 186 178
800 475 390
184 104 87
373 286 274 875 932 A41
315 12i 132
222 151 192
1166 939 2105 591 4H 1002 895 720 1615 23?8 281 261^ 179 11
401 157 989 332 1321 1353 1314 2667 1084 912 1996 569 1143 1712 360 200 560 1031 26 1057 847 1187 2034
960 510 1470 504 581 1085
947 521 1463 990 1045 2035 795 1852 2647 1023 1413 2436
680 691 1371
886 547 933 855 413 1263
856 498 1854
267 75 342
854 526 1380
12fi8
9d7d
823 17 840
1160 2876 4036
500 485 985 1854 18 1872 1048 745 1793 2063 364 2427 1800 865 2665 432 191 623
758 560 1318 1773 3R21
659 253 9(2 453 343 796
1189 728 81 70 167 1 22 1584 1 40 938 <400 1 00 847 1 50 1739 1 75 1495 1 50 1305 2 00
1 10
735 82 1080 1 50
$ 70 1 10 90
66 94 62 67 66 1 10 52 86
799 1 60
80
509 1 20
7i
90S 1 36 1 00
1327 1 75
65
1745 1 47
63
1413
937 1 46
65
63S 1 42
73
827 1 35
78
857 1 50
78
282 2 00
66
884 2 18 2 05
i in
77
541 76
67
2360 1 00
58
682 1 25
81
1096 1 00
1086 1 46 1 04
1333 1 00
70
1475 1 50
71
463 75
75
894 1 75
87
1 Aft
72
597 i id
57
455 1 so 1 00
1860 942 1253 2858 1622
1195 2667 1879 1634 560 1032 2034
1429 1061 1396 1933 2649 2436
1370 920 1240 1213 840 1260 7474. 787 4036
985 1571 1666 2242 2665
135 1297 3MV7 884 726
1437 741 1"97 136-J 79 k 441 879 1902 1338 1338 4S0 600 1205
973 769 1010 1366 1711 1624
1135 729 980 877 211 1023 1680 403 2768
925 756 1343 1678 1900 120 926 ?!5fi7 707 525
9)4 337 469 82! $180 00
605 167 156 430 "10) 00
893 343 41:- 676 200 00
894 m 152 653 200 00
47S 138 8l: 33-5
60 00
866 71 78 166
723 261 271 501
60 00
1418 512 774 1235 156 85
809 451 456 860 27o 00
9)9 296 485 733 125 00
402 160 84 328
60 00
326 76 471 248
52 30
791 290 372 677 200 00
972 512 421 969 546 204 383 300 8)5 210 370 755 997 357 561 971 1161 483 603 9*1 1172 634 96 846
81 00 60 00
300 00 150 00 150 00
839 281 386 711 100 00
510 220 248 395 150 00
708 19S v51 480 100 00
694 219 231 559 12 ) 00.
2il 136 85 189
39 00
973 36') 344 720 191 0Q
19!S
684 1057
155 73 13 121 None.
2120 490 620 1402 300 00
645 m 435 475 105 00
453 200 107 352 None.
983 316 483 899 100 00
891 319 227 850 100 00
1400 400 405 1055 185 00
135 77 35 77
50 00
725 300 381 625 200 00
1743 fiOK 899. 1480 240 00
482 185 382 412 125 00
387 170 178 361
75 00
TABLE No. ^.x-Continued. Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
W hite. Colored. | Males. Females. Males. Females. W hite. Colored. W hite
and Colored Average
Atte A v erag e'm e
cost of tui pupil. Amount of
monthly c tuition pai the State.
Orthography, No. of Pupils.
W riting, No. of Pa]
Arithmetic, No. of Pu]
COUNTIES.
No. of
Number of Scholars Admitted.
Schools. White.
Colored.
Total.
6o
u<33
II 'Oc3
3
Sg*
Branches of Study Taught.
CD
3}
bS'-fc* .9 ' 'O 6 gz Ph
a5 Su_, O rs
d SZ
o
g
S ia ^ p,g S goo u
White, i....................... 19 4 670 493 80 59 1163 139 1302
803 $ 1 00 $ 60 1223
638
374 147 123 324 *t5 00
Whitfield..................... 46 10 1147 998 235 223 2145 448 2593 1592 83
56 2467 1749 1052 327 576 1037 100 00
Wilcox......................... 19 4 208 191 70 60
399 130 629
452 1 6C
53
529
320
320 85 60 182
60 00
Wilkes......................... 34 11 452 401 193 183
853 376 1223
983 1 57 1 33 1099 1018
896 335 479 747 836 00
Wilkinson................... 33 13 637 522 401 329 1159 730 1883 1103 1 5C
75 1870 1314
871 28 350 770 150 00
Worth.......................... 26 3 310 228 144 50
538 194 732
414 3 38 3 38
r-j2
443
384 S2j 85 242 100 00
Totals....................... 4066 1603 75144 64167 39614 39241 Averages...%.........
139311 78855 218166 i32504 $ 1 32 $
200890 143990 103350 36592 42738 86737 $ 17492 34
81
137 54
+These counties and cities are under local laws. They are reported in table No. 3. To obtain the entire attendance of 1880, add the totals in this table t the totals in table Noi 3,
TABLE tto. 3. Report of Public Schools under Local Laws.
Ungraded. Number of
Teachers. Males. Females. Males. (Females. W hite. Colored. W hite
and Colored. 'L ngth of School Term, in months. Average attend ance. Average monthly cost of Tuition per pupil. Poll Tax. j S. S. Commis sioner's or der on Tax Collector. Local Tax.
COUNTIES OE CITIES.
No. of Schools.
OQ
1
ad> C3 >
5s
Number of Pupils admitted.
White.
Colored.
Total.
Amount of School Fund.
3 o H
OSO
Americas, city of........ Atlanta, city of............
Bibb, county of........... Chatham, county of... Columbus, city of........ Glynn, county of.........
Richmond, county of.. West Point, city of ...
ii 1 12 104 198
46 8 54 1345 1425
30 21
9 7
o1
60 78
874 1139
776 1176
6 25 336 322
20 2 26 265 175
45 32 3 82 1374 1146
2 1 4 122 146
189 516
201 302 390 692 6 473 2770 989 375'J 40
560 2957
$1 09^2 1.20
$*
2060000 0000 $
$ 3708 00
3883 83 $ 40000 00
4483 83 45708 00
776 923 1650 1699 3319 9 2001 .78
468 83 2829 66 15700 00 18998 54
904 1016 2315 1920 4235 9 3437 1.00
1870 00 4687 41 30700 00 37257 41
291 410 653 701 1359 9 1155 .95
651 03 1225 70
8123 27 10000 00
163 175 840 338 678 AVr. 515 1.10
508 07 633 62
*2941 69
735 772 2520 1507 4027 8!4 2061 1.62
268
268 10
2000 00 4019 15 T261 80
25000 00 1832 82
31019 15 2094 62
Totals and averages,
116 115 16 341 5459 5364 3574 3970 10823 7544 18367 3.23 12686 $U0 * 8097 98 $ 17365 34 $ 125239 92 $ 152503 24
*Thls total includes $600.00 received from investments, and $1,200.00 from taxes and leases on town commons, tThis item includes both poll tax and proceeds of order on Tax Collector.
)<
TABLE No. 4. Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
1
Number of Schools.
Males. Females. Males. Females. W hite. Colored. W hite
and Colored. Average number
of months taught.
' per pupil.
c<'St of tuition
Average " onthly
commas.
<uOZi
N imber of Pupils.
White Colored.
Total.
'S-g
OJhH
1
P fc
\ BKANCHES TAUGHT.
Appling............................................. 1 1
4
2
6
6
6 P.lpmpnfary
Baker...................................................... 1 1 56 47 70 61 103 181 234 4 7-10 F'.lpmpntnry
Baldwin................................................. Vi 15 80 86 345 256 166 601 767
8 Ti9Am<mt.ary anH hio'hpr
Banks..................................................... 8 9 171 184
855
55
5 KlAmp-ntapy nnrl hi^rhpr
Bartow................................................... 12 14 190 170
360
360
7 Flpmpntary
Berrien...................................................
Bibb.........................................................
Brooks.................. ................................ 2 4 24 28
52
52
8 ISIpmpiitftry arid highpr
Bryan....................................................
Bulloch................................................... 53 55 689 524 79 80 iiis 159 1272
8 Tlpment.fl.ry TEncrlish
Burke......................................................
Butts..................................................... 15 15 isi 146 28 23 297 51 348 3 5-6 TOpmpntary nnii hit/hpr .
Calhoun.................................................. 14 15 99 90 111 103 189 214 403 4 1 iPoral. *
w
Camden.................................................. 2 9. 11
7
18
18 8 Ifllpmpntarv
Campbell...................................... .
7 8 118 96
214
214 5 6-7 "Mlpmpntnry
Carroll.................................................... 32 35 623 541 15 23 1164 38 1202 4 1-2 'RlpTnpnt.fl.ry.
Catoosa................................................... 5 6 118 129
247
247 3 7-8 Rlpmpntflry anH hijrhpr
Charlton.................................................
Chatham.................................................
Chattahoochee.....................................
Chattooea........................... ............... 15 15 232 235
467
467 313-15 Rlpmpntflry
Cherokee ................. ...........................
Clarke......................................................
Clay......................................................... 3 3
9
32 32 tt 64 82 3 1-J Elfmentflrv
Clayton....................................................
Clinch........................................... ....
Cobb........................................................ IS 21 379 261 74 52 G4( 12t 766
7 RlpmpntJiry
$........
. ... 1 44
........... .. 1 00
.
......... .. 1 16
........... ... 1 25
........................... 2 50 O
........................... 1 46
........................... 1 52 *1 90
........................... 1 63 ........
........................... 1 38 ........................... 1 04
........................... 1 32 ........................................................ 2 29
.............................. 1 30
Colored, 70c.
*
PcvtipA
.................................. ..
fYiliimM a. .........................................
Pnlqnitt
........................
Pnwptft
..................... 12 14 88 1C8 86 81 196 167 363
4 Elementary and higher.....................................................................
r?rftwfftrH
....................... 17 17 176 146 79 65 322 144 466 3 14 Elementary and higher..................................................................... 1 31
Tlftrfft
....................................
T^owsor
......... 1 1 28 23
51
51
Elementary and higher.................................................................... 1 50
JVpr'flt.nr . . . ................................
T^pKftlb nnriprA
........................................ ................... ................
7>nnJy
.....................................
"nmigliPity
..........................
`Pnnylflaft
............. ............
Early .. ..............................................
RV.hnls ...........................................
TTlfflnp'hnm
........................ 4 4 58 44
102
102 5 Elementary and higher................... ............................................... 1 70
Elbert ...................................................
Emflunpl . . . ............................
TTnnnin
. ... ...... 1 1 12 Ifl
28
28
2 Elementary......................................................................................... 1 00
`B'nypttf.
........... ......... 13 14 221 205 28 31 426 59 485 3 2-3 Elementary...,.................................................................................. 1 43
TFlnyfl
23 23 422 303 112 J33 725 245 970
8 Elementary................ ........................................................................ 1 75
'P'nravf.h
. .........
pVfliilrHn . ... . ......................... 11 11 149 121 23 17 27*i 40 310
9 Elementary........................................................................................... 1 00
TPiiltnn
......................................... 25 25 810 320 56 65 630 121 751 4 1-2 Elementary and higher..................................................................... 2 07
riilmpT
..
........ ............. 5 10 191 187
378
878 4 4-5 Elementary and higher..................................................................... 1 15
fsiftfiftpoplr .......................................
ftlynn
......................................
rinivlrm
......... 12 13 156 1TJ 7 17 327 24 351 4 740 Elementary and higher...........................................................
1 05
Htpptp
....................................
fiwiTnptt. ... ........................ 25 25 450 429 H'fl.hprshflm . .......... ...........
87S
879
5 Elementary and higher.................................................................... 1 35
Hall . ............................................... 1 1 15 10
25
25
5 Elementary.......................................................................................
75
TTnnrnplr.
...
16 17 118 107 72 78 225 150 375 6 3-4 Elementary.................................................................................
2 IS
Haralson......... ......................................
Harris.............................. .....................
Hart.
................... ........... 17 13 380 306 68 64 686 132 818 d 1.9 Elementary and higher........................................ ..................
1 25
Heard................................................... 11 11 130 180
310
310
5 Elementary and higher................................................................. 1 40
Hpnrv
...
TTnr.sfnn
5 6 53 107
160
160
Elementary and higher...........................................................
2 OO
Irwin......................................... ..........
Jackson.........*........................................ 32 16 421 528 83 71 949 154 1103 71*2 FlpmpTitflrv
1 44
Jasper...................................................... 25 29 179 184 87 82 363 169 532 3 2-5 Elementary and higher............................... ............................
I 37
TABLE No. 4.-- Continued. Consolidation of the Meports of Private Elementary Schools.
Average monthly cost of tuition per pupil.
Females. W hite.
----------------1
Colored. W hite
and Colored. Average number
of months taught.
Instructors, j
[
COUNTIES.
Tnhnsnrt .Tnnfs T.ATirfT1R
Liberty........................................... T.inpnln
T.rwnilAs
T.nmpbi-n
Mnrrtti
MflfliRfjn .
Marion ...........
.
"Mr'TlnfRo
Mrlnfosh
'Mf>riwfil-'hpr
Miller......................
..
TMiltmi
Mitchell...........................................
Monroe..................... ...............
`Montpomery
Morfyfl.n
Mnrmv
Muscopree.........
Newton...........................................
Oconee.............. O^lftfhorpA
Panldinp.
Number of Schools
Number of
Number of Pupils.
White. Colored.
Total.
c<cv
<On)
'a
a 0Q 0) "cs
a
BKANCHES TAUGHT.
18 18 133 118 bl 95 251 176 427 3 5-9 Elementary......... ................................................................. .......... 1 46
15 15 39 50 270 213 89 483 572 413-15 Elementary......................................................................................... 1 11
14 14 115 IflQ 33 90 224 62 286 41-2 E'ementary and higher..................................................................... 1 42
3 4, 20 27 36 26 47 62 109
5 Elementary.......................................................................................... 1 01
A 41 231 65J
158
158 73-4 Elementary.......................................................................................... 2 00
9.4 24 99.h 246 11 8 471 19 490 211-17 Elementary.................. . ..............................................................
1 33
15 ?0 325 375 50 75 700 125 825
4 Elementary and higher........................................................................................ 2 00
Ifi 10 ion S7 ai 87 187 68
4 1-8 Elementary and higher .................................................................................... 1 33
31 4
U
13 6? 54
30 116 146 5 1-3 Elementary and higher.. ................. ........................................................ 1 08
9 9 144 1191
256
256 5 1-9 Elementary..................................................... ............................................................ 2 00
ia 13 9.rh 9R5
548
548 41-18 Elementary................................................................................................................ 1 27
99 24 132 193 47 93 325 140 465
20 Elementary and higher...................................................................................... 2 75
25 27 196 217 112 100 413 212 625 41-2 Elementary and higher..
...................................................................... 1 25
8 8 68 61 9 U 129 20 149 413-16 Elementary......................................................................................... 1 64
5 5 67 46 36 46 113 82 195 5 3-5 Elementary and higher..................................................................... 1 62
13 13 Srt1 130 20 21 401 37ft
390
390 51-2 Elementary........... ............................. .. ............... .
.. 1 85
771
771 319-20 Elementary...................................................................................... 1 25
Pick^ne ................. ..............................
Pierce..................................... ............... a 8 25 25
50
50 3 Fllpmpintnry Anri hij/hpr
Polk......................................................... 18 20 306 296 184 203 602 387 989 31-2 Elementary..........w ............................
Pilrp........................................... ............ 24 24 271 339
610
610
4 Elementary
65100610 Pulaski....... ......................................... 5 5 72 78 59 93 145 152 297 2 9-10 Elementarv .......
20 21 150 100 300 200 250 500 750
7 Elementavv . .
........... .......
Quitman................................................ 14 14 142 160 60 80 302 140 442
5
.....................
15 17 122 180 80 82 302 162 464
5 ElfmnPintary and hitrhivr
ai 28 288 329 ii 17 617 28 645 6 1-2 Elementary................................................................
8 4 48 43
91
91
7 K.lpmAntATy hio^hoi*
11 11 76 89 33 30 165 63 228
3 Elementary
11 11 110 130 55 65 240 120 360
4 Elementary and higher.
SnmlCT.
.......................................
26 28 234 288 99 120 472 219 691 4 1-3 Elementarv and higher
Taliaferro............................................... a 8 56 104
160
160
6 E ementarv........... ~.............................
Tatnall............... .................................. 18 18 120 102 TO 81 222 154 876 3 1-2 Elementarv...... .......... .............
Taylor.............. ...................................... 8 8 120 102
222
222 3 1-2 Elementary ...........................
Telfair....................................................
4(1 42 445 409 a4 274 854 620 1374 10 Elementarv and higher
. ..
Thomas................................ .............. .. ll) 10 84 96
180
180 10 Elementarv ....... "
mi 22 Twiess................................................ 20 21 Union...................................................... 1 1 Upson............................................... . * 16 17 Walker................................................... 19 19
21 24
Ware..................................................... Warren.................................................. Washington.........................................
Wayne .w................................................
13 15 2fl 26 11 11
Webster. .... ....................................
White.....................................................
Whitfield............................................... 11 11
Wilcox................................................
9
Wilkes.................................................... n 15
Wilkinson.............................................. Worth..................................................... J 1
289 248 115 95 148 143 40 - 80 234 250 48 50 272 269 4 6 400 307 22 29
271 220 81 75 196 181 80 75 50 58 22 27
166 156 54 60 40 86 42 38 150 141 15 17
14 1C
537 210 291 70 484 93 541 10 707 51
491 156 377 155 108 49
537 6 3-4 Elementary and higher
501
5 Elementarv............................ .. ...
70 10 Elementarv.......... ..........
577 41-2 Elementarv English.............
551
4 Elementarv andtOgher. ..
758 51-2 Elementary and higher...............
647
6 Elementarv. .......
532 7 Leeal branches......................
157
4 Elementarv and higher. ..
.
312 ii4 436 61-4 Elementarv........................................... .. .... 76 80 156 21-2 Elem-ntarv................................................... 291 32 .323 5 1-15 Elementarv.................................................
24
24 1 1-2 Legal branches......... .................... .........................
Totals and averages...................... i083 1174 13876 13409 3941 3889 27285 7830 35115
1 40 1 7K 3 50 9. on 1 50
1 50
1 60 1 60 1 46 1 50
1 so 1 5ft 1 60 1 45 4 53
9
2 50
1 5ft 1 25 i no 1 39! 1 91 1 7fi
1 75 9 9K 1 60
1 15 1 60 1 39
9 nn
$1 56
TABLE No. 5.
Report of Private High Schools.
COUNTY.
NAME,
Males. Females. |
LOCATION.
Number of Pupils Admitted.
White.
Total.
tn
a) o P
|l
BRANCHES TATTGHT
>>a
ao.'.B3. PRINCIPALS.
Oa
Banks......... TVTnvPvillfi Institute...........
Maysville...
Bartow... Erwin Street School
Cartersville..
Bartow... Cartersville Female Academy. Cartersville ..
Bartow....... Union A crdemy........................ Bartow Co....
Partow....... ( edar Creek High School........ CedarCreek..
Bartow....... Stilesboro Institute................... Stilesboro....
Bartowt.,... Cartersville High School.......... Cartersville ..
Bartow....... Wofford Academy..................... Cass Station..
Bartow....... Kingston High School............. Kingston.......
Bartow.. OntTCmve High School..
ITtti'District..
Bibb............ Hunter's School for Boys. .... Macon............
Brooks....... Urooveiville Academy............. Grooverville.
Brooks....... Quitman Academy...'.............. Quitman........
Brooks........ MorvenHigh School................. Merven ..........
Brooks .... Hickory Head Academy.......... Brooks Co....
Camden....
st. Mary's....
Catoosa. ... Einggo dMasonic Institute.... Kitifireofd...
Clarke......... Home School................ ..
Athens.........
Cobb........... Roswell Academy...................... Boswell.........
Cobb........... Acworth High School............... Acworth...
Cobb.......... Smvrnft High School........ ... Smyrna ....
Cobb....... Marietta High J-chool............... Marietta ...
Coob........... Powder Springs bchool..
Powder Sp'gs
Coweta....... Ncwnan Slale'&eminary......... Newnau..*. .7.
Coweta.. .. Newman Seminaiy..................... Newnan.........
Coweta.... Grantviile High School....... Grantviile....
Coweta....... Excelsior A cademy....... ..... Senoia............
2 40 36
2 20 25
3 19 31
] 26 28
2 95 45
1 22 7
2 25 17
2 43 35
1 22 14
2 37 4t
} 30
3 19 11
2 88 25
3 12 12
3 18 39
2 10 15
2 32 24
6
50
V 50 30
2 42 41
3 32 6
2 44 15
i 24 13
2 52
2 36 36
3 33 30
2 54 4(
76 45
50 54
140 29 42 78
36 85 30 30 03
24
37 2f 56 5( 80 83 38 . 59 35
f2 52 63 ICO1....
1
2 00 76 7 An. Classics and Mathematics......... $1 26 T. A. E* Evans.
45 4 An. Classics and Mathematics......... ....
L, B. Millican.
50 3 An. Clas., Math., Sciences and French. 1 50 S. F. Brame.
54 7 An, Classics, Math.,and Sciences..
1 85 Jas. R. Glenn.
140 10 An. classics, Math!, and Sciences..
1 80 E. B. Earle.
29 10 An. Classics, Math,, and Sconces...
2 40 W. R. Thigpen.
8 42 10 Classics and Higher Mathematics..
78 English Branches................................ .
2 50 Ronald Johnston. 2 16 Matthew Marshall.
36 li An. Classics, English and Mathematics. 3 00 James T. Lin.
.$* 85 An. Classics, Sciences and Mathematics. 2 12 H. C. Etheridge.
30 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............. 5 00 B. T. Hunter.
30 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences...............
% 63 Classics, Mathematics, English............... 5 24 Classics, Mathematics, fc'ciences............ % 37 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............. 5 25 Classics and Sciences.................................. 6 56 Classics, Math., Sciences and English.. 9^ 50 Eng.,Mod. & An.Lang., Drawing! Mus.
3 00 2 SOB-J.Holmes. A. D. Smith.
3
Of'
T. A. Felix
Brown. R. Groover.
2 00 A, Baratte.
1 50 W. H. Bowers.
Miss C. Sosnowski.
80 7 An. Classics, Mathematics and Sciences. 1 50 E. Faw.
83 English Branches and Classics............... 2 25 J. C. Holmes.
18 Higher Mathematics, English, Latin.... 2 50 Joel Mable.
59 1 English, Math., Languages and Sciences. 1 95 Mrs. Y. E. Manget.
35 Mathematics, Sciences, Latin........... . .. 2 00 L. W. Mizell.
52 An. Classics, Sciences, Mathematics.... 3 00 J. E. Pendergrast*
52 Eng. Classics, Sciences, Mathematics .. 3 00 Daniel Walker.
2 00 63 ` An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences ... 2 CO 8. E. Leigh.
100
A. S. Jones.
Coweta....... Senoia High School.................. Senoia............
Clayton.... Rethsaida .'eminary................. Clayton Co...
DeKalb....... Kirkwood High School........... K'rkwood....
Dodge......... Kastman High School............. Eastman........
Dougherty.. Sterne's Institute...................... Albany .........
Fannin....... Morganton Academy............... Morganton...
Fayette....... Fayetteville Seminary............. Fayetevdle..
Fayette....... Brooksviile Academy............... Brooksville ..
Floyd.......... Male High School.
.......... Rome...........
Fioyd.......... Military Academy....................... Home............
Floyd......... Hearn School....... ............... rave Spring..
Fulton......... Atlanta Female Institute......... Atlanta.........
Fulton........ Means' High School.... Gordon.... Calhoun \cad*my. ... Gordon .... Mrs. Fields' school....... Gordon .... ^ngar Valley Academy Gordon .... Idie Wild Academy___
Atlanta.......... Calhoun......... Calhoun.........
Sugar Valley. Rocky Creek.
Greene....... Greene.......
Mercer High School............... Penfield....... Dawson Institute............. ........... White Plains.
Greene........ Greeuesboro Male and Female '--T-- lij \si
Co-operative School................ Greensboro..
Gwinnett.. Dulmh Academy........................ Duluth...........
Gwinnett.. Norcross High School............... Norcross. ...
Habersham Toccoa Acrid<mv........................ Toccoa...........
Hail............ Gainesville Hign School.... ' . Gainesville...
Hall.......... LaHatte's Select School.......... Gainesville...
Hancock... Sparta Male & Fora. HighSch'l. Sparta........
Hancock... Hancock...
i `owel i ton Ma e & Fem. School. Adams' Practical School...........
PoweJJton.... Linton. ....
Han<>ck... Culverton Academy................... Cnlverfon....
Hart............ Hartwell High School................ Hartwell. ..
Heard......... Franklin Institute...................... Franklin.....
Houston. Houston.
Johnson Lee......... 1 ee.........
Macon .. Macon...
Perry Male Academy........ Thompson High School... Wrightsvilie Fhgh School Neelys" Imtitute ....... .. Smiihviile High School !
Montezuma HLh ^hool .. Marshaliville High School.
Perry............. ftth District... Wrightsville.. Leesburg. ... >mithviU^. ..
M< ntezuma.. Mat shahville
8!>
An. Classics, Eng., Math., Sciences ...
17' 9 AH. (lassies. Mathetnatics, >ciences...
32 `M An. Hass'cs. Mathematics, Sciences..
64 10 English and Languages...............
50
cwnces. Eng. at d Modctn Lanenases.
115 Ift Latin. English, Muth., .'ciences ..
62 6 t lassies, Ms.themarics, Sciences
6 6 Sciences. Mai hematics................
S- '0 UsuarAcad-mic..............
69 10 Usual branches......................
2' 10 Usual Academic branches.
115 10 M. d.and An. l.angnai;es, Eng., Math.,
22s2
2u6otf0t
T. E. Atkinson. G. T. Ho ard. harlcs M. hu el. l>. A. Jessup.
Too
Mrs.
' rs.
A. Sterne.
M.Z.rhastain.
1 16 Wm. S. Beadles.
W. W. Mitcham.
3 00 J. M. Proctor.
3 00 Capers A Graham.
3 00 P. J. Kit g.
68 10 65 10 67 1ft 45 4
10
Sciencea, Music
extra), Art....
An. C iavics. Math . Scienc. s... ..
An. Classics, Math., Stienceg.........
An. (lassies. Math., Feiences...........
English, Classics, Math..Sciences.. .
tiig.ish, Languages, -Viatliematics.........
5 no Mrs. J. w. Ballard.
2 fto 5 0" T. JE, Means. J. b. HilJhouse.
1 61 1 7n Mrs. M. E. Helds. John (\ >t kes. I. L. Cand er and
83 10 English, Classics and French. . .. 39 7 > -lassies, Mathematics and Music..
Jennie F. Ondler. 2 2R J. W. KJlln. ton. 3 20 J. M. HoweJJ.
*>9
40 10 Classics, Mathematics and Sciences .... 59 10 Classics, Mathematics and r deuces....
31 73 9 128 Ift 113 10 8' 10 47 8 66 8 34 7 lift 6 129 6
Classics Mathematics and English (lassies. Higher Maihematn s, etc....... Clas-ics, Mathematics, iSciences.
lassies. Mathematics, Sciences.
English. Classics, Maih., >ciences. ... English, classic?, Math., Sciences .... An. Classics, Math.. Sciences and Arts
Latin. Engl.sh and Higher v,atbematics. English, Mathematics and Latin . EngILn, An. Classics, Math., sciences..
27 English and Ancient Classics. 29 Enghsh. Classics, Mathematics.......... fiv 6 1 atin and English........................ 36 m Hng'ishand Mathematics................... 44 10 English and Classics............. 42 6 English, Languages, Mathematics....... 7 1" ( lassies Mathema ies. .'`dences
1 ^OGeo, B. Atkisson.
2 16 K. H. Vi tard and
VV. C. M right.
2 O ' H. S. ( rai e.
1 f>6 K. K. Doyle.
2 0 'iSamnel T. L^ne.
2 50 r. B. LaHatte.
2 60 W. M Slaton.
2 ft L. N. Chapman.
S 013 00 Thos. Y. Adams. . M. Kendrick.
2 0 Bobo & Peek.
2 O' Leonidas Jones and
22 65i
I. H. Daniel.
r. H. i huiman. v. B. Parr.tt.
W. A. Voore.
1 St J. S. Freeman.
ft 0 VV. `V. Kennei ly.
2 5' A. J. Harv. y.
3 00 J. W. rederick.
TABLE No. 5.--Continued. Report of Private High Schools.
;N um ber of Instructors.
Male. Female. | MaJe. Female. | W hite. |Colored. White &
Colored.! Average monthly
cost of* tu itio n per pupil.
COUNTY.
NAME.
LOCATION.
Nu mber of pupils.
&
White. Colored. Total.
S
O CD f_JS
|i
p
gB
55
BEANCHES TAUGHT.
PRINCIPAL!-.
Macon......... Fnaldine Seminary................... Macon Co.... Marion....... Juniper High School................. Juniper........ Marion....... Pine Grove Academy................ Marion....... Buena Vista High School.. Buena Vista..
Marion....... RranilPT TTigk Srhonl
Rrantley
Marion....... Peach Orchard Academy
Peach Orch'd.
Marion......... Tiihertv Academy............'
Pine T.evel. . .
Marion......... Tflyewell High Sehonl
Tazewell
Marion......... `Mount. Tahor Acndptny
Mount Tator.
Mnrinn
.lackponville Aeademv
Jacksonville.
McDuffie... Thomson High School ...... . Thomson.........
Monroe........ Jackson Academy......................... Forsyth...........
Monroe........ Forsvth Male Institute
Forsvth.
Monroe........ C'enti al Institute............................. Culloden.........
Monroe..... Culloden High School .
" i'Ub-Dist.
Morgan.... Rutledge High School................ Rutledge.........
Morgan.... Madison High School................... Madbon..........
Morgan.... Forest Home. Institute................ Madison..........
Morgan.... Braswell Academy.
........... Morgan Co...
Morgan.... Centennial High School
Cent'! Church
Murray .... Fort. Mountain Institute
WnrraV.... Spring Place Academy
Spring Place.
Murray.... Sumach Seminary
>umach VaPy
Muscogee.. Wvunton Ma1e<fc Fem Acad Wynnton ....
Oglethorpe. Crawlord Academy....................... Crawford.........
1 25 15
40
40 6 Ancient Languagea, Sciences............. $ 2 60 Geo. R. Briggs.
2 38 89
77
77 6 English ClasScs^etc................................... 2 00 W. J. King.
1 9 11 4 55 63
20
20 5
l 60 Minnie Merritt.
US
118 10 Languages and Mathematics....................... 8 00 P. E. Davant and
J. L. Zanders.
2 40 31
71
71 6 English and Classics.................................. 2 00 J. P. Moore.
1 14 12 1 21 18
26 39
26 5 English and Classics........................................
89 a English and GJas ics........................................
3 0: Ida Munro. 2 00 W. R. Warthen.
1 80 25
65
56 5 English and Classics........................................ 2 00 J. L. Barker.
1 35 jS
28
28 6
3 00 B. W. Gioss.
1 20 18
38
38 6 English and Classics........................................ 2 00 J. E. Gross.
2 34 33
67
67 7 English, Classics, Sciences and Math.. 2 50 W. B. Fambrongh.
2
75 105
180 180 AnTCIassics and Higher Mathematics.. 75 Wm. F. Jackson.
2 54
54
54 10 English asid Classics......................................... 2 25 W. D. Thurmond.
4 47 25
72
72 7 English and Classics........................................ 1 50 T. J. Kelly.
2 18 14
32
32 3 English, Classics, Math., Sciences........... 2 00 C. L. Floyd.
2 19 13
32
32 5 I nglish and Classics......................................... 2 80 J. J. Wallace.
2 48
48
48 9 English, Classics. Mathematics................ 4 50 E. W. Butler.
3 5 17
22
22 10 < lassies, Mathematics, Sciences......... .. 2 50 Mrs. E. Nebhut.
1 16 11
26
26 5 English, Classics, Math., Sciences........... 2 00 John A. Saye.
1 30 15
8*
25
1 60 D. Campbell.
2 29 33
62
62 5
1 95 Trammell Starr.
1 36 3S
74
74 5
1 25 J. F. Harris.
3 88 78 1 21 16
161
161 10 Languages, Mathematics, English
8' F. J. F. Chevne.
36
36 5 En&Tish' Mathematics. Latin.~............... 9. no A H. Rutherford.
2 80 25
55
56 6X An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.... 2 50 John F. Cheney.
Oglethorpe. Meson Academy......................... Lexington ... Oglethorpe. New School Academy........... Grove Cr'k Dist Oglethorpe. Antioch Academy..................... Antioch.......... Pickens.... Jasper Institute......................... Jasper............ Pike............ Gordon Institute........................ Barnesville... Pike............ Excelsior Academy................... Zebulon.......... Pike............. Concord Academy..................... Concord......... Pike............ Milner High School................... Milner............ Polk............ Rockmart Academy................. Rockmart.... polk............ Cedartown Male & Fem. Acad. Cedartown... Polk............ Cedartown High School........... Cedartown... Pulaski.... Hawkinsville Academy............ Hawkinsville. Pulaski.... Hawkinsville Institute............. Hawkinsville. Pulaski.... Cochran High School................ Cochran......... Rabun........ Rabun Gap High School.......... Rabun Gap .. Rockdale.. Conyers Male Academy........... Conyers......... Rockdale.. Conyers Female Seminary.... Conyers........ Screven.... Sylvania Academy..................... Sylvania......... Screven.... Scarboro Academy..................... Scarboro........ Spalding... Sam Bailey Institute................. Griffin............ Spalding... Miss Porter's High School ... Griffin............ Taliaferro.. Crawfordville Academy............ Crawfordville Taliaferrro. Sharon Institute......................... Sharon........... Taliaferro.. Raytown Academy..................... Raytown....... Taylor......... Carsonville Academy............... Carsonville... Troup......... LaGrange Seminary................... LaGrange.... Troup......... LaGrange Male High School.. LaGrange.... Upson......... Thomaston High School.......... Thomaston... Walton .... Social Circle Academy............. Social Circle.. Walton.... Johnston Institute..................... Monroe.......... Walton .... Monroe Male & Fem. Acad... Monroe.......... Ware......... Waycross High School............. Waycross. ... Warren. ... Norwood Academy................... Norwood....... Warren. ... Warrenton Academy................ Warrenton... Warren. ... Brinkley Academy.................... NearN'rwood
Washingt'n Tennille High School................ Tenille........... Washingt'n Riddleville High School........... Riddleville... Washingt'n Sandersville High School........ Sandersville.. White......... Nacoochee Male & F. H. School Nacoochee... Whitfield... Crawford High School............. Dalton............ Wilkes........ Seminary for Young Ladies... Washington..
18 16
34
34 7 English,classics, Mathematics Sciences. 2 40 Thos. B. Moss.
20 3?
62
62 8 English and Mathematics......................... 2 00 Jas. J. Green.
37 22 84 66 127 98
59 150 225
59 9 English, Mathema* ics, Sciences............. 2 20 L. M. Landrum.
15" 10 classics, Mathematics, Sciences............... 1 50 John W. Henley.
10 22:>
Classics, Sciences, Mathematics, Music. 4 00 O. E. Lambdin.
22 25
47
47
An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.... 2 00 .lohn N. Brooks.
48 45
93
93 8 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.... 1 62 J. B. Matthews.
29 22 44 41
51 85
8561
English, Mathematics, Classics............... 1 75 John W. Rudisill.
10 English, Mathematics, Classics............... 2 00 Thos. N. Barker.
43 88
81
81 10 English, Mathematics, Classics, French. 2 80 J. C. Harris.'
91 85
176
176 10 Engiisb, Mathematics, Classics,Sciences 2 00 Wm. J. Noyes.
78 61
139
139 10 classics, Mathetnatics, Sciences.........
R. C. Banders.
76 75
151
151 10* Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............. .... M. T. Hodge.
53' 44
97
97 10 Usual Academic branches........................ 3 00 M. N. McCall.
78 40
118
118 8 English, Mathematics, Sciences............. 1 50 W. A. Curtis.
79
79
79 10 Eng., Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.. 2 20 R. A. Gaum.
30
30
39 3 Eng., Sciences, Mathematics, French .. 1 60 Miss C. A. Hansel!.
29 85
64
64 10 Usual High School branches.................... 2 00 N. P. Fratt.
21 17
38
38 6 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.... 2 00 W. R. McConnell.
45
45
45 7 Classics, Math., Sciences, English........ 3 50 W. J. Gorham.
50
50
50 7 Classics, Math., Sciences, English, Music 3 50 Mies M. E. Porter.
30 15
45
45 10 Classics, Sciences....................................... 8 00 ('. T. Boggs.
80 24
54
54 10 Uusual Academic branches...................... 2 50 N. E. Ware.
86 28
64
64 9 Uusnal Academic branches..................... 2 50 A. F. Ware.
u 30 13
43
43 10 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............. 2 00 J. O. Mangham.
130 145
275 275
60 J. H. Owens.
40
40
40 5 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences, Eng... 3 00 J. H. Wilson.
83 83
166
166 10 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences, Eng... 1 50 Geo. A. Harrison.
28 25 80 40
53 70
9* 53 10 Eng. Latin, Mathematics, Sciences .... 2 50 P. W. Butler.
70 Classics, Mathematics, English............... 3 50 A. J. Burruss.
20 25
45
45 6 Classics, Sciences, Mathematics, Eng.. 2 80 D. F. C. Timmons.
30 33
63
63 9 English and Latin........................................ ..........G. S. Roach.
37 20
57
57 3 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences, Eng .. 1 90 T. C. Newton.
66 46 60 52
102 112
11?102 10 English, Latin, French.............................. 2 50 A. S. Morgan. 9 Eng., Classics, Math., Sciences, Mnsic.. 2 25 S. G. Brinkley.
An. Classics Math., Sciences, Modern
59 2?
86
86 10 Languages, Music.................................... 2 75 Thos. J. Beck.
35 30 65 70
65 135
& 65 6 Classics and Mathematics........................ 2 50 ). J. Hyman.
135 7 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............. 3 60 Dnggan Laween.
31 35
66
66 10 Classics, Math., Sciences, English..........
J. J. Methvin.
115
115
115 4 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences............. 1 70 J. H. Bitting.
48
48
48 10 Classics, Math., Sciences, English.......... 3 CO Miss F. Andrews.
Total* and averages
4725 3872 205 25i 8597 465 9052 7*
2 34
These figures givfe the average school term for the period during which the schools were private. Many of these schools were public schools for threeO months. For that period they are reported in table No. 2.
TABLE No. 6. Reports of Universities and Colleges.
COUNTIES.
NAME.
LOCATION.
Number
Number of Pupils Admitted.
of Instructors.
White.
Colored.
v< tt
$
0
a.
00
IS
<8
i
.*23 *3
t0t i
A
O
2 r<
Ms 0 a
2
o Eh
Males.
Males. *1
0
a.
si o
a
* 3e
is 5 5
&
0
I
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0} T3
Eh g
5a
.3 ay SB
a
s
1-J 0
a
a 5
.2
S' 1
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11
ja .2 o
a0
3 o H
Baldwin......... Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College............. Milledgeville........ Bibb............... Wesleyan Female College........T.............................T................ MaconT.................. Bibb............... Pio Nono College......................................................................... Macon.................... Clark.............. Lucy Cobb Institute.................................................................... Athens...................1 Clayton.......... Middle Georgia College.............................................................. Jonesboro.............j Cobb............ Marietta Female College............................................................ Marietta................ Coweta.......... College Temple...........7............................................. ............... Newnan............... j Floyd............. Borne Female College.................................................................. Rome.....................!
J Floyd............. Shorter Female College............................................................... Bone.... j
Fnlton............ Atlanta University. .7.................................................................. Atlanta............... Fnlton........... Atlanta Medical College.............................................................. Atlanta................. Fnlton............ Southern Medical College.......................................................... Atlanta................. Fnlton............ Geoigia Eclectic Medical College............................................. Atlanta................. Hall................ Georgia .Baptist Seminary for Young Ladies......................... Gaiuesville.........., Houston........ Houston Female College................. .w ................................. Perry.....................
' Honston........ Fort Valley Female Seminary................................................... Fort'Valley..........
Jackson......... Martin Intitute....................... ...................................................... Jefferson............. J
i Lumpkin.... North Georgia Agricultural and Mechanical College.......... Dahionega............
Monroe.......... Monroe Female College............................................... 7............ Forsyth .7........... Morgan.......... Georgia Female College.............................................................. Madfson..............J
Newton.......... Emory College...........7................................................... Oxford..................
Randolph.... Southwest Geoigia Agricultural College................................ Cuthbert...............
Randolph.... Grange Male and Female College.... .7........................... Cuthbert...............
Richmond.... Medical College of Georgia...7............................................... Augusta................ Spalding.. .. Griffin Female College. .7................. ........................................ Griffin...................
Talbot........... Le Vert College.... .7..................................................... Talbotton.............
Taylor........... Butler Female'College and Male Institute............................ Butler.................... 'Ihomae.......... Young Female College............................... ............................ Thomasville........ Thomas......... South Gebrgia College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Thomasville........ Troup............. La Grange Female Oollege.7.................................................... LaGrange .......... Tronp............. Southern Female College........................................................... LaGrange........... . Whilheld.... Dalton Female Colleger......................................................... ... Dalton.7...........
9 14
8 6 4
8
6 6 10
12 12
15 6 9
3 8 5 8 6 6 9 4 81
13
7 4 4
5 4 9 12
5
9 195
14
8 55
5
4 103
8
6 40
6
10
12
12
101
15
65
6
80
9
8
8
5 53
8 254
6
6
9 171
4 190
6 50 10
18
72
7
4 88
4 31
5
4 177
9 16
12 18
5
190 200
67 98 56 100 189 175
150
161 65 42
67 76 107
68
80
105
71
88 112
*
106 148 123
885
200 55 C7
196 56 140
189 175 122 272
101 65
80 161 65 42 120
830 107 68
171 190 90 72
105 109
69 112
177 122
166 128
Totals.
186 1 46 232 1891 10 268 2344 150
122 4285
Animal Tuition Fees.
In Academic Course.
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NAME OF PRESIDING OFFICER.
Free. 860 oo
50 00
$100,666 60,000
W. L. Dudley, M. D., President. W. C. Bass, D. D.
50 00 60 00
50 00 40 00 40 00
9 00
$5000 '75 00 60 00
25 00 17 00 to 84 00
10 oo 60 00
60 00
25 00 $30 00 50 00
40 00
40 00 10 00
20 00 to 40 00
V. E. Manget.
50,000
I6i000
. Caldwell.
75`000
nojooo $5,000
io'ooo soiooo ...
'
5,500
sjooo ........ . W. Johnson.
1^200 15,000
25*000 5|ooo
4,.500
G. Hillyer, D. D.
R. T. Asbnry, A. M. rood, D. D.
18,000 10,600
.
ford, A. M.
35*000
e'ooo sjofio tojono 20'nnn ftjono
75,000 20j000
s'ooo
A. B. Niles, A. M. Rev. J. T. McLaughlin, A. M. John W. Dozier, A. M. John E. Baker, A. M. 2,000 O. D. Scott. Rev. J. R. Mayson, A. M. I. F. Cox, A. M. Rufns W. Smith, A. M.
$686,200 $26,600
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 26,1880.
To His Excellency, A. H. Colquitt;
Dear Sir--The apportionment of the School Fund of 1880
having just been completed, I have the honor to lay before you the result in the table which accompanies this.
With the greatest respect, Your obedient Servant,
(Signed)
GUSTAVUS J. ORR,
State School Commissioner.
TABLE No. 7. Apportionment of the School Fund of 1880. Amount to be
apportioned, $185,789.54.
Counties.
School Population and Confederate Soldiers under Thirty Years of Age.
Counties' PRO RATA.
Appling................ Baker...................... Baldwin............ Banks..................... Bartow................. Berrien................. Bibb........................ Brooks.................. Bryan.................... Bullock................. Burke...................... Butts....................... Calhoun.............. . Camden................ Campbell............. Carroll................... Catoosa...................... Charlton.............. Chatham............. Chattahoochee. Chattooga.......... Cherokee............. Clarke.................... Clay........................ Clayton..................... Clinch......................... Cobb............................... Coffee........... ............ Columbia................ Colquitt..................... Coweta.............. .. Crawford............. Dade........................ Dawson................ Decatur............... DeKalb..................... Dodge.................... Dooly.........................
1,069--Order
2,375- <( 4,087-- u
1,907-- u
5,611-- 1.8857,909-- 3,151--
843--
<(
a u u u
1,936-- 8,755-- 2,267-- 2,4991,860-- 2,890-- 6,240--
u a a u u a
u
1,662- ((
516-- a
10,949-- (i
1,657-- a
2,698-- u
3,903-- tt
2,358-- a 2,326-- <(
*2,297- <<
1,272-- it
6,987-- u
1,191-- a
2,238-- u
652-- u
6,063-- u
2,370-- u
1,190-- u
1,651-- <(
5,523-- it
4,266-- l.
1,248-- ft
2,965-- a
executed
it it it it it it it
a
it it it it t it it it it tf it ft it 41 14 it it it ft ft it tt ft ft tt it ft tf ft
Dec. 15, 1880 Nov. 2, 1880 Nov. 17,1880 Oct. 11, 1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Nov. 5,1880
Jan. 8, 1881 Nov. 13, 1880 Sept. 30, 1880 Dec. 22, 1880 Nov. 15,1880
Oct. 22, 1880 Sept. 21, 1880
Dec, 8, 1880 Oct. 1, 1880 Oct. 29,1880 Sept. 28, 1880 Oct. 6, 1880 Oct. 29, 1880 Oct. 12,1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Sept. 28,1880 Nov. 13,1880 Sept. 21, 1880 Oct. 4, 1880 Nov. 19, 1880 Oct. 11,1880 Oct. 23, 1880 Nov. 1, 1880 Oct. 18, 1880 Nov. 16, 1880 Dec. 6, 1880 Dec. 3,1880 Oct. 9,1880 Nov. 8, 1880 Sept. 30, 1880 Mar. 11, 1881 Nov. 4, 1880
$ 457 66 1,016 78 1,749 71 816 42 2,402 16 807 00 3,385 97 1,348 99 360 90 828 83 3,748 16 970 54 1,069 86 796 30 1,237 26 2,243 33 711 53 220 91 4,687 44 709 39 1,155 06 1,670 94 1,009 50 995 80 983 38 544 58 2,991 25 509 89 958 12 279 13 2,595 67 1,014 63 609 46 706 82 2,364 48 1,826 34 534 29 1,269 36
*The original of the order on Tax Collector of Clayton county having been loat or mislaid, a duplicate was issued on Nov. 29,1880.
SI
Countie*.
School Population and Confederate Soldier* under Thirty Tears of Age.
Countns>* PRO RJlTJL.
Dougherty......... Douglas................ Early...................... Echols................... Effingham........ Elbert..................... Emanuel............. Fannin.................. Fayette................. Floyd...................... Forsyth................. Franklin............. Fulton (Co,).... Atlanta (City). Gilmer...................
Glascock.............. Glynn..................... Gordon.................. Greene................... Gwinnett............ Habersham....... Hall........................ Hancock............. Haralson............. Harris....... .......... Hart....................... Heard.................. Henry................... Houston.............. Irwin...................... Jackson................. Jasper ................... Jetferson..............
Johnson............... Jones...................... Laurens................ Lee........................... Liberty.................. Lincoln................ Lowndes.............. Lumpkin............ Macon................... Madison.............. Marion.................. McDuffie............. McIntosh............ Meriwether....... Miller..................... Milton................... Mitchell.............. Monroe................. Montgomery... Morgan................ Murray.................
3,213--Order executed
11,708- if
44
2,141-- u
44
1,234- <1
44
1,526-- u
44
3,537-- (1
(4
2,614-- 44
44
2,479-- 44
44
3,010-- <
44
5,876- 44
44
2,693-- 44
2,924- 44
44
6,449-- 44
44
10,364- 44
44
2,912-- 44
44
956-- 4t
44
1,771-- 44
44
3,230-- 44
44
4,252- 44
44
4,604-- 44
44
2,387-- 44
44
3,969- 44
44
4,464- 44
44
1,576-- 44
44
6,001-- 44
44
3,019-- 44
44
2,733- 44
44
3,202-- 44
44
5,589-- 44
4
797-- 44
14
4,536-- 44
44
3,693 -- 44
44
4,600-- 44
44
1,253-- 44
44
2,709- 44
2,737-- 44
44
3,417-- 44
44
2,741-- 44
44
1,908- 44
44
3,089-- 44
4<
1,702-- i<
44
3,508- 4 *
44
1,699- 44
<<
3,734- 44
44
2,247-- 44
44
1,728-- 44
44
4,362-- <4
44
1,156- 44
44
1,584- <4
(4
3,014- 44
44
5,049-- 44
44
1,373-- 44
44
4,303-- 44
44
2,440- 44
44
Sept. 21J880 Sept. 21, 1880 Nov. 19, 1880
Dec. 9, 1880 Nov. 24,1880 Nov. 5, 1880 Nov. 26, 1880 Oct. 28, 1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Dec. 15, 1880 Dec. 16, 1880
Oct. 6, 1880 Nov. 1, 1880 Nov. 12, 1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Sept. 27, 1880 Jan. 5, 1881 Sept. 22, 1880 Mar. 10, 1881 Sept. 22, 1880 Oct. 25, 1880
Oct. 5, 1880 Nov. 23, 1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Sept. 28, 1870
Oct. 28, 1880 Sept. 27, 1880
Oct. 12, 1880 Nov. 16, 1880 Sept. 27, 1880 Sept. 27, 1681
Nov. 8, 1880 Nov. 17| 1880
Nov. 15, 188 Dec. 14, 1880 Oct. 23, 1880 Nov. 29, 1880 Nov. 20, 1880 Oct. 19, 1880 Oct. 15, 1880 Nov. 15, 1880 Dec. 11, 1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Nov. 24, 1880 Oct. 14, 1880 Nov. 29, 1880
Oct. 8, 1880 Nov. 1,1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Nov. 19, 1880 Oct. 19, 1880 Jan. 7,1881 Nov. 8, 1880
$1,375 54 731 22 916 60 528 30 653 31
' 1,514 25 1,119 10 1,06. 30 1,288 63 2,515 61 1,152 92 1,251 81 2,760 92 4,436 99 1,246 67 409 28 758 19 1,382 82 1,820 35 1,971 05 1,021 82 1,699 19 1,911 12 674 71 2,569 12 1,292 48 1,170 04 1,370 83 2,392 74 341 21 1,941 93 1,581 03 L969 33 536 43 1,159 77 1,171 75 1,462 87 1,173 47 816 85 1,322 45 728 65 1,501 83 727 37 1,598 59 961 98 739 78 1,841 75 494 90 678 14 1,290 34 2,161 56 587 80 1,842 18 1,044 60
fThis order returned and destroyed. New order executed In above case Nov. 13. 1880.
82
Counties.
School Population and Confederate Soldiers under Ihiny Yeais of .Age.
Counties* PRO RATA.
Muscogee (Co) Columbus(C'y Newton............... Oglethorpe........ Oconee................ Paulding............. Pickens................ Pierce.................... Pike........................ Polk........................ Pulaski................. Putnam................ Quitman.,........... Rabun .................. Randolph........... Richmond......... Rockdale.............
3,112-Order executed
2,863- (
n
3,511-- it
u
3,738-- (( 1,978-- c
n n
3,909-- t<
n
2,031-- ((
n
1,684-- (( 4.274-- ((
u ii
2,743-- U
ii
3,835 -- 3 586--
u ll
1,538-- u
n
.<
u
1,335-- 3,500--
u
ll
ii u
9,388-- 2,601--
ll ll
it n
Nov. 3, 1880 Dec. 29, 1880 Nov. 30, 1880 Sept. 22, 1880 Nov. 19, 188C Sept. 22, 18S( Sept. 28, 1880 Dec. 29, 1881
Oct. 9, 1880 Oct. 22, 1880 Dec. 10, 1880 Oct. 12, 1880 Sept. 28, 188 Nov. 9, 18 0 Sept. 22, 1880 Sept. 25, 180 Oct. 23, 1880
Schley.................. 1,489- ll
ii
Dec. 13, 1880
Screven................ 3,501-- It Spalding.............. 3,519- a
<<
Nov. 1, 1880
u
Oct. 22, 1880
Stewart................ 4,199-- a
u
Oct. 14, 1880
Sumter (Co.)... 4,711-- u
ll
Dec. 1, 1880
Americus(City
945-- a
li
Dec.. 29, 1880
Talbot.................... 4,288- ii
ll
Oct. 14, 1880
Taliafero............. 1,949- ii
li
Nov. 23, 1880
Tamall.................. 2.861- n
u
Nov. 16, 1880
Taylor.................. 1,853-- ii
l
Nov. 30. 1880
Telfair................
706- ii
it
Nov. 18, 1880
Terrell................... 3,380- n
n
Nov. 26, 1880
Thomas................ 6,060- a
ll
Oct. 11, 1880
Towns................... 1,035-- u
ll
Oct. 26, 1880
Troup..................... 6,083 -- u
ll
Nov. 18, 1880
Twiggs............... 2,739- n
u
Nov. 3, 18S0
Union.................... 2,054-- u Upson..................... 3,612-- t.
li
Nov. 26, 1880
ll
Oct. 8, 1880
Walker................. 3,177-- ii
ll
Sept. 28, 1880
Walton................. Ware......................
3,044-- 1,077 -
ii
ii
ll
Sept. 28, 1880
ll
Nov. ll, 1880
Warren................. 3,114-- n
ll
Sept. 28, 1880
Washington.... 5,383-- u Wayne.................. 1,397-- a
ll
.1
Oct. 19. 1880 Dec. 23. 1880
Webster............... 1,726- a
li
Oct. 14, 1880
White.................. 2,013- i.
ll
Dec. 1, 1880
Whitfield............ 3,166-- u
ll
Sept. 28, 1880
Wilcox.................
8S2- u
a
Nov. 13, 1880
Wilkes.................. Wilkinson......... Worth................
4,048-- u 2,959 - u
1,323- it
n
u
Nov. 16, 1880 Oct. 19, 1880
a
Nov. 13, 1880
11,332 30 1,225 70 1,103 12 1,60J 30 846 81 1,673 51 870 79 720 95 1,829 77 1,174 32 1,641 82 1,535 22 658 44 571 53 1,498 41 4,019 15 1,113 53 637 46 1,498 83 1,506 54 1,797 66 2,"16 85 404 57 1,845 76 834 40 1,224 84 793 30 302 25 1,447 03 2,594 33 443 10 2,604 23 1,172 61 879 35 1,546 35 1 360 12
1 303 19
461 08 1,333 15 2,304 55
598 08 738 93 874 64 1,355 42 377 60 1,733 0! 1,266 80 566 40
$185,789 54
'SCHOOL OFFICERS,
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
His Excellency, ALFRED H. COLQUITT, President. Hon. N. C. BARNETT, Secretary cf Slate. Hon. CLIFFORD ANDERSON, Attorney General. Hon. W- A. WRIGHT, Comptroller General. Hon. GUSTAVUS J. ORR, State School Commissioner.
'GU STATUS J. ORR, State School Oomtmssioner. MARK JOHNSTON, Clerk.
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
COUNTS'.
Appling.
NAME.
Danial McEacben,
Baker.................... - Thomas W. Fleming., Baldwin................... L. Carrington................. Banks........................ ThomasC. Chandler., Bartow..................... Rev. T. E. Smith........ Berrien..................... James F. Goodman.... Bibb............................ B. M. Zettler, Sup't... Brooks...................... Rev. W. B. Bennett.. Bryan......................... Henry L. Hamilton .. Bulioch.................... James S. Hagin............ Burke........................ Thomas M. Berrien.. Butts.......................... Eli E. Pound..................... "Calhoun.................. J. J. Beck........................... Camden................... F. M. Adams................... Campbell................ James H. Luck.............. Carroll....................... Samuel J. Brown......... Catoosa...................... Marcus D. Lansford.. Charlton.................. James A. Lowther. .. Chatham................. W. H. Baker, Sup't.. Chattahoochee... James Castleberry.... Chattooga.............. W. M. Henry................ Cherokee................. George I. Teasley .... Clarke....................... Rev. H. R. Bernard.
Clay............... ............ J. M. Hatchett, M.D Clayton..................... John M. Huie............... Clinch...................... H. D. O'Quinn.............. Cobb...................... ... W. R. Power,...............
TOST-OFFICE.
Pine Grove, 7J M. & B. R. R.
Newton. Milledgeville. Homer. Cartersville. Nashville. Macon. Quitman. Malden Branch. Fido. Waynesboro. Indian Spring. Morgan. St. Mary's. Fairburn. Carrollton. Ringgold. Traders' Hill. Savannah. Cusseta. Summerville. Canton.
Athens. Fort Gaines. Jonesboro. DuPont. Marietta.
60
COUNTV.
NAME.
POST-OITICI!.
Or-ffpp......................... William R. Tarrant.................. Hurricane.
Columbia................. Jerry T. Smith................................ Appling.
Colquitt.................... JTenrv Gav........................................ Moultrie.
Coweta...................... Daniel Walker........................... Newnan.
Crawford................. J. W. Blassingame.................... Knoxville.
Dade........................... E. B. Ketcherside....................... Rising Fawn.
Dawson................... John J. Bishop.............................. Dawsonville.
Decntur..................... J. E. Dickinson.............................. Bainbridge.
DeKalb..................... J. W. Kirkpatrick....................... Decatur.
Dodg'e........................ Charles R. Armstrong............. Eastman.
Dooly........................ Oliver V. ftwearipgen............... Vienna.
Dougherty............ L. E. Welch.................................... Albany.
Douglas.................. John.C. Bowden........................... Salt Springs.
Early.......................... Thomas F. Jones........................... Blakely.
Echols....................... William A. Ham...................... Staten ville. .
Effingham............. Samuel S. Pitman....................... Springfield.
Elbert........................ T. J. Bowman................................. Elberton.
Emanuel................. Joshua R. Rountree.................. Swainsboro.
Earmin..................... Adam Davenport,......................... Morganton,
Fayette..................... W. T. Glower................................. Fayetteville.
Floyd.......................... M. A. Nevin..................................... Rome.
Forsyth ................... Isaac S. Clement........................... Gumming.
Franklin................. L. K. Burruss................................. Carnesville.
Fulton...................... Jethro W. Manning.................. Atlanta.
City of Atlanta.. W. F. Slaton, Sup't................... Atlanta.
Gilmer...................... W. F. Hill.......................................... Mountain Town.
Glasscock............... E. B. Rodgers.................................. Gibson.
Glynn...................... H. A. Kenrick................................ Brunswick.
Gordon..................... J. H. Malone, M.D...................... Calhoun.
Greene...,............... J. M. Howell, M.D.................... White Plains..
Gwinnett................ Thomas E. Winn......................... Lawrenceville.
Habersham.
William D. Hill............................ Clarkesville.
Hall............................. Rev. Thomas P. Cleveland.. Gainesville.
Hancock................ W. H. Bass......................................... Sparta.
Haralson................. Jonathan Williams................... Buchanan.
Harris ...................... William H. Spence..................... Hamilton.
Hart,.......................... C. W. Seidell..*................................. Hartwell.
Heard....................... John J. Bledsoe............................ Franklin.
Henry................ ... David Knott...................................... McDonough.
Houston.................. William F. Killen........................ Perry.
Irwin......................... Wiley Whitley, Jr........................ Irwinville.
-Taokson.................. G. J. N- Wilson.............................. Jefferson.
Jasper....................... W. R. Berner................................... Monticello.
Jefferson................. Rev. D.G.Phillips, D.D............ Louisville.
Johnson ................. James Hicks...................................... Wrightsville.
Jones.......................... A. H. S. McKay............................ Clinton.
Tianrens.................. Rev. W. S. Ramsay.................... Dublin.
T iPp.............................. Henry L. Long.............................. Leesburg.
T liberty..................... Benjamin Darsey......................... Hinesville.
T lineoln.................. H J Dang.......................................... Lincolnton.
T lOwndes................. J. H. Zant............................................ Valdosta.
Tiiimpkin................ Rufus H. Baker.............................. Dahlonega.
TVT a eon....................... J. T. Gardner................................. . Oglethorpe.
Madison.................. Rev. Thos. J. Adams................. Danielsville.
Marion..................... Rev. W. A. Singleton................ Buena Vista. MeDiiffie................ R. H. Pearce.....7............................. Thomson.
McIntosh............... D. Wyatt Aiken........................ . Darien.
61
>8.
NAJttE.
PQST-OFPSCE.
-ther_____
.ton....................... titchelL_.............. -Monroe................... . Montgomery..... Morgan.................. Murray.............. Muscogee.............. Columbus (City) JNewton................... Oeonee_................... Oglethorpe........... Paulding................. Pickens..................... Pierce....................... PolkTM............... . . Pike............................ I 'ulaski...................... Pu.tnam............ ..... Quiitman................ Babum._................... Rando Iph.............. Richmo>nd______ _ Rockdale................ Schley......................... Screven.TM............. Spalding............ . Stewart.................... Sumter....................... Amerieus .(C ity) Talbot._____ _ _____ Taliaferro............... TalnaH......... .......... TaylorTM...... ............ Telfair......................... Terrell......................... Thomas....... ............. TownsTM.................... Troup.......... .............. West Pt (f 'ity). Twiggs....................... Union......................... Upson......................... Walker..................... Walton...................... Ware..................... . Warren.................... Washington........ Wayne-.................... Webster................ White....................... . Whitfield................ Wilcox-................. Wilkes-............. .... Wilkinsot a............. WorthTM....................
Robert M. McCaslin................... Peter C. Wilkin, M.D............... G. M. Hook........................................ James H_ Powell........................... Rev. Thos. G. Scott-........... . John L. Matthews........................ W. H. Cocroft.................................. Rev. S. H. Henry.............-.......... Samuel Jessup............................... Geo. M. Dews, Supt....................
William B. Haygood................ Thomas. H. Doaier..................... W. W. Reynolds.________ _ Jas. R. Allen (CL S. CL elect) Andrew B. Estes_______ _____ T. Jj. Pittman.................................. A. P. Turner-...................... -____ Rev. Geo. R. McCall____ ..... Joseph B. Reese-................... . J. EL Smithi......................... ............ Lafayette Wall.................... M. C. Edwards................................ Benj. Xeely. .................................. J. Cl Barton..................................
W. D. Murray.................................. W. L. Matthews, M.D......... J. O. A. Miller........................ ....... Loverd Bryan.................................... William A. Wilson....... ............ John Neeley, Supt.................... O. D. Gorman.................................. Henry D. Smith........................... John Hughey...................... ............. Rev. A. M. Rhodes...................... John D. Wynne............................. L. M. Leonard................... ........... O. D. Scott.......................... ........... W. R. McConnell...... ... ............ John EL Toole_________ ....... A, P. Mooty, Supt------ ------ J. A. Barclay, Jr........................ Thos. J. Butt................. .............. Augustus J. King........ ................ A. G. Bryan...... ................................ A. J. Burruss............................. . a. Burrell Sweat....... ........................... A. S. Morgan................................... H. N. Hollifield, M. D______ W. H. Roberson............................. J. R. Stapleton................................. Geo. K. <iuillian_......................... John H. Bitting...........................
John A. Tomberlin.................... Rev. EL T. Simpson..................... William S. Baker........................... Robert T. Ford................................
Luthersville. Colquitt Alpharetta. Camilla. Forsyth. Mount Vernon. Madison. Beaver Dale. Columbus. Columbus.
Watkinsvilie.
Winterville. Dallas. Jasper. Blackshear. Cedar Town. Milner. Hawkinsville. Eaton ton. Hatcher's Station Clayton. Cuthbert. Augusta. Conyers. EUaville. Sylvania. Sunny Side. Lumpkin. Amerieus. Amerieus. Talbotton. PoweMton. Reidsville. Butler. Jacksonville. Dawson. Thomasville. Hiwassee. LaGrange. West Point Bullard's. Blairs ville. Thomaston. Water ville. Monroe. Waycross. Warren ton. Sandersville. Jessup. Preston. Cleveland. Dalton. Abbeville. Washington. Irwinton. Isabella.
NOTE.
It w'll be observed that a mistake has been made in the paging of the Statistical Tables of 1880. The printer supposed that these tables were lo take the place of the Statistical Tables of 1879, and paged accordingly.