REPORT
OF THE
OlA
OF GEORGIA
TO THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
SUBMITTED IN NOVEMBER, 1888, AND COVERING THE
EDUCATIONAL OPERATIONS OF
1887 AND 1888.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
W. J. Campbell, State Printeb, Constitution Job Office, 1888.
Office of State School Commissioner,
Ateanta, Ga., November 1, 1888. His Excellency Gov. John B Gordon,
My Dear Sir:--I herewith submit to you the Biennial Report due from this office to the General Assembly, and beg you to present it to that body.
I am, with sentiments of the highest regard, Your obedient servant,
Jas. S. Hook,
State School Comm.for the State of Georgia,
REPORT
Office of State School Commissioner,
Atlanta, Ga., November 1, 1888.
Senators and Representatives of the People of Georgia, in General Assembly met:
By the appointment of his Excellency, Gov. John B. Gordon, I assumed the duties of the office of State School Commissioner for the State of Georgia, on the 21st day of December, 1887.
My distinguished predecessor, Dr. G. J. Orr, long ident ified with the educational interests of this State, and for near sixteen years specially in charge of this department as State School Commissioner, died with his armor on, falling like a true and valiant soldier at his post. His was a life consecrated to noble and untiring efforts to advance the educational interests of Georgia, and he may be said to have sacrificed himself to the behests of duty, striving ever, as he did, with exalted purpose, unfaltering zeal and untiring energies to meet the onerous labors of his office and secure for the people who confided to him the honor able trust, the highest attainable moral and intellectual development and advancement. He has left the bright impress of his noble work upon the public school system of Georgia. By virtue of his office he was a member of the State Board of Education and its chief executive officer. That Board, as you know, is composed of the Governor of the State as its president, the Secretary of*State, the Comp troller-General, the Attorney-General and the State School Commissioner. It seems appropriate that the action of that Board, when it met to give expression to the universal sorrow his loss to the State had occasioned, and pay its own
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tribute to his memory, should here be presented, and thus be made to occupy a permanent place in the archives of the State, thus to stand as a testimonial to his exalted worth,, his noble patriotism and his high usefulness. I therefore transcribe here a copy of those proceedings in memoriam, as taken from the records in my office, and leave to an appreciative public in its own good time to rear to the memory of this able and faithful old public servant a more durable and enduring monument.
[The proceedings in memoriam will appear at the end of this report.]
The following table, which has appeared in several pre ceding Reports of this Department, with the additions nec essary to bring it down to date, is reproduced in this. It exhibits in one view the progress of our public schools from their inauguration in 1871 down to the close of 1887 :
Table showing the enrollment in our public schools and increase in enrollment, the average attendance and increase in average attendance from theyear 1871 to the year 1887, inclusive.
(Average at tendance. Increase
over preced ing year.
YEAR.
ENROLLMENT.
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Increase
White. Colored.! Total. over pre-
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c'd'ng year
1871................. 1872* .... 1873 ................. 1874 ................. 1875 ................. 1876 ................. 1877 ................. 1878 ................. 1879 ................. 1880................. 1881................. 1882 ................. 1883 ................. 1884 ................. 1885 ................. 1886 ................. 1887 .................
42,914 6,664 49.578
63,922 93,167 105,990 121,418j 128,296 137,217 147,192 150,134 153,156 161,377 175^668 181,355 190,346 196,852 208,865
19,755 42,374 50,385 57,987 62,330 72,655 79,435 86,399 91,041 95,055 111,743 110,150 119,248 122,872 133,429
83,677 135,541 156,375 179,405 190,626 209,872 226,627 236,533 244,179 256,432 287,411 291,505 309,594 319,724 342,294
34,099 51,864 20,834 23,030 11,221 19,246 16,755
9.906 7,646 12,253 30,979 4,094 18,079 10,130 22,570
85,839
98,029 12,190 108,646 10,617 119,160 10,514 180,605 11,445 130,565 t . 145,190 14,625 149,908 4,718 164,180 14,272
188,371 24,191 195,035 6,664 209,184 H.149 226,407 17,228
226,290 t
* No public schools were put in operation is 1872.
-j- The report of average attendance for 1879 was not full.
1 There is a decrease in average attendance as compared with 1886 of 117.
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PEE CENTUM OF ENROLLMENT IN 1887.
In 1887 the enumeration of 1882 was, under the law, still in use for the apportionment of the State school fund. The figures were as follows :
White, 265,548 ; colored, 243,174 ; total, 508, 722. It would seem that the figures shown by the enumeration of 1888 are much nearer the truth for the year 1887 than those of 1882. Hence, they are used in the following estimate. The return of 1888 gives the following as the school population : white, 292,624; colored, 267,657 ; white and colored, 560,281. The enrollment for 1887 was, white, 208,865 ; colored, 133,429 ; total, 342,294. These figures give the following ,as the per centum of attendance that year, viz.: white, 71.34-; colored, 49.4-f-; white and colored, 61 per centum.
STATEMENT OF THE SCHOOL FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PURPOSE OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.
The fund 1887 appropriated--
Half rental W. & A. Railraad.................................................... Dividends on Georgia Railroad stock....................................... Tax on shows.................................................................................. Liquor tax........................................................................................... Hire of convicts.............................................................................. Decs for inspecting fertilizers....................................................
$150,000.00 1,860.00 4,932.95
60,060.27 17,184.37 75,284.00
Total............................................................................................... $309,321.59
Expenses of this office, printing, etc., etc.................................
4,500.98
Total sum apportioned....................................................
$304,820.61
The net yield of the poll tax was................................................ 184,187.93
Total amount placed in the hands of the county and city school authorities................................................................. $489,008.54
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SCHOOL FUND OF 1888.
The exhibit for 1888 corresponding to the foregoing, as
far as the same can be made, is as follows:
Half rental of W. & A. R. R........................................................... $150,000.00
Dividends on GeorgiaRailroad stock..........................................
1,906.50
Tax on shows, etc..............................................................................
3,909.70
Liquor tax................................................................................................ 65,392.20
Hire of convicts....................................................................................... 18,867.77
Fees for inspecting fertilizers............................................................. 94,115.1$
Total................. ..............................................................................$334,191.35
Expenses of this office, printing blanks, etc.................
4,077.62
Total sum apportioned.............................................................$330,113.73
The poll tax will probably be about the same as in 1887.
WHAT THE ENTIRE SUM RAISED BY THE STATE AND BY
CITIES AND COUNTIES UNDER LOCAL LAWS PAYS
PER CAPITA.
Gross sum raised by the State in 1887 ....................................... $493,509.52 Raised by counties and cities under local laws...................... 302,477.74
Total................................................................................................$795,987.26
Taking again, tor the reason heretofore given, the school population of this year and the enrollment and average attendance of 1887, the same being, respectively, 560,281, 342,294 and 226,290, a simple calculation will show that the foregoing fund paid that year a, per capita
On school population of........................................................................... $1 42 On enrollment of........................................................................................ *2 32. On average attendance of....................................................................... 3 51.7
WHAT THE GROSS STATE SCHOOL FUND OF 1887 PAID PER
CAPITA.
The gross State school fund for that year, the school pop ulation, enrollment and average attendance being as named above, the per capita paid was as follows :
On school population...................................................................................$0 88 On enrollment................................................................................................. 1 44.1 On average attendance.................................................................................2 18
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WHAT THE NET STATE SCHOOL FUND OF 1887 PAID PEE
CAPITA.
The gross State fund in 1887 was, as stated, $493,509.52. Take from this expenses of the
Office printing, &c., &c................................................$ 4,500.98 Gross sum paid County and School Commissioners 25,051.19
$ 29,552.17 Net school fund.................................................................................. $463,957.35'
This sum ($463,957.35) is the sum that may fairly be said to have been expended in paying for the teaching of the children. Using the same figures for school population, enrollment and average attendance, the per capita paid directly for teaching the children was :
On school population................................................................................. $0 82.8 On enrollment.................................................................................................1 35.5 On average attendance............................................................................... 2 05
COST OF OPERATING THE SCHOOL SYSTEM IN 1 887.
Expenses of this office..........................................................................$ 4,500.98 Sum paid the County School Commissioners.............................. 25,051.19
Total....................................................................................................$29,552.17
The gross State appropriation in 1887 being $493,509.52, the total expense as given above is only 5.98 per centum of this gross appropriation.
WHAT AMOUNT OF FUNDS IT WOULD REQUIRE TO KEEP THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN OPERATION FOR ANY GIVEN NUMBER OF MONTHS.
To meet a question frequently presented to this depart ment by citizens deeply interested in the success of the educational system of the State, to-wit: " What amount of funds it would require to keep the public schools in opera tion for any given number of months?" I give here my predecessor's answer, as found in his last report, on pages 6 and 7:
Our Constitution limits what maybe taught in our country schools to "the elementary branches of an English education." The school law
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provides for teaching spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography and English grammar. This provision of law may be considered as a legislative interpretation of the Constitution. If anything above these branches should be taught in a school, the teaching must be paid for by the parents of the children thus taught. One teacher can readily teach and govern a school of forty-live pupils. Experience shows that an enrollment of forty-live pupils will make an average attendance of thirty. One dollar per capita on average attendance would pay the teacher thirty dollars per month. When it is considered that the elementary branches only are to be paid for, that women are at present, in large numbers, doing the teaching, and that the pay would be certain, I think it will be admitted that the wages named would secure compe tent teachers. Of course, teachers with better qualifications, who teach higher branches, could increase their compensation by charging the patrons for the higher branches. Now, the average attendance last year was, in round numbers, 210,000, and with our present school population, this is known to be a reasonable average. From these data it may be safely assumed that--
"$210,000 would sustain the schools one month. $420,000 would sustain the schools two months. $630,000 would sustain the schools three months. $840,000 would sustain the schools four months. $1,050,000 would sustain the schools five months. $1,260,000 would sustain the schools six months.
"The foregoing estimate makes no allowance for operating the system. This, as has been shown in another place, is at present very small. With the increase of the fund the duties of the County School Commis sioners would be heavier, and the responsibility of holding and disbursing funds would be greater, and consequently it would be necessary to increase their compensation. This increase, however, need not be. and would not be, in proportion to the increase in the fund.''
In considering the foregoing, it must be borne in mind that it is based upon the figures reported as the average attendance in the year 1885. As will be seen the latest fig ures now attainable give an average attendance of 226,290, or an increase over 1885 of, say, 16,290. The matter is left therefore where Dr. Orr left it, with the data for a later calculation furnished the reader.
PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE STATE.
It will appear in the table under the above head appended to this report, that one hundred and four high schools were
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reported in 1887, from forty-seven counties, viz: Banks, Bartow, Bibb, Cherokee, Clay, Columbia, Coweta, Craw ford, Dawson, DeCalb, Dodge, Early, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Gilmer, Greene, Gwinnett, Heard, Henry, Hous ton, Jackson, Jasper, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, McDuffie, Meriwether, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Ogle thorpe, Pike, Schley, Screven, Tattnall, Taylor, Twiggs, Upson, Walker, Walton, Warren, Washington, White, Wilcox and Wilkes.
Hence, there were ninety counties from which no High Schools were reported.
PRIVATE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
The table of these schools shows for 1887, the foilwing : Number of schools, 718 ; number of instructors, 804 ; num ber of pupils, white males, 10,872 ; white females, 10,379 ; colored males, 2,978; colored females, 3,219 ; total white, 21,271 ; total colored, 6,197 ; total white and colored, 27,468. Reports were received from fifty-six counties, leav ing eighty-one unreported. It is a matter of regret that the teachers in these private high schools and private ele mentary schools do not send in their reports as requested. This is very valuable information which this office ought to be in possession of, and be able to furnish others who have often made inquiries.
THE COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM OF GEORGIA.
Whatever the opposition to the common, or public, school system in the past, it may now be said to be well nigh universally favored. The experience of other States and nations as well as our own, has made popular the golden theory, that the great end of all human government is to teach men to govern themselves, and that therefore, it is the duty of the governments to provide systems of public educa tion, and to place them under wise and wholesome super" vision for the benefit of all. We speak of the wealth of
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nations, and in doing so we we refer generally to their salubrious climes, their fertile soils, the rich minerals, ores, marble and other elements of wealth imbedded in the bosom, or found on the surface of mother earth ; but the world has come to understand that these material resources are at last and at best, of the earth earthy, they perish with the using and that as to them, the earth may be said to be their womb and their tomb, while the mind of a nation or state is its highest, brightest, best and most enduring wealth, which perishes not but survives the decay of matter. The statesman and the patriot, he who is so not in name only, but in fact, feels and recognizes this to be a great fundamental truth and concedes as the inevitable logical sequence that if mind be so valuable a part of a State's wealth and resources, education by the government becomes a matter of greatest concern and supreme patriotic obligation. If it be conceded that ignorance and vice are evils from which the people are to be shielded, it follows indisputably that the intellectual and moral improvement of all the mind in the State or nation is a high duty devolv ing upon them, the disregard of which would be wholly inexcusable. I respectfully submit in view of the premises, that that government is recreant to the legitimate ends of its creation which does not make the education of every child within its borders an object of vital and primary concern. But these views need neither argument, elaboration nor illustration to give them wright and influence with your body. Georgia has long felt their truth and force and her wise and patriotic legislators and statesmen in the past have given much thought, and devised from time to time various policies designed to meet, as best might be done, her high obligation in this behalf. Indeed the civilized states and nationalities of the world have reached with fixed confidence and now boldly assert four propositions concerning this whole subject of education, with so much earnestness and such unhesitating definiteness that they cannot longer be
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considered open questions, to-wit: 1st. Education of its citizens or subjects is the imperative high duty and obliga tion of every form of government. 2nd. Suitable school houses, properly ventilated and heated to meet the con stantly increasing demand, must be built, keeping steadily in view in their construction, the conditions of roominess, comfort and convenience, as well as the health of the teach ers and pupils. 3d. An adequate supply of good and competent teachers to conduct the schools, who must be paid ample compensatiou. 4th. Governments must raise and furnish the means to compass these important ends, so vital to human progress and happiness, either by taxation or otherwise. The advanced civilized nations and States have assumed that the education of man, morally, physically and intellectually (thus developing into a harmonious whole his trinity of being) is a duty aud obligation resting on all governments of the highest importance. They claim that education alone can fit men appropriately for the responsible duties of life and elevate them to that lofty plane of intel lectual and moral excellence,- where alike, the behests of nature, and reason, and the voice of God invite them to stand. They claim that it has been fully demonstrated that in no other way can the animal propensities of mankind, which, unguided, crop out in savagery and barbarism, be subordinated to and ruled by the loftier and more ennobling elements of man's higher being. They contend, and righttu'ly, that it is the office of education to civilize the man as he is found in a state of nature, and that, there fore, genuine civilization means taking the reins from the hands of the carnal man with his savage appetites and brutal tendencies and placing them in the hands of the intellectual and spiritual man---`The man within the man"-- to be controlled by all his loftier impulses and God-given aspirations. In fine, it is claimed that in education is found the Archimedean lever and standing place, by which, and from whence, the world is to he prized up and lifted out
from the depths and bondage of ignorance, superstition, vice, poverty and every form of degrading and galling slavery, and made to stand forth redeemed, intelligent, prosperous, happy, progressive and free. Of course, this being accepted as the exalted function and noble mission of education the three other propositions, stated above, covering comfortable and suitable school houses, good and competent teachers and ample means to meet the necessary outlay, flow as logical sequences aud are everywhere accepted as such by the cul tivated brain and heart of the world. So far as our State history in reference to education discloses, the principal trouble here in the way of State aid for many long years, had its origin in the adjustment of the modus operandi and not in any spirit of opposition to the principle and policy. From our earliest existence as a State, the need and vast importance of general education was felt and in various ways, and though very able, distinguished and influential sources fully declared. The free school and poor school systems of the past, though doubtless well intended by their projectors, were found to be failures for several reasons, but chiefly because of the honest and just pride of honorable poverty, which naturally felt sensitive over the line of distinction thus drawn between the children of the rich and the children of the poor. No system could be effective and popular that excluded the sensitive poor from its benefits. This feeling, as it existed under those systems, was recog nized and commended fifty years ago in a message of one of the Governors of the State. Governor Schley in his message of 1837, said :
"The great cause of education deserves your fostering care. About forty thousand dollars are now annually distributed to the Counties, and constitute what are denominated the `Academic and Poor School Funds.' This system is believed to he radically defective. There should be no such designation as `Academic' and `Poor School,' be cause they are invidious and insulting. Poverty, though a great incon venience, is no crime, and it is highly improper, whilst you offer to aid the cause of education, to say to a portion of the people you `are poor.' Thousfinds of freemen who, though indigent, are honest, patriotic and
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valuable eitizei]*; will refu.se your bounty and despise the hand that offers it, because it is accompanied with insult.
"These funds should be consolidated under the title of `Education Fund,* and applied to the uses of primary schools, teaching only the rudiments of an English education.
*
********
N one but an educated people can preserve the liberty and happiness vouchsafed to us by the blood and treasure expended by our forefathers, and therefore the Lugislature should extend, as far as possible, the means of intellectual improvement to the whole mass of the community. Too much ought not to be attempted, but it is believed that, a great deal of good may be done by distributing the money set apart for education, to the different counties, to be applied for the use of common schools, at which all may be taught for a portion, at least, of everv year. A sys tem of this kind is in successful operation in some of the States, and will, if adopted here, it is hoped, effect the great object of the Constitu tion in regard to education."
As you see, Gov. Schley referred to the fact that a system of common schools was already in successful operation in some of the States of this Union. Pardon a moment's digression while I state what I believe to be true : that the honor of inaugurating the public school system, whereby education was given gratuitously to all, and made open to all classes of society alike, belongs to Prussia, a country wholly differing from ours in its institutions, which call for and recognize class distinctions when men and women come to take their places on the active stage of life. And let it be mentioned to her distinguished credit, that according to the latest European census table that has fallen under my eye, her school facilities were the best, and her standard of education the highest, of any of the states composing the German Empire. If this were the appropriate occasion and time permitted, it might be shown that this wise sys tem of bringing the children of all classes into school rela tionship, is doing much in that country for the silent but steady growth of liberal and enlightened views in behalf of popular constitutional liberty and free government. Some of the New England States first followed the bright exam ple, and now most all of our States and Territories have
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adopted the common school system, which means that they intend to educate all their children, and pay for it out of a public school fund to be raised by taxation, or otherwise. But to return: Other Governors, as well as many other, of our distinguished men, felt the necessity for a new sys tem which would entirely supplant the old plans and remove all barriers and all sources of iiritation growing out of differences in the financial circumstances of the pupils who attended the schools. If time and space per mitted, I would quote freely from many of them, from the early days of our State Government down to 1861, when the war between the States occurred, but I must only notice a few, and give short extracts from each. Gov. Towns, in his message to the General Assembly, in 1851, said:
"There is in the human heart a feeling of approbation and security in systems of education, as well as others that are based upon equal rights; while the opposite feeling of repugnance and mistrust springs up for that munificence that degrades the objects of its care by odious distinc tions. The poor parent may desire to see his child educated, and feel himself unable to furnish the means, but he does not wish to be pointed at as an improvident father who, from folly or crime, is unable to dis charge this duty to his child, and, again, the generous, high-souled youth would sooner go his way in ignorance through life than to enter the school-room to be taunted and jeered at by his fellows as a charity scholar. False as may be deemed this pride, it is a part of the nature of man, and if it is the design of your policy to be useful your education must be general, and every difficulty removed, as far as possible, to the cohsummation of this object. You must invite, encourage, and induce parents to discharge their duty to their children in this respect. You cannot, and ought not, to force them. But all disgrace, real or imag inary, all inequality between the rich and the poor is swept away, the moment your system of education is common to all."
Hon. Thomas R. R. Cobb, one of Georgia's greatest law yers, and one of the most learned and brilliant writers and orators of his day, as chairman of a committee composed, beside himself of the following eminent and honored names : Solomon Cohen, D. E. Butler and Greene B. Haygood, in an earnest and able memorial presented by them to the Georgia Legislature, at the request of the Southern Central
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Agricultural Society, at a session of that body, held in Atlanta before the war, used the following language :
" It can never reach a large number of children whose parents, too poor to pay, are too proud to take charity. This class is large, and will be as long as the spirit of freedom burns stronglypn their breasts. We will not amplify. We call upon your own observation for proof." * * *
"What, then, is our want? A system which shall remedy these defects, avoiding others. A school to which the children of the poorest citizen shall be sent, without submitting parent or child to the jeer of pauperism. A teacher who shall be able to impart solid and useful instruction, suffi cient to prepare our youth for the active business- of life. School houses which shall awaken a feeling of pride in every neighcorhood, and cause the richest to feel that no private teaching can afford equal advantages to the common school; and thus bring together, on a common platform, the children of all classes of our communities. To effect these objects, we must have free public schoools in every school district in Georgia. In the language of our resolution, this is the only hope of ever securing the great end. So universal is the admission that this is an object devoutly to be wished, if practicable, that we will not tax you with fur ther argument to show this to be our great want."
Another distinguished committee, composed of Hon. David A. Reese, Dr.-Alonzo Church and Bishop George F. Pierce, was appointed (by an educational convention held in 1851 in Marietta, a body noted at the time for the very large array of learned, able and patriotic Georgians who composed it, and presided over by that highly accomplished scholar and able jurist, the Hon. Eugenius A. Nisbet) to address the people of Georgia on the subject of the adop tion of the common school system. And most faithfully and ably did they perform the duty assigned them. The address, while the joint work of all three, is supposed to have been written out by that great and loved divine of sacred memory, the late Bishop Pierce. The address is full of valuable thoughts, arguments and suggestions, but I quote only on the point now before me. These occurrences of conventions and reports of committees, looking to and asking for a better system of education for the State, which are now being considered, were from the years 1851 to 1860, inclusive. This able committee, among other things, said:
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" Thus we believe that we have demonstrated that the present system has not and cannot answer the objects of general education or the eduucation of the poor, and that it should be superceded by another. We believe that Georgia should profit by the experience of other States (the experience argument is worth all others in this matter) and adopt at once the system of `Common Schools,' discountenancing the odious dis tinction of poor children, which has kept so many at home, and in ignorance, and adopting the name of ` Common Schools ' for all the children of the State. This was the opinion of the convention, in which the committee fully concur."
In a message to the General Assembly, in 1858, Senator Brown, then Governor of Georgia, said, in that clear, strong and forcible style peculiar to him :
" With the gradual increase of the fund proposed, it is not doubted that the wisdom of our State would, from time to time, improve our present defective system till it would be so perfected as to afford the. advantages of an education to all, or nearly all, the children of the State. Let the teachers be paid by the State, and let every free white child in the State have an equal right to attend and receive instruction in the public school. Let it be a Common School, and not a poor school system. Let the children of the richest and the poorest parents in the State meet in the school room on terms of perfect equality of right. Let there be no aristocracy there hut an aristocracy of color and of conduct. In other words, let every free white child in Georgia, whose conduct is good, stand upon an equality of right with any and every other one in the school room. In this way the advantages ,of education might be gradually diffused among the people, and many of the noblest intellects in Georgia, now bedimmed by poverty and not developed for want of an education, might be made to shine forth in all their splendor, blessing both church and State by their noble deeds."
I will add one more quotation here, not only because it proceeded from one of Georgia's greatest sons, Hon. H. V. Johnson, but because of its eloquent tribute to the genius, power and high office of education, suggesting as the fruits of its mighty work a grand picture of the future, causing us to feel, as we look down the vista and contemplate coming great developments that, to use the language of our present gifted and brilliant Governor in his inaugural address of 1886, "we can already lay our. fingers upon the pulse of the coming century and
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feel the swelling current rushing through its distended veins and gathering momentum with each passing decade."
After showing " the importance of a system of public education to enlighten the intellects and moralize the hearts of the masses," Governor Johnson proceeded as follows:
"Education is the friend of the State. It will elevate the people. It will diminish crime, and the expense of executing the laws. It will prize out the poor from the mire into which innocent poverty has sunk them, and place them on an intellectual equality with the favored sons of fortune. It will dig from the mire many an unpolished gem to glit ter in the crown of cultivated society. It will stimulate enterprise and direct its energies to profitable objects. It will dignify labor and open new channels for capital. It will disinter the mineral wealth of the State and add millions to the productions of agriculture. It will bring into the field of science an array of mind that will adorn our escutcheon and dazzle the world by its achievements. In a word, Georgia must fail of her great mission without the adoption of a wise and comprehensive educational policy. Away, then, with that narrow stinginess which begrudges a dollar to such a cause, while it is often wasteful of thousands upon objects that possess little or no merit."
We can but feel, after hearing this eloquent appeal, com ing to us uow as it were from the tomb, in behalf of educa tion, that the line of duty lies not only in giving heed to his voice, now hushed in death, but to that of our present Governor, when in the same inaugural address, speaking of our duty to Georgia, he said :
"Let the broadest and most practical education of her children, he an object of universal concern."
At last, after long and wearisome years of patriotic effort and anxious hope and of ineffectual schemes tried, but to be abandoned, the common school system came to be adopted, and notwithstanding our adverse and depressed circumstances after the war, the wisdom of it has been fully vindicated by the auspicious results for which we are largely indebted to the late Dr. Orr. By looking back to the tables furnished by the Hon. David W. Lewis, in his valuable compilation of educational effort and experiment in Georgia before and to the year 1860, and comparing
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them with the tables appended to this report, you will at once note the difference of progress since the establishment of the new system. It will appear that the number of those in the State of Georgia who could not, in the year 1880, either read or write, to-wit 128,000 white over 10 years of age, and 392,000 colored over same age must by ihis time have been very largely diminished as a result of the largely increased attend ance upon the schools. I regret that we cannot now furnish tables of this present years educational transactions as fully as we could desire, because many of the schools are now in progress and reports cannot be given until the close of the scholastic year. The only tables for the year 1888 are those relating to the enumeration of school population, and the apportionment of the school fund. But reference to the tables that are here furnished, with appropriate captions lo indicate their contents, will greatly aid you in arriving at Tour own conclusions as to the present status and future prospects of the cause, and nw.ke it unnecessary for me to comment and explain at any considerable length.
These tables have been prepared with care and much painstaking and I trust will prove of much value by fur nishing a source of desirable information for convenient reference to the people of Georgia and you their chosen and accredited representatives. ' Now that our State, after years of anxious solicitude in behalf of popular education, has reached and adopted an educational system of perfect equality, adapted to the wants and conditions of all, without grating upon the sensibilities or wounding the just pride of any--a system full of wisdom and designed to give every child in the State, rich or poor, white or colored, a liberal elementary education, the grave question, how shall this system be sustained and made to dispense its untold and unspeakable blessings to our whole people and to coming generations, presents itself at the threshold and demands wise legislative solution and
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prompt action. I doubt not that a body of Senators and Representatives so able and patriotic as those now convened in General Assembly in the capitol of our great and beloved State of Georgia will meet this momentous question with an intelligence high as the exalted merits of the theme, and a courage as fearless as the demand for the proper culture and elevation of the children of the State now submitted to your legislative care and guardianship, is urgent and important. Therefore, what I may say or propose on the subject will be purely suggestive, and most respectfully and with pro found deference submitted to your better judgment. You come fresh from the people, and far better understand their wants and their opinions on this vital and all-absorbing question than I do, or can. Nor do I doubt for one moment that your action, whatever it may be, will be in harmony with what you shall conceive to be the best interests of your respective constituencies and of the w'hole State.
That our schools should be taught for a longer term than three months, we all feel and know. I am of the.opinion that they ought to be taught for six months. This would still leave ample time for those scholars who must work a part of the year in the several departments of labor in which they find employment. But you most naturally ask, where is the large amount of money to come from to accomplish this admitted good and desirable end? With becoming diffidence, I trust, I submit the following sugges tions : According to Dr. Orr's, calculation, already given (made in his last report upon the data then before him), it will take $1,260,000, and this estimate does not include the cost of operating the system, which would of course be something greater than now, in consequence of the increased fund to be distributed and the increase of labor and responsibility of County School Commissioners, who are the officers charged with this duty. Their compensa tion, as a matter of course, ought to be somewhat increased, as doubtless their bonds would be. The report of our able
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and efficient Comptroller-General shows that in the last ten years the taxable property of Georgia has increased $122,207,910, or 53 per cent.
All property on the digest, and including railroad prop erty, foots up to September 30th of this year, $357,167,458,
A tax of one-tenth of 1 per cent, would raise.......................... $357,167.00 Add to this the net school.fund after deducting expenses . . 330,113.73 Add also the poll tax, say, in round numbers.......................... 185,000.00
This would give a total of........................................................ $873,280.73
Or something o'rer $25,000 more than Dr. Orr's calcula tion shows would run the schools for four months. It may be the people would not be willing to accept a larger tax than this at this time. If they would, then the additional assessment of only a half mill more would furnish a school fund of $1,050,803, or slightly more than the amount it would take, according to Dr. Orr, to run the schools five months. And, of course, all the needed amount could be raised by a two-mill assessment. But, if this method shall be deemed inadvisable and impracticable now, .1 have other views to submit.
And, first, I claim that of right the whole income from the State road belongs to the school fund of Georgia. The committee, composed of Reese, Church and Pierce, heretofore quoted for another purpose, make the following statements, which are sustained by the facts of history in this regard :
"The State of Georgia, by her legislature, at different periods, has appropriated as an educational fund (exclusive of specific appropriations to different counties) more than one million dollars in hank stock, including one-third of the surplus revenue received from the treasury of the United States, which was three hundred and fifty thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars. Of all this vast amount, in 1843, there remained only $262,000 in hank stock, which, at this time, con stitutes the State educational fund. The interest upon which, about $20,000, is distributed through the State for the benefit of the poor children. As far back as 1836, forty thousand dollars were annually distributed for this purpose. It is very pertinent to the subject, that we inquire what has become of these liberal appropriations. Except the loss by the Darien bank, the whole amount, `surplus revenue,' and all has
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T)een expended in constructing the Western and Atlantic Railroad. So it is evident that, in strict justice, the cause of education has a lien upon the State Road, and should the State determine to sell it, or any part thereof, the amount of the sale, after discharging her liabilities, ahould be made a permanent school fund. We are far from recom mending that policy; an opinion upon that subject is not within our duty."
I desire, just here, to be very emphatic in my disavowal of any purpose whatever to express an opinion as to the policy of a re-lease of the road, or a sale, or a return to the old policy of management by the Governor for the State. As said by that committee Ifor itself, so say I for myself, s ""an opinion upon that subject is not within my duty." But I do also desire to be quite as emphatic in saying, that whatever be the disposition made ol it, nothing can change the right to the proceeds as an educational fund. If this should be conceded, or granted, then the fund would foot up thus, (provided the rental should remain the same as now), towit :
The other half of State Road rental................................$150,000 00 Net School fund................................................................. 330,llo 73 Poll Tax............................................................................... 185,000 00
Total.............................................................................. $665,117 77
Sufficient to run the schools near four months. If a sale should be effected, and the purchase money of the road set apart to the education of the children of the State, and the interest annually accruing devoted to the schools and pay ment of teachers, the problem would be practically solved.
But there is another claim presented by my lamented predecessor in his last report, to which I invite your atten tion, remarking, that the facts as stated by him, raise a legal question of importance. There can be no doubt that the State policy which prompted the Act of 1858, issuing bonds to the amount of $350,000, to be used as a school fund, was, as a mere public policy, subject to a legislative recall whenever the State should see proper to revoke it, and require the destruction of the bonds. Dr. Orr claims,
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with marked ability, and presents the point with his usual clearness, that the destruction of the bonds did nothing more than to destroy the evidence of the right of the Educational Department to the bonds, but not the right itself, and that,, therefore, the interest on the bonds, at least from the date of the adoption of the Constitution of 1868, at which time those bonds were in existence, and which Constitution then devoted " any educational fund now belonging to the State, except the endowment of, and debt due to, the State Uni versity," to the support of common schools, is still due. The only question, as it seems to me, is whether the State, exercising her right to revoke a public policy, and ordering the destruction of the bonds issued in pursuance of that policy, did thereby destroy and revoke the bonds and their adjuncts--the attached coupons. I have felt some doubt on this point, and refer it to your better judgment, only remarking, that if the property right in those bonds was in this Department, and intact at the adoption of the Constitution of 1868, the fact that that organic law devoted the property to education of the people, would seem to fix
the right beyond the reach of legislative interference. It should be noted, in this connection, that the Constitution of 1877, so iar from an attempt to revoke the action of the Constitutional Convention of 1868, on this point, and its clearly understood legal effect, contented itself by embody ing precisely the same provision, which you will find in JSec. 3, Par. 1, Art. VIII, thereby also devoting to educa tion in the State, " any educational fund now belonging to the State, (except the endowment of, and debt due to the University of Georgia)." If the organic law of 1868 fixed the title to these bonds, and no legislation could violate this organic decree, then, it follows that when the new organic law is established giving aany educational fund now belonging to the State," we have, as it were, a second and final organic consecration ot those bonds issued under the Act approved December 11, 1858, and they are still a part
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of the school fund of Georgia, If you decide this question in accordance with the views suggested by Dr. Orr, and which I am strongly inclined to think sound, this rightfully adds to the educational fund the claimed amount of interest, to-wit: $378,000, with the addi tionally accrued interest since then. And, with him, I ask for provision to be made for its payment. I give you the extract from the Doctor's report, and let him be heard for himself on that point:
"When I came into office in 1872, then* were in the hands of the Secretary of State, bonds to the amount of $8o0,000, issued under an Act approved December 11, 1858, to provide for the education of the children of the State. At a meeting of the State Board of Education, held April 1st, 1872, these bonds were recognized as a part of the State school fund. In my report, ma^e in 1874, I called attention to them, and asked that provision be made for the payment of the interest then due. In the reports made in 1875 and 1876, attention was called to the subject, and the same request was made. A resolution was adopted by the Gen eral Assembly in 1876 requesting the Governor to have these bonds destroyed, and the Governor complied with this request in the resolu tion. These bonds w7ere in existence as an educational fund when the Constitution of 1868 was adopted, and that Constitution devoted any educational fund now belonging to the State, except the endowment of, and debt due to the State University, to the support of common schools. I have never heard a doubt expressed by any one as to the effect of this constitutional provision. All agree that it at once made them a part of the public school fund. At the time these bonds were destroyed, there had been trouble growing out of the payment of illegal bonds, and the only reason given for their destruction was that they might fall into the hands of those who would make a fraudulent use of them. It was alleged that the destruction of the bonds did not destroy the right of the Educational Department to them, but simply the evidence of that right, and that abundant documentary evidence of this latter could be produced at any time. The portion of the argument going to show that the destruction of the bonds did not destroy the right of this Department to their proceeds is certainly true. I must, therefore, ask the General Assembly to put this claim in such form as shall put the right beyond all question, and to make provision for the payment of the interest now due. There might be some question as to when the interest due this depart ment should begin to run. Some of the bonds were executed in 1859 and others in 1860. All of them bore interest at 6 per cent. Hardly any one would question the opinion that the interest ought to begin to run at the time of the adoption of the Constitution in 1868. This would
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give this department eighteen years' interest, which, at 6 per cent., would be $378,000. I ask that provision be made for the payment of this interest."
A very simple work of addition will show how much the school fund will be increased by this amount. But if none of these plans can now be made available, I still have one more to suggest, and upon which I lay much stress. The 4th Sec., Paragraph 1 of Article VIII. of the Constitution of Georgia declares that uAuthority may be granted to coun ties upon the recommendation of two grand juries, and to municipal corporations upon the recommendation of the corporate authority, to establish and maintain public schools in their respective limits by loc^al taxation ; but no such local laws shall take effect until the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the qualified voters in each county, or municipal corporation, and approved by a two-thirds vote of persons qualified to vote at such election, and the General Assembly may prescribe who shall vote on such question."
This constitutional provision does not execute itself. I believe that every district in a county, or all of them in conjunction that lay outside of municipalities, as well as every city or town, ought to have it in their own power, by their own voluntary and free action, in pursuance of a general law for the whole State, passed for the purpose, to provide a local system of common schools for themselves without having to ask the Legislature for a local law to meet each case. Such a course would add greatly to the convenience and benefit of those districts and sub-districts in the counties outside of the towns and cities, and - be attended with less expense to many of their citizens who now send their children to the schools in the cities and towns. Why may not a law be passed, a sort of "educational local option law," if you please, that will place it in the power of every county in the State, as well, as every municipal corporation, when it choses to do so, to avail itself of the benefits and advantages of the constitutional provisions
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quoted ? Atlanta and many of the cities of Georgia and some of the counties have already obtained local acts con ferring the power, and I respectfully suggest and earnestly request that a general law applicable to all cities and coun ties in the State be passed. The provisions of such a law would be simple and easy of application, and in my judg ment would give fresh impetus to the cause of education in the State. Thus every county or municipal corporation which felt disposed, could impose a tax on its citizens of such a per cent, on the State tax, as, while very small in itself, would prove less, I dare say, than the ordinary tui tion fees paid to private schools, and in this way they would be able to supplement their portion of the State school fund, and, perchance, make it ample for all the educational needs of their respective communities. I have thus submitted the views of the ways and means that occur to me as feasible, and it remains for me to add but one or two additional thoughts and then leave this branch of the subject with you.
Section 1, paragraph 1, Art VIII of the Constitution is in the words following. It is mandatory to you, and I know you will give heed to its voice. ``There shall be a thorough system of common schools for the education of children in the elementry branches of an English education only, as nearly uniform as practicable, the expenses of which shall be provided for by taxation or otherwise. The schools shall be free to all children of the State, but separate schools shall be provided for the white and colored races." I am quite sure it will be your aim to make the system of com mon schools thorough, as the Constitution requires, and this department will gladly carry into practical operation, so far as it may, all laws you enact with this view. Separate schools for the white and colored races have already been provided, and the already given table shows the rapid increase of pupils attending both, since the year 1870. I call special attention to this table/which shows only 42,914 white and 6,664 colored children at school in 1871 and in 1887 208,^65 white and 133,429 colored at school.
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As expressive of the view I entertain as to the exhibit made therein, I beg leave to quote here a paragraph from an address I delivered to the Georgia Teachers' Association at Macon, Ga., May 1st, 1888, as follows :
As we meditate upon the transcendent importance of education toman in ever}' relation he sustains to his fellow-man, his government and his G-od, how deeply, how profoundly are we impressed with the conviction that every government is recreant to its duty that does not do all in its power to educate its people. Let me pause here to remark that .Georgia has thus far done nobly on this line. In view of her prostration by rea son of the war, and the subsequent cruel oppression of her people by partial financial methods of the general government, which it is not proper I should discuss here, her untiring, earnest effort to keep up the common school system for the benefit of all the children without refer ence to color or previous condition of servitude, her conduct has been most unselfish, praiseworthy and patriotic. Indeed, her action in this particular, notwithstanding all the adverse circumstances that surrounded her after the war--her treasury exhausted, her fields laid waste, her rights hampered, her voting citizenship changed so that her former slaves were made freedmen and endowed with the privilege of the elective fran chise--having no general intelligence to fit them for such endowment, and with no property, and but little, if any, tact for accumulation--I say the act of her people, in view of all these depressing and discouraging circumstances of taxing the little property that remained to them after the fearful destruction of the war, and then reaching out their hand to lift their former slaves from the night of ignorance by providing free schools for them, presents a spectacle of the heroic moral sublime that must and will shine forever in hallowed and fadeless halo on the death less page of history ! I am proud that I am a Georgian !
THE PRESENT SCHOOL LAW.
The present school law, now familiarly known as the " Denny Law," requires the State School Commissioner to present ior your consideration, every two years, a statement of 'the condition and amount of all funds and property appropriated to the purpose of public education ; astatement of the number of common and public schools of the various grades in the State, the number of scholars attending such schools, their sex, color, and the branches taught; a state ment of the average cost per scholar, of instruction under the common school system in each county; a statement of
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plans for the management, extension and improvement of the common schools; a statement of the number of children of school age in the State, with as much accuracy-as the same can be ascertained, also a statement of the number of private schools, and of colleges of different kinds in the State; the number of pupils in such schools or colleges, their sex, the branches taught, the average cost per scholar of tuition in said schools and colleges."
I have appended tables to this report to meet these sev eral requirements of the statute, as far as practicable; and I have given you such views and suggestions touching the best plan for keeping up the work financially and otherwise as have seemed to me appropriate.
Being placed in office at a time when it became necessary to administer this new law of 1887, it became my duty to construe that law in its relation and bearings to the old law, and I give here a copy of the circular entire that you may understand the questions involved, as well as many of the questions propounded to me from all over the State. I give this circular with my construction as to effect of new law, and with my answers to various questions, because I think it probab'e that some of these points may be brought before you, and additional legislation asked in reference thereto. I will add that after I had prepared this circular I sub mitted it to the State Board of Education for its considera tion before I sent it out. The circular was approved and endorsed by the Board :
Atlanta-, Ga., January 10th, 1888.
To the.County School Commissioners of Georgia:
On the 24th of December, 1887, 1 issued and directed to your several addresses a circular, appointing the 26th, 27th and 28th of this month for the examination of applicants for teachers' licenses. That circular gave my construction of the Act of 1887, known as the Denny Law', in reference to the wmrds "day or days" occurring therein. I will add that I have no doubt that I may order other examinations during the year, on other days, if deemed desirable and advantageous to the cause of education in this State. The inclination of my mind now is to order another in the summer, but this is not determined upon yet.
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The Public or Common School Act of October 27th. 1887, as its title most clearly indicates, is a very sweeping, comprehensive and important enactment concerning the whole subject of common school education in Georgia. A great many questions have been presented to me orally and by letter, from all over the State, as to its effect upon familiar features of the law and the practice of the school-boards under it, as it stood prior to that Act. Hence a construction and interpretation of the law, and directions in harmony therewith for the future conduct of the system in our State, have become a necessity. When I came into the office, I found that my predecessor, having been in doubt on several points arising under the new law, had addressed a letter to the Attorney-Gen eral of the State, asking for his opinion concerning them. Dr. Orr died soon after, and no opinion has been furnished this department in response to the questions, which are as follows, and numbered 1, 2 and 3:
1. Must the day or days fixed by the State School Commissioner for the examination of teachers be uniform throughout the State? Is the State School Commissioner to fix one day in the year or more than one? If he fixes more than one, must the days fixed be consecutive? Can he so fix the days as that more than one examination can be held in the same year?
As to this, my construction, as above stated, has already appeared in my published circular, December 24th, 1887. Nothing more needs to be said now.
2. Are the following Acts now of force, or have they been repealed by the recent school law, viz.: "An Act to provide for the appointment of school trustees for the sub-districts of the counties, and to prescribe the duties of the same," approved February 22, 1877; "An Act to authorize the County Board of Education and the Board of Public Edu cation for the City of Savannah, and the boards of public education for the other cities in this State, to require the scholars to be vaccinated as a pre-requisite to admission to the schools," approved September 27, 1881; and "An Act to authorize and empower the Board of Education, or other proper authorities, in certain counties and municipal corporations, in their discretion, to annex to the public schools a department of indus trial education, and for other purposes," approved October 16, 1885?
It seems well settled by the adjudications of our highest courts in this country, that where a statute is passed, designed to amend, revise and consolidate a general law or system of laws on a given subject, all laws and provisions excluded from the new enactment are repealed. And even in the case of two affirmative statutes, where there is clear conflict between some of their respective provisions, while repeals by implication are not favored, the last Act works a repeal pro tanto of the former. That this Act of October 27, 1887, was intended to mate rially modify, change and otherwise affect in important particulars the. body of school laws existing in the State at the time is manifest alike
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from its title, its opening paragraph and its repealing clause. The title is, " To amend, revise and consolidate the Common School laws of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes."
The first paragraph says: "Whereas, amendment, revision and con solidation of the present existing common school laws of Georgia are advisable and necessary, therefore," etc.
The repealing clause declares " that the public school Act, approved August 2o, 1872, and the various Acts amendatory thereof, and all and every other law inconsistent or conflicting with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed." In my opinion, this Act has accomplished its design fully and efficiently without running counter to the settled adjudications touching repeals, or to that stringent clause of our Constitution of 1877, which is in the words following:
"No law or section of the Code shall be amended or repealed byr mere reference to its title, or to the number of the section of the Code ; but the amending or repealing Act shall distinctly describe the law to be amended or repealed, as well as the alteration to be made." Art. 3, sec. 7, par. 17. Code: Section :')076.
This clause of the Constitution, according to the interpretation of it by our Supreme Court, makes it very difficult, if not impossible, to repeal any law by mere implication. But here the law to be changed and con-, solidated is distinctly7 named and characterized as the "Public School Act," and the purpose declared to consolidate, amend and revise it, and the necessity is declared by the Legislature for the consolidation, amendment and revision of the body of laws known as the Public School Laws of Georgia, and then the repealing clause, as if to dispose of all the old law not thus revised, amended and consolidated, distinctly repeals parts left out of the consolidation and all amendments thereof, as well as every other law inconsistent or conflicting with the provisions of this new, amended, revised and consolidated Act.
Now, this Act, as consolidated, nowhere includes any of the provisions of the Act of Pebruary 22,1877, commonly called the Trustee Law. But two of its provisions are distinctly ignored, nay, repealed by the present law, the conflict being so obvious and striking as to leave no room for doubt. It is stated in the Trustee Law, that "it shall be the right of the trustees to recommend applicants for teachers of schools tn sub-districts,
and it shall be the duty of the eounty boards to choose as teachers the persons so recommended, etc." It is further declared in that Act,
"that the County School Commissioner in each county shall only visit the various public schools at such times as he may he directed by the County Board of Education." The first of these provisions is repealed by the declaration in the Act under consideration, "that the contracting -with teachers under the provisions of this Act shall be left to the discre tion of the several County Boards of Education," and by other require ments of the statute clearly indicating the same purpose. The latter of
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these provisions is repealed unmistakably by section 32 of the Denny Act. These were the two principal points in the Trustee Act of Febru ary, 1877. They have been distinctly eliminated, and with them the whole Act has become extinct, and so you will treat it unless my judg ment shall be shown to be erroneous in the way pointed out by the law. Whatever may be any one's personal opinions or predilections or preju dices concerning this or any other provision of the old law which may be found to be annulled by the new, suffice it to say, that the voice of the Legislature constitutionally expressed, is mandatory and obligatory, and cheerful acquiescence and prompt conformity to its behests best become us as good citizens.
It is not my opinion that the Act of 27th of September, 1881, author izing compulsory vaccination of the scholars as a pre-requisite to admis sion into the schools, shared the same fate. This was a special Act, not actually a part of the general school law, but an independent enactment intended to provide a mere sanitary regulation to protect the pupils from a contagious and terrible disease, which is qnite as important and appro priate now as heretofore. Nor is there, conceding it to be a part of the old school law, anything in it in anywise inconsistent or at all in conflict with the provisions of the new law, and therefore it is not repealed by it. It is also my judgment that the Act of October lf>th, 1885, "authorizing and empowering the Board of Education or other proper authorities in certain counties and municipal corporations, in their discretion, to annex to the public schools a department of industrial education, and for other purposes," is not repealed because special and local in character, and it would seem that there is no conflict between that and the general pro visions in the present law, to the effect, "that the County Board ofEducation shall have power to organize in each county one or more manual labor schools on such a plan as shall be self-sustaining; Provided, that the plan he first submitted to and approved by the State Board of Education." See Sec. 37, Act of October 27, 1887.
The 3d and only other question propounded by my predecessor to the Attorney-General is as follows :
3. "Is a member of the Board of .Education now eligible to election to the office of County School Commissioner ?"
The law as it stood prior to this Act declared that this officer might be chosen from the members of the Board of Education, or from the citi zens of the county. Here were two sources or classes clearly defined and distinguished by the terms of the statute as it then stood, from which a County School Commissioner might be elected, but the present law says emphatically he is to he chosen from among the citizens of the county. I know it may' be said the members of the board are also citi zens of the county and therefore not ineligible. But the reply is, they are citizens holding a special office which in some sense separates and distinguishes them from the general body of citizenship. So the old law
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treated them, and made them a class of persons from whom (as well as from the body of citizens generally) a selection might be made, and so the new law evidently regards them, and for some reason--perhaps the reason that their official position might unduly influence their elec tion--excludes them from the realm of eligibility. Many letters from many counties in the State have reached me propounding this same question, and in this way I answer all, by declaring that in my judg ment, which will control your action in this .regard, unless properly reversed, no member of the caunty school board is eligible to the office of County School Commissioner. And let me say just here, once for all, that while! have the courage of my convictions, and shall always plainly and decidedly declare them, no one will more gracefully and cheer fully yield to correction of error that I will. I shall always prefer to be put right, and gladly accept reversal rather than dogmatically persist in error.
As already intimated, many questions relating to the effect of the new law, and the duties and obligations incident thereto, have been pressed upon me from all over the State, and prompt answers solicited. Happily, a work which would have devolved upon me--that of pointing out the differences between the old law and the new, was undertaken and very ably performed (as far as prosecuted) in his usual clear and perspicuous manner by Dr. Orr, in his circular addressed, on the 4th of November last, To the County School Commissioners of the State, and all others interested." This, I learn, was sent to you at the time, and I commend it to your careful reperusal, as it will, in connection with this circular of mine, show, not only the changes made and the repeals accomplished, but also establish in your minds the important fact that this new Act, while introducing some radical changes and modifications, is in the main what it purports to be, a consolidation, amended and revised, of the common school laws of the State.
Among the many questions that have been asked me, I note the fol lowing only, as I think my answer to these will readily suggest answers to all the rest. Should they not, I shall be happy to answer at any time, any question propounded to me as I may be able. This circular will be mailed to all of you, and I trust will be accepted as an answer by all those who, owing to the pressure upon the office at this time, failed to get immediate answers by letter.
Question 1. Must teachers holding licenses which are unexpired be re-examined under the late Act? In other words, does the new law rlvoke all licenses?
Answer. There is nothing in the new law looking to the revocation of existing licenses except for causes indicated in section 31 of the Act. The law simply provides for the granting of licenses to new applicants who
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desire to obtain license to teach. It does not abrogate or cancel the licenses not yet expired.
Question 2. How are teachers to be examined when they do not know where they will teach ? If the}7 are examined in one county and desire to teach in another, will it be the duty of the County School Com missioner to endorse the license granted, or is this still optional with this officer ?
Answer. It is the clear intendment of the new law that teachers examined and licensed in one county may teach in any other county of the State upon their licenses being indorsed by the County School Commis sioner of the latter county, and that a just comity will insure this indorsement unless for causes mentioned in section 31 of this law.
Question 3. Will a rigid standard be enforced in the new branch which the law adds, viz: the science and practice of teaching?
Answer. No rigid standard will be enforced under my administration of this office, if by rigid is meant such questions as from their complex or difficult nature will tend to confuse the applicant; and I take this occasion to say that I do not allow myself to doubt but that the examina tions of applicants will be conducted with perfect fairness and imparti ality in all the counties, and that the respective boards will make up their decisions, admitting and grading the applicants, not only upon a just criticism of the exaihination papers, under the rules tnat will be fur nished them from this office, but from all the attending circumstances of the examination, and from the elevated tone and character which should belong to a teacher of the young.
Question 4. Are existing commissions of County School Commissioners revoked, or do they hold until the expiration of their terms? Must Commissioners now In office be examined ?
Answer. Most unquestionably they hold until their term of office expires by its own limitation, or their commissions be revoked according to law. They are not to be examined.
- Question 5. Are the boards still to fix in advance the number of days in which the County School Commissioner shall labor in performance of his official duties ?
Answer. There seems to be no change of the law in this particular. Indeed, on this point the section of the new law is an exact transcript of the old.
Question 6. What about the Act "to encourage private' elementary schools," approved September 28, 1883? Is it in force? Can teachers be allowed to charge for any attendance during the year, as heretofore, under this Act ?
Answer. The law inquired about ceases as an independent enactment since it is incorporated in the new school law and is now of force as such.
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The practice, therefore, will he the same as heretofore in the particular mentioned.
Question 7. Have the hoards the same latitude in fixing the begin ning and the end of the regular or three months' public school term under the new law that they had under the old ?
Answer. In this respect there is no change whatever, and the County Boards have the same latitude that they had before.
'Question 8. Can a board adopt this rule, viz.: that no pupil once entering a public school shall be allowed to leave it and enter another during the school term ?
Answer. The proper rule is t; at a pupil can go from one public school to another only by consent of the Board, or County School Commis sioner, for a good and sufficient cause, the Board or Commissioner, being the judge.
Question 9. How long do present adoptions of text books hold good? Is a new adoption required by the new law ?
Answer. An adoption holds good until changed by the County Board The new adoption will last for live years from its date, unless the time be shortened by a three-fourths vote of the board.
Question 10. When will the enumeration of school population be taken ? What additional statistics will the State School Commissioner require ?
Answer. In the year that now is, and every ten years thereafter. The enumeration for this year will be had under instructions from this department at as early a day as practicable. Other enumerations are provided for at the instance of the State Board of Education hereafter that need not now be explained, but can be seen by reference to the forty-seventh section of the Act. The State School Commissioner has not decided to require any additional statistics, but suggestions on this point are invited.
Question 11. Are all tax ft. fas. for poll tax to be turned overdo the County School Commissioner, or must there firsf be an allowance of the Tax Collectors' insolvent list?
Answer. Yes; they must be turned over to the County School Com missioner and without reference to insolvent list allowed by county authorities. The County School Commissioner must receipt the Tax Collector for these ft. fas. as well as for cash from poll tax. " The County School Commissioners shall not receive any extra compensation. for their services in superintending and attending to the collection of ssaA ft. fas."
Question 12. How many pupils must there be enrolled in the first school in each district ?
Answer. Perhaps the best answer to this question would be to refer to section twenty of the school Act, a copy of which you have. But I
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will say my interpretation of the section is that each district is to have one school for white children and one for colored, if the population authorizes it, of which the hoard is to he the judge, and that no specified number of scholars is required as a condition precedent to having the school for each. No specified number of pupils is required in any case except where, from the density of the population, additional schools in the sub school district should be a necessity, and then such additional schools shall not be allowed unless the enrollment of pupils in such additional schools is at least twenty-five in number. The object of this provision, it would seem (and a very commendable one it is), is to provide for at least one school for every sub-school district in each county of the State.
JAS. S. HOOK, State School Commissioner.
I wish to say here that I have had in my eftorts to carry out this law in good faith strong support and encourage ment from the very intelligent members of the Board of Education and the County School Commissioners through out the State, who, though some of them have dissented from some features of the law and my construction of it, are nevertheless devoted to the great cause, and have acted in harmony wtth my efforts to enforce the law. I take pleas ure in making acknowledgments to these school officials in all the counties for their useful, frank, and often very val uable suggestions that have, from time to time, been made during the progress of our official intercourse, and that often have been very helpful to me. The great body of teachers have also laid me under obligations by their kindness and kind suggestions, and I thank them.
TEACHERS AND THEIR QUALIFICATIONS.
One of the very evident purposes of the Act of 1887 was to elevate the grades of teaching capacity. The fact that the questions to be propounded to teachers are required to be furnished by the State School Commissioner produced at first, in some counties, some slight friction, but I think now even those counties have become reconciled to this feature and think its tendency will prove beneficial. Still there are counties and particular localities where
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teachers, it is said, cannot be obtained, and if the license is to be required in all cases strictly according to the law, some children must necessarily go untaught, and in some instances where the children to be taught have not yet learned even the alphabet, or how to spell the simplest words. It is urged that, to meet such cases as these, power ought to be lodged with the State School Commissioner, or the local Board of Education, to grant temporary licenses at least to run until the term is completed, or until another examination throughout all the counties be ordered and held. I commend this matter to your favorable considera tion. While on this subject of teachers let me earnestly commend to your most favorable consideration also, the importance of establishing by law a State Normal School, or schools, in this State.
The teacher is, next to the minister of God, the most important figure moving on the stage of our secular and social life. He trains the young minds and hearts, and thus becomes the first lieutenant of the parents of every home in the land. His character should be without stain, his intelligence should be large, his temper and manners kind, courteous and genial, and his bearing fully equal to the behests of the high and responsible duties imposed upon him. There be many in our midst fashioned after this type, I am proud to say; but it is also true, that these have enjoyed advantages which the normal instruction for which I plead can best furnish. I feel that in making this appeal to you, I am backed up by the unanimous voice of all the teachers, as well as all the school boards and county school commissioners throughout the State. I have been much gratified by a movement among school officials and teach ers, by which they seek to hold in some of the counties, " County Normal Institutes," taking the only day they have to spare for the purpose--Saturday. While this is highly commendable, I would ask, would it not be better to meet this most evident want by such legislation as would,
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at proper times and places, allow opportunities for regu larly organized normal instruction, by the appointment and support of the State, and let these earnest and devoted teachers thus anxious to fully fit themselves for their duties, take Saturdays for wholesome rest and recreation. I sug gest no plan, but submitthe matter for your wise and patriotic thought and action. I will add, on this point, if we can have normal instruction provided for in Georgia, then will all the educational wants of the State be supplied. Yes, with our fine system of public schools, a proper provision made for normal instruction, and all our admirable colleges, male and female, and our great University, the machinery will be complete, and all we will have to do will be to keep it well oiled and in good running order. Then will it move along without the slightest friction or discord, and the hum of its ever-progressive motion will make sweet music in the hearts of all our people.
THE PEABODY INSTITUTE.
When I came into this office, I was informed that there were $500 in bank, of the Peabody fund, to be used for aiding such cities, or towns, or other communities as might be making proper effort to establish a system of schools and thus trying to help themselves. After inquiry, and giving the matter mature consideration, I concluded to help the heroic effort being made in Newnan to establish a fine system of schools; and believing that to divide out the fund among several places would prevent its doing much j^ood anywhere, I gave the whole to the city of Newnan, where I felt it would do, under all the circumstances, the most good. I have had no reason to regret my action, but otherwise, to feel much gratification at the good results. Aft erwards $1,200 was sent to me by the Trustees of the Peabody Fund, through Dr. Green, of Boston, their agent pro tern., which I used, with exception of a balance of $156.72, to meet the expenses of the Institute held last July at Salt Springs-- twenty-one miles from this city. I was influenced by sev
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eral considerations to hold the Institute at that place, and on the Chautauqua grounds. I give here the reasons, as I assigned them in my report to Hon. Samuel A. Green, of Massachusetts, the then acting agent of the Trustees of said Peabody Fund. I also give so much of the report as may be appropriate to be given in this report to your body :
"I was influenced to hold the Institute at Salt Springs on the Chau tauqua grounds hy several considerations which it seemed to me should be regarded as controlling: 1st. It was a healthy locality. 2nd. It would have the aid and the benefit of so much of the Chautauqua pro gram as would be in progaess during the session of the Institute. 3d. It would be away from the city with all its varied attractions, the tendency of which would be to distract attention and cause irregular attendance. 4th. It would draw to it such teachers as would go to be benefitted, and would therefore be regular in attendance and devoted to the work. 5th. It would, in conjunction with the Chautauqua just about to open, attract the attention of the public and tend to enthuse the popular heart and mind in the interests of public education. 6th. I found I could get good board and comfortable lodging for both white and colored teachers, as cheap, if not cheaper, than in Atlanta. 7th. I was assured I would get railroad transportation cheaper than ever before for the teachers, with only one fare for the round trip."
I will add here that another strong reason with me was that perhaps by holding my Institute there, I would aid in attracting the attention of teachers and others to the Chau tauqua and thus get them interested in the establishment of so valuable a move as I regarded that to be for the intel lectual development and educational weal of the State. I regard the thorough and permanent establishment of a well conducted Chatauqua assembly and program to hold its session annually in a community, as of immense and incal culable benefit. While the attendance of teachers was not at any time during the two weeks session a large attendance, it was fair in numbers, excellent in intelligence, and very much interested in the admirable normal instruction daily dispensed by my very able and accomplished corps of lec turers and instructors. These instructors were as follows : Dr. Wm. H. Payne, President Normal College, Nash ville, Tenn., who, at my solicitation came and presided
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over and conducted the daily work of the Institute. He Lectured on Applied Psycology and School Management; Dr. H. H. Smith, of Atlanta, Ga., perhaps one of the most accomplished scholars and mathematicians in the country, instructed in Practical Arithmetic]; Professor B. M. Zettler, of Macon, Ga., Superintendent of the public schools in that city, lectured up on Geography, Spelling and Penmanship; Prof. W. H. Woodall, President of the Le Vert Female College, Talbotton, Ga., lectured on Reading and English Grammar; Prof. Bothwell Graham, Principal of the High School, Rome, Ga., lectured on pure or theoretical Arithmetic; Prof. M. L. Parker, President of the South Georgia Male and Female College, Dawson, Ga., lectured on Geometry and Algebra; Dr. L. B. Clifton, a number of lectures on the Natural Sciences; Miss E. A. Bowen, several lectures on Astronomy by observation.
These instructors were all highly cultured and worthy teachers and proved themselves eminently and fully compe tent to fill the important branches assigned them. Their lec tures were lucid and very instructive, giving great satisfaction to the teachers present. Each day was thus occupied, and all who attended were pleased as well as edified. During the afternoons and evenings, either at the church, the large hall at the Sweet Water Park Hotel, or the Amphitheater on the Chautauqua grounds, most instructive, eloquent and learned addresses were delivered by invited speakers of distinction, and were attended by large crowds of deeply in terested auditors. These orators and their themes were as follows :
Col. R. M. Johnston, Baltimore, Md., "Georgia History and some of her great names."
Col. L. B. Evans, Augusta, Ga., "Uses of History." Hon. Charles H. Smith (Bill Arp), Cartersville, Ga., "Old Schools Contrasted with the New."
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Chief Justice Logan E. Bleckiy, Atlanta, Ga., "Evo lution."
Maj. Wm. F. Slaton, Atlanta, Ga., "Whom and What Should the State Teach."
Mrs. Bessie Miller Oten, "Elocution." Dr. H. H. Smith, Atlanta, Ga., "Travels in Europe." Prof. Charles Lane, Macon, Ga., "The Elements of Suc cess." Rev. Gustavus J. Orr, Jr., Albany, Ga., (by my request) "Life Sketch of his Father, the late Dr. G. J. Orr." The subjects selected were all in harmony with the occasion and proved a most gratifying and delightful feature of the general program. On Sunday, a sermon at my request on the subject of the "responsibilities and duties of educated men " was delivered by Rev. Dr. H. H. Tucker to a very large audience in the Amphitheater. This was an address of unusual eloquence, power and impressiveness, and largely aided the general movements designed to give fresh impetus to the cause of education in Georgia. While I admit fail ure and disappointment as to the number of teachers in attendance, I claim success and gratification in the very evi dent improved tone and enthusiasm which were manifested as the result of the work of the session. It was the opin ion of all the teachers I heard express themselves, and especially of that most eminent normal instructor and most worthy Christian gentleman, Dr. Payne, that much good was done in exciting and arousing public interest in the matter of normal instruction and education generally, which will insure greater success in future sessions of the Institute. All my corps of instructors, composed of prominent and competent teachers, as I have already stated, did good ser vice, but I am quite sure they, as well as all who attended the session, concur with me that Dr. Payne's presence, lectures, and general management proved of incalculable benefit and advantage. He came among us a stranger but
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carried away with him when he left us the esteem, the grati tude, the reverence and the love of all who heard him and came to know him. I had to regret that so few colored teachers attended. I had provided for their comfort and care at quite reasonable charges, and selected at the request of several colored teachers one of their own color, Prof. O. A. Combs, of Athens, Ga., to instruct them in penmanship. One of the reasons, as I afterwards learned, why so few attended, colored institutes to be held in different parts of the State had been determined upon and arranged for, at the session of the Colored Teachers' Association, held at Athens in May last, and President H. L. Walker, of that body, was appointed to conduct them. This was a good appointment, and I am satisfied from his own reports of his meetings to me and the notices I saw of some of them in the papers, he did good service among the colored teachers in several counties. I will remark here that the colored peo ple show great anxiety as well as aptitude to learn, and it is to be regretted that the noble effort of our State has not been backed up by the general government by the passage of the Blair Bill. Every consideration as it seems to me of justice, humanity and right demand such action on the part of the National government in behalf of these peo ple, upon whom that government has cast such important responsibilities.
There were, during the session of the Institute, two very interesting meetings of the County School Com missioners and superintendents of schools, of whom a goodly number, say over thirty, were present. Their discussions covered mainly the following questions or topics, to-wit: "The proviso requiring an enrollment of 25 pupils in the additional schools." " The duty of endorsing license from other counties." " The trustee feature of the old law." " The method of examinations of teachers and necessity for some provision for appointment of teachers to meet exigences for a short time." " The difference between the old law and
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the new," "the Blair Bill," etc., etc. These discussions were marked by earnestness and much ability and displayed the deep interest felt by these prominent school officials in the success of education in Georgia.
The teachers after discussing the great importance of an educational journal in Georgia which was proposed to be published by Supt. B, M. Zettler, of Macon, Ga., passed unanimously, the following resolutions, at one of their meetings held in the afternoons, which meetings were full of interest and showed in the discussions occurring there, unmistakably, that the body of teachers present, were gentlemen possessing much ability, learning and extensive knowledge.
The resolutions were as follows :
1. Resolved, "We the superintendents, principals and teachers of the Peabody Institute, now in session at Salt Springs most heartily endorse and commend the above named journal to our colaborers and to the reading public, feeling assured that under its able management it will soon supply a need long felt by Georgia teachers and will prove a source of inspiration and of great practical value to its readers, giving them just and happy ideas of perfect work and high attainments.
2. Resolved, "That we urge the importance of each teacher in our `Empire State' becoming a subscriber and contributor and in taking this position, we pledge ourselves to co-operate, as far as possible with Prof. B. M. Zettler and others in their efforts to establish and sustain such a journal."
I also give here some of the articles and editorials appearing in the press during the session of the Institute, which was from the 9th to the 21st of July inclusive, and also the resolutions passed at the close of the session, which also appeared in the public press.
From the Augusta Chronicle :
THE INSTITUTE AT CHAUTAUQUA.
Information comes to us from Chautauqua that the Teachers' Insti tute has opened under the most flattering auspices. Honorable James S. Hook, State School Commissioner, has been ceaseless in his efforts to arrange for the entertainment and instruction of every teacher who enrolls his name.
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Superintendent Payne has made a most favorable impression. He brings to his work large experience and great ability. He finds in Judge Hook an earnest and most active co-adjutor in a work whose good influence will penetrate every county in Georgia.
The Chronicle further says : It was a happy thought on the part of Mr. Grady to secure the ses sions of the Peabody Institute for teachers for Salt Springs, so that they might he held in conjunction with the Chautauqua exercises. It has also proven a good thing for the Institute that it is held at the Chautau qua. Each enhances the interest of the other.
The Constitution says: The Peabody Institute is now under full headway at Chautauqua and under the management of Judge Hook and the direction and super vision of Dr. Payne is going to he a great success. The attendance is first-class, and all the teachers are well pleased with the outlook for an exceedingly pleasant and instructive session. Yesterday the Institute held its meeting in the Methodist church, which was kindly tendered them for the purpose. In a day or two the school rooms at Chautauqua will he completed and fitted up, when they will at once he taken posses sion of hy the Institute and used for the balance of the session.
The Atlanta Constitution speaks as follows:
Dr. Payne gave another very sensible talk on the " value of educa tion." He has won the respect and love of every teacher attending the institute by his courteous bearing, and by his eminently practical lec tures. He is doing great good here in his work. An interesting teach ers' class meeting was held at 3 o4clock p. m., at which steps were taken looking to the establishing of a school journal in Georgia.
Judge Hook has furnished the teachers a rare intellectual feast this week in the way of celebrated lectures outside of his regular Normal institute lectures. He has in store a rich treat for his teachers next week. Their subjects and time will be announced frbm day to day.
The distinguished Dr. H. H. Tucker will preach here to-day at Judge Hook's request, on the subject: " The Responsibilities of the Educated Man." His text is " To whom much is given, from him much shall be required."
At 6 p. m. Rev. Morgan Callaway will preach. Dr. Payne and his corps of instructers will continue their lectures next week. As there are so few colored teachers present, lectures will per haps be delivered morning and afternoon. Professsor Combs, colored, of Athens, stated in a talk before the normal school a day or two since, that he was highly gratified at the very pleasant arrangements that Judge Hook and the Chautauqua company had made for the colored teachers here; that he. had been
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treated with the utmost courtesy hy teachers and professors, and greatly regrets that so few colored teachers are present. He said that ample quarters and the very best of fare had been given him, and the same was provided for all colored teachers at very low rates.
Extracts from the press of the State at large might be given, but space forbids.
The resolutions are as follows :
Judge Hook was invited to occupy the chair, when Dr. Smith offered the following preamble and resolutions:
Now that the labors of the Peabody institute are drawing to a close, and we are soon to part with Dr. W. H. Payne, president Normal College, Nashville, Tenn., who, by invitation of the State School Commis sioner of Georgia, has presided over the exercises and deliberations of the body, as well as entertained it with daily lectures, we the corps selected to aid him, and all teachers attending but obey the impulses of our hearts when we say we separate from this justly eminent and distinguished normal instructor most reluctantly. As expressive of our sentiments on this occasion we resolve as follows:
1. That in the person of Dr. Payne we have found a most dignified, hut genial companion, a ripe scholar, and an experienced instructor; a man of extensive and varied learning, and specially gifted as a lecturer in normal work, with the faculty of imparting knowledge in the simplest language, fortified hy most apt and happy illustrations and forcible analysis.
2. By his courteous bearing and eminent qualifications, no less than by his charming modesty of deportment, so characteristic of men of true eminence, he has won the lasting confidence and esteem of all the mem' hers of this institute, and the many who have attended our meetings, and we feel it but just and true to say that we have been greatly benefitted and instructed by his series of admirable lectures, and that it is our sincere conviction that the good he has done in our midst of inspiring a new enthusiasm among us for still higher and better methods of instruc tion, will be long felt and warmly appreciated in this state.
3. We recognize in Dr. Payne a pure man, a high-toned gentleman, and an humble, unostentatious Christian, and in bidding him good-bye, we invoke for him long life, continued high usefulness and much happiness.
These resolution were unanimously indorsed hy a rising vote. Judge Hook then offered the following, which were heartily and unanimously concurred in: Whereas, The Peabody institute, which has held its session at this place, is about to adjourn sine die, and Whereas, The State School Commissioner, the corps of instructors, and all teachers present, desire to give expression to their sense of gratitude
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for the kindness extended them during their two weeks stay at this point, therefore
Resolved, 1. That while facilities intended for our accommodation on the Chautauqua grounds were not fully completed, and we have experienced some inconvenience in consequence, yet good and comfort able rooms and excellent fare have been furnished, and we can but express our admiration for the immense energy which has already accomplished so much to make the Chautauqua grounds a very marvel of-comfort and beauty, and we confidently predict for it the highest success as a delightful sylvan retreat for the promotion of general culture in the arts and sciences, and in high social enjoyment. We warmly appreciate the efforts of the Chautauqua Company to make us comfortable, and hereby express our grateful recognition of all their kindness by wishing for them a hearty God-speed in their noble under taking.
2. To the distinguished speakers and learned divines, who have so largely contributed to our edification and enjoyment during these two delightful weeks, we tender assurances of our sincere thanks and warm appreciation.
3. To the pastor and the members of' the Methodist Church in this place we return cordial thanks for the use of their neat and comfortable house of worship, so promptly and so generously tendered us on our arrival here.
4. To the Atlanta papers for daily publication of our programs, and for their friendly notices, and to all the other papers in the State that have aided us by their generous notices and kind words of encourage ment, we tender our grateful acknowledgements.
5. To the several bands of music and to Professor McIntosh and his gifted choir from Oxford, which latter gave us their exquisite music on the Lord's day, we sincerely thank for their most delightful and highly appreciated contributions to the pleasures we have enjoyed here.
6. To the landlords of the hotels and to all the citizens of this place, who have so kindly greeted and treated us, we tender our heartfelt thanks. We have seen no hotel, or community where guests find a more cordial greeting or kinder treatment.
7. Resolved, That to the railroads and their most efficient and cour teous representative, Colonel M. Slaughter, Commissioner, we are grateful for the reduction of fare accorded to the teachers to this point, and especially recognize the kindness and prompt action of Colonel Slaughter in trying to have misapprehension on fthe part of State School Com missioner and some teachers as to the time and terms of procuring tickets, remedied, so as to make all pay only the one fare contemplated.
8. That we request the press of the State to publish these resolutions.
Professor Woodall offered the following, which was put by Mr. Zettler: Resolved, That we, the teachers, who have been attending this ses
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sion of tne Peabody Normal Institute, return our most sincere thanks to our efficient State School Commissioner, Judge Hook, for the splendid programme that he made in arranging for the exercises of the present normal session and for the manner in which he has carried it out for our pleasure and instruction; and, also, for the earnest personal efforts that he has made for the pleasure and comfort of each one of us.
This resolution was enthusiastically adopted. A resolution of thanks to the institute lecturers and to the Secretary of the Institute was offered by Professor Bobo and passed. After this, the Institute adjourned sine die.
I will state for your information that I have recently received a letter from the Hon. J. L. M. Curry, our ex-Minister to Spain, notifying me of his re-election to his former position as agent of the Board of Trustees of the Peabody Fund, and assuring me of his hearty sympathy in the great work of education so nobly moving forward in Georgia, and of his willingness to aid me in any way in his power, and stating further that I might expect about the same amount of means forwarded to this department from the trustees as was sent last year. It is pleasant to know that one so eminent for his distinguished abilities, great learning and high Christian virtues and worth, will be our friend in helping to move forward the car of education in Georgia, freighted as it is with the best hopes and true happiness of our people.
PEABODY SCHOLARSHIPS.
Georgia, under the generous donation and division of the Peabody Fund, has fourteen regular scholarships in the Normal College at Nashville, Tennessee, now under the presidency of Dr. Wm. H. Payne. There were four vacant scholarships to be supplied at the close of the last summer session. The applicants for these vacancies were numer ous. I ordered the competitive examination required, to be so conducted as to make it perfectly fair, and then appointed a committee of three eminent citizens of high attainments to go over the examination papers of the con testants and select the four best. This committee was
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composed of Major Wm. F. Slaton, of Atlanta, Ga., Col. Lawton B. Evans, Augusta, Ga., and Hon. Thomas J. Chappell, Columbus, Ga. The high character and entire fitness of these gentlemen for the work assigned was suffi cient guaranteee that it would be faithfully done and with
entire impartiality. The four chosen were as follows: Miss Julia P. Lester, Augusta, Ga. Miss S. C. Stone, Oxford, Ga. Miss Daisy Davies, Decatur, Ga. Mr. George E. Nolan, High Shoals, Ga. The report of the action of the committee is here given :
Atlanta, Ga., September 5th, 1888.
Hor,. James S. Hook, State School Commissioner, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir : As the committee appointed by you to examine the papers
of the applicants for Peabody Scholarships, we beg leave to report that
we have given a very careful and conscientious review of the papers
presented, and find many of them of a marked degree of excellence. A
number of the applicants we feel sure would do credit to the State of
Georgia in the Peabody College. Being required to choose the four
papers which, in our judgment, are the best, we have decided upon those
presented by Miss Tudie C. Stone, Oxford, Ga., Miss Julia P. Lester,
Augusta, Ga., Miss Daisy Davies, Decatur, Ga., and Mr. Geo. E. Nolan,
High Shoals, Ga., and recommend those persons for appointment. With
every expression of respect, we are, Yours, etc.,
W. E. Slaton,
T. J. Chappel,
L. B. Evans,
,
Committee.
Those just named and the ten appointed in 1887, taken together, constitute the fourteen pupils from this State hold ing Peabody Scholarships in the Nashville Normal College. Those appointed in 1887 were :
Miss Lizzie S. Jordan, of Jefferson county. Miss Jennie T. Clarke, of Polk county. Miss Mattie Haygood, of Oxford, Ga. Miss Dorine Rawls, of Marshallville, Ga. Miss Maude Tompkins, of Grantville. Miss Alice Napier, of LaFayette, Ga. Miss Mamie Aldridge, of Atlanta, Ga.
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Miss Pinkie Cain, of Linton, Ga. Mr. John Gibson, of Gibson, Ga. Mr. Fermor Barrett, of Oglethorpe county. And I am proud to say that this Georgia class stands high in the College, as the report forwarded to me by Dr. Payne, the president, shows. And the Doctor himself in a letter to this Department speaks of the Georgia class as standing in the front rank with the best scholars in the institution. Dr. Payne kindly gave me ten certificates, already signed by himself, to be given to others whom I might commend for admission to the Normal College, and said that upon my recommendation, after satisfying myself of their qualifications, he would admit those holding these certificates, countersigned by me, and they should be free from an entrance examination at the college. They, unlike the fourteen regular scholarships, would receive no pecu niary aid, and would have to pay their own board, but their tuition would be free and they would enter without an entrance examination. In pursuance of this privilege granted to me, I gave certificates to the following appli cants that I deemed fully worthy, to-wit: , Miss Ida Spence, Warnerville, Ga. Miss Lucy Blasingem, Monroe, Ga. Miss Nettie Dozier, Atlanta, Ga. Miss Claudia Jones, West Point, Ga. Miss Emma D. Cook, Gainesville, Ga. Miss Elmira S. Pottle, Brunswick, Ga. Miss Laura C. Foute, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. John P. Rush, Rome, Ga. Miss Susie Greer, Oglethorpe, Ga. Miss Claudia Dean, Rome, Ga. I have not yet been advised whether all of these went to the college, though several of them, I know, did. I am glad to note the very general desire among those who intend to make teaching a life-time occupation for
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normal instruction. I will state that those who go to Nashville College from this State promise to devote them selves for four years to teaching in Georgia. In this con nection I would mention a very generous offer made by Dr. Payne to me personally to the effect that if a class of twenty-five teachers will convene at some agreed place in this State at some suitable time to all concerned, he will deliver a course ot normal lectures to them without charge. This is certainly a generous and liberal offer, and as a prominent instructor of our State (Prof. Woodall) said to me, and as, I dare say, other eminent teachers will say and feel, that, " instead of twenty-five teachers, two hundred and fifty, or more, would be delighted to avail themselves of the high privilege, should the invitation be enlarged so as to admit so many."
THE LABOR IN THIS OFFICE.
Dr. Orr called attention to this subject in his last report as follows:
"HEEDS OF THE CENTRAL OFFICE.
" The work in the office of the State School Commissioner has greatly increased with the extension of the school work. The Commissioner is compelled to devote himself largely to purely clerical labors. For months past he has been confined to his desk without intermission from seven to nine hours a day. He is allowed one clerk. This clerk has labored from ten to twelve hours a day and sometimes longer.
"In addition, members of the Commissioner's family have, for more than a year past, often performed many days of gratuitous labor. After all this expenditure of earnest labor, the work of the office is often much behind. I must therefore renew the request made in the last report that the Commissioner be allowed either to employ an additional clerk or expend a limited sum in procuring additional clerical aid at such times as the pressure of labor may make the same necessary."
I will add to what he has said, that the labor in the simple item of correspondence alone, is very great, and will doubtless increase as the work of this Department enlarges and reaches a still wider and ever-advancing range. . Not only are we in almost every day correspondence with the school officials of some one, or more, of the 137 counties
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in the State, and teachers and other citizens interested, but very frequently with the school authorities, teachers and professors and others in other States and Territories in the Union, and occasionally of those of some foreign countries. Another very important duty, and requiring time and atten tion, is devolved upon the State School Commissioner. He is frequently engaged upon the adjudication of legal ques tions and questions of fact, that come up before him in cases appealed from the decisions of county boards of edu cation. In some of these cases, not only the record sent up by the County School Commissioners, but the argu ments and briefs of lawyers engaged in them, have to be considered and acted upo i. Another duty now imposed upon the State School Commissioner not required by any former law, requires at his hands a'careful review of exam ination papers of. teachers who are candidates for per manent State licenses. I have had over one hundred of these examination papers sent up to me by the County School Commissioners, who certified to the exhibition of unusual merit, and to the good moral and professional char acter of the applicants. In most cases I found the applicants worthy and issued the permanent license authorized by the law. Some of these examination papers are very volumin ous, others not so much so, but I think it may be safely said, they average ten pages, and', it must be confessed, not always of a style of writing that he who runs may read. If the State School Commissioner does his duty faithfully, he has to examine these papers carefully, and as you may readily see, it is a laborious and tedious work. I have issued ninety-six permanent licenses, as the outcome of the two public examinations I ordered, one in January last and another in May. Most of these were to white teachers, but several to colored teachers, and it is due to this latter class to say that they come strongly commended by their respective County School Commissioners before whom thev were examined, and I found they had, in most cases, very
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fully deserved the commendation they had received. This year we had also to provide for the enumeration of the school population, which increased the pressure on this office. This work was more slow in its accomplishment than was anticipated, but the returns which we have thor oughly examined, show the work to have been carefully done and the tables wre furnish may be regarded as accu rate and correct. This duty will not have to be performed again for some time to come, but every year, and all the time, we have to prepare statistical tables which require great care, tedious attention to details and are attended with immense labor. The law requires me to visit the counties in the State, deliver addresses, look after the con dition of the schools, etc., etc., as often as possible. I have visited and delivered addresses in only a few of the coun ties, because the work in the office this year has been so heavy, constant and urgent, as to forbid a larger and fuller compliance with this required duty. I could quote in this connection letters written to me by Prof. A. I. Branham, Principal of the High School of Glynn county, at Brunswick, Ga., and others, in which they speak of the new impulse given to the cause by this sort of communion between this department and the schools of the counties. I mention this to show that others, who are competent to judge, regard this as a very important duty imposed on the State School Commissioner, the good fruits of which would be more fully experienced if more time could be allowed from the routine of office duties for visits to the schools throughout the State. I most earnestly sub mit that, if not permanent, at least occasional help might be authorized when the exigencies of the work in the office may demand it. I think my very efficient and valuable as sistant, Mr. E. H. Orr, and myself, have tried faithfully to keep up with the work, but we can but feel, that at times, the strain on our physical and mental energies is so great as to call loudly for help. But this, like all of the matters
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to which I have invited your attention, is cheerfully left to your wise judgment, and with perfect confidence that you will act as the interests of Georgia may demand, and with that action, whether it accords with my suggestions, or views, or wishes, or not, I shall be content.
JAS. S. HOOK, State School Commissioner.
/
Action of the State Board of education.
IN MEMORIAM THE LATE DR. GUSTAVUS J. ORR.
\ Office State School Commissioner,
Atlanta, Ga., January 11, 1888. j After the Board had organized for business, the fol lowing preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted : At this first assembling of the State Board of Edu cation, since Dr. Ore's death, our hearts are bowed with sorrow as we behold the vacant chair so long occupied by him. Words are inadequate to give full expression to all we feel on this occasion; still are we impelled by sentiments of high esteem for his superior intellectual powers and his varied learning and attain ments, as well as by a profound reverence for his great moral worth and Christian excellence, to record here, on the minutes of this body, as best we may, the deep sensibility with which we mourn his death, and with what grateful and affectionate pride we recall his life long devotion to duty, his dauntless courage in defend ing the right and his unvarying energy, enlightened zeal and ever unyielding persistence in urging upon the attention of those in authority, as well as of the whole people, the high and exalted claims of ed.ucation. Dr. Ore was no ordinary man. From his youth up, through all his career of active life, he was a man of mark. Learned, able, logical and eloquent, he ever sustained himself with rare distinction in whatever position of responsibility he
was placed. Whether before the school room as teacher, the college class as professor or president, the committees of the State Legislature or of the National Congress, or as the chief executive officer of this Board and State School Commissioner of the State of Georgia, he was always equal to the occasion, and challenged and won the esteem, confidence and admi ration of all who' were associated with him or came within the range of his elevating, noble and manly influence. It is needless to say when and where such a man was born or died; history will preserve the record; but it is useful and edifying, as it is pleasant, at all times, to contemplate such a life-work as his and weave garlands to decorate the halls of memory as we recall such a noble and lustrous character of intellectual symmetry and moral beauty as he estab lished while living and has bequeathed to his family, his friends and the State, now that he is dead. In all public trusts (and many were committed to him) he was honest, faithful, able and efficient. But it was as the fast, untiring, unfaltering friend of education he won his brightest laurels. And as the father and constant supporter and defender of the present com mon school educational system of Georgia, which has brought such great benefits to our people, with all its rich promises for the future, he gained the homage of all hearts and minds, and wrought for himself, while only seeking good for others, a deathless fame.
Wherefore we resolve as follows : !. That in the death of the Hon. Gustavus J. Orr, this Board has lost a wise and most worthy exe cutive officer. The cause of education a life-long, earnest and able friend and co-adjutor; his family, a loving, devoted husband and father and a wise and ever tender counsellor; society, one of its brightest ornaments; the State, one of her most noble and justly
illustrious sons, and the Church of Christ, a devout, upright member whose life was a beautiful illustration of that faith which ennobles and makes bright the character of the humble Christian.
2. Our deepest and most heartfelt sympathy is hereby tendered to the bereaved family of the distin guished deceased, whose loss is irreparable and whose grief is too sacred to be reached by expressions of human condolence, and can alone be healed by the balm in Gilead and the Physician there.
3. That we, as members of this Board, will wear the usual badge of mourning for the space of thirty days, and that this room, in which many of his great official duties and labors were performed, and where this body holds its .meetings, be appropriately draped in mourn ing for the same length of time.
And further, that this preamble and these resolu tions be inscribed on a separate page of the minutes of this body, appropriately designated for that pur pose, and that the press of this city be requested to publish them. Also, that a copy be furnished the family of the deceased.
J. B. GORDON,
President of the Board.
N. C. BARNETT,
Sec'y of State and Member of Board.
WM. A. WRIGHT,
Comptroller-General, Member S. B. Education.
CLIFFORD ANDERSON,
Att'y Gen'l and ex officio a Member of the Board of Education.
JAS. S. HOOK,
S. S. Com'r and Chief Exec. Officer of Board.
STATISTICAL TABLES
FOR 1887.
APPENDIX
TABLE No. 1.
Apportionment of the School Fund of 1887. Amount to be. Ap portioned, $304,820.61.
COUNTIES.
School Date of Execution of Or Counties'
Population. der on Tax Collector.
pro rata.
Appling . . Baker. . . . Baldwin . . Banks . . . Bartow . . . Berrien . . . Bil>b .... Brooks . . . Bryan . . . Bullock . . . Burke . . . Butts .... Calhoun. . . Camden . . Campbell . . Carroll . . . Catoosa . . Charlton . . Chatham . . Chattahoochee Chattooga . . Cherokee . .
Clarke (coy . Athens (city)'
Clay................. Clayton . . . . Clinch . . . . Cobb .... Coffee. . . . Columbia . .
Colquitt . . , Coweta . . . Crawford . . Dade .... Dawson . . . DeKalb . . . Decatur . . . Dodge . . .
Dooly................ Dougherty . Douglas . . Early .... Echols . . . Effingham............................. Elbert ................................... Emanuel.............................. Fannin..................................
1,911 November 23, 1887 2,678 December 9, 1887 . 4,962 December 30, 1888. 2,413 October 11, 1887. . 5,770 December 6, 1887 . 2,178 November 4,1887 . 8,067 October 11, 1887. . 4,287 October 11, 1887. . 1,558 December 21, 1887. 2,952 October 81, 1887. . 8,671 December 21, 1887. 2,766 October 11, 1887. . ' 2,575 October 11, 1887. . 2,061 November 11, 1887 3,348 October 11, 1887. . 6,593 October 11, 1887. . 1,681 October 11, 1887. .
647 November 28, 1887 13,801 October 11, 1887. . 1,701 October 13, 1887. . 3,340 November 3, 1887. 4,660 October 11, 1887. . 1,676 November 15, 1887 1,564 October 11, 1887. . 1,995 October 20, 1887. .
2,oo2 October 11, 1887. .
1,242 February 27, 1888. 6,984 October 11, 1887 . 1,521 November 24,1887. 3,140 November 14, 1887
758 October 11, 1887. . 6,333 December 8, 1887 . 2,607 November 18, 1887 1,533 November 21, 1887 1,970 November 24, 1887 4,646 October 27, 1887 . 6,383 November 7, 1887. 1.786 February 22, 1888. 3,726 November 12, 1887 3.787 October 11, 1887. . 2,542 October 11, 1887. . 2,284 November 2, 1887 .
978 December 21, 1887. 1,794 December 7, 1887 . 4,560 October 11, 1887. . 3,446 November 11, 1887
2,547 November!, 1887 .
$ 1,145 05 1,604 63 2,973 18 1,445 84 3,457 32 1,305 03 4,833 66 2,568 72 933 54 1,768 81 5.195 57 1,657 36 1,542 91 1,234 93 2,006 08 3,950 45 1,007 24 387 68 8.269 41 1,019 22 2,001 29 2,792 22 1,004 24 937 13 1.195 38 1,529 13 744 19 4,164 74 911 37 1,881 45 454 19 3,794 66 1,562 09 918 56 1,180 40 2,783 83 3,824 62 1,070 15 2,232 58 2.269 13
1,523 14 1,368 55 586 01 1,074 95 2,732 30 2,064 81 1,526 13
Appendix
hi
TABLE No. 1.--Continued.
COUNTIES.
School Date of Execution of Or Population. der on Tax Collector.
Counties' pro rata.
Fayette.................................. Floyd................................... Forsyth.................................. Franklin............................... Fulton (co)'......................... Atlanta (city)'...................... Gilmer.................................. Glasscock............................. Glynn.................................... Gordon.................................. Greene................................... Gwinnette............................ Habersham.......................... Hall........................................ Hancock.............................. Haralson.............................. Harris................................... Hart....................................... Heard.................................... Henry................................... Houston............................... Irwin..................................... Jackson................................. Jasper ................................... Jefferson.............................. Johnson ................................ Jones...................... ... Laurens.................................. Lee......................................... Liberty ................................. Lincoln................................. Lowndes ............................... Lumpkin.............................. Macon . . .'...................... Marion.................................. Madison............................... McDuffie.............................. McIntosh............................. Meriwether......................... Miller.................................... Milton................................... Mitchell............................... Monroe................................ Montgomery...................... Morgan................................ Murray ................................. Muscogee (co)..................... Columbus (city)'............... Newton................................ Oglethorpe..........................
2,582 October 11, 1887. . . $ 1,547 10
8,046 December 21, 1887. . 4,820 48
3,660 October 11, 1887. . . 2,193 03
3,817 October 11, 1887. . . 2,287 10
4,334 October 25, 1887. . . 2,596 89
10,654 October 11, 1887. . . 6,323 84
3.040 October 11, 1887. . . 1,825 13
1.073 October 11, 1887 . .
642 93
2,245 October 11,1887 . . . 1,345 18
3,398 October 11,1887 . . . 2,036 04
6,265 November 3, 1887.. . 3,154 73
6,458 October 11, 1887 . . . 3,869 56
2,958 October 25, 1887. . . 1,772 40
5,272 October 20, 1887. . . 3,158 92
5,097 December 9, 1887 . . 3,054 07
2,190 October 11,1887 . . . 1,312 22
5,777 October 11,1887 . . . 3,461 51
3,485 December 30, 1887. . 2,088 17
2,925 October 11, 1887. . . 1,752 63
4,775 October 13, 1887. . . 2,861 13
6,724 November 23, 1887. . - 4,028 95
987 November 11, 1887 .
591 40
5,955 October 11, 1887 . . 3,568 17
4,345 October 11, 1887. . . 2,603 48
5,279 October 28, 1887. . . 3,163 12
1,760 October 18, 1887. . . 1,054 5 7
3,484 November 17, 1887. . 2,087 57
3,268 November 9, 1887.. . 1,958 15
3,525 November 30, 1887 . 2,112 14
3,426 December 2, 1887 . . 2,052 82
1,924 October 11, 1887. . . 1,152 84
3,576 November 8,1887 . . 2,142 70
2,186 October 11, 1887. . . 1,309 83
3,805 October 28, 1887. . . 2,279 91
3,266 November 3, 1887.. . 1,956 95
2,394 October 17, 1887. . . 1,434 46
3,182 October 11, 1887 . . . 1,906 62
1,875 December 2, 1887 . . 1,123 48
6,432 December 29, 1887. . 3,853 98
1,364 November 19, 1887. .
817 29
1,968 October 11, 1887. . . 1,179 20
3,257 November 21, 1887 . 1,951 56
6,446 October 11, 1887 . . . 3,862 37
1,697 November 12, 1887 . 1,016 82
5,141 November 21, 1887 . 3,080 43
2,767 October 27, 1887 . . . 1,657 96
3,300 November 3, 1887 . . 1,977 32
3,562 October 11, 1887 . . . '2,134 31
5,037 December 2, 1887 . . 3,018 11
4,620 October 19, 1887. . . 2,768 25
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Appendix
TABLE No. 1.--Continued.
COUNTIES.
School Date of Execution of Or Counties' Population. der on Tax Collector. pro rata.
Oconee................................... Paulding............................... Pickens................................. Pierce .................................... Pike . . ............................... Polk....................................... Pulaski.................................. Putnam................................ Quitman................................ Kabun.................................... Randolph............................ Richmond........................... Rockdale............................. Schley ................................... Screven................................ Spalding ............................... Stewart................................. Sumter (co.)...................... Americus (city)............... 'Talbot................................... `Taliaferro............................ Tatnall.................................. `Taylor................................... Telfair................................... Terrell................................... Thomas.................................. ' Towns................................... ' Troup.................................... 1 Twiggs. , . '........................ IT nion................................... Upson................................... `Walker.................. . . W alton................................. Ware..................................... Warren................................. Washington.......................... W ay ne................................. Webster................................ White................................... Whitfield............................. Wilcox................................. Wilkes...................... Wilkinson.......................... Worth...................................
Total............................
1,944 November 11, 1887. . $ 1,164 82
3,991 October 11, 1887 . . . 2,391 36
2,078 October 11,.1887 . . . 1,245 11
1,618 November 28, 1887. .
969 49
5,131 October 11, 1887 . . . 3,074 44
4,115 October 24, 1887. . . 2,465 66
4,218 December 2, 1887 . . 2,527 38
4,514 November 8, 1887 . . 2,704 74
1,409 October 11, 1887 . . .
844 26
1,525 November 4, 1887 . .
913 76
4,209 October 11, 1887 . . . 2,521 99
11,065 October 11, 1887 . . . 6,630 03
2,506 November 3, 1887 . . 1,501 57
1,837 October 19, 1887. . . 1,100 71
4,410 November 5,1887 . . 2,642 42
4,532 October 11, 1887. . . 2,715 52
4,200 November 18, 1887. . 2,516 59
6,105 October 14, 1887. . . 3,658 05
1,057 October 11, 1887 . . .
633 34
5,085 October 24, 1887 . . . 3,046 88
2,395 December 21, 1887. . 1,435 06
2,677 December 1, 1887 . . 1,604 03
2,664 November 30, 1887. . 1,596 24
1,645 October 14, 1887 . . .
985 67
3,831 November 23, 1887. . 2,295 49
7,157 December 27, 1887. . 4,288 40
1,195 October 11, 1887 . . .
716 03
6,170 October 11, 1887 . . . 8,697 00
2,746 November 24, 1887. . 1,645 37
2,057 November 7, 1887 . . 1,232 53
4,041 October 11, 1887 . . . 2,421 32
3,475 December 8, 1887 . . 2,082 18
4,687 December 7, 1887 . . 2,808 40
1,267 December 7, 1887 . .
759 17
3,988 October 11, 1887 . . . 2,389 57
7,972 October 11, 1887 . . . 4,776 73
1,794 October 11, 1887 . . . 1,074 95
1,571 October 26, 1887 . . .
941 33
1,806 October 18, 1887 . . . 1,082 14
3,570 October 28, 1887 . . . 2,139 10
9 91 October 11, 1887 . . .
593 80
4,796 November 14, 1887. . 2,873 71
4,084 October 11, 1887 . . . 2,447 09
2,112 November 12, 1887. . 1,265 49
508,722
$304,820 61
TABLE No. II. Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Seports.
COUNTIES.
TABLE No. II. Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
PART I.--STATISTICS OF SCHOOLS.
No. of Schools.
Number of Scholars Admitted.
White.
Colored.
Totals.
Branches of Study Taught.
W hite. Colored.
i i
Fem ales. Males. Fem ales.
1
W hite. Colored. White & Colored. Average
A tten d an ce. (Average m othly cost of tuition per
pupil. Amt of this m onth ly cost of tuition paid by the State.
1
O rthograp'y No. of pupils. R ead in g No. of pupils. W riting-- No. of pupils. Eng. Gram.-- No. of pupils. (Geography -- No. of pupils.] A rithm eticNo. of pupils.
Appling ..................... 40 Baker............................ 21 Baldwin ..................... 25
Banks........................... 33 Bartow......................... 57 Berrien........................ 53 Brooks.......................... 37 Brvan .......................... 23 Bullock........................ 81 Burke .......................... 33 Butts ........................... 27 Calhoun....................... 16 Camden....................... 18 Campbell................... 33 Carroll*....................... 104 Catoosa......................... 32 Charlton...................... 29 Chattahoochee.......... 17 Chattooga................... 53 Cherokee..................... 60 Clarke.......................... 14 Clay............................... 14 Clayton........................ 32 Clinch........................... 41 Cobb.............................. 76 Coffee............................ 48
16 463 403 189 181 866 370 1.236 961 $ 1 20 $ 86 1,172 899 691
18 208 215 410 388 423 798 1,221 689 1 02 1 02 1,188 743 580
29 502 562 868 989 1,064 1,857 2,921 2,090 67 ' 67 2,505 2,351 1,628
14 828 789 281 298 1,617 579 2,196 1,371 97
64 2,013 1,420 948
24 1,336 1,215 730 812 2,551 1,542 4,093 2,224 1 10
79 3,771 2,421 2,363
7 802 683 104 110 1,485 214 1,699 1,240 1 30
61 1,699 1,494 1,106
28 491 524 548 670 1,015 1,218 2,233 1,765 1 75
70 2,194 1,729 1,396
14 336 2S0 232 218 626 450 1,076 786 1 33
62 1,034 909 667
14 1,081 917 207 212 1,998 419 2,417 1,630 1 28+ 62+ 2,417 2,111 1,559
51 543 535 1,403 1,346 1,078 2,749 3,827 2,103 1 47 1 19 3,632 3,018 2,316
17 559 533 563 511 1,092 1,074 2,166 1,432 1 65
60 2,089 1,743 1,431
17 290 235 337 388 525 725 1,250 800 1 56+ 84 1,203 812 569
15 182 143 231 308 325 539 864 713 78
67% 860 776 580
17 734 695 585 598 1,429 1,183 2,612 1,913 1 25
51% 2,464 2,078 1,356
18 2,740 2,141 491 406 4,881 897 5,778 3,652 1 16
58% 5,555 4,439 2,928
6 619 485 106 90 1,104 196 1,300 724 83
72 1,197 999 559
4 263 220 30 31 483 61 544 436 1 00
66% 544 416 334
17 235 218 308 364 453 672 1,125 702 1 25
76 1,032 799 7 5
8 1,099 1,014 216 224 2,113 440 2,553 1,505 1 40
71 2,454 1,866 1,347
13 2,185 1,818 224 222 4,003 446 4,449 2,668 97
55 3,772 2,644 1,749
28 212 152 561 569 364 1,130 1,494 996 69
59 1,437 1,191 1,008
12 193 200 321 371 393 692 1,085 910 1 26
72
965 865 582
i] 655 589 251 260 1,244 511 1,755 1,198 1 24
62% 1,723 1,365 918
4 556 428 52 62 984 114 1,098 739 2 00
63 1,026 775 589
38 2,969 1,483 962 1,004 4,452 1,966 6,418 3,112 1 25
65 6,052 3,879 2,986
10 587 486 138 150 1,073 288 1,361 1,023 1 16% 66% 1,225 972 769
130 216 197 312 686 983 321 364 917 979 270 411 571 753 176 221 528 553 834 1,406 497 633 237 338 155 332
578 558 977 987 146 196 55 88 235 229 447 403 563 627 240 392 245 346 446 494 117 123 859 1,126 152 207
509 473 1,462 860 2,274 721
1,281 613
1,410
2,716 1,085
506 514 1,523 2,650 512
267 533 1,131 1,574 788 535 1,176 496 2,720 503
Columbia..................... 2l 20 253 300 340 352 553 692 1,245 927 1 46 1 00 1.245 1,190 1,190 760 840 840
Colquitt....................... 30
1 376 331 10 16 707 26 733 493 1 20
55% 723 491 317 55 71 208
Coweta,......................... 47 43 1,211 1,224 1,470 1,389 2,435 2,859 5,294 3,250 1 23
08% 4,931 4,236 3,394 1,163 1,669 3,000
Crawford...................... 24 13 364 311 266 322 675 588 1,263 849 1 11
9n
779 667 503 302 334 555
Dade.............................. 21
2 533 501 29 22 1,034
51 1,085 707 66% 00% 942 832 440 177 210 548
Dawson....................... 30
1 855 834 48 43 1,689
91 1,780 1,095 1 00
57 1.710 1,101 515 259 259 571
Decatur......................... 52 42 1,005 892 859 852 1,897 1,711 3,608 2,391 1 11
80% 3,460 2,606 1,919 616 910 1,613
DeKalb......................... 50 18 1,198 1,037 472 459 2,235 931 3,166 1,895 1 24
69 3,164 2,507 1,937 587 750 1,774
Dodge............................ 32 11 633 582 294 316 1,215 610 1,825 1,335 1 22
52% 1,737 1,434 948 307 467 890
Dooly............................ 41 23 684 672 413 447 1,356 860 2,216 1.603 1 38
83 1,332 1,175 1,071 282 398 869
Dougherty...................
5 35 115 85 1,031 1,129 200 2,160 2,360 1,965 70
55 2.086 1,696 1,270 235 762 1,050
Douglas........................ 33
9 800 711 256 228 1,511 484 1,995 1,047 1 56
72 1,864 1,506 936 326 444 981
Early.............................. 17 15 376 341 429 494 717 923 1,640 958 1 37
92 1,514 1,092 788 274 563 607
Echols...........................
12
3 160 148 50 50 308 100 408 309 1 23
<86
315 331 244 56 66 200
Effingham.................... 31 15 350 346 232 228 696 460 1,156 906 1 26
65 1,136 901 793 287 336 710
Elbert........................... 38 32 843 720 756 763 1,563 1,519 3,082 1,796 1 25
70 2,890 2,038 1,681 762 983 1,480
Emanuel..................... 71 23 1,132 1,027 432 409 2,159 841 3,000 1,875 1 25
58 2,713 2,068 1,462 538 577 1,286
Fannin........................ 53
1 1,077 977 14 18 2,054
32 2,086 1,288 62
59 1,848 952 502 166 107 485
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Favette......................... 31 14 768 654 342 381 1,422 723 2,145 1,101 1 05
79 1,993 1,530 1,113 461 435 1,113
Floyd........................... 82 41 1,559 1,307 930 937 2,866 1,867 4,733 3,094 1 25
04% 4,455 3,559 2,555 835 1.077 2,225
Forsyth........................ 42 10 1,397 1,254 190 183 2,651 373 3,024 1.748 1 08
69 2,865 1,984 1,155 444 339 1,180
Franklin..................... 49 16 1,515 1,213 511 461 2,728 972 3,700 2,311 1 00
59 2,408 2,253 1,432 456 548 1,392
Fulton........................... 28 13 912 772 399 492 1,684 891 2,575 1,538 1 07
68% 2,387 2,123 1,590 454 747 1,389
Gilmer.......................... 53
1 1,484 1,217 19 14 2,701
33 2,734 1,453 62
62 2.362 1,085 576 208 148 708
Glasscock.................... 15
7 320 246 179 140 566 319 885 397 2 00
95% 606 477 368 132 175 335
Gordon........................ 75 11 1,654 1,580 193 204 3,234 397 3,631 2,229 1 00
51% 3,365 1,536 1,609 669 703 1,873
Greene......................... 34 27 581 534 888 1,018 1,115 1,906 3,021 2,021 82
82 2,872 2,460 3,697 658 966 1,531
Gwinnett...,............... 84 20 2,444 2,004 483 422 4,448 905 5,353 3,090 1 36
64 5,093 3,696 2,468 689 746 2,309
Habersham................
52
8 1,299 1,021 188 195 2,320 383 2,703 1,527 1 00
64 2,662 1,611 971 263 303 866
Hall................................ 70 15 2,107 1,790 377 304 3,897 681 4,578 2,580 1 11
65 4,326 2,924 1,937 735 728 1,836
Hancock....................... 49 39 480 495 838 945 975 1,783 2,758 2,213 1 53
63% 2,711 2,147 1,540 648 1,071 1,483
Haralsont.................... 45
5 1,016 883 60 52 1,899 112 2,011 1,033 1 25
74 1,875 1,325 635 175 210 745
Harris............................ 61 58 887 770 1,297 1,276 1,657 2,573 4,230 2,888 1 25
60 3,167 3,026 2,259 1,112 1,008 2,138
Hart.............................. 49 21 1,000 873 402 337 1,873 739 2,612 1,700 1 20
56% 2,612 1,650 1,050 425 545 1,190
Heard........................... 42 16 887 640 499 463 1,527 962 2,489 1,643 1 70
39 2,413 1,790 1,213 329 433 1,045
Henry............................ 56 32 1,218 1,058 949 897 2,276 1,846 4,122 2,477 1 47
60 4,046 3,005 2,283 769 930 2,017
Houston....................... 46 52 572 553 1,010 1,047 1.125 2,057 3,182 2,500 1 02
79 3,036 2,704 2,159 795 1,102 1,869
Irwin............................. 28
5 356 270 70 86 626 156 782 554 1 38
73
691 661 491 134 188 382
Jackson......................... 72 27 1,575 1,325 716 656 2,900 1,372 4,272 2,433 1 32
78 4,026 3,294 2,261 719 999 2,149
Jasper............................ 36 24 658 544 791 711 1,202 1,502 2,704 1,839 1 15
69 2,704 3,956 1,665 672 820 1,387
Jefferson....................... 28 25 453 456 564 640 909 1.204 2,113 1,285 1 01
73+ 1,940 1,782 1,271 437 711 1,111
Johnson....................... 32
8 585 586 185 172 1,171 357 1,528 823 1 38% 75% 1,517 1,019 701 217 117 449
vii
Jones............................ 27 28 362 291 929 923 653 1,852 2,505 1,762 95
60 2,207 1,938 1,532 405 700 1,210
Laurens........................ 45 26 763 857 422 461 1,620 883 2,503 1,734 1 40
70 2,503 2,007 1,813 921 875 1,319
V III
TABLE No. II.--Continued.
Consolidation of Public School Teacners' Reports.
PART I.--STATISTICS OF SCHOOLS.
Average attendance.
:Average m o n th ly cost of tu itio n per pupil. Amt of this m onth ly cost of tuition paid by the State.
1
W riting-
No. of pupils. Eng. Gram.-- iNo. of pupils.
i
Geography -- jNo. of p u p ils.
Reading-- No. of pupils.
O rthograp'y -
No. of pupils.
COUNTIES.
No, of Schools.
Number of Scholars Admitted.
White.
Colored.
Total.
;
i
t
Is
,
Branches of Study Taught
ft
Colored.
1
White &
Colored.
W hite.
Females.
Fem ales.
1
W hite. Colored.
Uee................................. 14 24 168 135 662 658 SOS 1,320 1,623 1,3331# 1 19 * 57% 1,565 1,228 864 288 455 713
Eibcrty ........................ 31 56 388 375 811 925 763 1,736 2,499 1,943 75
58 2,428 2,137 1,606 495 1,037 1,545 <7J
I-'incoln......................... 23 11 321 279 209 236 600 445 1,045 792 1 40 Eowndos...................... 31 24 431 423 674 780 854 1,454 2,308 1,738 1 19
H 73+ 1,006 869 706 290 398 626 TJ
62 2,059 1,798 1,453 424 687 1,058
Lumpkin..................... 42
4 984 877 07 69 1,861 136 1,997 1,096 1 00
Macon.......................... 19 15 419 410 441 537 829 978 1,807 1,349 1 62
Madison....................... 43 24 708 718 453 490 1,426 943 2,369 1,316 1 36
59
92 68
1,997 710 350 149 1,747 1,418 1,176 477 2,227 1,642 1,134 372
73 287 591 1,083 547 1,096
M!Ozi
Marion......................... 22 17 500 461 541 546 961 1,087 2,048 1,178 1 55
2,048 1,533 1,132 868 373 1,024
McDuffie..................... 28 24 393 374 468 510 767 978 1,745 1,264 1 09
68 1,742 1,379 1,041 359 601 872
McIntosh.....................
5 19 63 55 424 466 118 890 1,008 79S 1 38
58
937 884" 632 147 410 541
Meriwether................ 47 2l' 847 875 466 596 1,722 1,062 2,784 2,032 1 30
94 2,625 2,307 1,902 711 940 1,708
Miller............................ 19
0 278 251 58 78 529 136 665 470 1 50 1 02
665 464 267 79 156 228
Milton........................... 27
6 828 757 100 93 1,585 193 1.778 98b 1 12
67 1,369 1,341 887 180 313 804
Mitchell....................... 24 12 369 399 246 298 768 544 1,312 1,073 1 50
75 1,307 1,054 836 281 430 706
Monroe......................... 36 40 743 680 1,139 1,283 1,423 2,422 3,845 2,704 1 34
57% 3,473 3,479 2,542 660 1,222 2,219
Montgomery............... 43 20 528 444 269 238 972 507 1,479 1,010 1 60
66 1,396 1,077 900 310 336 750
Morgan......................... 36 33 503 495 561 598 998 1,159 2,157 1,828 1 12
82 2,118 1,823 1,501 512 766 1,402
Murray.......................... 39
4 728 818 214 204 1,516 418 1,964 1,528 1 00
53% 1,218 1,100 908 614 414 1,084
Muscogee..................... 22 30 338 308 755 830 646 1,585 2,231 1,489 78
67 2,231 2,176 1,874 876 1,248 1,421
Newton....... *............... 37 29 806 774 832 801 1,580 1,633 3,213 2,049 1 26
76 3,035 2,652 2,046 649 925 1,734
Oconee......................... 26 14 452 36'/ 415 394 819 809 1,628 1,090 1 36
59 1,609 1,233 1,065 285 354 974
Oglethorpe................. 35 39 640 546 814 893 1,186 1,707 2,893 1,99$ 1 70
65 2,893 2,233 1,786 567 840 1,687
Paulding...................... 80
7 1,581 1,480 145 135 3,061 280 3,341 1,455 1 20
88 3,341 2,228 1,670 418 512 1,600
Pickens........................ 43
1 .1,113 1,107 16 14 2,220
30 2,25C 1,323 51% 51% 2,230 1,110 583 150 138 610
Pierce .......................... 28
5 451 384 97 106 835 203 1,038 736 1 00
55% 978 641 641 237 257 439
Pike.............................. 42 25 1,084 1,048| 771 920 2,132 1,691 3.823 2,480 1 25
63 3,323 2,913 2,264 920 1,266 1,970
Polk ............................. Pulaski......................... Putnam....................... Quitman..................... Rabun.......................... Randolph................... Rockdale..................... Schley.......................... Screven........................ Spalding......................
Stewart......................... Sumter........................ Talbot..........................
Taliaferro................... Tatnall......................... Taylor........................... Telfair......................... Terrell...........................
Thomas....................... Towns........................... Troup........................... Twiggs......................... Union............................ Upson.......................... Walker......................... Walton......................... Ware............................. Warren.........................
Washington................ Wayne........................... Webster....................... White...........................
Whitfield..................... Wilcox.........................
Wilkes......................... Wilkinson .................. Worth...........................
49 19 1,118 984 406 448 2,102 854 2,956 1,773 1 40
36 26 653 639 512 582 1,292 1,094 2,386 1,866 1 69
23 35 375 327 675 804 702 1,479 2,181 1,815 1 75
9 10 132 150 191 181 282 372 654 388 1 20
30
1 709 659
9 11 1,368 20 1,38 912 1 00
30 16 573 666 418 568 1,239 986 2,225 1,602 1 50
20 14 507 429 372 356 936 728 1.664 1,164 1 20
12 11 314 293 354 361 607 715 1,322 836 1 19
47 21 751 718 388 423 1,469 811 2,280 1,514 1 07
27 21 500 430 527 520 930 1,047 1,977 1,229 1 25
24 28 438 367 966 1,041 805 2,007 2,812 1,893 1 07
40 37 440 523 960 970 963 1,930 2,893 2,qi0j 1 50
33 32 469 468 848 941 937 1,789 2,726 2,084 1 50
15
8 255 252 189 165 507 354 861 745 92
58 18 778 732 330 279 1,510 609 2,119 1,470 1 04
23
6 458 418 152 149 876 301 1,177 851 1 18
24 12 310 330 163 186 640 349 989 754 1 67
31 31 606 588 675 719 1,194 1,394 2,588 1,874 1 08
48 36 1,017 1,019 1,025 1,054 2,036 2,079 4,115 2,927 79
22
619 511
1,130
1,130 684 59
31 43 601 528 1,294 1,367 1,129 2,661 3,790 2,181 1 05
l()i 14 220 263 352 344 481 696 1,177 , 7>4 1 40
44
1 1,264 1,078 14 12 2,342
26 2,368 1,315 1 00
31 20 774 656 689 678 1,430 1,867 2,797 1,855 1 56
68 10 1,612 1,334 214 174 2,946 388 3,334 2,007 1 00
54 30 1,137 1,084 659 604 2,221 1,263 3,484 2.378 1 50
32
8 446 338 197 220 784 417 1,201 870 1 00
28 23 452 419 567 611 871 1,178 2,049 1,530 1 60
68 39 1,174 1,125 928 1,049 2,299 1,977 4,276 2.877 1 39
43 12 526 493 107 209 1,019 316 1,335 1,150 1 00
15 14 269 265 328 305 534 633 1,167 772 1 42
28
4 828 629 125 125 1,457 250 1,707 1,033 1 00
43
8 1,207 1,031 146 135 2,238 281 2,519 1,531 85
26
9 283 297 98 117 580 215 795 557 1 80
59 13 663 648 201 130 1,311 33i 1,642 1,416 1 74
48 23 615 682 365 459 1,297 824 2,121 1,441 1 60
46 17 579 508 346 307 1,087 653 1,740 1,207 2 00
80 2,860 1,348 1,213 378 608 1,197
2,375 2,079 1,559 591 709 1,396
70% 1,957 1,909 1,469 630 857 1,222
1 12
642 525 482 312 209 468
59 1,256 659 303 154 121 340
2,225 2,004 1,709 857 1,223 1,784
67% 1,576 1,140 921 277 333 811
67 1,319 872 659 260 350 677
92 2,178 1,793 1,487 526 893 1,314
71% 1,891 1,434 1,177 454 619 1,027
67% 2,745 1,944 1,460 555 739 1,348
71% 2,910 2,742 1,638 1.210 1,206 2,109
56% 2,647 2,369 1,554 662 834 1,417
91
849 766 687 226 404 585
60 1,898 1,637 1,292 364 622 997
71 1,148 1,023 770 286 329 612
70
954 792 641 191 256 555
63 2,506 1.768 1,435 683 666 1,383
79 3,785 3,070 2,324 864 1,130 1,914
59 1,098 545 270 169 57 289
74 3,523 3,241 2,607 769 997 1,966
87
795 740 500 164 227 513
56 2,156 868 325 181 141 522 ft
66^ 2,698 2,100 1,500 000 690 1,300
61
3,201 2,235 1,018 503 392 1,403
69 3,484 3,116 2,821 2,016 927 2,618 M
5^ 61% 1,201 847 746 263 275 606
71 1,950 1,550 1,311 567 763 1,113
76 4,186 3,341 2,410 1,121 1,386 2,317
51% 976 900 655 355 332 528
70% 1,133 904 668 252 281 659
57 1,664 957 486 150 161 522
60 2.457 1,803 1,793 383 472 1,293
60
704 403 297 113 167 341
1 16 1,634 1,456 1,371 589 782 1,131
83 2,097 1,665 1,261 403 530 1,088
69 1,740 1,338 1,001 259 403 767
Totals and averages.. Totals taken from
Table No. 3..............
083 2,512 101,561 90, 065 59,109 61,444 191,626 120,553 312,179 203,023 8 1 24 * 69 291,994 229,800 168,542 61,625 76,994 152,713 8,265 8,974 5,866 7,010 17,239 12,876 30,115 23,267
IX
Grand totals............j
109,826 99,039 64,975 6g,454 208.865 133,429 342,294 226,290
*No separate report for Carrollton for the year 1887 was obtained. These figures include both city and county. fOwing to circumstances, a full explanation of which would occupy too much space, the report from Haralson county as to some of the statistics contained in this table is approximate only, but is a close approximation.
TABLE No. II.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
PART II.---- FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
;
Balance rem aining on hand.
th e 'y_e_a_r.__
fund received for
Total am ount sehT
on hand from last [
eluding balance i
other sources, in- 1
II j
fro m
received
Amt State School Commissioners' or der on the tax col lector.
Amt of poll-tax re ceived at tim e of settlem ent with teachers.
Total of expendi tures.
A m ount paid to teachers.
Com pensation of County School C om m issioner.
Postage and other expenses.
COUNTIES.
year.
Am t
Appling...................................................... S Baker..........................................................
Banks
.....................
Bartow.......................................................
Rprripn
........................
Brnnks
.......... ...........
Brvan..........................................................
Bullock....................................................... Burke.........................................................
Butts............................................................
Calhoun.....................................................
Carnden..................................................... CnmphpB
Carrollftt................................................... Catoosa....................................................... Charlton.....................................................
Chattahoochee........................................
Chattooga................................................. ChfrnkfP
Olnrkp
......................
Say.............................................................
90 001 200 00 173 63 85 00
335 00 125 00 297 00 108 00
77 00 450 00 150 00 216 00 225 00 100 00
300 00 75 00
- 68 44 75 00 108 80
235 45 126 00 140 00
45 00 $ 6 00 6 00 3 00
||184 04 20 00 10 50 5 00 8 00 16 00 6 00 12 50 65 68
6 60 26 67
7 50 4 18
5 23 16 41
10 00 9 50 1 15
2,498 03 $ 2,111 00 4,209 60 2,633 88 5,278 86 2,273 16 3,755 77 1,465 55 3,064 60 10,050 31
2,585 52 2,028 75 1,756 00 2,968 30 6,410 41 1,575 44
874 54 1,582 30
3,206 79 4,451 86 1,730 82 1,968 07
2,683 68 8 1,000 00 $
2,317 00
528 05
4,389 23 1,413 65
2,721 88 1,166 17
5,797 90 2,000 00
2,418 16 1,000 00
4,063 27 1.550 63
1,578 55
556 78
3,149 60 1,332 00
10,516 31 2,800 00
2,741 52 1.065 56
2,257 25
600 00
2,046 68
718 05
3,074 90 1,196 10
6,737 08 2,550 00
1,657 94
650 00
947 16
417 00
1,662 53
648 34
3,332 00 ***1,409 49
4,697 31 2,000 00
1,866 32
800 00
2,109 22
655 00
1,145 05 tf 1,6*14 68 2,973 18
1,445 84 3,457 32 1,305 03 2,568 62
933 54
1,768 81 5,195 57 1,657 36 1,542 91 1,234 93 2,006 08
3,950 45 1,007 24
387 68
1,019 20 2,001 29 2,792 22 1,004 24 1,195 38
593 62j# 2,788 07 $ 247 52 2,380 20
2 40 4,389 23 109 91 2,721 92 330 79 5,788 11 140 63 2,445 66 125 81 4,245 06 110 51 1,600 83 83 96 3,184 77 2,774 94 10,770 51 45 001 2,767 92 197 57 2,340 48 208 67 2.161 65 82 43 3,284 61 249 94 6,750 39
1 09 1,658 33 332 46 1,137 14
6 75 1,674 29 148 24 3,559 02
4,792 22 71 93 1,876 17 338 63 ' 2,189 01
d
105 04
63 20 O
, 04 --9 79 27 50 181 79 22 28 35 17 254 20 26 40 83 23 114 97 209 71 13 31
39 189 98 11 76 227 02 94 91
9 85 79 79
Clinch.........................................................
Coffee.......................................................... Columbia................................................... Colquitt..................................................... Coweta....................................................... Crawford.......................................... ........ Dade............................................................ Dawson..................................................... Decatur....................................................... DeKalb....................................................... Dodge.......................................................... Dooly.......................................................... Dougherty................................................. Douglas..................................................... Early.......................................................... Echols......................................................... Effingham................................................. Elbert......................................................... Emanuel................................................... Fannin.......................................................
Forsyth....................................................... Franklin.................................................... Fulton......................................................... Gilmer....................................................... Glasscock................................................... Gordon........................................................ Greene......................................................... Gwinnett.................................................... Habersham............................................... Hall.............................................................. Hancock..................................................... Haralson................................................... Harris.......................................................... Hart............................................................. Heard......................................................... Henry............................... .......................... Houston......................................................
Jackson....................................................... Jasper..........................................................
125 00 77 06 300 00 100 00 200 00 81 00 300 00 200 00 100 00 100 00 .300 00 360 00 150 00
268 00 144 00
200 00 100 00 46 03
76 46 450 00 300 00
116 00 125 00 300 00 200 00 105 00
225 00 158 00 99 00 195 00 350 00 300 00 150 00 300 00
218 40 125 00 300 00 240 00 100 00 300 00 206 00
75 00 600 00 290 00
2,261 32 2,386 32
957 11 1,529 13
130 37 2,616 61
230 29
3 05 1,400 65 1,482 76
638 57
744 IS
100 OC 1,482 76
52 50 6,069 58 6,422 08 1,669 25 4,164 74
666 0C 6,499 99
77 91
10 00 2,038 86 2,148 86 1,200 00
911 37
115 38 2,226 75
77 89
4 01 2,798 8S 3,002 90 1,121 45 1,881 45
48 55 3,051 45
48 55
3 00
824 62
908 62
465 58
454 IS
10 OC
929 77
21 15
14 20 6,322 15 6,636 35 2,500 00 3,794 66
373 04 6,667 7C
31 35
1 00 2,427 47 2,628 47 1,038 40 1,562 OS
23 17 2,623 66
--4 81
12 00 1,414 0C 1,526 00
632 70
918 56
60 OC 1,613 26
85 26
7 00 3,883 20 1,990 20
737 00 1,180 4C
46 76 1,964 16
--26 04
93 80 5.760 42 6,154 22 2,500 00 3,824 62 1,073 05 7,397 67 1,243 45
20 45 3,934 61 4.315 06 1,500 00 2,783 83
135 74 4,419 57
104 51
30 00 2,113 32 2,293 32 1,209 90 1,070 15
19 84 2,299 89
6 57
25 18 4,001 70 4,294 88 1,725 00 2,232 58
337 30 4,294 88
4 97 3,240 83 3,389 80 1,114 00 2,269 13
3,383 13
--6 67
8 00 2,262 04 2,470 04
933 86 1,523 14
97 00 2,554 00
83 96
28 40 2,647 85 2,776 25 1,157 30 1,368 55
332 78 2,858 63
82 38
66
800 00
846 69
315 68
586 01
19 00
920 69
74 00
19 70 1,765 89 1,862 05
750 00 1,074 95
42 83 1,867 78
5 73
27 25 3,783 75 4,261 00 1,700 00 2,732 30
335 36 4,767 66
506 66 LT
9 00 3,289 25 3,598 25 1,200 00 2,064 81
462 84 3,727 65
129 40 ^
15 00 2,292 40 2,423 40
897 84 1,526 13
74 23 2,498 20
74 80 y
5 00 2,616 26 2,746 26 1,000 00 1,547 10
205 47 2,752 57
6 31 w
91 05 5,054 49 5,445 54 1,250 00 3,954 48 3,612 80 3,812 80 3,530 00 2,193 03
429 78 5,(134 2(1 94 16 3,817 19
188 72 J
4 39 2
10 65 4,117 45 4,233 10 1,900 00 2,287 10
94 29 4,281 39
48 29 >
10 45 3,163 67 3,399 12
800 00 2,596 89
2 50 3,399 39
27
14 92 2,702 42 2,875 34 1,050 00 1,825 13
17 79 2,892 92
17 58
1 00 1,136 08 1,236 08
526 14
642 93
63 51 1,232 58
--3 50
5 00 3,455 28 3,655 28 1,671 51 2,036 04
63 61 3,771 16
115 88
153 39 4,959 37 5,462 76 1,725 62 3,154 73 If599 71 5,480 06
17 30
30 00 5,949 40 6,279 40 2,500 00 3,869 56
6,369 56
90 16
18 00 2,932 95 3,100 95 1,235 60 1,772 40
93 60 3,101 60
65
*94 11 5,030 26 5,424 37 2,300 00 3,158 92
6 98 5,465 90
41 53
15 70 4,133 92 4,368 02 1,200 00 3,054 07
113 95 4,368 02
32 30 2,322 00 2,479 30 1,000 00 1,312 22
250 28 2,562 50
83 20
7 00 5,018 83 5,o25 83 1,915 83 3,461 51
409 27 5,786 61
460 78
11 00 2,894 54 3,145 54 1,312 52 2,088 17
183 18 3,583 87
438 33
2,930 30 3,030 30 1,333 20 1,752 63
125 66 3,211 49
181 19
3 00 4,481 66 4,784 66 1,900 00 2,861 13
28 26 4,789 39
4 73
1 00 5,947 17 6,154 17 2,000 00 4,028 95
175 56 6,204 51
50 34
25 00 1,222 24 1,322 24
738 94
591 40
46 66 1,377 00
54 76
17 45 21 20
5,625 61 3,833 28
6,243 06 4,124 48
2,022 46 1,500 00
3,568 2,603
17 48
.......6..5.2..4.3
6,243 4,103
0648
....... --2100
^
nx
TA B LE No. II.--Continued.
i
Balance remaining on hand.
fund reeceived for
xiciNaaay
the year.
Total amount schT
cluding balance on hand from last
* other sources, in
Am t received from
Amt State School Commissioners' or der on the tax col lector.
Amt of poll-tax re ceived at time of settlement with teachers.
Total of expendi tures.
Amount paid to teachers.
Compensation of County School Commissioner.
Postage and other expenses.
8 1 i
year.
!3SSiis8isSI$SSi
slooS
!
J e f f e r s o n ..............................................!jS J o h n s o n ............................................. 1 Jo n e s................................................... L au ren s...............................................
L ib e rty ....................................................... 1 L in c o ln ....................................................... ' L o w n d e s................................................... L u m p k in ................................................... : M acon......................................................... i M ad iso n ..................................................... 1 M a rio n ....................................................... M cDuffie.................................................... M cIn to sh .................................................. ; M e riw e th e r.............................................. M iller.................................................. M ilton................................................. M itc h e ll............................................. I M onroe................................................ 1 M ontgom ery.......................................
1
M organ........... .................................... M urray......... ........ .............................. |
102 90 $ 120 00
to? 63
6 00
360 180
00 00
........... 19*50
207 00
26 95
100 00
9 00
200 00
3 21 1
282 00
25 00 1
97 75
61 13
255 00
7 00
100 00
10 00,
150 00
5 10!
200 00 180 00
.............. 2
50
180 00
5 00
16 50
24 03
100 00
2 10
156 00
26 00
250 00
13 75
110 00
33 02
300 00
36 50
130 00 1
11 30
$ 4,877 69 * 1,750 00 IS 3,163 12
1,985 01
994 20 1
1,054 57
3,557 97 1,444 25 2,087 57
3,841 69 1,922 91 1,958 15
2,933 94
856 66; 2,112 14
i 3,510 49 1,400 00 2,052 82
1 1,954 00
800 00 1,152 84 1
3,571 27 1,425 06 2,142 70
j 2.129 19
800 oo!1 1,309 83
3.988 46 1,217 55 2,279 91
1 2,817 59
1,300 00 1 1,434 46
2,895 12 1,245 00 1,956 95 1
2,764 15
836 37 1,906 62
1,583 62
560 00' 1,123 48
5,959 45 i 1,90490 3,853 98
1,478 69
550 001
817 29
2,106 83
918 61 1.179 20
2,603 72
600 OOl
1,951 56
5,733 25 i 2,149 10 1
931 30 1,155 00,
3,862 37 1,016 82,
4,816 50 1,200 00 3,080 43
2,704 99 i 1,042 04
1,657 96
ii
M
: Si i Si
Muscogee....
Newton........ Oconee ........ Oglethorpe .
Paulding..... Pickens........ Pierce ..........
Pike............... Polk.............. Pulaski........ Putnam...... Quitman! tt... Rabun ........ Randolph...
Rockdale.... Schley........... Screven ........ Spalding......
Stewart........ Sumter........ Talbot......... Taliaferro....
Tatnall........ Taylor.......... Telfair.......... Terrell........
Thomas....... Towns......... Troup..........
Twiggs......... Union.......... Upson.......... Walker........ Walton.......
Ware........... Warren......... Washington.
Wayne.......... Webster...... White.......... Whitfield.... Wilcox........ Wilkes ........ Wilkinson...
f
225 00 189 00 189 50 249 00 200 00 150 00 9q 00 192 00 105 00 300 00 150 00 80 00 47 00 250 00 84 00 98 00 360 00 250 0U 350 00 422 00 150 00 199 50 135 00 221 00 160 00 195 00 420 00
307 50 150 00 100 00 220 50 100 00 240 00 100 00 200 00 321 00 108 00 75 00 124 77 100 00 237 50 313 50 250 00
31 60 11 00 J71 89 21 00 10 00
2 00 7 50 16 75
58 60 7 50 **10 21 * 30 00 1 65 3 85 18 25 15 00 62 85 32 65 ftl04 84 20 45 12 00 9 00 30 00 6 00
4 50 7 80 3 00 0 00 10 50 10 00 12 10 20 00 20 00 20 00 8 06 1 50 3 50 20 00 5 00 12 00 5 00
2,994 45 4,700 00
1,925 20 3,915 23 3,822 78
2,051 03 1,473 57
4,707 50 4,254 96 3,998 67 3,857 95 1,307 00 1,614 46
3,632 98 2,367 55 1,684 70 4,182 45 2,635 82 3,853 92 4,316 00
3,538 73 2,034 45
2,645 46 1,829 11 1,589 15 3,545 30
6,947 10 1,217 00 4,854 35 1,998 29 2,206 46 3,692 77 3,612 36 4,958 80
1,613 75 3,300 76
6,587 53 1,782 40 1,637 81 1,770 76
2,756 55 1,004 30 4,966 30 3,592 88
3,251 05 4,900 00 2,136 59 4,185 23 4,032 78 2,201 03 1,565 57 4,907 00 4,376 71 4,298 67 4,066 55 1,394 50 1,671 67 3,912 98 2,453 20 1,786 55 4,560 70 2,900 82 4,266 77 4,770 65 3,793 57 2,254 40 2,792 46 2,059 11 1,779 15 3,746 30 7,367 10 1,221 50 5.169 65
2,306 46 3,923 77 3,722 36 5,210 90 !,733 75 3,520 76 6,928 53 1,898 46 1,714 31 1,899 03 2,876 55 1,246 80 5,291 80 3,847 88
500 00 1,628 74
900 00 1,358 50 1,400 00
992 32 500 00 2,146 51
1,356 99 1,509 06 1,422 35
566 20 755 20
1,200 00 900 00 689 03
1,459 00 JtSOO 00
1,686 55 1,373 00
800 00 825 80
1,000 00 625 56 741 92
1,200 00
2,581 44 524 00
ttl,710 64
505 99
1,025 00
1,215 00 1,713 71 2,231 03
832 00 948 62 JJ2.406 29 823 70 718 42 717 00
til,182 49 654 30
2,200 00 1,206 47
1,977 32 3,018 11 1,164 82 2,768 25 2,391 36 1,245 11
969 49 3,074 44
2,465 66 2,527 38 2,704 74
844 26 913 76 2,521 99
1,501 57 1,100 71 2,642 42 tt2,154 07 2,516 59 3,658 05 3,046 88 1,435 06 1,604 03 1,596 24
985 67 2,295 49 4,288 40
716 03 it3,197 36
1 645 37
1,232 53 2,421 32 2,082 18 2,808 40
759 17 2,389 57 U4,334 67
1,074 95 941 33
1,082 1 4 tJl,682 76
593 80 2,873 71
2,447 09
1,148 48 253 15 98 19 64 77 389 99 12 19 189 03 207 43 947 49 329 54 95 00 49 20 5 61 211 68 61 94 4 12 536 59 296 57 15 25 450 66 73 90
228 00 67 70 53 22
251 25 1,683 40
5 00 450 27
53 48 319 95 72 &5 171 47 217 14 197 08 187 60 23 44 68 46 101 53 171 05
3 72 206 03 217 35
3,625 80 4,9'0 00 2,163 01 4,191 52
4,181 35 2,249 62 1,653 52 5,428 38
4,770 14 4,365 98 4,222 09 1,459 66 1,674 60
3,933 67 2,463 51 1,793 86
4,638 01 2,950 64
4,218 39 5,481 71 3,920 78
2,260 86 2,832 03 2,289 50 1,780 81 3,746 74 8,553 24
1,245 03 5,358 27
2,151 29 2;311 01 3,956 27
3,868 24 5,210 90 1,808 31 3,535 27 6,928 56 1,922 09 1,728 21 1,900 67 3,036 30
1,251 82 5,279 74 3,870 91
374 75
26 42
6 29
148 57
48 59
92 95
521 38
393 43
67 31
155 54
65 16
2 93
20 69
10 31
7 31
77 31
49 82
--48 38
711 06 127 21
d hj
6 46 39 57
ISS
230 39 u
1 66 44
X
1,186 14
23 53
188 62
4 55 32 50 145 88
74 56 14 51
03 23 63 13 90 1 64 159 75 5 02 --12 06 23 03
TABLE No. II.--Continued.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
PART II.--FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
x iv
Compensation of County School C om m issioner.
Postage and other expenses. A m ount paid to teachers. Total of expendi tures. Amt of poll-tax re ceived at tim e of settlem ent with teachers. Amt State School C om m issioner's or der on the tax col lector. Amt received from ! other sources, in cluding balance on hand from last year. T otal am o u n t sch'l fund received for the year Balance rem aining on hand.
Appen d ix .
COUNTIES.
Worth........................................................ * 100 00 *
8 8 8 27 60 $ 2,508 37 2,635 97 $ 1,000 00 * 1.265 49 $ 374 53 2,640 02
4 05
8 8 8 8 Totals................................................. $ 25,051 19 * 2,611 82 * 420,212 15 447,875 16 $ 161,518 89 270,868 10 $ 28,046 58 460,433 57 12,558 11
8 8 Totals taken from table No. 3........ $ 14,016 00 * 65,784 19 223,987 08 * 303,787 27 $ 22,669 04 $ 34,302 09 $ 274,431 16 331,402 29 27,615 02
8 Grand totals.................................... 39,067 19 s 68,396 01 8 644,199 23 * 751,662 43 $ 184,187 93 $ 305,170 19 $ 302,477 74 * 791,835 86 40,173 43
* (Hall)--Includes same refunded Tax Collector on account of overpayment in 188<>. f (Jefferson.)--County School Commissioner refunded $54.42 paid out by him in 1886 in excess of sum received. Tax Collector repaid $10.81 overpayment by him. I (Oconee.)--Of this sum $66.32 was paid to teachers of 1886. II (Bartow.)--A part of this sum was paid to teachers of 1886.
g (Greene )--Of this sum $135.44 was paid to Tax Collector and Tax Receiver as uncollected commissions on polls of 1886. If (Greene.)--Of this sum $440.00 was derived from the Allison fund. ** (Rabun.)--Of this sum $1.56 was refunded Tax Collector on account of overpayment on polls in 1886. tt (Talbot.)--Of this sum $93.84 was refunded Tax Collector on account of overpayment on polls in 1886. tj (Washington, Whitfield, Troup, Spalding.)--Certain additional sums passing through the hands of the County School Commissioner to
be found in the corresponding column in reports of cities and counties under special laws.
HI (Quitman.)-^-The report of Judge J. E. Smith, the Commissioner of Quitman county, seemed to contain certain inaccuracies which were corrected in the State School Commissioner's office. He was written to relative to the corrections thus made, but his death intervened and prevented his giving his approval or disapproval to these corrections. Correspondence with his successor indicates that the report herein con tained is slightly inaccurate, the amount paid out being some two or three dollars greater than herein appears, and the balance on hand propor tionately less.
In Floyd county the poll tax, going to the city of Rome, is paid to the County School Commissioner and the order on the Tax Collector for both city's and county's quota is drawn in his favor. The late County School Commissioner, a most careful, painstaking and efficient officer, insists that the figures above given in the particulars below named are incorrect, and that his report should be as follows :
Amount paid to teachers, $6,470.49; Total of Expeditures, $6,861.54. Amount of poll-tax received at time of settlement with teachers, $1,800.00. -Amount of State School Commissioners order, $4,820.48. These are the actual sums which went through his hands. The figures given in the above table and those contained in the table wherein the report of the Rome schools appears, if taken together, show the totals just named. In the opinion of this office, it is best to separate between city and county as has been done.
*** (Chattooga.)--This sum includes $209.49 received on polls from Tax Collector after settlement with teachers.
ttf (Carroll.)--The schools of the city of Carrollton are reported with the other schools of the county.
Ungraded. Graded. High Schools. Num ber of Teachers. Males. Fem ales. Males. F em ales. W hite. Colored. W hite and
Colored. Length of School
Term in months. Average Attendance. Average m onthy cost
of Tuition per pupil.
1
A m ount paid to Su perintendent.
A m ount paid to teachi ers. Other Expenses. Total of Expenditures. Am ount of poll-tax ; received. A m 'u n to f State School C om m issioner's order. Am ount received from
other sources. Total am ount of School
Fund received for the year. Balance rem aining on hand.
%
No. of
Schools
COUNTY OK CITY
TABLE No. III.
Superintendents' Reports of Public Schools under Local Laws.
NUMBER OF PUPILS ADMITTED.
White. Colored.
Total.
Americus (citv).'.... 0 2 1 15 183 201 208 252
Athens (citv).;....... 0 4 1 22 260 265 250 310
At.la.ntH. (citv
0 10 2 115 2.394 2,735 834 1,040
Bibb (county)......... 31 9 4 82 1,287 1,160 1,046 1/254
Chatham (countvb 30 7 2 106 1,514 1,436 1,216 1,360
Columbus (city).. .. Dalton (city).:.......
0 0
7)
0 1
34 11
375 241
434 187
458 81
633 86
Glvnn (county)'..... 21 1 i 31 214 216 337 320
Griffin (city).....'..... 0 2 1 10 124 154
71
Kiehmon4(county) 38 10 3 104 1,256 1,728 1,217 1,431
Rome (city).... .'....... 0 ;> 0 16 197 209 86 140
Sandersville (city). 1 2 1 8 80 105 78 113
West Point (city)... 0 1 1 8 140 144
384 525 5.129 2,447 2,950 809 428 430 278 2,984 406
185 284
460 560 1,874 2,300 2,576 1,091 167
657 126
2,648 226
191
844
9
1,085 10
7 003 10
4,747
9
5,526 10
1,900
9
8
1,087 **3&8
404 10
5,632
9
632
9
376
9
284 10
626 $1 03 $ 1,250 00 $ 5,778 00 $ 870 77 $ 7,898 77 $ 355 00 8 648 87 $ 8,068 34 $
803 78 1,500 00 6,236 00 2,410 13 10,146 13 832 66 937 13 8,396 65
83 2,200 00 55,317 25 20 981 06 78,498 31 10,500 00 6,323 84 61,674 47
2,775 1 25 2,000 00 31,229 14 2,007 05 35,236 19 2.256 13 4,952 15 29|l73 60
4,564 1 17 2,000 00 53,060 00 11,463 19 66,523 19 3,170 97 8,472 12 56,088 92
1,372 1 23 1,600 00 13,612 52 2,365 30 17,577 82 954 36 2,134 31 14,489 15
359 1 16
3,320 00 4,960 00 8,280 00 285 00
8,120 00
826 84 g216 00 4,082 67 533 39 4,832 06 1,105 28 1,378 15 3,143 96
1 06
3,991 50 497 10 4,488 60 325 00 561 45 5,022 41
3,819 1 06 1,800 00 36^500 00 6,650 89 44,950 89 1,742 68 6,630 03 58,031 30
578 96 1,450 00 5,025 00 1,417 54 7,892 54 550 00 866 00 6,290 33
282 98
2,485 00 368 79 2,853 79 336 00 442 06 2,078 65
241 1 38
3,350 00 t11,258 98 114,608 98 255 96 499 64 {13,853 38
9,072 21 8 1,173 44
10,166 44
20 31
78,498 31
36,381 88 1,145 69
67,732 01 1,208 82
17,577 82
8,861 34 581 30
5,627 39 795 33
5,908 86 1,420 26
66,404 01 21,453 12
7,706 33 --186 21
2,856 71
2 92
14,608 98
Totals and A'vgs. 121 62 18 562 8,265 8,974 5,866 7,010 17,239 12,876 30,115
9 23,267 $1 06 $14,016 00 $223,987 08 $65,784 19 $103,78727 $22,669 04 834,302 09 $274,431 16 $ 331,402 29 $27,615 02
'^Superintendent also a Teacher. fThis includes sum paid for Building and Furniture, $11,000 98. {These sums includes Insurance on old building destroyed by fire, $5,442 38 and borrowed money, $3,895 20. **Three in country and 8 in city. In this county there is a County School Commissioner, and his compensation was $21G 00. The compensation of the Principal or Superintendent of the city schools is included with that of the othei teachers.
Appling
Baker . Baldwin Banks . Bartow . Berrien . Bibb . . Brooks . Bryan . Bulloch . Burke . . Butts . . Calhoun . Camden Campbell Carroll . Catoosa . Charlton.
TABLE No. IV.
Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementury Schools.
COUNTIES.
White.
Number of Pupils.
Colored.
Total.
,Q
S
a
ss
73 63
136
136
135 137 22 37 272 69 331
13
164 160
6
66 70
70 68
324 169 493 136 27 163
138
138
aa
RSRO
4
1 06i
3 2-11 1 17
1 25 1 76
] 00
A ppe n d ix .
xvi
Chatham . .
Chattahoochee
Chattooga . .
Cherokee . .
21
Clarke . . .
Clay ....
1
Clayton . . .
Clinch . . . .
Cobb ....
Coffee ....
Columbia. . .
2
Colquitt . . .
Coweta . . .
20
Crawford . . .
6
Dade ....
Dawson . . .
Decatur . . .
DeKalb . . .
8
Dodge...........................................................................
Dooly............................................................................
Dougherty.................................................................
Douglas.......................................................................
Early.............................................................
2
Echols..........................................................................
Effingham...................................................................
Elbert .
Emanuel
Fannin .
Fayette .
10
Floyd .
27
Forsyth
24
Franklin
17
Fulton
27 737 582 19 22
1,319 41
1,319 41
12
18
19
21
30
40
70
383 380 84 85 763 169 932 141 82 53 75 223 128 351
196 174
370
370
2 33 27
60
60
10 148 170
318
318
30 301 280 170 146 581 316 897
29 306 260
2
5 566
7 573
17 481 335 39 32 816 71 .887
4|
24
2 50
6
6 47 5 4-9
1 50
1 48 1 40
6
1 29f
4
2 04
4
1 301
7
1 50
81
1 30
H
1 00
x y ii
A ppe n d ix .
x v iii
Number of Schools. Number of Instructors. 'Males.
I 1
1 1
.Females. '
i
!Males. i Females. | White. Colored. White and Colored. Average number of months taught. Average monthly cost of tuition per pupil.
TABLE No. IV.--Continued. Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
COUNTIES.
White.
Number of Pupils.
Colored.
Total.
A ppe n d ix .
Gilmer.......................................................... Glascock ..................................................... Glynn ............................................................ Gordon......................................................... Greene.......................................................... Gwinnett..................................................... Habersham................................................. Hall................................................................ Hancock...................................................... Haralson.................................................. .
Harris........................................................... Hart.............................................................. Heard............................................................. Henry............................................................ Houston........................................................ Irwin.............................................................
Jackson......................................................... Jasper...........................................................
4
4 27 34
22 23 470 457
6
7 139 131
2
3 42 40
3
3 106 65
24 32 548 532 24 26 299 373
/ 61
927
270
$... .
61
4f
927
4*
1 37 1 35
270
4 5-6 1 16
82 171
1,080 672
82
8
171
6
1,080
k
672
8
1 06 1 32
1 46 1 50
Jefferson....................................................... Johnson ........................................................ Jones.............................................................. Laurens................................................... . Lee................................................................ Liberty.......................................................... Lincoln........................................................ Lowndes....................................................... Lumpkin......................................................
Macon........................................................... Madison....................................................... Marion........................................................... McDufliie.................................................... McIntosh.................................................... Meriwether................................................. Miller............................................................ Milton............................................................ Mitchell.......................... ............................. Monroe......................................................... Montgomery............................................... Morgan......................................................... Murray.......................................................... Muscogee.................................................... Newton........................................................
Oconee .......................................................... Oglethorpe................................................... Paulding.....................................................
Pickens . ..........................................
Pierce.................................... Pike...............................................................
Polk................................................. Pulaski............................................ Putnam............................................
7 10 28 25 82 91 53 173 226
3
1 10
10
11 135 :i6
61
63 251 124 375
-
18 19 216 244 22 17 460 39 499
86 40 350 361 541 546 711 1,087 1,798
5
5 15 28 69 64 43 133 176
27 37 505 529 154 176 1,034 330 1,364
12 14 310 281
591
591
33 33 318 340 148 234 658 382 1,040
11
13 107 111
48
52 218 100 318
5
5 118 96
214
214
5
6 67 72
139
139
21
22 234 226
33
46 460
85 545
7 7-10 1 34
4 3 2 9-10
5f '
ii
4
3 5*
1 23 1 50 1 25
1 24
1 15
1 23
1 44 1 00
3 4-5 54
1 51 1 50
22 23 341 292 133 131 633 264 897
44
1 20
x ix
A ppe n d ix .
xx
j
tuition per pupil.
Average monthly cost of
Number of Schools.
1
Number of Instructors.
Males. Females. Males. Females. White. Colored.
White and Colored.
iAverage number of months taught.
TABLE No. IV.--Continued. Consolidation of the Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
COUNTIES.
White.
Number of Pupils.
Colored.
Total.
A ppe n d ix .
Quitman...................................................... Rabun ........................................................... Randolph..................................................... Richmond..................................................... Rockdale..................................................... Schley............................................................ Screven......................................................... Spalding........................................................
Sumter........................................................... Talbot........................................................... Taliaferro.................................................... Tatnall.......................................................... Taylor........................................................... Telfair........................................................... Terrell.......................................................... Thomas........................................................ Towns............................................................
12 13 102 128 62 50 230 112 342
1
1 18 30
48
48
22 27 316 385 140 216 701 356 1,057
2
2 71 65
136
136
7
7 39 32 52 63 71 115 186
25 25 190 210 126 144 400 270 670
12 17 215 211 64 69 426 133 559
18 21 210 196 60 51 406 111 517
5
5 78 73
151
151
4
4 67 66 15 16 133 31 164
4
4 68 55 26 29 123 55 178
8
$.. . .
5
1 00
8
2 00
4
1 88
3
1 10
4
1 25
3 2-17
4 5 7
1 24
1 45 1 35 1 73 1 31
Troup . . . Twiggs . . Union . . . Upson . . . "Walker . . Walton . . . Ware . . . Warren . . Washington Wayne . . . Webster . . White . . . Whitfield . Wilcox . . , Wilkes . . . Wilkinson . Worth . . .
15
15 300 250
75
75 550 150 700
12 12 409 278
687
687
27 27 204 219 116 140 423 256 679
12
295 325 160 105 620 265 885
43
401 469 255 290 870 545 1,415
8
72 81 22 31 153 53 206
73 40
113
113
68
19 23 144 42 186
36
65
65
1 00 1 00 1 50
1 60 1 50 1 60
1 121
1 80 1 92
A ppe n d ix .
Totals and Averages
718 804 10,872 10,399 2,978 3,219 21,271 6,197 27,468
4.61 $ 1 34
Note.--This table, as a moment's inspection will show, is very incomplete. An effort was made to obtain a full report.
xxi
TABLE No. V. Report of Private High Schools.
Average Monthly Cost of Tuition per Pupil.
COUNTY.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
POST-OFFICE.
COQ
Number of Pupils Admitted.
White. Colored
Total.
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
NAME OF PRINCIPAL.
Banks.. Bartow Bartow
Bartow.... Bibb......... Cherokee.. Cherokee.. Clay.......... Columbia Coweta.... Coweta.... Coweta.... Coweta....
Coweta Coweta Coweta Coweta
Crawford. Dawson ..
DeKalb, DeKalb, DeKalb, DeKalb Dodge..,
Maysville Institute.. Stilesboro Institute.. West End Institute.-
___________ 2
Maysville.............. 3 Stilesboro............. 2 Cartersville.......... 4
39; 43 60j 38 60; 55
Kingston High School, Abbott's Select School. Etowale Institute........... Little River Academy... Fort Gaines Academy .. Harlem Institute..........
Walker's High School.. New Male Seminary..... Senoia High School.....
Excelsior High School.
Kingston Macon.......... Canton......... Woodstock...
Fort Gaines, Harlem.........
Newnan...... Newnan...... Senoia.......... Senoia..........
12 56 37 19 6 4 107 74
12 61 44 29 20 2 43 48 4 76 86 2 80
32 38 35 40 60
Grantville High School......... Grantville.. Sharpsburg Academy............ Sharpsburg Irvin High School.................. Irvin........... Alex. Stephens' Academy.... Roscoe.......
3 46 32 2 40 48 2 29 36 2 46 33
Knoxville High School.........Knoxville.... Dawsonville Academy.......... Dawsonville.
2 32 25 2 49 38
Clarkston Academy...... Doraville High School. Lithonia High School.. Phillip's High School... Eastman Academy........
Clarkston,
Doraville. Lithonia.. Lithonia. Eastman..
2 39 29 3 66 64
12 36 42 24 18 4 60 60
82 .
82
Eng., Anc., Classics, Math., Sciences... S 2 00
L. Caldwell.
98 .
98
English and Classical............................... 2 00 H. C. Etheridge.
115
115
An. Clas., Math., Sci.. Fr. and Ger...... 2 50 E. C. Mobley and Mrs. .1. W.
Harris, Sr.
93
93 10 English, Classics and Math..................... 1 81 M. B. Tuggle.
25
25 9 English, Classics, Mathmetics............... 8 33K D. Q. Abbott
181
181 10 Ancient Classics, Math., Sciences....... 1 60 M. G. Bates, A. M.
105
105 7% Ancient Classics, Math., Sciences........ 1 50 Rev. O. C. Simmons.
49
49 5 Orthog., Read., Geog., Math. ,Rhet., Lan. 2 25 H. R. McLendon
91
91 10 English and Classics.................................. 1 80 J. W. Ellington.
162
162 9H An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences, etc. 2 50 Daniel Walker, A. M.
80
80 9 Eng. Clas., Higher Math., An. Lan..... 2 50 A S. Jones.
73
73 9 Eng. br'nches, An. Clas., Math............ 2 00 P. F. Brown.
100
100 9 Ele'tary br'n'chs, Nat. Sci., Gk., Lat.,
High. Math., thro'h Trig. andSur'g. 2 25 P. D. Pollock.
78
78 7 Eng. Math., and An. Languages.......... 2 00 S. E. Leigh, A. M.
88
88 734 Ancient Classics, Muthe'tics, Sciences. 2 00 V. A. Ham.
65
65 5 High Sch. Course, Eng., Lat, Gr., etc. 2 25 Rev. J. B. Hunnicutt, A. M.
79
79 8 Arith'ic, Eng.,Gram,,Rhet,His.,Geog.
Geom., Sur'ng, Physiology, etc......... 2 70 Edgar T. Whatley.
57
57 10 English, Latin and Music............ T.......... 2 00 J. C. Blassingame.
87
87 8 Elem'try, Hghr Math., Eng. Comp....
His., Lat' Physiology, etc................... 1 50 Thos. J. Rickman.
68
68 6% Elementary, History, Latin, Algebra.. 2 50 Miss Addie H. Boring,
130
130 7y2 Elem'try, Alg.,Geom'try, Lat, and Gk 1 40 T. S. Garner.
78
78 5 Elem'try, Lat., Alg. Philosophy.......... 2 00 0. E. Ham.
42
42 5 Elem'try, Higher Mathematics............. 1 25 Miss M. O. Phillips.
120
120 7 Element'y, Math. Sci. An. Clas. Music 1 75 Reuben J. Strozier.
Fflrlv .
Blakely Academy.................... Blakely.................
Fayette
Brooks' Station Academy.... Brooks' Station...
Floyd................ Wesleyan Male University... Cave Spring........
Floyd................ Wesleyan Female University Cave Spring........
Floyd .. . Hearn Male School.................. Cave Spring........
Floyd................ Hearn Female School............ Cave Spring........
Frn.nV1in
Franklin Institute................... CarnesvilleT.........
Franklin
Martin High School................ Martin .................
Franklin
Lavonia High School............. Lavonia'................
(xilmpr
Kllijav Seminary..................... Ellijay...................
Grppnp.
Greenesboro Academy.......... Greenesboro........
Grppnp.
Union Point Academy.......... Union Point.......
Grppnp
Dawson Institute.................... White Plains......
Gwinnett.
Norcross High School............ Norcross................
Gwinnett
Ga. Sch., of Lang. Sci. & Art Norcross................
TTpn.rd
Franklin Institute................... Franklin............
TTpnry
Hampton High School.......... Hampton.............
TTpnrv.
McDonough Institute............. McDonough.
TTpnrv.
Locust Grove High School... Locust Grove......
TTpnrv .
Pppksvillp HiVh School......... Peeksville.............
TTpnrv..
Stockbridge High School...... Stockbridge........
Japksnn
Pendergrass High School...... Pendergrass........
.Tfleksnn
Apple Valiev High School.... Apple Valiev .
Jackson............. Harmony Grove High School Harmony Grove..
.Tasppr
Monticeflo High School........ Monticeflo ..........
Jasper
Hillsboro High School........... Hillsboro.......
Lincoln
Lincolnton High School...... Lincolnton .........
Macon
Oak Grove Academy.............. Garden Valley....
Macon................ Marshallville High School... Marshallville......
Macon................ Montezuma M. and F. Ins'te Montezuma.........
Macon
Spalding Seminary................. Montezuma.........
Madison
Danielsville High School..... Danielsville........
MoDnftip
Thomson Select School.......... Thomson.............
Meriwether .... White Sulphur Springs H. S. White Sul. Sp'gs.
Mcri wether Luthersvifle Higfi School.... Luthersville* . .
Meriwpthpr Greenville High School....... Greenville............
Monrop
Hilliard Institute................... Forsyth................
Monrop
Gpntrnl Institute..................... Culloden..............
Monroe.............. Fleming High School............ Goggansville......
Montgomery ... Brunswick District H. School Spring Hill.........
Morgan......... Male High School........... ........ Madison.............
Morgan.............. Mrs. Nebhuts Home School.. Madison...............
2 43 35
2 39 28
1 35
1
46
1 37
1 5 54
2 48 28
2
29
2 70 50
2 35 26
2 29 28
9 24 20
2 19 17
8 43 31
4 105 102
3 70 68
2 54 46
4 64 64
1 59 31
2 37 25
1 35 37
2 33 40
2
30
2 41 37
2 27 27
2 26 27
1 26 16
2 34 30 3 45 50 2 44 32 2 15 26 2 69 58 2 21 23 2 20 24 3 41 52 3 47 57 4 66 39 2 40 21 2 41 28 3 29 19 I 32 2 9 12
78
78 5K Ele., Clas., Higher Math., Rh., Bk-k'p 2 25 Z. I. Fitzpatrick.
67
67 8K Classics, Sciences and Math................... 2 00 L. T. F. Arnall.
35
35 30 Ancient Classics, Math., Sciences........ 3 00 J. S. Stewart, Jr.
46
46 10 Ancient Clsssics, Math., Sciences........ 3 00 Miss Emmie Stewart.
37
37 10 Ancient Classics, Math., Sciences........ 3 00 E. T. Whatley.
59
59 1ft Ancient Classics, Math., Sciences........ 3 00 Mrs. U. B. Lane.
76
76 eVs English, Ancient Classics, Math.......... 1 87 P. F. Crawford.
104
104 9 Ele. Rhet. Nat. Phi. Chem. Al. Latin.. 1 80 M. S. Strihling, Jr.
120
120 8 Ele., Math., Eng.. Sci., Latin, Greek... 2 00 N. A. Fricks.
61 57
% 61
Math., Ancient Classics, Sciences........
57
An. Clas., Math., Sci. Ele. Eng. & Music 2 00 J. R. Robins.
44
44 7 Eng. Course, Math., Sci., An. Clas., etc 2 00 T. C. Newton.
36
36 5 Classics, Sciences, Music......................... 3 20 J. M. Howell, M. D.
74
74 7 Eng. Nat. Sci.. Math., and Latin.......... i 90 N. F. Cooledge.
207
207 11 Classics, Math., Sciences......................... 3 00 Terrell E. Simmons.
138
138 9 Ele., Alge., Geom., His., Higher Eng.,
Natural Phil., Latin, Book-keeping. 2 25 W. M. Robinson
1 00
1 00 9 Ele., Eng., Higher Math., Classics........ 2 50 John W. Denton.
1 28
1 2S 10 Eng.. Business and Clas Branches...... 2 00 John H. Featherston.
90
90 8 Ele., Eng. Gram., Arith., Alge., Geom 2 00 A. F. Woodward.
62
62 8 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, etc...... 2 50 H. A. Brad Weldon.
72
72
Ancient Classics. Mathematics.............. 2 00 I. J. Richardson.
73
73 7 Eng., Ancient Classics, Mathematics.. 1 62J4 John P. Briscoe.
87
87 7 Mathematics............................................... 1 50 John M Hawkins.
78
78 7K Eng., Sciences. Greek and Latin.......... 2 00 Francis M. Blount.
54
54 10 Languages and Sciences..........................
W. T. Dumas.
53
53 10 Languages and Sciences..........................
C. G. Power.
42
42 8 Ele./Latin, Hist.. Phil., Rhet. & Com.,
Higher Math...........................................
W. L. Hawes.
64
64 5 Usual English Branches and Latin...... 2 00 J. O. Mangham.
95
95 10 Ancient Clas.. Sciences, Mathematics. 2 50 J. W. Frederick, A. M.
76
76 10 Primary, Intermediate and Highest.... 4 25 M. A. Clark.
41
41
Elem'try. Hghr Eng., Math., Latin..... 2 20 Geo. T. Stansbury.
127
127 8 Primary, Intermediate and H. School. 2 00 Llewellyn J. Brown.
44
44 7 Elem'try, An. Languages, Sci., etc...... 2 50 J. E. Gross.
44
- 44 8 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences........ 3 00 B. P. Allen.
93
93 9 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences........ 2 75 J. A. Quillian.
104
104 10 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences........ 3 00 W. S. Howell.
85
85 6 Primary and Collegiate............................ 3 00 V. E. Orr.
61
61 10 Elem'try, An. Clas., Higher Math........ 2 00 Richard W. Rogers.
69
69 10 English, History, Latin and Music...... 1 30 Geo. B. Merritt.
48
48 10 Eng. Gram., Lat., Gk., Math. Nat. Sci. 2 50 C. C. Hines.
32
32 in Lan., Sci., Math., Eng., Bus. Course... 3 00 E. C. Merry, A. M
21
21 10 An. Clas,``Math., Eng., Sciences............ 2 25 Mrs. E. Nebhut.
TABLE No. Y.--Continued. Report of Private High Schools.
N um ber of Instructors, j
Males. Females. | Females. | W hite. Colored. W hite & Colored. No. of Months
Taught. Average M onthly
Cost of Tuition per Pupil.
COUNTY.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
POST-OFFICE.
Numi >er of Pu pils Admitted.
White. Colored
Total.
o
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
NAME OF PRINCIPAL.
Mnrp-un
VVplling'trm Kphnol
Mndison
Morpun
Fpmrtlp Hiph Sphonl
M ndison
Mnrj^sin
Rrown's \ r*:tf]pmv
Miidison
M orpi ti
R.ntlpHpp Hiph School
Rntlpdpp
AOirrii v
Snmnch Srmiimirv
Snmnch
Op-lptlinrpp Afpson Apndpmv
T.PYinp-ton On..
O^lpthnrpp Upnfpr Apndpmv
Stephens! On
OjJ'lpthorpp Crnwford Anodpmv'
Cr;iwford .
Op-lpthrrpp Oln.dp School
Point Peter .....
Pike........!.......... Gordon Institute................... Rarnesville.........
Pitp
Plnntpr'R TTip'h School
Rollon villp
Pitp
Concord Hiph School
oncord
Pike................... Zebulon High School............. Zebulon................
Pike
Milner Hipb School
Milner ...............
Pike...................
SrVhlpv
F.llnvillp Acndcmv
Milner................... Ellaville...............
Schley............... < 'oncord Academy...................
SJprpvpn
Rpnlnh ITiph School
Buck Creek.. . .
Screven............ En terprise- Academv.............. Ogeechee..............
Sptpvpti
Svlvnnifl Acdpmy
Svlvn.nm
Screven............ Williamson Academy............
Tatnall.............. Reidsville High School.......... Reidsville............
Tatnall.............. Philadelphialligh School.... Matlock................
Taylor............... Howard High School ............ Howard................
Taylor...... ........ Revnolds' Hi School......... Revnolds...............
Twi^s
Auburn Institute..................... Jeffersonville ....
Upson
R. E. Lee Institute................. Thomaston..........
Walker.............. St. Marv's Institute................. Cedar Grove........
1 27 23!......
2
40
2j 30 35 ......
3 fi8 48
2
2
18i......
1 9A >.'
2 27 23!......
]
137 126 3 63 47
!
1 53 35 o' 33 44 1 98
1 39 32
2 34 35
2 62 33
1 40
1
19
2 34 36
1 20 19
2 31 21
2 41 33
1 27 i tfi
1 21 17
2 26 29
4 64 64
2 40 32
501......
40 ......
65
106 i...... 1301......
43
63 50 ......
40
263
110
88 77
......
10
71 69 ::::::
40 34 70 39 52 74 43 38 55 128
72;......
50 9 Elementary, Mathematics..................... $ 2 00 Mrs A i ! Unwtin
40 o0
An. Classics, Math., Sciences................. Latin and Sciences....................................
3 00 2 00
Miss V P Tonmhs MissC R Cnproff
106
2 60 A. J Rnrruss
130 9 Elem'ry, HrMath, L.,Nat. Sci ,B'kk'g 1 00 C H Rnmphrpys
4`- 9 Elem'trv, Math., and An. Classics...... 2 40 Thos R Moss
63 9 Elementry and Higher............................ I 75 .Inn F ftYY)Uh
50 5 An. Clas., Sci. Math.................................. 2 50 .Tun F Chpupy
40 3 An. Clas., Math., and Science ............. 2631 10 An. Clas., Math., Physics and Art.......
2 00 Miss C V Rtirfc^pld 1 20 Chas. E. Lambdin, A M
no 9 Elem'try, An. (das., Math., Sciences... 2 00 .1 R Mntlipws
88 Elem'try, Alg., Astron. Lat., Rhet...... 2 00 W A Rrnnks
Elem'trv, Phvsics, Lat., Geometry, etc 1 83 J. R. Williams
10 71
kZ
92
An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences......... Mathematics, Sciences, etc.*...................
1 00 1 00
Miss Mildrpd Rfopd Miss Mattie L. Tvus
69 6 Eng., An. Lan., Mathematics............... 2 00 E R Stpvpus
95 4 Eng., An. Lan., Higher Mathematics.. 1 50 J. D. Duncan.
40 3 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences.......... 1 35 ('. c. Ellzey
34 10 Mathematics, Clas., Higher English ... 2 00 T. M. Hflylphnrst
70 9 Legal Branches............................ ~............ 2 20 1 M F Erwin
39 5 Elem'try, Hr. Eng., An. Clas., Math.... 2 00 I. Whpplpr Willipmp
52 3K Ancient Classics, Mathematics.............. 2 66% .1. W Smith
74 10 Math., An. Classics, Sciences................. 2 00 F. J Ingmhn m
43 5 Elementary, Mathematics, Latin, etc.. 2 00 Walter E. Steed
38 6 Usual Eng. Br'ches, with Lat. and Gk. 2 00 E. J Frpdpripk
10 Elem'try, Rhet., Phil., L., Geom., Alg 2 40 J. R Nnpipr
128 6 Eng. Br'ches, An. Clas., HrMath., Sci 1 50 G F Oliphnuf
72 10 Eng. Gk., Lat., Higher Mathematics... 2 00 J. Y. Wood.
Walton......... Walton......... Walton......... Warren........ Warren....... Washington. Washington. White........... Wilcox........ Wilkes.......... Wilkes..........
Social Circle High School.;... Social Circle........
Oak Grove High School........ Social Circle........ Ragan Institute....................... Jersey................... Warrenton Academy.............. Warrenton........... Norwood Academy.................. Norwood .............. Tennille High School............ Tennille............... Mount Vernon Institute....... Riddleville.......... Nacoochee High School........ Nacoochee........... Sibbie Academy....................... Sibbie................... Washington Female Semi'ry Washington......... Rehobeth High School........*. (Washington.........
2 28 27
1 22 23
1 28 21
3 36 47
2 37 30
4 81 68
2 32 31'
1 24 12
2 18 24
3
54
1 7 21
Totals and Averages
221 4267 3647
55 7 Elementary, Mathematics and Lan .... 2 00 W. S. Upshaw.
45 7 Elementary and Higher Branches........
Rev. T. T. Lin.
40 5 Elementary, Math, and Languages...... 2 00 W. F. Lewis.
83 SH An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences......... 2 50 A. S. Morgan.
67
Elem'trv, An. Clas.. Math., Sciences... 2 00 Talfourd Smith.
149 un Eng., Clas., Math, and Music................. 2 50 W. L. Duggan.
63 6 Eng., Classics and Mathematics............ 1 33 J. C. Hardie.
36 5 An. Classics, Mathematics, etc.............. 1 50 Duncan M. Edwards.
42 5 An. Clas., Math., Sci., Music, etc......... 2 50 T. B. Fuller.
54 10 Elem'trv, Lat. Math., Sciences.............. 3 00 Miss Ida A. Young.
28 5 Elementrv and Higher English............ 2 00 Miss J. A. Shipp.
7914 7.75
$ 2 20
STATISTICAL TABLES
FOR 1888.
xxxyi
TABLE No. I.
Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART I.
Counties and such Cities as are under Local Laws.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Years.
White.
Colored.
Total.
W hite and
Colored.
Colored.
W hite.
F em ales.
M ales.
F em ales.
M ales.
. _
1
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Appling............................................................................................... Baker.................................................................................................... Baldwin............................................................................................... Banks .................................................................................................... Bartow................ ................................................................................. Berrien................................................................................................... Bibb....................................................................................................... Brooks.............................................................................................. Bryan .................................................................................................... Bullock...................................................................................................
Burke .................................................................................................... Butts.................................................................................................... Calhoun............................................................................................... Camden............................................................................................... Campbell.............................................................................................. Carroll................................................................................................... Carrollton ('city).............................................................................. Catoosa................................................................................................... Charlton...............................................................................................
1,028 285 684
1,108 2,199 1,143 1,978
906 454 1,400 967 787 397 358 946 2,974 110 755 453
884 266 742 1,121 2,086 1,112 2,087 870 434 1,307 892 718 380 312 872
2,642 143 659 385
319 805 1,683 283 1,042 182 3,042 1,078 444 527 3,770 868 944 693 661 554
45 118 113
258 790 1,671 266 1,091 198 3,270 1,039 382 508 3,555
803 949 733 628 544
38 96 66
1,912 551
1,426 2,224 4,285
2,255 4,065 1,776
888 2,707 1,859 1,505
777 670 1,818 5,616 253 1,414 838
577 1,595 3,354
549 2,133
380 6,312 2,117
826 1,035 7,325 1,671 1,893 1,426
1,289 1,098
83 214 179
2,489 2,146 4,780 2,773 6,418 2,635 10,377 3,893 1,714 3,742 9,184 3,176 2,670 2,096 3,107 6,714
336 1,628 1,017
Chatham . . . Chattahoochee Chattooga . . Cherokee . . . Clarke . . . . Athens (city) .
Ulay................. Clayton.... Clinch ....
Cobh .... Coffee.............. Columbia . . Colquitt . . . Coweta . . . Newnan (city) Crawford . . . Dade .... Dawson . . . Decatur . . . DeKalb . . . Dodge . . . . Dooly .... Dougherty . . Douglas . . . Early . . . . Echols . . . . Effingham . . Elbert .... Emanuel . . Fannin . . . Fayette . . . Floyd . . . . Rome (city) .
2,328 302
1,447 2,421
393 535 470 830 699 2,373 889 496 556 1,250 199 688 721 920 1,642 1,746 943 1,212 246 1,062 686 364 572 1,148 1,441 1,454 913 2,212 453
2,270 290
1,401 2,182
`404 566 456 816 626 2,243 832 456 568 1,179 237 549 713 961 1,576 1,658 891 1,112 250 978 708 329 539 1,104 1,354 1,366 915 2,090 431
4,142 544 349 293 703 584 775 480 147
1,180 308
1,275 41
1,805 226 768 75 49
1,946 902 718
1,072 1,902
360 1,014
164 482 1,349 733
28 547 1,431 268
4,446 548 317 282 659 641 779 494 163
1,153 317
1,255 51
1,701 244 874 76 47
1,786 844 651 969
2,031 297 969 170 457
1,282 697 23 573
1,410
322
4,598 592
2,848
4,603 797
1,101 926
1,646 1,325 4,616 1,721
952 1,124 2,429
436 1,237 1,434 1,881 3,218 3,404 1,834 2,324
496 2,040 1,394
693 1,111 2,252 2,795 2,820 1,828 4,302
884
8,588 13,186
1,092 1,684
666 3,514
575 5,178
1,362 2,159
1,225 2,326
1,554 2,480
974 2,620
310 1,635
2,333 6,949
625 2,346
2,530 3,482
92 1,216
3,506 5,935
470
906
1,642 2,879
151 1,585
96 1,977
3,732 1,746
6,950 5,150
1,369 3,203
2,041 4,365
3,933 4,429
657 2,697
1,983 3,377
334 1,027
939 2,050
2,631 4,883
1,430 51
1,120 2,841
590
4,225 2,871 2,948 7,143
x XXX
1.474
x x x y iii
TABLE No. I.--Continued. Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART I.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Years.
Counties and such Cities as are under Local Laws.
White.
Colored.
j
Total. " o
1
Colored.
W hite. |
M ales. 1
F em ales.
F em ales.
M ales.
1
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Forsyth................................................................................................ Franklin.............................................................................................. Fulton................................................................................................... Atlanta (city)................................................................................... Gilmer................................................................................................... Glascock............................................................................................... Glynn.................................................................................................... Gordon................................................................................................... Greene.......................................................................................... .... . Gwinnett............................................................................................... Habersham........................................................................................... Hall........................................................................................................ Hancock............................................................................................... Haralson............................................................................................... Harris.................................................................................................... Hart........................................................................................................ Heard.................................................................................................... Henry....................................................................................................
Houston.......................... ....
1,582 1,953 1,609 3,571 1,578
442 521 1,750 800 2,782 1,511 2,776 874 1,586 1,027 1,231 952 1,403
840
1,530 1,690 1,415 3,761 1,469
405 555 1,621 746 2,475 1,343 2,577 900 1,493 946 1,188 887 1,319
747
230 640 968 2,497
16 189 1,065 315 1,661
628 186 538 2,210 160 1,798 620 574 1,106
2,584
234 542 1,012 2,965
10 191 1,051 296 1,604 536 189 486 2,146 135 1,755 543 552 1,097 2,498
3,112 3,643 3,024 7,332 3,047
847 1,076 3,371 1,546 5,257 2,854 5,352 1,774 3,079 1,973 2,419 1,839 2,722
1,587
464 1,182 1,980 5,462
26 380 2,116 611
3,265 1,164
375 1,024 4,356
295 3,553 1,163 1,126 2,203
5,082
3,576 4,825 5,004 12,794 3,073 1,227 3,192 3,982 4,811 6,421 3,229 6,376 6,130 3,374 5,526 3,582 2,965 4,925 6,669
Irwin........................ Jackson ......................................... Jasper ............................................ Jefferson......................................... Johnson . ...................................... Jones..............'........................... Laurens......................................... Lee................................................ Liberty......................................... Lincoln......................................... Lowndes......................................... Lumpkin...................................... Macon............................................ Madison......................................... Marion............................................ McDuffie........................................ McIntosh........................................ Meriwether..................................... Miller............................................ Milton............................................ Mitchell......................................... Monroe......................................... Montgomery................................. Morgan........................................... Murray......................................... Muscogee...................................... Columbus (city).............................. Newton......................................... Oconee ............................................ Oglethorpe................. ,.................. Paulding........................................ Pickens......................................... Pierce................................. ... . .
685 2,417
811 887 888 618 1,257 203 065 414 1,027 1,085 586 1,178 700 529 172 1,614 447 964 935 985 803 803 1,396 445 971 1,122 615 881 1,791
1,335 694
578 2,179
832 770 817 582 1,275 189 622 377 1,016 994 549 1,146 613 485 207 1,644 394 860 828 923 754 785 1,269 442 1,077 1,065 539 806
1,675 1,306
672
202 1,048
1,413 1,768
388 1,458
768 !,08( 1,26.
69: 1,21.
8.) 1,28 t
555 801 1,035 999 2,2-52 312 127 1,010 2,228 506 2,133 149 1,322 959 1,221 599 1,823 236
45 205
253 967 1,355 1,766 440 1,446 807 1,052 1,302 769 1,164
66 1,342
538 810 952 1,110 2,037 297 128 1,180 2,031 434 2,035 128 1,348 1,123 1,192 576 1,700 229
48 200
1,263 4,596 1,643 1,657 1,705 1,200 2,532
892 1,287
791 2,043 2,079 1,135 2,324 1,313 1,014
379 3,258
841 1,824 1,763 1,908 1,557 1,588 2,665
887 2,048 2,187 1,154 1,687 3,466 2,641 1,366
455 2,015 2,768 3,534
828 2,904 1.575 2,132 2,566 1,461 2,375
155 2.576 1,093 1,674 1,987 2,109 4,289
609 255 2,190 4,259 940 4,168 277 2,670 2,082 2,413 1,175 3,523
465 93
405
1,718
6,611
4,411
5,191
2,533
4,104
4,107
2,524
3,853
2,252
4,418
2,234
3,711
3,417
2,987
3,001
2,488
7,547
1,450
2,079
3,953
6,167
2,497
5,756
2,942
3,557
4,130
4,600
2,329
5,210 X
3,931 X
2,734 1,771
XM
A ppe n d ix .
XL
TABLE No. I.--Contin tTKD.
Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART I.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Years.
Counties and such Cities as are under Local Laws.
White.
Colored.
Total.
J
M ales. F em ales. M ales. F em ales. W hite. Colored. W hite & Colored.
1
A ppe n d ix .
Pike....................................................................................................... Polk.......................................................................................................
Cedartown (city).............................................................................. Pulaski................................................................................................ Putnam............................................................................................... Quitman................................................................................................ Kabun .................................................................................................... Randolph........................................................................................... Richmond........................................................................................... Rockdale.............................................................................................. Schley.................................................................................................... Screven............................................................................................... Spalding.......................................................................... ..................... Griffin (city)........................................................ .............................. Sewart................................................................................................... Sumter . ................................................................................................ Americus (city)..................... .................................................... Talbot.................................................................................................... Taliaferro...............................................................................................
1,340 1,325
135 864 564 215 866 974 3,236 660 419 1,236 599 219 603 955 219 598 399
1,264 1,241
150 886 523 204 848 891 3,238 630 339 1,094 596 253 544 985 220 566 335
1,351 644 119
1,457 1,894
481 34
1,736 3,508
495 618 1,190 932 277 1,728 2,030 419 1,684
960
1,280 570 135
1,742 1,940
448 25
1,686 3,709
432 545 1,103 904 355 1,645 2,077 418 1,577 824
2,604 2,566
285 1,750 1,087
419 1,714 1,865 6,474 1,290
758 2,330 1,195
472 1,147 1,940
439 1,164
734
2,631 1,214
254 3,199 3,834
929 59
3,422 7,217
927 1,163 2,293 1,836
632 3,373 4,107
837 3,261 1,784
5,235 3,780
539 4,949
4,921 1,348 1,773 5,287 13,691 2,217
1,921 4,623 3,031 1,104 4,520 6,047 1,276 4,425
2,518
Tatnall................ Taylor................ Telfair................ Terrell................ Thomas.............. Towns ................ Troup.................. "West Point (city) Twiggs................ Union................. Upson................. 'W alker.............. W alton................ Ware................. Waycross (city). , W arren.............. W ashington Sandersville (city) Wayne.............. Webster............. White................ Whitfield............. Dalton (city) . . . Wilcox.............. Wilkes................ Wilkinson . . . . Worth................
Totals for the entire State
/
1,134 764 580
1,106 1,625
733 890 114
476 1,258
937 1,859 1,594
626 146 687 1,851
94 895 389 985 1,543 291 554 815 978 827
1,014 720 576
1,033 1,478
623 897
99 445 1,180 883 1,624 1,534 519 150
701 1,769
96 822 345 835 1,437 333 527 801 922 735
364 759 436 1,172 2,427
14 2,102
156 988
24 978 289 1,254 173 147 1,329 2,449 152 391 627 131 214 170 241 1,962 ' 913 565
345 708 405 1,145 2,383
13 2,058
84 955
29 809 247 1,142 169 171 1,284 2,366 168 383 500 128 225 139 237 1,797 852 525
2,148 1,484 1,156 2,139
3,103 1,356 1,787
213 921 2,433 1,820 3,483 3,128 1,145 296 1,388 3,620 190 1,717 734 1,820 2,980 624 1,081 1,616 1,900 1,562
709 1,467
841
2,317 4,810
27 4,160
240 1,943
53 1,787
536 2,396
342 318 2,613 4,815 320 774 1,027 259 439 309 478 3,759
1,765 1,090
2,857 2,951 1,997 4,456 7,913 1,383 5,947
453 2,864 2,486 3,607 4,019 5,524 1,487
614 4,001 8,435
510 2,491 1,761 2,079 3,419
933 1,559 5,375 3,665 2,652
150,420 142,204 134,895 132,762 292,624 267,657 560,281
x l ii
'
TABLE No. 1.--CoimirTTED.
Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART II.
Counties and Cities.
1888.
1882.
No. of enu m erato rs em p lo y ed .
No. of days occupied.
1
l"W h ite. Colored.
1
W hite. Colored.
i
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Appling...................................................................................................................
5
62i 1,912
577 1,591
320
Baker*.................................................................................................................... Baldwin*.................. .............................................................................................
1
28*
551 1,595
558 2,120
1
66
1,426 3,354 1,655 3,307
Banks......................................................................................................................
7
47* 2,224
549 1,923
490
Bartowt................................... .... ......................................................... ..................
9
64| 4,285 2,133 3,791 1,979
Berrienf........................................................................................................ .... .
2
45
2,255
380 1,976
202
Bibb..........................................................................................................................
6 108
4,065 (5,312 3,225 4,842
Brooks....................................... ................................................................
3
46
1,776 2,117 1,973 2,314
Bryan*....................................................................................................................
1
25
888
826
768
790
Bulloch*....................................... ,.......................................................................
1
54
2,707 1,035 2,147
805
Burked........................................................ ....................... ..................................
12 121
1,859 7,325 1,669 7,002
Butts.........................................................................................................................
8
56
1,505 1,671 1,473 1,293
Calhoun...................................................................................................................
2
31
777 1,893
982 1,543
Camdenf................................................................................................................
2
39
670 1,426
697 1,364
Campbell!..............................................................................................................
4
38
1,818 1,289 1,967 1,381
} Carrollf........................................................ ..........................................................
Carrollton (city) ....................................................................................... . .
4
70* 5,869 1,181 If5,460 1,133
Catoosa**...............................................................................................................
1
17
1,414
214 1,456
225
Charlton..................................................................................................................
2
15|
838
179
470
177
Chatham^...............................................................................................................
26 252
4,598 8,588 4,927 8,874
Chattahoochee......................................................................................................
2
19
592 1,092
615 1,086
Chattooga................................................................................................................
10
38* 2,848
666 2,660
680
Cherokee* . . Clarke . . . . Athens (city)|| Clay................. Clayton . . . Clinch* . . . Cobh................. Coffee .... Columbia! . . Colquitt! . . Coweta . . . Newnan (city)
Crawford! Dade .... Dawson! . . . Decatur . . . DeKalb! . . . Dodge . . . . Dooly! . . . . Dougherty . . Douglas? Early .... Echols . . . . Effingham . .
Elbert . . . . Emanuel . . . Eannin . . .
Fayette! Floyd! . . . Home (city) . Forsyth . . . Franklin . . . Fulton . . . .
4
60
4,603
575 4,040
620
}
1
25 18
797 1,101
1,362 | 1,620 1,225
1,620
4
20
926 1,554
758 1,237
2 . 21 i 1,646
974 1,608
944
1
37J 1,325
310 1,099
143
9
80
4,616 2,333 4,720 2,264
2
45
1,721
625 1,278
243
4
37
952 2,530 1,112 2,028
3
26| 1,124
92
706
52
} 10
71
2,865 3,976 2,673 3,660
3
33
1,237 1,642 1,148 1,459
1
23
1,434
151 1)1,341
192
2
29
1,881
96 1,856
114
1
73
3,218 3,732 2,743 3,640 t)
5
52J 3,404 1,746 3,233 1,413
1 100
4
59
1,834 2,324
1,369 2,041
1,169 1,964
617 !zi 1,762 WM
2
38
496 3,933
453 3,334
8
52f 2,040
657 2,017
525
1
40
1,394 1,983
898 1,386
2
23
693
334
775
203
2
50
1,111
939
998
796
9
68
2,252 2,631 1,996 2,564
7
61J 2,795 1,430 2,393 1,053
12
60
2,820
51 2,501
46
5
27J 1,828 1,120 1,756
826
11 83 7-10
1
7
4,302 884
2,841 } 4,571 590
3,474
5
45J 3,112
464 3,060
605 w
7
75
3,643 1,182 2,772 1,045 f
6
98
3,024 1,980 1)2,604 1,730 H
x l iy
TABLE No. 1.--Continued. Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART II.
Counties and Cities.
1888.
1882.
No. of enu m erato rs em p lo y ed .
No. of days occupied.
"White. J 1
Colored. |
iW h ite .,
Colored.
A p p e n d ix .
Atlanta (cit}7)............................................ . ..............................................
Gilmer......................................................................................................................
Glascock................................................. .................................................................
Glynn......................................................................................................................
Gordon...................................................................................................................
Greene.....................................................................................................................
Gwinnett................................................................................................................
Habersham............................................................................................................
Hall . ......................................................................................................................
Hancock..................................................................................................................
Haralson................................................................................................................
Harrisf.............. .............................................................................................. Hart........................................................................................................................
Heard* ................................................................................................................
Henryt .......................................
.............................. .............................
Houston!................................................................................................................
Irwinf
........................................................................................................
Jackson ..................................................................................................................
Jasper................................................................................ ...............................
Jefferson.................................................................................................................
Johnson...................................................................................................................
Jonesf.....................................................................................................................
2
66
7,332 5,462 5,573 4,981
7
61J 3,047
26 3,011
85
1
8
847
380
820
253
3
61} 1,076 2,116
692 1,553
11
33} 3,371
611 2,775
623
1
50
1,546 3,265 1,562 3,703
8
91
5,257 1,164 5,208 1,250
5
30
2,854
375 2,515
443
17
85
5,352 1,024 4,543
729
12
68} 1,774 4,356 1,335 3,762
6
45} 3,079
295 2,165
25
11
60
1,973 3,553 2,304 3,473
6
61
2,419 1,163 2,022 1,463
1
25
1,839 1,126 1,947
978
5
55} 2,722 2,203 2,451 2,324
2
43
1,587 5,082 1,633 5,091
2
60
1,263
455
784
203
9
91
4,596 2,015 4,031 1,924
4
58} 1,643 2,768 1,394 2,951
1
42
1,657 3,534 1,769 3,510
3
25} 1,705
828 1,277
483
2
50
1,200 2,904
992 2,492
Laurenst.................. Lee..........................
Liberty!................. Lincoln .................
Lowndest .... Lumpkin* ....
Macon ...... Madison..................
Marion!.................. McDuffie................. McIntosh .... Meriwether* . . . Miller...................... Milton...................... Mitchell.................. Monroe...................... Montgomery! . . Morgan*................. Murray!.................. Muscogee! . . . . Columbus (city) Newton.................. Oconee...................... Oglethorpe . . . . Paulding! .... Pickens!.................
Pierce...................... Pike! ...................... Polk ....... Cedartown (city) . Pulaski...................... Putnam! . . . . Quitman.................
45
2,532 1,575 1,941 1,327
28
392 2,132
579 2,946
74i 1,287 2,566
988 2,438
22
791 1,461
698 1,226
61
2,043 2,375 1,650 1,926
31
2,079
155 2,065
121
32
1,135 2,576 1,259 2,546
40
2,324 1,093 1,618
776
40
1,313 1,674 fl,679 1,687
27
1,014 1,987 1,008 2,174
31
379 2,109
396 1,479
78
3,258 4,289 2,573 3,859
12*
841
609
935
429
28
1,824
255 1,730
238
11 69
1,763 1,908
2,190 4,259
1,585 2,614
1,672 3,832
p* ti ti
61 50 29
1,557 1,588 2,665
940 4,168
277
1,130 1,270 2,448
567 3,871
319
tsf
!zi
aM
40
887 2,670 1,097 2,203 X
15
2,048 2,082 1,720 1,842
38
2,187 2,413 2,382 2,655
35' 1,154 1,175 1,032
912
48
1,687 3,523 1,654 2,966
81
3,466
465 3,572
419
51
2,641
93 2,041
37
39
1,366
405 1,149
469
42
2,604 2,631 2,401 2,730
}
4
27*
2,566 285
1,214 | 2,663 254
1,452
1
42
1,750 3,199 1,798 2,420
2 1
44
1,087 3,834
12
419
929
893 526
3,621 883
Xa
Babun ................. Randolph .... Richmond . . . . Rockdale .... Schley.................. Scriven................. Spaldingf . , . . Griffin (city) . . Stewart* .... Sumterf .... Americus (city) . Talbot................. Taliaferro* . . . Tatnall................. Taylor.................
Telfair . . . .
Terrellt . Thomas .... Towns ................. Troup................. West Point (city) Twiggs.................
TABLE No. 1.--Continued.
Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART II.
Counties and Cities.
>
P3.
oS
O
9
42j
1
61
17 185
4
29}
2
18'
2
80
5
44j
1
8
1
38
3
83)
1
10
1
42
1
25
3
501
4
541
5
351
2
67'
1
981
3
20'
5
631
2
41
1888.
1882.
-2
1,714 1,865 6,474 1,290
758 2,330 1,195
472 1,147 1,940
439 1,164
734 2,148 1,484 1,156 2,139 3,103 1,356 1,787
218 921
6
o o Q
A
*
59 1,484
3,422 1,871
7,217 5,346
927 1,473
1,163
721
2,293 2,136
1,836 | 1,802 632
3,373 1,308
4,107 2,126
837
445
3,261 1,469
1,784
709
709 1,565
1,467 1,313
841 1(978
2,317 1,952
4,810 2,688
27 1,175
4,160 | 2,025 240
1,943
853
rd o. 'o O
41 2,338 5,719 1,033 1,116 2,274
2,730
2,892 3,979
612 3,616 1,686 1,112 1,351
667 1,879 4,469
20
4,145
1,893
A ppe n d ix .
xlyi
U nion...................... Upson......................
Walkerf................. 'Walton t.................. Ware ...................... Warren................. Washington . . .
Sandersville (city)
Waynet ...... Webster* ....
White...................... Whitfield* ... . Dalton (city) || . . Wilcoxf.................. Wilkes..................
Wilkinsont Worth .......
6 2 13 6 7 6
}1
3 1 5
}1
4 2 2 3
43
2,433
53 2,017
40
37J 1,820 1,787 1,882 2,159
68J 3,483
536 2,905
570
60
3,128 2,396 2,927 1,760
47J 1,441
660
981
286
42
1,388 2,613 1,498 2,490
51
3,620 190
4,815 | 3,741 320
4,231
37
1,717
774 1,442
352
23
734 1.027
683
888
29
1.820
259 1,563
243
34
2,980
4f
624
439 | 2,924 309
646
32J 1,081
478
720
271
68
1,616 3,759 1,769 3,027
35
1,900 1,765 2,029 2,055
62J 1,562 1,090 1fl,386
726
A ppe n d ix .
Totals
37 595 6,989-- 292,624 267,657 265,548 243,174
60
-The Couny School Commissioner the sole enumerator. fThe County School Commissioner one of the enumerators tThere were four enumerators outside the city of Savannah who together, occupied 120 days; the enumeration inside the city was taken hy
22 members of the police force, whose joint affidavit states that " the said work occupied them for a week each."
gA majority of the enumerators in this county were ladies. IlSame enumerator employed hy both City and County Boards ([These Counties were enumerated in 1883, the figures then obtained being given. ggln Burke countv two districts were enumerated the second time. At this second enumeration, three enumerators were employed who occupied, in the aggregate, 22 days. Neither these enumerators nor the time they occupied in the work are included in the figures here given. win Catoosa county a second enumeration was ordered by the State Board of Education. There were seven enumerators who aggregated 22
days. The figures here given relate exclusively to the first enumeration, so far as number of enumerators and time occupied in the work are
concerned.
x l v ii
x l v iii
Counties.
TABLE No. I.--Continued. Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART III.
Incorporated Cities, Towns
'
and Villages.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Years.
White.
Colored.
Total.
M ales. E em ales.j M ales. F em ales. W hite. Colored.
W hite &
Colored.
A ppe n d ix .
Appling...................................... Baxley ........................................ Baker....................................... Newton...................................... Baldwin................................... Milledgeville.......................... Banks........................................... Homer....................................... Banks........................................... Belton*. . . ................. Banks.......................................... Maysville*............................... Bartow....................................... Cartersville............................. Bartow....................................... Kingston................................... Bartow....................................... Adairsville.............................. Berrien...................................... Alapaha......................................
Bibb............................................ Maconf.................................. Brooks....................................... Quitman................................... Burke.......................................... Waynesboro......................... Burke........................................... Midville................................... Burke........................................... Millen*...................................... Butts.......................................... Jackson....................................... Butts.......................................... McIntosh.................................. Butts . . ............................... Flovilla.................................. Calhoun................................... Arlington.................................. Calhoun................................... Leary...........................................
31 7
189 18
6 18 199 24 35 10 1.028 104 87 19 23 74 15 18 13 13
31 15 251 19 8 20 201 39 36 17 1,098 93 76 14 16 66 17 25 14 11
5 16 333 2
2 184 47
9 5 1,331 135 172 37 14 25 18 4 39 19
1 12 342
2 243
50 12
5 1,119
155 197
27 26 35 13 14 37 23
62 22 440 37 14 38 400 63 71 27 2,126 197 163 33 39 140 32 43 27 24
6 28 675
2
4 427
97 21 10 2,450 290 369 64 40 60 31 18 76 42
68 50 1,115 39 14 42 827 160 92 37 4,576 487 532 97 79 200 63 61 103 66
Calho n................................... Morgan......................................
Camden................................... St. Mary's..................................
Campbell................................... Pairburn...................................
Campbell................................... Palmetto..........................
Carroll....................................... "Whitesburg..............................
Carroll....................................... Bowdon......................................
Carroll....................................... Villa Ttica..................................
Carroll....................................... Temple......................................
Catoosa...................................... Ringgold...................................
Catoosa...................................... Graysville..................................
Chatham................................... Savannah f . ......................
Chattahoochee......................... Cusseta.......................................
Chattooga.................................. Summerville.............................
Chattooga.................................. Raccoon Mills..........................
Chattooga . ............................... Trion Pactory..........................
Cherokee................................... Ball Ground.............................
Cherokee................................... Canton.......................................
Clay............................................ Port Gaines...............................
Clay............................................ Blufton......................................
Clayton ...................................... Jonesboro ..................................
Clinch....................................... Du Pont......................................
Cobb........................................... Marietta......................................
Cobb........................................... Acworth...................................
Columbia................................... Grovetown...............................
Columbia......................
Harlem.......................................
Coweta...................................... Grantville..................................
Coweta...................................... Senoia..........................................
Coweta...................................... Sharpsburg...............................
Dade.......................................... Trenton......................................
Dade.......................................... Rising Pawn.............................
Dawson...................................... Dawsonville.............................
Decatur...................................... Bainbridge...............................
Decatur................................... Whigham..................................
22 32 53 38 43 56 53 42 51 50 1,900 31 46 62 103 43 69
68 22 54 69 232 82 35 39 35 64 12 48 27 27 117 20
29 25 71 43 33 40 62 22 49 39 1,983 30 48 79 151 35 80 56 20 66 74 200 78 46 36 31 64 11 40 32 27 130 17
10 90 35 54 13
4 24
6 18
3 1,929
20 25
4
9 19 81 12 26 18 222 40 24 16 60 27 15 4 5 2 152
7
16 93 36 51 11
6 19
8 29
3 2,343
31 17
5
8 27 85 12 41 25 233 62 26 15 77 24 14
4 5 3 118 12
51 57 124 81 76 96 115 64 100 89 3,883 61 94 141 254 78 149
124 42
120 143 432 160 81
75 66 128 23 88 59 54 247 37
26 183
71 105
24 10 43 14 47
6 4,272
51 42
9
17 46 166 24 67 43 455 102 50 31 137 51 29
8 10
5 270
19
77 240 195 186 100 106 158
78 147 95 8,155 112 136 150 254 95 195 290
66 187 186 887 262 131 106 203 179
52 96 69 59
517 56
A ppe n d ix .
Counties.
TABLE No.I.--Continued.
Return of ^'numeration of School Population.
PART III.
Incorporated Cities, Towns and Tillages.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Years.
White.
Colored.
Total.
M ales. F em ales. M ales. F em ales. W hite. Colored.
W hite &
Colored.
A ppe n d ix .
DeKalb................. . . . Decatur...................................... DeKalb...................................... Lithonia. ......... DeKalb ....................................... Doraville................................... DeKalb...................................... Stone Mountain...................... DeKalb...................................... Clarkston . .......................... Dodge....................................... Eastman................................... Dodge . ............................... Chauncey ................................... Dooly........................................... Vienna....................................... Dougherty.............................. Albany^...................................... Douglas................................... Douglasville............................. Douglas................................... Salt Springs............................. Early.......................................... Blakely...................................... Echols....................................... Statenville.................................. Effimgham.............................. Guyton....................................... Elbert....................................... Elberton...................................... Elbert....................................... Bowman...................................... Emanuel................................... Swainsboro............................... Fannin........................................ Morganton............................... Fannin........................................ Blue Kidge............................... Fayette...................................... Fayetteville..............................
56
62
90
81
118
171
289
62
86
40
29
148
69
217
14
14
7
2
28
9
37
86
72
56
45
158
101
259
22
23
7
17
45
24
69
53
43
51
46
96
97
193
40
43
38
40
83
78
161
29
37
16
26
66
42
108
162
161
359
348
323
707 1,030
56
65
34
34
121
68
189
17
18
8
7
35
15
50
48
56
13
16
104
29
133
29
15
3
7
44
10
54
42
36
5
5
78
10
88
84
94
121
114
178
235
413
41
45
7
9
86
16
102
17
21
6
6
38
12
50
21
24
2
45
2
47
38
26
1
64
1
65
10
12
2
2
22
4
62
Floyd . . Floyd . . Floyd . . Floyd . . Forsyth . . Franklin . Franklin . Franklin . Fulton . . Fulton . . Gilmer . . Glascock . Glynn . . Gordon.. . Gordon . . Gordon . . Greene . . Gwinnett . Gwinnett . Gwinnett . Gwinnett . Gwinnett . Gwinnett . Habersham Habersham Habersham Habersham
Hall . . . Hall . . . Hall . . . Hall . . . Hancock . Hancock .
Cave Springs Forestville. South Home
Bast Borne. Gumming . Carnesville . Boyston . . Lavonia . West End. East Point. Ellijay . . Gibson . .
Brunswick! Calhoun . Besaca . . Sugar Yalley . Greensboro Lawrenceville Buford . .
Suwanee . . Duluth . . . Norcross . . Jug Tavern* Clarkesville Toccoa . . . Mount Airy Cornelia. . . Gainesville Flowery Branch Lula................. Belton* .... Sparta .... Linton...............
53
76
84
61
129
145
274
96
84
54
62
180
116
296
76
70
106
113
146
219
365
55
54
76
84
109
160
269
29
32
5
10
61
15
76
34
21
7
11
55
18
73
23
22
9
6
45
15
60
21
24
6
5
45
11
56
142
120
49
69
262
118
380
30
28
23
32
58
55
113
38
35
73
73
17
26
5
7
43
12
55
390
417
403
474
807
877 1,684
67
78
28
21
145
49
194
23
13
4
7
36
11
47
12
7
8
1
19
9
28
69
63
131
142
132
273
405
71
52
13
16
123
29
152
53
42
7
11
95
18
113
20
16
13
7
36
20
56
29
32
23
24
61
47
108
52
49
35
22
101
57
158
2
1
2
2
3
4
7
31
33
14
8
64
22
86
97
82
61
49
179
110
289
21
21
9
5
42
14
.56
16
20
4
8
36
12
48
375
387
126
112
762
238 1,000
53
42
1
95
1
96
15
11
13
9
26
22
48
12
19
6
6
31
12
43
58
69
83
105
127
188
315
19
25
16
9
44
25
69
A ppe n d ix .
l ii
Counties.
TABLE No. I.--Continued.
Return of Enumeration of School Population. part m.
Incorporated Cities, Towns and Villages.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Years.
White.
Colored.
Total.
M ales. F em ales. M ales. F em ales. W hite. Colored.
W hite &
Colored.
A ppe n d ix .
Haralson................................... Tallapoosa^...............................
Haralson................................... Buchanan^..................................
Haralson................................... Bremen^...................................
Haralson................................... Waco?.......................................
Harris........................................ Hamilton...................................
Harris........................................ Chipley......................................
Hart........................................... Hartwell....................................
Hart........................................... Bowersville...............................
Heard.................... ..
Franklin....................................
Henry....................................... McDonough...............................
Henry...................................*. Hampton...................................
Houston..................................... Perry . .....................................
Houston..................................... Byron.......................................
Houston..................................... Fort Valley...............................
Jackson ..................................... Jefferson....................................
Jackson ....................................... Harmony Grove......................
Jackson ..................................... Maysville*
..................
Jackson..................................... Jug Tavern*...........................
Jasper.................................... Monticello................................
Jefferson.................................... Louisville...................................
166
157
42
36
323
78
401
35
32
2
1
67
3
70
31
30
15
13
61
28
89
40
38
11
10
78
21
99
25
24
50
44
49
94
143
29
32
8
15
61
23
84
63
64
35
24
127
59
186
32
33
3
1
65
4
69
20
26
7
7
46
14
60
49
58
17
26
107
43
150
35
40
40
52
75
92
167
57
52
47
56
109
103
212
10
12
17
22
22
39
61
76
71
128
139
147
267
414
59
60
42
36
119
78
197
69
56
22
21
125
43
168
6
6
3
6
12
9
21
29
22
5
8
51
13
64
44
58
50
47
102
97
199
37
37
77
84
74
161
235
Jefferson . Jefferson . J efferson . Johnson . Jones . . . . Laurens . . Lee , . . Lee . . . Lee . . . Lee . . . . Lincoln . . Lowndes . Lumpkin .. Macon . . . Macon . . Macon . . Madison . . Marion . . McDuffie . McIntosh . Meriwether Meriwether Meriwether Miller . . Milton . . Mitchell . . Mitchell . . Monroe . . Monroe . . Morgan. . . Morgan . . Murray . .
Newton. . .
Bartow Wadley Stellaville Wrightsville Clinton Dublin Leesburg Smithville Chokee Quincie Lincolnton Y aldosta Dahlonega Oglethorpe Montezuma Marshallville Danielsville Buena Vista Thomson Darien . Greenville W oodbury Luthersville Colquitt Alpharetta Camilla Pelham Forsyth Culloden Madison . .
Rutledge Spring Place Covington
26
16
5
46
21
67
22
37
22
45
59
104
9
12
14
21
26
47
45
19
29
92
48
140
10
25
19
24
44
68
91
33
37
154
70
224
20
26
33
36
59
95
27
30
42
52
72
124
15
16
2
31
33
23
15
3
38
41
30
8
7
63
15
78
138
233
234
276
467
743
103
26
19
203
45
248
18
49
57
37
106
143
43 30
53 73
46 79
94 61
99 152
193 213
Tj
15
'6
5
29
11
40
40 85
56 55
69 56
78 150
125 111
203 261
O
29
319
356
55
675
730
58
105 . " 108
104
213
317
25
31
27
54
58
112
33
17
15
60
32
92
8
5
6
17
11
28
29
7
7
59
14
73
59
57
112
125
169
294
20
22
22
43
44
87
60
117
109
125
226
351
33
28
26
64
54
118
82
204
237
156
441
597
47
14
22
94
36
130
26
6
2
62
8
70
99
138
133
219
271
490
Counties.
Newton . . Oconee . . . Oglethorpe . Oglethorpe . Paulding . . Pickens . . . Pickens . . Pierce . . . Pike . . 1 . Pike .... Pike . . Polk . . . . Polk . . . . Pulaski. . . Pulaski . . Putnam . . Quitman . . Babun . . . Babun . . . Bandolph .
TABLE No. I.--Continued. Return of Enumeration of School Population.
PART III.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Tears.
Incorporated Cities, Towns and Villages.
Oxford ... Watkinsville . Lexington . . Crawford . . Dallas.................. Jasper .... Talking Bock . Blackshear . . . Zebulon . . . . Milner .... Barnesville . . Bockmart . . . Van Wert . . . Hawkinsville . Cochran . . . . Eatonton . . . Georgetown . . Clayton.............. Tallulah Palis Cuthbert ....
White.
CO
5 rs a
33 31 20 20 62 38 18 53 34 55 112 38 17 136 105 68 15 22 18 100
a
Ph 32 22 14 31 55 44 13 61 27 47 126 30 10 le'o
93 55 13 22 13 107
Colored.
<CU
a 67 16 55 80 20 8
02
a
53 29 50 42 17
5
49
41
24
26
24
20
141
154
16
12
9
14
174
174
90
107
165
188
29
38
1
2
213
247
Total.
A
65 53 34 51 117 82 31 114 61 102 238 68 27 296 198 123 28 44 31 207
^5 ' o
120 45
105 72 37 13
90 50 44 295 28 23 348 197 353 67
3 460
*"3
O
185 98
139 123 154
95 31 204 111 146 533 96 50 644 395 476 95 44 34 667
Richmond Richmond Richmond Rockdale Schley . . Screven . Screven . Stewart. . Sumter . . Sumter. . Talbot . . Talbot . . Taliaferro Taliaferro Tatnall Taylor . . Taylor . . Telfair . Telfair . Terrell . Terrell .
Thomas . Thomas . Thomas . Thomas Towns. . Troup . . Troup . . Union . . Upson . Walker . Walton . Walton .
Augustat Summervillet Hepzibaht Conyers Ellaville Sylvania Millen* . Lumpkin
Andersonville Leeton . Talbotton Geneva.. Orawfordville Sharon . Reidsville Butler Reynolds McRae . McVille Dawson Bronwood Thomasville Cairo . . . Boston . . Oclocknee . Hiwassee
LaGrange Hogansville
Blairsville Thomaston LaFayette Social Circle Monroe
2,400 108 80 158 21 37 18 54 21 8 70 15 34 11 15 41 15 29 21 119
38 210
44 50 15 11 111 42 10 105 22 63 41
2,491 85 27
134 18 40 38 53 26 7 73
21 41 12 20 58 14 44 10 125 40 228 34 44 17 15 140 33 12
118 21
65 49
2,233 157 40 89 22 18 26 93 52 14 114 13 28 16 5 41 20 23 16 102 27 417 37 42 12
201 31
75 22 32 49
2,336 180 44 58 23 19 31 89 55 16 127 18 29 14 4 60 28 23 21 116 27 457 30 87 6
213 45
74 10 34 67
4,891 193 57 287 39 77 56 107 47 15 143 36
75 23 35 99 29 73 31 244 78 438 78 94 32 26 251 75 22 223 48 128 90
4,569 337 84 147 45 37 57 182 107 30 241 31 57 30 9 101 48 46 37 218 54 874 67 79 18
414 76
149 32 66
106
9,460 530 141 434 84 114 113 289 154 45 384 67 132 53 44 200 77
119 68 462 132 1,312 145 173 50 26 665
151 22 372 75
194 196
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Counties.
TABLE No. I.--Continued. Return of Enumeration of School Population.
part in.
Incorporated Cities, Towns and Villages.
Number of C lildren Between S x and Eighteen Tears.
White.
Colored.
Total.
Males. . F em ales. M ales. F em ales.
i
W hite. Colored. W hite & Colored.
T
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Walton...................................... Loganville...............................
Walton...................................... Jug Tavern*...........................
Ware......................................... Waresboro...............................
Warren..................................... Warrenton..............................
Warren..................................... Norwood
Washington............................ Tennille.....................................
Washington............................ Harrison...................................
Washington.............. .... . Kiddleville................................
Washington............................ Oconee......................................
Washington............................ Warthen ..............................
Wayne......................................... Jesup ..........................................
Webster.................................... Preston.....................................
Webster .".............................. Weston......................................
Whitfield................................. Tilton.........................................
Whitfield............................. Tunnel Hill............................
Wilcox....................... ..
. Abbeville....................... , . .
Wilkes....................................... Washington .............................
W ilkinson.................................. Irwinton...................................
Wilkinson.................................. Toombsboro.............................
22
20
11
13
42
24
66
3
4
7
7 i-cJ
36
35
3
9
71
12
83 H
83
76
148
173
159
321
480 g
34
38
25
23
72
48
120 2
67
61
51
52
128
103
231 r
38
33
42
40
71
82
153
23
22
24
20
45
44
89
2
5
4
3
7
7
14
7
4
11
17
11
28
39
59
54
79
85
113
164
277
22
25
17
18
47
35
82
27
29
15
24
56
39
95
33
32
2
5
65
7
72
38
51
5
11
89
16
105
22
25
14
12
47
26
73
92
114
258
236
206
494
700
29
36
25
24
65
49
114
5
4
29
30
9
59
68
Wilkinson.................................. Gordon...................................... Worth....................................... Sumner...................................... Worth....................................... TyTy.......................................
18
21
21
26
39
47
86
27
39
14
11
66
25
91
28
82
15
23
55
38
93
Totals..................................
16,544 16,994 16,157 17,094 33,538 33,251 66,789
-The towns marked with an asterisk lie in more than one county. The names of these towns are repeated for each county. The total school population in each case is to be found by adding together the numbers reported from the respective counties, and is as follows: Belton, white males, 18; white females, 27; colored males, G; colored females, 6 ; total white, 45; total colored, 12; total white and colored, 57; Maysville, white males, 24; white females, 26; colored males, 5; colored females, 8; total white 50 ; total colored, 13; total white and colored, 63 ; Millen, white males, 41; white females, 54 ; colored males, 40; colored females, 57; total white, 95 ; total colored, 97 ; total white and colored, 192; Jug Tavern, white males, 34 ; white females, 27 ; colored males, 7 ; colored females, 10; total white, 61; total colored, 17 ; total white and
colored, 78. fThese cities, towns or villages are given in this table for convenience. The school population of Macon is, of course, included in that of
Bibb; of Savannah, in that of Chatham; of Augusta, Summerville and Hepzibah, in that of Richmond; and of Brunswick, in that of Glynn.
In each case there is a local school system for the entire county. JThe " suburbs of Albany " were separately enumerated, the result being as follows: White males, 28; white females, 26; colored males, 63;
colored females, 100; total white, 54 ; total colored, 163; total white and colored, 217. gin these towns, the separation by sex is based on an estimate.
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TABLE No. I.--Continued.
Return of Enumeration of Softool Population.
PART IV.
Number of Children Between Six and Eighteen Years.
White.
Colored.
Total.
F em ales. Males. Fem ales. iW hite. Colored.
i
W hite and Colored.
A ppe n d ix .
Aggregate in incorporated cities, towns and villages under local school laws............................................................................................................
Aggregate in incorporated cities, towns and villages not under local school laws............................................................................................................
Aggregate in counties, cities, towns and villages under local school laws.........................................................................................................................
Aggregate in counties, cities, towns and villages not under local school laws...........................................................................................................
Aggregate in municipal corporations having a school population of more than one thousand.................................................................................
Aggregate in municipal corporations having a school population of
one thousand or less, and over five hundred............................................ Aggregate in municipal corporations having a school population of
less than five hundred and over one hundred........................................ Aggregate in municipal corporations having a school population of
less than one hundred..................................................................................... Aggregate in all the cities, towns and villages of the State.................... Aggregate in all the counties of the State, outside of incorporated
cities, towns and villages............ .................................................................... Aggregate in the entire State.............................................................................
&;
12,813 10,688 15,020 135,400 12,147
2,772 6,338 2,244 23,501 126,919 150,420
13,717 10,893 15,766 126,438
13,037 2,941 6,469 2,163 24,610 117,594 142,204
12,112 10,064 17,776
117,119 12,009
3,570 5,574 1,023 22,176 112,719 134,895
13,299
10,598 19,279 113,483
13,243 3,791 5,810 1,053 23,897
108,865 132,762
26,530
21,581 30,786 261,838 25,184
5,713 12,807
4,407 48,111 244,513 292,624
25,411 20,662 37,055 230,602
25,252
7,361 11,384
2,076 46,073 221,584 267,657
51,941 42,243
67,841 492,440
50,436 13,071
24,191 6,483 94,184 466,097 560,281
Appendix.
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TABLE No. XI.
, Apportionment of the School Fund of 1888. Amount to he Ap
portioned, $330,113.73.
^
COUNTIKS.
Appling................. Baker......................... Baldwin................. Banks...................... Bartow..................... Berrien..................... Bibb.......................... Brooks...................... Bryan ...................... Bullock..................... Burke...................... Butts.......................... Calhoun..................... Camden..................... Campbell................ Carroll...................... Carrollton (city) . . , Catoosa..................... Charlton................. Chatham................. Chattahoochee . . . . Chattooga................ Cherokee................. Clarke .......................... Athens (city) . . . day ~.................
Clayton ......................... Clinch ...... Cobb................................ Coffee......................... Columbia ................. Colquitt......................... Coweta.......................... Newnan (city . . . . Crawford..................... Dade............................. Dawson......................... Decatur......................... DeKalb...................... Dodge............................. DooL7............................. Dougherty..................... Douglas......................... Early............................. Echols.......................... Effingham..................... Elbert.......................... Emanuel...................... Fannin.........................
School Population.
bounties' pro rata.
2,489 $ 2,146 4,780 2,773 6,418 2,635 10,377 3,893 1,714 3,742 9,184 3,176 2,670 2,096 3,107
1,628 1,017 13.186 1,684 3,514 5,178 2,159 2,326 2,480 2,620 1,635 6.949 2,346 3,482 1,216 5,935
906 2,879 1,585 1,977 6.950 5,150 3,203 4,365 4,429 2,697 3,377 1,027 2,050 4,883 4,225 2,871
1,466 50 1,264 41 2,816 34 1,633 83 3,781 44 1,552 52 6,114 06 2,293 73 1,009 88 2,204 76 5,411 15 1,871 28 1,573 15 1,234 95 1,830 62
4,153 81
959 21 599 21 7,769 10 992 20 2,070 42 3.050 84 1.272 07 1,370 46 1,461 20 1,543 69 963 33 4,094 30 1,382 25 2,051 57 716 46 3,496 86 533 81 1,696 29 933 87 1,164 81 4,094 89 3,034 34 1,887 19 2,571 83 2,609 54 1,589 05 1,989 71 606 10 1,207 85 2,877 03 2,489 34 1,691 57
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Appendix..
TABLE No. II.--Continued.
COUNTIES.
Fayette ........................................... Floyd........................................... Koine (city).................................. Forsyth ........................................... Franklin....................................... Fulton (co).................................. Atlanta (city).............................. Gilmer.......................................... Glasscock...................................... Glynn............................................. Gordon........................................... Greene............................................ Gwinnett........................................ Habersham................................... Hall................................................. Hancock....................................... Haralson....................................... Harris............................................ Hart................................................ Heard............................................. Henry ........................................... Houston........................................ Irwin.............................................. Jackson ......................................... Jasper ........................................... Jefferson.............................. Johnson ........................................ Jones.............................................. Laurens.........................................
Liberty . . . . Lincoln . . . . Lowndes . . . Lumpkin . . . Macon .... Madison . . Marion.............. McDuffie. . , McIntosh . . . Meriwether . . Miller................. Milton .... Mitchell . . . . M onroe . . . . Montgomery . Morgan . . . . Murray . . . . Muscogee (co). Columbus (city) Newton . . . . Oconee .... Oglethorpe . .
School Population.
Counties' pro rata.
7,143 1,474
2,948
8,617
3,576 4,825 5,004 12,794 3,073 1,227 3,192 3,982 4,811 6,421 3,229 6,376 6.130 3.374 5,526 3,582! 2,965 4,925 6,669 1,718 6,611 4,411 5,191 2,533 4,104 4,107 2,524 3,853 2,252 4,418 2,234 3,711 3,417 2,987 3,001 2,488 7,547 1,450 2,079 3,953 6,167 2.497 5,756 2,942j
3,557 4.130 4,600 2,329 5,210'
4,208 61' 868 47
1,736 94
5,077 08
2,106 95 2,842 86 2,948 32 7,538 14 1,810 59
722 94 1,880 70 2,346 17 2,834 61 3,783 21 1,902 50 3,756 70 3,611 75 1,987 94 3,255 88 2,110 50 1,746 96 2,901 78 3,929 33 1,012 23 3,895 16 2,598 93 3,058 50 1,492 43 2.418 05 2.419 82 1,487 12 2,270 16 1,326 86 2,603 06 1,316 26 2,186 50 2,013 27 1,759 92 1,768 17 1,465 91 4,446 64
854 33 1,224 93 2,329 08 3,633 55 1,471 22 3,391 40 1,733 41 2,095 76 2,433 37 2,710 29 1,372 23 3,069 70
Appkndix.
TABLE No. II.--Continued.
LX I
COUNTIES.
Paulding................. Pickens................. Pierce ...................... Pike...................... Polk..................... Cedartown (city) Pulaski.................. Putnam................. Quitman................. Kabun ...................... Randolph . . . . Richmond . . . . Rockdale............... Schley................. Screven . .'. . . Spalding .... Griffin (city) . . Stewart................. Sumter (co.) . . Americus (city) . Talbot................. Taliaferro . . . . Tatnall............... Taylor................. Telfair................. Terrell.................. Thomas.................. Towns................. Troup................. West Point (city) Twiggs IT nion Upson................. Walker..................
Walton.................. Ware ....... Way cross (city) . W arren................. Washington. . . . Sandersville (city) Wayne.................. Webster................. White................. Whitfield.............. Dalton (city) . . Wilcox.................. Wilkes................. Wilkinson . . . W orth.................
Total ....
School Population.
Counties' pro rata.
3,780 -i
539 f
3,031 1
1,104 f
5.947 \ 453 ,
1,487 1 614 ,
8,435) 510 /
3,419 I 933 /
3,931|S 2.734; 1,771 f),2o5
4,319
4,949 4,9211 1,348 1,773 5,287 13,691 2,217 1,921 4,623
4,135
4,520 6,047 1,276 4,425 2,518 2,857 2,951 1,997 4,456 7,913 1,383
6,400
2,864 2,486 3,607 4,019 5,524
2,101
4,001
8,945
2,491 1,761 2,079
4,355
1,559 5,37f 3,66T 2,651)
2,316 12 1.610 85 1,043 46 3,084 43
2,544 73
2,915 92
2,899 42
794 23
1,044 64
3,115 06
8,066 64
1,301) 25
1,131 84
2.723 84
1,785 650
84) 47 j
2,436
31
2,f>(>3 15
3.562 85
751 81
2,607 18
1,483 59
1,683 32
1,788 71
1,176 62
2,625 44
4,602 29
814 85
3,770 84
1,687 45
1,464 78
2,125 22
2,367 97
3,254 70
876 361
13) 76 j
1,237
89
2,357 36
4,969 300
84) 49 )
5,270
33
1,467 68
1,037 57
1,224 93
2,014 549
1 2,564 /2 j
17
918 55
3.166 91
2,159 39
1,562 54
560,2811$
330,113 73
TABLE No. III.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
A IX T
TABLE No. III.--Continued.
Consolidation of Public School leacheris' Reports.
PART I.--STATISTICS OP SCHOOLS.
Colored.
1
W hite A Colored.
1
Average 1 Attendance. Average m onthly
cost of tuition per pupil. Amt of this m onth ly cost of tuition paid by the State. O rthograp 'y--! No. of pupils. R ead in g No. of pupils.
1 1
Eng. Gram .-- No. of pupils. Geography -- No. of pupils. Arithm etic--
:
No. of pupils.
No. of Schools.
Number of Scholars Admitted.
White.
Colored.
Totals.
Branches of Study Taught.
t
W hite. i
'Colored. Males. iFemales. | Males. Fem ales.
COUNTIES.
f11cC3p,
0)
wO
2
Lee.................................
8 20 145 118 544 575 263 1,119 1,382 801 $
87
996 862 . 429 152 211 321 t3'
Liberty......................... 26 40 348 350 597 631 698 1,228 1,926 1,52$ 1 50
73+ 1,764 1,663 1,056 387 508 1,049
Lincoln........................
19
8 302 280 141 142 582 283 865 724+ 1 51 + 88+ 772 715 576 286 361 601
Lowndes....................... 80 21 490 498 684 777 988 1,461 2,449 1,839 1 46
65 2,343 1,853 1,523 429 80 1,276 H
Lumpkin....................
33
2 886 773 58 41 1,659 99 1,758 1,011 1 00
67+ 1,714 961 397 227 223 510
Macon........................... 15 12 341 372 396 542 713 938 1,651 1,307 1 12+ 73+ 1,583 1,549 1,250 405 542 908 b
Madison....................... 41 11 961 869 349 374 1,830 723 2,553 1,400 1 41
76+ 2,553 1,963 1,394 434 637 1,253
Marion......................... 21 11 458 446 416 4:34 904 850 1,754 1,132+ 1 50
70+ 1,754 1,122 1,007 313 381 883
McDuffie..................... 27 20 399 377 474 494 776 968 1,741 1,288+ 1 19+ 60+ 1,744 1,403 1,066 474 655 946
McIntosh.....................
9 20 84 82 463 548 166 1,011 1,177 1,008
93+ 53+ 1,117 985 841 172 455 627
Meriwether................. 40 11 863 951 197 268 1,814 465 2,279 1,660+ 1 67+ 1 23 2,252 2,068 1,833 690 875 1,456
Miller............................ 16
7 284 233 120 112 517 232 749 540 1 39 + 83+ 672 455 316 77 99 273
Milton........................... 32
4 920 759 99 94 J,67`. 193 1,872 1,059+ 1 10
59 1,559 1,270 852 233 301 825
Mitchell........................ 24 10 355 363 196 229 718 425 1,143 895+ 1 50 1 08 1,143 833 663 317 384 408
Monroe......................... 28 31 739 631 1,034 1,114 1,370 2,148 3,518 2,471 1 45
65+ 3,050 3,124 2,303 845 1,267 2,220
Montgomery.............. 33
8 409 378 117 142 787 259 1,046 741+ 1 72 1 00 1,009 834 697 294 351 634
Morgan......................... 35 32 527 535 ` 582 605 1,062 1,188 2,250 1,935 1 04
75+ 2,225 2,086 1,834 683 788 1,555
Murray......................... 38
4 802 7<* 212 214 1,511 426 1,936 1,499 1 00
61 1,340 1,084 881 604 400 980
Muscogee..................... 10 14 179 159 412 486 338 898 1,236 915
68
66 1,214 1,154 821 365 515 813
Newton......................... 37 - 2 856 769 822 813 1,625 1,635 3,260 2,087 + 2 00
69+ 2,993 2,847 2.12C 636 878 1,851
Oconee......................... 22 11 439 365 282 314 804 597 1,401 907 1 25+ 73+ 1,257 1,137 1,065 321 394 869
Oglethorpe.................. Paulding.....................
32 62
027 626 554 761 857 1,180 1,618 2,798 2,116+ 1 30 1,385 1,309 198 179 2,694 877 3,071 1,466 1 20
71 2,655 2,271 1,88C 620 898 1,846 81 3,042 1,898 1,383 244 271 1,272
Pickens......................... 44
1 1,239 1,098 14 14 2,337 28 2,365 1,409 1 00
58 2,202 1,072 684 166 123 693
Pierce............. ............. 23
6 418 328 98 124 746 222 968 699 1 13+ 66+ 891 779 593 167 231 457
Pike............................... 31 20 982 895 780 818 1,877 1,598 3,475 2,322 1 20
73+ 3,473 2,833 2,359 841 1,198 1,963
Columbia.....................
Colquitt....................... Coweta......................... Crawford..................... Dade.............................. Dawson......................... Decatur........................
DeKalb........................ Dodge........................... Dooly............................
Dougherty................... Douglas....................... Early..............................
Echols........................... Effingham....................
Elbert...........................
Emanuel..................... Fannin.........................
Fayette......................... Floyd.............................
Forsyth......................... Franklin..................... Fulton.......................... Gilmer......................... G lascock....................... Gordon......................... Greene........................... Gwinnett..................... Habersham................
Hall................................ Hancock....................... Haralson..................... Harris............................
Hart............................... Heard........................... Henry..,........................
Houston....................... Irwin.............................
Jackson......................... Jasper............................ -`Jefferson....................
Johnson....................... Jones............................
Laurens.......................
17 20 40
23 17 33 49 41 30 39
3 28 15 15 27 32 55 44 27 80 48 47 26 54 15 65 26 85 45 79 44 41 41
53 36 50 43
27 65 25 27 21
28 39
33 00 35
8 0 1 46 21 13 10 25 3 12 3 8 26 19 1 14 46 10 11 12
0 4 7 31 20 6 33 28 3 27 33 15 29 49 2
30 21 17
5 23 23
295 298 217 281
296 288 00 00
1,025 924 1,309 3,247
496 372 198 195
430 436 00 00
888 850 44 47
1,053 986 963 965
1,108 958 470 492
638 577 366 382
723 717 331 304
112 63 '843 936
537 624 41 54
256 287 277 242
263 191 61 53
302 305 129 126
886 772 874 898
1,044 930 407 408
1,253 1,101 32 35
750 655 366 440
1,590 1,480 1,020 1,013
1,565 1,287 205 206
1,523 1,243 434 354
926 760 409 467
1,499 1,300 00 00
308 271 57 43
1,519 1,412 114 116
611 577 1,275 3,080
2,227 2,015
423
1,264 1,046 137 139
2,170 1,797 277 259
504 0/0 765 906
1,161 1,010 74 56
813 712 767 7;>3
1,077 818 342 309
929 699 462 455
1,201 1,013 898 903
562 548 779 872
324 293 31 34
1,677 1,362 808 752
573 537 630 577
474 491 448 479
474 416 143 141
361 298 853 868
625 761 541 602
593 584 1,949 868 866 1,738 2,039 2,066 1,215 1,440 175 1,163 543
607 1,658 1,974 2,354 1,405 3,070 2,852 2,766 1,686 2,799
2,931 1,188 4,242 2,310 3,967 3,079 2,173 1,525 1,890 1,628 2,214 1,110
617 3,039 1,110
965 890
1,386
498 U0
393 00 91 1,928 962 748 615 1,779 95 519 114 255 1,772 815 27 806 2,033 411 788 876 00 100 230
868
536 1,671
130 1,520
651 917 1,801 1,651
1,560 1,207
927 284 1,721 1,143
1,091 858 584 368
4,505 3,358+ 1,261 884
866 542 1,829 1,178 3,967 2,472
3,028 1,896 1,963 1,422 f 2,055 1,470 1,954 1,449 1,256 738 1,062 641
566 377+ 862 690 3,430 2,157 2,789 1.760 2,383 1,361 2,211 1,273+ 5,103 3,100 3,263 1,958 3,554 2,075 2,562 1,566 2,799 1,716 679 383 3,161 2,010 3,543 2,539 5,110 3.004 2,586 1,544 4,503 2,655+ 2,750 2,198 2,301 1,174 3,045 1.989 2,541 1,762 2,545 1,805 4,015 2.495 2,761 2,209+ 682 492+ 4,599 2,648 2,317 1,625+ 1,892 1,225+ 1,174 661 2,380 1,785 2,529 1,542
1 29+ 1 43 1 31 + 1 22
90 1 00 1 10
1 31+ 1 33 1 48
82
1 83+ 1 34 1 15+ 1 33 1 25 1 33+
93 1 08+ 1 25 1 08+ 1 10 + 1 07
52+
1 00 1 00 1 41 + 1 25 1 05 1 09 1 05 1 28
1 75 1 20 1 21 + 1 62+ 1 45 1 41+ 1 32 1 15 1 14+ 1 43
1 03+ 1 51+
1 01 1 03
53 80
90 45 82+ 78 63 92
75+ 1 00
in 73+ 93+ 60+ 70 59+ 69
60 55 72 73 52+
97 61+ 59
65 63+ 70 76 80 + 77+
55+ 56+ 56+
91 + 1 02
76+
73 76+
1 13 62+
77+
1,091 562
4,222
1,216 804
1,521
3,936 3,028 1,821 2,054
1,865 1.170
1,009 519 859
3,026 2,448 2,226 2,106
5,005 3,1302,645 2,432
2,591 679
2,958
3,403 4,710 2,463
4,416 2,613 2,181 2,951 2,541 2,327
3,390 2,670
642
4,236 2,317 1,822
1,107 2,047
2,316
801
413 3,313 1,042
719 1,232 2,719 2,591 1,631 1,797 1,452 1,030
816 403 749
2,438 2,110 1,092 1,808 3,467 2,410
1,929 2,116 1,013
507 2,170 2.942 3,594 1,543
2,969 2,267 1,419 2,468
1,915 1.852
3.090 2,478
570
3,601 1,722
1,581 894
1,999
1,928
801 758 758 758 248 38 66 195 2,289 1,071 1,350 2,795 845 318 457 777 403 183 218 563 550 239 304 648 2,163 740 936 1,728 1,885 677 800 1,723 1,185 317 505 779 3,477 335 542 1,256 1,161 320 581 886 786 354 407 755 608 224 294 483 334 66 92 262 631 279 309 545 2,561 993 1,081 2,169 1,441 526 614 1,351 507 173 152 501 1,407 461 559 1,381 3,046 1,028 2,113 2,568 1,100 489 1,337 1,347 1,267 414 304 1,200 1,739 522 746 1,502 544 255 136 813 426 89 117 391 1,687 817 775 1.688 2,247 816 1,243 2,021 2,088 672 615 2,235 1,079 324 336 1,016 1,839 637 598 1,921 1,763 630 976 1,588 921 306 307 830 1,993 785 843 1,720 1,233 627 692 1,306 1,381 411 467 1,170 2,303 769 929 . 2,288 2,058 802 989 1,780 498 141 184 391 2,585 722 944 2,400 1,647 486 596 1,211 1,350 454 676 1,110 660 212 167 558 1,539 401 631 1,213
1,649 1,013 912 1,015
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t-1
W hite. Males. Males. ,W hite. ^
1 i
|Colored. Average
A tten d an ce. W ritingNo. of pupils. Eng. Gram.-- No. of pupils
I AXT
TABLE No. III.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers'. Reports.
PART I.--STATISTICS OF SCHOOLS.
COUNTIES.
No. of Schools.
o P
Number of Scholars Admitted.
While.
Colored. sGoj
C0i.<
Totals.
st
+: a
5cc.2
j= c
i-5
pi
p c5
a>
eZZ o
i>:i
Branches of Study Taught.
P.O3,
3^
|c 'B o
cS
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22 17 21 33
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303 83 69 640 152 792 578 $ 1 37 $ 1 30
775 649 535 117 172 427
13 202 202 351 331 404 682 1,086 578
87
87 1,086 770 547 179 326 473
21 477 501 635 736 978 1,371 2,349 1,696
70+ 70+ 2,121 1,916 1,442 654 868 1,361
7 945 852 187 167 1,797 354 2,151 1,358+ 1 07+ 60+ 2.070 1,357 859 324 338 867
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Bartow.......................... Berrien......................... Brooks.......................... Brvan ...........................
58 41
33 25
22 1,494 1,390 615 623 2,884 1,238 4,122 2,535
5 725 630 63 68 1,355 131 1,486 1,064
18 473
433 517 1,041 950 1,991 1,613
9 334 271 168 133 605 301 906 651
1 15
1 30 1 25 1 22+
65+ 3,933 2,999 2,635 86 1,478 1,249 .981 70 1,896 1.593 1,335 77+ 894 770 563
876 1,078 3:10 410 592 736 181 209
2,094 735
1,166
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Bullock......................... 62
9 927 810 124 161 1,737 285 2,022 1,360 1 23+ 79+ 2,022 1,673 1.439 484 481 1,150
Burke........................... 29 52 508 513 1,396 1,359 1,021 2,755 3,776 2,590
93+ 93+ 3,776 2,641 2,106 773 1,356 1,840
Butts.............................. Calhoun.......................
27 16
18 14
543 319
493 280
624 287
553 1,036 2,177 2,213 1,462 1 82 341 599 628 1,227 790+ 97
60 1,948 1,745 1,672 522 616 1,209 97 1,148 898 666 242 298 616
Camden........................ 16 13 158 168 313 333 326 646 972 696
81
79
926 822 568 63 108 238
Campbell...................... 22 14 560 492 351 360 1,052 711 1,763 1,100 1 16+ 86+ 1,687 1,295 922 389 453 1,007
Carroll......................... 88 12 2,472 2,022 321 313 4,494 634 5,128 3,576 1 19+ 55+ 5,032 4,055 2,720 776 903 2,568
Catoosa......................
29
4 631 558 82 63 1,189 145 1,334 872+ 90+ 57 + 1,330 1.101 730 229 255 649
Charlton....................
8
0 124 111 00 00 235
00 235 183+ 1 00
66+ 227 206 160 33 61 128
Chattahoochee.......... 14 13 199 201 250 3'8 400 568 968 675 1 25
73+ 927 762 603 199 196 505
Chattooga.................... 40
8 1,078 . 962 247 245 2,040 492 2,532 1,660 1 25
64 2,323 1,987 1.392 416 524 1,184
Cherokee...................... 62
2,199 1,799 178 167 3,998 345 4,343 2,590 1 05
62 4 166 2,+42 1.724 584 659 1,598
Clarke............................ 16 22 203 187 511 505 390 1,016 1,406 991 + 94+ 63+ 1,377 1,212 1,149 223 324 701
Olay...............................
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11 252 215 356 436 467 792 1,259 812 1 23
` 67 1.109 952 626 241 269 537
Clayton......................... 25 13 634 586 252 318 1,220 570 1,790 1,230 1 22+ 63 + 1,716 1,366 1,085 475 471 1,107
Clinch........................... 26
468 361 69 113 829 . 182 1,011 681 + i n+ 80+ 819 730 558 165 153 420
Cobb............................. 69 37 1,701 1,430 924 930 3,131 1,854 4,985 2,991 1 25
65 4.620 3,643 2,912 901 1,087 2,643
Coffee............................
28
5 399 373 69 92 772 161 933 699 1 16+ 7o+ 841 686 575 197 224 448
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Polk............................... 44 14 1,022 969 336 363 1,991 099 2,690 1,741 1 40
70 2,588 998 1,541 425 473 1,087
Pulaski......................... 27 22 506 586 481 530 1,102 1,011 2,113 1,654 1 28
86 2,093 1,888 1,613 528 618 1,263
Putnam........................ 24 82 800 852 609 757 718 1,866 2,084 1,777 1 92
77+ 1,896 1,880 1,526 570 879 1,273
Quitman..................... 12 10 184 162 260 249 346 509 855 546
78+ 78+ 773 646 437 171 199 397
Rabun ......................... 82
1 755 688 19 17 1,438
86 1,474 1,014 1 00 . 55+ 1,407 804 397 136 127 457
Randolph.................... 81 10 519 587 299 352 1,106 651 1,757 1,379 1 50
79+ 1,370 1,358 1,170 564 535 1,166
Rockdale.....................
18 18 454 417 359 343 871 702 1,573 1,089+ 1 08+
64+ 1,456 1,067 944 279 282 785
Schley ......................... k;
9 278 228 328 331 501 ' 659 1,160 770
99
76+ 1,148 887 732 319 264 521
Screven......................... 46 17 809 751 871 379 1,560 750 2,310 1,640 1 12+ 92+ 2,180 1,920 1,631 612 970 1,550
Spalding....................... 28 10 402 865 490 458 767 948 1,715 1,205 1 25
58 1,602 1,854 1,108 425 545 1,082
Stewart......................... 2r> 88 428 899 3,087 1,171 822 2,258 3,080 2,089
96
60+ 2,925 2,177 1,443 531 789 1,515
Sumter.......................... 42 85 548 597 896 934 1,145 1,880 2,975 2,174 1 70
60 2,865 2,550 1,738 ,618 835 1,6:;9
Talbot ......................... 25
7 428 417 267 336 840 608 1.443 1,025+ 2 45 1 17 1,412 1,895 1,038 >30 548 890
Taliaferro.................... 18 10 242 280 297 342 472 689 1,111 876 1 02
79 1.047 894 714 356 467 678
Tattnall........................ 50 11 812 692 248 235 1,504 478 1,982 1,202 1 10
80 1,660 1,470 1,140 678 902 1,104
Tavlor ......................... 20
7 550 492 198 206 1,042 404 1,446 942 1 14
62 + 1,828 1,177 962 309 296 7i8
Telfair.......................... 2(J
<j v>80 803 184 177 581 861 94`>
1 72
86 + 581 511 434 167 195 888
Terrell.......................... 29 24 509 576 698 730 1,145 1,428 2,573 1,899 1 04+ 62 + 2,310 1,712 1,504 620 670 1,255
Thomas ..................... 50 86 1,078 1,055 908 1,026 2,128 1,984 4,062 2,912
93
82 4,037 3,222 2,572 796 1.180 2,122
Towns ................ 1....... 19
0 020 500 00 00 1,126
00 1,126 688 1 00
65 1,089 459 298 174 81 408
Troup............................ 81 27 504 502 1,343 1,168 1,066 2,811 8,877 2,012
98
74 + 3,146 2,750 2,160 805 1,003 1,805
Twiggs......................... 10 14 200 281 332 387 541 719 1,260 820 J 20
76
643 502 704 241 274 841
Union........................... 89
1 1,254 1,027 12 16 2,281
28 2,809 1,234 1 00
62 2,094 665 178 142 115 501
Upson........................... 80 14 751 647 52C 511 1,398 1,081 2,429 1,562 1 61 + 71+ 2,072 1,756 1,288 471 628 1.089
Walker.......................... 50
8 1.089 1,821 354 126 3,010 280 3,290 2,121 1 00
60 3,150 2,356 1,250 532 480 1.520
Walton.......................... 47 20 1,288 1,016 749 805 2,299 1,554 3,853 2,617 1 40
63+ 8,853 2,946 2,042 726 890 2,001
Ware............................. 10
8 252 181 48 40 433
88 516 403
98+ 98+ 516 419 345 100 105 287
Warren......................... 28 21 401 467 627 629 928 1,256 2,184 1,583 1 30
67 2,171 1,751 1,420 538 816 1,123
Washington................ 02 81 1,181 1,156 889 1,074 2,337 1,968 4,300 2,965 1 40
74+ 4,2+1 3,372 2,696 1,064 1,339 2,454
Wayne.......................... 29 15 899 858 261 276 757 587 1,294 1,028+ 1 08+ 61+ 1,177 1,019 755 292 384 624
Webster........................ 14 14 202 214 850 382 416 782 1,148 813 1 60
64+ 1,101 882 662 240 280 561
White............................ 80
5 890 677 186 127 1.573 268 1,836 1,139+ 1 00
53+ 1,793 1,122 611 165 169 659
Whitfield..................... 44
0 1,297 1,186 344 136 2,438 280 2,713 1,570
85
B6+ 2,663 2,043 1,946 394 447 1,828
AVilcox......................... 20
4 245 278 48 51 518
94 612 460 1 79 1 08
602 410 270 90 118 309
Wilkes.......................... 47 11 010 611 211 219 1,221 480 1,651 1,387 1 68 1 16 1,610 1,459 1,423 570 804 1,190
Wilkinson ................. 84 15 584 629 268 317 1,218 580 1,798 1,215 1 60
85 1,788 1,462 1,079 366 432 887
Worth............................ 27
7 401 888 240 207 789 447 1,236 784 1 75 1 05+ 1,237 983 794 237 246 702
Totals and Averages 4,875 1,987 95,884 85,721 52,186 54,491 181,055 106,677 287,782 191,775 if 1 23 $ 75 270,296 218,901 162,816 f 8,12.1 72,594 145,160
Totals from Table 4..
9,840 9,891 6,628 7,085 19,781 18,718 33,444 26,121
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Grand Totals..........
105,174 95,612 58,814 61.576 200,786 120,890 8`A1.170 217 896
Schools are continued five months in this county.
TABLE No. ITI.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers' Reports.
PART II.--FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
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Baldwin................................. Banks ................................... Bartow .................................. Berrien.................................. Brooks.................................... (d) Brvan. ...................................
Bulloch.................................. Burke................................. Butts....................................... t'aJhoun................................. Camden.................................
Campbell ............................ (0) Carroll.................................... Catoosa..................................
Charlton................................ Chattahoochee.................... Chattooga............................. Cherokee............................... Clarke..................................... Clav.........................................
Clayton.................................. Clinch.....................................
Cobb....................................... Coffee......................................
105 0U $ 200 00 MOO 00 101 00 MOO 01 150 00
489 O' 108 00 134 00 457 70
177 00 150 00 210 00 03 00 330 00 100 00 82 97 85 00 183 00 270 00 180 00 150 00 125 00 150 00
400 00
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29 00 # 31 50 8 00 80 59 430 89 40 00
11 00 5 OL, 65 83 25 82 20 00 21 75 00 00 03 17
34 50 8 85 4 50 0 00 10 65
10 00
34 00 275 03
0 00 5 00 41 00 13 93
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2,253 58 it 1,500 00 3,578 74 2,455 86 4,972 58 2,739 02 3,379 71 1,513 63 3,228 50 7,233 65 2,014 79 2,322 02 1.052 00 2,850 10 5,924 80 1,510 94
364 13 1,195 00 3,187 80 4,820 88 1,891 03 1,636 25 2,348 63 1,638 06 5,833 32 1,584 29
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1,794 50
524 72 1,264 41
4,017 34 1,299 14 2,816 &4
2,710 70 (b) 1,190 82 1,633 83
5,917 88 2,126 07 3,781 44
3,029 02 1,200 00
3,971 71 1,545 85 2,293 73
1,070 63
525 00 1,009 88
3,538 33 1,350 00 2,204 76
7,958 26 2,300 00 5,411 15
2,923 79 1,050 00 1,871 28
2,553 77
750 00 1,573 15
2,030 00
800 25 1,234 95
3,082 33 1,139 34 1,830 62
6,430 30 2,500 00 (f) 3,736 61
1,652 79
650 00
959 21
484 60
410 00
599 21
1,619 00
608 00
992 20
3,463 95 (h)l,389 96 2,070 42
5,230 88 2,201 56 3,050 84
2,155 03
758 00 1,272 07
2,101 28
778 63 1,461 20
2,516 63
944 46 1,-543 69
1,873 06
675 50
963 33
6,459 32 1,750 00 4,094 30
1.804 97 1,150 00 1,382 25
Amt State School
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339 82
203 16 141 94 71 00 283 51
41 15 240 00
114 97 233 25
215 56 43 86 189 98
44 25 235 12
227 15 160 83 195 93 230 29 234 23
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2,704 02 $ 1,810 85 4,115 48 2,843 80 5,913 79 3,092 34 4,042 74 1,676 82 3,625 76 7,994 66 2,962 43 2,563 15
2,150 17 3,203 21
6,452 17 1,653 07 1,199 19 (g)
1,644 45 3.695 50 5,479 55 2,190 90 2,435 76
2,718 44 1,873 06 6.505 33 2,670 78
237 69
98 14 133 10 --4 09 03 32 71 03
19 87 43 36 40 38 61 9 38 120 17 120 88 21 87
28 714 59 25 45 231 55 248 67 35 87 334 48 201 81
0 00 46 01 865 81
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Columbia.............................. Colquitt................................ Coweta ................................. Crawford...............................
Dade........................................ Dawson.................................. Decatur.................................. DeKalb ................................
Dodge..................................... Doolv......................................
Donghertv............................ Douglas..................................
Early....................................... Echols..................................... Eftingham............................
Elbert..................................... Emanuel................................ Fannin...................................
Fayette................................... Floyd...................................... (j) Forsvth.................................. Franklin................................
Fulton.................................... Gilmer.................................... Glascock................................ Gordon................................... Greene................................... Gwinnett............................... Habersham........................... Hall......................................... Hancock................................ Haralson................................ Harris.....................................
Hart........................................ Heard..................................... Henry.....................................
Houston................................. Irwin.......................................
Jackson.................................. Jasper .................................... Jefferson................................ Johnson...... ......................... Jones.....................................
Laurens.................................
250 00 59 00
300 00 200 00 100 00
151 50 402 00 390 00 150 00 324 00 180 00 200 00 125 00 48 91
99 00 450 00 300 00 140 25 201 00 486 00 255 00 189 00
250 1)0 150 00 53 50 210 00 350 00
300 00 210 00 375 00 219 00 200 00 400 00 240 00 125 00 300 00
250 00 75 00 600 00 240 00 153 00 120 00 300 00
180 00
74 00
12 00
39 00
2 50
122 00
30 00
66 00
98 75
46 00
0 00
58 00
10 00
146 00
147 45
105 00 (i) 72 93
200 00
30 00
118 00
19 50
00 00
39 68
95 00
12 25
80 00
6 00
45 00
50
72 50
16 80
130 00
28 35
123 00
19 00
120 00
15 00
55 00
0 00
185 20
63 20
91 00
0 00
102 00
23 95
187 00
215 87
92 25
15 07
17 95
7 10
50 00
14 50
100 00
44 81
182 00 (n) 02 59
00 00
4 25
170 00 (p) 35 50
132 00
19 25
08 25
11 00
126 00 (q) 52 45
122 00
26 00
50 00
3 85
111 00
10 00
86 00
2 40
200 00
25 00
181 00 (r) 29 53
116 00
12 00
84 00 (s) 122 60
51 00
7 00
100 00
10 55
120 00
10 00
*2.596 33 1,142 52 5.345 75 2.112 85 1,463 40
1,590 63 0,140 50
4,442 82 2,681 43 4,063 21 3,289 25 2,224 00
2,130 81 832 04
1,928 07 3,929 40 3,682 45 2,422 00 2,052 29
5,571 70 3,248 33 4,472 91 3,430 50 2,094 90 1,117 07 3,718 50 4,506 13 5,869 31 2,953 19 5,576 45 4,991 34
2,843 40 4,007 96 2.916 88 3,050 20 4,247 99 6,087 99 1,510 27 6,083 68 3,555 43 4,666 70
2,241 09 3,365 80
3,608 16
2,932 33
948 43 2,051 57
35 40
1,243 62
543 00
716 46
14 15
5,797 75 2.407 00 3,496 86
90
2,477 60 1,030 00 1,696 29
0 00
1,009 40
678 50
933 87
97 26
1,810 13
722 71 1,164 83
0 00
6,841 95 2,500 00 4,094 89 1,480 59
5,010 75 1,600 00 3,034 34
31G 49
3.061 43 1,200 00 1,887 19
19 78
4,524 71 1,700 00 2.571 83
252 88
3,574 93 1,102 00 2,609 54
0 00
2,531 25
936 00 1,589 05
83 00
2,347 81 1,150 00 1,989 71
105 98
926 54
299 79
605 10
74 00
2,116 37
800 00 1,207 85
120 CA
4.543 75 1,973 82 2,877 03
500 41
4.124 45 1,200 00 2,489 34
032 27
2,697 85
997 84 1.691 57
83 74
2 914 29 1,000 00 1,736 94
204 63
0,306 16 (k) 2,189 54 (k) 4,208 61
188 22
3,594 33 (1) 1,551 30 2,106 95
57 54
4,787 86 1 951 20 2,842 86
23 44
4,083 37
800 00 2,948 32
335 05
2,952 22 1,075 00 1,8J0 59
08 73
1,195 (52
542 97
722 94
0 00
4,005 00 1,703 99 2,346 17
117 88
5,000 94 1,700 00 2,834 61 (m) 511 78
6,413 90 (o) 2,731 59 3,783 21
280 69
3,227 44 1,260 00 1,902 50
00 92
6,156 95 2,300 00 3,756 70
108 10
5,361 59 1,749 84 3,611 75
0 00
3,122 65 1,000 00 1,987 94
153 90
5,186 41 1,842 00 3,255 88
400 48
3,304 88 1,375 38 2,110 50
0 00
3,229 11 1,349 20 1,746 96
134 02
4,668 99 1,784 55 2,901 78
8 38
6,426 39 2,250 00 3,929 33
200 90
1,810 27
791 64 1,012 23
42 17
6,894 21 2,156 09 3,895 16
842 96
3,923 43 1,400 00 2,598 93
0 00
5,026 30 1,500 00 3,058 50
030 47
2,419 09
900 00 1,492 43
28 97
3,836 35 1,493 45 2,418 05
122 62
3,918 16 1,465 00 2,419 82
33 34
3,035 40
1,273 61 5,904 76
2,726 29 1,709 63 1,887 54 8,075 48 4,950 83 3,106 97 4,524 71
3,711 54 2,608 05 3,245 69
978 89 2,128 49 5.357 26 4,321 61
2.773 15 2,941 57 6,586 37 3,715 79 4,817 50 4,083 37 2.954 32
1,265 91 4,168 04 5.046 39 0,801 49 3,229 42
6,164 80 5,361 -59 3,141 84 5,558 36 3,485 88 3,230 18 4,694 71 6,440 23
1,846 04 6,894 21 3,998 93
5,188 97 2,421 40 4,034 12 3,918 16
103 07
29 99 107 01 248 69 100 23 77 41
1,233 53 -59 92
45 54 0 00 136 61 76 80
897 88 52 3a 12 12 813 51 197 16 75 30 27 28 280 21 lT 121 40 2
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371 95 181 00
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TABLE No. III.--Continued.
Consolidation of Public School Teachers'1 Pcports.
PART II.--FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
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Lee.......................................... Liberty......................................... Lincoln..................................
Lowndes................................ Lumpkin............................... Macon.................................... Madison.................................
Marion................................... McDuffie................................ McIntosh............................... Meriwether........................... Miller.....................................
Milton.................................... Mitchell................................. Momoe..................................
Montgomery....................... Morgan..................................
Murray...................................
Muscogee............................. Newtou.................................. Oconee...................................
Oglethorpe............................ Paulding.............................. Pickens.................................. Pierce. .............................. Pike........................................
240 00 *
56 00 *
4 50 $ 2,093 87 $ 2,394 37 $ 985 11 $ 1,487 12 *
0 00 $ 2,472 23 $
77 86
80 00 210 00 &K) 00
154 48 (t) 49 00 124 00
89 72 70
2 50
3,350 60 1,917 23 8,585 42
3,674 80 2,176 93 4,011 92
1,409 12 837 09
2,931 43
2,270 16 1,326 86 2,603 06
34 11 19 21 10 00
3,713 39 2,183 16 5,544 49
38 59
6 23
1 532 57
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55 00
66 00
19 20 2,052 33 2,192 53
825 00 1,316 26
51 38 2,192 64
11 a
270 00 105 00
64 00 60 00
86 00 14 85
2,887 37 3,214 75
3,307 37 3,394 60
1,081 01 1,300 00
2,186 50 2,013 27
200 00 92 14
3,467 51 3,405 41
160 14 10 81
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225 00
80 00
8 50 2,398 40 2,711 90 1,187 56 1,759 92
328 90 3,276 38
564 48
200 00
56 00
15 00 2,340 55 2,611 OD
849 26 1,768 17
o 12 2,620 55
9 00
180 00
112 00
14 95 1,609 oe 1,915 95
594 19
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170 00 2,230 10
314 15
219 00
156 00
6 00 6.120 08 6,501 08 1,800 00 4,446 64
263 35 6,509 79
8 76
10 50
25 00
51 09 1,347 46 1,440 05
585 72
854 33
0 00 1,440 05
0 00
100 00
28 00
5 70 1,873 42 2,007 12
894 94 1,224 93
20 86 2,140 73
188 61
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66 oc
40 90 2.902 00 8,233 90
596 65 2,329 08
309 65 3,235 38
1 48
250 00
188 00 (u) 102 25 4,849 35 5,339 60
750 00 3,633 55 1,009 86 5,393 41
58 81
177 00
122 00
6 50 2,242 75 2,548 25 (v)1,118 78 1,471 22
49 97 2,639 97
91 72
800 00
150 00
60 00 4,406 00 4,916 00 1,200 00 3,891 40
148 37 4,739 77
176 23
175 00
87 00
14 78 2,749 68 3,026 41 (w)l,220 00 1,733 41
82 77 3,036 18
9 77
240 00
84 00
87 00 1,813 22 2,174 22
700 00 2,095 76
386 91 3,182 67 1 008 45
180 00
76 00
5 00 4,332 00 4,593 00 1,765 no 2,710 29
117 71 4,593 00
0 00
349 75
70 00 (XJ 87 25 1,999 80 2,256 80
827 77 1,372 23
137 08 2,337 08
80 28
276 00
96 00
26 50 4,512 70 4,911 20 1,871 16 3,069 70
6 29 4,947 15
35 95
200 00
121 50
84 85 3,566 21 3,922 56 1,400 00 2,316 12
266 44 3,982 56
60 00
182 97
102 00
8 00 2,437 06 2,675 03 1,032 52 1,610 85
48 60 2,691 97
16 94
200 00
89 75
7 00 1,397 26 1.694 01 (y) 675 00 1,043 46
259 65 1,978 11
284 10
195 50
80 00
16 50 5,105 ill 0,397 35 ' 2,008 89 3,084 43
539 38 5,632 70
235 35
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Polk........................................ Pulaski.................................. Putnam................................
Quitman. ........................... Rabun.......... ^............... .
Randolph........................... Rockdale ............................ Schley................................... Screven............................... Spalding..............................
Stewart ................................ Sumter.................................. Talbot...................................
Taliaferro............................ Tattnall................................ Taylor...................................
Telfair.................................. Terrell ................................. Thomas............................... Towns.................................. Troup...................................
Twiggs.................................. Union................................... Upson................................... Walker.................................. Walton.................................
Ware.................................... Warren ............................... Washington........................ Wayne ................................. Webster...............................
White................................... Whitfield............................. Wilcox .................................
Wilkes...................................
Wilkinson ......................... Worth....................................
168 00 300 00 240 00 53 35 86 00 250 00 109 50 112 84 423 00 250 00
350 00 393 00 215 00 117 00 135 00 219 00
173 00 195 00 420 00 15 00
243 00 150 00 100 00 178 67 200 00
240 00 100 00 255 00
450 00 84 70 121 28 128 00
150 00 100 00 319 50 250 00 100 00
55 00
35 38
84 00
42 49
96 00
6 20
30 00
5 60
63 75
7 15
132 00
25 68
59 00
5 70
27 75
6 50
160 00
49 00
89 00
14 00
76 00
161 95
167 00
27 00
96 00
25 50
50 00
11 60
50 62
11 38
122 00
18 00
73 00
39 35
134 00
18 70
187 00
8 75
20 00
9 00
127 00
15 20
82 00
6 00
43 00 (ee) 35 00
75 00
7 20
137 00
33 85
120 00
22 24
95 00
36 50
82 00
24 25
96 00
37 05
74 00
6 90
46 00
3 00
43 50
2 00
51 00
16 53
65 00
10 20
148 00
0 00
70 00
10 00
95 00
20 85
3,658 48 4,260 72 4,132 93 1,286 00 1,683 20
3,295 77 2,109 52 1,767 56 4,557 00 2,086 65 3,810 68
5,337 05 3,618 53 2,074 75 2,884 80 1,755 28 1,705 83 3,567 60 7,152 50 1,346 10 4,500 50 1,872 45 2,298 65 3,343 18
3,819 27 4,961 44
1,189 00 3,090 39
6,638 89 1,896 19 1,568 99 1,8:14 82 3,139 37 1,490 19 4,838 70 3,108 96
2,483 40
3>916 86 1,326 52 (z) 2,033 49
556 85
4,777 21 (aa) 1,702 14 2,915 92
235 31
4,475 13 1,497 43 2,899 42
155 54
1,374 95
489 50
794 23
91 22
1,840 10
784 62 1,044 64
12 93
3,703 45 1,200 00 3,115 06
16 84
2,283 72
900 00 1,306 25
63 21
1,914 65
768 00 1,131 84
14 81
5,189 00 2,069 56 2,723 84
609 65
2,439 65 (bb) 150 00 (bb) 1,785 84
481 49
4,398 63 1,731 03 2,663 15
3 75
5,92-4 05 1,720 32 3,562 85
711 81
3,955 03 1,000 00 2,607 18
587 01
2,253 35
749 08 1,483 59
55 96
3,081 80 (cc) 1,300 00 1,683 32
105 93
2,109 28
515 00 1,738 71
230 39
1,991 18
838 81 1,176 62
0 00
3,913 30 1,200 00 2,625 44
95 00
7,768 25 2,301 60 4,662 29 1,186 14
1,390 10
545 00
814 85
30 54
4,885 70 (dd)l,524 83 (dd)3,296 74
234 32
2,110 45
423 00 1,687 45
0 00
2,476 65 (ff)l,044 71 1,464 73
58 12
3,604 05 1,500 00 2,125 22
111 85
4,190 12 1,747 48 2,367 97
145 16
5,M3 68 2,090 00 3,254 70
* 0 00
1,420 50 (gg) 588 76 (gg) 876 13
195 10
3,451 64 1,086 24 2,357 36
10 37
7,221 94 (hh)2,240 48 (hh)4,969 84
11 60
2,061 79
716 02 1,467 68
25 99
1,739 27
700 00 1,037 57
1 00
2,008 32
725 00 1,224 93
69 49
3,356 90 (ii) 1,176 83 (ii) 2,014 45
262 81
1,665 39
736 09
918 55
10 75
5,306 20 2,000 00 3,166 91
146 65
3,438 96 1,435 49 2,159 39 (jj) 78 73
2,699 25 1,025 00 1,562 54
in 85
3,916 86
4,853 37 4,552 39 1,374 95
1,842 19 4,331 90 2,269 46 1,914 65 5,403 05 2,417 33 4,397 93 5,994 98 4,194 19
2,288 63 3,089 25 2,484 10 2,015 43 3,920 44 8,150 03 1,390 39 5,055 89 2,110 45
2,567 56 3,737 07 4,260 61 5,844 70 1.659 99 3,453 97 7,221 92
2,209 69 1,738 57 2,019 42 3,454 09
1,665 39 5,313 56
8,678 61 2,699 39
0 00 76 16 77 26 0 00 2 09
628 45 --14 26
0 00 214 05 --22 32
--70 70 93 239 16 35 28
7 45 374 82 24 25
7 14 381 78
29 170 19
0 00 90 91 133 02 70 49
1 02 239 49
2 38 --02
147 90 --70 11 10 97 19 0 00
7 86 234 65
14
Totals................................... 8 27,992 77 $ 12,437 50 $ 4,256 74 $ 417,422 87 $ 462,109 88 I 166,264 47 $ 289,522 19 $ 24,314 03 $ 480,100 m[$ 17,990 81
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Totals from Table No. 4.. $ 15,950 00 $ 1,585 73 $ 143,965 07 $ 245,394 53 $ 406,895 33 $ 16,545 01 # 40,160 97 $ 368,593 92 * 425,'299 90;$ 18,404 57
Grand Totals .................. 8 43,942 77 $ 14,023 23 $ 148,221 81 $ 662,817 40 I 869,005 21 $ 182,809 48 $ 329.683 16 $ 892,907 95 I 805,400 59 8 36,395 88
(a) $71.34 of this paid teachers of 1887.
(b) This includes $124.65 received after settlement with teachers.
l x x ii
(c) $416.60 of this paid teachers of 1887.
--
(d) $213 of this amount paid predecessor of present Commissioner.
(e) $45 of this amount paid the predecessor of the present Commissioner.
(f) The sum named in this column must be increased by the sum named in the similar column for Carrollton, (see Table No. 4,) to obtain
total amount passing through the hands of the Commissioner of Carroll county.
(g) The County School Commissioner explains the large balance on hand by the fact that the Board were unable to locate more than one
school to the district, as the twenty-five,pupils could not be obtained for the additional school; also by the fact that few teachers could be
obtained, as only a small number of applicants could pass a satisfactory examination.
(b) $239.96 of this received after settlement with teachers.
(i) This includes $38.58 refunded Tax Collector, overpayment on polls of 1887.
(j) $75,00 of this paid predecessor of present Commissioner.
(k) The sums named in these two columns must be increased by the sums named in the similar columns for the city of Rome, (See Table No.
4,) to obtain the total amount passing through the hands of the Commissioner of Floyd county.
(l) $8.00 of this received on insolvent polls of 1887, and $119.00 thereof received after settlement with teachers.
(m) $440.00 of this interest on Allison fund.
(n) A part of this paid to a teacher of 1887.
(o) $26.00 of this sum received on poll-tax of 1887, and $205.59 received after settlement with teachers.
(p) $20.50 of this refunded Tax Collector on account of overpayment of poll-tax of 1887.
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(q) A part of this was an old claim ordered paid by the Board of Education.
(r) This includes sum paid non-resident teacher of 1887.
(s) This includes $115.00 paid teachers of 1887.
(t) Of this sum, $78.72 was refunded Tax Collector on account of overpayment by him on polls of 1887.
(u) This includes $70.00 refunded Tax Collector on account of overpayment on poll-tax.
(v) $90.00 of this sura received after settlement with teachers.
(w) $209)0 of this received on poll-tax of 1887.
(x) $32.60 of this paid teacher of 1887.
(y) $175.00 of this sum received after settlement with teachers.
(z) The sum paid to the schools of Cedartown is based on average attendance, under the local law for that city. The sum so paid was $511.24.
The whole amount of the S. S. C's order on the Tax Collector was $2,544.73, and the whole amount passing through the hands of the County
School Commissioner was $4,428.10.
(aa) $102.14 of this received on fi. fas. and after settlement with teachers.
(bb) Increase the figures in these two columns by $200.00 and $650.47, respectively, paid to the schools of Griffin, and you will obtain the entire
sum passing through the hands of the County School Commissioner. The very small poll-tax reported was to be increased by a payment not
made at the time the report of the County School Commissioner was forwarded.
(cc) $300.00 of this sum is poll-tax of 1887, received after settlement with teachers of that year.
(dd) The sums named in these two columns must be increased by the sums named in the similar columns for West Point, (see Table No. 4,)
to obtain the total amount passing through the bands of the Commissioner of Troup county.
(ee) This entire sum was paid to teachers of 1887.
(ff) Of this sum. $85.71 was received after settlement with teachers.
(gg) The sums named in these two columns must be Increased by the sums named in the similar columns for Waycross, (see Table No. 4,) to
obtain total amount passing through the hands of the Commissioner of Ware county.
(hh) The sums named in these two columns must be increased by the sums named in the similar columns for Sandersville, (see Table No. 4.)
to obtain total amount passing through the hands of the Commissioner of Washington county.
(ii) The sums named in these two columns must be increased by the sums' named in the similar columns for the city of Dalton, (see Table
No. 4,) to obtain the total amount passing through the hands of the County School Commissioner of Whitfield county.
(jj) $55.00 of this insolvent poll-tax.
TABLE No. V.
Consolidation of Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
COUNTIES.
Appling . Baker . . Baldwin Banks . Bartow . Berrien . Bibb . . Brooks . Bryan . Bullock . Burke . Butts . . Lalhoun Camden . Campbell Carroll . Catoosa . Charlton
1
j
tuition per pupil in schTs
Average monihly cost of !
!
Average number of m 'nths taught in schools reported. [
TABLE No. V.
Consolidation of Heports of Private Elementary Schools.
Number of Schools.
Number of Pupils Admitted in Schools Reported.
White.
Colored.
Total.
!
reported.
Colored.
Unreported. Reported. Number of Instructors in
schools reported.
1White and
Females. Males. Females. White,
oa>S
'ood
co
|
16
0
...
0
3
3 30 87 00 00 67 00 67 3.331$ 2 00
7
0
...
0 10 13 313 282 00 00 595 00 595 4.10 1 29
0
11
18 201 217
00 00 418 00 418 3.86 1 12+
8
0
5
41
27
00
00
68 00
68 2.00 1 81 +
*0
9
0
4
0
18
0
17
2
4 40 34 00 00 74 00 74 6.00 2 37+
0 19 21 275 191 no 95 466 205 671 4.00 1 25
0
8
8 117 102 30 32 219 62 281 4.00 1 75+
4
0
10
0
12
0
6
0
1
0
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l x x v iii
Chatham . . Chattahoochee Chattooga . . Cherokee . . ,
Clarke . . . Clay................. Clayton .. .
Clinch . . . Cobb .... Coffee . . . Columbia . .
Colquitt . . . Coweta . . . Crawford . .
Dade .... Dawson . . . Decatur . . DeKalb . Dodge . . . . Dooly .... Dougherty . . Douglas . . . Early .... Echols '. . . Effingham .
Elbert .... Emanuel . . . Fannin . . . Fayette . . Floyd . . . Forsyth . .
Franklin . . Fulton . . .
tio to
3
0
20
0
0
7
9 239 194 00 00 433 00 433 5.42 1 11 +
5
0
0
7
10 153 142
50
74 295 124 419 5.00 1 30
11
0
0
0
10
0
0
0
0 11
12 131 144
0
0 275 00 275 0.00 1 55
0
0
Q
27
31 549 497 113 117 1,040 230 1,276. 5.97 1 35
9
8
8 140 107 00 00 253 00 253 3.25 1 40
3
0
6
0
10
0
0
10
20 555 501
00
00 1,056
00 1,050 0.37 1 51
0
1
1
00
00 28
44
00
72
72 .40
75
25
0
0
6
8
28
53 101 121
81 222 303 8.00 1 75
2
0
0
2
O
34
28
00
00
02
00
02 3.00 1 50
2
0
0
0
15
0
37
0
Q
0
1
10
10 151 179
0
0 330
0 330 3.00 1 22+
0 29 29 250 280 147 103 530 310 840 0.00 1 50
0
28
28 378 300
28
24 078
52 730 3.50 1 08 +
28
0
14
4
80
92
00
00 178 . 00 178 4.00 1 12
l x x ix
A ppe n d ix .
lxxx
Females. White. Colored. White and
Colored.
Average number of m'nths taught in schools reported. Average monthly cost of tuition per pupil in schTs reported.
'Unreported. Reported. Number of Instructors in
schools reported.
COUNTIES.
TABLE No. Y.-- Continued.
Consolidation of Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
Number of ' Schools.
Number of Pupils Admitted in Schools Reported.
White.
Colored.
Total.
j
Females.
A ppe n d ix .
Gilmer......................................................... Glascock.................................................... Glynn........................................................ Gordon........................................................ Greene......................................................... Gwinnett.................................................... Habersham................................................ Hall.............................................................
Hancock....................................... # Haralson....................................... .... Harris......................................................... Hart............................................................. Heard......................................................... Henry........................................................ Houston.................................................... Irwin........................................................ Jackson .................................................... Jasper ........................................................
4>
X)
cS
3
2-2
83
58
00
00 141
00 141 2.25 $ 1 00
0
4
4 160 120 00 00 280 00 280 6.00 1 60
10
0
0
0
1 30
7
7 77 115
11 ' 12 288 205
16 00
23 192 00 493
39 00
231 493
5.28 4.CO
11 2357+r
0
1
2
72
59
00
90 131
00 131 5.00 2 00
0
5
8 109
97
45
40 206
85 291 6.00 1 50
14
0
10
0
0
13 ' 16 316 261
00
00 577
00 577 4.00 2 00
64
0
3
10
12 211 204
00
00 415
00 415 4.00 1 17+
8
7
7 225 175 24 28 400 52 452 3.00 1 62+
2
0
3
0
0 29 43 828 850 00 00 1,678 00 1,678 5.00 1 40
4
21
26 384 420 00
00 804
00 804 8.00 1 50
Jefferson . . Johnson . . Jones . . . Laurens . . Lee . . . . Liberty . . Lincoln . . Lowndes . . Lumpkin Macon . . . Madison . .
Marion . . McDuffie McIntosh Meriwether Miller . . . Milton . . . Mitchell . . Monroe . . Montgomery M organ . . Murray . . Muscogee . . Newton . . Oconee . . Oglethorpe . Paulding . . Pickens . . Pierce . . . Pike . . . . Polk . . . . Pulaski . . . Putnam . .
?0
?o
6
0
0
8
9 54 33 49 63 87 1P2 199 5.00 1 34
0
13
13 126 134
42
58 260 100 360 7.00 2 00
2
0
0
4
4 70 66 78 87 136 165 301 7.00 1 50
0
13
13 210 190 113 114 400 227 027 7.50 1 50
10
0
0
0
3
2
3 73 64 00 00 137 00 137 3.00 1 73+
0
19
20 190 217
16
16 407
32 439 4.26 1 25
15
0
15
0
10 10
0 23 23 400 471 113 156 871 269 1,140 4.13 1 43+
5
0
2
8
8 175 172 00 00 347 00 347 3.75 1 12+
32
0
0 25 26 281 295 159 239 576 398 974 4.30 1 20
7
0
10 19 20 174 176 127 113 350 240 590 4 25 1 53+
0
9
9 3P2 316 20 30 628 50 678 4.33 1 00
3
4
4 55 65
0
0 120
0 120 5.50 2 00
0 12 12 165 179 30 41 344 71 415 6.00 1 00
4
7 10 165 149 00 00 314 00 314 4 28 1 45+
4 21 21 208 201 130 127 409 257 666 5.00 1 25
20
0
0
6
8 236 195
0
0 431 00 481 4.00 1 50
0
0
8 17 19 340 298 35 48 638 83 721 5.14 1 30 4 18 19 237 245 30 43 482 73 555 4.00 1 27
1 46 50 389 368 481 530 757 1,011 1,768 3.00 1 27+ 0 13 15 101 108 169 185 209 354 563 4.00 1 50
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A ppe n d ix .
COUNTIES.
Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Rockdale . Schley . Screven Spalding Stewart Sumter Talbot . Taliaferro Tattnall Tavlor . Telfair . . Terrell . Thomas Towns .
TABLE No. V.--Continued.
Consolidation of Reports of Private Elementary Schools.
Number of
Schools.
CO
o
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6
0
1 .1
i
18
0
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...
6
0
0
4
5
4 10 10
2 20 22
9
0
20 10 10
3
6
8
2
0
6
27
30
0
4
4
3
2
2
15 10 10
18
0
0
1
1
Number of Pupils Admitted in Schools Reported.
While.
i* 's
gX
4n
Colored.
Total.
'Qtd-<1
5O0'
I
aJ H
5 SOH
z* 8
00 00 15 00 15
jwCs'd01
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$ ... 4.00 1 00
115 81 00 00 196 00 196 3.75 1 41 128 95 00 00 223 00 223 3.50 1 81 278 243 245 230 521 475 990 3.00 1 25
41 53
0
0 94
0 94 3.00 1 70
107 108 32 29 215 61 276 3.62 1 32+
r 242 327 120 121 569 241 810 3.50 133+ 87 79 00 00 166 00 166 5.00 1 50 20 17 00 00 37 00 37 2.50 2 00 128 133 31 49 256 80 336 2.44 1 31 +
41
37
00
00
78
00
78 2.00 1 00
A ppen d ix .
Lxxxn
Troup .................................................... Twiggs......................................................... Union......................................................... Upson.........................................................
Walker.................................................... Walton .................................................... Ware......................................................... Warren .................................................... W ashington............................................
Wayne......................................................... Webster.................................................... White......................................................... Whitfield . . ....................................... Wilcox......................................................... Wilkes .................................................... Wilkinson................................................ Worth . . ............................................
24
0
5
0
1
0
0 12 14 230 215 . 45 51 445 96 541 3 28 1 02+
0 16 16 576 466 40 35 1,042 75 1,117 4.00 1 08
0 24 24 414 300 246 270 714 516 1,230 5.00 1 50
6
0
0
14
17 298 321 156 112 619 268 887 6.00 1 50
0 44 53 443 451 271 309 894 580 1,474 4.00 1 50
0 12 10 36 30 18 12 66 30 96 3.00 1 00
4
0
3
1
1
11
10 00
00
21
00
21 4.50
75
2 11 11 189 163 00 00 352 00 352 3.73 94
5
0
0
3
3
21
36
00 00
57
00
57 3.33 1 83+
5
0
0
0
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Totals and Averages.......................... 790 842 943 13,835 13,089 3,488 3,829 26,924 7,317 34,241 4.34 $ 1 41
*The excellent public schools of this county seem to have superseded private elementary schools. f The figures given in these columns are for the six white schools: the figures for the two colored schools are as follows: Average number of months, 3; average monthly cost of tuition per pupil, 87+ 1 The excellent school system of this county causes a very small attendance of pupils upon the rather numerous private elementary schools. 1 The four unreported schools are in the city of Atlanta. There may be a tew other private elementary schools in said city, but the fine pub lic schools of the city have almost entirely superseded private elementary schools. The four private elementary schools reported are in the country. The County School Commissioner knew of none outside the city, not reported. 2 The public schools in this county continued for five months. If While there are no private schools in this countv, the Commissioner reports that manv white families have private tutors or governesses for their children. ** The same remark may be made of this county, as has above been made of the counties of Bibb, Chatham, etc. Note.--The number of unreported schools were, in some cases, approximated by the County School Commissioners, but the general result may be depended upon as substantially correct. Information was obtained from all the counties of the State. The table shows the total pumbey of private elementary schools in 1888 to have been one thousand, six hundred and thirty-two.
l x x x iii
lxxxiv
TABLE No. VI. Report of Private High Schools.
A ppe n d ix .
COUNTIES.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
POST OFFICE.
Appling.............
Baker. ...
No TTigh Sohnnl in nminty
Baldwin
Vo High Kehnol in nonnfv
Banks
Vo High ftohnol in noiinty
Bartow.............. West End Institute .. * .. Cartersville
Bartow............. East Cartersville Institute ... Cartprsville
Bartow.............. Adairsvilln High Sohool
Adnirsville.
Bartow.............. Adairsville High Sohool
A dairsville
Bartow.............. Kingston High ^ohnol
Kingston
Bartow............ Stileshoro Insfitnto
Stileshoro
Barlow............. Tavlorsville High School Taylorsville
Bartow.............. Cedar Creek High School ... Folsom .............
Bartow.............. Masonic Institute................... Pine f og
Bartow.............. No un reported H. S in Co .
Berrien............. No High School in connt.v
Bibb.................... Alexander Free School.
Macon
Bibb................... Ballard Normal School.......... Macon....................
Bibb.................... One unreported IT. S. in Co.
Brooks............... Three unreported H. S. in Co
Bryan................. No High School in County .
Bulloch............ No High School in countv
Burke................. Waynesboro Academy.
Waynes horn
Burke................. One unreported.H. S. in Co.,.
N um ber of Instn
Number of Pupils Admitted.
cS2
A
"5 White. Colored
Total.
I
Colored. W hite and
Colored.
W hite.
F em ales.
M ales.
Fem ales.
PO
a
t
'o
6
a
&
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
Average mont cost of tuition scholar.
& P. NAME OF PRINCIPAL.
$............
4 51 85
4 14 20 2 50 72 o 24 33 2 46 48 9 42 37 2 23 24 2 40 30 3 65 38
136
136 10 An. Clas., Sci , Math., Fr., Ger., Book-
keep'g, Draw'g, Mus., Calisth., etc. 2 50 L. B. Roberson and Mrs. J.
W. Harris.
34
34 10 An. Clas., H. Math., Fr., Sci., Rhet.,etc. 3 00 Daniel G. Lee.
122
122 10 English and Classical.............................. 1 35 . T. M. Fulton.
57
5 English, Latin and Greek....................... 2 00 M. P. Cain.
94
94 10 Classics and Mathematics ..................... 2 00 M. R. Tuggle.
79
79 10 Classical and English.............................. 2 00 H. C. Etheridge.
47
47
Sciences, Mathematics........................... 2 00 J. M. Lawson.
70
70 5 Mathematics, Languages, Sciences...... 1 75 G. W. Hendricks.
103
103 7 Elementary, Ma h., Rhet., Latin.......... 1 50 Win. T. Hamby.
2 50 54
10
167 263
104 430
104 10 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences......
J. W. Frederick.
430 8 Ele., H. Math., Sci., Hist., Lat., Bot.,
Bk kp'g, Eth., Morals and Manners,
Methods of teaching, Eng., Lit'ture 1 00 Mrs. Liva A. Shaw.
1 8 13
21
21 9 Lat., Greek, Alg., Geom., NatT Philos
1
ophy, Trigonom., Rhet., Astron'y... 3 50 W. R. Grey.
ftn I'K)
tonircnn fnst.itntA ,
.tacksoii....... .........
Butts.................. Plovilla High School............. Flovilla.................
V^aUiu.V...l.u......................
IVNTU 1H1 1i1ltl*COJAIAUIpClprXlvll 1H1. SO. I1L11IV^U... jj^gU QpFiaaI in nminty
(^Anid6n............. iM\c'/i nUitgrVii Soix*ihiununli in pxuolniiniitvj*...
Campiell.......... i1w'iwu/i nuruipiepnuAuiritpeHn ii-iT. So. in Pv^au.
1
Vfl y.iAn Wpminflry
Mt. Zion ..............
v/atl'pIUr\1l 11..... .
Two unreported it. S. in Co. Pno vmtpilApYprl TT ft in f^A
OVi o i*l t mi
V|N fjjgli SpViaaI in PAimt.v
.... Fourunrep'tedpr. H.S. in Co Hh u ttu Virwi/i Vifip NTa TTjo'h ftphoAl in ponnty
11ci LLUUgP........ fOtiliAff nunuriPcnuAuriftPerni iTiT. oft-. in Px/au.
f^VlPlTlV UP
P^-AiuaVi tTigVl ftpTlAaI
Pan ton
nhprc il/'pp
TTinlrAry Fla.t TTifyh Sohool Hickory Flat......
v^Up.CmlUlr&p.Wp .......... No uureported K. S. iu Co...
Clarke
Home S. for Young Ladies... Athens..................
Pipppp Phflpp]
Athens.................
rilarlrp
JpwpI Normal Sehool............ Athens..................
darlrp
IfnAT Tnstit.nt.p
........... Athens..................
PvIV''li|IqaQtttflyt.1DV..p.U................................ Cluy tuii..............
N<> unreported H. No High ftpTiaaT in iNU 14i.iiffihn fOtpUhiiAUAUli iinn
S. in Co.. PAiinty PeuAnimnttyv ...
p'^ill{lnlLp-hU................ Mci
ftnViAAl in PAiiniy
Seven unreported pr. H. S...
P>n->flUPlpIpcc............... iNnUn ThTIiqcrihl oftxpihiououli in PxAunimnttvj...
Pnl nmKia
HarTpm TTip-b ftphool
Harlem.................
P^UplinHtinll ltijii ua....... Vinau nunriepyniAuxrttperni TnT. fot. in Pxou... .. .. ,,
V^UHnJnUJl 1t............. < V WPt'.ft
iNn au HniiigyVii fotpxlniAuAuTi in PxuAninuityv.. Walker High School.............
Wewna*!................
pAlVpfo
f-lrantvilip TTip,h ftp.hool
Prant.villp
Pnwptn Pnwpta Pnwptn Powpta
Excelsior High School.......... Senoia.............. .
Turin High School.................. Turing...................
ftimrpKhnry Apnfipmy
Sharpsburg..........
FTnrnlson TTiP'h Schnol.
FTn rfllsAn
PAurptfl
iVfArpTunii fnatitutp
AfArplnnrl
Coweta.............. Alexander Stephens H. S...... Newnan................
Pxuaw vv vpItqn...... ....... iVnau iui unirpcnjjAuirftePnii TuT. fot. ihni PX'aU..
Pra wfApH
One unreported II. S. in Co.
Plorlp
Va TTTgb SpTiaaI in PAiinty
r>n wsim
Va TTigh ftpliaa! in PAiiniy
T>PPa frn
Faiit nnrppArtPfi TT ft in Pa
peKalb........... .. Edgewood* Seminary.............. Edgewood............
4 1o 90 2 38 54
4 64 46
3 107 74 1 53 37
7
50
1
37 40
2
50 75
1
39 56
2 45 44 3 37 29 2 37 30 3 68 79 2 44 36 2 34 39 2 53 35 2 43 19 2 43 41
1 19 22
160
16o
Sciences, Ancient Classics, t'rench.etc. i 25 W. C. Wright.
92
92 7 Ele., An. Clas., H. Math., Logic, Rhet. 2 16+ J. M. Hopkins.
110
iib 9 Ancient Classics, Math., Sciences ........ 1 60 R. H. Robb.
181
181 10 Ancient Classics and Sciences............... 1 60 M. G. Bates.
90
90 8 Elementary, Classics and Sciences...... 1 40 J. R, Deavors.
50
50 9 Eng. Course, Fr,, Ger., Latin, Music,
' 77 6 Elementary, Algebra, History.............. 76 William S. Dugged. 125 125 8 English, Latin, Algebra, Geometry .... 1 00 fohn II. Brown; 95 95 8 English branches, Latin, Algebra...... 1 32 L. S. Clark.
-i...................................................................
89
89 10 English, Math., An. Clas., Sciences .... 1 75 J. L. Caldwell.
66
66 % English, An. Classics, Sciences, etc.... 2 50 Daniel Walker.
67 9 English, Clnssics, Math., Sciences........ 2 25 C. C. Nall.
147
147 9 Element., Eng., Classics, Sciences ...... 1 75 P. D. Pollock.
80
80 8 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences, etc... 1 50 C. L. Moss.
73 87
73 7/4 Mathematics, Sciences, Language...... 87 9 Ele.,An. Clas., H. Math., Sci.,Bk*kp'g
2 00 V. A. Ham. 2 00 J. D. Turner.
62
62 8 English and Latin.................................... 2 16+ W. 8. Featherstone.
84
84 9 English, i lassies and Mathematics...... 2 00 J. B. Allen. '
41
41 8 English, Mathemat., Latin, Greek...... 2 25 J. T. Lin.
lxxxv
A ppe n d ix .
lxxxvi
TABLE No. VI.--Continued.
Report of Private High Schools.
Num ber of Instructors.
1
Females. | Females. Colored. W'h ite an d
Colored. No. of m o n th s
taught. .Average m onthly ! cost of tuition per
scholar.
A ppe n d ix .
Numt er of Pu >i)s Admitted.
White. Colored
Total.
COUNTIES.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
POST OFFICE.
DeKalb.............. Stone Mountain H. Sehool... Stone Mountain. DeKalb.............. South River Academy.......... Flake..................... DeKalb.............. No unreported H. S. iu Co... Dodge................ Eastman Academy.................. Eastman............... Dodge................ Mullingar Academy............... Chauncev. ..........
GJ *3 S
4 74 1 23
2 52 14
3 40 1 16 21
Dodge................ Chauncey Academy.............. Chauncev............. 1 19 21 Dodge................ No unreported H. & in Co... Dooly................. Two unreported H. S. in Co. Dougherty...... Albany Academy..................... Albany.................. 3 75 40 Dougherty...... No unreported H. S. in Co... Douglas............. No High School in county... Earlv.................. Blakely Academy...... ............ Blakely ............... 2 46 43 Early............. . No unreported H. S. in Co... Echols................ No High Schoolin county ... Effingham......... Springfield High School........ Springfield.......... 2 31 20 Effingham........ Two unreported H. S. in Co. Elbert................ Five unreported H. S. in Co. Emanuel.......... Swainsboro High School...... Swainsboro.......... 2 86 33 Emanuel.......... Suinmertown ffigh School... Summertown, ... 2 35 30 Emanuel.......... Brown Academy!.................... Canoochee........... 2 40 40 Emanuel.......... No unreported H. S. in Co... Fannin............. Three unreported H. S. in Co Favette............. Brooks Station Academy...... Brook's Station... 2 46 26 Fa>Tette............. Fayetteville High School...... Fayetteville....... 2 88 50 Fayette............. Hopeful High School............ Brogden .............. 2 60 Fayette............. No unreported H. S. in Co..
Floyd................ Five unreported H. S. in Co..
<d' s
126 37
.... J 90 37
40
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
N 1MR OF PRINCIPAL.
1*6 10 English, Higher Math., Latiu .............. $ 1 50 37 8% An. Classics^ Mathematics, Sciences... 4 00
90 Ele., H. Math., An. Clas., Sci., Mus.,etc 1 75 87 9 Ele., H. Math., Lat., Rhet., Drawing,
Physiol., Elocu., Physical Training. 2 00 40 5^ Usual High School branches.................. 2 50
S. H. Limlsav. R. E. L. Avary.
R. J. Strozier.
Miss S. Fannie Harrison. P. A. Jessup.
115
115 9 Classics, Mathematics, Sciences .......... 2 00 Gustavus J. Orr, Jr.
87
87 % Ele., Clas., Math., Sci., Rhet., Hyg .. . 2 00 Z. I. Fitzpatrick.
51
51 3 Lang., Hist., Math., NatT Sciences...... 1 78 O. B. Shearouse
69
69 9 English, Latin and Greek...................... 2 00 W. E. Arnold
65
9 English, Latin and Greek ....................... 2 00 Georgp. H RntPhfnrA
80
80 9 English, Latin and Greek ...............
2 00 T, W Peril up
72
72 English and Latin.................................... 2 00 L. T. F. Arnall
1:18
188 9 Eng., Math.. Lang., Sciences............... 2 00 Howell B. Parker
115
115 Ele., Alg., Geom.,His.,Comp.,Phi., etc. 1 50 .r n Smith.
?.........
...................................................... . , .
`BY>rvfh Fm n I? h`n Vvkltnn
No High School in ootintv...
Two unreported H. S. in Co..
Washington Seminary.......... Atlanta................. 13
175
P'nltnn li'n 1 t<tn
nilmpr (iihnpr (ilftspnnlf rjlnsifoolr
vnn
Ti nr firm
SJpplmnn Simiinarv
Atlanta................. 27
Seven unrei>orted H. S. in Co
Klii^av SpminH.rv
Kllijay.................. o 55 43
No unreported H. S. in Co...
Gibson High Sehool................ Gibson................... 2 32 30
No unreported H. S. in Co...
No High School in county...
Dickey's School........................ Sugar Valley...... 2 54 48
finrHnn ^-rnrdnTi flnrHnn
McDaniel High School......... McHenry.............. Fair Mount High School Pairmount Wn nnrppnrfpd TT S in Co
rppnn
fttmipwal! High School
Woodvillp
rj-rppnn
Mprppr High ftt'hnnl
Penfield. .
Orppnp
Union Point High School. ... Union Point.......
rirnpim
Dawson Institute . .
White Plains... .
f-Jrppnp
Rnnn Apademv
Veazev..................
f-irppiip
TTnllpr Aeadpmv.
Veazev ...........
fi rppnP
T.ihprty Apadpmv
T.ihertv
firfiprip
(i-vpon P
HaRtings Sr`hnol
Siloam...................
(tnp nnrpportpd H & in f'o
rj^srinnptf:
Lawrenceville High Schoo... Fin wrenneville
f-JwinrtPt.t.
Ruford TTiP'h Kehool
Buford...................
fiwinnPtt
Norcross Hiu:h School............ Notcyoss ..............
(iwinnptt
Georgia S. of Lan. Sci. & Art. Norcross
fi wi n nptf
Nfo nnrpportpd R SJ in Co
Habersham...... Two nnrpportpd R S in Co
Hall
Flowery Branch H. School... Flowery Branch.
Hall................... Mo nnrpportpd H S in Co
Ran paplr
Three unrep'ted H. S. in Co.
Raralsnn
FourunreportedH. S. in Co.
Rprris
Mo High Sphoolin ponntv
Rrt
Two nnrpportpd R S. in Co.
Rprrt
Franklin Institute................. Franklin ........
1 49 28 60 60
2 43 49 1 26 22 2 35 30 2 24 26 2 40 26 1 10 20 2 22 17 1 19 18 2 25 27 2 34 23 3 48 33 4 80 70 2 48 33
1 26 27
Rp tvS Rpnry
Mo nnrpportpd R S in Co
McDonough Institute.......... McDonough
4 54 64
Henry................ No unreported H. S. in Co...
185
185 (3as., Mod. Lang., all English branches
from Kindergarten through Colle-
eiate COirrionlnrr
5 00 Mrs. Baylor Stewart.
609
609 009 8 Mn.tV>errmtiPK Sciences
1 00 Miss S. *B. Packard and Miss
H. E Giles
98
98 9 English branches, Latin and Greek.... ] 50 W. D. Allen.
62
62 10 Gram., Latin, Arith., Algebra, etc...... 2 08 John B. Carter.
102
102 10 Eng. Branches, H. Math., Bk kping,
Latin, Science, History, l\Jusic.......... 1 50 W. F. Dickey.
77 9^ Ele . An. Clas., Sciences^ Mathematics 1 40 Miss Mamie L Pitts
120
120 by4 Ele., An. Clas., Math., Sciences........... 1 45 W. A. Parham.
92
92 9 Ele., Sci,, An. Clas., Bk'kp'g, Music...
Robert Blair Smith
48
48 6 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences ... 2 00 Patrick M. Cheney.
65
2 Eng. B'nchs, Sci., Math., Lang's, etc. 2 00 T. C. Newton.
50
50 English and Classical.............................. 2 40 A. Howell.
66
66 8 AlfEng. B'nchs, Lat., Alg., Physiol... 1 50 W. F. Hailes.
30
30
Element., Classics, Mathematics, etc. 2 00 Talfourd Smith.
39
39
Algebra, Physiology, Elementary ...... 2 00 ,1. L. Strozier.
37 5 Element., Mathematics, Latin, etc..... 2 00 J. E. Purks.
52
52 6K Eng., Math., Sciences and An. Clas.... 2 25 W. R. Grey.
8 Classics, Mathematics, English ........... 1 85 E. H. Stevens.
SI
81 English, Mathematics, and Languages 1 45 A. F. Cooledge.
150
150 10 Full Scientific and Classical Course... 3 00 Terrell E. Simmons.
81
81 10 Ele., H. Eng., Math., Latin, Music...... 2 00 H. M. Newton.
........v................. *............................................
53
53 6 Ele., Hist,, H. Eng., Phil., Bk-kping,
Algebra, Geom., Latin......................... 2 25 W. ,M. Robinson.
118
lie 5 Eng. Branches, Lang., Math., Music,
Painting, Drawing, etc......................... 1 50 P. E. Davant.
l x x x v ii
A ppe n d ix .
l x x x v iii
TABLE No. VI.--Continued. Report of Private High Schools.
Average m onthly cost of tuition per scholar.
A ppe n d ix .
taught.
No. of m onths
Instructors.
Numl >er of Pu )ils Admitted.
White. Colored
Total.
i
W hite and 1 Colored.
Number of
COUNTIES.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
POST OFFICE.
Houston............ Four unreported H. S. in Co. Irwin.................. No High School in countv... Jackson............. Harmony Grove H. School... Harmony Grove.
Jackson............. Harris School............................ Jeff, or Apple Val
Jackson............. Jug Tavern Academy........... Jug Tavern..........
Jack>on............. Hoschton High School.. ..... Hoschton...... .......
Jackson............. Ppiidf-rgTfVss Acnrlpmy
Pendergrass.........
Jackson............. Pond Fork Hiph School
Pond Fork..........
Jackson............. Center High School................ Riscobel ..............
Jackson............. Applp Vn'Hpv TTiph School Apple Valley.
Jackson............. No unreported H. S, in Co...
Jasper................ Monticello High School
Monticello..........
Jasper................ Shady Hale M'le & Female In Shady Dale..........
Jasper............... One unreported H. S. in Co.
Jefferson.......... Three unreported H. S. in Co
Johnson........... Onp JinreportPd TT S in Co
Jones................. No High School iu countv...
Laurens............ Dublin Acndpmv
Dublin................
Laurens............ No unreported H. S. in Co...
Lee..................... Two unreported H. S. in Co.
Liberty............ Five unreported H. S. in Co.
Lincoln............. Lineolnton Hiph School Lincoln ton ........
Lincoln............. No unreported H. S. in Co... Lowndes.......... Two unreported H. S. in Co. Lumpkin.......... No High School iu county. Macon............... Oglethorpe High School..*,... Oglethorpe..........
0GO> 'S s
.
2 72
2 43 35 2 42 65 3 78 62 2 62 59 2 4o 50 1 47 28
2 33 22
2
>
31 32
47 28
3 70 72 2 39 29
1 17 15
1Fern ales. Males. ^Females.
^W hite.
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
NAME OF PRINCIPAL.
i
Colored.
i
$............
127
127 10 EIe.,H. Eng., Lat.,Gk.. H. Mathemat.,
Selene* srilist.. Book keeping .......... 2 00 J. H. Walker.
78
78 8 English Branches, Math., Sciences.... 1 25 .foTin M HhwIHtir
107
107 3 Eng', Latin, Greek, Math., Sciences. . 2 00 W. S McCarty
140
140 8% English, Lat., Anat.. Music, etc.......... 1 50
121
121 s' ~ EleT, H. Eng., Lat., Fr., Math., Sci.... 2 00 W. R Hall
95
95 7 Element., Philos., Rhetoric, etc.......... 1 50 W II Hrldpes
75
7 Elementary, Mathemat,, Sciences, etc. 1 25 Mercer L\ Ledford.
3 F.tpmpnt.n v Jind Hiph School
1 50 Miss Lizzie Dickson.
78
78 10 An. Classics, Mathemat., and -cienees 2 50 W. "T. Dumas.
60
60 10 An. Classics, Mathemat., and Sciences 2 50 T.j. Walker.
142
142 10 An. Clas., Mathemat. and Sciences .... 3 00 W. V. Lanier.
68
68 9 Elem en t.. Mathematics, Languages,
and other higher branches..........
2 00 T. A. Nash.
32
32 2 An, Cltisgics, Mathematics. Sciences... 3 00 T. E. Hollingsworth,
"VIa ............... Marshallville High School... Marshallville......
iI\\MVIIlUaittC/aC*l.Un> U1n1................................
Op It Opavp TTiph Kf'.hnol.. fijtnlHinp Spminurv
Garden Valley ... Montezuma.........
Macon............... One unreported H. S* in Co..
IViai HoUil.......... rVaiviplsviltp TT iph Sl'VvrMvl Danielsville.........
Madison...... ..... Xo ui reported H. S. in Co...
Marion.............. 1'hree unreported H. S. in Co ITlI'E'UlllC ......... Onp nnrppnrtPiT TT S. ill Co.
Nn TTip'Vi finhnnl in nminty ..
Meriwether..... T.Lnl itrhilpdrOeVvliltlpc TXTXilgffihX SOVn/Xh1oWoFiJ.... T.nthprsvillp
"ITYVJIOltTH*l HW/WClVHl Id ..... Meriwether.......
rj-pppnirillp VTigTi Sulphur Springs
ftphortT High School
Greenville .......... White Sulp. Spgs
Meriwether....... Pnr*J^-y ATnnnt. ApfiHpmv
Rocky Mount........
i*Il>Vctiicri .. "AVIlHopIi1pwWp \p1V/tVlilpCpl .....
Wnnrlhnry Appfipmv Mn nnpppnrtPrl TT S* in Oil
Vn TTicrh ftnhnnl in nminty
Woodbury .............
iTtVii/Tlttlvlrtini ...... .......... ilpViappttn Anpri'`mv
Alpharetta.............
"IMHtlllIinunu .................. No unreported ii. S. in uo...
TV! t tpViol 1
Ppivpfp ftphrvnl
Camilla......................
MUCIieil................ Vi*po 1n1 npieppriuftipvlcpud xTTx. So. mxii Cv^no...
TVTnn pop
TTillipprl Tnst.imt.P
Forsyth......................
\frtiirnp
Opnippl Tnstitntp
Culloden..................
M ItILrHtnJrnP ........... . ITlpvningr TTlg^Vl Rphnitl
"M/ttipno
TnfTprpnn Apfldpmy
Goggansville........ Bofingbroke ........
TIrVXIUrmil riUnpC............. No unreported H. S. in Co...
1V*1I POiitlt1 crpttt pptyr , XA*TXnIJ pi^ercnlrnlX... Mnrg'u it
fVtXililOp iItXnpilplCYptnOpltptcriTx JTT RO. iXnIX O\SKnJ..
ATfli'tittnn "F'pmnlp TT Sohonl Mndisnii Mrs. Nebhiit's Home School. Madison ..............
Afprg'Q n
Madison Male & Female Inst Madison ..............
ATnrpa n
RntTpricrp TTigh Rphnnl
Rutledge..............
AX*TXnOrIt^rtavtil ....... No unreported H. S. in Co...
AT nrpnv
SnmHp'h ftpmimirv
Sumach ..............
Murray........... . Spring Place High School.... Spring Place....
AT ii pra v
No unrenorted H. S. in Co...
Afncpnppo
Wvnntnn TTi^h Sphnnl
Cnlnmhns
Al*Ti nUDtjVpnyOcr^pCpv^...... One unreported H. S. in Co.
AJpwtnn
Pvdmvra Titstttntp
Newbern.........
AJpur Inn
Tyr<t ^i^ppnrtPrT TT S in On
Oi>nriPP
WntVinsvillp Apn.dp.inv
Watkinsville....
Oconee......... TTnmp Rphnol
......... Watkinsville....
Ocoaee......... No unreported H. S. in Co...
3 50 53 2 46 40 2 18 27
2
3 37 37 3 42 55 2 19 28 2 40 39 2 36 33
2 81
2 24 20
3 71
2 24 20
1
21
2
28
1 3 36 979
3 48 33
3 78 75
2 80 40 2 48 60
40
1 22 21
1 25 9 1 19 11
103...... 86...... 45......
129......
i i 74...... 971......
69........
1 1
138........
1
44........
1
711........ 44........ 60........ 53........
1.... 39...... 16......
1
81...... 1
153-...... 1
120...... 108......
43....
34.... 30....
103 to An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences... 2 50 J. W. Frederick.
86 s% Higher Mathematics, Latin, Sciences.
J. 0. Maugham.
45 10 Ele., classics, H. Math., H. English.... 2 50 George T. Stansbury.
129 9 Primary, Common and High School... 2 00 Llewellyn J. Brown.
74 6 An Classics, Mathematics, Sciences... 2 50 W. W. Seals. 97 8 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences... 2 17 F. E. Reid. 47 9 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences... 2 50 H. L. Gray. 79 9 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences... 2 00 E. W. Russell. 69 8K An. Classics^ Mathematics^ Sciences... 2 67 B. P. Allen.
138 16 An. Clas., Fr., Sci., Higher Mathematics, full English course...............................
44 3 English, Latin, Greek .....................................
71 9^ Eng. b'nchs., Clas., and Higher Math.
44 6 Ele., An. Clas., Math., Sciences, etc......
60 8 Ele., H. Eng., Math., Latin, Music........
53
Ele., H. Math., Latin, Philos., Hist......
*
2 00 P. D. Whelan.
2 25 E. B. Carroll. 2 75 W. J. Noves. 2 50 Richard W. Rogers. 1 90 John H. Mott. 2 50 E. B. Taylor.
39 10 16 10 81 10 153 9
An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences........ All branches usually taught in schools;
also An. Classics, Mathematics, etc.. Math., Nat. Sciences, Eng., An. Lan.,
Drawing, Calisthenics, Bk-kping.....1
An. Classics, Mathemat., Sciences, etc.
120 7 Ele., fe. Math., Nat. Sci., Lat.,Gk.,Mus. 108 10 Entire English course ...................
9 Ele., H. Mathemat., An. Lan., etc....
43 9 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences ...
34 5 An. Lan., Eng. branches and Math.... 30 5% Ele., H. Eng., H. Math., Sci., Lat., Phil.
2 50
2 25
2 50 2 60
1 25
1 00
4 50
2 75
2 30 1 75
Miss Viola P. Toombs.
Mrs. E. Nebhut.
E. C. Merry. A. J. Burruss.
C. H. Humphreys. J. M. Stansberry.
W. E. Meagly.
John A. Saye.
E. (?. Kinnebrew. Mrs. S. J. Edge.
l x x x ix
A ppe n d ix .
xc
Colored. iWhite and
Colored. No. of m onths
taught.
Instructors, j
COUNTIES.
NAME OF SCHOOL.
POST OFFICE.
1
TABLE No. VI.--Oonttnukd. Report of Private High Schools.
Nuhit er of Pu pils Admitted.
White. Colored
Total.
i
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
1
a&
ao.2a S.-S
3 4&Jj>3^ U-35 "c
NAME OF PRINCIPAL.
W hite.
iF em ales.
Males.
F em ales.
Males.
Number of
i
'
A ppe n d ix .
Oglethorpe..., O^lpthnrp**
Oglethorpe.... Oglethorpe.... Oglethorpe.. Oglethorpe.. Oglethorpe.. Oglethorpe . Oglethorpe
Oglethorpe
Pfliilfling
Pink etva
Pieroe
Pike...............
Meson Aefulevnv ................... Lexington ..........
MflYnv'e Itigh KehooJ
Muxev's!
Rrt inlstown Aesniemv.
Bairdstown..........
O hole A eaiiom \ .
Point Peter..........
lJhilornntii Institute
Philomath..........
Winferville Aeflil<`rnv
Winterville..........
Reaver Itnin Snhooi
Winterville..
(Center Sr'hoi >1
Stephens......
N E VV Snhooi Anfldevnv Sandy Cross.
N'o nnreporte<l If S in Co
Vo 1-Tio-h Snhooi in nountv
One unreported H S in On
No High snhooi in nmmt.v
Excelsior Academy................ Zebulon................
Pike.............. Gordon Institute.................. Bartlesville..........
Pike............... Planters High School............. Hollonville..........
Pike..
Liberty Hill School .. .. Liberty Hill.
Pike............... Milner Male & Female Inst... Miitter .....................
Pike................... Union High Sehool................ Jordan's Store....
Pike...................... Middle Georgia Institute.... Concord...................
Pike..
No unreported H. S. in Co..
Polk
Onr nnrpportpd TT S in Cn
Pulaski .... HawkinsvilJp Aeadpmv
Ha.wk i nsvi? le
Pulaski
Hawkinsvillp TnRt.it.ntP
Havvkinsville
Pulaski................ No unreported H. S. in Co...
1 23 18
1 31 24
1 28 20
1
27
1 17 18
> 20 33
1 24 20
1 30 25
1 19 18
>
49
(i 104 121
> 07 47 40 33 09
01 03 01 40
. 49 *o IL 58 05
41
41 9 Element.,Classics, Mathematics, etc... $ 2 40 Thomas B. Moss.
8 An. Classics, Math., and Sciences.......
M. M. Kilpatrick.
54
54 8 An. Lan., Math., Sciences, English.... 2 ! 0 W. B. Crawford.
64
04 8 Eng., An. Clas., Math., Sciences, etc... 2 (HI James J. Green.
35
35 9 English, Languages, etc.......................... 2 00 G. A. Gresham.
59
59 10 English, Classics, Mathematics.............. 2 50 G. B. Atkisson.
44
44 0 Element., Higher Eng., Higher Math. 1 75 W. M. Coile.
9 Elementary and Higher ......................... 1 75 John F. Smith.
37
37 7,M- English, Science, Mathematics, Latin. 2 on Claude Hartsfield.
102
102 10 Classics, Higher Math., Sciences, Hist.
and Common School branches.......... 2 00 George B. Merritt.
225
225 10 Lat., Gk., Fr., Ger., H. Math., H. Eng.
b'nchs', Sci., Eth., Civil Gov., etc..?!. 1 20 Jere M. Pound.
114
114 9 Prinmrv. Hie-hpr English. ClflRRics .
J. B. Mathews.
73 142
73 142
ib
Ele., H. Eng.,H. Math., An. Classes.
G. H. Perdue. v
Phil., Hist.. Book-keeping, etc......... 1 00 J. W. Beck.
124
124 7 Ele., H. Math., An. Classics, Hist.......... 1 00 Miss Daisy Knight.
101
301 9 Element., Lat., Gk., Higher Math......... . 2 00 D. R. Keith.
82
82 10 Ele., An. Clas., Math., Sciences, etc . .. 2* 50 George R. Glover.
123
123 10 Ele., An. Clas., H. Math., Sciences.
D. Lr Henderson and Mrs.
A. A. Smith.
Putnam............ No High School in county...
Onlilifl/mijlnclnli .......... Vo Ujcrh Sohnnl in i`oniity
T?Knr\
Rnhun (lap Institute
Rahun Gap..........
"XRvcalhUnlitlil ..............
Ra i> f'l nl rh ....... FourunreportedH. S. in Co.
RXViIChIIyUyliVnlnlivHI ....... Four unreported H. S. in Co
Rn/ilr<1plp
(Uilrlonrl Sominarv
Conyer's ...........
RApVflfilp
Conyers M. and F'. Academy Conyer's ..............
RnpVrJa Ip
Vo nnrpportprl TT S in Co
Sp h1nv
Fllnvillp TTiph Snhooi
Ellaville ..............
`iohloy Snhlav
Andrew Chappell H. School LaCrosse............... Vo nnrpportpn TT S in Co
ttaravpn Sprpvpn
Sprai'Pn Sarpiran
Svlvtmifi i\ nnripnrix' Kntprprisp 4 nnrlom v Mornpr Snhooi Vo nnrpportprl TT S in (lo
Sylvania........... Ogeechee.............. Buck Creek..
SpaTH injr
Vo TTiph Snhooi in thp Co
Sfoiirai"t
Sn m tPr Sum tav
Two unreported H. S. in Co. Andersonville High School, Andersonville ... Vo nnrpportprl TT S in (To
T*al hat
Vo TTiph Snhooi in thp Co
Tfiliafprro
Sfpphpns TTiph Snhooi
Crawfordville. ...
Tnl ia farm H'a ttn all
Tni'lor rraylar
Three unreport'd H. S. in (To.
Three unreport'd H. S. in Co.
Rpvnolrls Snhooi
Reynolds ......
Vo nnrpportprl TT S in Co
Tplfair
Vo TTivh Snhooi in ponntv
Tprrall
Vo Trio'll Snhooi in nonntv
Th am a
Three unreport'd H. S. iu Co.
Towns Towns
Yon up Tfarris Tnstit.nt.p.. McTyeire.............. Hiawassee High School....... Hiawassee ..........
Towns
Vo nnrpportprl-TT S in Co
Tronp
Four unreported II. S. in Co.
TxivVYiJc6ro-s............... One unreported H. S. in Co.
Union
One unreported H. S. in Co.
TTpson
R. E. Lee Institute.................. Thomastou..........
Upson TTpson
Rvnplcior Snhooi
Thnmflston
Dei Rey High School ......... Del Rev.................
TTpson
Vo nnrpportprl TT S in Co
WallrPV
Three unreport'd H. S. in Co.
i
Walton............. Logansville High School...... Logansville.........
1 40 26
o p
68 71
67 69
46 47
1 29 ?A
1 ;n 88 1 >4 18 ] 11 18
.) 41 89
4 59 56
1 :si 22
4 8 46
4 169 72
v
4 102 129 1 46
2 49 80
2 46 31
66
135 140 93 63 69
42 29
80
i
115
53
66 6 Elementary,.Higher Mathematics, etc. l 25 W. A. Curtis.
135 934 Ele., H. Eng., H. Math., Lat.,Gk.,Phys. 1 80 Thomas A. Murray. 140 10 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences, etc. 1 70 Guinn and O'Kelley. 93 9 Element., Math., Languages, Sciences,
Book-keepfng. Music, Art, etc.......... 2 00 W. B. Merritt, Jr. 63 10 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences.... 2 00 Charles A. Thompson. 69 6 Algebra, Physiology, Physics................ 2 00 John M. F. Erwin. 42 10 An. Clas., Math., and H. Eng. branches 2 00 Thomas M. Hazelhurst. 29 10 An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences ... 2 00 John Jones.
80 10 Usual High School branches.................. 2 50 J. X. Gardner. 115 10 An. Languages, Math.,and Sciences... 2 50 Vincent T. Sanford. 53 5 Languages, Mathemat., Belles-Lettres. 1 75 E. J. Frederick.
129
129 4 Eng., Lat, Gk., Sci., Mus., Bk-kping... 1 00 E. A. Gray.
241
241 6X Mathematics, Sciences, Languages, etc 1 00 George W. Truett.
231
231 10 Collegiate and Academic, including
An. Classics, Higher Math., Sci., etc. 1 50 G. F. Oliphant.
10
10 4 Latin, advanced studies, English........ 2 00 W. J. Matthews.
79
79 8 Classics, Sciences, H. Math., Bk-kping.
Common School branches................. 1 50 R. D. Shuptrine.
77
77 8 Element., Languages, Sciences, Math. 2 25 A. S. Florence.
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A p p e n d ix .
TABLE Ho. YI.--Continued. Report of Private High Schools.
Num ber of Instructors.
F em ales. Fem ales. W hite. Colored. W hite and
Colored. 1 No. of M onths
taught. Average m onthly | cost of tuition per , scholar.
x c ir
Appe n d ix .
Numt>er of Pu pils Admitted.
White. Colored
Total.
COUNTIES.
NAME OF SCHOOL. POST OFFICE.
Walton ... Wfllton
Ragan Institute....................... Jersev.................... Oa Grove High School....... Social Circle......
a> *3 a
2 46 2 52
<
3 a 48 36
Walton............. Two unreported H. S. in Co.
Ware................. Three unreported H.S. in Co.
Warren...... ..... Warrenton Academy.............. Warrenton..........
Wn.rrpn
Norwood Institute.................. Norwood ..............
Wflrrpn
William's Creek Academy... Norwood ..............
Wfl.rrpn
Felt's High School.................. Norwood..............
W/rrrpn
One unreported H. S. in Co
Washington Tennille iligh school........... Tennille ..............
Wflshington Harrison High School .......... Harrison..............
Washington Riddleville High School...... Riddleville..........
Washington Bethlehem High School...... Warthen..............
Washingto n No unreported H. S. in Co...
Wflynp
No High School in county...
Wp.nstpr
No High School in countv...
White................. Cleveland Academv............... Cleveland.............
White
No unreported H. S. in Co...
Whitfield.. Tilton School........................... Tilton....................
WhfttipM
Tiltnn SphnnJ .
Tilton....................
Wh it.fi #VM
Tunnel Hill School................ Tunnel Hill.........
Whitfield..
No unreported H. S. in Co...
Wilnnv
Three unreport'd H. S. in Co.
Wilkps
Wash'gton *Fem'le Seminary Washington.........
Wilkps Wilkinson Worth
One unreported H. S. in Co. Two unreported H. S. in Co. One unreported H. S. iu Co.
4 80 89 2 36 35 2 39 27 1 28 15
61 51 2 48 45 2 39 51 2 36 36
2 61 48
2 51 39 9 41 34 2 75 55
3
62
BRANCHES TAUGHT.
NAME OF PRINCIPAL.
93
93 8 An. Clas., Higher Math., Sciences, etc. 1 80 W. H. Guuter.
8S
88 10 Public School branches^ Lat., Greek,
Sciences and Higher Mathematices, 2 40 W. Frank Smith and Frank
L. Florence.
169
169 10 Com. School, High School, Academic. 1 75 J. E. Gross.
71
71 10 Ele., Eng., Lat., H. Math., Bk-kp'g, etc 2 00 J. W. Ellington.
66
66 8 Latin, Science, Higher Math., etc....... 2 00 J. H. Ware.
43
43 Ancient Classics, Mathematics, etc..... 2 00 O. L. Cloud, Sr.
112
112 6 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences, etc. 2 00 J. D. Garner.
93
93 6 An. Clas,, Mathematics, Sciences, etc. 2 00 Thomas J. Davis.
90
90 6 An. Clas., Mathematics, Sciences, etc. 2 00 A. R. Rountree.
52
52 6 Ele., H. Math., An. Lan., History........ 2 00 B. F. Drake.
109
109 9 Ele., H. Eng., Math., Sci., An. Clas.,etc 1 60 J. R. Lin.
90
90 3 Element., Higher Math., Sciences...... 1 25 Miss Jennie Thomas.
75
75 5 Usual High School branches.................. 1 25 Buel Stark.
130
130 5 Ele., Higher Math., Lat., Music, etc... 1 40 Buel S^ark.
62
62
9% Com. School branches, An. Classics, Mathematics, Sciences................ .......1
*2 50
.............. i....................................... Miss Ida A. Young.
Totals and Averages....................................
380 6585 6087 293 1043 12672 1336 14008 7.91
S 1 98
* Alexander Free School is an endowed institution and charges no tuition fees. Note.--The number of high schools reported in full in this table is one hundred and fifty-five. Of these, one hundred and fifty were white and five were colored. There were
one hundred and forty from which no reports were obtained. In some cases the Commissioners approximated the number of unreported high schools, but the general result may be relied upon as substantially correct. Information was received and is above given, from all the counties of the State.
The table indicates that the total number of high schools in the State for the year X888, was two hundred and ninety-three,
Members of the State Board of Education.
John B. Gordon, Governor. N. C. Barnett, Secretary of State. Cliffod Anderson, Attorney-General. Wm. A. Wright, Qpmptroller-General. James S. Hook, State School Commissioner.
OFFICERS OF THE BOARD.
Joon B. Gordon, President. James S. Hook, Chief Executive Officer. Edgar H. Orr, Clerk.
STATE OF GEORGIA,
COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS.
Appling Baker . Baldwin Banks . Bartow. Berrien . Brooks . Bryan . Bullo h. Burke . Butts . . Calhoun Camden Campbell Carroll. Catoosa Charlton
Chattahoochee Chattooga Cherokee , Clarke . Clay . . Clayton Clinch . Cobb.. . Coffee . Columbia Colquitt Coweta . Crawford Dade . . Dawson Decatur DeKalb Dodge . Dooly . Dougherty
Douglas Early . . Echols . . Effingham Elbert . . Emanuel.. Fannin . . Fayette . Floyd . .
NAME.
POST-OFFICE.
. Dr. B. H. Patterson.................Baxley. . Thos. W. Fleming .'.............. Newton. , R. N. Lamar.............................Milledgeville. J. D. Gunnels............................ Banksville.
. R. C. Saxon . ..........................Grassdale. . James F. Goodman..................Nashville. . C. I. Groover............................. Quitman. . A. P. Smith............................... Clyde.
James S. Hagin......................... Fido. Joseph H. Roberts..................Waynesboro. . E. E. Pound..................... ... . Indian Spring . J. J. Beck....................................Morgan.
. S. W. Baker..............................St. Mary's. . J. M. Mason............................. Tell. . M. R. Russell A.......................Carrollton. . Marcus D. Lansford............... Peavine.
. James Thompson.................... Trader's Hill. Dr. C. N. Howard................... Cusseta.
. John D. Taylor..........................Summerville. John D. Attaway..................... Canton. . Rev. H. R. Bernard............... Athens. J. D. Rambo.............................Port Gaines. . William R. Ward.............. ... Jonesboro.
Geo. W. Newbern......................Homerville. W. R. Power............................. Marietta. . John Fussell..............................Kirkland.
Jerry T. Smith..........................Appling. . N. N. Marchant.......................Felix. . Daniel Walker..........................Newnan. H. F. Sanders.......................... Ceres.
John P. Jacoway...................... Trenton. Marion M. Gentry..................Yellow Creek. . Chas. J. Munnerlyn............... Bainbridge. Jas. W. Kirkpatrick............... Decatur.
. Henry Coleman ..................Eastman. . Oliver P. Swearingen.............. Vienna. J. S. Davis................................. Albany. . Rev. J. B. C. Quillian .... Douglasville. Thos. F. Jones..........................Blakely.
. Wm. A. Ham..........................Statenville. H. S. Wingard.......................... Springfield. . Robert F. Wright..................... Elberton.
. Joshua R. Rountree...............Swainsboro. Adam Davenport .....................Hemp. Wm. T. Glower...................... Flat Creek.
. Rev. W. M. Bridges............... Rome.
Appendix.
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Forsyth..................Isaac S. Clement....................... Cumming. Franklin.................. J. S. Dortch.............................Carnesville. Fulton......................J. N. Fain, 132 S. Forsyth St . Atlanta. Gilmer..................... Wm. F. Hill..............................Mountaintown Glasscock...............E. B. Rogers..............................Gibson. Gordon.................. W. J. McDaniel.......................Calhoun. Greene ..... Dr. J. M. Griffin.................... Woodviile. Gwinnett.............. Thos. E. Winn..........................Lawrenceville Habersham . . . . J. A. Blair............................New Switzerland Hall......................... John T. Wilson, Sr.................. Gainesville. Hancock.................. John R. Lewis .......................Sparta. Haralson .............. G. D. Griffith...........................Buchanan. Harris......................Rev. W. A.Farley.....................Hamilton. Hart......................... J. C. Neese................................. Hartwell. Heard...................... John J. Bledsoe...................... Franklin. Henry......................J. C. Daniel............................. McDonough. Houston...................Wm. F. Killen......................... Perry. Irwin........................Wiley Whitley...........................Minnie. Jackson....................G. J. N. Wilson . . . . Jefferson. Jasper......................Willis Newton......................... Monticello. Jefferson.................. Rev. Dr. D. G. Phillips .. . .Louisville. Johnson..................Stephen A. McWhorter . . . Wrightsville. Jones....................... Alexander H. S. McKay . . . Plentitude. Laurens.................. Rev. W. S. Ramsey ..... .Dublin. Lee . . ................. H. L. Long...............................Leesburg. Liberty.................... Rev. Lewis Price...................... Paxton. Lincoln.................... Henry J. Lang..........................Lincolnton. Lowndes.................. J. H. Zant................................. Long Pond. Lumpkin................. Joseph B. Brown............... ... . Dahlonega. Macon......................H. M. Kaigler...........................Oglethorpe. Madison ... . B. N. White.............................Danielsville. Marion.................... Dr. W. J. Reese. . .................. Buena Vista. McDuffie...................R. H. Pearce............................. Thomson. McIntosh............... Charles S. Wylly......................Darien. Meriwether...............Robert M. McCaslan............... Greenville. Miller...................... John S. Clifton.........................Twilight. Milton...................... Golson M. Hook...................... Alpharetta. Mitchell...................James H. Powell ....... Camilla. Monroe..................... Rev. Thomas G. Scott.... Forsyth. Montgomery .... John L. Matthews.................. Mt. Vernon. Morgan......................W. H. Cocroft..........................Madison. Murray..................... Rev. S. H. Henry......................Sumach. Muscogee.................. N. G. Oattis..............................Midland. Newton...................Joseph S. Stewart......................Oxford. Oconee.................... W. C. Carter.............................. McNutt. Oglethorpe...............Rev. John F. Cheney.............. Crawford. Paulding.................. L. M. Washington................... Dallas. Pickens......................W. H. Simmons...................... Jasper. Pierce.................^ . Joseph A. Harper........................Blackshear.
Pike......................... A. P. Turner.............................. Milner. Polk......................... T. L. Pittman............................. Lime Branch. Pulaski.....................Jacob Watson.......................... Hawkinsville. Putnam..................M. B. Dennis............................. Eatonton. 'Quitman ................. J. E. Dozier................................. Georgetown. Rabun.......................W. B. Watts............................. Clayton. Randolph.................. Dr. L. C Goneke...................... Spring Vale. Rockdale..................Green M. Jones......................... Convers.
XCVIII
Appendix.
Schley..................... Dr. C. H. Smith....................... Ellaville. Screven..................... Dr. W. L. Matthews ...... Sylvania. Spalding.................. James O. A. Miller................... Sunny Side. Stewart.....................E. P. Kirksey............................. Lumpkin. Sumter . . . . . . L. P. Howell.............................Amertems. Talbot......................O. D. Gorman ........ Talbotton. Taliaferro................. W. T. Fiynt.............................. Sharon Tattnall ...... John Hughey............................Eeidsville. Taylor..................... Jas. O. Mangnam...................... Butler. Telfair..................... John Smith................................. Neilly. Terrell..................... George Kaigler.......................... Dawson.
Thomas..................K. T. Maclean...........................Thomasville. Towns..................... W. B. McConnell...................... Hiwassee. Troup..................... O. A. Bull.................................. LaGrange.
Twiggs...................... A.' J. Glover.............................. Jeffersonville. Union......................F. G. Duncan.......................... Blairsville. Upson..................... F. J. Vining . ..........................Thdmaston. Walker.....................W. W. S. Myers....................... Waterville. Walton.....................Bev. Jas. O. A. Bedford . . . .Jersey. Ware........................ J. D. Smith................................ Waycross. Warren..................... A. S. Morgan . . ......................Warrenton. Washingtoh .... Dr. Horatio N. Hollifield . . . Sandersville. Wayne.....................John B. Boberson....................Odom. Webster.................. Dr. J. A. Griffin ................... Preston.
White......................C. H. Kytle............................. Center Side. Whitfield..................Martin P. Berry.......................Dalton. Wilcox..................... E. Y. Bowen..............................Abbeville. Wilks......................Bev. F. T. Simpson.................. Washington. Wilkinson.............. Bev. Wm. S. Baker................... Irwinton. Worth......................Dr. J. B. Pickett.........................Sumner.
COUNTIES AND CITIES UNDER LOCAL LAWS.
List of Commissioners and Superintendents or Principals.
COUNTY OE CITY.
NAME.
POST-OFFICE.
Americus (city) . . John M. Gannon......................Americus.
Athens (city) . . . E. C. Branson..........................Athens.
Atlanta (city) . . . W. F. Slaton............................... Atlanta.
Bibb (county) . . . B. M. Zettler............................. Macon.
Carrollton (city) . . J. E. Witherspoon.................. Carrollton.
. Cartersville (city). ................................ ..................... Cartersville. Cedartown (city) . . Bonald Johnston..................... Cedartown.
Chatham (county) . William H. Baker.............. ... Savannah.
Columbus (city) . . A. P. Mooty.............................Columbus. Covington (city) . ...................................................... Covington.
Dalton (city)...........W. Harper.................................. Dalton.
Glynn (county) . . A. I. Branham......................... Brunswick.
Griffin (city) .... Bothwell Graham..................Griffin.
Newnan (city) . . . Lyman H. Ford......................Newnan.
Bichmond (county) Lawton B. Evans..................Augusta.
Borne (city) .... Beni. Neely.............................Borne.
Sandersville (city) . B. H. Ivey................................ Sandersville.
Waycross (city) . ................................ ..................... Waycross.
West Point (city). . W. J. McKemie.............. ... . West Point.
t
AN ACT
TO
Amend, Revise and Consolidate
thp:
OF THE
STATE OF GEORGIA,
And for Other Purposes, Approved Oct. 27, 1887; An Act to Amend Sec. 44 thereof, Approved Dec. 13, 1888; Certain Sections of the General Appropriation Act and General Tax Act, both Approved Dec. 26,1888, together with Eeference to Local and Other School Legislation by the General Assembly during the years 1886, 1887 and 1888, and extracts from a circular issued from this office Nov. 4, 1887.
ATLANTA, GA.:
W. J. Campbell, State Printer, Constitution Job Office,
1888.
Office of State School Commissioner,
Atlanta, Ga., February 15, 1889.
Although the present General Assembly has not adjourned but simply taken a recess until the month of July next, and although there are a number of bills pending which materially affect the school laws of this State, I have found it necessary to publish a new edition of the school law of October 27, 1887, the former edition being exhausted, in order to supply the con stant demand from school officers, teachers and others inter ested in educational matters.
When the present Legislature shall have completed its labors, a supplemental pamphlet will be issued giving all necessary information with reference to the law as it may then stand, unless circumstances should require an entirely new edition of the laws.
This Act was amended as to section 44, as will herein appear, by the Act of December 13, 1888. Certain sections of the General Tax Act and of the General Appropriation Act are pub lished herewith, as they are of the utmost interest to the educa tional public.
The last circular issued under the administration of the late Dr. Orr, was dated November 4, 1887, and was largely devoted to an explanation ol the changes in then existing laws made by the Act of October 27, 1887, commonly called the Denny law. The demand for this circular has likewise been large and the supply is exhausted. So much thereof as points out the changes made by the Denny law, is reproduced herewith, as it will doubtless materially aid school officers and others familiar with the old law, in their investigations of the new law.
The custom of this office in making reference to local school laws, so that those interested may be aided in finding them, is kept up, and all legislation of this class enacted in 1886, 1887 and 1888 is herein mentioned.
JAMES S. HOOK, State School Commissioner.
AN ACT
To amend, revise and consolidate the Common School Laws of the State of Georgia, andfor other purposes.
Whereas. Amendment, revision and consolidation of the present existing common school laws of Georgia are advisable and necessary: therefore
Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the suite n'aid State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the uon'1"' 1
same, That the Governor, the Attorney-General, Secretary of State, the Comptroller-General and the State School Commis sioner shall constitute the Georgia State Board of Education. Of this Board the Governor shall be ex-officio president, and the State School Commissioner the chief executive officer. The clerk clerk <>f
thoBotinl.
of the State School Comissioner, as hereinafter provided for, shall be the clerk of the State Board of Education. He shall be the custodian of its records, papers and effects, and keep minutes of its proceedings, and said records, papers and minutes shall be kept in the office of the Commissioner, and shall be open to inspection.
Sec. 2. That the said Board shall meet, upon the call of its Mrctin-s. president, or a majority of its members, at the office of the State School Commissioner at the Capitol, or at such other place as may be designated in the call. A majority of the Board Quorum, shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.
Sec. 3. That said Board may take and hold, to it and its sue- pollutions cessors, in trust for the State, any grant or devise of lands, or tionnj ].m-any donation or bequest of money, or other personal property, l'OSLf'' made to it for educational purposes, and shall forthwith place in the hands of the Treasurer of the State for safe-keeping all moneys and personal property so received, and titles to land, taking therefor a receipt from said officer. When it is evidently the intention of the donor or devisor that the corpus of moneys thus received is not to be used, the General Assembly may,
6
from time to time, invest said moneys in the name of the State; Provided, that all moneys obtained under this section, together
with the profits accruing from their investment, shall be subject
to use only for educational purposes. The Treasurer of the
State shall pay to the order of the Board the income or princi pal thereof as said Board may, from time to time, require in pursuance of law, but no disposition of any devise, donation
or bequest shall be made inconsistent with the conditions or
tenor of the devise, donation or bequest. For the faithful keep ing of all property or moneys so received by the Treasurer, he
shall be responsible, upon his bond to the State, as for other funds received by him in his official capacity.
^eai.
Sec. 4. That the State Board of Education shall procure
a suitable seal, which shall be used for the authentication of the
acts of the Board and the important acts of the State School Commissioner.
state Board Sec. 5. That the State Board of Education shall constitute ry body*0 an advisory body, with whom the State School Commissioner
shall have the right to consult when he is in doubt as to his official duty; and also a body in the nature of a court, to which appeals shall be from the decision of the State School Commis
sioner upon any question touching the construction or adminis tration of the school laws, and the decision of the State Board, when rendered, shall be final and conclusive upon the matter
Appeals, in issue. Appeals to the State Board must be made through
the County Commissioner in writing, and must distinctly set forth the question of law, as well as the facts, in the case upon which the appeal is taken. Upon any question involving the
construction or administration of the school laws, the concur rence of a majority of the whole board shall be necessary in
' order to give validity to the decision.
.<[,,16
Sec. 6. That the State School Commissioner shall be ap-
eommis- pointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. A
xiouer. suitable office shall be furnished him at the seat of government,
at which the books and papers relating to the business of said office shall be kept. He shall be charged with the administra tion of the school laws, and a general superintendence of the
business relating to the common schools of the State. He shall prescribe suitable forms for the reports required of subordinate
*
7
school officers and blanks for their guidance in transacting their Prescribes
"
forms.
official business, and shall, from time to time, prepare and
transmit to them such instructions as he may deem necessary instruc-
for the faithful and efficient execution of the school laws, and
by whatsoever is thus communicated to them shall they be
bound to govern themselves in the discharge of their official
duty; Provided, nevertheless, there shall always be an appeal
from the State School Commissioner to the State Board of
Education as hereinbefore enacted.
Sec. 7. That it shall be the duty of the State School Com-visits mi.ss.ioner to vi.si. t, as of-ten as possibl, e, th, e several, counties ofr Counties,
the State for the purpose of examining into the administration
of the school law in said counties, of counseling with school
officers, of delivering popular addresses, of inspecting school
operations, and of doing such other acts as he may deem sub
servient to the interests of popular education.
Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of the State School Com- Appor-
missioner to dj-is1burse the common school fund m the
following
tionment of school
manner: He shall annually apportion equitably the State school
revenue to the different counties of the State upon the basis of
the aggregate of children between six and eighteen years of age
in each county. After the annual apportionment of the State
school fund has been made, and when the County School Com
missioner of any county shall give official notice to the State
School Commissioner that the common schools of his county
are within three weeks of closing, the latter named officer shall
execute an order on the Tax Collector of the county in favor of 2*1*!,!?
the County School Commissioner for the quota of the common tor.
school fund apportioned to the county, signing the order offi
cially and affixing thereto his seal of office, and transmit the
same to the County School Commissioner.
Sec. 9. That the State School Commissioner shall send the Notice of notice of Apportionment, to the Tax-collector of each county menirt,n
as soon as the apportionment is made, and it shall be the duty Duty of of the Tax Collector to retain in his hands, of the taxes first tor* CollLU'
collected, a sufficient amount to pay the sum mentioned as the county's quota in the notice of apportionment, and to pay the same to the County School Commissioner as soon as the order of the State School Commissioner is presented.
8
Order re ceived as
Sec. io. That the Treasurer of the State shall receive the
cash.
order of the State School Commissioner as cash in settling with
the Tax Collector.
State School
Commis sioner to
institute suits.
Sec. ii. The State School Commissioner shall see that the proper actions provided by law are brought against all officers and agents of the system, who are liable to the same, for mis application of the school fund or other cause.
Report of State School Commis sioner.
Sec. 12. That the State School Commissioner shall make a biennial report to the General Assembly, in which he shall present a statement of the condition and amount of all funds and property appropriated to the purpose of public education ;
Contents. a statement of the number of common and public schools of the
various grades in the State; the number of scholars attending
such schools; their sex, color and the branches taught; a state
ment of the average cost per scholar of instruction under the
common school system in each county; a statement of plans
for the management, extension and improvement of the com
mon schools; a statement of the number of children of school
age in the State, with as much accuracy as the same can be as
certained ; also a statement of the number of private schools
and of colleges of different kinds in the State ; the number of
pupils in such schools or colleges, their sex, the branches
taught, the average cost per scholar of tuition in said schools
and colleges; and in order that he may be able to carry the
Reports from sub
foregoing into execution, he shall have the right
to
require
of
ordinate the County School Commissioners to make such reports as he
school offi
cers.
may prescribe upon the subjects herein mentioned, and in de
fault of complying, as far as may be practicable, with this re
quirement, such County School Commissioners shall not be en
titled to compensation for their official services. He shall also
have the right to make the foregoing requirements of the Pres
ident of the Board of Education, or chief executive officer of
any public school organization in this State, operating under,
any special law, and until the requirement is complied with,
said organization shall not receive the pro rata part of the
State School Fund to which it would be otherwise entitled.
Salary and Sec. 13. That the State School Commissioner shall be entitled
expenses.
to receive for his services the sum of two thousand dollars annu
ally. in quarterly installments. All his necessary traveling
9
expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties, and
all postage and other expenses absolutely necessary arising in
his office, shall be paid by the State. He shall also be entitled clerk of
to employ one clerk to aid him in his official duties. His clerk school
shall receive an annual salary, not exceeding twelve hundred sioner.
dollars, to be paid quarterly. The salaries and other expenses
named in this section shall be paid out of the State School Fund
on Executive warrant. It shall also be the duty of said Com
missioner to keep an itemized account of all expenses connected
with his department, which account shall be audited by the
State Board of Education.
Sec. 14. That before entering upon the discharge of his0ath-
official duties, the said Commissioner shall take and subscribe
to the same oath required of other officers of this State.
Sec. i;. That hereafter each and every county in the State Each conn-
shall compose one school district, and shall be confided to the rtisirict.
control and management of a County Board of Education.
Sec. 16. That the grand jury of each county (except those orand jury
counties in which the election of the County Board of Educa. of Educa
tion is otherwise provided by law) in this State shall, from time
to time, select from the citizens of their respective counties five
freeholders, who shall constitute the County Board of Education,
three of whom shall be elected for two years and two for four
years, but members of the Board chosen after the first election
shall hold for the term of four years; Provided, houtever, that no gjjjjjarUjP0"
publisher of school books, nor any agent for such publisher,
nor any person who shall be pecuniarily interested in the sale
inoi-
of school books, shall be eligible for election as a member of
any Board of Education or as County School Commissioner in
any county in this State.
Sec. 17. That whenever members of a County Board are clerk of
elected or appointed in pursuance of the provisions of the above court certisection, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court ttiucrsnt,o elec-
to forward to the State School Commissioner a certified state
ment of the facts, under the seal of the court, signed officially
by him, as evidence upon which to issue commissions, and. the
corresponding evidence of the election of a County Commiss
ioner shall be the certified statement of the Secretary pro tem.
of the meeting of the Board at which the election was held
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Removal Any member or members of a County Board of Education
from office
of mem shall be removable by the Judge of the Superior Court of the
bers of
Roard. county, on the address of two-thirds of the grand jury, for
ineffiency, incapacity, general neglect of duty, or malfeasance
or corruption in office; that the Judges of the Superior Courts
Vacancies. of this State shall have the power to fill vacancies by appoint
ment in the County Boards of Education for the counties
composing their respective judicial circuits, until the next
session of the grand juries in and for said counties, when said
vacancies shall be filled by said grand juries.
President Sec. i 8. That the Board of Education shall elect one of
of Board.
their number President, who shall serve as such during the
term for which he was chosen a member of the Board. The
Secretary. County School Commissioner shall be ex officio Secretary of the
Board. A majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for
the transaction of business. It shall be the duty of said Secre
tary to be present at the meetings of the Board, and to record
Minutes. in a book, to be provided for the purpose, all their official pro
ceedings, which shall be a public record open to the inspection
of any person interested therein, and all such proceedings,
when so recorded, shall be signed by the President and coun
tersigned by the Secretary.
Sessions.
Sec. 19. That it shall be the duty of the County Board of
Education to hold regular sessions on the first Tuesday ,of the
month succeeding their election, and each three months there
after, at the court-house of the county, for the transaction of
business pertaining to the public schools, with power to adjourn
from time to time, and in case of the absence of the President
or Secretary, they may appoint one of their own number to serve
Kxemption temporarily. The members of the Board shall be exempt from
from jury
duty, etc. road, jury and militia duty, and shall receive no other compen
sation.
rsub-school Sec. 20. That the County Boards shall lay off their counties districts. into sub-school districts, in each of which sub-school districts
they shall establish one common school each for white and
colored races where the population of the two races is sufficient,
Locution of which schools shall be as near the center of the sub-school dis-
schools.
.
...
.
tncts as can conveniently be arranged, reference being had to
any school-house already erected, and population of said sub-
1]
school districts, and to the location of white and colored
schools with regard to contiguity; Provided, however, that in such
sub-school districts where, owing to density of population, more
than one school is demanded, then they may establish one or Additional
more additional schools in such sub-school district; Provided, '
that no such additional school or schools shall be allowed to
exist unless it or they shall have an enrollment of not less than
twenty-five scholars.
And Provided also, that whenever it becomes proper to lay off Houmin-
rios.
new sub-school districts, or alter the boundaries of those already
laid off, the said Board shall have full power to make such
changes as the public necessities may require. The said County Board om-
Boards are also empowered to employ teachers, in the manner {cachcrs.
hereinafter pointed out, to serve in the schools under their juris
diction, and the contracts for said service shall be in writing, contracts
.
.
.
.
in writing.
signed in duplicate by the teacher on his own behalf and by the
County School Commissioner oh behalf of the Board.
Sec. 21. That the County Boards of Education shall have Kl!l>00*
.
.
. property.
power to purchase, lease or rent school sites ; to build, repair
or rent school-houses; to purchase maps, globes and school
furniture, and to make all other arrangements of this kind nec
essary to the efficient operation of the schools under their care ;
and the said Boards shall also be, and are hereby invested with
the title, care and custody of all school-houses, sites, school
libraries, apparatus, or other propetrty belonging to the sub-dis
tricts, as now defined, or as may hereafter be defined, in their
several counties, with all power to control the same, in such
manner as they think will best subserve the interests of com
mon schools ; and when, in the opinion of the Board any school-
house site has become unnecessary or inconvenient, they may sell Sale,
and convey the same in the name of the County Board of Educa
tion, such conveyanc to be executed by the President or Secre
tary of said Board according to the order of the Board. They Donations,
shall have power to receive any gift, grant, donation or devise
made for the use of common schools within their respective
counties; and all conveyances of real estate which may be made
to said Board shall vest the property in said Board of Educa
tion and their successors in office. It shall also be the duty
of said Board of Education to make arrangements for the in-
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struction of the children of the white and colored races in sepa
Races rate schools. They shall, as far as practicable, provide the
taught sep
arately. same facilities for both races in respect to attainments and abili
ties of teachers and length of term-time; but the children of the
white and colored races shall not be taught together in any com
mon or public school of this State; and in respect to the build
Building ing fo the school-houses mentioned in this section, the said
of school
houses. Board of Education may provide for the same, either by labor
on the part of the citizens of the sub-districts to be served, or
by a tax on their property, as may be hereafter proyided.
County Board a judicial tribunal.
Sec. 22. That the County Board of Education shall consti tute a tribunal for hearing and determining any matters of local controversey in reference to the construction or admininistration
of the school law, with power to summon witnesses and take
testimony if necessary ; and when they have made a decision,
said decision shall be binding upon the parties to the contro
Appeal to versy ; Provided, that either of the parties shall have the right
State
School to appeal to the State School Commissioner, and said appeal
Commis
sioner. shall be made through the County Commissioner in writing, and
shall distinctly set forth the question in dispute, the decision
of the County Board and the testimony, as agreed upon by the
parties to the controversy, or if they tail to agree, upon the
testimony as reported by the Commissioner.
Text books.
Sec. 23. That the County Board of Education shall pre scribe, from time to time, what text-books and books of refer
ence shall be used in the common schools of the county;
Bible can Provided, that the Bible shall not be excluded from the common
not be ex
cluded. or public schools of the State : and provided further, that when
such text-books are prescribed, they shall not be changed for
five years thereafter, except by a three-fourths vote of all the
Board; and provided further, that the County Boards shall not
be permitted to introduce into the schools any text or miscel
laneous book of a sectarian or sectional character. No teacher
shall receive pay for any pupil who is allowed to use any other
than the prescribed text-books.
rountv school ('omniissioner.
Sec. 24. That the County Boards of Education shall, from the citizens of their counties, select a County Commissioner of Education, who shall be ex officio county superintendent of
common schools, and who shall hold his office for the term of
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four years. Before election, the applicants for position ofExammaCounty School Commissioner shall be examined by the Pres ident of the County Board of Education, or by some one appointed by him or the Board for that purpose, upon written or printed questions, which shall be furnished to the Board by the State School Commissioner--said examination to be upon the subjects taught in the common schools, upon the science and theory of common school-teaching and government and upon such other subjects as the State School Commissioner may deem proper. The said County Board of Education shall Election, then elect such applicant County School Commissioner, who has stood satisfactory examination, taking into consideration the moral character, business qualifications and general avail ability of each applicant. The County School Commissioner so uond. elected shall be required to give bond with good security, payable to the County Board of Education, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his duty under the law, the amount and sufficiency of the security to be judged by the County Board of Education.
Sec. 25. Before entering upon the discharge of his official Oath, duties, the said Commissioner shall take and subscribe to the same oath required of the other officers of this State.
Sec. 26. The County School Commissioner may be re-Kemoval moved from office before the expiiation of his term by a majority from offlcc
vote of the Board of Education for ineffiency, incapacity, neglect of duty or malfeasance or corruption in office ; Prmnded, Appeal, that any Commissioner so removed shall have the right of appeal from the action of the County Board to the State School Commissioner, and from the State School Commissioner to the State Board of Education.
Sec. 27. Should there be a vacancy in the office of County Vaeaney. School Commissioner, by resignation or otherwise, an exam ination and election for the remainder of the vacant term shall be held in the same manner and by the same authorities as for that of a full term.
Sec. 28. That the County Commissioners shall examine all Examinaapplicants for licenses to teach in their respective counties, pUcants111' giving previous public notice of the day upon which the exam- toV'ari'18'
inations are to take place, and said Commissioners shall be
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allowed to invite such persons as they may think proper to
assist in these examinations. Applicants for license to teach in
the common schools shall be examined upon orthography,
reading, writing, English grammar, geography, arithmetic,
and the science and practice of teaching in common schools.
Said examinations shall be held throughout the State on a day
or days to be fixed by the State School Commissioner, and by s. s. c. questions prepared and sent out by him to the County School
prepares
questions. Commissioners. The State School Commissioner shall also
prepare and supply the County School Commissioners with
printed instructions as to the grading applicants on and by a
uniform grade, and shall fix the lowest standard for each class
Oathe of of licenses. No applicant lor teachers license shall be exam
teaeher ex amined on
ined
on
any
other
day
than
the
one
designated
as
above
pre
other than designated
scribed,
unless
he
or
she
will
file
with
the County School
day.
Commissioner affidavit that he or she was providentially hin
dered from being present on the general examination day or
days, and has not seen or been informed of the contents of the
general question papers.*
('minty
Sec. 29. It shall be the duty of the County School Com
School
Commis missioners, after thorough examination of the papers submitted
sioner
grades pa by applicants for licenses as teachers, upon the examination
pers and makes re
conducted as prescribed in the preceding section, to grade the
ports.
applicant according to the instructions furnished them by the
State School Commissioner, submitting his report and recom
mendations thereon in writing to the County Board of Educa-
'ITpon the subject of exemptions from the examinations required by our school law, I have heretofore held, as my predecessor did, that licentiates of the " North Georgia Agricultural College," at Dahlonega, were alone, exempted from the neces sity of procuring a license from our County School Boards before being admitted to contracts and participation in the State school fund of Georgia. A few days back my attention was called to the special Act, incorporating "The Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College," which, in special terms, gives the same exemp tion. My attention was directed to this provision of this special Act by Hon. R. X. Lamar, of Baldwin, its present efficient County School Commissioner. So it now stands that the graduates of no other colleges or schools in Georgia enjoy this exemption. Of course those teachers to whom 1 have issued or may hereafter issue permanent licenses under the Statute, section :>0, are exempt from further exami nations, and may be contracted with many county in Georgia without endorsement of the license by the County School Commissioner of the county. Licenses or diplomas granted by other States confer no privilege of exemption from examina tion here. I will further state that when licenses issued by the Boards in the several counties expire by their own limitation, they cannot be extended. Theremust be another examination, followed by license granted before contracts with, the Boardean be had.--James S. Hook, State School Commissioner.
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tion, who shall grant to the applicants licenses of the first, Board second or third grade, to be determined by the qualifications exhibited and the standard attained; Provided, they shall obtain at least the lowest grade-mark fixed by the State School Commissioner for each grade; and provided further, that each applicant submits with his or her examination paper satisfactory evidence in writing of good moral character. A license of the Grades of first grade shall continue in force for three years, a license 0flloen!!e-
the second grade for two years, and a license of the third grade for one year, which said licenses shall entitle teachers holding them to be employed for and during the period of their licenses in any of the common schools of the county where issued. Licenses, to be good in another county than the one in and for which they are issued, must be endorsed by the County School Commissioner of the county in which the applicant desires to teach.
Sec. 30. After passing upon the examination papers as here- Permanent inbefore provided, if, in the opinion of the County School license. Commissioner, any one or more of them exhibit unusual merit, he shall forward such papers to the State School Commissioner, together with his certificate of the good moral and professional character of the applicant, and if, in the opinion of the State School Commissioner, said papers exhibit a sufficient degree of merit, he shall issue a permanent teacher's license to the appli cant, which license shall be good in any county of this State, and which shall only be revokable by the State School Commis sioner for good and sufficient cause.
Sec. 31. That the County Commissioner shall have power, Kevoniand it shall be his duty, to revoke licenses granted by him, or licensi'. his predecessors, for incompetency, immorality, cruelty to pupils, or neglect of his duties, and the revocation of the license of any teacher shall terminate the connection of said teacher with any school which he may have been employed to teach ; but any teacher so dismissed shall have the right to appeal to Appeal, the County Board of Education, whose decision shall be final.
Sec. 32. I'hat the County Commissioner shall constitute the Duties of medium of communication between the State School Commis- Oonimis-0' sioner and the subordinate school officers; that he shall visitslonereach school in his county at least once during the school term, ^hooK
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or twice if practicable, and oftener if ordered by the Board,
and without notice to the teachers, for the purpose of inspect
ing its management and the modes of instruction, and of giving
such advice and making such suggestions as shall tend to elevate
it in character and efficiency. He shall be the agent of the
County Board in procuring such school furniture, apparatus and
educational requisites as they may order to be purchased, and
shall see that none but the prescribed text-books are used by
Audits the pupils; that it shall be his duty to audit all accounts of
accounts.
teachers and others before an application is made to the County
Board for an order for payment, and that the said County Com
Keeps records.
missioner shall procure a book, in which he shall keep a record
of his official acts, which, together with all the books, papers
and property appertaining to his office, he shall turn over, on
his resignation, or at the expiration of his official term, to his
successor.
Compensa Sec. 33. That the said County Commissioner shall receive
tion of
County such compensation as the County Board may allow him, not to
School
Commis exceed three dollars per day, to be determined by the County
sioner.
Board of Education, for each day actually employed in the dis
charge of his official duties, the same to be, paid out of the edu
cational fund furnished to the county. His claim for services
shall be presented in the form of an account against the County
Board of Education, and shall be verified by affidavit, to the
effect that the said account is just and true; that the service
therein named was honestly and faithfully rendered, and that
the sum therein claimed is rightfully due and remains unpaid.
When said account shall have been duly audited and approved
by the County Board, the said commissioner shall retain his
pay out of the revenue aforesaid; Provided, that the County
Board of Education shall determine the number of days in each
year in which said County Commissioner may labor in the per
formance of the duties required of him.
Reports of teachers.
Sec. 34. That it shall be the duty of the teachers to make
and file with the County Commissioners, at the expiration of
each term of school, a full and complete report of the whole
number of scholars admitted to the school during said term,
distinguishing between males and females and colored and
white, together with the names thereof and the entire and the
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average attendance, the branches taught, the number of pupils
engaged in the study of each of the said branches, and such
other statistics as he or she may be required to report by the
County Commissioner, or by the State School Commissioner, and until such report shall have been prepared, sworn to and
filed by said teacher as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for said
County Commissioner to audit the account of said teacher for
his or her services.
Sec. -is. That each and every lot or parcel of land which Exemption
uhas been
or may be
hereafter obtained
by purchase,
or
m.
any
of school property
other way^by any County Board of Education for the use of tion.
common schools, together with any school building that may
have been or shall be erected thereon, and all school furniture, shall be exempt from all taxes, State and county, and from levy
and sale under any execution or other writ or order in the nature of an execution; Provided, that the lot of land so exempted shall not exceed four acres, and if there be any excess
over that number of acres, then that portion, not to exceed four
acres, most convenient for school purposes shall be exempt as
aforesaid, the exempted portion to be set off by order of the
County Board. Sec. 36. That admission to all common schools of this State Admission
shall be gratuitous to all the children between the ages of six to ail chii-
, .,
. ,.
.,
.
.
.
, . , , dren oi
and eighteen years residing in the sub-districts m which the school age.
schools are located; Prmnded, that colored and white children Separate
shall not attend the same school; and no teacher receiving or white and
teaching white and colored pupils in the same school shall be
allowed any compensation at all out of the Common School
Fund. In special cases, to meet the obvious demands of con- Pupils venience, children residing in one sub-district may, by express sub-district
permission of the County Board, attend the common schools of line, another sub-district; and when a common school is located near
a county line, children from the adjoining county, in cases
where convenience requires, may, by concurrent consent of the
County Boards of the respective counties, be permitted to attend
the school, and in such cases, the teacher shall make out two
accounts for his services, one against each County Board, in
amount proportioned to the number of children in the school from the respective counties.
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Manual la- Sec. -jv. That the County Board of Education shall have
bor schools.
..
power to organize in each county one or more manual labor
schools on such a plan as shall be self-sustaining; Provided,
that the plan be first submitted to and approved by the State
Board of Education.
Evening
Sec. 38. That the Board of Education of any county shall
have the power to establish, at such places as they may deem
proper, within the limits of their jurisdiction, a suitable number
of evening schools for the instruction of such youth over twelve
years of age as are prevented by their daily avocations from
attending day schools, subject to such regulations, not incon
sistent with the provisions of this Act and the instructions
issued under it by the State School Commissioner, as said Board,
from time to time, may adopt for the government thereof,
calendar Sec. 39. That the academic and calendar or civil years
years eo- shall be coincident, and that it shall be the duty of the State
School Commissioner, by the 15th day of January of each year,
state or as soon thereafter as practicable, to communicate to the
School
.
Commis- County Board of Education of each county an approximate
sioner's
.
...
estimate of estimate, computed upon the same basis as that mentioned in
probable school
.'
section
eight of
this Act,
of
the
pro
rata
part
of
the
State
.
School
Fund falling to said county for that year, and as soon thereafter
Board as the County Board shall communicate satisfactory evidence
must
J
t
J-
continue to the State School Commissioner that arrangements have been
through- made by them, by taxation or otherwise, for continuing the
count; for common schools, free to all, in operation for at least three
three
months, months m the year throughout the entire county, as hereinafter
provided, said county shall be deemed and held entitled to
draw her proportionate part of the State fund through the ap
pointed channels whenever said fund is ready for distribution.
Forfeiture Sec. 40. That whenever a County Board of Education, or fund. Board of Education of any City, shall hereafter fail in any year
relieved to make arrangements to put schools in operation, said county agamst. Qr cjty, as tpe case may be, shall forfeit all right to participation
in the school fund of that year, unless the failure to arrange
for schools was from providential cause, or other good and
sufficient reason, the sufficiency of the reason to be judged of
by the State Board of Education.
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Sec. 41. That any county or city, which has failed to put forfeiture schools in operation in any past year, and has never received years, its pro rata part of the State School Fund for that year, shall still be entitled to receive through the properly constituted authorities of the county or city that pro rata; Provided, that the County School Commissioner of such county shall receive no compensation from the school fund of said county for such year, except for services rendered in taking the enumeration of the school population.
Sec. 42. That the apportionment of the State School Fund Date of aprequired by the eighth section of this Act shall be made by the ment. State School Commissioner each year by the first of July, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and when the funds drawn under that apportionment, as well as any other school funds raised by local taxation, are placed in the hands of any County Com missioner, he shall be holden for all amounts so received upon niubiiity of his official bond as treasurer, and shall disburse the same only Schoof
upon the order of the County Board of Education, and the sioner for said County Commissioner shall not be entitled to compensation fumis. for receiving any school funds but as provided herein.
Sec. 43.' That for the support and maintenance of the com-sources mon schools of this State the poll tax, special tax on shows and fund?001
exhibitions, all taxes on the sale of spirituous and malt liquors, dividends upon the stock of the State in the Bank of the State of Georgia, Bank of Augusta, Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and such other means or moneys as now belong by law to the Common School Fund, one-half of the proceeds of the rental of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, or one-half the annual net earnings of said railroad as ascertained by sub tracting the annual cost of running and keeping up the road from the annual gross receipts under any change of policy which the State may adopt hereafter in reference to said rail road; all endowments, devises, gifts and bequests made, or hereafter to be made, to the State or State Board of Education; the proceeds of any commutation tax for military service; all taxes which may be assessed on such domestic animals as from their nature and habits are destructive to other property ; all money received by the Agricultural Department of this State for the inspections of oils and fertilizers in excess of what may
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be necessary to defray the expenses of said Agricultural De
partment ; the net amount arising from the hire of convicts of
this State, after all expenses that are now or may hereafter be
made a charge upon said fund shall have been deducted from
the gross amount thereof; any educational fund now belonging
to the State (except the endowment of and debt due to the
University of Georgia), and such other sums of money as the
Legislature shall raise by taxation or otherwise from time to
time for educational purposes, are hereby declared to be a
common school fund, and when said common school fund shall
be received and receipted for, from whatever source received,
it shall be the duty of the officer authorized by law to receive,
such fund to keep the same separate and distinct from other
funds, and said fund shall be used for educational purposes
and none other and shall not be invested in bonds of this State,
or in other stock, except when investment is necessary to carry
out the conditions of an endowment, devise, gift or bequest,
and when taxes are paid into the treasury of the State, the
Comptroller General shall in no case receipt a Tax Collector
for the same until that part of the tax so paid in, which was
raised for school purposes, is separated in amount from the
gross amount paid in.
Poll tax.
Sec. 44. That all poll tax collected in this State shall, from
and alter the passage of this Act, be paid over to the County
School Commissioners of the several counties of this State, and
Ketained be by the County Boards of Education in the several counties
in the
counties. of this State paid out, without any deduction for fees or salaries
of officers, to the support of the common schools in the respec
tive counties where said poll tax was raised ; that when the Tax
Fi. fas. for Collector of each county makes out ' fi. fas. for unpaid taxes, it shall
poll tax.
be his duty to make out separate fi. fas. for poll tax against each
defaulter, specifying in each fi. fa. that it is for poll tax for that
year, and shall at once turn them over to the County School Commis
sioner of his county, taking his receipt therefor, and shall at the same
time furnish the President of the County Board of Education with a
How col list of thefi. fas. so turned over. The County School Commissioner
lected.
shad be charged with the collection thereof, and to this end may place
saidfi. fas. in the hands of such constables of his county as he may
"'Repealed by Act of December 13, 1888, which see.
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deem proper, who shall collect the amounts due thereon in the same manner now prescribed by law for the collection of the State and county taxes. The constables, for collecting such fi. fas., shall receive the fees now allowed by law; but the Connty School Commissioners shall not receive any extra compensation for their services in superin tending and attending to the collection of such fi. fas. When such fi. fas. have been paid off or satisfied, they shall at once be returned to the Tax Collector.)
Sec. 45. That County School Commissioners and members school offlof the County Boards of Education shall be empowered and thorked to authorized to administer such oaths as may be necessary in oathsniSter transacting school business, or in conducting investigations before the County Boards when sitting as judicial tribunals for determining controversies arising under school laws.
Sec. 46. Thatit shall be the duty of the County School Com- Report and missioner of each of the counties of this State to make a report ^^nty of the school operations of the preceding year to the Grand CommisJTury, at t,he spri ng term ofr th, e court, and to place his books smioitnteerd stuobbefore them for examination; and in making up the general Jury, presentments, it shall be the duty of the Jury to take proper notice of the matters thus brought to their attention.
Sec. 47. That it shall be the duty of the County and City EnumeraBoards of Education of this State to cause an enumeration of the schoof popchildren between six and eighteen years of age to be madeulatl0nunder instructions from the State School Commissioner, in the year 1888, and every ten years thereafter, as hereinafter prescribed. In the year 1893 and every ten years thereafter it shall be the duty of the State Board of Education, in the early part of the year, to have an estimate made from the last census, taken Estimate by the authority of the United States, of the number of children of census.' school age in each county of the State, and in each town or city under a local school law, and if, from the evidence thus obtained, or from other evidence of any kind, the said Board shall .become satisfied that a new enumeration of the school population ought to be taken for any county or counties, or for any town or city, or for the entire State, it shall be their duty to order the said enumeration to be taken accordingly.
Sec. 48. The different County or City Boards shall employ one or more competent, reliable persons to take the enumera-
Enunera- tion above mentioned in their respective jurisdictions, and the
school person so employed shall go from house to house, making a
thorough canvas of the territory assigned them, taking the num
ber of children between the ages of six and eighteen years, and
distinguishing between the sexes and races. The persons thus
Their employed shall be known as enumerators of the school census,
and shall take and report any additional statistics required by
the State S'hool Commissioner. They shall receive as compen sation a per diem not to exceed two dollars in the counties, or
Compensa- two dollars in the cities, or in city and county where
the same are under local laws, to be paid out of the
school fund of the jurisdiction in which the work is done.
Oath. They shall, moreover, be required to make oath that the
work done by them has been carefully and faithfully done
according to the true intent and meaning of tl*is Act, the form
of oath to be prescribed by the State School Commissioner; Provided, that nothing uerein contained shall be construed to
prevent the County Boards from employing the County School
Commissioners to do the work contemplated in this section,
state Board Sec. 49. The State Board of Education is hereby empow-
nev/emva ered to order at once a new enumeration when they are in
meration. ^oukt as t0
aC(;uraCy 0f the return made from any county
or city; but the enumerators first making their returns shall
receive no compensation in case it is found their enumeration
was not correct. In case their enumeration is verified by the
second enumeration, then both shall be paid, but the amount
paid them shall be deducted from the school fund appropriated
to this special territory.
tfonofemi- ^Ec- 50,
respective County or City Boards are hereby
merators. empowered to fix, within the limits prescribed above, the per
diem compensation of the enumerators of the school census em
ployed by them.
Longterm sEC cj. That whenever the Board of Education of any
schools.
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county within the State shall have entered into a contract with
a teacher to teach a common school in any sub-district within
its jurisdiction in accordance with this Act, it shall be lawful
for said teacher to enter into a supplemental contract with the
patrons of said school to teach a private elementary school in
connection with said common school, and to embrace the
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period allowed by law for the said public term: Provided, that Their es
tablish
the contracting with teachers under the provisions of this Act ment left to
the discre
shall be left to the discretion of the several County Boards of tion of
Boards.
Education.
Sec. 52. That upon said private supplemental contract being Contract
examined and
approved by
the
Board
of
Education
of
the
with patrons
to
county in which said school is located, it shall be
the
duty
of
be ed
approv by
said teacher to enter, as pupils in said private school, all schol Board.
ars of common school age (regard being had to separate schools,
as now required by law) who may enter said school at any time
within the term or scholastic year of said private school. It 1`upils may
shall
be
the
duty
of
said
teacher
to
keep
an
accurate
account
of
attend dur ing the pri
the number of such pupils and
the
number
of
days
actually
vate part of the term.
attended by each pupil, and when said private school shall
have closed, said teacher may make out an account against the
County Board of Education for the full number of days each of
said pupils may have attended said schools, not to exceed the
whole number of days now or hereafter to be prescribed by
law; Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed
as to prevent any common school scholar from entering said
school as pupil, if the parent or guardian of said pupil shall
elect to enter him or her for the period of the public term and
upon the merits of the common school fund only.
That no teacher shall be contracted with under the provisions Teachers
must hold
of this Act until he or she has been duly licensed as a common license.
schoolteacher ; that every teacher contracted with under the pro
visions of this Act shall be required to make the same reports and Must make
reports.
returns to the County School Commissioners as are now re
quired of teachers of common schools in this State, and until
said private schools shall have beer taught according to contract,
and said reports and returns are so made, it shall not be lawful for
the Board of Education to pay him or her for such services as
such teacher.
Sec. 53. That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as Local
school
to prevent any city with a population greater than two thousand systems.
inhabitants, or any county or town under authority of the
General Assembly of this State, from organizing a public school
system independent of this system, or to prevent the said inde
pendent organization from drawing its pro rata share of all
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educational funds raised by the State; Provided, the chief executive officer of such independent organization shall make the same regular reports to the State School Commissioner as are required from the County Commissioners by this Act; Provided further, that nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to annul or repeal any local law now of force in any city or county in this State providing for the organization and maintenance of the common or public schools in such city or county. Repealing Sec. 54. That the Public School Act, approved August clause. 23d, 1872, and the various Acts amendatory thereof, and all and every other law inconsistent or conflicting with the provis ions of this Act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.
Approved October 27, 1887.
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AN ACT
To amend section 44 of an Act to amend, revise and consoli date the common school laws of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes, approved October 27, 1887, by striking all of said section after the words "was raised" in the 7 th line of said section.
Section i. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 44 of the Act to amend, revise and consolidate the common school laws of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes, approved October 27, 1887, be and the same is hereby amended by striking all of said sec tion after the words "was raised" in the seventh line of said section; so that said section, when amended, shall read as fol lows : "That all poll tax collected in this State, shall, from and after the passage of this Act, be paid over to the County School Commissioners of the several counties of this State and be, by the County Boards of Education, in the several counties of this State, paid out without any deduction for fees or salaries of officers, to the support of the common schools in the respec tive counties where said poll tax was raised."*
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are here repealed.
Approved December 13, 1888. *Note.--The State Board of Education, under the language above, have held " that Tax Collectors should jiay over to the County School Commissioners only the net poll tax collected by them."
The General Appropriation Act, approved Dec., 26, 1888, after making certain appropriations to the State University, the School of Technology and the Branch Colleges at Dahlone ga, Milledgeville, Thomasville and Cuthbert, and a conditional appropriation to the Atlanta University, contains the following:
"For the support of the common schools for the year 1889, one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars; for the support of the common schools for the year 1890, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars; these sums to be drawn and expended under the general school laws of this State and to be additional to the moneys already belonging to the common school fund under existing laws. Should the returns of taxable property
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for the year 1889 and for the year 1890 prove to be greater than three hundred and sixty million dollars ($360,000,000) then and in that case the sums arising from the general tax levy of two and seventy hundredths (2-70-100) mills for 1889, and from the general tax levy of two and forty hundredths ( 2-40-100 ) mills for 1890, upon said returns of taxable property in excess of three hundred and sixty millions dollars ($360,000,000) is hereby appropriated to the common school fund of the State in addition to the one mill appropriated to the common school fund by this Act for the year 1889, and in addition to the moneys appropriated by existing laws to the common school fund."
Section 1st of the General Tax Act, approved December 26, 1888, after the enacting clause, reads as follows:
"That the Governor be authorized and impowered, with the assistance of the Comptroller-General, to assess and levy a tax on the taxable property of this State of two and seven-tenths mills per centum for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightynine and two and four-tenths mills per centum for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety ; and the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and empowered by and with the assis tance of the Comptroller-General to assess and levy, in addition to the foregoing general State tax, a tax of one-half of a mill for the year 1889, and a tax of one mill for the year 1890, on all of the taxable property of this State, for the purpose of raising the funds necessary to meet the appropriations by this General Assembly for educational purposes in instructing children in the elementary branches of an English edcucation only."
OTHER SCHOOL LEGISLATION.
Under the above heading there was printed with the former edition of the Act of Oct., 27, 1887, the following:
"In 1886 there was issued from this office a ^ery complete edition of the Public School Laws of the State of Georgia of general operation and then of force throughout the State. The only Act herein contained is the one passed at the late session of the General Assembly, the title of which indicates that it was
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designed not only to amend, but to codify existing laws. In a circular letter, bearing date Nov. 4, 1887, I have carefully pointed out the changes made by the new law, and it is un necessary to repeat anything contained in that communication. In the edition of the la"'s published by me in 1886 there was careful reference to many Acts, both general and special, in cluding both those of force and those repealed or otherwise not of force. It was intended to cover in that pamphlet all Public School legislation, by giving the text in full of general laws of force, and by citing all other Acts, so that any one interested in them might readily find them. I shall continue the work thus begun, herein naming all legislation effected by the present Legislature.
"First. I shall make reference to the action which appears in the laws of 1886, a volume comprising the legislation of the first or winter session of the body just named.
"Acts were passed authorizing a system of Public Schools for the City of Carrollton [Laws of 1886, p. 306]. and for the City of Newnan [same, p. 312]. Both these acts were ratified at the polls and are of force. An Act amendatory of the Chat ham County law was passed [Laws of 1886, p. 309] and a short law for Gordon County[same, p. 311], which are likewise of force.
"An Act to provide School Buildings for the City of Greens boro [Laws of 1886, p. 244] and a somewhat similar Act for Fort Valley [same, page 256] were dependent for ratification on a vote of the people. I have not been informed as to the result of the vote.
"An act to authorize the extension of the corporate limits of Columbus [Laws of 1886, p. 249], contained in the 4th section thereof certain enactments relative to the provision to be made for Public Schools in the added territory. This Act was like wise dependent for ratification on a popular vote. 1 am unable to give any further information about it.
"The Acts of the summer session of the Legislature of 1886 and 1887 are not yet published. Hence I cannot refer to the page and volume where those herein referred to will be found.
"Acts were passed authorizing Public Schools for the follow ing places: Cedartown, Covington, Washington and Waycross.
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The Act already of force for Athens was amended, as were the Acts fof Newnan and for Sandersville.
"An Act for Milledgeville authorizing a local tax for the support of the Middle Georgia Military and Agricultural College, and for the support of the Eddy School, and an Act authorizing a local tax for school purposes for the town of Millen, are also among the laws of the summer session. The Mayor and Council of Dublin were authorized to appropriate money arising from liquor licenses to the school in that town.
"Three acts were passed for selling certain school property in the town of Elberton and for the building of new school houses. An Act somewhat similar was passed for the town of Franklin, Heard county.
" There was also an Act for building school-houses in the City of Eatonton.
" Another Act for extending the limits of the City of Colum bus contained provisions in its 4th section relative to Public schools in the annexed district. The town Commons of this city are one source of school revenue and an Act was passed relative to said Commons, which it is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention in this connection. An Act amending the charier of Griffin names a limit for taxes in said city and designates the sum to be raised for different purposes, among them being the amount to be raised for schools.
"Under an Act for that purpose, the Board of Education of Upson county are to use the Starr school of Thomaston for furnishing common school privileges to colored children under certain limitations and restrictions named in the Act.
" An Act for Telfair county provides that the Ordinary shall sell all insolvent tax fi. fas. belonging to the county, and turn overthe net proceeds to the County School Commissioner.
" There was passed a resolution for the destruction of certain unissued bonds, prepared under "the Act of 1872" and under " the Act of 1868." The bonds in question were deposited in the treasury to replace school moneys diverted to other uses, said diversion occurring under the Act of July 28, 1870. Under all the circumstances, their destruction was proper.
" A resolution was passed, the effect of which is to suspend the appropriation to the Atlanta University until such time as
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the authorities of that institution shall cease to teach white children therein.
" It only remains to be mentioned that an Act was passed with the following title: "An Act to make County Commis sioners, Tax Receivers, Tax Collectors, Members of the County Board of Education, County School Commissioners, Ordinaries and County Treasurers incompetent to serve as Grand Jurors during their terms of office, and for other purposes." The whole scope of the Act is shown in the title.
" As is well known, many of the foregoing local bills depend for their validity on ratification at the polls. Some of them are to be submitted to the people, although no constitutional require ment in their cases demands it. I leave those intereststed to ascertain, each for himself, which of the foregoing is of force and which inoperative. In conclusion, I would say that I may have made reference to legislation not properly common school legislation, or related thereto. If so, no harm is done. My effort is to be sure to include all that is germain to the sub ject just named, and I may include more in attempting to fully carry out this purpose."
To the above it is only necessary to add the following list of Acts passed at the late session of the General Assembly. These Acts were as follows :
"AN ACT
"To authorize the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Greensboro to call an election in said city to determine the question of issuing bonds for the purpose of constructing and furnishing a school house for the whites and also one for the colored people; to purchase suitable real estate for such house or houses; to provide for the payment of the principal and interest accruing on said bonds by local taxation; to provide for the proper division of the fund raised by the sale of said bonds between said schools, and also for the proper disburse ment and custody of the fund raised, and to repeal the Act with reference to the same subject, approved December 24,
1886." Approved December r2, 1888.
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"AN ACT
"To amend the charter of the City of Cartersville, so as to authorize the Mayor and Aldermen to establish a system of public schools, and to provide revenue for the support of the same, add to authorize the County School Commissioner of Bartow county to pay over to the corporate authorites of said city, for the use of said public schools, such part of the State school fund as may be their just/n? rata share thereof, and for other purposes herein mentioned."
Approved December 24, 1888.
"AN ACT
` ` To amend an Act to establish a system of public free schools in Athens, Georgia, approved October 15, 1885, and the Act amendatory thereof, approved October 24, 1887, so as to change the term of office of the members of the Board of Education of Athens, Georgia, to fix the term of office of the present members, to vest the election of said Board in the Mayor and Council of the city of Athens, to confer additional powers*upon said Board of Education, and for other purposes."
Approved December 24, 1888.
AN ACT
"To'amend an Act entitled `An Act to establish a system of public schools for the City of Carrollton in Carroll County, to provide for the maintenance and support of the same, to create a Board of School Commissioners, and for other purposes;' ap proved Nov. 26, 1886, so as to provide for increasing the entrance fee for ahe admission of scholars into the schools and to vest in the School Commissioners discretion to admit indi gent children to the schools on such terms as they may pre scribe ; and also to provide for the admission of non-resident pupils whose parents or who themselves pay tax within the town, by allowing them a reduction for the tax so paid, and for other purposes."
Approved Dec. 24, 1888.
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"AN ACT '
To authorize the Grand Jury at each of the spring terms of the Superior Court of Whitfield county in each and every year to levy and assess a tax not to exceed one and one-half tenths of one per cent upon all of the taxable property of Whitfield county in aid of and supplementary to the present fund now received by said county for common school purposes, and for other purposes."
Approved Dec. 24, 1888.
"AN ACT
To amend an Act entitled `An Act to regulate public instruc tion in the county of Richmond,' approved Aug. 23, 1872, by providing for the election of three trustees from the fifth ward in the City of Augusta, who shall be members of the County Board of Education."
Approved Dec. 24, 1888.
"AN ACT
To establish a system of public schools in the City of Talla poosa, and provide for the maintenance and support of the same."
Approved Dec. 26, 1888.
Section 23 of the new charter of Tallapoosa, approved Decem ber 26, 1888, gives the taxing power for school purposes.
"AN ACT
"To amend an Act establishing a system of public schools for the town of Waycross, approved October 22, 1887, by pro viding for a Board of Education for said town, and prescribing their powers and duties, and to repeal all of said Act conferring power upon the Mayor and Council of said town ; to regulate and control said public school system except the power to levy and collect taxes for the support thereof; to fix the limit of tax ation at one-fourth of one per cent., and the admission fee at four dollars per annum for each child payable quarterly, and to
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provide for a re-submmission of the Act creating said public school system, as amended, to the qualified voters of said town for their approval."
Approved December 26, 1888.
"AN'ACT
" To amend an Act entitled ` An Act to change and regulate the school system in the counties of Ware, Echols, Lowndes, Berrien, Charlton, Dodge and Clinch,' approved by the Gov ernor February 15, 1877, in so far as it relates to the county of Ware."
Approved December 26, r888.
"AN ACT
" To establish a system of public schools in the town of Quitman, Georgia; to provide for raising revenue to maintain said schools; to authorize the County School Commissioner of Brooks county to pay over to the Board of Education of said public schools such part of the State school fund as may be their just/rc> rata share thereof."
Approved December 26, 1888.
Points of Difference Between the Law as it Now Stands and as it Stood Prior to the
, . Act of October 27 1887
The circular of Nov. 4, 1887, issued under the administra tion of the late Dr. Orr, contained, among other matters, the following:
" At the session of the Legislature which closed on the 20th of October last, a number of important school measures were acted upon of which it is proper that some account should be given. With the single exception of an Act which disqualifies members of the Board of Education, County School Commission ers and some others from serving on Grand Juries, but one bill of general operation, in which, the school officers and teachers are interested, was passed. This was entitled ` An Act to amend, revise and consolidate the common school laws of
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the State of Georgia, and for other purposes,' and was approved on the 27th ult. This bill was the result of the labors of a special committee of the House of Representatives, raised at the winter session in 1886, and was introduced into the House by the Chairman of that Committee, Mr. Denny, of Floyd. After being amended in certain particulars, it passed both Houses of the General Assembly, and receiving the Governor's signature, it became a law as above stated. It is my purpose to follow the custom so long in force and to print this Act for the use of school officers and others at a very early day. It would, how ever, be of the utmost convenience, to those just named, on ac count of their familiarity with former statutes, to have pointed out the chief points of difference between the law as it now stands and as it stood prior to this Act. Hence, I have decided to render this service in the present circular. It would be well for those who receive it to preserve it after reading it in order that it may be again read with the new law in hand, for I shall send copies of the latter to most of those who receive this circu lar. If I have failed to point out any material change or have fallen into any inaccuracy, I shall be more than thankful to have my attention called to the matter. There are very many changes made in the language of the old law and a number of changes in the order or arrangement of sentences and sections. Many of the former are purely verbal changes, and it is hardly necessary to note any of the latter. There are also a num ber of changes from the language of the general school law of August 23, 1872, which are simply the result of codifi cation, the altered parts having been repealed or added to or otherwise modified by legislation, constitutional or statutory, anterior to the late Act. I shall note some changes, perhaps, which are no real alterations, but I shall endeavor to mention all which in any material degree change the law. I shall follow no fixed order in enumerating the changes, but shall follow more nearly than any other the numerical order of the sections of the new law.
" I would remark that the Act is preceded by a preamble which declares that ` amendment, revision and consolidation of the present existing common school laws of Georgia are advisa ble and necessary.'
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` ` Throughout the entire Act the schools are described by the term ` common ' where they were formerly called ` public.' In some instances both adjectives are used.
" Under section 8 the apportionment of the school fund no longer has to be laid before the Governor. Time has effected a change in the provision of the old law for including Confeder ate soldiers under thirty years of age in the school population and the change thus made is recognized in the Act by omitting them from its provisions.
" Section 13 omits the provision of the old law which made the State School Commissioner pay his own board and hotel bills when traveling on official business.
" Section 16 follows the old law which made publishers, their Agents or those otherwise interested pecuniarily in the sale of school books, ineligible to membership on the Board, and goes farther and imposes the same disqualification on County School Commissioners.
` ` The old law declared that the Secretary of the Board should be ex-officio County School Commissioner. Section 18 of the new law puts it the other way and makes the County School Commissioner ex-officio Secretary.
"The new law, in section 19, re-enacts exemption for the members of the Board from road, jury and militia duty. These exemptions are thus again put upon unassailable grounds. It was doubtful as to what rights mempers of the Board enjoyed in this matter, as so many Acts have been passed on this subject since the original school law. The same section omits the re striction placed by the old law upon the length of the regular sessions of the Board, and it also omits the reference to called meetings of the Board, which the old law contained. In section 20 of the old law there was another reference to a catted meeting of the Board, but no similar reference occurs in the new law.
"Section 20 of the new law makes some change in the law as it stood. Under it one school must be established in every sub-district for white pupils and one for colored pupils, `where the population of the two races is sufficient,' and no additional school can be established in the sub-district without an enroll ment therein of not less than twenty-five pupils. The schools must be as near `the center of the sub-school districts as can
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be conveniently arranged, reference being had to any school house already erected and population of said sub-school district and to the location of white and colored schools with regard to contiguity.' The power to change district lines remains intact.
"Section 21 refers to a tax to be levied on property for the erection of school-houses. The old law made a similar refer ence to a tax for this purpose `as hereinafter provided,' but no provision was thereinafter' made. These words are changed in the new law to `as may be hereafter provided.'
"Section 23 of the new law relates to the adoption of text books, and provides that there shall be no change in the books adopted, for a term of five years, save by a three-fourths vote of all the Board. This would require the concurrence of four members. Should a teacher allow a pupil to use any other than the prescribed books, he cannot receive pay from the public fund for that pupil. By section 32 it is made the duty of the County School Commissioner to see that none but the pre scribed text-books are used by pupils.
"Section 24 provides for the election of the County School Commissioner `who shall be ex-officio County Superintendent of Common Schools.' He is to be chosen from among the citi zens of the county. The old law provided that he might be chosen from among the members of the Board, or from among the citizens of the county. *11 does not seem clear whether the change is more apparent than real. On this point I will here after have more to say. Applicants for this office must submit to an examination by the President of the Board, or by some one appointed by him, or by the Board for that purpose. This examination is by means of questions furnished by the State School Commissioner and is on the subjects taught in the com mon schools, `upon the science and theory of common school teaching and government, and upon such other subjects as the State School Commissioner may deem proper.' `The said County Board of Education shall then elect such applicant County School Commissioner, who has stood satisfactory ex amination, taking into consideration the moral character, bus iness qualifications and general availability of each applicant.'
"Section 25 enacts that the County School Commissioner
'i'See.flna] note.
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shall take ` the same oath required of the other officers of this State.' This is new in the school law, but it was already a requirement by the general laws of the State. The next section provides for the removal from office of the County School Com missioner for the same reasons as heretofore (a slight change in the grounds is to be mentioned), but by the Board instead of by the Judge of the Superior Court and the Grand Jury. There is an appeal from the Board to the State School Commissioner, and from the State School Commissioner to the State Board of Education. The change in grounds of removal alluded to above is the omission of the word ` general ' before the words ` neglect of duty.'
" Section 27 provides that when a vacancy occurs in the office of County School Commissioner, there shall be an examination and election to fill the unexpired term under like regulations as heretofore mentioned.
"Sections 28 and 29 relate to the examination of teachers. A new branch is added to those formerly examined upon, viz : `The science and practice of teaching in common schools,' and the questions are to be prepared and furnished to the. County School Commissioners by the State School Commis sioner. He also instructs as to the grading of applicants, and fixes ` the lowest standard for each class of licenses. ' County School Commissioners grade the applicants according to the State School Commissioner's instructions and submit to the Board a written report and recommendation. The Board licenses, provided the applicants obtain the lowest marked fixed for the several grades by the State School Commissioner. Ev idence of good moral character is required to be submitted in writing. Fourth grade licenses are abolished. The act requires the State School Commissioner to fix a ` day or days ' for the examination of all teachers throughout the State. The County School Commissioner is to give notice of the day (not days) on which examinations are to be had. No teacher can be exam ined at any other time except on affidavit that ` he or she was providentially hindered from being present on the general examination day or days, and has not seen or been informed of the contents of the general question papers.' Section 30 pro vides that papers of unusual merit may be forwarded to the State
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School Commissioner, with an endorsement by the County School Commissioner of the author's good moral and profes sional character. Upon these papers the State School Commis sioner may issue a permanent State license, revocable for `good and sufficient cause' by him only.
"The County School Commissioner is required by section 32 to visit the schools at least once during the term, or twice if practicable, and oftener if ordered by the Board, ` and without notice to the teachers. '
Section 36 adds to the inhibition on the subject in the old law these words, ` and no teacher receiving or teaching white and colored pupils in the same school shall be allowed any compensation at all out of the common school fund.'
"Section 39 of the new law takes the place, with some changes, of the section in the old law known as 28, and section 29 of the old law is entirely omitted. The effect of changes thus made is to abolish what were called in the old law Ambu latory schools.' There can now be no such thing as a twomonths' school in any locality.
" Section 43 adds to the sources of the school fund the net proceeds of the inspection of oils. There are no net proceeds, as the entire fees go to the inspectors."
The circular here points out the change relative to poll tax ft. fas. This is no longer a change, as this provision has been repealed.
*" There are some changes in the wording of section 53, which relates to systems under local laws, but it is not clear that' these are material.
"Section 54 is the final section. It repeals the Act of August 23, 1872, (heretofore known as `the General School Law), `the various Acts amendatory thereof, and all and every other law inconsistent or conflicting with the provisions of this Act.' The new law nowhere contains the provisions of Act of February 22, rSyy, commonly known as the Trustee law. So much of that law as made it optional with the Boards to have the County School Commissioner visit the schools is clearly repealed. * Whether the entire law is repealed is not so clear to my mind. The same doubt exists as to the Act of September
* See final note.
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27, i88i, authorizing compulsory vaccination. I hardly think the Act of October 16, 1885, on the subject of industrial educa tion in cities and counties under local laws, is effected by the repealing^ clause of this Act. Whatever may be the proper construction of the repealing clause, it is clear that there is a question as to whether the two Acts first above mentioned are not still in force."
'"Note.--It might be well to mention that the Trustee law has been decided to be repealed and the other Acts named, to be in force, as will fully appear from a cir cular issued from this office January 10,1888, and embodied in the report of the State School Commissioner to the General Assembly, submitted in November, 1888. The same circular shows that the question of the eligibility of a member of the Boa'd of Education has been decided, and that this decission has settled the ques tion in. the negative. In this connection, it may be stated that I have recently reached the conclusion, that the local Act for Berrien, Charlton, Clinch, Dodge, Echols, Lowndes and Ware was repealed by the General school law of 1887. My attention, had not been called to the matter distinctly until recently, and while I am now satisfied the local Act is repealed, yet I did not reach that conclu sion without difficulty and some doubt, and in my letter to the Hon. A. G. Gowen, Senator, from the 4th District, who addressed me on the subject, and a subsequent one to N. N. Mizell, President of the Board of Education of Charlton county, I asked that my decision be appealed from at once, so if wrong, I might be set right by the State Board of Education. I here repeat that I hope this will be done. I will mention that as to the counties of Dodge and Lowndes, this Act had already by special Acts, been repealed. It is proper to state, however, that the recent ses sion of the General Assembly amended the Act as to Ware. When this amendment was made, I have no knowledge that the question of the repeal of the entire Act was brought to the attention of the Legislature.--Jas. S. Hook, S. S. Com,r.
INDEX.
The School Law of Georgia will be found bound with this Report. It is not index ed, as the marginal notes afford a means of finding the law on any given point. The figures refer to the page in the body of the Report--the Roman numerals to the page in the Appendix.
Average attendance in public schools:
pags
Table showing the same, and increase thereof from year to year . . 4
Table referred to............................................................................ 25
Per capita on, of school fund of 1887 ................................................7
Statistics of....................... .................... YI, XY, LXIV, LXXIII Blair Bill:
Referred to...................................................................................... 40
Bleckley, Chief Justice Logan E.:
Lectures at the Institute................ . .-.................................. 39
Bonds under Act of 1858:
Claimed for educational purposes............................................ 21, 23
Bowen, Miss Eliza A.:
Lectures in Institute......................................................................38
Branham, Mr. A. I.:
,
Referred to...................................................................................... 50
Brown, Gov. Joseph E.:
Quoted............................................................................................. 16 Butler, D. E. :
On com., whose report is quoted...............................................14, 15
Chappell, Thos. J.:
On committee to select Peabody scholarship students ...... 46
Church, Dr. Alonzo:
Member ot com. in '61, to address people of Ga. on com. schools . 16, 20
Clifton, Dr. L. B.:
Lectures in Institute............................................................................................ 38
Cohen, Solomon :
On com., whose report is quoted............................................................14, 16
Colleges and Universities:
Statistics of.............................................................................. XXVII, XCIII
Combs, O. A.:
Selected to instruct the col'd depart't of the Insti'e in penmanship . 40
Common School System:
Arguments in support of.................................................................................. 9
Education a duty of the government.........................................................11
II
Index.
School houses should be provided....................^.......................... 11
Competent teachers should he provided.................................. ... . 11
Funds should be provided............................................................... 11
Legislative action concerning, invoked...........................................18
Longer time needed.........................................................................19
Funds necessary to maintain . . . ................................................ 19
Comptroller-General:
Report of, cited.............................................................................20
Constitution of 1877:
Quoted........................................................................... 7, 22, 24, 25
County Normal Institutes:
Referred lo............................................................................. 35
County School Commissioners:
Sum paid to......................................................................................7
Compensation should be increased with increase of fund................ 19
Meeting of, at the Institute.......................
40
N^mes and post offices of................................................... XCYI
Compensation of.......................................................... YI, LXVII
Curry, Hon. J. L. M.:
Re-elected Agent of Peabody Fund.................................. . . 45
Enrollment in Public Schools :
Table showing the same and the increase thereof from year to year . 4
Table referred to......................................................................... 25
Per centum of, in 1887 .................................................................... 5
Per capita on, of school fund of '87..........................
.. 6
Statistics of............................................ VI, XY, LXIV, LXXIII
Evans, Lawton B. :
Lectures at the Institute............................................................... 38
On committee to select scholarship students .................................. 46
Expense of Supervision :
Contingent expenses of State School Commissioner's office . . 5, 6, 7
Contingent expenses in the counties......................... X, LXVII
Sum paid.County School Commissioners.......................................... 7
Gordon, His Excellency, Governor John B. :
Letter to, from Jas. S. Hook, S. Sch'l Com'r, transmitting report. . 2
Mentioned......................................................................................... 3
Quoted.............................
17
Green, Hon. Samuel A., Gen'l Ag't pro tern. Peabody Fund:
Mentioned...............................................................................36, 37
Graham, Bothwell:
instructor in Institute..................................................................... 38
Haygood, Green B. :
On com., whose report is quoted............................................... 14, 15
Hook, James S., State School Commissioner:
Letter of, to. the Governor,transmitting report................................... 2
Appointment of. ........................................................................ 3
Index.
hi
Speech of, before the Ga. State Teachers' Association................. 26
Circular of, dated Jan. 10, 1888 ...................................................... 27
Visits of, to the counties...................................................................50
Johnson, Gov. Herschel V.:
Quoted............................................................................................. 16
Johnston, Col. R. M. :
Lectures at the Institute..................................................................38
Lane, Rev. Charles :
Lectures at the Institute..................................................................39
Lewis, Hon. David W. :
Report of, on education referred to................................................. 17
Needs of the Central office..................................................................48
Nisbet, Hon. Eugenius A. :
Presides over educational convention in Marietta in 1851............... 15
Orr, Gustavus J., LL.D., late State School Commissioner:
Remarks concerning.......................................................................... 3
Action of State Board of Education in memory of....................3, 52
Estimate by, of amount necessary to continue schools in operation
for any given number of months............................................7, 19
Referred to...................................................................................... 17
Quoted....................................................................... ...
19, 20
His claim as to bonds of 1858......................................................... 21
Quoted........................................................................................ .23
Circular of, dated Nov. 4, 1887, referred to.......................................31
Life sketch of, read at the Institute.................................................39
Quoted on the " Needs of the Central Office."................................ 48
Orr, Rev. Gustavus J., Jr. :
Reads sketch of his father, the late Dr. G. J. Orr, at the Institute . 39
Orr, E. H., Cl'k Dep't Education :
Referred to...........................................................
Oton, IVIrs. Bessie Miller :
Lectures at the Institute..................................................................39
Parker, M . L. :
Instructor in Institute..................................................................... 38
Payne, Dr. W. H. :
instructor in Institute..................................................................... 37
Work done by............................................................
Resolutions concerning.................................................................. 43
Pres. Nashville Normal College........................................ 45, 47, 48
Peabody Institute:
Account of...................................................................................... 36'
Reasons for holding at Salt Springs.................................................37
Instructors and Lecturers in............................................... 37, 38, 39
Resolutions adopted at............................................................. 41, 43
Press notices of................. ...................................................... 41, 42
50 37
IV
Index.
Journal proposed by Mr. Zettler endorsed.....................................41
Peabody Scholarships:
Appointments to, now made..........................................................45
List of appointees in 1888 ................................................... ... 46
List of appointees in 1887 ............................................................. 46
List of those admitted on State School Commissioner's certificate . 47
Pierce, Bishop Geo. P.:
Member of committee in 1851 to address people of Georgia on
common schools................................................................... 15, 20
Private Schools :
High schools reported in 1887 .......................................................8
Statistics of.......................................................... XXII, LXXVIII
Elementary schools reported in 1887 ............................................ 9
Statistics of................................. ...........................XYI, LXXXIV
Reese, Hon. David A. :
Member of committee in 1851 to address people of Georgia on
common schools.................................................................... 15, 20
Schley, Gov. :
Quoted............................................................................................. 12
Schools :
Statistics of........................................... YI, XV, LXIY, LXXIII
School Fund :
Statement of fund of 1887 ............................................................5
Statement of fund of 1888 ................................................................ 6
What the entire sum raised by the State and by cities and coun
ties under local laws pays per capita............................................ 6
What the gross State school fund pays per capita........................6
What the net State school fund pays per capita.......................... 7
Per capita on school population, on enrollment, and on average
attendance..................................................................................... 7
Estimate of amount necessary to keep public schools in operation
for any given number of months.......................................... 7, 19
Modes of increasing discussed.................................................. 20, 21
Local taxation discussed..................................................................24
Apportionment of the fund of 1887 to the several counties .... II
Apportionment of the fund of 1888 to the several counties . . . LIX
Am't of av'ge monthly cost of tuition paid by . VI, LXIV, LXXIII
Detailed statistics of...............................X, XV, LXVII, LXXIII
School Law :
The present law discussed.............................................
26
Circular of Jan. 10, 1888, construing school law, quoted in full. . . 27
Trustee law held to be repealed........................................................30
Vaccination law not repealed. . ..................................................... 30
Law for department of industrial education not repealed..............30
Member of the board of education ineligible to election to office
of county school commissioner ..................................................... 30
Index.
v
Twelve questions under the law answered....................................... 31
School Population :
Per capita on, of school fund of 1887............................................... 7
Enumeration of, by sex and race in the counties and such cities as
are under local laws......................................................... XXXYI
No. of enumerators employed..................................................XLII
No. of days occupied..................................................................XLII
Enumeration of 1888 (by race) compared with enumeration of
1882 (by race).................................................................... XLII
School population of the incorporated cities, towns and villages of
the State. . . ................................................................... XLVIII
Aggregate school population, divided into classes, with reference
to residence in city, town or country, etc., etc...................... LVIII
Slaton, Wm. P. :
Lectures at the Institute..........................
39
On committee to select scholarship stitfdents..............
. . 46
Smith, Charles H. (Bill Arp) :
Lectures at the Institute..................................................................38
Smith, Dr. H. H.:
Instructor and Lecturer in Institute........................................ 38, 39
State Board of Education :
Action of, on death of Dr. Orr.................................................. 5, 62
Members and officers of. ................................................... ... XCV
State Eoad :
Whole income from claimed............................................................20
Statistical Tables :
Referred to.............................................................................. 18, 27
1887. Table No. I.
Apportionment of school fund . *............................................ '.II
1887. Table No. II.
Consolidation of public school teachers' reports :
Part I.--Statistics of Schools.............................................. VI
Part II.--Financial statement............................................... X
1887. Table No, III.
Superintendents' reports of public schools under local laws . XY
1887. Table No. IV.
Consolidation of reports of private elementary schools .... XVI
1887. Table No. V.
Reports of private high schools.............................................. XXII
1887. Table No. VI.
Report of universities and colleges....................................XXVII
1888. Table No. I.
Return of enumeration of school population :
Part I...........................................................................XXXVI
Part II............................................................................. XLII
Part III...................................................................... XLVIII
VI
Index.
Part IV.......................................................................... LVIII
1888. Table No. II.
Apportionment of school fund................................................LIX
1888. Table No. III.
Consolidation of public school teachers' reports:
Part I.--Statistics of schools..........................................LXIV
Part II.--Financial statement.......................................LXVII
1888. Table No. IV.
Superintendents' reports of public schools under local laws. LXXIII
1888. Table No. V.
Consolidation of reports of private elementary schools . LXXVIII
1888. Table No. VI.
Report of private high schools....................................... LXXXIV
1888. Table No. VII.
Reports of universities and colleges.......................
XCIII
Tax of, l-10th ot 1 per cent., estimate of sum raised by..................... 20
Taxable Property :
Amount of...................................................................................... 20
Teachers and their qualifications........................................................ 34
Towns, Gov. :
Quoted............................................................................................ 15
Tucker, Rev. Dr. H. H. :
Preaches at the Institute.................................................................39
Walker, H. L., Pres. Col'd Teachers' Association :
Mentioned .
^.....................................................................40
Woodall, W. H. :
Instructor in Institute..................................................................... 38
Quoted . . . ..............................................................................48
Zettler, B. M.:
Instructor in Institute...................
38
Proposes to establish a journal............................................ ^ ... 41