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DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], April 19, 1864, p. 2, c. 4
Richmond County Presentments.
We, the Grand Jurors sworn, chosen and selected for the first week, April term, 1864, beg leave to submit the following presentments: . . .
The number of children returned for the county of Richmond during the past year was 2,754.
All the teachers employed in the schools of the county entitled to the benefits of the Poor School Fund have received certificates of competency in terms of the law. These teachers are subjected to certain rules, which have been devised for the government of the schools under their charge, and are held strictly accountable for every infraction brought to the notice of the Board.
On the 26th of October, 1863, the annual report for the year 1863 was sent to the Governor, in accordance with his instructions.
The pay for teachers for the latter portion of the year 1863 was eight cents per day for each scholar who actually attended the schools. This rate has been increased to ten cents per day. Taking into consideration the high prices of all articles of absolute necessity, the extreme difficulty which persons once in comfortable circumstances find in procuring the means of subsistence, the increased rate now paid is still far short of what the teachers of poor schools have a right to expect from the justice to whom is delegated the management of educational affairs. But the demands of the country, in its present emergency, upon the tax payers are so great, that it is necessary that the greatest economy should be exercised in every department of the public business. Although no taxation would be more cheerfully submitted to than that which is designed for the advantage of poor children, who can only look to wise legislation and enlarged liberality for the education their immediate relatives and friends are unable to bestow upon them, yet it is proper that the burdens to be borne by the people should be so distributed as to make them as little onerous as possible.
The condition of the schools of the county will compare favorably with that of any past period. The majority of the teachers are persons of experience in their occupation; many of them have been long engaged, and are energetic and industrious. Some difficulty has been found in relation to books, which are extremely scarce, and sold at enormously advanced prices, but it is hoped that this inconvenience will not long remain without relief. Notwithstanding the great distress existing in the country, the absorbing anxieties in relation to the struggle now progressing, and the necessity for employing all available means for its prosecution, the schools have been kept steadily in operation, and every exertion has been made to enlarge their usefulness. Recognizing, to the fullest extent, the importance of educating to the welfare and prosperity of a people who live under a republican form of government, and the controlling evils which must result from the exercise of power by the ignorant, the Board have endeavored, within the limits assigned them by the law, so to discharge the duties incident to their responsible trust as to advance the cause of knowledge.
David L. Roath, Ordinary.
Vicki Betts
DAILY CONSTITUTIONALIST [AUGUSTA, GA], April 19, 1864, p. 2, c. 4
Richmond County Presentments.
We, the Grand Jurors sworn, chosen and selected for the first week, April term, 1864, beg leave to submit the following presentments: . . .
The number of children returned for the county of Richmond during the past year was 2,754.
All the teachers employed in the schools of the county entitled to the benefits of the Poor School Fund have received certificates of competency in terms of the law. These teachers are subjected to certain rules, which have been devised for the government of the schools under their charge, and are held strictly accountable for every infraction brought to the notice of the Board.
On the 26th of October, 1863, the annual report for the year 1863 was sent to the Governor, in accordance with his instructions.
The pay for teachers for the latter portion of the year 1863 was eight cents per day for each scholar who actually attended the schools. This rate has been increased to ten cents per day. Taking into consideration the high prices of all articles of absolute necessity, the extreme difficulty which persons once in comfortable circumstances find in procuring the means of subsistence, the increased rate now paid is still far short of what the teachers of poor schools have a right to expect from the justice to whom is delegated the management of educational affairs. But the demands of the country, in its present emergency, upon the tax payers are so great, that it is necessary that the greatest economy should be exercised in every department of the public business. Although no taxation would be more cheerfully submitted to than that which is designed for the advantage of poor children, who can only look to wise legislation and enlarged liberality for the education their immediate relatives and friends are unable to bestow upon them, yet it is proper that the burdens to be borne by the people should be so distributed as to make them as little onerous as possible.
The condition of the schools of the county will compare favorably with that of any past period. The majority of the teachers are persons of experience in their occupation; many of them have been long engaged, and are energetic and industrious. Some difficulty has been found in relation to books, which are extremely scarce, and sold at enormously advanced prices, but it is hoped that this inconvenience will not long remain without relief. Notwithstanding the great distress existing in the country, the absorbing anxieties in relation to the struggle now progressing, and the necessity for employing all available means for its prosecution, the schools have been kept steadily in operation, and every exertion has been made to enlarge their usefulness. Recognizing, to the fullest extent, the importance of educating to the welfare and prosperity of a people who live under a republican form of government, and the controlling evils which must result from the exercise of power by the ignorant, the Board have endeavored, within the limits assigned them by the law, so to discharge the duties incident to their responsible trust as to advance the cause of knowledge.
David L. Roath, Ordinary.
Vicki Betts
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