Excerpt from Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Thirty-Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board The School Fund was originally established in 1834, in part to correct this evil, and it was then provided that a just and equal distribution of the fund should be made to Boston, and the several towns and districts throughout the Commonwealth. Since that time, the length of time the schools are required to be maintained has been greatly extended, and their character improved. Within the last ten years, the amount raised by taxation has been nearly doubled, having increased from per child in 1860, to in 1870 - 71. The income of the fund, therefore, which was then distributed, bore a much larger ratio to the whole tax than at present. The Board believes that the principle suggested is a just one, and that some appreciable portion of the burden of tax ation for schools should be assessed equally upon the whole property of the Commonwealth. It is therefore recommended that a State tax of one-half of one mill be levied with the general State tax, and the proceeds be held by the treasurer for Commissioners of the School Fund, and the net proceeds of said tax, together with the income of the School Fund, be expended, three-fourths for the support of Public Schools, without a specific appropriation, as the moiety is now expended, and the remaining one-fourth for other educational purposes. This tax will yield about on the valuation of 1865, and about on a new valuation, and will give about a year to be dis tributed among the towns, and a year for other educa tional purposes. A special report will be submitted in response to a Resolve of the last General Court, to provide for the revision of the laws relating to attendance upon the Public Schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.