Excerpt from Report of the State Board of Education and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction: For the School Year Ending August 31, 1876 The total amount appropriated to the support of public schools this year, exclusive of that raised for building and repairing purposes, is against last year, being a decrease of There is a decrease of in the amount received from the two mill State tax; an increase of in the town ship tax; a decrease of in the amount of interest derived from the surplus revenue, and a decrease of in the amount of district and city tax voted to pay teachers' salaries and fuel bills. The amount appropriated to the purposes of building and repairing school houses this year, is against used for these purposes last year, being a decrease of The total amount set apart for all school purposes this year is being a decrease of from the total amount of last year. 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.