Excerpt from Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, for the Year Ending July 31, 1886 About 80 per cent of the income of the Board is derived from a tax of 4 mills on real and personal property about 70 per cent of the income is paid for teachers' salaries and the running expenses of our system of public instruction are increasing annually faster than the income. Below will be found a comparative statement of the revenue received from taxes, and also a statement of the amount paid annually to teachers for the last seven years. 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.