School Matters

The aDDual School Meeting of District Eleven of tbo City and Township of , n Arbor, was held at the Coürt House, „„ llonday, Sept. 7tb, at 2 o'clock, P. -r j, M. Wüeeler, Eeq., President { the Board occupied tho chair ; and the Secretary being absent Wm. C. VoorB(I3 was elected Ulerk. Tbe annual report of the Board was ubmitted from whicli wo extract the fi8cal statement: RECEtPTS. t,m bal. on hand at date of last frÜ report, 1,954 6G i. loan voted to pay bonds due February lst, 1863, 2000 00 ii Tax votcd to pay interest, due Februarylst, 1863. on bonds, 1,241 25 ii Tax voted to pay Teachers' salaries, 3,100 00 n Tax voted to complete and furnish flrst ward S. House, 2,200 00 ii Tax voted f'or f nel, repairs and Income expenses, 1.800 00 ii Tax voted to pay interest on mor taage Ut ward S. House, 90 00 ,i T'o mili tax, 2,334 36 .i primary School Fund, 965 50 .i Sale of old Academy, 1,400 00 ii Tuition fees of non-resident pupils, 852 25 ii Tuition fees of resident pupils - Languages and Drawins, 275 14 " Rent of Union School Hall, 13 00 Interest on Continental Insurance Co. Scrip. 1 50 Total receipts, 810,227 5G EXrENDITUItES. ptd Bonds due February lst, 18G3, $2,100 00 ■ Interest duo on Bouds Feb. lst, 1S63, 1,24125 i Salaries of Teachers, 7,209 00 On account of building and furnishing lst ward S. H., 4,106 67 Mortnage on lst Ward School House, 978 25 For irood and sawing same, 401 49 " For insurance on School House and Furniture, 219 80 " Furniture, repairs and incidentals, '45 78 " Care of School Houses, 436 71 Total expci.ditnres, $17,438 91 Ifavin" a balancj in the hands of th.Treasurer, of _ -- In recommending appropriations for the coming year the Board con&idered the orererowded state of our Schools, espeeially of the Grammar School, frora which all non-resident scholars had been escluded, and every seat in which was dow full though the term had been opened but a week. The Board pronounced it absolutoly necessary, in view of our fjst increasing populatioo, that further ichoolaccoramodationsbeprovided, whieh tould be done either by building more Ward School Houses, or cutting up Union School Hall - a hall kept more for ornament than use. An appropriation of $1,500 waa recommended to oonvert the hall into school rooms, and that this imouut - with the other appropriations reoomtnended - be raised by tax the prwent year. The meeting considered the recommendatioos at length, and voted the following appropriations for the present hooi year 1863-4. TO BE RAISED BY TAX ! To pay Teachers, $3275 00 '.' " interest on bonds due Feb. lst, 1864. 1171 25 " " for fuel and care of School Houses, 1,150 00 " " for furniture, repairs and incidental expenso, 436 35 Totil by tax, $6,032 60 TO BE RA1SBD BY LOAK. To pay bonds due Feb. lst, 1864, 2,200 00 " convert Union School Hall into school rooms, 1,500 00 " finish basement of lst Ward School house, 350 00 " build School House in 3d Ward, 2,000 00 Total by loana, $6,500 00 Total, $12,082 60 Loan for fiVe yearsat not exceeding seven per cent. interest. The Board reported the ttendance pon the School during the last year as 1713, and that there had been an increased regularity and punctuality of attendance gratifying to the Board. The number of persons iu the district betweeo the ages of 5 and 20, as per late census, was reported at 2055, an increase of 124 over the census of last jsar. Whilo Pcholars increase at this rte our people need not be surprisad al innual complaints at lack of room in our School buildings. Messrs. J. M. Wheeler, H. S. Frieze, nd E. W. Morgan, were re-electec Trmtees for the full term of three years. On a recent trip to Jaekson we toppedat the Hibbard House, and cao índorse Messrs Spencer & Günnison ""knowing how to keep a hotel." - They have a large run of custom and are ntitled to it. W Rev. E. O. Haven, D.D., LL.D. tbe new Presideut of the University o: Michigan, has arrived in our city, wiih 'i'family, and ia stopping at the resi deuce of Prof. Winchell. He will de'i'er an inaugural address ou the first of October, and enter actively upon the discharge of hia duties both as President nd Professor. XX We had fioe raius on Friday 'ld Saturday last, and siuce that plcasnt, summery vreathcr, just the kind to 'Oable farmers to complete their seediug, lnd barvest thcir fall crops, C2C" We wish to contract for 10 or Cords of good seasoned, hard Wood, ithor stove length or four feet long, to be dclivered imrucdiately.