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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
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respect with yours, except sixteen pupils being the minimum, in
the place of fifteen.
Mode of distribution of books: Each ('commissioner is supplied
with books for his District. He supplies the demands of Teachers,
and each Teacher supplies his School. I collect from the Com-
missioners, the Commissioners from the Teacher, and the Teacher
requires the cash from the pupil.
Number of boys who attended School during the term ending
November 15th, 302.
Number of girls, 272.
Amount paid for salaries, - - - - $2, 500.00
Our income enables us to continue the Schools throughout the
scholastic year.
The System, T think, is admirable if every officer performs his
full duty. 1 am satisfied that it is a good working System, and
adapted 10 our wants.
Your Obedient Servant,
WM. R. WILMER,
President of the School Board
for Charles County.
DORCHESTER COUNTY.
THE Board of School Commissioners of Dorchester County, was
organized August 21st, and elected Mr. Robert F. Thompson, one
of the Commissioners, Secretary and Treasurer. The County was
divided into five Districts, called Commissioner Districts, and
numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and one District assigned to each one of
the Commissioners.
Some of the Schools were opened on the 1st of September, and
the others as soon as Teachers could be procured. The School
System, under the local laws establishing free schools in the Coun-
ty, was so defective as to be almost useless. The funds received
from the State Free School Fund and the County levy were not suf-
ficient to afford educational facilities to the children entitled to
instruction, and in many of the School Districts no effort had been
made to increase the fund by private donations. The Schools ill
many of the School Districts were open only three months of the
year for want of funds, No system of super vision had been adopted,
no order or system in the course of instruction, no uniformity in
text-books. The School Houses in the great majority of the Dis-
tricts were totally unfit for school work—small, badly constructed
and uncomfortable, without furniture, or any of the appliances
necessary for successful Teaching. The Board found that. the whole
educational edifice had to be reconstructed:—the foundation stone
even to be laid, and the superstructure built. The work is immense.
School Houses to build, Teachers to prepare for their duties

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