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TRAVELLING EXPENSES OF THE SUPERINTENDENT

Frequent remark has been made concerning the cost of the
School system and specially the heavy expenditure tor travel-
ling expenses of the Superintendent

It is proper therefore to state that the whole annual expense
of the Superintendent's office for Fuel, Light Postage, Station-
ery, Janitor, &c., is limited to $800, including personal and
travelling expenses. During the past year the distance
travelled was over 6500 miles and the entire expenditure
less than $300.

For the ability to keep expenses within this limit, the
State is indebted to the liberality of the Rail Road Companies
and the hospitality of citizens.

PRIVATE ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS.

For the purpose of exhibiting as nearly as practicable all
the educational facilities of the State and enable the General
Assembly to form an estimate of the means provided for the.
intellectual development of all classes of children within the
State, a record is presented by Counties of the Private Schools
and Academies.

The tables which follow those showing the condition of the
Public Schools, give the number of pupils attending these
private institutions, the number of teachers employed, the
cost of tuition, and, whea practicable, the value of School
property.

Taken together with the record of Public Schools, they
present a reasonably accurate statement of all the Schools in.
Maryland.

The reports of Colleges show the facilities for higher edu-
cation presented by denominational Institutions

The labor to collect this information has been great, but is
considered well bestowed; as in no other way could the facts
be presented by which to estimate the extent of the field

which the State School system has to occupy. In some of the
counties private Schools have been discontinued for lack of
patronage, parents finding it to their interest and the good

of their children to send them to the Public Schools. By no
super criterion can the progress of the State School. system and
ha adaptability to the wants of citizens, be judged, than by
the advance it makes in placing itself where form -rly private
Schools were popular. When comfortable School houses are
erected and conveniently furnished the public Schools will
become the Schools for the entire population in the Agricul-
tural Districts and in many of the smaller towns. Already
are citizens helping, by private contributions, to build good
houses aad supplementing the salaries paid by the Boards of
School Commissioners, that well qualified teachers may be