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ing the Spring, Summer and Fall terms; the Winter term to
reinain as it now is; and the dividing of eleven months into
four equal school terms. The holidays to remain as they now
stand provided for, and the month of August to be set apart
for vacation.

The statistics in our Annual Report show that we have
kept open the schools the four terms without any County
levy, "except eleven hundred dollars to pay school Commis-
sioners," with a decided improvement over any former sys-
tem in this County, and with less outlay per pupil except
for books, which has been somewhat greater, but not in pro-
portion to value received. Give to our schools the means for
building good houses, and under the judicious supervision of
the State and County Boards, the second year under the State
school system, will be crowned with such results as to give
satisfaction to every unprejudiced mind that it is a wise and
judicious law. -

M. A. BOOTH,
President Board of School Commissioner.

CECIL COUNTY.

Board of School Commissioners of Cecil Co.,

December, 1866.
REV. L. VAN BOKKELEN,

State Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Dear Sir :

Having transmitted to yon on the 15th of October last, a
report of the Public Schools of this county according to the
forms supplied to me from your office, and having this day
transmitted a special report of the High School Academy
and private schools in the county, upon the blanks furnished
for that purpose, I proceed to submit a more general report
of such matters concerning the Public Schools of Cecil
County and the cause of Public Instruction, as from their
character and importance seem to require such notice. And
first with regard to the three topics suggested in your circu-
lar No. 6, dated September 24, 1866 :

HIGH SCHOOL.

1st. In reference to the first of said topics, I beg leave to
report that the High School, as organized under the former
or county system, and reported to your department in my
communication of December, 1865, was, with the consent
and approbation of the State Board, continued under its then
existing organization until the 20th of July last, when the,