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The Hillsborough Recorder
Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina
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Description of Maine's education system, including two colleges, 20-30 state-endowed academies, and common schools funded by a minimum annual tax of 40 cents per inhabitant totaling $119,384. Towns are divided into school districts with funds distributed by youth population (ages 4-21). There is one schoolhouse per 200 inhabitants (about 1500 total). Parents must provide books or pay extra. One-third of tax supports summer schools for mistresses (about $8/month) and winter schools for masters (about $20/month).
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There are in this state two colleges
and from twenty to thirty academies
endowed by the state. But the greatest
efforts are directed to the common
schools. Every town in the state is
obliged to raise an annual tax, equal
at least to forty cents on each of its
inhabitants, and according to the last
census, the aggregate of this tax for
the whole state is $119,384—equal
to the income of a capital of $1,988,
600 at the usual rates of interest.
This tax is expended in the support
of free schools; and for the purpose
of an equal participation of the benefit,
each town is by law subdivided
into convenient school districts, and
the money raised is disbursed among
them in proportion to the number of
youths between the ages of 4 and 21
years in each. There is throughout
the state, one school house for every
200 of its inhabitants, making about
1500 in the whole. Parents and
guardians are obliged to furnish those
under their care with such books as
the superintending committee shall
direct—in default of this, the books
are supplied and added to the tax of
the delinquent, if he is of ability to
pay. One third of the whole tax raised
is permitted to be expended in
supporting school mistresses. These
last usually keep school in the summer
season, and instruct those whose
labor is of little value—the masters
keep in the winter, when there is
more leisure, and larger scholars attend.
The support of summer schools
probably averages about eight dollars
per month, and that of the winter
schools, about twenty
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There are in this state two colleges and from twenty to thirty academies endowed by the state. But the greatest efforts are directed to the common schools. Every town in the state is obliged to raise an annual tax, equal at least to forty cents on each of its inhabitants, and according to the last census, the aggregate of this tax for the whole state is $119,384—equal to the income of a capital of $1,988,600 at the usual rates of interest. This tax is expended in the support of free schools; and for the purpose of an equal participation of the benefit, each town is by law subdivided into convenient school districts, and the money raised is disbursed among them in proportion to the number of youths between the ages of 4 and 21 years in each. There is throughout the state, one school house for every 200 of its inhabitants, making about 1500 in the whole. Parents and guardians are obliged to furnish those under their care with such books as the superintending committee shall direct—in default of this, the books are supplied and added to the tax of the delinquent, if he is of ability to pay. One third of the whole tax raised is permitted to be expended in supporting school mistresses. These last usually keep school in the summer season, and instruct those whose labor is of little value—the masters keep in the winter, when there is more leisure, and larger scholars attend. The support of summer schools probably averages about eight dollars per month, and that of the winter schools, about twenty