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Letter to Editor
March 13, 1839
Danbury Times
Danbury, Fairfield County, Connecticut
What is this article about?
A letter to the editor inquires whether the Visiting Committee has fulfilled their legal duty under the 1838 law to submit semi-annual returns on common school conditions by March 20 to secure public funding. It urges the committee to act and requests insertion of a Board of Commissioners' communication from the Connecticut Common School Journal.
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COMMON SCHOOLS.
Since you thought proper to insert my first communication, I wish first to inquire—
Have the Visiting Committee attended to one duty by law assigned them, and which must be attended to within the specified time, or else our schools will not be entitled to their share of the "public money"? By a law enacted 1838, "the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools may require of the School Visitors of the several school societies, semi-annually, returns of the condition of each common school within their limits, and they shall prescribe the form of all such returns, and the time when the same shall be completed, and transmit blank copies of the same to the clerk of each school society." Now, have each of the visiting committee received from the clerk "blank copies" of the form of returns? Have they been notified by the clerk of "the time when" such form shall be completed and returned to him? Again, the law requires that "the school visitors in the several school societies shall lodge with the Clerks of their respective societies, such returns of the condition of each common school, within their limits, in such particulars, and at such times as the board of commissioners of common schools may specify and direct."
The time first specified was the 20th of Feb. ult. Were the visiting committee notified of this fact? And have they attended to the duty of filling out the blank copies of returns? If they have not, there yet is hope. The time of making those returns is extended to the 20th of March. If the visiting committee will now do their duty, we may yet obtain our part of the "public money." But if they will not, the law is specific. "The school society committee shall not certify to the comptroller of public accounts that the schools in their respective societies have been kept according to law, unless the provisions of the third and fourth sections of this act (containing the parts above cited) have been duly observed." In regard to obtaining the public money we are now at the mercy of the visiting committee. Will that committee do their duty? "A word to the wise is sufficient." And lest the visiting committee do not all take or read the "Connecticut Common School Journal," will you, Mr. Editor, insert the communication of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, contained in that Journal of March 1st?
X.
COMMON SCHOOLS.
Since you thought proper to insert my first communication, I wish first to inquire—
Have the Visiting Committee attended to one duty by law assigned them, and which must be attended to within the specified time, or else our schools will not be entitled to their share of the "public money"? By a law enacted 1838, "the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools may require of the School Visitors of the several school societies, semi-annually, returns of the condition of each common school within their limits, and they shall prescribe the form of all such returns, and the time when the same shall be completed, and transmit blank copies of the same to the clerk of each school society." Now, have each of the visiting committee received from the clerk "blank copies" of the form of returns? Have they been notified by the clerk of "the time when" such form shall be completed and returned to him? Again, the law requires that "the school visitors in the several school societies shall lodge with the Clerks of their respective societies, such returns of the condition of each common school, within their limits, in such particulars, and at such times as the board of commissioners of common schools may specify and direct."
The time first specified was the 20th of Feb. ult. Were the visiting committee notified of this fact? And have they attended to the duty of filling out the blank copies of returns? If they have not, there yet is hope. The time of making those returns is extended to the 20th of March. If the visiting committee will now do their duty, we may yet obtain our part of the "public money." But if they will not, the law is specific. "The school society committee shall not certify to the comptroller of public accounts that the schools in their respective societies have been kept according to law, unless the provisions of the third and fourth sections of this act (containing the parts above cited) have been duly observed." In regard to obtaining the public money we are now at the mercy of the visiting committee. Will that committee do their duty? "A word to the wise is sufficient." And lest the visiting committee do not all take or read the "Connecticut Common School Journal," will you, Mr. Editor, insert the communication of the Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, contained in that Journal of March 1st?
X.
What sub-type of article is it?
Informative
Persuasive
What themes does it cover?
Education
What keywords are associated?
Common Schools
Visiting Committee
School Returns
Public Money
Education Law
1838 Act
What entities or persons were involved?
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Mr. Editor
Letter to Editor Details
Author
X.
Recipient
Mr. Editor
Main Argument
the visiting committee must submit required school condition returns by march 20 under the 1838 law to secure public funding for common schools; failure will result in loss of funds.
Notable Details
References 1838 Law On Common Schools
Deadline Extension To March 20
Quotes From Law Sections 3 And 4
Mentions Connecticut Common School Journal Of March 1st