Total amount received for all school purposes from October 1, The productive principal of the Common School Fund of the State consists at this time of the following items and amounts: SCHOOL FUND PROPER, being three per cent. upon the net proceeds of the sales of the public lands in the State, one-sixth part excepted... SURPLUS REVENUE, being a portion of the money received by the State from the General Government, under an act of Congress providing for the distribution of the surplus revenue of the United States, and by act of the Legislature, March 4, 1887, made a part of the common school fund.... COLLEGE FUND, being one-sixth part of the three per cent. fund, originally required by act of Congress to be devoted to the establishment and maintenance of a State College or University... ...... .... SEMINARY FUND, being the proceeds of the sales of the "Semi- $613,862 96 885,592 82 156,613 82 59,838 72 809,899 00 TOWNSHIP FUNDS, being the net proceeds of the sale of the 16th section in each Congressional township of the State, the same having been donated to the State for common school purposes, by act of Congress, in 1818.... TOTAL COMMON SCHOOL FUND of the State, Sept. 30, 1868, as shown by the official reports of county superintendents of schools, on file in this office... 4,878,232 00 .$6,348,538 32 GENERAL STATISTICS. In the following table will be found a general summary of common school statistics for each of the two years (1867-8) embraced in this report: Whole number of white persons under twenty-one years of age in the State.... Whole number of white persons in the State, between the ages of six and twenty-one years.. Whole number of colored persons in the State under twenty-one years of age. Whole number of colored persons between the ages of six and twenty-one years.... 5,472 6,210 Whole number of graded schools in the State, as reported by county superintendents. Whole number of private schools in the State, as reported Whole number of scholars in private schools, as reported Whole number of public school houses in the State... Number of volumes bought for district libraries in each year.... Whole number of volumes in district libraries, as reported 58,518 52,251 Whole number of school districts in the State .... Number of districts in which schools have been sustained six months or more, in each year..... Number of districts in which no schools have been kept. ... Average number of months schools have been sustained 7.2 7.3 Number of districts whose records have been kept according to law .... Number of districts having an outstanding debt ... Whole number of days schools have been taught in the State.... Whole number of days taught by male teachers . . . . . Grand total number of days' attendance in all the schools, as reported.... Number of male teachers employed in the schools.... Number of fractional townships in the State.... Number of pupils in the Normal University from the counties, as reported by county superintendents.... The highest monthly compensation paid to male teachers. The highest monthly compensation paid to female teachers.. The lowest monthly compensation paid to male teachers .. The lowest monthly compensation paid to female teachers .. 6 6 Average monthly compensation paid to male teachers. Average monthly compensation paid to female teachers.. Amount of outstanding district debts, as reported.... 1,541,487 1,806,298 TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. The following is a summary of Institute statistics for the past two years: Whole number of different counties in which Teach- Number of counties in each of which more than one Number of counties in which no Institutes were held. Whole number of public lectures delivered before] Whole amount appropriated for Teachers' Institutes $2,175 $1.814 $3.989 SCHOOLS VISITED. Section twenty of the act makes it the duty of county superintendents of schools to visit every school in their respective counties at least once each year, and oftener if practicable. Below will be found a statement of the number of schools visited and the number unvisited during the past two years: Whole number of schools not visited by county superintendents. Whole number of counties in which all the schools were visited, at least once, by county superintendents EXAMINATIONS. By the fifty-first section of the act, county superintendents are required to hold, annually, at least four public examinations of teachers in their respective counties, and more if necessary, due notice of the times and places having been previously published in the newspapers of the county. The law, however, does not forbid the examination of teachers at other times. The following tabular statement exhibits the fall record of the past two years in respect to the examination and licensure of teachers, showing the number examined at the stated times, the number examined at other times, the whole number examined, the whole number licensed, and the number rejected: |