INSTRUCTION. STATE OF NEW YORK: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, To the Legislature of the State of New York: The Superintendent of Public Instruction, in compliance with the provisions of law, respectfully submits the following REPORT. The accompanying tables and documents exhibit, in a condensed form, what the State is doing in the department of education, and contain information on the following subjects: 1st. Valuation of property in each county, and amount of school tax in 1858; together with the present equalized valuation by the State Assessors, and the tax for 1862. 2d. The amount of the general school tax paid and received by each county; the amount apportioned from the Common School Fund to each county, with the aggregate amount apportioned to it. 3d. Apportionment of school moneys for 1863: showing the population of each county, by cities and rural districts; the number of school districts; the amount apportioned for teachers' wages by "district quotas," and according to population; and the amount apportioned for libraries. 4th. Abstract from the statistical reports of the School Commissioners, showing: 1. The number of school districts in each county. 2. Teachers employed at the same time for six months. 3. Number of children between the ages of 4 and 21, residing in the district. 8. Teachers: by whom licensed, and number of e 9. Number of children taught, classified as to attendance. 10. Number of inspections by commissioners. 11. Volumes in district libraries. 12. School-houses, classified as to structure. 5th. Abstract from the financial reports of the Commissioners, showing, under the head of RECEIPTS: 1. The amount of money on hand at the commend of the fiscal year closing with September 30, 1862. 2. Amount apportioned by State Superintendent 3. Proceeds of the gospel and school lands. 4. Amount raised by tax. 5. Amount raised by rate bills. 6. Received from all other sources. PAYMENTS: 8. For teachers' wages. 9. For libraries. 10. For school apparatus. 11. For colored schools. 12. For school-houses, sites, fences, out-houses, repair 13. For all other incidental expenses. 14. Amount remaining on hand October 1, 1862. 15. Total of payments. 6th. Statement showing the increase and diminuti the Common School Fund, for the year. 7th. Showing the investment of the capital of the mon School Fund, at the close of each fiscal year sinc establishment. [A.] List of academies in which teachers' classes are t organized in 1862-3. s. f each sex. Co time of e School cement etc. n of for orphan and destitute Indian children. [D.] Report of the Superintendent of the Indian schools on the Cattaraugus and Allegany reservations. [E.] Statistics of Indian schools. [F.] Statistics of Teachers' Institutes. The number of school districts in the State, reported in 1862, was 11,763; in 1861, the number was 11,683. The number of school-houses, and their designation according to the material of which they are constructed, is as follows: While this shows a decrease of eighteen in the number of log houses during the past year, a decrease of seven brick and of eight stone houses, an increase of eighty-six in the number of framed houses, and a total increase of fifty-three in the State, it does not show the number of new houses erected to replace others of the same material. The actual improvement in this direction may be better understood from an exhibit of the amount of money expended for sites, and for building, purchasing, hiring, repairing and insuring school-houses, and for fences, out-houses, etc., which was, In 1862. Cities. Rural Districts. $210,852 44 228,390 85 More than a moiety of this large expenditure is for the erection of better school buildings, furnished with more appropriate accommodations for the comfort, convenience and instruction of pupils. The number of volumes in the district libraries is reported as follows: the past year was $127,369.10. (Of this sum, $55,0 apportioned to the cities and rural districts from the of the U. S. Deposit Fund. The balance, $72,369.1 therefore, raised by voluntary taxation in the citi districts.) It will hardly fail to be observed that the amount a to the purchase of libraries is diminishing, while th pended for apparatus is rapidly increasing, and that is a higher appreciation of the value of apparatus cities than in the rural districts. The $55,000 appropriated for libraries was divid follows: The number of persons between the ages of fou twenty-one years, as reported, is: This shows an increase, during the year, in the nu reported in the cities, and a decrease in the rural dist To reconcile this apparent discrepancy between the and the country-a discrepancy appearing in the repo no former year-it is necessary only to direct attenti the manner in which, in the two cases, these numbers obtained. An actual enumeration of the children of so age, in some of the cities, not having been made, the ber of such children, as reported to this Department, is an approximate estimate based on the relations of agethe increase of population; and no allowance has prob been made for the demands of the war for volunteers. is otherwise in the country. Two-thirds of the pu money is apportioned to the various counties accordin population: this is reapportioned by the Commissione |