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INDEX

Squatters on school lands, Ala., 211;
Tenn., 395

State aid to public schools, 81-97,
100-106

State lot, Me., 285; N. Y., 36, 37, 350,
351

State moneys, see Grants, state moneys
State school lands and land grants,
see Land grants and reservations,

state

State sources of common school funds,

see Grants, state moneys; Land
grants and reservations, state
State Superintendent, see Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction
States possessing no funds, 10
Stationery, a lawful expenditure, Ind.,
298

Stone, sale proceeds added to school
fund, Mont., 330; Utah, 407; Wash.,
424
Sundries purchased with school fund
income, Mass., 310

Superintendent of Public Instruction
aids in managing school funds, 115;

Ark., 219; Ia., 270; Kan., 273;
Mich., 315; Mont., 330; N. Dak.,
366; Vt., 415; Va., 421; Wash.,
424; W. Va., 428; Wyo., 435
apportions school moneys, Ala., 212;
Ark., 220; Cal., 224; Col., 227;
Fla., 245; Id., 252; Ind., 266; Kan.,
274; La., 282; Mich., 315; Minn.,
Mo., 324; Mont., 330
office created, Cal., 197; Fla., 197;
Me., 196-197; Mich., 197; Wis., 197
salary, a lawful expenditure: N. J.,
345; Mass., 310; Va., 422

see also County Superintendent;
Special Superintendent
Supervision, 194; influenced by per-
manent funds, Cal., Conn., Fla.,
Ia., Mich., Wis., 196-197
Support defined, Mass., 310; not de-
fined, N. J., 345

Support of schools, earliest, 23-38;
uncertain, 164-165; see also Federal
lands, grants; Federal money grants;
Funds; Grants, state moneys; In-
crease, sources of; Lands; Receipts,
sources and proceeds; Taxation
Supreme Court fees devoted to per-
manent fund, N. Y., 355.
Survey, federal, origin, description,
diagram, 48, 49; ordinances, quoted,
44, 110; incomplete, 57; Wash.,
423; state, Mo., 322

Survey systems in Tenn., 54, 110-111,

489

395, 396; U. S. Military Reservation,
371-372; Va. Military Reservation,
371; Western Reserve, 371; Wyo.
Valley, Ohio, 36

Susquehanna Company, 36, 229, 230
Symmes, John Cleve, purchase in
Northwest Territory, 47, 52, 369,
370, 371, 372

Tables

Table A, Growth of principal and
income of Permanent Common
School Funds, Conn., Fla., Ind.,
Me., Mass., N. Y., 1799-1905, 94
Table I, Credit Funds (in sixteen
states), principal, 1905, 8

Table II, Official titles of Permanent
Common School Fund, 10

Table III, Lost principal in twelve
states, 12

Table IV, Permanent Common School
Funds grouped in order of value;

per cent of school revenue derived
therefrom, 1905, 13-14

Table V, Permanent Common School
Funds in order of estimated value
including unsold lands, 15, 16
Table VI, Per cent of total common
school revenue derived from per-
manent funds, local tax and state
tax, 17-18

Table VII, Permanent

Common

School Funds for all states, 1905,
credit funds, debts, loans, rate of
interest, income, per cent of total
receipts, total receipts, unsold
school lands, area, value, 21-22
Table VIII, Rate bills, year abolished
in fourteen states, 27

Table IX, Conn., school receipts
and sources of revenue, 1856-1868,

28

Table X, States receiving no federal
land grants, 57

Table XI, Public land states and

sixteenth and thirty-sixth section
land grants, area and date, 57-58
Table XII, Internal improvement,
saline and swamp land grants,
66

Table XIII, U. S. Surplus Revenue
Loan of 1837, states receiving,
shares, quota devoted to schools,
original use of principal, final dis-
position or present condition, 74-78
Table XIV, State Land Reservations,
area, date, proceeds, 85

Table XV, Ind. School Fund, com-

parison of proceeds of sources of
increase, 1868-1903, 87
Table XVI, Creation of permanent
common school funds, title, year,
mode, year of states, admission
into union, 98-99

Table XVII, Titles and original
capital of permanent common
school funds arranged by states,
100-106

Table XVIII, Loss of Township School
Funds, Mo., before 1870, amounts,
balance, causes, 133-138
Table XIX, Summary of causes of
loss to permanent school funds,
157-158

Table XX, Losses, amount, date,
fund, credit funds and debts,
158-159

Table XXI, Objects to which revenue

of public permanent common
school funds may be lawfully ap-
plied in the several states, 173-

174

Table XXII, Conditions of partici-

pation in the several states, 177-179
Table XXIII, Bases of apportion-

ment of income of permanent
school funds, 186-188

Table XXIV, Teachers' average
monthly wages in N. Y., Mass.,
Ind., Me., Conn., 1831-1907, 192-
193

Table XXV, Returns in N. Y.,

Me., Mass., 1805-1885, 195-196
Table XXVI, Growth of principal
and income of Conn. School Fund,
1799-1905; securities, 1905, 437-
438

Table XXVII, Conn., total cost of

public education, sources from
which derived and relative im-
portance, 439

Table XXVIII, Conn. school sup-

port, 1825-1895: amount per child
derived from School Fund and from

all other sources, 440
Table XXIX, Growth of teachers'
wages in Conn., and relation to
total school expenditure, 440
Table XXX, Fla., State School Fund,
growth, principal and income;
relation of income to total expendi-
ture, 1870-1905, 441
Table XXXI, Ind. Common School

Fund, funds composing and amount
each added, 442

Table XXXII, Sources of increase

of Ind. Common School Fund, pro-
ductive and unproductive, 442
Table XXXIII, Increase of Ind.
Common School Fund from fines,
forfeitures, and other sources, 443
Table XXXIV, Growth of principal
of Ind. Common School Fund, 1854-
1906, 443

Table XXXV, Growth of income of
Ind. Common School Fund, 1865-
1906, 444

Table XXXVI, Average annual in-
crease of principal of Ind. School
Fund, 1854-1902, 444

Table XXXVII, Comparison of Ind.
school revenues from funds, local
and state tax, 445

Table XXXVIII, Growth of In-
diana's endowed school system,
1855-1885, 445
Table XXXIX,

Me. Permanent
School Fund, growth, principal and
income, 1838-1906; total expendi-
ture for schools, per cent from
School Fund, 1855-1906, 446
Table XL, Me. local school tax rate,
446

Table XLI, Bank tax, Me., 1833-
1869, 447

Table XLII, Me., total public school
expenditures, Permanent School
Fund and other sources of school
revenue, 1851-1902, 448
Table XLIII, Me. teachers' wages
per month, 1851-1902, 449
Table XLIV, Mass. school support,
summary, sources, proceeds, ex-
penditures, 1835-1905, 450, 451
Table XLV, Mass. School Fund,
sources of growth, 1835-1837, 452
Table XLVI, N. Y. Common School
Fund, growth of principal and in-
come, 1806-1905, 453, 454
Table XLVII, N. Y. Common School
Fund, showing total cost of public
education, sources and proceeds,
teachers' wages, 1831-1900, 455
Tavern license fees devoted to perma-
nent fund, Del., 86, 238
Tax: Bank, see Bank taxes; corpora-
tion, Ind., uncollected, 147-148, 264;
direct, 247, 248, 305; inheritance, 17;
military tax and fines: used as annual
school revenue, Ga., 247; Ind., 262;
devoted to permanent funds, Mo.,
323; poll, for schools, 17, 18, 214, 245,
247, 248; Ariz., 214; railroad, 17;
sales, invalid, N. C., 361, 362; sav.

ings banks and trust companies, Me.,
1851-1902, Table XLII, 448; tea, 31;
see also Animal, Bank, Corporation,
Direct, Military and Show tax; and
under Fund, Delinquent Tax Fund
and Tables VI, IX, XVII, XVIII,
XXVII, XXXVII, XL, XLI, XLII,
XLVI, XLVII

Taxation, colonial, 28-30; exorbitant,
on school lands, Wis., 141, 430; fed-
eral lands exempt, 127; influence by
permanent common school funds, 3;
Conn., Me., N. Y., 165-170; Mass.,
176-177; Fla., 198; La., 281; Mich.,
314; Nev., 337; N. H., 339; opposed,
3-4, 164-165; discontinued, Conn.,
168, 228; per cent of expenditures
paid from, Table VI, 17-19; permis-
sive, compulsory, voluntary, Conn.,
Mass., Me., Minn., Ariz., 3-4, 28-31;
N. Y., Ind., 164-165; Me., 284; Mass.,
300; principles, 3-4; proceeds devoted
to Permanent School Fund, balances,
Me., 291; N. J., 343; Tex., 402; rate,
basis of apportionment, Mass., 310;
required, Del., 241; Me., 292; Mass.,

311; N. Y., 352; R. I., 388, 401;
Wash., 425; territorial, Minn., Ariz.,
30-31, 215
Teachers' board, lawful expenditure,
Conn., 171; Me., 171-172, 293; N. Y.,
171; Table XXI, 173
Teachers, colonial, 25, 26, 28
Teachers' efficiency increased, 191
Teachers' institutes permanent funds,
N. H., 338

Teachers must be certified and quali-
fied to receive public moneys, 177,
178, 191; Cal., 225; Conn., 237; Fla.,
246; Ill., 258; Ky., 277; Me., 292;
Mich., 315; Minn., 320; Neb., 334;
Nev., 337; N. Y., 360; Wash., 425;
Wis., 433

Teachers, number a basis for appor-
tionment, Cal., 224; N. J., 344-345;
N. Y., 358, 359

Teachers' quota, N. Y.,

359

Teachers' training, 160; see also Insti-
tute Fund under Funds; Normal de-
partments; Teachers' institutes
Teachers' wages, colonial, 25, 26, 29;
a lawful expenditure, Table XXI, 171-
172, 173, 190-192; Ala., 212; Cal.,
225; Conn., 171, 236; Del., 241; Ia.,
270; Ind., 266; Ky., 277; Me., 171-
172, 293; Md., 298; Mass., 193, 310;
Mich., 193, 315; Minn., 320; Mo.,
324; Miss., 328; Neb. 334; Nev., 337;

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grant, congressional land, quoted, 39
lands devoted to schools: sixteenth
section lands, 51, 53, 54, 110-111
private schools supported, 163
school legislation, ineffective, 163-
164

survey system, 110-111

Term length: Conn., in 1700, 30; fixed
for participation in school funds, 125,
176; Ark., 220; Cal., 176, 178, 225;
Col., 227; Conn., 167, 176, 178, 237;
Fla., 178, 245; Ia., 270; Kan., 176,
274; Ky., 178, 278; Me., 178, 292;
Mass., 178; Mich., 125, 178, 315;
Minn., 178, 320; Mo., 178, 324;
Mont., 178, 331; Neb., 178, 334;
Nev., 178, 337; N. J., 178, 345;
N. Y., 176, 178, 360; Ore., 178,
382; Utah, 178; Va., 178; Vt., 410,
415; Wash., 178, 425; W. Va., 428;
Wis., 433; Wyo., 178, 436; increased
by permanent common school funds,
167, 176

Territorial school fund, Ariz., see under
Funds

Texas

County School Funds, 400-405
Permanent School Funds, 11, 22, 115,

130, 143-144, 159, 400-405
school lands: no federal, 56; state,
title to, 56, 84, 85, 400-405

state taxes, reserved as School Fund,
90

Text-books, prescribed, Wash., 425;
see also Books

Theft of school funds, Mo., 323; see also
Defalcation; Dishonesty; Embezzle-
ment; Losses

Thompson's Island, Mass., reserved for
schools, 34

Timber lands denuded, 140-141; Wis.,

430, 431, 432

Timber sales' proceeds added to princi-
pal., Me., 91, 285, 291; Minn., 319;
Mont., 91, 330; Utah, 407; Wash., 424
Title to lands uncertain, Ala., 132, 211;
La., 132, 281; Miss., 132, 326; Tenn.,
396; see also Ownership

Titles of permanent funds changed,
Del., 238; Fla., 243; N. H., 338; Ky.,
276

Titles, official, of permanent common
school funds, 7-18; Table II, 10;
Table XVI, 98-106; see also under
Funds

Toll rates increase common school
fund, Nev., 90, 336
Townships for universities, 46, 47, 50
Transportation, a lawful expenditure,
Me., 293; Mass., 310; Mont., 331
Treasurer, state, relation to manage-
ment of School Fund: Col., 227; Del.,
240; Kan., 273; Me., 289, 294, 295;
Mass., 308, 309; Minn., 319; Neb.,
333; Nev., 337; N. J., 344; Ore., 382;
R. I., 388; S. C., 390; Tenn., 399; Vt.,
409, 415; W. Va., 428; Wis., 433;
Wyo., 435

Treasurer, township, manages funds:

Ill., 257

Treaty of Paris, land claims, 40
Trent Grant, Ohio, 370

Trespass moneys, increase principal:
Mont., 330; Wash., 424

Truancy laws, enforcement, 179; Mass.,
311; N. Y., 360

Truant officer's salary, Mass., 310
Trustees of permanent school funds,
Vt., 417, 419; see also Boards
Tuition defined, Ind., 266; N. Dak., 365
Tuition: rates in 17th century, 25; paid

from permanent funds, Ia., 270; Me.,
293; support schools, 300; see also
Rate bills

Tupper, Benjamin, and Ohio Company,
45

Turnpike lands, Ohio, 370

United States, see also Congressional;
Federal

United States Bank Tax, 287

United States Military Reservation, see
Military lands under Lands

Unsold common school lands, area and
value, Table VII, 20-21; unproduc-
tive, Ia., 268

Uses, lawful, of permanent common
school funds, Table, XXI, 173-174;

253, foot-note 1224; Ala., 212; Ark.,
220; Cal., 225; Col., 227; Conn., 236;
Del., 241; Fla., 245; Ga., 248; Id.,
252-253; Ind., 266; Ia., 270; Kan.,
274; Ky., 277; La., 282; Me., 292-293;
Md., 298; Mass., 310; Mich., 315;
Minn., 320; Miss., 328; Mo., 324;
Mont., 331; Neb., 334; Nev., 337;
N. H., 338, 341; N. J., 345; N. Y.,
354, 356, 357, 359; N. C., 362, 364;
N. Dak., 366; Ohio, 377; Ore., 382;
R. I., 388; S. C., 389, 390; S. Dak.,
393; Tenn., 399; Tex., 405; Utah, 407;
Vt., 416, 419; Va., 422; Wash., 425;
W. Va., 428; Wis., 433; Wyo., 436;
classified, 171-173; aims, 189

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Wages, see Teachers' wages

War claims and taxes devoted to per-
manent school funds, Ky., Mass.,
S. C., Vt., 79-80, 89, 288, 305, 416
War effects on funds, see Civil War
War loans interest, Ind., 297
War supplies, transportation, 60
Warrants, state, investments, Neb., 332
Washington

Common School Fund, 128, 182, 183,
423-425

constitutional provisions for school
funds, 128, 424

school lands, 128, 423-424

Water and fuel, lawful expenditure,
Miss., 328

Weathersfield, Conn., rate bills, 1658, 28
Wells, O. E., Supt. Wis., quoted, 149
West Virginia

free schools, 3

Irreducible Fund, see School Fund
School Fund, 12, 156, 159, 420, 421,
426-428

Western lands, see Lands, federal;
Northwest Territory

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Common School Permanent Fund, 6,
22, 434-436

sixteenth and thirty-sixth section
lands, 434-435

Wyoming Valley, land reservation, 36,
229

Year, school, see Term

Zane's Grant, Ohio, 370

Zulick, C. M., Gov., Ariz., on waste of
school lands, 141

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