CONTENTS

PART I

ORIGIN, MANAGEMENT, LOSS AND INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC

PERMANENT COMMON SCHOOL FUNDS

CHAPTER

I. INTRODUCTION. Permanent School Funds and the Rise of Free

Schools. Present Condition and Importance of Permanent

Funds

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3

II. EARLY SOURCES OF SCHOOL SUPPORT AND EVOLUTION OF PUB-

LIC PERMANENT SCHOOL FUNDS

III. FEDERAL Sources oF PERMANENT COMMON SCHOOL FUNDS

IV.

STATE SOURCES OF SCHOOL FUNDS AND THE CREATION Of Per-

MANENT COMMON FUNDS

81

V.

VI.

VII.

MANAGEMEnt of PUBLIC PERMANENT COMMON SCHOOL FUNDS

Loss of PUBLIC PERMANENT COMMON SCHOOL FUNDS

PURPOSE AND EFFECTS OF PUBLIC PERMANENT COMMON SCHOOL

107

129

FUNDS

160

PART II

PUBLIC PERMANENT COMMON SCHOOL FUNDS AND LANDS IN

THE STATES. A SUMMARY OF THE ORIGIN, PRESENT

CONDITION, AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE

FUND IN EACH STATE

VIII. ALABAMA. Sixteenth Section Fund. Valueless Sixteenth Sec-

tion Fund. School Indemnity Land Fund. Surplus

Revenue Fund

ARKANSAS. Common School Fund. Permanent School Fund.

Sixteenth Section Fund. Surplus Revenue Fund

XII. CALIFORNIA. State School Fund. Township Funds

XIII. COLORADO. Public School Fund . .

CONNECTICUT. School Fund. Town Deposit or Surplus

Revenue Fund

228

XV. DELAWARE. Public School Fund. Surplus Revenue Fund 238

XVI. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Lottery Fund

.

XVII. FLORIDA. State School Fund. Township Funds

242

243

XVIII. GEORGIA. Academy Fund. Free School Fund, Poor Fund.
School Fund. Surplus Revenue Fund

XIX. IDAHO. Public School Fund

.

XX. ILLINOIS. Township Fund. School Fund Proper. Surplus
Revenue Fund. The County School Fund

XXI. INDIAN TERRITORY

XXII. INDIANA. Bank Tax Fund. Common School Fund. Con-

gressional Township Fund. County Seminary Fund.

Delinquent Tax Fund. Saline Fund. Sinking Fund.

Surplus Revenue Fund

XXIII. IOWA. Permanent School Fund

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247

251

.

254

259

260

268

XXIV.

KANSAS. State Permanent School Fund

271

XXV. KENTUCKY. Common School Fund. Literary Fund Surplus

Revenue Fund

275

XXVI. LOUISIANA. Free School Fund. Perpetual School Fund. Sur-

plus Revenue Fund

279

XXVII. MAINE. Permanent School Fund. School Taxation. Town,

Ministerial and School Funds

XXVIII. MARYLAND. Free School Fund. Surplus Revenue Fund

XXIX. MASSACHUSETTS. Massachusetts School Fund. .

XXX. MICHIGAN. Primary School Fund. Swamp Land Fund

XXXI. MINNESOTA. Permanent School Fund. Swamp Land Fund. 316

XXXII. MISSOURI. County Public School Fund. Public School Fund.
Special District Fund. Township School Fund

XXXIII. MISSISSIPPI. Chocktaw or Sixteenth Section Fund. Chick-

asaw Fund . .

XXXVII. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Common School or Institute Fund. Lit-

332

335

XXXIX.

erary Fund. Surplus Revenue Fund

XXXVIII. NEW JERSEY. The New Jersey Permanent School or State

School Fund. Surplus Revenue Fund

NEW MEXICO. Permanent Fund

XL. NEW YORK. Common School Fund. Literature Fund. Town

Funds. United States Deposit Fund

347

XLIII. OHIO. Irreducible State Debt or Common School Fund

365

SOUTH DAKOTA. Permanent School Fund

L. TENNESSEE. Common School Fund. Permanent School Fund 394

389

391

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LI. TEXAS. County School Funds. Permanent School Funds 400

LII. UTAH. State School Fund

LIII. VERMONT. Huntington Fund. Permanent Public School
Fund. Spanish War Claims Fund. United States De-
posit Fund

VIRGINIA. Literary Fund

.

406

408

LIV.

420

LV.

WASHINGTON. Common or Permanent School Fund

423

WISCONSIN. School Fund

LVI. WEST VIRGINIA. Irreducible Fund or School Fund

LVII.

426

429

LVIII. WYOMING. Common School Permanent Fund

434

APPENDIX "A." Tables relating to the History of Permanent Public Com-

mon School Funds. Revenues and Expenditures in Connecticut, Florida,

Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts and New York

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