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Expenses of buildings for school houses, &c. per ann. $115,694 
Annual expense of books for 499,484 scholars, , 249,717 
Fuel, : : - 3 ; ‘ ‘ ‘ 88,460 
Amount of public money paid for teachers’ wages, . 339,715 
Amount paid by the different districts for teachers’ — 
wages, besides public money, ‘ ‘ . 
Estimating in the same ratio for 45 towns which have 
not returned the amount over and above public 
money, : ‘ . : ‘ ae ae 21,308 
346,807 
$1,061,699 
Being a total of one million sixty-one thousand six hundred and 
ninety-nine dollars expended annually for the support of the com- 
mon schools of the State. ‘The superintendant’s report to the legis- 
lature proceeds :— 
“The preceding estimates show that the revenue of the school 
fund (that is, the amount derived from the State treasury) pays less 
than one-tenth of the annual expenditures for the support of the 
fommon schools ; another tenth is raised by a tax upon the property 
of the towns respectively ; and the two tenths thus made up, (being 
the $239,718 in the foregoing statement) constitutes what is called 
the school moneys, and is the sum raised by the commissioners of 
the towns for distribution among the several districts. Something 
less than two tenths, for school houses and fuel, is raised by a tax 
oa the property of the district, in pursuance of a vote of the in- 
‘abitants thereof; and the residue, nearly six tenths, or $617,820, 
'S paid Voluntarily by the parents and guardians of the scholars, for 
» and for the balance of their school bills, after the public 
Money has been applied. 
“In fifty-two counties, the average number of those attending 
school, compared with the whole number of inhabitants, is as 1 to 3}. 
average in the State, including New York and Albany, is in the 
Poportion of 1 to 394-100. Appended to this statement, is a table, 
wing a similar comparison between the children at school and the 
- “number of inhabitants in various countries in Europe. In Rus- 
oe 's I child at school for every 7 inhabitants ; Bavaria, | 
ae England, 1 to 15. 
... © children taught in the common schools of the State, fall only 
6 short of half a million. According to an enumeration in 1829, 
were are 449 private schools in the city of New York; there are, at 
