Recent History 



Cabinet so as to place him in immediate touch with the heads of 

 the State ; that an advisory Board of Education be created, the 

 members of which shall be appointed by the President for a term of 

 three years, serving without pay, to advise and assist the Super- 

 intendent of Instruction. To the Superintendent and Board ought 

 to be handed over the distribution of the educational funds, the 

 appointment of Superintendent of the schools in each county and 

 the management of the whole system of public instruction. I cordi- 



. AN AMERICO-LIBEKIAN PLANTATION 



ally endorse the suggestion of the Superintendent of Public Instruc- 

 tion that a fee of two cents per week be required of each child 

 attending a public school, the money to be applied to the purchase 

 of books. 



Bureau of Agriculture 



The Act creating the Bureau of A<^riculture has been put into 

 operation. Its organ. The Agricultural World, is printed at public 

 expense, besides which the Bureau will issue bulletins on subjects of 



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