566 



MISSOURI. 



ney, $193,000; Douglas, $275,000; Stone, 

 $286,000; Carter, $336,000. 



STATE SCHOOL FUNDS. 



Total amount of permanent productive funds in 

 the several counties (county, township, etc.) 



and in the city of St. Louis $6,124,083 84 



Add State fund (proper) 2,912,517 66 



Add Seminary fund 122,095 08 



Add Agricultural-College fund (sale of lands). . . 213,000 00 



Total $9,871,69658 



Add University fund (bonds not heretofore re- 

 ported) 200,000 00 



Total $9,571,696 58 



Comparing these figures with those given in 

 the last published report of the School De- 

 partment (1880), there is an increase in the 

 county funds : 



Actual increase, or part not heretofore reported 



by county clerks in two years, of $205,165 87 



In the State fund of 2,275 00 



And the University funds of. 813,000 00 



Total increase $520,890 87 



The report of 1880 showed that Missouri 

 was the second State in the Union in the 

 amount of permanent funds set apart for pub- 

 lic education Indiana surpassing her $114,- 

 449.02. But as Indiana has no county or 

 township funds, and no fixed or certain pro- 

 visions for the increase of her State fund, Mis- 

 souri has advanced beyond her, and now has 

 considerably the largest amount of funds de- 

 voted to public education of any State in the 

 Union. 



Nor does the amount above given represent 

 all of the school funds. The fines, forfeitures, 

 and penalties realized during the year belong 

 to the county school funds. 



SCHOOL CENSUS OP 1882. 



Total enumeration 741,632 



Total enrollment ; 488,091 



Per cent of enrollment to enumeration 6581 



This is an increase (in two years) of enumeration of. 18,148 

 And an increase (in two years) of enrollment of. 5,105 



Considering the facts that the school age is 

 between six and twenty years (covered by the 

 enumeration) ; that very few attend school af- 

 ter the eighteenth year, and very many not 

 after the sixteenth year; that the enrollment 

 does not include those attending private, de- 

 nominational, or parochial schools of other 

 States ; while the enumeration includes all of 

 these, the per cent of enrollment or attendance 

 is scarcely surpassed by that of any other State. 



SCHOOL STATISTICS. 



Expenditures for the last school year $3,468,737 67 



Which is a per capita, on enumeration, of. 



Which is a per capita, on attendance, of 7 106 



It must be borne in mind that five large, 

 wealthy, and populous counties make no report 

 of expenditures (on account of township or- 

 ganization), while they do report school popu- 

 lation and receipts. The five doubtless ex- 

 pended $150,000 for schools. 



School-houses owned 8,272 



Increase over 1880 28 



Schools in operation (white), 8,321 ; (colored), 



501 total 8,822 



Increase (white), 172; (colored), 9 total in- 

 crease 181 



Teachers 1 wages paid $2,226,609 58 



Increase over 1880 8,972 22 



Number of teachers employed 10,607 



Decrease since 1880 1,052 



Average salaries paid teachers per year $209 91 



It is impossible to tell the average number 

 of months schools have been taught, owing to 

 the defective reports made to the superintend- 

 ent's office ; but, assuming that average to be 

 five months, the average monthly salary of 

 teachers would be $41.98. 



The estimated value of school property in 

 the State, exclusive of the university, four nor- 

 mal schools, and the schools for the Blind and 

 Deaf and Dumb, is $7,521,695.08. 



An increase since 1880 of. $168,293 86 



The estimated seating capacity of the schools is . . 51 6.942 

 An increase of 27,807 



The total amount of taxes levied by the 

 school districts (DeKalb and Macon not in- 

 cluded) is $2,286,191.66, which is $0.41 on the 

 $100 of assessed valuation of taxable property 

 for State and county purposes. 



RAILEOADS. In his message to the Legisla- 

 ture, at the session in January, 1883, Governor 

 Crittenden made these remarks relative to the 

 railroads in the State : 



Section 17 of Article XII of the Constitution for- 

 bids the consolidation of parallel or competing lines 

 of railroads within this State. This section was not 

 inserted in the Constitution for the purpose of array- 

 ing the police power of the State against the roads, 

 but to prevent their franchises and privileges from 

 being used against the interests of the people, and 

 converted into powers to oppress those who invoked 

 them into existence. I do not know that such con- 

 solidations as are prohibited by the Constitution have 

 taken place. It is worthy of the consideration of the 

 proper tribunal, and should receive judicial investi- 

 gation. The Constitution declares that the question 

 shall be decided by a jury upon proper issues made in 

 the courts. The liberties of no people are safe wl 

 suffer their laws or organic acts to be violated by any 

 individual or combination of individuals. If one or 

 more corporations have disregarded this section of the 

 law, they should be dealt with in the manner pre- 

 scribed by the law. Those immense powers should 

 yield implicit obedience to the law like individuals, 

 receiving its benefits and protection when in submis- 

 sion to its requirements, and its punishments am 1 

 penalties when they defy its powers. There shou 1 ' 

 be the most amicable feelings between these corpoi 

 tions and the State, each being essential to the pros- 

 perity of the other. 



THE INSANE. There are 500 patients in 

 the asylum at Fulton, 250 in the one at St. 

 Joseph, and 400 in the one at St. Louis. But 

 this aggregate of 1,150 does not represent one 

 half the number of insane in the State. Ac- 

 cording to the report of the special committee 

 appointed to visit the institutions there are 

 2,300 insane persons in the State outside the 

 asylums. Of this number about one fourth 

 are in county poor-houses and jails, and the 

 other three fourths at their homes. More than 

 one half the whole number of insane persons 

 in the State, therefore, are without the treat- 

 ment that would ameliorate their unhappy con- 

 dition, if it did not restore them to reason and 

 usefulness. The number is constantly increas- 

 ing with the increase in the State's population. 

 All the asylums are crowded as they should 



