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Education. The Superintendent of Instruc- 

 tion reports that 1,363 more pupils were en- 

 rolled in 1885 than in the year previous. 

 Towns in the State having organized schools, 

 235; the number of districts, 1,890; fractional 

 districts, and under special acts, 255. Different 

 public schools, 2,770; graded schools, 526; 

 town and district high - schools, 57 ; average 

 length of schools in weeks, 20 '37. Boys at- 

 tending school two weeks or more, 32,870; 

 girls, 31,349; number of pupils under six 

 years, 4,632; between six and sixteen, 53,- 

 239; over sixteen, 5,221. Average attend- 

 ance of all the pupils, 44,769; average to 

 each school, 16'16; ratio of average attend- 

 ance to the whole number, '711. Number 

 reported attending private schools, not regis- 

 tered in the public schools, 5,832; number 

 between five and fifteen not attending any 

 school, 3,570. Teachers males, 404 ; females, 

 3,076; average wages of male teachers per 

 month, including board, $40.22 ; of female 

 teachers, $23.56. Teachers from normal 

 schools, 365. School-houses number, 2,190; 

 unfit for use, 281 ; built during the year, 12 ; 

 having maps or globes, 1,684. Estimated 

 value of buildings, sites, and furniture, $2,- 

 265,262 ; value of apparatus, $49,583. Reve- 

 nue town taxes, $470,177; district taxes, 

 $75,721 ; literary fund from the State, $43,- 

 304; local funds, $10,717; railroad - tax, $5,- 

 200; dog -tax, $5,119; contributed in board, 

 fuel, and money, $7,234; entire revenue, $617,- 

 472. Expenditures new buildings, $27,384; 

 interest, or to cancel debt, $14,541 ; perma- 



nent repair?, $36,583 ; ordinary repairs, fuel, 

 care, etc., $65,098; teachers' salaries, $454,- 

 374; superintendence, $17,964; total expended, 

 $615,943. Average cost per pupil for miscel- 

 laneous expenses and salaries of teachers, 

 $8.08; average cost of the attendance, $11.57; 

 average cost for entire sum expended, $9.29. 

 Teachers' institutes, organized under the law 

 of 1883, have been held in each of the ten 

 counties, with marked increase and interest, 

 at an expense of $1,663. The attendance of 

 teachers was 1,047. The cities and towns that 

 have adopted the system of furnishing free 

 text-books for the use of pupils, find the plan 

 working acceptably. There is, doubtless, a sav- 

 ing of 50 per cent, over the private cost of 

 books. The great work of the year has cen- 

 tered in the new school law, authorized in 

 1885, known as the town system of schools 

 a substitute for the old district system. Re- 

 sults, as to its success, have not yet been 

 reached, as the law was not to go into effect 

 until March 1, 1886. There were in the State 

 forty-four town high-schools, employing forty- 

 six male teachers and seventy -nine female 

 teachers, having 1,493 male students and 

 2,009 female students 2,112 pursuing the 

 higher branches, 1,016 the ancient languages, 

 and 554 the modern languages. These schools 

 have libraries containing 6,019 volumes. The 

 value of the buildings, apparatus, and grounds, 

 is $816,550. Beyond these, there are forty-three 

 schools (private) of a still higher grade, fitting 

 young men and women for courses of college 

 study, having ninety-three male and sixty-one 



