number of districts,

value of school houses,.

teachers' wages,..

school libraries,

Progress and encouragements,

The School Fund,.......

Town School Libraries,

Township System of Government,

Other needed reforms,....

Nullifying the Superintendent's decisions,

Traveling of State Superintendent,.

New edition of School Code,.......

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,

Our Free School System the hope of our country,

Chancellor Barnard's services,

Conclusion of Report,

7

7

8

....

....

33-34

Tabular Statements, No. 1,..

38

INDEX.

Abstract of school reports, .

...

Advantage of Township System of School Government,.
Apportionment of School Fund, table of, .

Architecture, School, works on, needed,..
Attendance, School,.

for 1857,

5-8 24-27

38

50

27, 28 5, 6

Edcuation, State Board of,

....

Election of State Superintendent, time for should be changed,

Emerson, George B., cited,....

Encouragements and Progress,

27, 28

33

6828

20

29-30

31

7, 46

27

27

27

18

9, 33-34

31-32

33

excessive county taxation on school lands,..
remitting penalties, bad policy of,....

five per cent. due from General Government,..
price of school lands should be increased,..
restoration of part of Drainage Fund,...
additional school land grant needed,..

School Fund Income, table of apportionment,.

apportionment of 1859,..

School Government, Township system, advantages of,.

School Libraries, new law for,.

see Town School Libraries.

School Reports, abstract of,.............

28-29

9-14

9

9, 10

10

10, 12

10-11

11-12

12-13

13

13

13-14

38

50

24-27

14-24, 33

5-9