Quantity of Public Lands sold, and the Amount paid for it, in each Year from 1833 to 1858, inclusive.

From the passage of the act of August 4, 1854, up to the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1858, 18,081,435.34 acres have been sold at the various graduated rates. Of these, 10,068,480.25 acres were sold at the lowest price of 12 cents per acre. And of the whole quantity, about 6,457,421 acres, or more than one-third, were sold in the State of Missouri.

*From Jan. 1 to June 30. † This and subsequent years end June 30.

RAILROAD AND SWAMP LANDS.

383

Miles of
Road.

1,531

549

630

An approximate Estimate of Lands enuring to the several States under the Grants of Congress, for Railroads since 1850 to

the end of 1857.

STATES.

Alabama.....

Arkansas...

Florida

2,595,053

2,595,053

3,456,000

The quantity of Swamp and Overflowed Lands selected and enuring to the several States under the Acts of March 2, 1849, and September 28, 1850; the quantity approved under said Acts; and the quantity Patented under the Act of Sept. 28, 1850, to Sept. 30, 1858.

LITERATURE AND SCHOOL FUNDS.

MAINE:-The permanent School Fund is $136,346.54, with a prospective increase from the sale of public and school lands. Bank tax for the support of schools is one per cent. on their capital. Towns are required to raise annually an amount for school purposes equal to sixty cents for each inhabitant. Amount expended for school purposes-year ending April 1, 1857-$663.797.58. There were 4,855 public schools.

NEW HAMPSHIRE:-There is no permanent fund. Amount raised for school purposes for the year ending May, 1858, was $216,742. Public schools, 2,427.

VERMONT :-The School Fund was abolished in 1845 to pay the State debt.

MASSACHUSETTS:-Amount of School Fund, Dec. 31, 1857, $1,653,082.73. Amount expended same year, $1,410,989. The deficit of the income of the School Fund is raised by tax. Number of public schools, 4,360. Population of the State in 1855, 1,132,369.

RHODE ISLAND:-Permanent fund is $73,894.38. The income from the Deposit Fund and the Militia Commutation Tax is appropriated to school purposes. $50,000 are paid annually from the State Treasury. School districts in 1857, 386.

CONNECTICUT :-The capital of School Fund, in 1858, was $2,047,397; revenue for the year, $142,423, giving to each scholar $1.40. Deficit made up by tax and rate bill. Number of schools, 1,705.

Total receipts and expenditures for the year, $3,792,948.79. The deficit of the income of the School Fund is made up by district taxes and rate bills. The income of the Literature Fund is devoted to the support of the Academies of the State. There are in the State, exclusive of cities, 11,304 districts.

LITERATURE AND SCHOOL FUNDS.

385

Volumes in school libraries, 1,402,253. Population of the State-1855-3,466,212.

NEW JERSEY:-Capital of School Fund, 1858, was $430,583.72. The School Act of 1851 appropriated $40,000 to the use of schools from the School Fund, and $40,000 from the State Treasury, which sum is apportioned upon the basis of population. Number of schools, 1,594.

PENNSYLVANIA:-School Fund was established in 1831. Total amount raised in 1857 for school purposes, $1,880,133.07. Cost of instruction, $1,137,357.92. Number of schools was 10,956.

MARYLAND: School Fund, 1857, amounted to $150,263.75. VIRGINIA-Capital of Literary Fund, 1857, $1,677,651.67. Number of schools, 3,528. Expended for school expenses, $136,589.50.

NORTH CAROLINA :-Capital of School Fund, $2,156,745.42, which is divided according to federal population among the counties. These raise $60,000 more, making a fund for annual appropriation of $200,000.

SOUTH CAROLINA:-The Legislature appropriates $74,400 annually to free schools, and applies it at the rate of $600 to each representative in the popular branch of the Legislature.

GEORGIA:-Capital of the School Fund owned by the State in 1853 was $23,086. The amount appropriated by the State in 1856 was 36,236. Population in 1855, 935,090.

FLORIDA:-In 1856, $6,059.80 were apportioned for school purposes. Population in 1855, 110,823.

ALABAMA :-School system established 1854, fund, $1,258,933. In 1855, $232,515.39 were apportioned for school purposes. Number of schools about 1,000. Population, 1855, 841,704.

DELAWARE:-The system provides a free school within reach of every family. Each district entitles itself to a portion of the fund by organizing a school and appropriating not less than $25 for its support. Number of free schools in operation in 1856 was 233; receipts from School Fund, $27,452.69; and contributions, $53,057.02. Expended for free schools: tuition, $47.822.15; contingencies, $30,430.99.

MISSISSIPPI :-No uniform school system. Each township has a fund arising from the proceeds of lands granted for school purposes. The interest on this fund is applied to tuition.

LOUISIANA :-Capital of School Fund, 1856, amounted to $412,534.42. Free schools are established by the Constitution. $250,000 are appropriated annually for the support of schools. There is a Seminary Fund of $132,157.16. Number of districts reported, 1856, was 638; number of public schools reported, 749. Population, 1855, 587,774.

TEXAS:-School Fund, $2,192,000. This fund is annually increased by the addition of one-tenth of the revenue from taxation. This fund will ultimately be augmented by the proceeds of 2,054,593 acres of school lands.

ARKANSAS:-Means exist for the establishment of a School Fund, but there seems little interest manifested by the people or State authorities. Population, 1858, 331,213.

TENNESSEE :-In 1853, School Fund was $584,060.39. Disbursement on account of School Fund in 1857, was $199,328. The scholastic population was 288,538.

KENTUCKY:-Amount of School Fund, 1857, was $1,455,332.03; besides an annual tax of five cents on each $100 of property listed in the State, amounting to about $204,000. $304,933.20 were distributed in 1857.

OHIO:-Capital of School Fund is $5,000,000. A general fund is provided by the levy of a tax. The tax of one-tenth of a mill for libraries was suspended in 1857. There were distributed, in 1857, from general school fund, $1,212,240.80; from library fund, $2,852.27; interest on irreducible fund, $141,402.27. Total from State Treasury, $1,356,495.34. In addition to this, townships and districts have power to levy taxes to continue their schools, erect school-houses, &c. For these purposes $1,075,574.31 were assessed in 1857; making the total provision for schools for one year, $2,432,069.65. Number of school-houses in the State, 5,597; value, $3,581,357. Number of school-libraries, 5,831; value, $136,750; number of volumes in libraries, 214,121; value of school apparatus, $29,833.

MICHIGAN:-Capital of School Fund, $1,384,288. Amount