History of the Public School Society of the City of New York, With Portraits of the Presidents of the Society
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That act was passed in 1814. The system thus established was, as your honors well know, incorporated in the Eevised Statutes, which, in 1830, were made the code of our State ; and that beau- tiful fabric still remains as it was then fashioned — so simple, and yet so beautiful, I should be loath to see a hand laid upon it. The functions of the original Superintendent of Common Schools have been merged in the Secretary of State, but in other respects no alteration has been made. The annual revenu...e of the fund is divided among the counties, who are compelled to raise, by taxation, u. sum equal to their respective shares ; commissioners were elected, and by them the money is apportioned among the towns, and these again are subdivided into districts, and trustees elected to take charge of the school-houses, and to have the immediate supervision of the schools. SPEECH OF THEODOEE SEDGWICK. 227 These trustees, at stated periods (once a year), make their report to the commissioners, the commissioners to the county clerks, and they to the superintendent, now Secretary of State ; and thus is one liarmonious system established throughout the State.
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