Board is called to pay for the repairs. More care on the part of the teacher or janitor would avert these evils, give the room a higher degree of heat, and add years to the life of the stove. Teachers should be forbidden to allow pupils to attend to the fire or stove, and should be charged with that duty, or else time be specified by the Principal of the school for the janitor to do it. A whiff of air from many of our schoolrooms will demonstrate the need of the first recommendation, and a glance at the old iron piled up in the basements of our schoolhouses will show the cost of neglecting our second.

By order of the Board, March 7, 1881, the old boiler, steam-pipes and pumps, formerly used in the Sixth District School-house, were sold to the highest bidder. The steam-pipes and pumps realized $367.54, which was paid over to the Clerk. The boiler was sold to Oswald Scharff for $45. Scharff died before taking the boiler from the building, where it still remains. Your Committee, therefore, recommend that the same be again sold to the best advantage.

Respectfully submitted,

DANIEL FINN,

C. C. ARCHER,
C. KIECHLER,

WM. REYNOLDS, JR.,

Committee on Stoves and Furnaces.

Contract Establishing the Union Board of High Schools, May, 1851.

WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, passed February 11, 1845, the Trustees and Visitors of Common Schools of the city of Cincinnati, for the purpose of better organizing and classifying the schools under their supervision, are empowered to establish, with the consent of the City Council, such other grades of schools than those already established, as may to them seem necessary and expedient; and, for the furtherance of the above-named object, are also empowered, by and with the advice and consent of the City Council, to contract with any person or persons, whether in their individual, corporate, or fiduciary capacity, or with any institutions, in relation to any funds that may be at the disposal of such person or persons, or such institution, for the education of all such children as are entitled to the benefit of Common School Fund instruction in said city. And,

WHEREAS, The Board of Trustees of the Woodward College and High School, and the Trustees of the Hughes Fund, have under their control large amounts of property and money, intended to furnish High School education to the poorer portion of youth, which they are desirous to unite with the City School Fund, under an arrangement with the Trustees and Visitors of Common Schools, and under a general plan which will secure High School instruction to all the youth of the city of both sexes.

Now, therefore, to accomplish the purposes aforesaid, the parties aforesaid, that is to say, the Trustees and Visitors of the Common Schools, of the first part, the Trustees of the Woodward College and High School, of the second part, and the Trustees of the Hughes Fund, of the third part, have entered into the following contract:

It is agreed that, as soon hereafter as practicable, High Schools for boys and girls, one to be styled The Cincinnati Woodward High School, and the other The Cincinnati Hughes High School, shall be established as hereinafter provided, to be under the direction of a Board of Trustees, which shall be composed of six members to be elected by the Board of Trustees and Visitors of Common Schools from their number, the two permanent members of the Woodward Board, the three members of said Board elected by the City Council, and two members of the Hughes Board, elected from their number, making thirteen in all, which Board shall have the usual power of Trustees for the management of said schools. It is further agreed that the party of the first part shall furnish as much money as, added to the properties and funds of the second and third parties, will furnish High Schools that will accommodate and educate all the white youth of the city who may apply for admission to such High Schools, and who may be sufficiently advanced in the several studies, according to the rules that may be prescribed by the Board to be appointed as aforesaid, provided that the standard

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of attainment to be fixed for admission into such High Schools shall not be lower, unless with the concurrence of the party of the first part, than that now established for the City Central School; and that, with the like concurrence of said Board, provision shall be made for teaching all the branches now taught in the Central School, and such other branches as the said Board may from time to time prescribe, provided, however, that the funds required to be appropriated by the party of the first part shall not in any wise impair the efficiency and permanency of the Common School System as now existing in said city.

It is agreed that the said Board of Trustees shall appoint the professors, teachers, and others performing any duty or service connected with said school, and the said Board of Trustees shall recommend to the party of the first part the salaries or compensation proper to be paid to the persons so appointed or employed; but the party of the first part shall fix the amount of such salaries and compensation, and shall audit and order payment of the same, as well as of all other incidental expenses connected with said schools-provided no person shall be appointed as teacher who has not been examined and received his certificate from the Board of Examiners, as is now, or may be hereafter, required by law, and no scholar shall be received into said High Schools who is not a resident of the city of Cincinnati, and no tuition fee shall ever be received from any scholar. admitted into said schools.

The party of the second part agrees to place at the disposal of the Board of Trustees herein provided, for the use and support of the High Schools contemplated by this arrangement, a lot of ground 220 feet front on Franklin Street, by 200 feet deep to Woodward Street, with the building thereon, and the net annual income of the Woodward Fund, now valued at, say, four thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

The party of the third part agrees to contribute, as aforesaid, the lot of ground belonging to the Hughes Fund, 90 feet front on Ninth Street, east of Vine Street, by 120 feet deep, the amount of cash now on hand, about fifteen thousand dollars, and the net annual income for rents, etc., valued at two thousand dollars. That as soon as this agreement is ratified by all the parties hereto, the Board aforesaid shall be organized and proceed to adopt a plan, and erect a suitable building on the Hughes lot on Ninth Street for a High School, large enough to accommodate five hundred scholars, and the money in the hands of the Trustees of the Hughes Fund, shall be applied so far as the same may be required to defray the expense thereof, and the said Board shall also adopt a plan for, and erect a suitable building for a High School on the Woodward lot on Franklin Street, at the cost of the said party of the first part, large enough to accommodate five hundred scholars, and both of said buildings shall be erected and the schools therein opened under this agreement immediately after the vacation of 1851, and immediately thereafter and thenceforth the net annual incomes of the second and third parties shall be paid over quarterly, as collected, to such city officer as shall have charge of other City School Funds, to be applied toward the support of the High Schools of the city as aforesaid.

Provided if the said party of the first part should refuse or neglect to comply with the engagements entered into as aforesaid by the said party of the first part, then the engagements aforesaid of the second and third parties may be held as canceled, and the said second and third parties may resume and separately con

tract their respective properties and funds as if this contract had never been made; and provided further that in case of such canceling of this contract, the party of the second part will pay to the said party of the first part, for the building to be erected as aforesaid, what such building may be worth, in four equal annual payments with interest from the date of award on the amount awarded, the value to be fixed by two men, one of whom shall be chosen by each party, and if they.can not agree, they two shall choose a third.

The party of the third part also agrees to refund to the party of the first part whatever amount, if any, said party of the first part may advance toward the erection of the building herein provided for on the lot on Ninth Street, over and above the fifteen thousand dollars now on hand for that purpose, due allowance being made in proportion to the amount advanced for ordinary wear and tear of the buildings, to be determined in the manner above stated between the first and second parties.

On behalf of the Trustees and Visitors of Common Schools of Cincinnati, by an order of the Board to that effect.

B. STORER, President.

For Trustees of Woodward College and High School,

SAMUEL LEWIS, Pres. B'd of Trustees.

By order of the Board of Trustees of the Hughes Fund.

W. GREENE, President.

Resolution Adopted by the City Council May 19, 1851.

Resolved, By the City Council of the city of Cincinnati, that this Board promptly and heartily advises and consents to the confirmation and execution of the triple contract of the Board of Trustees and Visitors of Common Schools of Cincinnati, of the Trustees of Woodward College and High School, and of the Trustees of the Hughes Fund, hereto attached, according to the provisions of Act of General Assembly, passed July 11, 1845, and to the fullest extent that such advice and consent may be necessary. Provided that the said Board of Trustees will consent to rescind the requisite of building one of said school-houses upon the Hughes lot, and will consent to its sale, and purchase of another lot in a more western part of the city with the proceeds of said sale.

The foregoing proviso was accepted by all parties to the above contract. The Hughes lot on Ninth Street was sold, and a lot on the south side of Fifth Street, opposite Mound Street, 95 feet front by 200 feet deep, purchased in its place.

July 25, 1862, the triple contract was amended by the contracting parties so as permit the admission of non-resident children upon payment of the tuition fees prescribed by the Union Board.

July 21, 1862, the tuition was fixed at $40 per year.

February 18, 1867, the Union Board adopted the tuition fee now charged nonresidents-$60 per year.