Number of teachers (including assistants), men— Total...... Average number of months schools were open...8.8 Amount receive from State school tax (white schools) free school fund and academic donations....... 940 2,272 3,212 $527,357 26 Amount received from State school tax appropriated to colored schools.. $111,918 23 Increase in 1899 .. $14,034 06 Amount paid for supervision and office expenses.. Amount paid for incidental expenses, including rent and fuel.......... $82,779 32 Increase in 1899 $1,421 39 STATE TABLES. The State tables annexed present the usual summary of interesting facts. Table "A" shows the population of Maryland by counties and the number of white and colored, according to the census of 1890. Table "B" shows the population between five and twenty and the quarterly distribution of the State school tax to the white schools of the several counties and the city of Balti more. Table "C" shows the colored population between five and twenty, and the quarterly distribution of the State school tax to colored schools of the several counties and the city of Baltimore. Table "D" shows the assessed value of the property subject to taxation in the several counties, with the amounts, as "State School Tax," "Free School Fund," "Academic Fund," "Appropriation to Colored Schools," and the "County School Tax." Table "E" shows receipts from all sources, with the totals, (including balances carried over.) Table "F" shows the expenditures of the several counties under the items of teachers' salaries, incidental expenses, books and stationery, building, repairing and furniture, supervision and office expenses, miscellaneous, interest, indebtedness paid, with the balance on hand and totals. Table "G" shows the number of pupils in the primary grades, and the number studying special branches. |