ERRATA.

Page 1-12th line from top, for " $12 82," read "12 32." "85-16th line from top, for " $33 00," read " 13 00."

"130-22d line from bottom, for "44," read "11." The Return stated

that the Academy was kept 44 months, which is presumed to mean, not months, but weeks, and it is accordingly corrected by carrying eleven only into the Recapitulation.

SUFFOLK COUNTY.

BOSTON,

{(1) Population, 80,325. Valuation, $80,000,000.

Number of Public Schools, 106.

(2) No. of Scholars of all ages in all the Schools-In Summer, 10,766-In Winter, 10,766. (3) Average attendance in the Schools-In Summer, 8,871-In Winter, 8,871.

(4) No. of persons between 4 and 16 years of age in the town, 18,000.-No. of persons under 4 years of age who attend School, -No. over 16 years of age who attend School, 26. (5) Aggregate length of the Schools, 1,272 months.—In Suinmer, 636—In Winter, 636. (6) No. of Teachers in Summer-M. 44-F. 145.-No. of Teachers in Winter-M. 44—F. 145. (7) Average wages paid per month, including board-To Males, $104 55-To Females, $20 82. (8) Average value of board per month-Of Males, $13 00-Of Females, $8 50. (9) Average wages per month, exclusive of board-Of Males, $91 55-Of Females, $12 82. (10) Amount of money raised by taxes for the support of Schools, including only the wages of Teachers, board and fuel, $96,458 78.

(11) Amount of board and fuel, if any, contributed for Public Schools, $

(12) No. of incorporated Academies,

Aggregate of months kept,

Scholars, -Aggregate paid for tuition, $

-Average number of

(13) No. of unincorporated Academies, Private Schools, and Schools kept to prolong Common Schools, 155.-Aggregate of months kept, 1,785.-Average No. of Scholars, 3,369.Aggregate paid for tuition, $100,000.

(14) Amount of Local Funds, $9,050.-Income from same, $502 50.

BOOKS USED.-Spelling-Emerson's National Spelling Book. Reading-Blake's First Reader, Primary and Reading Lessons, New Testament, Pierpont's National Reader, Pierpont's Introduction to National Reader, Andrews' Latin Sallust, Jacobs' Greek Reader, Gould's Horace and Virgil, Greek Testament, Xenophon, Horace, Homer. Grammar-Andrews' and Stoddard's Latin Grammar, Liber Primus, Viri Romæ, Fisk's Greek Grammar and Exercises, Murray's English Grammar abridged by Alger, Parker and Fox's Progressive Exercises in English Grammar, Frost's Exercises in Parsing. Geography-Worcester's and Atlas. Arithmetic -Emerson's N American Arithmetics, Parts 1st, 2d and 3d, Lacroix, Colburn's and Bailey's Algebra, Legendre's Geometry, &c. All others-Walker's Dictionary, Paley's Evidences of Christianity, Worcester's General History and History of the U. S., Dillaway's Roman Antiquities, Cæsar's Commentaries, Cornelius Nepos, Grund's Geometry, Robinson's Book.

REMARKS —Of the Local Funds, $7000 is a donation from Abiel Smith, Esq. for the education of colored children; $1000 from R. Webb, Esq. for the supply of writing books for indigent children in the Franklin School, and $1050 a fund, the income of which is applied to the payment of prizes in the Latin School. The number of scholars in the Private Schools is not given. It is supposed to be about the same as last year.

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SELECTION FROM REPORT. * Improvements have been made, from time to time, in the several schools, and it is believed that the schools are in as flourishing a condition as they ever have been. The committee cannot point out any improvement that it would be advisable to make at the present time; if any defect shall hereafter be discovered, no doubt future committees will apply such remedy as shall promote the interest, and increase the usefulness of these public institutions, which are justly the pride of Boston.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE. JONA. CHAPMAN, PHILIP MARETT, WILLIAM CROSWELL, ISAAC R. BUTTS, STEPHEN W. OLNEY, JAMES II, BARNES, Ezrá Palmer, Jr., Rollin