Some of the returns, embraced in the Abstract, were not received until after the first day of November, but all received are included in the Abstract. The towns not heard from, are-Charlemont, Clarksburgh, Florida, Goshen, Harvard, Holland, Lenox, Monroe, Tolland, Wayland, Woburn.

BOSTON, Jan. 1, 1838.

HORACE MANN,

Secretary of the Board of Education.

BOSTON.

Population,
Valuation,

80,325 $80,000,000

No of Public Schools,

No. of Scholars of all ages

in all the Schools,

In Winter,

In Summer,

Average attendance in the
Schools,

In Winter,

In Summer,

No. of persons between 4 and 16 years of age in the town,

91

BOOKS USED IN THE SCHOOLS. Emerson's Spelling Book; Pierpont's Introduction to National Reader; do. First Class Book; Goodrich's History of U. S.; Alger's Murray's English Grammar; Parker and Fox's Progressive Exercises in English Grammar; Field's Geography and Atlas ; 9,683 Frost's Exercises in Parsing; Worcester's 9,683 and Walker's Dictionaries; Emerson's 1st, 2d and 3d Parts of North American Arithmetic; Robinson's Book-keeping; Colburn's 8,231 and Bailey's Algebra; Worcester's General 8,231 History, and History of U. S.; Legendre's Geometry; Constitution of U. S.; Worces

17,485 ter's Ancient Geography.

mths. dys.

Aggregate length of the
Schools,

$1,092

Amount of Money raised

40

REMARKS.-In this city, there are seventysix primary schools, and fifteen schools kept for the benefit of all the inhabitants. All the teachers pay their own board. Instead of giving the average attendance on each school, according to the form of the blank prescribed by law, the return states under 119 that head, in the "summer" column, "the average attendance is about eighty-five per 40 cent." The abstract is filled up accordingly. There is no specific statement of the number of scholars attending each of the seventy-six primary schools, nor of the average attendance therein. Instead of specific statements in regard to academies and private schools, the time they are kept, the number of the scholars, and the estimated amount of money

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$102 00
$19 32

by Taxes for the support 107,500 00 paid for tuition therein, the return states

"there are a great number of private schools; the number cannot be ascertained, the mode 78,750 00 of keeping them, nor the number of pupils attending them. They are generally kept the whole year with short vacations." "The None. amount estimated as paid for private tuition, is greater than that paid for public schools; the amount cannot be ascertained."

$8,000 00

There is a fund, "the donation of Abiel Smith," the nominal value about $7,000; yearly income $500. Also $1,000," the donation of Rufus Webb, Esq.," to furnish books for indigent pupils in the writing department of the Franklin school.

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