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REPORTS
OF THE
SELECTMEN OF FAIRHAVEN
ON THE
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE TOWN ;
AND OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE,
FOR THE YEAR 1864-5.
NEW BEDFORD : E ANTHONY & SONS, PRINTERS, 67 UNION STREET. 1865.
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REPORT
OF THE
SELECTMEN OF FAIRHAVEN,
ON THE
FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF THE TOWN;
For the Year ending March 27th, 1865.
NEW BEDFORD : E. ANTHONY & SONS, PRINTERS, 67 UNION STREET. 1865.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
ACCOUNT OF THE COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
Uncollected taxes as per last report, $7,523.03
Amount of tax bills placed in hands of T. Damon, Jr.,
for 1864 and 1865,
29,380.00
Interest on taxes,
117.22
$37,020.25
Amount collected by T. Damon, Jr., and paid
State treasurer,
$9,144.00
County treasurer,
2,872.12
Town treasurer,
15,214.01 $27,230.13
Abatement for prompt pay,
1,390.94
Taxes remitted,
564.78
Uncollected taxes for 1857 and 1858,
$21.32
Uncollected taxes for 1859,
220.19
Uncollected taxes for 1860,
742.12
Uncollected taxes for 1861,
1,006.03
Uncollected taxes for 1862,
1,359.25
Uncollected taxes for 1863,
1,565.44
Uncollected taxes for 1864,
2,920.05
$7,834.40
$37,020.25
The Selectmen have examined the accounts of Tucker Damon, Jr., Collector of taxes, and find them correct.
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TUCKER DAMON, JR., TREASURER,
IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF FAIRHAVEN, DR.
To balance from old account,
$340.74
To taxes received from collector,
15,214.01
To cash from town of Mattapoisett,
224.07
To cash from town of Dartmouth,
65.40
To cash from town of Marion,
27.00
To cash from town of Acushnet,
99.10
To cash from town of Middleborough,
21.63
To cash from town farm,
10.77
To cash from Fairhaven Bank, dividends,
276.00
To cash from Ebenezer Hathaway,
150.00
To cash from state treasurer,
3,718.31
To cash from Seth A. Mitchell,
33.00
To cash for old composition,
270.55
To cash for sales stone,
76.87
To cash from Joseph Millett,
193.60
To cash from Stillman Leavitt,
153.86
To cash from town farm,
185.79
To cash for town map,
1.25
To cash from Terry & Tripp, assignees,
$800.00
To cash from Elery T. Taber,
4,800.00
To cash from Benjamin H. Chase,
1,000.00
To cash from Wm. H. Haskins,
1,500.00
To cash from Joseph B. Taber,
1,000.00
To cash from Bartholomew Taber,
1,000.00
To cash from Obed Nye and S. P. Alden,
1,000.00
To cash from Jenney & Tripp, assignees,
1,000.00
To cash from Fairhaven National Bank,
7,896.00
To cash from Manuel Morandar,
1,000.00
To cash from M. Morandar, trustee,
850.00
To cash from Wm. N. Alden,
1,000.00
22,846.00
To cash from state treasurer for state aid,
2,616.39
$46,524.34
Cr.
By orders drawn on treasurer and paid for account of highways, public schools, support of poor, and incidental account, By balance on hand carried to new account,
$46,210.75
313.59
$46,524.34
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REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS.
Order in favor SETH A. MITCHELL, for payment to
William Dwelly,
$21.00
Charles Snell, 21.13
John Sweeney,
18.00
John Howard,
14.00
Wm. C. Ford,
19.10
William P. Alden,
21.40
Francis Keith,
12.00
Town farm, stone,
33.00
Thomas Hannah,
2.60
Josiah R. Howland,
26.50
Thomas Bates,
2.25
John Curren,
12.00
Philip Nolan,
6.00
Timothy Morton,
15.60
David C. Wood,
5.50
Seth A. Mitchell,
48.89
$278.97
Order favor JOB WILLCOX, for payment to
Job Willcox,
$46.41
Reuben Austin,
4.70
Paul Hathaway,
10.10
Sylvanus Skiff,
5.10
Watson Jenney,
19.20
Alonzo Hill,
5.10
Seth Jenney,
3,00
George Stevens,
3.00
Seth Stevens,
9.00
Robert Parker,
1.50
Charles Jenney,
3.00
Joseph Jenney,
4.50
Peleg R. Drew,
5.00
Charles Drew,
3.00
William P. Sullings,
11.96
Ebenezer Tinkham,
3.00
Edwin Baker,
1.50
139.07
Order favor JABEZ T. HOWARD, for payment to
J. T. Howard,
$50.00
Henry T. Howard,
10.05
Dennis Stevens,
9.15
Charles Bryant,
7.50
Benjamin B. Tripp,
9.75
Joseph King,
7.65
John Gelett,
1.50
Richard West,
10.50
Welcome J. Lawton,
6.00
Levi Blossom, '
12.50
Ephraim Delano.
1.50
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Thomas Delano,
1.50
Samuel Jenkins,
1.50
Albert Howard,
11.18
Charles Howard,
11.18
151.46
Order favor STILLMAN LEAVITT, for payment to
Stillman Leavitt,
$153.86
James Tripp,
9.00
Francis Tripp,
6.00
Paul Hathaway,
7.50
176.36
Order favor JOHN M. HATHAWAY, for payment to
Allen Durfee,
$2.10
George Deane,
7.30
Daniel Deane,
2.70
Charles Sherman,
5,85
Wilbur Sturtevant,
1.50
Beriah Austin,
29.67
Ebenezer Alden,
8.60
J. Mendall,
6.50
Seth Alden,
19.87
Henry Brownell,
21.37
Seth Stevens,
10.00
Sylvanus Skiff,
4.12
Henry Jenney,
4.50
Freeman Benson,
2.62
John M. Hathaway,
34.52
161.22
Balance carried to new account,
92.92
$1,000.00
Credit.
By appropriation,
$1,000.00
SUPPORT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
High School.
Albert Hale, teacher,
$243.75
A. D. Caldwell, teacher,
160.00
H. W. Warren, teacher,
312.97
M. L. Farwell, teacher,
227.50
Carrie D. Pope, teacher,
35.00
E. P. Hamblin, teacher,
78.75
Sarah A. Akin, cleaning,
10.00
Job C. Tripp, expenses,
17.13
Levi Nickerson, repairs,
1.25
J. A. Warner, repairs,
3.35
Wm. S. Guild, repairs,
9.00
$907.08
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L. Bisbee, repairs,
7.42
A. G. Ryder, fuel,
2.50
Artemas Morse, fuel,
6.00
Fish, Robinson & Co., fuel,
108.40
Purrington & Taber, painting,
11.66
Joseph T. Tobey, pianoforte,
2.45
George H. Taylor, care,
44.55
C. Maxfield, supplies,
11.04
F. A. Brown & Co., supplies,
10.13
F. M. Fuller, supplies,
3.25
$1,306.10
District No. 1.
P. W. Sparrow, teacher,
99.00
Benjamin S. Tripp, fuel,
25.76
124.76
District No. 2.
Catharine H. Eldridge, teacher,
105.00
Sallie R. Brady, teacher,
85.00
A. G. Ryder, fuel,
5.75
Fish, Robinson & Co., fuel,
15.00
Edward West, labor,
4.35
215.10
District No. 3.
Mary S. Russell, teacher,
150.00
District No. 4.
Charles E. E. Mosher, teacher,
211.25
Lois Deane, teacher,
205.50
B. Holmes, teacher,
315.00
Amanda Clark, teacher,
140.00
E. P. Hamlin, teacher,
66.50
M. A. Fairfield, teacher,
160.00
Amelia A. Liscomb, teacher,
136.00
Millie S. Eldridge, teacher,
152.00
Mary G. Wood, teacher,
85.50
F. S. Bradford, care,
13.00
Charlotte Hall, care,
1.60
Emery P. Dwelly, care,
.90
Horatio Jenney, care,
12.60
Lydia Bryant, care,
4.75
John Sweeney, care,
25.10
Henry D. Taylor, care,
7.40
Enos Joseph, care,
5.05
G. G. Allen, care,
16.40
B. Taber, Jr., care,
4.00
A. G. Ryder, fuel,
20.37
Artemas Morse, fuel,
29.28
Fish, Robinson & Co., fuel,
128.86
Francis Hammond, labor,
1.75
1,742.81
District No. 5.
Lydia M. Cobb, teacher,
$81.00
Sylvanus Skiff, labor,
1.84
Jonathan Cowen, fuel,
2.71
85.55
District No. 6.
P. W. Sparrow, teacher,
77.00
Laura A. Omey, teacher,
69.30
146.30
District No. 7.
Kate Jenney, teacher,
95.00
S. R. Holmes, teacher,
51.00
Helen M. Cook, teacher,
50.00
Joseph Durfee, care,
4.00
Adam Hathaway, fuel,
13.00
213.00
$3,983.62
Balance to new account,
1,129.99
$5,113.61
Credits.
By balance of old account,
$988.72
By annual appropriation,
4,000.00
By amount received from state,
124.89
$5,113.61
SUPPORT OF POOR.
Orders drawn for support of poor
in the alms-house for 1864 and 1865,
$354.52
out of alms-house for 1864 and 1865,
390.08
George Atwood,
30.00
Isaac Fairchild,
21.00
State lunatic hospital,
346.39
City of New Bedford,
81.14
Amos T. Pierce,
9.02
S. M. Hall,
30.00
A. P. Wilcox,
4.78
Purrington & Taber,
7.83
Joseph B. Taber,
129.00
Rufus Allen,
193.00
F. M. Fuller,
89.37
Marshall Briggs,
6.55
S. S. Swift & Co.,
40.23
E. R. Almy,
16.23
Fairhaven union store,
58.98
Stillman Leavitt,
325.00
R. M. Simmons,
2.50
Thomas J. Peed,
47.50
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Clare & Macomber, James Le Baron, Alfred Nye, Elery T. Taber,
65.01
95.00
180.23
11.50
Balance carried to incidental account,
1,706.73
$4,241.09
Credits.
By annual appropriation,
$3,000.00
By sales from town farm and labor,
653.89
By cash from town of Mattapoisett,
224.07
By cash from town of Dartmouth,
65.40
By cash from town of Marion,
27.00
By cash from town of Acushnet,
99.10
By cash from town of Middleborough,
21.63
By cash from Ebenezer Hathaway,
150.00
$4,241.09
INCIDENTAL ACCOUNT.
Fire Department.
Engine company No. 3,
$503.34
Engine company No. 5,
316.67
Nicholas Hathaway, watching,
2.13
Benjamin F. Drew, labor,
14.00
Charles F. Stetson, labor,
4.40
Martin Westgate, labor,
12.10
Mann & Hoeg, labor,
22.25
Wm. Mann, labor,
8.75
Wm. C. Ford, labor,
4.26
Alfred Delano, Jr., horse,
2.50
James L. Butman, horse,
7.00
Benjamin Butman, horse,
1.00
Francis Hammond, watching,
2.00
Oliver Mandell, watching,
2.00
Wm. Rounseville, watching,
1.00
Benjamin F. Terry, watching,
2.17
Thomas L. Allen, repairs,
5.00
Purrington & Taber, repairs,
2.25
B. & F. iron works, repairs,
2.00
Tripp & Bourne, repairs,
50.69
Allen & Brownell, repairs,
10.75
Luther Cole, repairs,
6.25
Joseph B. Taber, supplies,
1.56
F. M. Fuller, supplies,
10.27
Fairhaven union store, supplies,
17.27
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$2,534.36
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Z. Whittemore, supplies,
8.40
James I Church, supplies,
1.10
Wm. H. Willis, hose, (balance,)
461.33
Asahel Wheeler, oil,
46.29
William Wilcox, lumber,
12.40
$1,541.13
War Expenses.
State aid furnished families of volunteers,
$2,728.33
Bounties to volunteers,
3,665.00
Taber & Almy, travelling expenses,
34.25
6,427.58
Town Debt.
Paid note favor assignees est. J. R. Turner, $1,800.00 Paid note favor Fairhaven Institution for Savings,
8,000.00
Paid note favor B. Taber,
1,000.00
Paid note favor Fairhaven Bank,
1,000.00
Paid note favor Fairhaven National Bank,
7,000.00
Paid note favor Joseph B. Taber,
1,000.00
Paid note favor Louisa Cowen,
1,600.00
Paid note favor Andrew P. Jenney,
400.00
Paid note favor Wm. H. Haskins,
100.00
Paid note favor Jonathan Cowen,
710.00
Paid note favor Phinneas E. Terry,
3,000.00
$25,610.00
Paid interest on town debt,
2,420.26
28,030.26
Salaries.
Selectmen :
Bartholomew Taber,
$260.00
E. R. Almy,
75.00
Elery T. Taber,
25.00 $360.00
Overseers of Poor :
Bartholomew Taber,
40.00
E. R. Almy,
25.00
Elery T. Taber, ,
45.00
110.00
Assessors :
E. R. Almy,
155.00
John Terry,
139.80
Charles Bryant,
28.00
322.80
Special Assessors :
George F. Tripp,
7.00
John M. Howland,
6.00
13.00
School Committee :
Charles Drew,
50.00
Job C. Tripp,
50.00
Charles Bryant,
15.00
115.00
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Fire Wards :
William H. Hoeg,
$10.00
William Mann,
10.00
Aaron Savery,
10.00
Willard R. Eldred,
10.00
40.00
Constables :
Albert G. Liscomb,
16.13
William Mann,
14.33
30.46
Town Clerk, Treasurer and Collector : Tucker Damon, Jr.,
400.00
Register :
Tucker Damon, Jr.,
55.29
1,446.55
Incidentals.
E. R. Almy, certified copy of tax book year 1864, $35.00
John Terry, certified copy of tax book year 1863, 60.00
Hervey Wadsworth, repairs,
29.30
Isaac Wood, travelling expenses,
5.00
Job C. Tripp, travelling expenses,
5.32
O. Prescott, legal services,
18.00
Alfred Macy, legal services,
150.00
C. E. Clark, surveying,
4.75
E. Anthony, printing,
105.25
Fessenden & Baker, advertising,
34.00
A. Taber & Brother, stationery,
6.76
Town of Acushnet, taxes,
140.94
School district No. 1, taxes,
9.44
Phoenix Hall, rent for hall,
$50.00
Rent of office,
55.00
105 00
Estate of John Allen, land rent,
5.00
B. Taber, incidentals, 21.30
E. R. Almy, incidentals,
9.34
Tripp & Bourne, claim on B. Hathaway's estate, 9.67
Dexter Jenney, claim on B. Hathaway's estate,
15.43
Mrs. B. Hathaway, claim on B. Hathaway's estate, 545.57
Fairhaven M. M. Insurance Co., iron safe,
200.00
Wm. C. Ford, 13.00
2.00
1,530.07
Abatement of taxes for prompt payment,
Taxes remitted, 600.78
$40,967.31
Amount overdrawn to 1864,
2,760.41
Charles H. Taber and others, labor,
1,390.94
$43,727.72
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Credits.
By annual appropriation, $6,000.00
By dividend from Fairhaven Bank, 276.00
By cash from Commonwealth for state aid, 2,616.39
By cash from Commonwealth, corporation tax, 3,338.94
By cash from Commonwealth, premium for recruits, 254.48
By loan from assignees J. K. Turner's estate, 800.00
By loan from Elery T. Taber, 4,800.00
By loan from Benjamin H. Chase,
1,000.00
By loan from Wm. H. Haskins,
1,500.00
By loan from Joseph B. Taber,
1,000.00
By loan from Bartholomew Taber,
1,000.00
By loan from Prescott and Taber, assignees,
1,000.00
By loan from Fairhaven National Bank,
7,896.00
By loan from Manuel Morandar, 1,000.00
By loan from M. Morandar, trustee,
850.00
By loan from O. Nye & S. P. Alden,
1,000.00
By sale of old copper from engine,
270.55
By loan from Wm. N. Alden,
1,000.00
By sale of town map, 1.25
By unexpended balance from "poor" account, 1,706.73
By overlay on taxes in 1864,
1,253.13 $38,563.47
Amount overdrawn to 1865,
5,164.25
$43,727.72
TOWN DEBT.
Loans from banks and individuals,
$45,070.00
Outstanding bills,
673.80
Outstanding orders,
778.28
$46,522.08
Deduct from above amount due from Com-
monwealth for state aid,
$3,295.27
Due from city of Fall River,
32.00
Due from town of Acushnet,
63.64
Due from town of Dartmouth,
104.28
Amount of uncollected taxes,
7,834.40
23 shares Fairhaven Bank stock,
2,270.00
Cash in hands town treasurer,
313.59
13,913.28
Total indebtedness of town,
$32,608.80
TOWN LIQUOR AGENCY.
Stock and cash on hand March 16, 1864, Profit on sales,
$404.52
87.05
$491.57
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Contra Cr.
By stock on hand March 16, 1865,
$260.13
20.00
By government license, By agent's salary, By cash on hand,
70.00
141.44
$491.57
SCHOOL BOOK AGENCY.
Books on hand March 16, 1864,
$184.57
Cash for books sold,
471.89
Balance from old account.
31.48
Balance due agent,
66.36
$754.30
Contra Cr.
By books on hand March 16, 1865,
$154.13
By amount due for books sold,
35.73
By cash paid for books,
513.54
By loss on books sold,
1.12
By salary of agent,
49.78
Respectfully submitted.
BARTHOLOMEW TABER,
E. R. ALMY, Selectmen.
ELERY T. TABER,
$754.30
We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing accounts and believe them to be correct.
JOB C. TRIPP, Committee FREDERIC TABER, Son Accounts.
REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
Town of Fairhaven, ٦
FOR THE YEAR 1864-65.
NEW BEDFORD : E. ANTHONY & SONS, PRINTERS, 67 UNION STREET. 1865.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
To the Inhabitants of the Town of Fairhaven :
The General Statutes of the Commonwealth require from the School Committee of towns, an annual report of the condition of the schools within their limits; which report is to contain such statements and suggestions in relation to the schools as the Committee deem necessary or proper to promote the interests thereof. The obligation on your Committee is therefore imperative, or they would shrink from a labor, the production of which they fear has become an annual infliction of an unwelcome subject to their readers. It must be, necessarily, the same story of progress or retro- gression ; of high aspiration or thoughtless indifference ; of obedience or insubordination ; of co-operation or hindrance ; we would gladly be relieved of the duty, but the imperative " shall" of the Statutes permits no discharge.
The condition of the schools generally, for the year now closed, will compare favorably with that of any preceding year. The teachers, in many of the schools have been earnest, faithful and efficient in their work; especially wherever suitable age and experience, combined, with good common sense, have been the basis and accompaniment of their work. These qualities have in most cases, commanded and secured the respect of the pupils, and drawn towards the teach- ers the co-operative influence of parents. While on the other hand cases of insubordination have occurred in schools, where otherwise there had been a remarkable degree of order and progress. But in these instances the delinquents were of an age and condition, that seemed in their own view at
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least, to absolve them from the duty and obligation which belonged only to little children. We are glad, however, to state that such resistance to what was simply right and proper, was ended by an immediate dismissal from school. A boy who is too big to obey the proper requirements of a teacher, or too big to be punished for refusal, is, in the judgement of your committee, too big for the schools.
In one of the districts, the school has somewhat suffered from causes over which your committee have a very doubt- ful control. They are not umpires in contested questions. concerning the powers of Prudential Committees. The Statutes give to the Prudential Committees the appointing of and contracting with their teachers, whenever the towns at their annual meeting, so determine, subject only to the approval by the School Committee of the qualifications of the teachers thus appointed. We here record, how- ever, our opinion with the unanimous opinion of our prede- cessors, that much of the friction in districts might be avoid- ed by allowing the law to stand as it is, instead of asking of the town to grant this special privilege to districts, which being exercised, is often the fruitful source of injury to the schools. Although additional care and responsibility would fall upon the school committee, which they by no means de- sire, it would put an end, in a great measure, to the personal and local jealousies and criminations, whether well founded or not, which so often prevails, to the serious injury of all that was hoped for in respect to such schools, for the time being. We forbear to say more on this point, as from the pressure of an increasing experience on this matter, the Legislature is rapidly adapting its laws to meet what is now considered a necessity. We only would suggest that it is more graceful to yield the question from choice, than to wait until the power to exercise that choice is taken away.
Owing to the increased financial burdens of the town, your committee have been unable to secure that permanency in respect to the principal of the High School that is desirable. A teacher possessing the qualities and experience so needful in a school of such importance, will always be sought after
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by other towns, where vacancies occur; and being less able than they to offer adequate salaries, we are often subject, consequently, to changes in this school that cannot be avoid- ed. It has been so during the year, causing long intervals in which the school has been entirely suspended; and so far retarded in its progress. We are happy, however, in stat- ing, that notwithstanding these disadvantages the school, under the charge of the present principal, promises a good deal of success.
In this connection, your school committee cannot with- hold the suggestion, that in their judgement, many parents err in their solicitude respecting the entrance of their child- ren into the High School. Many seem to look upon it as the goal to be reached, rather than as the place where four years of hard study in the elements of science are to be passed ; and that to be able to endure the severe drill and come out with credit as scholars, they altogether overlook " the pro-requisite of a thorough preparation for such an ordeal. And your committee, overborn by the pressure of parental desire, are too much led to diminish rather than increase or even retain the standard of admission; and to this cause is mainly attributable, much of the failure of the majority of those who enter, to go through the course. A good preparation, good habits of study and a right aim to be something in the world, other things being equal, will carry them in and carry them through, with all that is hopeful in their prospects of an honorable and useful life.
The Statutes by which it is made the duty of your com- mittec to regulate the admission of applicants to this school is as follows : Chap. 41, Sect. 4. " The School Committee shall determine the number and qualifications of the scholars to be admitted into the school, kept for the benefit of the whole town." They prescribe no principle and no mode by which the school committee are to determine the number and qualifications of those so admitted. The whole matter appears to have been entrusted to their judgement, be that judgement wise or unwise. The only exception they can find to the uncon- ditional authority and duty devolving on them in the matter,
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is seen in section 9, of the same chapter of the General Statutes, which is in the words following: "No person shall be excluded from a public school on account of the race, color, or religious opinions of the applicant or scholar." Your com- mittee in coming to the conclusions they do respecting the " qualifications and number" to be admitted to the High School, often disappoint the hopes and expectations of many whose good opinions they desire and value as much as any other class of citizens in the town, and they would gladly turn aside and look for some other conditions or cir- cumstances in place of their own judgement, which might justify the entrance of applicants; but the Statutes are im- perative. Their mandate is " the School Committee shall de- termine," and they are left with no liberty to decline the authority or to compromise their judgement.
Your committee cannot close these statements and sug- gestions without urging upon districts and their prudential committees, that, while there is much that is gratifying in" the progress made during the year, there is room for greater advance, and to make such advance proportionate to the means within your control, requires a careful and judicious selection of teachers. Let them be of proper age, whose leading characteristic is a love for their work, amounting, if possible, to an enthusiasm. See that they have good com- mon sense. Patience in untiring efforts to develop and lead young thoughts to perceive the first principles of ele- mentary knowledge, directing them always to what is prac- tical and useful in life-thus forming a love of study in the mind of pupils, and giving them to see and feel the uses of learning in the work of every day. See that the teacher is governed by a high moral tone in all his or her intercourse with their pupils. Its very emanation impresses the child with its responsibility. It secures docility and subordina- tion where otherwise would be stubbornness and resistance. It gives character to the workings of the school-room, and attracts to such a teacher the confidence of the parent; for however lightly moral obligation may sit upon the conscience of many, there are few who are so lost to its sanctions, as
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not to feel that their children are safe under the guardian- ship of such as are controlled by its principles. Having secured such a teacher, do all in your power to render their place pleasant and permanent. The evils growing out of the retention of a teacher who is not even up to the mark of what is most desirable, are in the judgement of your committee, far less than what follow an ever-changing policy in respect to some one who is new and untried.
Your committee would furthermore suggest to parents, the duty of occasionally visiting the school-room. It gives encouragement to the teacher. They feel they have your sympathies, and that your cooperation at home will not fail them in a work so full of trial and difficulty. See that your children attend regularly and promptly. The average of some schools as shown by the tables herein included, indicate a lamentable delinquency in this respect. Making all due al- lowance for sickness, there is a sad fault in attendance. Your children are to reap the harvest that neglected oppor- tunities are sure to produce. Do not say you cannot con- strain them against their choice to be true to their privileges. It is but admitting you have lost that wholesome control over them, so necessary to their success in life. An over indulgence here may be ruin to them hereafter.
The amount of our appropriation last year for schools, was
$4,000.00
Received from the state fund,
129.89
Unexpended balances 1863-64,
91.52
$4,221.41
Of which there have been appropriated :
To District No. 1,
$190.00
To District No. 2,
190.00
To District No. 3,
97.00
To District No. 4,
1,765.00
To District No. 5,
190.00
To District No. 6,
190.00
To District No. 7,
175.00
1
To High School,
1,300.00
$4,097.00
Leaving unexpended balance of
$124.41
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In the judgement of your committee the sum of $4,500 raised the present year, will enable them to secure and re- tain teachers of the best qualifications, and to prolong cer- tain schools when it seems absolutely necessary to do so.
Referring you to the following tables showing the statis- tical condition of the schools for the past year, we close by expressing the hope that a more general regard may be felt in the educational interests of the children and youth of our town.
CHAS. DREW, School Committee, JOB C. TRIPP, CHAS. BRYANT, Town of Fairhaven.
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TABLE I.
SUMMER.
WINTER.
Whole number between
5 and 15, May Ist.
Attendance between
5 and 15.
Attendance under 5.
Attendance over 15.
Whole attendance.
Average attendance.
Attendance between
5 and 15.
Attendance under 5.
Attendance over 15.
Whole attendance.
Average attendance.
District No. 1,
38
382
40 27.42
34
6 40 30.50
District No. 2,
53
361
1
3837.20 351
3630.
District No. 3,
31
262
28 24.40
22 2
6 30 20.88
District No. 4,
340
Grammar,
105
2 107 85.
79
7 86 69.
Centre Intermedial,
50
50 42.30
49
49 43.18
Centre Primary,
49
49 44.25
28
28 22.70
North Primary,
271
28 20.60
17
17 12.83
South Primary,
294
33 23.
28
28 19.
South Intermedial.
24
1
25 21.
23
23 18.
District No. 5,
43
39
43,29.21
43
44734.37
District No. 6,
45
254
2
3125.
35
641 27.
District No. 7,
20
141
15 10.
16
420 12.
High School.
8
51
5957.
24
58 82 75.
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SCHOOLS.
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TABLE II.
Schools.
Terms.
Teachers.
Wages per month.
Length of school.
District No. 1,
Summer,
P. W. Sparrow,
$22.00
4} mos.
Winter,
P. W. Sparrow,
24.00
4
District No. 2,
Summer,
Kate H. Eldredge,
20.00
6
District No. 3,
Summer,
Mary S. Russell,
20.00
3
Winter,
Mary S. Russell,
30.00
7
District No. 4, Grammar,
Summer,
C. E. E. Mosher,
55.00
55
Winter,
Barnabas Holmes,
60.00
4
Assistant,
Summer,
Lois Deane,
22.00
Center Intermedial,
Summer,
M. A. Fairfield,
20.00
· 6
Winter,
M. A. Fairfield,
20.00
2
Centre Primary,
Summer,
Amanda Clark,
20.00
6
South Intermedial,
Summer,
Mary S. Wood,
19.00
53
25
South Primary,
Summer,
Amelia Liscomb,
17.00
6
66
North Primary,
Summer,
Millie S. Eldredge,
19.00
6
Winter,
Millie S. Eldredge,
19.00
2
District No. 5,
Summer,
Lucy M. Cobb,
18.00
44
Winter,
Lucy M. Cobb,
22.00
44
66
District No. 6,
Summer,
Laura A. Omney,
18.00
3 7-20.
District No. 7,
Summer,
S. R. Holmes, V
17.00
3
Winter,
Helen M. Clark, Helen M. Clark,
20.00
5
High School,
Summer,
H. W. Warren,
S
92.50
Winter,
H. W. Warren,
92.50
3
6.
Assistant,
Summer,
E. P. Hamlin,
35.00
Winter,
E. P. Hamlin,,
35.00
3
2
Winter,
Mary S. Wood,
19.00
Winter,
Amelia Liscomb,
17.00
2
Winter,
Laura A. Omey,
25.00
54
S D. A. Caldwell,
3
80.00
5₺
M. L. Farwell,
35.00
2
Winter,
Sallie Brady,
20.00
Kate H. Eldredge,
Barnabas Holmes, 5
60.00
20.00
Winter,
Winter,
Amanda Clark,
20.00
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