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3301 40
J. R. Nickles,
18 00
George H. Baird,
18 00
H. E. Stickney,
18 00
Mary A. Phelps,
96 00
Samuel Dustin,
120 00
Georgiana J. Pearson,
48 00
D. R. Upton, guardian,
48 00-
888 00
$4,189 40
LEMUEL C. EAMES, J. R. NICKLES, WILMINGTON.
WILMINGTON, February 1st, 1868.
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LIQUOR AGENT'S REPORT.
Town of Wilmington in account with S. B. Nichols, Agent.
CR.
By cash received for liquor sold, DR.
$152 19
To cash paid out on liquors,
78 17
66 salary of Agent,
50 00-
128 17
Balance in hand,
24 02
Stock of Liquor and Fixtures on hand :-
Liquor on hand, $10 00
Fixtures “ 4 47- 14 47
SELECTMEN OF -
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WARREN EAMES, TREASURER, IN ACCOUNT
1867, DR.
Feb .- To cash in Treasury on former settlement, $1566 28
9 71
Balance due on Tax list of 1860,
1861, 1862, and 1863, 59 10
1866,
525 48
Tax list of 1866 committed, 9,838 27
Cash received for Town's Notes issued,
860 00
Received of James Skelton, taxes of 1865 and 1866,
110 16
66 State Treasurer, on account of aid to families of volunteers, 1101 27
66
State Treasurer, for Corporation Tax 89 41
from State School Fund,
128 14
66 for interest on taxes,
59 59
Rent of Town Hall
97 25
66 Pedlers' Licenses,
3 00
66 Lots in Cemetery,
42 00
$14,489 66
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WITH THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON.
1867-8
CR.
By cash paid sundry Notes of the Town,
$1,450 00
Town Orders,
4,746 98
66
on Town's debt,
872 89
66 on account of School fund,
71 94
State Tax,
2,950 00
60
County Tax,
525 41
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Stationery,
1 00
State Sealer of Weights and Measures,
7 50
Balance due on Tax lists of 1861, 1862, and 1863,
59 10
66
1866,
41 48
1867,
239 85
Cash in Treasury, 3,523 51
$14,489 66
The undersigned, duly authorized by the Town, has this day examined the above account of WARREN EAMES, Treasurer, and find the same correctly cast and sufficiently vouched for, and that there is due from him to the Town thirty five hundred and twenty three dollars and fifty one cents.
CYRUS L. CARTER, Committee.
WILMINGTON, Feb. 20th, 1868.
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LIABILITIES OF THE TOWN.
Note to Henry Buck, dated April 10, 1867,
$200 00
High School Associates, May 3, 1867, 60 00
Mrs. Lavinia A. Avery, June 29th, 1867, 100 00
Thomas D. Bond, June 29, 1867,
500 00
Benjamin Buck, May 1, 1866,
2,000 00
J. L. Carter, May 1, 1863, Do., do ..
1,500 00
Rich Carter, May 27, 1866
800 00
Simeon Jaquith, Guardian, Jan. 10th, 1867 413 00
L. H. Eames, March 27th, 1865 100 00
Mrs. Polly Parker, March 23rd, 1865 138 00
Levi & Ward Parker, Executors, April 4, 1865 926 46
Otis C. Buck, April 19, 1865 200 00
L. H. Eames, April 24, 1865 50 00
Abigail Burnap, May 1, 1865
500 00
Moses Pearson, Aug. 10, 1865
2,000 00
Darius Buck, Aug. 9, 1865
600 00
H. L. Bancroft, Sept. 9, 1865
450 00
N. W. C. Carter, May 11, 1866
1,000 00
Nathan E. Buck, May 24, 1866
300 00
Outstanding Town Orders, 200 00
Due three School Districts account, State School Fund 76 89
Balance due Henry Buck, April 1, 1868, 150 00
Due Surveyors of Highways, 230 00
13,494 35
AVAILABLE ASSETS.
Cash in hands of Treasurer, $3,523 51
Balance due on Tax List of 1861, 1862, and 1863, 59 10
Amount due from the State for monies
advanced to families of volunteers 690
from Jan. 1, 1867, to Feb. 1, 1868, 8 0- 4,478 61
Total amount of indebtedness over available assets, $9,015 64
1,000 00
Report of the School Committee
FOR THE SCHOOL-YEAR 1867-8.
In looking back over the course of the school year now closing, your committee are happy to speak of more than ordinary prosperity in educational matters. In re- gard to teachers we have been very fortunate. Three of them, Miss Rebecca Eames in the East District, Miss Lucelia A. Butters in the South, and Miss Elona A. Eames in the Centre, have been long and favorably known among us. They have been thoroughly tried, and we hesitate not to say that they have "attained un- to the first three" among teachers anywhere. We have heretofore spoken in our Reports of the particular ex- cellencies of each, and the success which has crowned their labors, and shall not therefore, repeat what has before been said of them and their schools. Nothing has been more evident in connection with their contin- ued services in town, than the importance of securing the same teachers, so far as possible from year to year.
In the North District, Miss Carrie E. Wood taught in the summer, and her sister, Miss Mary P. Wood in the fall. Both are superior and experienced teachers, and were much beloved by parents and scholars. Could either of them be secured as a permanent teacher, we have no doubt there would soon be infused into the
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scholars in this District, more genuine love for study, and more enthusiasm and determination to excel, This intense interest in study above play, above "good times," and above every other concern is much more manifest in some of our districts, than it used to be. It has not of late been so manifest among the North District schol- ars as we could wish.
In the West District, also, we have had two good, faithful teachers, Miss Mary V. R. Williams of Stone- ham, in the summer, and Miss Eliza J. Norris of Read- ing, in the winter. It was refreshing to witness Miss Williams' power and success in the explanation of prin- ciples. She made even young scholars understand those principles. And not only so, they could explain them to others. In the strictest sense of the term, she was a thorough teacher. It was a great disappointment to all, that ill health prevented her return in the winter. Miss Norris entered on her work with full preparation. Considering that this was her first experience in teach- ing, she was quite successful. Rarely docs one at so ear- ly an age accomplish so much. The school in the West is small, and it is a pity that it could not be incorpora- ted with some other portion of the town. By this means two poor school-houses might give way to one new, larger and more suitable edifice.
The schools have not been visited so faithfully by par- ents as they should have been. This was particularly noticed by Mr. Phipps, Agent of the Mass. Board of Education at his late visit here. He commented on this failure of parents, to look after their schools with a good deal of severity. We do hope his remarks will sink deep into the ears and hearts of the fathers and men of this community. These remarks were none too severe. Hardly a father, except in the North District, ever takes
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the trouble to enter the school room, where his children spend so large and so important a part of their time. This ought not so to be. It is a wrong done to your chil- dren-a wrong done to yourselves, thus to neglect your schools. As was said in our last Report,-"Every par- ent, both father and mother, should make it a point to visit the school in his district, at least once each term, and oftener if possible."
A good effect has been produced, the past year, by the increased appropriation of the town for school pur- poses. Although we have had but little more than the former length of schools, some seven months, yet the teachers have been better paid, and so have labored more hopefully and earnestly. And it is inspiring to the whole community to know that the town prizes her schools, and is determined to provide for them. £ And
so it will be in the future, if we are mindful to take good care of our schools. The money expended on our schools and school-houses is one of the very best invest- ments we can make. And the Committee earnestly hope that the town will feel more and more the importance of making liberal appropriations for her own children in the matter of education. These appropriations have reference both to schools and school-houses.
We are still very far behind the other towns in Mid- dlesex County, in the great matter of education. By the last Statistical Tables, showing the comparative amount of money appropriated by the different towns in the various counties for the education of each child between five and fifteen years of age, we find that Wil- mington stands very near the foot of the class. Of fif- ty-two towns in Middlesex Co., fifty appropriate more money for each child than Wilmington does. And by another Table, showing the percentages of taxable prop-
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erty appropriated for schools, we learn that Wilmington taxes herself one mill and thirty-three one hundredths per cent, for the education of her children ; forty-nine towns out of fifty-two in the County doing better than that.
Now in view of these statistics, no one ought to won- der that your Committee speak so often in their Report of the importance of doing more for the support of our schools.
In our last year's Report, we called attention to the subject of abolishing the District system, and putting the whole care of the schools and school-houses into the hands of the town. We would remind the town that according to statute quoted in that Report, unless we do thus abolish the district system, we shall, after this year, lose the annual appropriation of seventy-five dol- lars from the State Fund. There can be no doubt that the entire State will eventually be brought to the ne- cessity of adopting one uniform policy on the subject, and that will be the municipal, in place of the district system. The few towns which decline to abolish their districts, of their own accord, will be compelled to do so by act of legislation. The sooner we do so, the sooner shall we become accustomed to the change, and the bet- ter it will be for the cause of education throughout the town.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
S. H. TOLMAN, WM. H. CARTER,
SYLVESTER CARTER, Jr.
SUPERINTENDING
SCH. COM.
WILMINGTON, FEB. 14th, 1868.
RECEIPTS & EXPENDITURES
OF THE
T
own of Wilmington,
FROM FEB. 1, 1868, TO FEB. 1, 1869.
AND THE
Report of the School Committee,
FOR THE
SCHOOL-YEAR 1868-9.
BOSTON: PRINTED BY CHARLES C. P. MOODY, 52 WASHINGTON STREET.
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Names and Ages of the Inmates of the Alms-house : -
Lydia Emerson,
* 92 years.
Nancy Alexander,
80
Betsey Tweed,
83
66
Frederick Butters,
73
66
Lucy Alexander,
65
66
Louise Burtt,
64
Albert Carter,
49 66
William E. Richardson,
+32
66
Fanny Butters,
28
66
John Bancroft,
26
Whole number during the year,
11
Present number,
9
Average number,
9 9-10
* Died Dec. 18, 1868.
+Left March 30, 1868.
Expense at the Alms-house :-
To Cash paid for flour and grain,
$382 84
66
groceries,
171 74
66
salt pork,
38 81
66
fresh meat,
44 07
·
and salt fish,
22 37
66
" bakers' bread,
7 70
66 vegetables,
4 60
drugs and medicines,
5 72
Amount forwarded, $677 85
4
Amount brought forward, $677 85
To cash paid for spirituous liquors,
2 97
snuff and tobacco,
11 81
soap,
23 73
" boots and shoes,
18 05
dry goods and clothing,
54.62
wooden ware,
5 81
glass, tin and carthern ware,
10 03
" grass and garden seeds,
7 70
hay,
77 25
farming tools,
3 80
labor,
78 87
repairs on house and pump,
16 90
66 nails,
2 02
horse hire and car fare,
10 45
66
blacksmith bill,
15 87
66 millers bill,
3 00
66
live stock;
10 00
Dr Toothaker, medical attendance
1 00
salary of Superintendent,
200 00
miscellaneous, 8 61
expenses for burial of Lydia Emerson, 14 25-
$1254 59
CREDIT.
By two cows sold,
110 00
calves sold,
20 50
produce,
76 27
butter and milk,
56 94
keeping pedlars,
. 39 90
lard and eggs,
12 00
labor of sup't. and team,
85 75
junk, bbls. and ashes,
5 70
feathers,
2 40
board of S. Butters,
21 00- 430 46
Net expenses at Alms-house,
$824 13
5
$824 13
Amount forward, Expenses of Poor out of Alms-house :-- To the family of Reuben Butters
Paid G. Munroe for medical attendance, 17 00
S. A. Toothaker, for do. 7 00
funeral expenses of two children,
21 50
supplies furnished,
15 03
60 53
wood furnished James Bonds,
7 50
Mrs. Wilcox
6 50-
74 53
Net expenses in and out of the Alms-house. $898 66
THOMAS P. EAMES, - Overseers JOHN R. NICKLES, of WARREN EAMES, the Poor.
WILMINGTON, FEB. 10, 1869.
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SELECTMEN'S REPORT.
Orders drawn for Expense of the Poor, $898 66
Paid Wm. H. Carter, services as Town Clerk, $15 00
Making record of births and deaths and return of same to the Sec. of the Commonwealth, 6 30
Thos. P. Eames, as Selectman, As-
sessor and Overseer of the Poor, 75 00
John R. Nickles, do. do. 75 00
Warren Eames, do. do. 70 00
Warren Eames for services as Treas- urer and Collector, 100 00
Levi Swain, Jr., as Constable, 20 00
S. H. Tolman and Sylvester Carter,
Jr., as School Committee, 32 50
For auditing the Treasurer's ac't, 10 00- $403 80
Expenses of Roads repaired under the di- rection of Surveyors of Highways :-
Paid Simcon Jaqueth, $59 65
Charles Hopkins,
32 00
F. S. White,
15 00
Wm. H. Boutwell,
33 00
Chas. M. Gowing,
56 20
Jonathan Carter, 2d,
29 70
James K. Pearson,
₼6 70
H. N. Eames,
40 50
Amounts forwarded,
$331 75- 1302 46
7
Amounts brought forward, $331 75-$1302 46
Solon L. Johnson,
60 70
J. B. Morris,
105 50
Daniel Gowing,
2 00
Henry Sheldon,
111 50
Sylvester Carter,
15 35
O A. Carter,
137 00
Levi Swain, Jr.,
127 35
Edward Mears,
70 75
Chas. M. Gowing,
16 70- 978 60
Repairs of Bridges :-
Paid O. Hastings, for lumber, 23 08
T. P. Eames, for labor,
30 80- 53 88
Law Expenses :
Paid Sweetzer & Gardner,
Sandy Pond Case,
150 00
Case M. M. Carter, vs. Town, 77 00
8 Journeys to Boston and Lowell, by T. P. Eames, 15 00
Expense for witnesses,
29 72
R. W. Baker, for surveying and attendance at Court,
20 00- 291 72
Distribution of School Money as paid :
Paid North School District,
200 00
South
200 00
East
200 00
West
160 00
Centre
66
100 00- 860 00
Amount forwarded, $3486 66
8
Amount brought forward,
$3486 66
Miscellaneous Expenses :
Paid Mrs. Sabra Carter for storage of hearse, $ 6 00
Printing Town Reports, 25 00
Levi Swain, for removing insane pauper, 2 00 Willian Beard, money refunded, 10 00
T. P. Eames, 3 journeys to Tewksbury, 4 50 Eldad Butters for attending John Bond, 12 25 C. L. Carter for two journeys to Boston, 5 00 For Record Book, stationery, expressage, and postage, 19 71
S. B. Nichols, Supt. Cemetery, 8 00
66 for charge of Town House, 15 00
for wood, oil, &c., 27 60- 135 06
Abatement of Taxes :-
Amount over assessed sundry persons,
17 17
Abated on Tax List of 1861,
16 02
66
1862,
10 31
66
66
1863,
18 14
1866,
6 94
66
66
1867,
4 00-
72 58
Amount forwarded, $3,694 30
82 18
9
Amount brought forward, $3,694 30 Amount of State Aid paid to the widows and orphans of deceased soldiers, and those partially disabled in the service :-
Stephen Frye, 120 00
Samuel Dustin,
120 00
Widow Mary A. Phelps,
96 00
Mary Ann Chapman,
96 00
Daniel R. Upton, Guardian,
48 00
Georgiana J. Pearson,
5 75
Widow Ambrose Upton,
96 00
Phebe M. Simpson,
48 00- 629 75.
$4,324 05
THOMAS P. EAMES, ) JOHN R. NICKLES, of
Selectmen
WARREN EAMES Wilmington.
Wilmington, Feb. 1, 1869.
STATEMENT OF BOOKS,
Purchased by School Committee for Schools of the Town, with the quantity on hand.
Amount paid for Books, 113 53
CR. - By books furnished indigent children, and the Desks of Schools, 4 70
By books on hand,
74 30- 79 00
34 53
Commission,
7 81
$26 72 This amount has been paid into the Treasury since settlement,
DOG LICENSES.
The Town Clerk has paid the County Treasurer for Licenses for Dogs the present year, 81 60
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WARREN EAMES, TREASURER AND COLLECTOR 1869, DR.
Feb .- To cash in Treasury on former settlement,
$3523 51
Balance due on Tax list 1861, 2, and 3,
59 10
1866,
41 48
1867,
Tax list of 1868 committed
6533 82
North School District
419 89
Cash received for Town's Notes issued
2950 00
of State, on account of State Aid,
840 00
Corporation Tax,
66 76
from School Fund,
108 15
8
Interest on Taxes,
44 75
"
Use of Town Hall,
53 63
66
lots in Cemetery,
24 00
66 for Pedlers' licenses,
3 00
6
on act. Liquor License,
26 77
66
66 Refunded by Nichols Winn & Co.
14 24
Wm. H. Carter,
1 50
for aid heretofore furnished, 7 50
$14,957 95 1
.
TAS IL BAMOSIT
239 85
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IN ACCOUNT WITH THE TOWN OF WILMINGTON. 1869. CR.
$4800 00
Feb .- By cash paid sundry Notes of the Town, 66 Town Orders, 4803 05
66 for No. School Dis. 400 00
Interest on Town Debt,
813 23
on account State School Fund,
72 87
State Tax,
1180 00
"
County Tax,
544 18
" Balance due on Tax List 1869,
256 72
Cash in Treasury, 2087 90
.
$14,957 95
The undersigned duly authorized by the Town, have this day examined the above account of Warren Eames, Treasurer, and find the same correctly cast, and sufficiently vouched for, and that there is due from him to the Town, Two Thousand and Eighty-Seven Dollars and Ninety Cents.
C. L. CARTER, WM. H. CARTER, Committee. THOMAS P. EAMES,
WILMINGTON, FEB. 1869.
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LIABILITIES OF THE TOWN.
Note to High School Associates, May 3, 1867, 60 00
Mrs. Lavinia A. Avery, June 29, 1867, 100 00
Benjamin Buck, May 1, 1866, 2,000 00
J. L. Carter, May 1, 1863, 1,500 00
Rich Carter, May 27, 1866, 800 00
Simeon Jaquith, Guardian, Jan. 10, 1867, 413 00
Mrs. Polly Parker, Mar. 23, 1865, 138 00
Levi & Ward Parker, Executors, Apr. 4, 1865, 926 46 Otis C. Buck, Apr. 19, 1865, 200 00
Abigail Burnap, May 1, 1865,
500 00
Moses Pearson, Aug. 10, 1865,
2,000 00
Darius Buck, Aug 9, 1865,
600 00
Nathan E. Buck, May 24, 1866,
300 00
Lucy T. Avery, May 6, 1868,
200 00
Sarah J. Buck, June 1, 1868,
200 00
Levi & Ward Parker, Executors, June 10, '68, 1,050 00 Outstanding Town Orders, 10 00
Amount due the Centre School District, 100 00
West 40 00
Due Surveoyrs of Highways, 252 00
Due the School Districts on account of School Fund, 112 14
$11,501 60
AVAILABLE PASSETS. T
Cash in hands of Treasurer, $2,087 90
Balance due on Tax List of 1868, 256 72
Amount due from the State for monies advanced to families of volunteers
from Jan. 1, 1868, to Feb. 1, 1869,
737 75
Due by the town of Teswbury, 12 25-3,094 62
Total amount of indebtedness over available assets, $8,407,98
STATISTICS FROM TOWN CLERK'S RECORDS. Births Registered in Wilmington, 1868.
Name of Child.
Names of Parents.
Date of Birth.
No.
Wmn. A. and Phebe E.,
Feb. 17, 1868.
1
George Wm. Frost,
Charles L. and Sarah J.,
Mar. 12,
2
Almond E. Simpson,
George L. and Julia Ann,
May 9, 66
4
Willard L. Lowe,
Timothy and Mary L.,
15,
66
5
Harry T. Harnden,
O.is and Mary L.,
66 22,
6
Hellen H. Buck,
Otis C. and Caroline,
Apr. 30,
7
Harrison Bancroft,
Thomas A. and Mary E.,
July 5,
66
13
10
Elbridge G. Gowing,
Jona. H. and Mary J.,
Sept. 6,
66
11
Ethel L. Taylor,
John A. and Mary E.,
12
Susan E. Putnam,
Wm. H. and Mary E.,
Oct. 18,
13
Frank D. Cook,
George T. and Jerusha C.,
Nov. 9,
·
14
Grace Sidelinker,
George W. and Mary A.,
15
Walter A. Eames,
George T. and Lucy E.,
Dec. 7,
16
Edward B. Pearson,
Edmund D. and Frances H.,
Feb. 5,
1869.
8
Anna F. Butters,
Stephen O. and N. A.,
9
Carrie M. Blanchard,
John O. and Maria V.,
Aug. 19,
15,
25,
3
·
3
George L. Taylor,
24,
DEATHS REGISTERED IN WILMINGTON, 1868.
CON.
Date of Death.
Name of Deceased.
Age.
Condition
Place of Birth.
Names of Parents.
Disease or cause of Death
1 Feb 25 Minnie P. Bancroft,
8m. 11d. Single.
2 Mar 16 George T. Carter,
22y. 8m. 25d. Single,
74y. 1m. 25d. Widow,
62y. Married.
5 " 13 Willie J. Allen,
8y. 1m. 25d. Single,
6 Jun 25 George M. Noyes,
18y. 6m. 25d. Single,
7|July 15 Betsey M. Parker,
8 Dec 1 Ethel L. Taylor,
72v. 3m. 24d. Married, 2m. 2d. Single,
9 16 Sally Upton,
71y.11m. Widow,
10
18 Lydia Emerson,
11 28 Adeline H. Mears,
12 July 16 Sarah Clark.
92y. 5m. 12d. Widow, 40y. 10m. 5d. Married, 168y. 4m. 7d. Widow,
Wilmington. Burlington, Wayland, Mass Wilmington, Wilmington, Watertown, Tewksbury, Wilmington, Hillsborough, Wilmington, Albany Vt,. Exeter R. I,.
Levi and Polly Parker, William and Mary A., Chas. D. and Susan R., Eliphalet Manning, John A. and Mary E., Benj. Nichols, Joel and Sarah Carter,
Rupture and Mort'n Congestion of Lungs Consumption. Heart Disease. Lung Fever. Consumption. ()ld Age.
14
Daniel and E. E.Ticknor Consumption.
Daniel and Mary Brown Cholera Morbus.
.
Thomas A. and Mary P. Scarlet Fever.
William and Susan A., Congestion of Lungs Aaron & Rachel Damon Dropsy.
3 Apr 16 Rachel D. Tolman, 4 May 7 Mary Buck,
MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN WILMINGTON, 1868.
Date of Marriage.
Names of Groom and Bride,
Residence.
Occupation of Groom.
Place of Birth.
Names of Parents.
1
Jan'y 23.
George W. Harnden,
25,Lynn,
Trader,
Andover, Wilmington,
Jesse and Doritha. Alfred and Abigail. John F. and Sophia.
2. July
4,
George N. Chase,
25 East Saugus,
Cordwainer,
Craftsbury, Vt.,
3,
Dec. 10,
Thomas F. Gowing,
30 Wilmington,
Farmer,
Wilmington, Wilmington,
Sam'l B. and Phebe M Joshua and Clarisa.
Lavisa Durgin,
26 Boston,
Thornton, N. H., David Durgin.
4
17,
Oscar E. Johnson,
30, Wilmington,
Cordwainer,
Woburn,
Nathan M & Char'te W. Hiram and Lydia,
5
66
31,
Daniel R. Upton,
49 Wilmington,
Farmer,
Wilmington, [Wilmington,
Joshua and Clarisa.
15
Clara Gowing,
27 Wilmington, 1
The above named are the only parties that have received marriage certificates from this office during the year 1868. I understand there have been other parties married not duly Licensed. These errors probably occurred from a misapprehension of the requirements of the law in relation to Marriages, and for the benefit of those who intend to fol- low in this direction, I herewith annex an extract of the law now in force in this Common wealth.
WM. H. CARTER, Town Clerk.
CERTIFICATE REQUIRED.
· No magistrate or minister is authorized to solemnize a marriage, unless a certificate is first delivered to him from the Clerk of the town in which the parties intending marriage respectively dwell, if within the State, (or, it there is no such Clerk, from the Clerk of an adjoining town), spcitying the time when notice of the intention was entered with such Clerk, together with all the facts required by law to be ascertained and re- corded, except those respecting the person before whom the marriage is to be solemnized. Accordingly, it appears, that, if the parties reside in different towns within the State, two certificates are requisite (one from each town;) if residents of the same town, but one. If only one of the parties is a resident of the State, the certificate of the town in which such party resides will suffice.
Sophia B. Bancroft,
22 Wilmington,
Thos. E. & Hannah E.
No.
] Age.
Mary A. Carter,
26 Wilmington,
Mary E. Nichols,
21 Wilmington,
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REPORT
-OF THE-
Superintending School Committee,
OF WILMINGTON, FOR THE YEAR 1868-9.
In taking their annual survey of the schools, your Committee feel profoundly impressed with the conviction that, next to our religious institutions, the common school system is of the ut- most value. We cannot be grateful enough for the far-seeing wisdom of our forefathers, which laid the foundations of this system, when they were pressed, almost beyond endurance, with the heavy burdens pertaining to their very existence. It is really a question whether we, were it required of us, should be willing to do as much as they did, look as far ahead, and pro- vide as liberally for those who should come after us.
And yet there are the same reasons now as then for the plac- ing of a high regard upon a public provision for the support of schools. Indeed, with the opening of each new chapter in the history of our country, comes a still deeper sense of the absolute necessity of laying firmer and broader the foundations of an ed- ucation for the great masses of the people. How, except by giving to each child the rudiments of a good common school education, in connection with the diffusion of sound moral prin- ciples, can we survive as a nation ? What a tide of emigration is pouring in upon us ! And what a mingling of the represen- tatives of all tribes and races of men on our American soil. Germans, Irish, French, Scotch, Negroes, Chinese, Jews-they are all here. And they must be worked over into American citizens. Says Dr. Thompson of New York, in an able address
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entitled, " How to build a Nation,"-" Nothing un- American in intelligence, sympathy, purpose, tone, should be admitted as a constituent of political life, unless we are ready to sacrifice na- tionality to numbers. One Language, speaking through the laws, through the press, through the schools, through the pul- pits of the land, a language rich in the traditions of liberty, and whose literature breathes more of the spirit of Humanity, Free- dom and Christianity, than any other of the tongues of men ; this noble speech of Milton and of Burke permeating all busi- ness and all pleasure, all work and worship, all song and all sorrow, from the cradle to the grave, is a bond of nationality stronger than political constituttons ; and to read and write that tongue intelligently should be indispensable to the candidate for American citizenship."
This last sentence shows the bearing of this quotation upon the subject of common schools. All these different elements in our country must be commingled, fused into one homogeneous mass. And one of the most potent agencies to effect this result is the public school. Here all must be brought together, and taught a common language, the claims of public virtue and of true patriotism. Here they must be led to understand the principles on which this American Republic, henceforth to be their home, is founded, and thus become prepared to uphold and defend those principles intelligently and.heartily. In this way alone can we be sure of making and keeping this country thoroughly American. In this way alone can we assimilate all the foreign elements that congregate on these shores, absorb them into one vigorous life, and make them tributary to one glorious national history, and that an American history.
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