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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. PERMANENT FUNDS. 1. Management of Permanent Funds. It will thus be seen that the Indiana School Fund has been gathered from very diverse sources, is unequally productive, and variously iranaged. The preceding chapters have aimed, primarily, to present the question historically, tracing the moneys from their origin as State investments, deposits, or proceeds, through their more important modifications, and chiefly for the first period. Some of the funds, as that derived, or supposed to be, from the sale of swamp lands, and certain of the contingent funds, resting upon more recent legislation, have been followed down to the present. This seemed necessary, to make the view complete. As has been seen, however, the new Constitution provided for the consolidation of all the endowments of elementary education into one "Common School Fund." In so far as this relates to the Congressional Township Fund, it had been repeatedly urged by Prof. Mills in his messages to the Legislature (1846-'50), and again in his letters to the convention. The experience of Michigan, admitted a State in 183, almost twenty years after Indiana, but with a school system from 1837, emphasizes the unwisdom of the Indiana policy during that first generation of Statehood. It was advocated also in the convention by friends of a State-controlled system, and particularly by leading members of the Committee on Education. Hence the provision of the new Constitution. Such policy, it was argued, would greatly simplify the management, the disbursement of revenues would be more economical, resources would be equalized for the State--the richer and the poorer localities sharing privileges and responsibilities alike--and the standard of general intelligence uniformly...

Excerpt from Sixth Annual Address to the Legislature of Indiana, 1852: On Popular Education It is a fair inference from the above facts, that more than two-thirds of your constituents would not be required to'pay more than from twenty-five cents to one dollar and a quarter for the noble enterprise of securing to every child in Indiana the blessing of a free school. Would it be a burdensome and oppresive tax? There are good and substantial reasons for believing that the proportion of resi dent tax payers on $400 and less, is fully three-fourths. It is well known that large tracts of land in our State are owned by non-residents. Probably few if any of these own less than a quarter section many of them reckon their lands by sections. This fact would prove that the foreign holders of property would al most all belong to the class taxed for more than $500, and consequently the pro portion of resident tax payers on $500 and less would be even greater. This is cv ident in a simple statement of the case. Suppose that two-thirds of all the tax payers pay on $500 and less, and that one-tenth of those paying on a larger amount of property are non-residents, then it follows that the proportion of resident tax payers paying on $500 and less, is thereby increased. This is corroborated by the statement of the clerk of one county, who says that 'about or nearly half of the taxes of the county, except poll tax, is paid by non-residents.' To be sure, some of these may be citizens in other parts of the State, but the probability is that a large portion are citizens of other States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.