Worth, Jonathan, 1802-1869, Letter from Jonathan Worth to Calvin H. Wiley, September 21, 1855, in The Correspondence of Jonathan Worth, vol. 1. Hamilton, Joseph Grégorie de Roulhac, ed., Raleigh, NC: Edwards & Broughton, 1909, pp. 656. S1590-D001 [Bibliographic Details] [9-21-1855] WorthJ:L1590-1

Letter from Jonathan Worth to Calvin H. Wiley, September 21, 1855

Asheboro, Sept. 21st, 1855.

The extremes in the number of children in the several districts of this County are 27 and 168. The Board here regard the 35 Sec. of the act of last Session requiring them to distribute the money equally among the districts as so flagrantly unjust and unreasonable that we are extremely reluctant to carry it out.
Do you regard the 39th and 41st sections of the Act as repealing the privilege contained in the charter to Normal Colleges to free certificates to teachers?
Under the provisions of the late Act at what time do you consider the Sheriffs bound to account for the School tax?
The 53 Sec. provides only for blanks on which Chairmen


-- 48 -- are to make their returns. Are no more blanks to be furnished on which the committee of examination may issue certificates and the school committee make their returns?
I now need blanks of both the latter descriptions.
Your views on these matters will much oblige me.
I suggest for your consideration whether or not the blanks, on which Chairmen are to make their returns, ought not to have a column showing the balance due the several districts at the annual settlement preceding.
Can you or the State derive any useful information from the column reporting the names of teachers and their grade of scholarship, that it seems to me you can deduce no satisfactory conclusions from this part of the report. But your position enables you to see the workings of the system throughout the State and possibly it may be of use in some point of view which does not occur to me.