solicitude for their proper care and improvement. For more than thirty years, the department which, properly organized and conducted, could have occupied economically and effectively the entire time and labor of five competent men, and which in public importance is the equal, certainly, of any other department, was a clerkship in the office of the Secretary of State. At the same time a Board of Regents, twenty-three in number, with a secretary and clerk, was deemed necessary to grant charters to colleges and academies, and to dispense to the latter less than $50,000 a year, to collect and publish their reports, and hold a nominal supervision over colleges, while the supervision of common schools, to the support of which hundreds of thousands of dollars were annually apportioned, and in which the pupils were as forty to one in the academies and colleges, was treated as a matter of secondary importance. It may not be deemed strange, under such circumstances, that the facts and statistics necessary to enable me to respond to the resolution calling for the accompanying report were not in this office. I therefore employed A. G. JOHNSON, Esq., to collect them from all available sources, and to him is chiefly due the credit of their collection and arrangement; for, pressed with a multitude of other official duties, I have been able to contribute a comparatively small portion of time to the work. V. M. R. Apportionment for schools................................ 68 Bohemia.. 84 Borough Road Normal school Apportionment of New York school fund 20 Boston Board of Trade.. ...... 97 184 28 ...... 158, 159 ............... 142 180 Brazil ..................... ....... 130 164 Bretagne ........................ 164 208 Bribery ........ |