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1. GOV. JOHN BRANCH'S MESSAGE ON EDUCATION.

Public sentiment favorable to action looking to arrest

When we reflect on the lethargy which has pervaded our state and enchained her energies until a few months past, of emigration. and the manner in which our physical resources have been suffered to lie dormant for the want of a moderate portion of energy in the Legislature to elicit and call them into action, and at the same time take into consideration the extraordinary excitement of public feeling at the present time, I am persuaded that with me you will be fully sensible of the more than ordinary responsibility under which you are placed.

The impulse from public sentiment is too strong to be mistaken, and requires only a proper direction and organization of the representatives of the people, to arrest the progress of emigration, and to render our state in an eminent degree prosperous, and our citizens contented and happy.

be enlightened,

tional provision relating to education

carried out.

In a government like ours where the sovereignty resides The people should in the people, and where all power eminates from, and at and the constitustated periods, returns to them for the purpose of being again delegated, it is of the last importance to the well being and to the existence of Government, that the public mind should be enlightened.

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Permit me, therefore, to refer you in a particular manner to this solemn injunction contained in the Constitution of the State of North Carolina, Art. XLI. "That a school or schools shall be established by the Legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries. to the masters, to be paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct at low prices, and all useful learning shall be duly encouraged in one or more Universities."

Let it be recollected that by this chart we are bound as the servants of the people under the solemnities of oath, to steer the vessel of state; and when we connect

an

Education is a

subject of highest

importance to a

republican government.

this imperious duty with the luminous and impressive appeals which have been so often made to the Legislature for the last year or two, I apprehend that nothing that I could add would impart additional force. It surely will not be denied that it is a subject of all others in a republican government, of the most vital importance: for it is in this way and this alone, that our Republican institutions can be perpetuated, or that radical changes can be effected in the morals and manners of the people.

-House Journal, 1818.

2. ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION.

on education.

Senate Committee on Education: William Martin, Pas- Senate committee quotank; Richard T. Brownrigg, Chowan; Hodge Ray

burne, Haywood.

-Senate Journal, 1818, p. 10.

on education.

House Committee on Education: R. M. Sanders, Cas- House committee well; David F. Caldwell, Iredell; Willie P. Mangum,

Orange.

-House Journal, 1818, p. 16.

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3. MARTIN'S BILL TO ESTABLISH SCHOOLS.

Saturday, Dec. 12, 1818. Mr. Martin, from the committee on public instruction reported a bill to establish and regulate schools in the several counties of this state; which being read was passed for the first reading in the Senate and sent to the House of Commons. Resolved by the Senate that this bill be printed, one copy for each member of this General Assembly. Sent for concurrence. -Senate Journal, 1818, p. 64.

Monday, Dec. 14, 1818. Received from the Senate the report of the committee on public instruction, concurred with, recommending the passage of a bill to establish and regulate schools in the several counties in this State.

The report was concurred in and the bill recommended read the first time, passed and returned to the Senate. -House Journal, 1818, pp. 69-70.

Friday, Dec. 18, 1818. The Senate now entered on the order of the day, when the bill to establish and regulate schools in the several counties in this state, being read and amended, and the question was "shall this bill pass for the second reading in the Senate?" upon which question the yeas and nays were called for, and are thus:

For the passage of the bill are Messrs. Atkinson, Albritton, Brownrigg, Bethune, Benton, Baker, Bruton, Boon, Hall, Hill, Daniel Jones, N. Jones, Kelly of Moore, Kelly of Camden, Kenan, Leonard, Marshall, Brown, Bethell, Banner, Calloway, Caldwell, Collins, Campbell, Dudley, Davis, Davidson of Montgomery, Davidson of Mecklenburg, Dobson, Eborne, Felton, Fisher, Grist, Glisson, Green, Gaston, Murphey, Martin, McLeod, McKinnie, O'Kelly, Phifer, Pierce, Rayborn, Reid, Riddick, Speight, Steed, Tate, Tarkenton, Williams, Wellborne-53.

Against the passage of the bill are Messrs. Alston, Johnston, 2.

So the bill was passed for the second reading and sent to the House of Commons.

-Senate Journal, 1818, p. 82.

defeat in the

Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1818. Received from the Senate the Martin's bill meets bill to establish and regulate schools in the several counHouse. ties in his state; which was read the second time, and postponed indefinitely.

-House Journal, 1818, p. 98.

A BILL TO ESTABLISH AND REGULATE SCHOOLS IN THE
SEVERAL COUNTIES OF THIS STATE.

One or more public schools may be militia district, by

established in each

County com-
missioners.

Court to appoint school or schools

five directors of the

I. That the Justices of the Several Courts of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in this State if they shall deem it expedient may at the first court which shall be holden in their respective counties, after the first day of April next or at any subsequent court, Seven Justices being on the Bench, order and direct the establishment of one or more publick Schools in each Captain's District in their said counties and appoint five persons of competent skill and ability to act as Directors of the said Schools; which Di- in each district. rectors shall have charge and management of the School fund of their espective counties, and shall continue in the appointment for the space of one year; when the said courts shall respectively renew their appointment or appoint others in their stead. And in case the said courts. shall neglect to make such appointment at the end of the year the said Directors shall continue in their office, until another shall be made. A Majority of the Directors shall record of proceedbe competent to act, and they shall keep a regular account of their proceedings, and annually submit the same, with an account of the state of the school fund, and the schools under their charge, to their respective county courts. The

Directors to keep

ings and render an

account of funds

to county court.

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