Management of Our School Lands (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Management of Our School LandsEven worse mistakes have been made in other States, relat ing to their school lands.Every property owner has a financial interest in these lands, the greater his property, the greater his interest. A proper. Energetic management means reduced taxes. The schools are here to stay, and they must be greatly improved. Better schools mean more money for their support. Is there not a way to improve them, and at the same time not make them too burdensome to the taxpayer?It is the purpose of this paper to show that this can be done by a proper, business-like management of the great educational endowment offered recently by Congress.When Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and the most of the older States were admitted to the Union, Congress gave to each of them Sections 16 and 36 acres) in each township throughout the State for the support of the common schools, besides giving large bodies of land for the higher institutions of learning.On the admission of Colorado, a more liberal grant was made, particularly for internal improvements, for which 500. 000 acres were given. As other States were admitted, the gifts for educational institutions were generally more liberal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.