Volume 1

Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893. / prepared for the Volta bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay.

Date:
1893
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Credit: Histories of American schools for the deaf, 1817-1893. / prepared for the Volta bureau by the principals and superintendents of the schools, and published in commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America ; edited by Edward Allen Fay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ro the fund provided for in the act of incorporationlto be de- -lominated, 'The fund for the Education of the Deaf^and^^Dumb,' which shall consist of oue-sixth of a mill upon each dollar's worth of taxable property in the State, to be taken and deducted from the tax of two mills on the dollar, authorized to be assessed viid collected for paying' the ordinary expenses of government by the act passed on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, entitled 'An act to provide for paying a portion of interest on the State debt,' and as the revenue of the State is collected and passed into the treasury, the Audit©]- shall direct the Treasurer to credit the aforesaid fund by the amount of one-sixth of a mill, in a separate account to be kept for that purpose. Such a provision for the support of an institution is the ideal one, so far as the institution itself is concerned, but whether this does not in a measure estop the frequent exhibit to the people of its workings and prevent the recognition of the ac- countability which should never be forgotten by public officers may be seriously questioned. As the manager of an institu- tion one should most unhesitatingly favor it, but as a citizen and taxpayer one would object to it. But whether the wisest or not, the law under consideration was continued in force only four years, being repealed by an act amending the. revenue laws, February 14, 1855, since which time its necessities have been provided for by special acts of successive sessions of the General Assembly, with the exception of the small amount that accrued to the institution in pursuance of the act of incorpora- tion, which set apart to it, as already detailed, a small por- tion of the interest of the school, college and seminary fund. This, however, was taken from it aud turned over to the Illinois Normal University in the year 1872. Reference has been made to the conflict between the principal's and steward's departments, which resulted in the dismissal of three stewards by the Board and the abolishment of the stew- ard's office in all the institutions of the State by an act of the General Assembly, February 13, 1857. The events that led up to these dismissals and this enactment were attended with very unpleasant controversies between the friends of the parties most interested. Bitter antagonisms, as was inevitable under such
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