Scope and Contents

Receipts and expenditures for Smithfield District 1891-1908. The year 1891 is kept in a running account, after which monies are treated as seperate funds. County and State funds paid for teacher salaries, Special School (tax) fund paid expenses for repairs, supplies. The district fund covered most other expenditures, including janitorial salary. No index. Pages 165-324 are blank. Full leather, front hinge cracked.

Scope and Contents

Mostly minutes of taxpayer meetings dealing with the levying of taxed for and construction of a new school. At the end of the volume is a handwritten "Dedication Programme for January 6, 1902" for the new school. Also two undated sheets of paper totalling expenses for the new school.

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Only the 1907-08 year's entries are dated. That year's entries are also totalled by fund on separate pages, not following the outline of the book. The last entered page is a statement of financial standing in the district, showing it $348.00 in debt.

Scope and Contents The cover of the book has district 14 (Benson) written on it, but all interior materials are from Stephenson District. Minutes are from scattered years between 1896 and 1906. Funds from the disbursement of state and county apportionments take up most of the rest of the entries, dealing with the years 1896-1900. Interleaved are a good number of yearly statistical sheets, teacher reports, a teaching contract, certificates of election for school trustees, annual financial reports, and...