A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . of theUnion. In the recent improvements incommon schools, and some other meansof diffusing knowledge, she has beenone of the most efficient states; andmany of the measures approved andpractised by the intelligent friends oflearning have been devised or brouehtinto use, or most early or effectuallyput into practice, within her Massachusetts, until 1835, has neverhad a school fund, and her commonschools were wholly supported by thepeople. A fund was then provided for,limited to one million of dollars. Every town or distric
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . of theUnion. In the recent improvements incommon schools, and some other meansof diffusing knowledge, she has beenone of the most efficient states; andmany of the measures approved andpractised by the intelligent friends oflearning have been devised or brouehtinto use, or most early or effectuallyput into practice, within her Massachusetts, until 1835, has neverhad a school fund, and her commonschools were wholly supported by thepeople. A fund was then provided for,limited to one million of dollars. Every town or district containing fiftyfamilies is required to have a schoolkept at least six months in the year; or,if several schools exist, they shall beke])t long enough to equal one schoolfor six months. For those containingone hundred families the requisition isdoubled ; and for those containing onehundred and fifty families, eighteenmonths are required. The school, orschools, must be in charge of a school-committee of three, five, or seven per-sons, annually DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. 77 Massachusetts is therefore justly enti-tled to a large share of the credit of hav-ing given an impulse to the cause of pop-ular EDUCATION. The early settlers ofthat section of our country were fullysensible of the defects of the English in-stitutions which they had forsaken. Thatthe schools of learninar and relisfion werecorrupted, and the fairest hopes over-thrown by licentious behavior in thoseseminaries, was one among the manycauses of their emiarration from the OldWorld, and of pledging themselves tothe education of their cliildren In theyear 1G6S, a document was published byorder of the government and council ofMassachusetts, and addressed to the el-ders and ministers of every town, inwhicli paper was set forth an earnestdesire ft)r the moral and reHgious instruc-tion of the people, and an appeal to thoseto whom the instrument was directed, toe^camine whether tlie education of
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