. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . stown to Corydon ; Brookville to Versaillesand \ernon ; New Albany to Charlestown, thenceto seat of justice of Scott county and to Vernon ;New Albany through Palestine to Bloomington ;New Albany to Fredericksburg, Paoli and Hin-dostan ; the Ohio line to Fairfield and Conners-ville, thence to seat of government: New Lon-don to seat of Scott county. Education was not forgotten, though the con-ditions were unfavorable to the
. Centennial history and handbook of Indiana : the story of the state from its beginning to the close of the civil war, and a general survey of progress to the present time . stown to Corydon ; Brookville to Versaillesand \ernon ; New Albany to Charlestown, thenceto seat of justice of Scott county and to Vernon ;New Albany through Palestine to Bloomington ;New Albany to Fredericksburg, Paoli and Hin-dostan ; the Ohio line to Fairfield and Conners-ville, thence to seat of government: New Lon-don to seat of Scott county. Education was not forgotten, though the con-ditions were unfavorable to the development ofanything like a system, one great obstacle beinga lack of funds to build schoolhouses and pay teachers. As said above, the State Seminary wasestablished in 1820. The same year the MadisonAcademy was incorporated, and provisions madefor sundry county libraries. During the firstfour years several laws, indeed, were passed forthe incorporation of academies, seminaries andlibrary associations. As early as 1816 steps weretaken to judiciously administer the school sec-tions, these being section 16 of each were appointed to lease these. Map of Indiana in 1820, showing first county organiza-tion of the purchase of 1818. lands and each lessee was required to increasetheir value by setting out, each year, twenty-fiveapple and twenty-five peach trees, until one hun-dred of each had been planted. In 1821 a com-mittee was appointed to draft a l)ill for a generalsystem of education, being instructed to guardparticularly against any distinction between therich and the poor. This bill did not appear inthe statutes until 1824. The system of land assessment and taxationat first adopted was essentially difterent fromthat adopted later. The assessment was so muchper acre, and the adjustment to values was madeby dividing the lands into second and third 76 CENTENNIAL HISTORY AND HANDBOOK OF INDIANA classes. The rate of assessment was very low,running,
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