Annual Report, Volume 2

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1896

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Page 1570 - Association for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history and of history in America.
Page 1640 - To elevate the character and advance the interests of the profession of teaching, and to promote the cause of popular education in the United States.
Page 1120 - ... with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the human system.
Page 1508 - ... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.30 29 John Adams, Works (CF Adams, edit., Boston, 1851-1856), IV, 302, in footnote, so American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Memoirs, as, XI (1888) , 78.
Page 1316 - ... shall, upon conviction thereof , be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars.
Page 1100 - The fund called the SCHOOL FUND shall remain a perpetual fund, the interest of which shall be inviolably appropriated to the support and encouragement of the public or common schools throughout the State, and for the equal benefit of all the people thereof.
Page 1504 - The institution soon manifested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fashionable; and our people, having no...
Page 1205 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands and to grant pre-emption rights," approved the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one; and also the five per centum of the net proceeds of the public lands to which the state shall become entitled on her admission into the union (if congress shall consent to such appropriation of the two grants last mentioned) shall be set apart as a separate fund to be called "the school fund...
Page 1570 - Said Association shall report annually to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution concerning its proceedings and the condition of historical study in America.
Page 1084 - ... are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the school committee and to the chief of the district police or the inspector of factories for the district.

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