Journal of the legislature of South Carolina, 1837 Dec. 7.

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Journal of the legislature of South Carolina, 1837 Dec. 7.

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Folder (one folded sheet) records proceedings of the South Carolina Senate and House of Representatives for Thursday, December 7, 1837.

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South Carolina Historical Society

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S.C. Statute 1811(5)639 specified that every board of commissioners of free schools was to make a yearly return to the legislature. Governor Middleton recommended the passage of this act as a response to the systematic lack of education in the state. The first appropriation made possible 124 elementary schools for the state. As the system progressed, the term "free school" became embarrassingly exchangeable with pauper schools, because the 1811 act carried within it a written directive that an a...