Election ballot for Commissioner of Equity #148 candidate, [ca. 1832].

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Election ballot for Commissioner of Equity #148 candidate, [ca. 1832].

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This series consists of a single printed ballot for Fairfield District Commissioner in Equity. Information includes the name of the office, the district, and the candidate (John Smart).

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South Carolina. Department of Archives and History

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South Carolina. General Assembly

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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...

Smart, John, of Fairfield District, S.C.

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