Excerpt from Annual Report of the Town Officers of the Town of Barnstead: Comprising Those of the Selectmen, Collector, Treasurer and Board of Education, for the Year Ending March 1, 1888 We call your attention to the amount appropriated for the support of schools and urge every tax-payer to vote for a larger appropria tion. For several years the town has voted $1200, which with the ia come from funds, etc., has usually amounted to $1500. This year in addition to this, we received being the sum standing to the credit of former district No. 8, paid to the school board by the pro visions of an act of the last legislature. The total amount received the present year from all sources, as will appear by the Treasurer's report, was If the town will annually appropriate a sum sufficient, with receipts from funds, dog tax, etc., to amount to a like sum, there could be schools maintained during six months of the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.