Excerpt from Fiftieth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools: To the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, for the Twelve Months Ending Dec; 31, 1878 The Ordinance of the City, establishing a system of Pub lic Schools and appointing a Board of Commissioners, directs the Board to report annually to the Mayor and City Council a statement of its transactions, with an account of receipts and expenditures for the past year and resources for the year commenced. 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.