tion, three inhabitants of the council of arondissement, any members of the council general of the department who reside within the arondissement, shall form this committee.

The préfet presides at all the committees of the department; the sous-préfet at the committees of the arondissement.

Part of the duty of the committees of arondissement is to report annually to the minister of instruction the state of the different schools of their arondissement, and to suggest any improvement.

Department.-Every department must have. "school normal" (school for the instruction of schoolmasters), either by itself or by uniting with another department.

SALARIES OF SCHOOLMASTERS.

A residence, and 400 frs. yearly, for masters to a superior primary school.

A residence, and 200 frs. yearly, for masters to a primary school.

FUNDS FOR SUPPORTING.

The government, by gifts and by contributions.
The communes, separately or collectively.

The departments.

Founders, donations, and legacies.

In cases of inefficiency of funds, by an additional tax, not exceeding three centimes, on personal and household property.

In 1832, out of the number of communes, viz. 38,149, there

were furnished with schools

In 1829

The following statement is extracted from the Revue Encyclopédique, which gives, as its authority, an Essay upon the Moral Statistics of France, lately presented to the Academy of Sciences.

This is the distribution of instruction in France: while the average number of children at school in the United States and different states of Europe in proportion to the number of inhabitants gives this result:

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I shall now proceed without further delay to beg the reader to follow me with a kindly attention from the introduction I am closing to the book that is commencing.

BOOK I.

THE CAPITAL.

"Transportons l'Angleterre au milieu de la France."

CAHUSAO.

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