HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS.
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I860. 690,000.00
1896. 1,000,000.00
Amount received from State Tax.,
" " " Special District Taxes 1,265,137,00 13,133,809.61
Amount received from Bonds during the year 517,960.93
Total Amount received during the
year by School Districts 2,193,455.00 15,607,172.50
Amount paid Male Teachers 2,772,829.32
" Female " 7,186,105.67
Whole amount paid Teachers 1,542,211.00 9,958,934.99
Amount paid for new School
Houses 348,728.00 1,873,757.25
Amount paid for repairs and improvements 1,070,755.09
Amount paid for School Furniture. 24,837.00 154,836.64
" Apparatus 8,563.00 164,298.92
" " " Books for District Libraries 30.124 00 13,664.97
Total Expenditures 2.259.868.00 14,614,627.31
Estimated value of School Property 13,304,892.00 42,780,267.00
" Libraries., 377,819.00
" Apparatus 607,389.00
The sums annually disbursed for incidental expenses on account of superintendence and the cost of maintaining the higher institutions established, and partially or wholly supported by the State, increase the total expenditures by some $600,000 per annum. These higher institutions include the Illinois State Normal University at Normal, the Southern Illinois Normal at Carbon-dale and the University of Illinois at Urbana; to which were added by the Legislature, at its session of 1895, the Eastern Illinois Normal School, afterwards established at Charleston, and the Northern Illinois Normal at De Kalb. These institutions, although under supervision of the State, are partly supported by tuition fees. (See description of these institutions under their several titles.) The normal schools-as their names indicate-are primarily designed for the training of teachers, although other classes of pupils are admitted under certain conditions, including the payment of tuition. At the University of Illinois instruction is given in the classics, the sciences, agriculture and the mechanic arts. In addition to these the State supports four other
