OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE STATE OF MAINE. 1847. AUGUSTA: WM. T. JOHNSON,..............PRINTER TO THE STATE. 1847. FIRST REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION. ALTHOUGH We do not understand the law under which we act to require us to make our annual report until the month of April, 1848, we yet deem it advisable, at this first meeting of the legislature after our organization, to lay before that body some account of our doings, and to suggest such alterations in the laws, and such new provisions, as seem to us necessary for beginning that improvement in the public school system of the state, to effect which we suppose the act to have been passed. We therefore present to you, to be laid before the legislature, this first report of the board of education of the state of Maine. Pursuant to the statute passed July 27th, 1846, the members elect of the board of education met at the senate chamber in Augusta on the sixteenth day of December, A. D. 1846, and, after having been duly qualified, organized by the election of Hon. Stephen |