efficiency of the teachers themselves. The plan proposed that $2 per scholar should be paid for two hundred scholars or less ; over two hundred and under six hundred, $1.50 in addition; over six hundred, $1 in addition. By this scale, a school of three hundred pupils would give the teacher a compensation of $550; five hundred pupils, $850, &c. The schools were thus rated:

The salary of Eunice Dean, one of the female teachers, was raised from $250 to $300 per annum.

In 1827, the by-laws were altered so as to limit the salaries to the following rates:

The office of assistant teacher had been abolished in 1817. The system was very materially changed and improved under the important law of 1832. Assistant teachers were to be appointed, and two sections were adopted as a part of the new code of by-laws, fixing the rates of salaries as follows:

The salary of the principal teacher in the boys' schools shall not exceed $1,000; that of the assistant teacher shall not exceed $600; that of the monitor general shall not exceed $200; that of the assistant monitor general shall not exceed $100.

The salary of the mistress in the female school shall not exceed $400; that of the assistant shall not exceed $250; that of the monitors general shall not exceed $100; that of the assistant monitors general shall not exceed $50.

The maximum for the assistant teachers was adopted at $500, but, in 1835, the teachers applied for an increase to $600, and it was made discretionary with the Executive Committee to increase the salary of assistants to that sum in cases where they deemed it was deserved.

In 1836, the following tariff was adopted:

Principal teachers, male department, not to exceed
Assistants,

$1,000

700

and $2.50 for each child over sixty, but the additional

number so allowed for not to exceed thirty.

First monitors of primary schools not to exceed

100

In 1842, the Board of Education was. established, and the trustees of the ward schools were enabled to pay salaries much larger than those paid by the Society. This not only induced a spirit of competition and jealousy between the wards themselves, but between the teachers employed by the Society and those in the ward schools. It also tended materially to injure the public schools by the frequent withdrawal of long-experienced teachers from the service of the Society, attracted by the increased emoluments offered by the ward officers. This evil became so prominent, that, in 1851, a committee was appointed to report upon the whole subject, and Messrs. G. T. Trimble, A. P. Halsey, C. E. Pierson, L. W. Stevens, B. Ellis, W. R. Vermilye, W. H. Neilson, J. B. Collins, and John Davenport, were entrusted with the consideration of all questions relating to the salaries of teachers. The committee reported a scale substantially the same, but providing that, after two years of acceptable service, the assistant male teachers should receive $750 per annum. The other recommendations of the report were of the same character, making a period of faithful service of two or three years the basis of an increase of compensation. This scale of salaries was continued during the existence of the Society.

MONITORS.

The success of the Lancasterian system being dependent, in a very great degree, upon the ability and character of the several monitors, who formed an indispensable part of the scheme, attention was early given to the training and preparation of the most promising of the pupils, in order to prepare them for the special work of teaching according to the most approved methods of the plan of mutual instruction. While there was but one school in existence, the number of monitors was too small to warrant any specified classification for that purpose. But when the number was increased, and a considerable body of monitors was employed in the schools, arrangements were made for their instruction. Monitors had been indentured as apprentices" to the Society, in all practicable cases, and were expected to remain until they were twenty-one years of age, and then to receive a certificate of qualification which should secure them positions in any city in the Union.

The trustees of the Society believed that they were introducing to the people of the United States a system of great value, specially adapted to the necessities of the underlying masses of society. Whatever, therefore, could increase its efficiency and multiply its powers, was adopted as fast as circumstances or means allowed.

The course adopted for the training of monitors is treated of in the chapter devoted to the high school and normal school, and only a brief summary will here be given of the general regulations adopted for their employment and supervision.

The house in which the school was originally established having become unfit for longer use, a commodious building was erected on Tryon Row, at the east side of the Park, since changed by the extension of Centre street. The school was opened for the reception of scholars on the 12th of December, 1809, soon after which William McAlpin and Shepherd Johnson, who subsequently distinguished himself as the first teacher of No. 3, and more recently as a teacher of the New York High School, were indentured to the Society. This usage was continued in every practicable case.

In 1818, a Committee on Monitors reported a form of indenture, which would probably have been adopted by the Society,