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Identifier: americafromdisco00boyd (find matches)
Title: America, from discovery in 1942 to the present time
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Boyd, James P(enny) (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Mansfield, Ohio, Estill & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ntribute to knowledge of our wealth, progressand actual status as a people. One hundred inquiries could beaddressed to the citizen by the census enumerator, but no more.The three censuses taken under the act of 1850 were great ad-vances on those taken before, and their results form a set ofvolumes which are indispensable to historians, statisticians andstudents of social problems. Still the act was defective, and themachinery under it clumsy and uncertain. An attempt wasmade to remedy it by the census act of 1880. It is not yet timeto say whether the attempt has been a success or a failure. Ithas certainly not resulted in a prompter receipt, tabulation andpublication of the returns, though those already perfected show acompleteness and utility beyond all others. BUREAU OF EDUCATION.—i:\\\s Bureau was created byact of March 2, 1867, and attached to the Department of theInterior. Its Chief is a Commissioner of Education. Thebusiness of the Bureau is to collect, publish and disseminate
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336 OUR PLAN OF GOVERNMENT. among the people such information touching schools and schoolsystems as will enable them to keep pace with modern improve-ments in school organization and management, and meet thenational desire to overcome illiteracy wherever it exists. TheBureau was a noble conception, and its work bears on vitalpoints, for our Republic is ever confronting the dangers thatlurk in illiteracy. RAILROAD ACCOUNTS.—i:\\e Bureau was established in1878, and connected with the Interior Department. It was madenecessary by the new policy of the government extending aid to the Pacific and other railroads. The aid to build these long,through and necessary lines was either by guarantee of theirbonds or by gift of public lands. In either event the govern-ment felt that it should exercise a control over the managementof such roads to the extent of auditing their accounts and seeingthat all acts of Congress in their interest were respected. Thisis the duty of the Bureau of Railroad Acco

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookpublisher:Mansfield__Ohio__Estill___co
  • bookcontributor:The_Library_of_Congress
  • booksponsor:Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:346
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  • bookcollection:americana
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