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vof <br />12 <br />13 <br />who has cheerfully used her fine acquirements as a musician <br />to contribute to the enjoyment and improvement of the <br />school. Whatever differences of opinion there may be as <br />to the proper method of meeting the expense, no one who <br />has heard it will differ with us as to the great addition the <br />piano affords to the advantages of the members of this <br />school, and in hoping that so pleasant a part of the appara- <br />tus of the school may be permanently continued to it. <br />w <br />REPORT OF BOOK—AGENCY. <br />The Assessors returned three hundred and eighty-six <br />persons, between the ages of five and fifteen years, resi- <br />dent in Lexington, May 1, 1861. <br />At the Annual March Meeting, 3d instant, this town ap- <br />propriated, for the support of schools the ensuing year, <br />the sum of three thousand four hundred dollars, to be <br />apportioned substantially as last year. <br />The Report of the Book Agent, and the usual tabular <br />statement, will be found appended. <br />L. J. LIVERMORE, <br />CALEB STETSON, Committee. <br />HOWLAND HOLMES, <br />A <br />r <br />Book -Agency to Town of Lexington, Dr. <br />To Cash, balance on hand, April 1, 1861 . <br />„ Amount of Books <br />. . $24.53 <br />22 29 <br />- $46.82 <br />Cr. <br />By Books furnished indigent children $7 79 <br />„ Books furnished teachers' desks 3 70 <br />„ Amount of Books on hand, March 21, 1862. . 30.61 <br />„ Cash in hands of Agency 4 72 <br />- $46.82 <br />This Agency has been conducted by the Secretary for the last <br />three years : during which time, books to the amount of about six <br />hundred dollars have been bought, and furnished to the scholars, — <br />it is believed, at least twenty-five per cent less, on an average, than <br />the prices formerly paid; thereby making a saving to the town or <br />its scholars of a hundred and fifty dollars for the three years. <br />The Agency began with an advance from the Town Trea- <br />sury of $75 00 <br />Which is accounted for as follows; viz.: -- <br />Cr. <br />By Books furnished indigent children (for three <br />years) $26.83 <br />„ Books furnished teachers' desks . 12.84 <br />„ Books on hand 30 61 <br />„ Cash on hand 4.72 <br />- $75.00 <br />The Agent has received the cash discount on the purchase -money <br />(about five per cent) for his compensation. <br />H. HOLMES, Agent. <br />• <br />