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• i <br /> 14 <br /> fall below eighty per cent. Here is one absence to every five <br /> pupils. And the actual loss to the schools is much greater <br /> than this; a large share of all the advantages_ of education, <br /> furnished and paid for by the town is thus thrown away. There <br /> are many, doubtless,'who can do something -to lessen this evil ` <br /> in the future. It is only by individual effort that a change for REPORT OF BOOK AGENT, 1871. <br /> the better can be effected. k,. _ <br /> We append the usual Report of the Book Agency, and the <br /> Tabular View for the year. <br /> DR. <br /> To amounl of books on hand, April 1st, 1870, $117 25 <br /> Respectfully submitted, To amount of cash on hand, April 1st, 1870, 7 75—$ 125 00 <br /> CR <br /> EDWARD G. PORTER, ' <br /> CHARLES TIDD' By books furnished indigent children, $ 12 19 <br /> " books furnished teachers' desks, 34 79 <br /> JONAS GAMMELL, « ink, crayons, erasers, &c., furnished schools,'. 22 62 <br /> School Committee for 1870-71. amount of books on hand, March 1st, 1871, . 109 81 <br /> 4 cash balance, . 15 19-194� 60 <br /> LEXIIV GTON, March, 1871. <br /> Balance due agent, $ 69 60 <br /> H. H%MES,•AGENT. <br /> Whole amount drawn from town treasury by agent, $ 125 00 <br /> Amount transmitted to succeeding agent, <br /> in books, . $ 109 81 <br /> t Do. do. in cash, 15 19—$ 125 00 <br /> H. HOLMES. <br />