Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of New York: Transmitted to the Legislature February 28th, 1871 The amount paid for teachers' wages was about two million dollars more than in 1866, which is an advance of nearly fifty per cent upon the gross amount, and of twenty-eight per cent upon the average annual salaries of the increased number of teachers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.