TO SCHOOL OFFICERS. This Document is transmitted to each County Clerk and County Treasurer, and to each Township Clerk for the use of the Township Library, and an additional copy to the latter, for the use of the Township Board of School Inspectors. One copy is also transmitted to each of the school district officers, viz: the Moderator, Director and Assessor, for their use while in office-to be delivered up to their successors at the expiration of their term. NOTE. On page 1 an error occurs in relation to the subdivision of lands. The smallest is forty acres. CONTENTS. PART I. Origin, Progress, and present Condition of Public Instruction in Michigan,- ..... 1 State Legislation relating to Public Instruction, from 1836 to 1852, embracing the History and Condition of the University; Governors' Messages; Reports of Legislative Committees; Reports of Superintendents; Boards of Regents, and Boards of Visitors; Condition of Incorporated Literary Institutions; the State Normal School, and the Primary Schools,.... .........1 to 212, 261 to 205 Summary of Debates on Education in the Convention to Revise the Constitution, with the Article as adopted and ratified by the People, with a Comparison between the First and Revised Constitutions,... . .... ......212 to 261 .296 to 306 Sketch of the Public Schools of the City of Detroit.. Thirteenth Annual Report of Regents, with the Report of the Medical Faculty, and Course of Studies in the Medical Department of the University,...........306 to 312 Memoir of Dr. Pitcher, embracing an Epitome of the Transactions of the Regents, with some Reasons for the adoption of their more important Measures, from 1837 to June 30, 1851, prepared by order of the Board of Regents,............312 to 328 Memorial of Alvah Bradish, for establishment of a Department of Fine Arts in the University,.... .328 to 336 PART II.. The Primary School Law of Michigan, with Notes, Forms and Instructions for conducting proceedings,. 397 Decisions,.. 420 .420, 421 Extracts from the Reports of successive Superintendent's of Public Instruction of Mich igan, 421 422 Improvement of the Schools,.. 428 Character of Inspectors,.. Course of Studies proper to be pursued in the Schools,. 428 430 School Libraries,.... Uniformity of Books,. 447 449 Blackboark Instruction,.. Examination of Teachers,. The necessity of good teaching,. Small Districts,.. Consolidation of Districts,. Physical Exercise,..... The Teacher's Calling,. 457 Union Schools,.... • 458 Regulations from other States as to the qualifications of Teachers of Primary Schools,.. 468 |