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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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the planting and care ofthe same as are needed. This law waspassed last winter. As a result, requestswere received this spring for five times asmany seedlings as the State Nursery wasable to furnish, and requests are alreadyon file for nearly as many as are now onhand for distribution next spring. Thepolicy will be to distribute these in smalllots, so that as large a number as may bewill have an opportunity to experiment withtheir use. be the next aim of the Forestry Association;and following that we believe that therewill be a tendency to set aside certain areasof land as State Forest reserves. Corporation taxes now pay all the ex-penses of the State. There has been nodirect State tax in Vermont for four years,and Governor Proctor tells me there is ntlikely to be any for some years to come.The new law on corporation taxes will, hesays, increase the States revenue from thatsource by twenty-five per cent,—a very con-siderable addition from a source in manyStates a negligible factor.
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WHATS THE MATTER WITH VERMONT? J7 Building Up the Public Schools The law creating a permanent public-school fund utilizes for a beginning the$240,000 returned by the national govern-ment to the State in settlement of Civil-War claims, the Huntington Fund, and theUnited States deposit money — in all,nearly a million and a quarter. It is thepurpose to create a fund of $2,000,000, theincome of which shall be used to help sup-port public schools in districts where suchsupport is most needed. Another wise act was that one which ap-propriates State money to aid in the cen-tralization of rural schools and to equalizeeducational advantages, to the end that nochild born in Vermont shall be denied fulleducational opportunities. The act to provide for better local super-intendence of the public schools pledgesliberal State aid to towns that may unite inemploying a superintendent to guide andshape the work of their public schools. Icited to Governor Proctor the case of threeadjoining towns that

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