TABLE 17.-Amount expended for common schools each year since 1869–70.

Year.

TABLE 18.-(1) School expenditure per capita of population; (2) same per capita of average attendance.

TABLE 19.- Wealth and school expenditure, 1880 and 1890.

a Including unpaid principal due on contracts for purchase of school lands.

b Some local funds; amount not known.

The "Huntington fund." There are some local funds whose income is applied to schools; amount not known.

d Value when last ascertained.

e Riparian lands; amount not determined.

f Approximately.

To be limited to $1,000,000 by constitutional amendment of 1902.

h Half the Western and Atlantic R. R. and some stock of the Georgia R. R.

Oyster lands; amount not known.

From Illinois school report for 1900-1902, page 178. College, seminary, and University of Illinois funds are not included.

Situated chiefly, if not wholly, in the city of Chicago.
Minimum sale price of $10 per acre fixed by law.

DIAGRAM 5.-Number of secondary students in public and private secondary schools.