This estimate does not include the scholars instructed in the two great cities, New York and Albany.
| Dollars. | |
| Amount paid to the districts | 232,343 |
| Of this, there came out of the Treasury | 100,000 |
| Raised by tax upon the towns | 119,209 |
| From a local fund | 13,133 |
| Voluntary tax by the towns | 19,209 |
Pennsylvania.—This State was in the rear. Not above 9,000 children were educated at the public charge, of about 16,000 dollars.
| The white population in 1830 | 1,309,900 |
| The coloured | 38,333 |
New Jersey.—A fund of 222,000 dollars being realised, a system of Common School education was about to be put in action; an appropriation of 20,000 dollars per annum being ordered to be distributed among the towns for that purpose.
Ohio.—In Cincinnati, the first anniversary of free-schools was kept in 1830. Three thousand pupils belonged to the free-schools of Cincinnati. The amount of the school-tax was about 10,000 dollars.
Indiana.—A committee of the legislature was appointed to consider and report upon the expediency of adopting the Common School system.
| The white population in 1830 | 339,399 |
| The coloured | 3,632 |
Illinois contained less than 160,000 persons in 1830, and had no public schools.
The Slave States in 1830.