[1707] A commission from Mobile visited the schools in New York, Boston, and other cities of the North.
[1708] Exclusive of Mobile County, which, as the honored pioneer, has always been outside of, and a model for, the state system.
[1709] Clark, “History of Education in Alabama,” pp. 221-241; Report of the United States Commissioner of Education, 1876, p. 6.
[1710] The son of ex-Governor Watts. Clark, p. 94.
[1711] See [Ch. XI, Sec. 3].
[1712] Clark, p. 95 et passim. In 1869 N. B. Cloud, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, asked the legislature to make the loan a gift, since the destruction of the buildings was “the natural fruits of secession,” the fault of the “purblind leaders” who “pretended to secede.” Therefore he thought the state was responsible for the damage done the University.
[1713] See Journal Convention of 1867, p. 242 et passim, and above, Chs. XIV and XV.
[1714] There were four congressional districts.
[1715] The supreme court decided in regard to the Board of Education: “The new system has not only administrative, but full legislative, powers concerning all matters having reference to the common school and public educational interests of the state. It cannot be destroyed nor essentially changed by legislative authority.” Report of the Commissioner of Education, 1873, p. 5. But in 1873-1874 the legislature, however, by refusing appropriations, did manage to nullify the work of the Board.
[1716] Constitution of 1867, Art. XI.