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Order on School Society Treasurer for $12.95

7th District, March 20th, 1824.
  Sir please to pay to Oliver Buckingham or bearer twelve dollars and ninety five cents it being the proportion of school money belonging to the Seventh School District in Oxford.
School Society
Abel Wheeler, Esq. treasurer
Oxford, Oct. 20, 1823
David Candee
Cyrus Humphrey , Committee.
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    The record also served as a receipt, with Joseph Tucker signing a statement that he received of Abel Wheeler,
"Twelve dollars and ninety five cents on the within order it being in full."

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    The funds listed above appear to have been those obtained by the state from the sale of the western reserve lands. Under the system then in use, each town received a portion of these funds. In Oxford these were apparently divided among the school districts on a per pupil basis.

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    A complete listing of school money paid out through the treasurer is included below. It was generally the case that little if any extra funds were used for the education of the students, although the districts did have the power to lay a school tax.

District
Amount of 
Dividend
April, 1821
Amount of 
Dividend
Oct, 1821
Receipt signed by:
1.
$50.40
$28.08
Norris Candee
Ethel Lounsbary
2.
23.40
13.68
Ira Hawkins
Augustus Buckingham
3.
22.80
12.96
Chestor Chatfield
4.
27.80
27.00
Enoch Purkins
Ebeneezer Buckingham
5. 
28.20
16.92
Elijah Harger
Levi Candee
6.
29.40
14.76 
Russell Johnson
Carolinne Willmot
7.
17.40
10.44
John White
8.
16.80
11.16
Lee Hawkins
9.
1.80
None found
David Towner
10.
9.40
5.40
Isaac Twitchell
Lyman Riggs
11.
13.06
6.12
Samuel Wire
12.
11.40
9.72
Sheldon C. Clark
Isaac Smith
13.
19.80
11.88
Ezra Bassett
Merrit Brodley
14.
27.00
12.24
Elisha Oatman
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