Private School-Miss Davis, teacher. Corner of Eleventh and G streets. Fourteen pupils. Private School-Miss Doty, teacher. and G. Seventeen pupils. Tenth, F Young Ladies' Institute, L, Ninth and TenthMary S. Bennett, principal; Miss Miller, assistant teacher of music, painting and drawing. Established March 27, 1853. Fifty pupils, between six and eighteen years of age. Sacramento Academy, M, Eighth and Ninth— James Stratton, principal of male department; Chas. N. Hinkley, assistant. Miss A. L. Pratt, principal of female department. Charles Wolleb, professor of music. Fifty-five male pupils and twenty-six female. Established July 18, 1853. Pacific Seminary, Fourth, K and L-Edward Crowell and J. W. Wells, principals of male department, and Amelia Pratt of female department. Forty male pupils and forty-four female. The public schools were: No. 1. Miss M. A. Corby, teacher. I, Tenth and Eleventh. [In a building known as the Indiana House.] Number enrolled, fifty-one; average attendance, forty; all females from four to fourteen years old. Established May 23, 1854. No. 2. A. R. Jackson, teacher. I, Tenth and Eleventh. Number enrolled, sixty-three; average attendance, fifty-five; all males, from six to fourteen. years old. Established April 20, 1854. No. 3. George H. Peck, teacher. Fifth and K. Number enrolled, eighty; average attendance, sixty. Established February 20, 1854. No. 4. Miss A. L. Griswold, teacher. Fifth and K. Number enrolled, ninety; average attendance, seventy. Established February 20, 1854. No. 5. W. A. Murray, teacher. K, Seventh and Eighth. Mixed, males and females. Average attendance, fifty-five. Established June 19, 1854. Later on, Miss C. R. Pratt and Miss A. E. Roberts were employed in teaching in the county public schools. It was then intended to establish a public primary in the rear of the Fifth-street schools, to take from the other schools children from four to six years old, and make room for those older, who had been turned away for lack of accommodation. Two BOARDS OF EDUCATION. CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY. Immediately upon the organization of the city board, appointed under the ordinance of the city council of October 2, 1854, a conflict of authority arose between the new board and the commissioners appointed by the county assessor. The assumption of control by the new board was opposed on the ground that when funds had been needed to put the schools in operation the council had declined to help out, and that it was unjust to deprive the old commissioners of the management after they had energetically performed the work and set the department in running order. The advocates of the change charged that the opposition lay in the fact that the assessor received a salary of $1,000 per annum for acting as superintendent, which he would lose with the change. When the city board organized, on November 1, 1854, the superintendent stated that the county commissioners had surrendered their trust, but at a meeting on the 3d, County Superintendent Bidleman declared their surrender void, as their terms of office had expired. The board requested him to give his aid in transferring the county schools to the city, and promised in return to assume the entire debt, raise at once $4,000 due for teachers' salaries, and admit him to a voice in the future management of the department. This he declined to do, as it would deprive him of the receipt of his salary of $1,000 per year, as ex-officio county superintendent. On September 6, 1854, J. T. Hall, Dr. Volney E. Spaulding and Dr. G. J. Phelan received some votes for commissioners at the general election, and the assessor claimed that they had supplanted the members of the old county board. The complaint was made that no notice had been given of an election for commissioners, and that the people generally had not voted with the understanding that any were to be chosen. Their election had been unnoticed, and the city commissioners had consulted with the members of the old county board. On the 17th, Secretary Ball reported to the city board that he had seen the new county commissioners, that two of them had agreed to do anything for the best interests of the schools, but that Dr. Phelan had denied the authority of the county board to transfer the schools, and the right of the city board to manage them. A joint meeting of the two boards was held, and it was agreed that the matter be submitted to the city and county attorneys and Joseph W. Winans, for their legal opinion. The city attorney gave it as his opinion that the amendment to the city charter, made on April 26, 1853, authorizing the levy of a tax for school purposes, in con |