education, should join in paying homage to this venerable educational statesman, who, as he retires from the stage of active life, can say with the Roman Drusus, "I have done the State some service." JOSEPH W. SOUTHALL, Superintendent of Public Instruction. APPENDIX. 1. REPORTS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION TO THE GENERAL AGENT OF THE PEABODY EDUCATION FUND FOR 1900 AND 1901. 2. JEFFERSON'S PLAN FOR A SYSTEM OF FREE SCHOOLS IN VIR GINIA. Reports to General Agent OF THE PEABODY EDUCATION FOR THE YEARS 1900-1901. COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, HON. J. L. M. CURRY, General Agent Peabody Education Fund, Washington, D. C. DEAR SIR,-I have the honor to transmit the following statement of the receipts and disbursements on account of the Peabody funds donated to Virginia for the year ending July 31, 1900, with a brief account of the institutions that are the beneficiaries of these funds: By checks to the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute..... Total disbursements $2,000 00 1,400 00 500 00 1,400 00 $5,300 00 |