Excerpt from Fifth Annual Report of the Board of Education: Together With the Thirtieth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Public Schools, of Rhode Island, January, 1875 In connection with the matter of statistical reports, the Board calls attention to the importance for educational pur poses, Of having an annual census actually taken, in each City' or town and district, of that portion Of the population which comes within the limits of school'age. It is hoped that the proposed enactment of last year, looking to this end, may receive, at the present session of the General Assembly, the attention which it is believed to merit, and may be adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.