The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

HISTORY OF DORCIESTER, 461
road (now " Adams School" ) - being kept on
"' meeting-house hill" in summer, and at the "lower
road" in winter. The town also voted, in 1812,
to raise $2700 for schools. The same sum was
raised the two following years.
It was voted, in 1818, that the school-house in
District No. 2 (now " Adams School ") "be put on
the same footing as the othbr school-houses in
Town."
From 1820 to 1824, inclusive, the annual appropriation for schools was $2300. In the latter year
it was voted to raise $500 to repair school-houses.
The following, from the record, was the estimated
school expenses for the year 1821:Six Schoolmasters' salaries, at $400... $2400
Wood for six Schools, carting and sawing. 96
School at Squantum.....43
Ordinary repairs of School-houses.. 65
School Committee expenses..... 30
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Deduct School income.. 257
To be raised by taxation... $2377
The whole town expenses that year were estimated at $6534 55. In 1857, the amount of tax raised
in town was $87,915 90; for schools, $23,622 98.
In the years 1825 and 1828, $2500 were appropriated for the schools; in 1830, $2300; so that in
1857, the money expended for schools was more than
ten times as much as in 1830. In 1827, a committee of the town, to whom was referred the subject
of the high school, reported it "' expedient to estab51