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R Sainte Genevieve (Mo.). School Board.
21 Minute
book, 1851-1885.
One volume.
MICROFILM
These are minutes of the Board of
Directors of Schools, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. The minutes include discussions and resolutions on settlements
of adverse claims to land owned by the school board, and also records the
establishments of the first public schools in Ste. Genevieve.
This volume of minutes of the Board of
the Directors of Schools was loaned for microfilming to the Western Historical
Manuscript Collection through Ray Thomas, Superintendent of Schools. The original volume was returned to the Ste.
Genevieve School Board.
The minutes detail the establishment of
the public school system in Ste. Genevieve.
A large part of the business before the board in the early years
concerned the settlement of adverse claims to land claimed by the school board
under the provisions of state law.
Parcels of land had been set aside for the use and support of the public
schools. Some of these tracts had a
long occupation by the original French settlers in the area, who are
represented as adverse claimants in the minutes.
Also detailed in the minutes is the
attempt of Firmin A. Rozier to reach an agreement with the school board on land
known as the Old Academy grounds, claimed by the school board but occupied by
Rozier. Rozier proposed establishing a
school and educating fifty pupils at his own expense in return for a valid
deed to the property. The proposal was
defeated, but Rozier did open his Academy.
He later made cash payment to the board and received a quitclaim deed to
the Academy grounds.
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