[See p. 386.POPULAR EDUCATION:
FOR THE USE OF
PARENTS AND TEACHERS,
AND FOR
YOUNG PERSONS OF BOTH SEXES.
PREPARED AND PUBLISHED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
BY IRA MAYHEW, A.M.,
LATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
82 CLIFF STREET.
1850.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, by
Ira Mayhew,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Michigan.
Sir: I am instructed by the House of Representatives to transmitto you the following preamble and resolution, and to respectfully informyou that the same were this day unanimously adopted by the House.
A. W. Hovey, Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Whereas, In the opinion of this House, a Manual on the subject ofPopular Education, embracing such considerations as shall have a tendencyto arouse the popular mind to a due appreciation of the importance—ina political, social, moral, and religious point of view—of securingto every child in all our borders a good common school education,together with such instructions to citizens and teachers as shallconstitute a directory to the highest improvement of which our primaryschools are susceptible, is a desideratum; therefore,
Resolved, by the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan:That the Hon. Ira Mayhew, the present Superintendent of Public Instructionin this state, be requested to prepare for publication, in bookform, the various matters set forth in his public Lectures, delivered byrequest of the Legislature, in the Hall of the House, during the presentsession, together with such other matter as, in his judgment, wouldtend to the further improvement of our system of public instruction; tothe end that the necessary information in regard to this subject maybe diffused throughout the state and nation.