HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                      89

tuition fund apportioned to Clay county has increased, the annual dis-
tribution of the consecutive years from 1853 to 1868, is here given
    1853—$2,280; 1854—3,041; 1855—2,715; 1856—3,067; 1857—
3,224; 1858—2,826; 1859—4,000; 1860—5,012; 1861—5,240; 1862—
5,353; 1863—7,014; 1864—7,555; 1865—7,867; 1866—11,209; 1867—
12,907; 1868—13,773. The figures for the succeeding years up to the
present are not at hand, but for the year 1908 the apportionment to the
county was $38,987.02, an increase of 1600 per cent over that of 1853,
and 183 per cent over that of 1868, forty years ago.
    The wages paid teachers in this county in 1857 were $1 per day to
males and from 65 to 75 cents per day to females. In 1865, just after
the close of the Civil war, the average paid males was $1.75 and females
$1.33 per day, and the average term sixty-five days.