The total amount paid on account of the county indebtedness during the year, as shown by reports, was twenty-one thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

Education. -- The people of our county manifest a constant interest in educational affairs and the condition of our schools is such as we may justly be proud of. There has been for many years a steady improvement in the character of school buildings and the methods of teaching have been as steadily perfecting themselves. The teachers' institutes held yearly are of indisputable benefit and their effects are already felt in the schools.

At the spring holding of the institute, at New Rochelle, May, 1885, seventy-one per cent, of the whole number of teachers were in attendance.

The school commissioners' report for 1885-86 shows in the three school commissioners' districts of our county the following :

The Duuiberof teachers in the couuty is 334, apportioned by districts u follows :

let Commissioners' District C6

2d " " 138

3d '■ " ... 130

The total number of pupils of school age in the county was

30^647, as follows :

1st Commissioners' District 0,767

2d " " 12,884

3d " " 10,!l9ii

The average attendance in the county was 9,440, di

Tided as follows :

Ist Commissionei's' Distnct ,

2d " " 4,110

3d •' " 3,453

The School Commissioners are for the,--

l.st Di.'trict Jared Sauford

2d " James B, Lockwood

3d " John \V. Wttel, Peekskill

The citj' of Yonkers being a separate commissioners district, is accordingly not included in the above calculation.