According to the annual report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for 1886 Westchester County has ninety-one children over five and under twenty one years of age, for each qualified teacher; forty-eight children attending school any portion of the year for each qualified teacher; twenty-eight children the average daily attendance for each teacher; 30.76 per cent, of average daily attendance on whole number of children between five and twenty-one years of age, and 58.33 per cent, of average daily attendance on whole number of children attending school any portion of the year.

The Yonkers report shows one hundred and seventytwo children of school age for each qualified teacher; sixty-one the whole number of children attending school any portion of the year, for each qualified teacher ; thirty-seven the average daily attendance per teacher; 21.51 the per cent, of average daily attendance on the whole number of children of school age, and 60.65 the per cent, of average daily attendance on the whole number of children attending school any portion of the year.

1 The number of school buildings and books has increased since this report.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

THE BENCH AND BAR.*

BY HON. ISAAC N. MILLS, Judge of the County Court.

Preparatory to writing this chapter we have carefully examined the court records, in the county clerk's office at White Plains, from the earliest times . perused the fragments of history, here and there extant, bearing upon the subject, and such biographical sketches of judges and lawyers as can be found : and also received from the lips of some of the veteran members of the bar and old residents of the county a mass of traditionary information, giving the names, characteristics and relative standing of the leading members of the bar for nearly a century past, and abounding in interesting reminiscences and anecdotes, the publication of which the limits of this chapter do not permit.