[2] In 1841 a petition was sent to the legislature
requesting that a reasonable share of the school fund be appropriated
to the education of Negroes, but the committee to which it was
referred reported that legislation on that subject was inexpedient.[3]
With the exception of prohibiting the immigration of such persons into
that State not much account of them was taken until 1853. Then the
legislature amended the law authorizing the establishment of schools
in townships so as to provide that in all enumerations the children
of color should not be taken, that the property of the blacks and
mulattoes should not be taxed for school purposes, and that their
children should not derive any benefit from the common schools of that
State.[4] This provision had really been incorporated into the former
law, but was omitted by oversight on the part of the engrossing
clerk.[5]
[Footnote 1: Boone, _History of Ed. in Indiana_, p. 237.]
[Footnote 2: _Laws of a General Nature of the State of Indiana_, 1837,
p. 15.]
[Footnote 3: Boone, _History of Education in Indiana_, p. 237.]
[Footnote 4: _Laws of a General Nature of the State of Indiana_, 1855,
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