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Title: Popular Education
For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes

Author: Ira Mayhew

Release Date: January 8, 2009 [EBook #27742]

Language: English

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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
State of Michigan.

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.

State of Michigan:

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, }
_Lansing, February 27th 1849._ }

HON. IRA MAYHEW, _Superintendent of Public Instruction_:

SIR: I am instructed by the House of Representatives to transmit to you
the following preamble and resolution, and to respectfully inform you
that the same were this day _unanimously_ adopted by the House.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

A. W. HOVEY, Clerk of the House of Representatives.

_Whereas_, In the opinio