SCLC #741 · Tonawanda 1879: $500 special appropriation, not $600

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Finding #741 — NY Superintendent of Public Instruction, Twenty-Sixth Annual Report p.23 (PDF leaf 30), FY ending 30 Sep 1879: photographic ledger lists $500.00 special appropriation for Tonawanda under chapter 252, Laws of 1878; $418.86 paid; $81.14 remaining ($418.86+$81.14=$500). OCR often misreads $500 as $600. A second $500 under the same chapter is for St. Regis, not Tonawanda. Ordinary Tonawanda payment $872.29 is a separate line. Federal agent Sherman’s 1879 report separately claimed a $600 furniture appropriation — amounts differ; neither chapter text nor furniture voucher inspected here. Craft: OCR ≠ page; special appropriation ≠ operating school; state $500 ≠ reported federal $600 furniture; expenditure ≠ enrollment. repo.