Provo City, October 7, [189]0. President Wilford Woodruff Chairman General Board of Education. Dear Brother, In conformity with your instructions and those of the General Board as published in the Deseret News and date of June 11, exam- inations of Church school teachers were held at Gunnison, Cedar, Logan, Salt Lake, and Provo at the specified times. Records of pro- ceedings have been carefully kept and are respectfully submitted in accompanying book. Results thus far obtained show, that 15 Candidates ...

at Logan and Salt Lake part of the time. This being the first experiment of the kind in our Church- school-Organization, a great many difficulties had to be over- come and much patience and persuasion to be brought into requisition in order to accomplish the object in view, namely to lay a sure foundation of efficiency in our Church- school-Service. As the manuscript list of Percentages now before you shows several vacancies as yet it has been impossible for the Board of Examiners to determine the Percentage of "General Efficiency ...

2. continue In addition to the 37 church schools reported Sept. 20, there is another one to be placed on the list, namely a Church school at Fremont, Sevier Stake, Piute Co. in charge of Miss Arretta Young, concerning the ^to be^ recognized grade of which school I respectfully ask your in- struction. I have visited the Church schools at Nephi, Provo, Huntington, Castle Dale, Cottonwood, 14 Ward, 18 Ward, and the

Immediately after my visits to the church schools in the North, it will become necessary to attend the church schools at St. Johns, Snowflake, and St Joseph, Arizona, that have never been visited, and are clamoring for a visit. The dis- tance I would entail ^cause^ expenses which I could not venture to in- cur without special instructions from the General Board. The irregularity with which many of our church schools have commenced this year’s operations have in several instances proved disadvantageous to our interests, in as much ...