Note XXX-22 — Chapter XXX · INTELLECTUAL ADVANCEMENT. 1800-1887.

At the end of 1882 there were 811 primary schools; namely, 528 elementary for boys and 226 for girls, 5 complementary for boys, 3 for girls; one Sunday school for working-women, and 48 night schools for artisans, etc. This was an increase of 26 over 1881. The attendance was of 26,773 boys and 10,696 girls, an increase of 2,166 of both sexes over 1881. Early in 1884, the primary schools were 844, including 47 night schools for men, one for women, one Sunday school for women, and 16 mixed schools. The attendance had also greatly increased. The buildings confiscated from the church in 1872 were applied to education. There were likewise several private and municipal schools. Barrios, Mensaje, Sept. 11, 1876, 33-8; B. Whetham's Across Cent. Am., 39; U. S. Gov. Doc., H. Ex. Doc., Cong. 44, Sess. I, i. pt i. 137-8, 148, 175; Guat., Recop. Ley., Gob. Democ., ii. 81-192, passim; Belly, A trav. l'Amér. Cent., i. 131-4; Salv., Gaceta, Aug. 18, Oct. 7, Nov. 8, 1876; Feb. 11 to Nov. 27, 1877, passim; Id., Diario Ofic., Aug. 15, 1878; Guat., Mem. Sec. Instruc. Púb., 1880-4; Reichardt, Cent. Am., 57, 227; La Estrella de Pan., Jan. 10, 1884; Batres, Sketch of Guat., 19-20, 40-72, passim; El Guatemalteco, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, Dec. 24, 1884; Conkling's Guide, 337, 341.