Section 947 of chapter 25 says: "The legislature shall appropriate from time to time moneys for the purchase of primary and elementary school books for the use of the public schools. The secretary of the treasury shall draw special warrants to cover such appropriation. and shall make the same payable to the order of the superintendent. who shall purchase such books as may be provided for and distribute the same among the several counties according to law." By way of recapitulation. it has been observed from this discussion that the American Colonization Society. organized. as before stated. In the United States in the city of Washington in 1817. undertook to colonize American free Negroes in Africa. and sent its first group of emigrants to that country in 1822. and established them as a settlement within the present limits of the Republic of Liberia. that the Colonization Society purchased practically all the territory that now forms the Republic of Liberia. It has also been shown that the American Government cooperated with the Colonization Society. and from time to time landed its recaptured slaves from vessels engaged in the slave trade in the territory of Liberia. and provided fos these recaptured slaves temporary care and sustenance. In addition to the freedmen from America and the recaptured slaves settled there by the American Government. a great many West Indian Negroes found their way also to this new country.
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