pees per annum, and a special grant of 300 rupees, in aid of certain schools under his charge at Bellary.

Applying for a grant in aid of his salary as teacher of a village school at Bungary Polliam, in North Arcot.

NORTH TAMIL DIVISION: Applying for a grant of 840 rupees per annum, in aid of a school at Tondiarpett, Madras.

Applying for a grant of 700 rupees in aid of the schools supported by them.

Certain inhabitants of Karoor, in the district of Coimbatore.

Shaik Yasuf, Moideen Ally, and others, of Conjeveram.

pees, in aid of building a new school-house for the Wesleyan Boys' School at Royapettah, and of 300 rupees in aid of the salaries of the Wesleyan Girls' School.

Applying for grants in aid to two private schools at Karoor.

Applying for a grant in aid of a school at Conjeveram. Amount of grant sought for not stated.

In consequence of there being no inspector available for the inspection of these schools, the head master of the Provincial School at Bellary was requested to inspect and report on them. Mr. Kershaw, however, does not seem to have understood the nature of the inspection that was required, and his report was not such as to enable me to base a recommendation on it. The application will be referred to Mr. Norman as soon as he enters upon his duties.

This application will be referred to Mr. Norman.

The object of this application was to increase the salary of the present head master, and to provide him with additional assistants. The inspector reported very unfavourably on the qualifications of the present masters, and stated that they were amply, if not overpaid, and that greater efficiency might be attained by a better distribution of the funds available, without any addition to the present expenditure. I did not, therefore, consider myself justified in recommending a grant. In the inspector's report it was stated that the visitor had been requested to furnish a detailed application. This had not been received when my report of the 19th May was submitted.

The details of this application were only received on the 30th April, and on considering the subject, I came to the conclusion that it would not be expedient to assign so large a sum as that named for building purposes from the limited fund allotted for grants in aid. I intimated this to Mr. Burgess, the principal of the school, and at the same time informed him that I should be prepared to consider any application that might be made for aid in enlarging the present building on an inexpensive scale. His reply, which required consideration, only reached me on the 16th May, and I did not think it advisable to defer my report on the schools, in regard to which my opinion had been formed, until I should be prepared to submit a specific recommendation regarding this school. This application has been referred to Mr. Thompson, whose report has not yet been received.

This application was under reference to Mr. Thompson at the date of my report of the 19th May 1856. His report, which has been since received, is very unfavourable. He states that the school, which is a mere pyal school, containing 15 or 20 boys, is kept by an ignorant Musselman teacher, employed in the Free Church School at Conjeveram; that neither he, nor his subassistant inspector, who was instructed to visit the school, had been able to find the master at his post, but that from what he saw of the master of his class at the Free Church School, he had no hesitation in saying that he was totally incompetent to conduct a school. Under these circumstances, I do not propose to recommend a grant in aid for this school.

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North Tamil Division-contd. Applying in general terms for a grant in aid.

Certain returns called for from the managers of this school had not reached me when my report of the 19th May was submitted to Government.

The Committee of the Madras Native Progressive Seminary.

The Committee of the Anglo-vernacular school at Sydapett.

The Rev. J. T. Kidd, Chaplain at Vepery.

The Secretary to the Committee of the Royapettah Preparatory School.

The Patron and Members of the Eyattamil Boduga Patasala in Madras.

Miss Austin's school.

Applying in general terms for a grant in aid of their schools.

Applying for a grant of 480 rupees per annum in aid of the salary of the head master of the school under their charge.

Applying for an annual grant of 500 rupees in aid of eight poor schools in the district of Pursewalkum, New Town, Poodoopettah and Chintadrepettah.

Applying for a grant of 1,068 ru pees per annum in aid of the salaries of the teachers, and grants to enable them to purchase the ground on which the school house stands, and for school books, the amount of which is not stated.

Applying for a grant of 600 rupees per annum in aid of their school.

Applying for a grant in aid of a Telugu school at Nungumbau

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SOUTH TAMIL DIVISION. Applying for an annual grant of 488 rupees, and a special grant of 58 rupees in aid of certain elementary schools at Cuddalore.

The application was in general terms for aid towards the stipends of pupil teachers, and salaries of masters in a school at Sheally.

vourable, that I did not consider myself justified in recommending a grant. Further information had been called for in regard to the specific purposes for which aid was sought which had not been received from the committee when my report of the 19th May was submitted; it has not yet been furnished.

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managers of this school had not furnished me with the necessary documents when my report of the 19th May was submitted to Government, nor was the report of the Inspector sufficiently complete to admit of my making any specific recommendation; he has been instructed to inspect the school again.

The Inspector having recommended the substitution of native for East Indian agency in these schools, on the ground that for the salaries available more efficient teachers might be procured from among the natives than from the East Indian community, I deemed it necessary to address the committee on the subject, and had not received their reply when my report of the 19th May was submitted to Government.

This application was received too late to admit. of the school being inspected before. Mr. Thompson's departure from Madras; it has since been referred to Mr. Thompson, who will take an early opportunity of inspecting the school.

The report of the inspector on this school was so unfavourable that I did not consider myself justified in recommending it for a grant.

This application not having been made until after Mr. Thompson's departure from Madras, I directed my uncovenanted assistant V. Sadagopahcharloo to inspect it; it had not been inspected when my letter of the 19th May was submitted.

The report of the inspector was so unfavourable, except with reference to a small girls' school, regarding which I am in communication with the committee of the Gospel Society, that, considering the circumstance of there being a zillah school in operation in New Town, Cuddalore, and a talook vernacular school in New Town, I did not consider it advisable to recommend a grant in aid.

In consequence of the report of the inspector, I found it necessary to communicate with the committee of the Gospel Society, with the view of ascertaining whether they were prepared to co-operate in the measures considered necessary for placing the school upon an efficient footing. Their answer has not yet been received.

Cause of Non-transmission to Government.

This school had not been opened when Mr. Richards visited Strevullipoothoor, and he has not as yet had any opportunity of testing the qualifications of the head master in aid of whose salary a portion of the grant sought has been applied for; I therefore considered it desirable to defer forwarding the application until the school could be inspected. A further reference has been made to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in regard to this application, to which no answer has as yet been received.

A further reference similar to that above-mentioned has been made to the Gospel Society in regard to this application; the answer has not yet been received.

This application is still under reference with Mr. Richards.

The report of the Inspector has necessitated a further reference to the managers of this school.

The application was not received until after Mr. Richards had completed his tour in Tinnevelly. It is now included in Statement C.

This application has been received since my report of the 19th May last was submitted to Government; it is now included in Statement C.

The report on this school necessitated a further reference to the Inspector, which had not

been replied to when my report of the 19th May was submitted.

This application was not received until after the completion of Mr. Richards' tour of inspection in Tinnevelly; it is now included in Statement C.

I have not been able to provide for the inspection of these schools; as soon as I can procure a competent zillah visitor for Malabar, the schools will be inspected and reported

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Shortly after this application was first made, a difference of opinion arose between the bishop and certain of the subscribers of the school, which has only just been settled; it has been necessary to make a further reference to the bishop to ascertain the specific purpose for which the grant is required.

These applicants have been informed, with reference to the orders conveyed in the extract from the Minutes of Consultation under date the 4th December last, that for the present grants in aid of educational establishments must be confined to such as are at stations within the limits of this Presidency.

A. J. Arbuthnot, Director of Public Instruction.