CIRCULAR No. 57.

To the Secretary to the Local Committee.

SIR,-I am directed by the Hon'ble the Deputy Governor to forward a copy of the list of Holidays allowed in the Institutions under Education. the control of the Council of Education, and to request, that after ascertaining which of these holidays are observed in your district, and whether others should, with reference to the feelings of the people on the subject, be substituted for any of those specified, you will prepare and submit to Government a list not exceeding in the aggregate the number of days allowed in the Institutions under the Council of Education and embracing all those festivals most generally celebrated by the people of the district. Fort William, the 18th August, 1847.

To the Secretary to the Local Committee.

SIR,-I am directed by the Hon'ble the Deputy Governor to forward to Education. you the accompanying copy of a Form received from the Financial Department of the Government of India, and to request that you will submit to this office a Return prepared according to that Form, of the Masters, &c., attached to the school under the Committee's charge, for transmission to the Supreme Government.

Fort William, the 8th September, 1847.

b

Form.

General Return shewing the number of Public Educational Institupart, within the Bengal Division of the Presidency of Fort Masters, and Teachers, by whom they are appointed and supportamount of Salary of each person (prepared agreeably to the ment, dated 27th August 1847.)

Covenanted or Un

covenanted.

tions and Schools supported by the Government, either wholly or in William, on the 1st May 1847, specifying the number of Professors, ed, the length of their service, their ages respectively, and the requisition of the Government of India in the Financial Depart

By whom appointed.

By whom supported.

CIRCULAR No. 59.

To the Secretary to the Local Committee, Dacca-Kishnaghur.

SIR,-I am directed to transmit to you the accompanying copy of a letter from the Secretary to the Council of Education No. 1,121, Education. dated the 16th ultimo, and of its enclosure, relative to a plan introduced by the Hon'ble the Lieutenant Governor into the Colleges in the N. W. Provinces for encouraging the resort of pupils of a higher order of education to the Calcutta Medical College, and to inform you that the Hon'ble the Deputy Governor has been pleased to sanction the adoption of a similar plan in all the Colleges in Bengal.

2. The Committee are authorized to offer the terms indicated in the Lieutenant Governor's Circular letter to the holders of Senior Scholarships in the Institution under their charge, and should more than one of these be desirous of availing themselves of the advantageous means now proposed to them of qualifying themselves for the duties of Sub-Assistant Surgeons, you are requested to report the circumstance for the further orders of Government.

Fort William, the 22d September, 1847.

No. 1121.

From the Secretary Council of Education,

To F. J. HALLIDAY, ESQ., Secretary Government of Bengal,

Fort William, August 16th, 1847.

SIR, -I have the honor, by direction of the Council of Education, to for

No. 325 A. dated 14th

July and its enclosure, No. 323 A. dated 13th July 1847.

means of encouraging the to the Medical College.

ward for the information of Government the

enclosed copies of correspondence noted in the margin, from the Secretary to Government N. W. Provinces, relative to affording the resort of pupils of a higher order of education

The Council coincide fully in the views and proposals of the Hon'ble the Lieutenant Governor, and beg strongly to recommend the adoption of a similar plan in all the Colleges of Bengal in time for promulgation at the ensuing Scholarship Examination.

I have, &c.,

(Signed) F. J. MOUAT, M. D.,

Secretary Council of Education.

No. 325 A. OF 1847.

From J. THORNTON, Esq., Secretary to Government N. W. Provinces,

To F. J. MOUAT, Esq., M. D.,

General Department. From the Secretary Council of Education to the Secretary to Go

Secy. Council of Education, Calcutta.

Dated Head Quarters, the 14th July, 1847. SIR,-With reference to your correspondence with the Government of Bengal, relative to the disinclination of the Native Students to enter the Medical College in Calcutta, I am directed to forward for the information of the Council of Education, the accompanying copy of a Circular addressed this day to the Secretaries of the Local Committees of Public Instruction at Agra, Delhi and Benares, offering suitable terms to the holders of Senior Scholarships, who may be qualified and willing to proceed to Calcutta for the purpose of studying Medicine

vernment of Bengal, dated 9th September, No. 504. From ditto to ditto, dated 17th May,

1847, No. 707.

in the Medical College at that place.

I am, &c.,

(Signed) J. THORNTON,

Secretary to Government N. W. Provinces.

No. 323 A. 1847.

From J. THORNTON, ESQ., Secretary to Government, N. W. P.,

To the Secretary to the Local Committee of Public Instruction,

Agra, Delhi and Benares.

Dated Head Quarters, 14th July 1847.

SIR, The Lieutenant Governor is desirous of doing all that is in his power to promote the resort of educated Natives General Department. from the N. W. P. to the Medical College in Calcutta, in order to qualify themselves for the situation of Sub-Assistant Surgeons.

2nd. The Council of Education at the Presidency have lately suggested with a view to this object that a scholarship should be devoted in each of the Colleges in these Provinces to the purpose in question.

3rd. The Committee are consequently authorized to make the following offer to the present holders of Senior English Scholarships in the College, as well as to those who may hereafter obtain stipends of that description. If any sufficiently qualified senior scholar is willing to proceed to Calcutta, for the purpose of studying Medicine in the Medical College at that place, he will be allowed to retain his stipend while so employed in addition to the usual allowance to the Medical Students of the College and for the term of three years from the time of his entry. If at the end of that term the Council of Education should see cause to recommend that a further period of study be allowed, the continuance of the stipend will be sanctioned for two additional years.

4th. It must be understood that the indulgence thus offered is conditional upon the progress which the student may make in his new pursuit while in Calcutta. If at any time the Council of Education should see