II. Madras. 41. In order to carry out this system of instruction, he recommends that the schools should be furnished with the following materials: 1st. A good reading book as full of instruction as possible, and of the highest moral teaching. 2d. Pope's elementary catechism of Tamil grammar. 3d. Tamil maps. 4th. A black board, and he suggests that, by undertaking the provision of the above-mentioned materials of instruction, by stimulating the present schoolmasters to qualify themselves for the efficient use of them; and by thoroughly carrying out the system of inspection, which is now being organized, the Government may most effectually contribute to the improvement of the village schools generally throughout the country. 42. The foregoing proposition appears to me to be worthy of a trial, and I beg to recommend that I may be authorised to carry it out to the extent of offering to the masters and mistresses of the schools, referred to in the application from the Church Missionary Society, augmentations to their stipends at the rates proposed by Mr. Richards, on their passing a satisfactory examination in the subjects named by him. 43. In regard to grants for the provision of school books and maps, it seems desirable that some general rules should be laid down. I would propose then, that a grant, to be designated a supply grant, for the purchase of books and maps, should be made to every school under Government inspection, at the In the case of a school ranking with rates noted in the margin, with reference to the number of a Government zillah school, at the pupils, provided that a sum equal to the amount of the grant be rate of one rupee a pupil. In the case of a school ranking with subscribed by the managers of the schools, that no further a Government talook school, at the pecuniary grant be made for a period of three years from the rate of eight annas a pupil. In the case of a village school, at date of the supply grant, unless it be shown that the average number of pupils has increased by 25 per cent., whereupon In the case of a school ranking with a supplementary grant should be made for such additional a zillah school, at the rate of eight number of pupils, at the rates laid down for the supply grant; In the case of a school ranking with and after the lapse of three years from the first grant, a a talook school, at the rate of four renewal grant might be made, at the rates noted in the annas each pupil. In the case of a village school, two margin, provided the local contributions shall double the amount annas each pupil. the rate of four annas a pupil. annas each pupil. of the grant. 44. With a view to insure the adoption of approved books in all schools aided by Government grants, I propose, in communication with the inspectors and managers of schools, to publish from time to time schedules, specifying all books, for the purchase of which grants will be made. In these schedules should be entered all such school books as may have received the most extensive sanction from public opinion. Supplies of them should be kept in the Government depôt, and sold either at cost price, or at such reduced prices as they may be purchased at by Government. 45. In addition to the periodical grants of money towards the purchase of books, managers of schools under Government inspection should have the privilege of obtaining once in each year a supply of books from the Government depôt, at the reduced prices at which they are purchased or published by Government. The recommendations made in the enclosed statement, in regard to grants for the purchase of school books, are based upon the foregoing propositions. 46. The grants recommended for the establishment of scholarships, I propose to defray from the scholarship fund, sanctioned by the Government of India, under date the 5th January 1856. I beg, that in all cases in which the conditions of the grant are not inconsistent with such an arrangement, the grant may be considered to commence from the 1st instant. 47. It only remains for me to add that I expect to be in a position, at an early date, to lay before Government a supplementary statement of applications, which will probably absorb the whole of the sum sanctioned by the Government of India for grants in aid, but which, in consequence of my having been compelled to make further references either to the inspectors or to the managers of the schools for information on important points, I have been unable to incorporate in this report. I have, &c. II. Madras. (signed) A. J. Arbuthnot, Office of the Director of Public Instruction, 19 May 1856. That a grant of 40 rupees per mensem be made in augmentation of the salary of the head master, and a grant of 50 rupees to provide for the salary of a second master, their continuance to depend on the income of the school, inclusive of fees, equalling the amount of the grants. Also that a grant not exceeding 99 rupees, at the rate of one rupee each pupil, be granted towards the supply of school books, provided a similar sum be raised for the same purpose from local sources. Also a grant of Rs. 17. 8. towards the purchase of an 18-inch terrestrial globe, a supply of which has been ordered for the book depot, at 31. 108. each. 1. That 40 rupees per mensem be granted in aug- 3. That a grant not exceeding 138 rupees, at the 4. Also a grant of Rs.23. 8. in aid of the purchase of a pair of globes. 1,080 1st. That a grant of 70 rupees per mensem be made in aid of the salary of the head master to be brought from Europe, the continuance of such grant depending on the reports of the Inspector. 2d. That a grant not exceeding 300 rupees be made for the purchase of school apparatus, provided an equal sum be raised by the managers of the school. Note.--The grant for apparatus can be provided from the monthly grant, the payment of which cannot commence for some months hence, as the master has to be brought out from Europe. 1,000 1,950 GRAND TOTAL Rs. 12,058 + Note. This sum is the estimated amount of grant for six months, supposing all the masters and mistresses to pass the prescribed examination within six months from this It is probably much more than will be given. time. A. J. Arbuthnot, Director of Public Instruction. II. Madras. Public Department. Applications from the North Telugu Division. (No. 747.) EXTRACT from the Minutes of Consultation, dated 26th June 1856. READ the following letter from the Director of Public Instruction. (Here enter 19th May 1856, No. 465.) THE Government do not gather from the above report whether all the applications for grants in aid that were preferred to the Director have been recommended by him for compliance wholly or in part, or whether any others have been made to him and not forwarded, and if so, for what cause. 2. Mr. Arbuthnot is requested to state whether he has received any applications besides those now sent up, and if so, what were the considerations which led him to reject them. 3. He will also be so good as to furnish an abstract statement exhibiting the grants in aid that have already been sanctioned by Government, and the leading particulars in each instance. (No. 591.) From A. J. Arbuthnot, Esq., Director of Public Instruction, to the Sir, I HAVE the honour to reply to the extract from the Minutes of Consultation under date the 26th ultimo, No. 747, calling upon me to state whether I had received any applications for grants in aid other than those referred to in my letter of the 19th May last, and to furnish an abstract statement exhibiting the grants in aid already sanctioned by Government, and the leading particulars in each instance. 2. In the concluding paragraph of my letter of the 19th May I stated that I had received other applications which would probably absorb the whole of the sum sanctioned by the Government of India for grants in aid, but which, in consequence of my having been compelled to make further references either to the inspectors or to the managers of schools, I had been unable to incorporate in that report; and in a note appended to the sixth paragraph I specified the amount already sanctioned and that available for future disbursements. 3. I have now the honour to submit a statement, marked A., of the applications not included in my letter of the 19th of May, specifying in each case the name of the applicant, the purport of the application, and the cause of its non-transmission with my former letter; a statement, marked B., specifying the grants already sanctioned by Government under the authority conveyed in the Despatch of the Supreme Government under date the 11th May 1855, and a third statement, marked C., containing the further applications I am now able to recommend. 4. The applications entered in the first of these statements are 40 in number. Of these, eight proceed from the North Telugu Division, two from the South Telugu Division, 12 from the North Tamil Division, 11 from the South Tamil Division, one from Cochin, one from Canara, and five from stations not situated within the provinces subject to the Government of Fort St. George. 5. All the applications from the North Telugu Division are under reference to Lieutenant Macdonald. Two of these, viz., those on behalf of the Onslow Institution at Chetterpore and the English school for the children of Europeans and East Indians at Masulipatam, were preferred before the end of last year, and were referred to Mr. Thompson for report on the occasion of his visit to the Rajahmundry schools. Shortly after his departure from Madras he was granted three months' leave, and he then requested me to permit him to defer his visit to Ganjam until after the expiration of his leave. He visited Masulipatam on his return from Rajahmundry, and conferred with the committee by whom the application for a grant to the English school for Europeans and East Indians had been made. The school, however, had been discontinued some months |