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laws for its internal regulation. The children European and other parents who have attained a specified Proficiency in the studies belonging to a liberal education, will be admissible to the College classes, and in case of numerous applications for the admission of children, it is proposed to establish a preparatory school for their previous training.
These are the plans proposed by us at present for carrying out the objects of the Anglo-Chinese College - They may hereafter be enlarged, as the Institution shall be found to be successful and to commend itself to the confidence of the enlightened and Christian public. It is our hope, that the existence of such an Educational Seminary in Hongkong, will be the means of widely diffusing the principles of sound knowledge and true religion, and that ultimately, much through the instrumentality of native agents educated in the College, and it's direct and immediate labours, multitudes of the Chinese will be led to refer with feelings of gratitude to this free and British settlement:
With these remarks we beg respectfully to submit to Your Excellency an application for the whole of that ridge, separated by the gap from the Hill on which the Medical Missionary Society's Hospital, and the Building of the Morrison Education Society have been erected, and extending from the Gap southwest direction till it meets the high range of hills behind. We have been induced to fix on this site, in consequence of the salubrity of the position (the ridge overlooking on the