these buildings, and we trust that His Excellency with see fit to sanction during the coming year the wrection of similar buildings at the three other villages Worden Stanley, and Seonghong, in lien of the
spartments now used as schoolrooms which
are confined, incurably dirty, and altogether
msuitable._
8. On 4th Instant
was
were
an examination of the scholars held at Sothuls College, and prizes _distributed in accordance with the suggestion
letter of 18th September last,
made in our
and approved by this Excellency - after the examination seven of the most promising scholars were selected by the Lord Bishop of Victimes, and Gransferred with their intire satisfaction to the college to receive a better course of instruction- four of these wire from the Wouqueichoong school.
9. A request
was made
during
the year by
the residents at West Point that a school might
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similar
be retablished in their reuphborhood, a divalen requests was made by the presidents of boothumpoo, and at the outlying Village oftheaks, where
the population is agricultural and stationary,
school
great
久
might be bet on foot with
benefit to the villagers who are for the most
part for poor to obtame this advantage without assistance.
10. We think that the study of the English
language should in this an English Colony, be rucouraged as much as possible, not merely in regard to its utility as a a mental exercise and a means of obtaining what is caluable in English literature, but in regard to the effects to be produced by such a Knowledge in preventing Misunderstanding. and retablishing a boud of union beteren the many thousand Chinese who have made this place their residence and the handful of turopeans by whom they governed..
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