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in
the
year
1854 at which time
The Earl of Clarendon invited
certain educational establishments
in the United Kingdom
recommend each one
appointment.
rich an
The
to be
successful.
Co
person for
system formising
the number of
Student Interfireters was gradually
increased until it reached its
present number
of
twelve.
After the first appointments the
Students
were nominated occasionally
directly
discitly by the beretury of
but generally
on
the
State,
recommendation
of the Principal of Kings College, dondon, partly because
assurance
as to the
ccas
an
thereby obtained qualifications of the
Parties, and
in
rome measure also
because in that establishment the
Students had means.
of acquiring
a
i
certain degree of elementary
knowledge of the Chinese language.
The alteration which was
made in the Reperannuation Act
in
ensul
ellared Mces