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and fitting up account remaining unpaid when building, and Conveyance are complete? If I am to understand this, that no application for a Building Grant can be made, or entertained until the work is absolutely completed and the cost ascertained to a cent, I am sorry I cannot agree with you. The actual amount of the grant to be paid by the Government can of course be ascertained only at the last moment and upon presentation of a balance sheet, but it must be competent for me to apply to the Government to know if any grant will be given and for the Government to say whether it will give any assistance towards the construction of a school, before anything more has been done than the preparation of the plans, estimates &c.
The St. Joseph's College was a school working under the Grant-in-aid system. It is a well known...