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Summary
Change of men
Mid-Aid Act
Cause the present grant-in-aid scheme to be altered in an anti-Catholic sense.
(2) & am further advised that assurance from the Secretary of State would be of
immediacy avail against the express provisions of the Truck Act,
24 Secretary of State can bind his successor or affect
10 his freedom of opinion and action.
I do most formally believe that while His Lordship the Earl of Derby is in
office,
210 such change as I have to provide against need be feared, but there might be members of Her Majesty's Government who, if
in office at the Colonial
would hold different opinions.
(8) If I accept a building grant I have to assign over the college upon trust to be kept as a school for ever, and under the Building Grant rules I have to provide not merely for today but extended futures, and looking into the future I cannot conceal from myself the fact that secular education is winning the day in England that denominational schools of all kinds appear to be doomed to destruction, as far as
X James
Manning