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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 admissable to the College classes, and in case of numerous applications for the admission of children. :test so far advanced, it is proposed to :stablish a preparatory school for their Previous training.

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Enlarged, as the Institution shall be fused to be succesful and to commend itself at the confidence of the enlightened and Christian public. It is our hope, that the :xistence of such an Educational Seminary in Hongkong, will be the oncans of bridely,

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diffusing the principles of sound knowledge. and true religine, and that ultimately, anuch through the instrumentality of native through

agents educated in the College.

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of gratitude to this free and British settlement:

With these remarks we beg respectfully to submit to Your Excellency an application the swhole of that ridge, separated by the gap; from the Hill. on which the medicol Missionary Society's Hospital, and the Building: of the Turrison 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

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