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last

year,

and your Grace will perceive that of 132 pupies attending the bollege 195 paid nothing, and that, whilst the

I whole cast of the establishment

the amount received hom Scholars

$636.

$2256.

was

8. I am therefore strongly of opinion

Jam that the Italian Meifsion here does

only

render important gratuitous service to the

Tublic, and that if the boment and

of Kidnappers, and Slave dealers.

9.

It is, moreover, evident to

any

one

conversant with the administration of Public

a destitute

affairs that to establish Asylum and schools for boys and girls, nearly 250 in number, under Government

Supervision and at the expense of the

balony, would entail

to

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amount

of

CH

Reformatery

were

to be: phut up

an

expense would thereby be thrown

balany

balony many

profit

times

exceeding

om

the

all the

now received hom the ground rento haid by the Italian Mcipion.

ао сто

Government could permit destitute childhen

to starve in the streets

or become the prey

nconvenience and expense quite disproportionate

any good

which could be

effected by the comparatively cumbersome and costly machinery of Government management. 10. The question, however, which prepes

at this moment is what shape any

Government aid to the Roman Catholic Institutions here should take. It happens that before receipt of your Grace's

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