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theware no

who quitable schools from which masting

can be drafted to fill these ports.

The problem is how to provide & efficient Chinese Assistants in addition to

the 1st and 2nd who may

permanent.

be considered

The 3th and of the Assistants at present receive twenty dollars as mouth rack, but

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continually leaving on obtaming high-

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they irs salaries, no lies than 6 changes having laken place among them within 18 months. We have therfore every reason to suppose that when the new ledleges is ready, wo

one or

Mall have two Aroistants of the present years' experience. To

two Assistants to remain in their ports I

propose an increase of five dollars each pir-month, as total annuals increase of ons hundred and twenty dollars.

Instead of 2 Pupils Teachers and

3 Monitors we now have at a total cost

of four hundred and thirty-two dollars Jurannum and who leave whenever

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occasions offer, Jenggert & Papile cachers duly apprenticed and bound, in securities for three or four years as this Excellency "the Gormor may appoint, who shall re-

ceive apice tin dollars a month the first year, and fifteen dollars a month afterwards (with a promise of at least twenty dollars at the end of the stipulated time) this would make

a grows

annual

expenditure of one thousand and righty dollars, making a gross annual increase 648€ in expenditure of six hundred and forty right

dollars.

For the training of these Pupil Teachers a special Normal Class would be formed in the afternoons, in addition to then practical work of teaching in the morn - ings. By this

means right efficient trained Whinest Assistants (in addition to the 12t and 2nd) will be ready to fill the pots required

ed in the New College, at a total additional cost pusannum of seven 7689 hundred and sixty-eight dollars.

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