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necessitated accordingly a pro ratá reduction amanting

per

cent of the amount earned by the Schools.

3. Such proralá reductions very great dissatisfaction and discouragement on the part of the managers who in the agregate spend annually more than $40,000, out-of

cause

Mission Funds, on local schools, over and above the Grant paid to them by the Government, and who look

upon the provisions of the Grant-in-Aid Scheme, fiscing the value of passes

in each standard, as direct-

"

promisis, morally binding, although paragraph betates,

6

The Government-will not-

bind itself to give grants all schools claining them

to

under

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each case

under the foregoing emotiline, but will be funded by the arcumstances of e

by the amount of money at its disposal for educational purposes":

and

at-its

4.

No supplementary voo

can be asked

grantó

for when the

auto earned in any one.

found.

year

of

are

to exceed

the amount prenoudly voted by the Legislative Connell, because Secretary States Despatch N. 201 304 September 1883 laid down the rule (applied to beylon about the same time and lately also to Dingapore)"

of money

of

that the am

each

svled

year for Grants in-aid ought not under any

circumstances be exceeded."

3:

Under these circumstances

it

AT