36 PUBLIC INSTITDTIONS FOR SECONDARY EDUCATION, 



as follows: — (1) Tlie College "was for tlie encouragement 

 of learning and piesty, and to be> incorporated by Royal 

 Charter. (2) The Visitor was to be the Lieutenant-Govei-- 

 nor ; the Principal to be appointed by the Crown, the Fel- 

 lowsi to be appointed by the Governor as Visitor on the re- 

 commendation of the Principal. (3) The Principal and Fel- 

 lows were to make regulations subject to the approval oi 

 the Visitor. (4) The property was to be vested in a 

 corporate Body, consisting of the Visitor, the Principal, and 

 Fellows. (5) The College was to be attached tO' no 

 particular Religious Denomination, but provision was to 

 be made as to the method of religious instruction to' be 

 adopted. (6) The site of the Institution wais to be in 

 the Country, but a Grammar School, under the direct con- 

 trol of the College, and leading up to its work, was to be 

 established in Hobart, on the present site of the 

 Hutchins School. 



Other details of the scheme include the duties of the 

 Princinal and the Fellows, .and relate to the course of 

 study and the financial arrangements of the Institution. 



The details of study, as quoted in Cell's Report, show 

 that at first the College was not expected to attain a very- 

 high standard akin to that of a University, but was in it« 

 early stages to teach to approximately the standard of the 

 upper classes at an English Public School. 



OTHER EFFORTS BEFORE 1846. 



(/) The Orir/in of tlte High School. 



An attempt was made in Hobart to establish a Gram- 

 mar School, in which no specific religious instruction should 

 form part of the course of education. A memorial wasi pre- 

 sented to Sir Eardley AA^ilmot, advocating the establishment 

 of a School on English Proprietary School lines. In addition 

 to holding out hope of pecuniary assistance from the State 

 to a School soi founded, Sir Eardley WOmot promised the 

 movers to allot either the whole or a portion of the old 

 Government Gardens (where the Hutchins School now 

 stands) for this purpose, provided sufiicient subscriptions 

 were made, but this offer was not taken advantage of. 

 This land had been long intended as the site for a School, 

 and Sir John Franklin had informed Mr. Gell it was his 

 intention to erect the Queen's School on it. (Gell's Let- 

 ter, 4/9/1847). 



(?'?") Suhscriptions for the Lauiiresfon Church Grammar 

 School . 

 At a meeting held on the 14th May, 1838, at whicli 

 thb Lord Bishop of Australia, Wm. Grant Broughton, the 



