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March 15, 1803.— " Grcammar School, Dumfries.— A class for 

 the rudiments of the Latin tongue will begin upon Monday, the 



10th of April. Hours of meeting, ten and two o'clock. N.B. 



Mr Carson can accommodate a few boarders." 



April 19.— "Dumfries Mathematical School.— T. White (by 

 whom youths are boarded) opens his mathematical and geo- 

 graphical classes on the second Monday of May next, at twelve 

 o'clock noon." 



July 26.— "Dumfries, 22nd July, 1803. - The Grammar 

 School here was examined in presence of the Magistrates and 

 other respectable gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood, by a 

 Committee of the Presbytery of Dumfries, when the boys in the 

 difierent classes exhibited such specimens of improvement as did 

 great credit to themselves, and bore ample testimony to the 

 diligence and ability of their teacher. They merited and re- 

 ceived the most cordial approbation of the examinators and all 

 present on the occasion. After a suitable address from the 

 Provost and Moderator of the Committee, the happy youths were 

 permitted to enjoy their usual vacation. Every friend to the 

 community will rejoice to think that the most important of its 

 interests — the education of its youth — is entrusted to able and 

 faitliful hands ; and that not only the Grammar School, but the 

 other schools of Dumfries also continue to preserve that high 



character which, it is well known, they have long maintained. 



Gabriel Richardson, provost ; \Vm. Wright, Wm. Burnside 

 Alex. Scott, Wm. M'Morine, Wm. Thorburn, John Wightman, 

 ministers. 



August 30. — " Grammar School, Dumfries. — The different 

 classes will meet on Monday, the 5th of September, in the JVew 

 Academy at the usual summer hours. A class for the elements 

 of Greek will begin on Monday, the 19th of September. N.B.— 

 Mr Carson accommodates boarders." 



October 4. — " English Grammar. — John Hanning, English 

 teacher, will open a class in English Grammar on Monday next. 

 Those who cannot attend his public hours of teaching may be 

 accommodated in his schoolroom at twelve or four o'clock. * A 

 young man having a competent knowledge of the English 

 language, wishing for further improvement, and well recom- 

 mended, by applying to Mr Hanning will hear of a comfortable 

 situation." 



