138 Transactions. 
March 15, 1803.—‘‘Grammar 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 
different 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 
faithful 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; Wm. 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 Mew 
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,” 
