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on compliance with the provisions of the ordinance. And the 

 pupils of every affiliated school became students of the Royal 

 College, it being 1 made optional for them to be relieved from the 

 obligation of attending the classes of instruction, provided they 

 can show to the satisfaction of the committee that they receive 

 sufficient instruction in classics, mathematics, natural science, and 

 modern languages, in the school which the student is attending. 



Any school in connection with the Royal College becomes 

 entitled, from year to year, to aid from the funds of the colony, 

 to consist of : (1) A fixed salary to the principal, or head, of the 

 school; (2) Of a capitation grant for each student over nine 

 years who has received from the principal of the Royal College 

 a certificate of having given, during the preceding twelve 

 months, a fixed number of attendances; (3) Of a capitation 

 grant on the results of an annual examination, at the college, 

 of the pupils of the affiliated schools. Four exhibitions are 

 granted to the students of the Royal College who pass with 

 honours the Cambridge local examinations. 



Free admissions are annually granted to six pupils of the 

 primary schools receiving Government aid who pass the best 

 competitive examination, provided such pupils are at the time of 

 such- examination under fourteen years of age. 



As may be seen from the above sketch, our system of 

 education, both primary and secondary, rests on a sound 

 foundation, and may be said to be very liberal. 



The number of schools in operation at the end of 1880 was 

 as follows : — 



Secondary Education 3 



Normal with Model Schools 2 



Primary Education, Government Schools 52^ 



„ „ Assisted Schools 39 V 



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 Total number of children on the rolls : — 



Secondary — Royal College 80 



„ College of Imm. Conception ... 142 



„ Convent Girls 110 



332 



Primary — Model and Normal Schools ... ... ... 408 



District or Government Schools, including the San 



Fernando School 3,964 



Assisted Schools 3,807 



Estates Schools (mainly Coolies) 590 



Orphan Asylums 119 



Males, 4,906 ; Females, 4,001 - 8,907. 



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