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the Government take a real interest in the fate of his offspring, while CHAP. XXV. 

 to the State they will amply repay the public expenditure by affording r. 



the best means ot bringing up a number of our race, who may, under 



God's blessing, prove a credit to the nation with whom they claim 

 affinity." 



The Director of Public Instruction, Mr. A. J. Arbuthnot, was 

 directed to submit proposals for giving effect to the Secretary of 

 State's instructions. His recommendations, which form the basis 

 of the present institution, were — 



(1.) That Lovedale should be the site of both asylums. 

 (2.) That a Committee of nine, four being Government nominees 

 should be constituted managers and trustees. 



(3.) That the Government of India should be asked to contribute 

 Rupees 4,000 monthly as a maximum grant-in-aid, leavino- Rupees 

 1,000 monthly to be provided by public subscriptions. 



(4.) That the Committee should submit a code of rules for the 

 approval of Government. 



(5.) That the Couamander-in-Chief, Madras, and the Bishop of the 

 Diocese should be visitors. 



(6.) That the Director of Public Instruction should be the medium 

 of correspondence with Government. 



Accommodation was to be provided for 200 boys and 100 girls. 

 The Madras Government approved generally of his proposal, 

 but, instead of fixing a grant, limited the number of children 

 horn the Government should maintain and educate to 150 boys 

 and 80 girls, leaving 50 boys and 20 girls to be provided for by 

 public charity. The Government also agreed to pay the salaries 

 of the Principal and the establishment. They directed that the 

 rules should provide for the head of the institution being a 

 clergyman of the Church of England, and that this appointment 

 should be subject to the approval of the Governor in Council. 

 (The appointment of a clergyman had not been part of the 

 original scheme, but was suggested by the Military Male Orphan 

 Asylum Committee, and was subsequently required by Govern- 

 ment.) 



Subscribers and donors of certain amounts had the right of 

 nomination. These arrangements were reported to the Secretary 

 of State in August 1862, and he was at the same time urged 

 to reconsider his decision in regard to the amalgamation of the 

 two asylums. In July 1863 the Home Government waived 

 their objection to the amalgamation, and in April following the 

 Lovedale site was finally selected, being preferred to sites proposed 

 at Stonehouse, Governor's Shola, and Malemand. The plans were 

 to provide for the accommodation of 400 boys and the same 

 number of girls with the necessary establishment. These plans 

 were submitted early in the following year, the estimate being 

 approximately eleven lakhs. The draft rules were about the 



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