First THIRTY YEARS OF SCHOOLS, &C. 311 
Dollars ($6,000) should be placed upon the Estimate for Educational 
purposes. 
The Combined Court confirmed the principles of the 
Report. All parties were of opinion that two most 
urgent desiderata were an Inspeétor of Schools, and a 
Normal College for the training of teachers. The Com- 
missioners from eight applicants for the office eleéted 
Mr. GEORGE DENNIS our first Inspeétor of Schools, 
at a salary of £550, upon condition that Mr. DENNIS 
should proceed to England and return duly qualified for 
the work in January 1852.* About the same time a vote 
of $1,000 was passed as a salary for the Master of the 
Normal School. The practical difficulties in the way 
of establishing a School for the training of Teachers 
of so many se€ts were similar in chara€ter to those 
still experienced. The late Bishop AUSTIN had pur- 
chased a building in Charlestown and fitted it up asa 
Theological College at an expense of nearly £5,000. 
This institution known as Bishop’s College was con- 
verted into a Church of England Training Institution in 
1853. In the same year the Combined Court, in addition 
to £200 for a Training Master, voted ten Exhibitions for 
the training of teachers, five to the Church of England, 
one to the Church of Scotland, and four to. the 
Wesleyans. The Church of England students studied 
at Bishop’s College, the Church of Scotland students 
were for some time trained privately by a clergyman of 
the church, while the Wesleyans were sent to the Mico 
Institution in Antigua. The value of an Exhibition was 
at first $100, but was afterwards increased to $150, per 
* Mr, Dennis afterwards joined the Consular service. He wrote an 
interesting work called, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. 
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