164 BEBMUDA. 



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Repokt hy WiLLUM Hehrt Matoe, Esq., Inspector 

 of Public Schools, on the Parochial and other 

 Schools in Bermvda receiving aid from the Public 

 Treasury, to his Excellency the Governor, the 

 Honourable Members of her Majesty's Council, and 

 the Members of the Honourable House of Assembly, 

 in Legislation. 



Sandy's Parish, Bermuda, 



Gentlemen, -^""^ ^**> i^^^- 



On the 1st October last, I received from his 

 Excellency the Governor, my appointment, and, a 

 few days subsequently, my commission, as Inspector 

 of Public Schools, under and by virtue of a certain 

 Act of your legislature, intituled " An Act to aid in 

 the Establishment, and to provide for the Inspection 

 of Public Schools ; " and by the 9th section of the 

 said Act, it is enacted, that " Reports of all the 

 schools receiving aid from the Public Treasury shall 

 annually be made to the Legislature by the Board of 

 Education and by the Inspector of Schools." 



In conformity with the said enactment, I beg, 

 respectfully, to submit the following report : — 



On the 29th October, I received my instructions 

 from the Board of Education, directing me " to visit, 

 inspect, and report upon" twenty schools, " for which 



