EDUCATION. 183 



Report on the Public Schools in operation between 

 31st March, 1857, and 30th June, 1858. — Pre- 

 sented to the Legislature, 13iA September, 1858. 



The Committee of the Council and Assembly ap- 

 pointed to inquire and to report to both Houses as to 

 the number of schools in operation in the colony, 

 between the 31st March, 1857, and the 30th June, 

 1858, for the education of the poor, by whom they 

 were taught, and under what superintendence, and 

 other particulars respecting the same, has the honour 

 of now submitting the result of its inquiries. 



The particulars of the schools in the parishes of 

 Saint George, Devonshire, Pembroke, Paget, War- 

 wick, Southampton, Sandys, Hamilton, and Smith, 

 will be found in the tabular return given at page 187. 

 The particulars respecting the schools in the 

 two last-named parishes, namely, that formerly kept 

 by Benjamin Burchall, and afterwards reopened 

 under Nathaniel Gardiner, and that kept by Eleanor 

 Outerbridge, were received from the Ecclesiastical 

 Commissary, the Rev. Dr. Tucker, who, in the ab- 

 sence of the rector, and during the vacancy in the 

 living, issued, as the committee learns, the certificates 

 required by the District Committee of the Society 

 for Promoting Christian Knowledge. These schools 



