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eminent in vigilance, exemplary in conduct and of tried 

 piety, he be advanced, without ordination, to the office of 

 Preacher to a fixed congregation at a salary of 15 Rix Dol- 

 lars per month. That he shall exercise no power over Pro- 

 ponents and School-masters, unless specially authorized by 

 the Scholarchal Commission ; nor shall he be permitted to 

 were the distinguishing dress of the European Clergy, but 

 a decent, becoming native costume. 



7. Native Preachers shall have no seat in Church and 

 School meetings, but send periodically a report of their 

 work to the Scholarchal Commission. 



8. They shall have the same rank with the Modliars of 

 the Corles &c. and shall draw their Salary on the same 

 abstract with them, 



9. They shall reside within their respective Corles and 

 Pattoes, and not leave their post without permission asked 

 and granted. 



Government moreover undertook to educate, at public 

 cost, for a period of 10 years, 24 lads, of whom 12 should 

 be Cinghalese and 12 Tamuls, with the promise of employ- 

 ment in the Company's service. 



The effect of this re-organization was that the dead lan- 

 guages were not so extensively taught, and the training sys- 

 tem made as practical as possible. The Seminary now con- 

 tained the extraordinary number of 40 pupils. The exami- 

 nations now took place twice in the year, first in private, 

 and afterwards at the end of the year in public. 



In 1766 Ecclesiastical History is mentioned in the pro- 

 gramme of examination, and prizes were distributed. In 

 1773 there was a great want of Ministers to the Dutch con- 

 gregations : hardly any in the Fatherland offered themselves 

 for Colonial service. Instead therefore of 12 Cinghalese 

 and 12 Tamuls as stated above, Government admitted 9 Cin- 

 ghalese and 9 Tamuls, and chose 9 promising youths of 

 European descent to be prepared here and sent to Holland 

 to be further fitted for the ministry. The last Rector of 

 the Seminary appears to have been the Rev. J. G. Manger, 

 who also preached here in German. In 1778 the Seminary 

 was still doing well. The building, now the Pettah Hospital, 

 was in 1780 the Seminary, as the inscription above the en- 

 trance indicates. 



The general imperfect state of Government native schools, 

 owing to the incapacity of the masters, led in 1747 to the 

 establishing of a native Normal School at Colombo, both 

 Cinghalese and TamuL It was called the New Seminary, and 



