1836.] 



Native Education* 



the various languages spoken by tKe people under this Pre- 

 sidency. To remedy these evils, the College were next di- 

 rected to educate a class of natives of the Madras territories, 

 versed in its vernacular languages, in the several branches of 

 Sanscrit and Arabic science, requisite to qualify them for em- 

 ployment as Hindoo and Mussulman Law Officers in our 

 Courts. 



" It is pleasing to state that in this branch also of the Col- 

 lege, the success has been complete. 



(( Of the native Law Officers in the interior, most of whom 

 as Sudr Anieens, now both adjudicate civil suits and con- 

 duct criminal trials, the far greater number are individuals 

 educated in this department at the College, and of ten Bra- 

 mins and ten Mussulmans now holding the twenty. paid fel± 

 iowships in the law department of the College, who are tc* 

 succeed to these employments as they fall vacant, there are 

 at present only three Mussulmans who have not obtained the? 

 established certificate of qualification, for the high situations 



which they are destined to fill. 



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c< Of the ten Bramins holding half of the fello wships in que s » 

 tion, each of the 5 first received in addition to his own salary 

 of 20 Rupees, a further sum of 20 Rupees per mensem, or 

 100 Rupees altogether, the salary of the former deputy San- 

 scrit master being divided amongst them, as sanctioned by 

 Government on the 3d May 1831. But, I found on inquiry, 

 that these five individuals did not teach more than 20 students, 

 half of whom are mere children, and that the head master 

 alone is fully adequate to instruct the whole Sanscrit class, 



consisting only of 35 persons. 



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" Of the five first holding the corresponding Mussulman 

 Law fellowships, two at Madras, and a third at Arcot, re- 

 ceive, in addition to their salaries of 20 Rupees each, 9 

 Rupees per mensem as Tahsildary teachers. The result of 

 my examination of the scholars, under the two v/ho profess to 

 teach in this capacity at Madras, convinced me that their ex~ 

 crtions as masters have been little more than nominal. 



