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Remarks on the Amount of 



[No. 3B, 



FORT ST. GEOEGE. 

 Tanjore Schools. 



From a very early period it appears (hat the Protestant mission 

 conducted successively by Messrs. Zeigenbald, Gericke, Kiernan- 

 der, and Swartz, under the patronage of the Society for Promoting 

 Christian Knowledge, had schools at their several stations of Ma- 

 dras, Cuddalore, Tanjore, and Trichinopoly, in which they instructed 

 the natives, and in aid of which they obtained occasional grants from 

 the local Governments, and permission from the Court of Directors to 

 receive from the Society in England various supplies, free of freight. 



In 1787, the Court of Directors authorized a permanent annual 

 grant towards the support of three schools which had been establish- 

 ed with the sanction of the respective Rajahs at Tanjore, Ramene- 

 daporam, and Shevagunga, of 250 pagodas each. These schools were 

 under the direction of Mr. Swartz. The Court further directed, that 

 a similar allowance should be granted to any other schools which 

 might be opened for the same purpose. 



According to the latest books of establishment, the charge on this 

 account was "for two Protestant schools at Tanjore and Combaco- 

 num, Rs. 4,200 per annum ;" together with a pension or allowance 

 to Mr. Kolhoop, a retired teacher, of Rs. 420, making a total of Rs„ 

 6\420 per annum. 



In 1824, the widow Swartz enjoyed a pension from the British 

 Government of two pagodas per month, at Negapatam ; and an un- 

 married female of the same name a monthly allowance of one fanam.** 

 Sunday School at the Mount. 



In January 1812, a Sunday school was established at St. Tho- 

 mas' Mount at the suggestion and under the direction of the Mili- 

 tary Chaplain at that Cantonment, and by the voluntary contribu- 

 tions of several Europeans at the Presidency. The object of this 

 school was to afford elementary instruction on the Lancasterian plan 

 to the half-caste and native children of the military and others resi- 

 dent there. The object as well as the plan of tuition being highly 

 approved by the Government, an endowment of 300 pagodas per 

 annum was granted from the 1st January 1812.f 



* Public to, 16th February 1787, 1, 2.-From, 9th October 1793, 44.— To, 16tb 

 July 1795, 29. 



t Military from, 17th October 1812, 249.— Military Consultations, 1st September 

 1812, 20 to 33; 6th October, 40 41.— Military to, 6th September 1813,7 and 8; 

 3d July, 1814, 10 to 25. 



