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THE ORPHAN INSTITUTION AND THE FREE SCHOOL. 
Deduct received from Presidency Pay Master as follows: — 
Secretary’s Salary from Isi January 18j3 to 31st January 1835 at 
Rs. I00 per mensem Sa. Rs.. .. .. Sa. Rs 2,500 0 0 
Oltice Establishment from Uth December 1834 to 81st January 
1835 at Rs. 50 per mensem 83 13 7 
Ciirieiil Expenses.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 1,425 9 II 
Contingent do.. .. . .. .. .. .. 93 8 0 4,I02 15 6 
Nett Sa. Rs 77,036 3 9 
Received from Presidency I’ay Master 4,i02 15 6 
Deduct expended . 4,076 12 4 
Balance 26 3 2 
Expended since the Quarterly Meeting last 80 11 0 
ORPHAN INSTITUTION. 
The General Management of the Military Orphan Fund have informed the Secretary 
of the Presidency Division, Orphan Committee, that it is their intention to prepare, without 
delay, a full reply to our pamphlet, and requested that its circulation might be postponed 
until the reply alluded to could be forwarded to accompany it. Now this is what we have 
been calling for all along, so that our object will be, it is to be hoped, at last attained, and 
the subscribers be made fully acquainted with the state of the Institution, 
A NEW WAY OF ELECTING A GOVERNOR TO THE FREE SCHOOL. 
We are again called upon to notice the proceedings of the Free School, which 
we shall do as succinctly as possible by merely stating a few matters of fact. At the 
last monthly meeting of the Governors, notice of Major Taylor’s resignation was 
duly announced ; and at the same time was presented a note from one of the absentee 
Governors, proposing the Revd, John MacQueen as a suitable person to be recommended 
to the Government as his successor. The Chairman (the Revd. C. Wimberley) with 
the rest of the Governors then pre.sent seemed to be tolerably unanimous in thinking, 
that the proper course was merely to report the vacancy, and leave the Right Hon’ble 
the Governor General to exercise his own discretion in filling it up. A day or two 
after thi.s, the following letter was put in circulation, and received the signatures and 
minutes precisely as they are here copied. 
THE JOINT VISITOR AND GOVERNORS OF THE FREE SCHOOL. 
Gentlemfn, — Captain Taylor having intimated a wish to resign his office as a 
Governor of the Free School, and requested that the same might be notified to the proper 
authorities, may I beg the favour of being instructed in what way to proceed. 
I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant, 
April 13, 1836. Anthony Garstin, Secy. F. S. 
The course hitherto adopted has been to point out some individual, who in the judg- 
ment of the Governors would be an active and faithful guardian of the Government inter- 
ests. I would therefore recommend that the Secretary be authorized to address the Go- 
vernor General, and to name the Rev. John MacQueen as a proper person to fill the 
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Capt. Taylor. I am most anxious to have the 
services of Mr. MacQueen, knowing him to be a most energetic, independent and experi- 
enced man. From his connection with the Kidderpore Institution, he is able to render the 
most essential services to our School, as he fully proved during the period he held the 
situation of a Governor. 
T. Robertson. 
I shall be very glad to see Mr. MacQueen a Governor, 
R. Molloy, 
T. E. M. Turton. 
A. M. Shm. 
Cii.vs. Mackenzie. 
The power of appointment is in the Governor-General in Council. If it has been (he 
course for the Governors of the Institution to recommend persons for appointment, I 
approve of Mr. MacQueen being recommended ; but 1 think it will be right that we 
