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The salaries of local teachers are at the moment 
undergoing revision. 
The sphere of the Education Department is the 
Colony and the Federated Malay States. Of the 
Unfederated States, Johore and Kedah have their 
own Superintendents of Education. In recent years, 
however, their European Masters have besn borrowed 
from the cadre of the Education Department, which 
at all times is ready, when asked, to assist any of 
these States with the loan of officers, with advice 
or in any way desired. 
3. GOVERNMENT AND AIDED SCHOOLS. 
Before 1870, the Government of the Straits Settle- 
ments controlled neither English nor vernacular 
education and was content merely to subsidize a few 
schools. After the appointment of an Inspector of 
Schools in 1872, schools of two classes were defined: 
the first, schools managed and financed by Govern- 
ment, which took the fees ; the second, schools 
controlled by private bodies, which received from 
Government grants-in-aid awarded till 1899 on in- 
dividual passes. In that year Mr. R. J. Wilkinson 
(afterwards Colonial Secretary of the Straits Settle- 
ments and later Governor of Sierra Leone), drew 
up a new Code basing grants on the number of 
children in average attendance, the number pre- 
sented for inspection and the general standard of 
efficiency attained. In addition to a principal grant 
for every child presented, minor grants for discipline 
and organization were allowed for every pupil in 
average attendance, and there were grants for 
needlework in girls’ schools and for each pass in 
an extra subject for pupils who had passed Standard 
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