Circulars, &c. No. 713. [Communicated to Inspectors of Schools.] FROM S. C. BAYLEY, Esq., Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal, TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Education. SIR, I am directed to forward, for your information, the accompanying copy of a Resolution passed by the LieutenantGovernor, dated the 31st December last, relative to the arrangements made for the extension of the Education Gazette, together with a Circular addressed to all Commissioners requesting them to encourage, as far as they properly can, the circulation of the Gazette, and to contribute articles to it. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, S. C. BAYLEY, Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal. TO THE COMMISSIONERS OF PATNA, RAJSHAHYE, CHITTAGONG, DACCA, CUTTACK, BHAUGULPORE, NUDDEA, BURDWAN, ASSAM AND CHOTA-NAGPOre. Dated the 31st December, 1863. DEAR SIR,-I am directed to forward, for your information, the accompanying copy of a Resolution passed by the Lieutenant-Governor on this date. His Honor hopes that you will occasionally be able to find time to contribute articles to the Education Gazette, and that you will endeavour, by such means as may be in your power, to promote its increased circulation. Your's faithfully, THOMAS JONES, Registrar, Bengal Secretariat. Circulars, &c. RESOLUTION. The 31st December, 1863. Read letter to Government of India, Home Department, No. 396, dated 8th August, 1860. Also letter from Secretary to Government of India, Financial Department, No. 5490, dated 23rd September, 1861, and the reply thereto No. 138, dated 6th March, 1862. Also letter to Government of India, Home Department, No. 234T., dated 2nd August, 1862. From this correspondence it appears that it has for some time been recognized as an object of great importance to furnish the people with the means of forming a sound opinion on passing events by supplying them with accurate information. To attain this object two schemes at first view presented themselves as practicable, viz., an extension of the Bengallee Gazette or of the Educational Gazette. Further consideration has, however, convinced the Lieutenant-Governor that the combination of an official organ with the Bengallee Gazette is not feasible. It has therefore been decided to adopt the plan of an extension of the Educational Gazette. The degree of direct support which Government may give to the Educational Gazette should, in his Honor's opinion, be thus limited-Official papers will, at the Secretary's discretion, be placed at the Editor's disposal to be abstracted and commented on by the Editor, (but not published in extenso,) on his own responsibility, subject to such general instructions as the Secretary may give, and to any special instructions that may appear necessary in each case. Articles may be contributed by Government Officers, but the responsibility will rest entirely with the Editor, with power either to reject or alter them. No articles of a controversial or personal character should be published except for the purpose of correcting mistakes or misrepresentations. The Circulars, &c. publication of contributions should be confined to useful subjects, such, for instance, as are treated of in the paper, The People's Friend, published at Etawah in the North-Western Provinces. A Circular will be addressed to all Commissioners requesting them to encourage, as far as they properly can, the circulation of the Educational Gazette, and inviting them to contribute articles to it. Other selected Officers may in like manner be invited to contribute, and it is hoped that tha Secretary and Junior and Under Secretaries to the Govern ment of Bengal will do the same. No part of the paper should, however, be specially set apart for contributions from Government Officers, or for comments on official documents. All editorial matter, without distinction of source, should appear in one part of the paper, and all correspondence in another. Should the Editor think fit to make any announcement of this change, he should be careful to make it in the most general terms, stating merely that he has been permitted by Government to make arrangements whereby his readers will be put in possession of reliable information on matters of public interest or general usefulness. On the acceptance of these conditions by the Editor, the allowance granted by the Government in support of the Educational Gazette will be increased from Rupees 270 to Rupees 300 per mensem. [Communicated to Inspectors of Schools.] No. 450. FROM S. C. BAYLEY, Esq., Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal, TO THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Education. Dated the 26th January, 1864. SIR,-Adverting to paras. 3 and 4 of Mr. Secretary Eden's letter, No. 5072, dated 26th October last, I am directed to for Circulars, &c. ward for your information, the accompanying copy of a Resolution, dated 13th instant, recorded by the Government of India, in the Home Department, ruling that schooling fees shall for the future be held to be included in the sum expended on the Institution from private sources, which sum is required by the Rules for Grants-in-Aid to be not less than the amount of the Government grant. 2. I am further to draw your attention to the concluding part of the Resolution. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, S. C. BAYLEY, Junior Secretary to the Government of Bengal. Extract from the Proceedings of the Right Hon'ble the Governor-General of India in Council, in the Home Department, No. 373, under date the 13th January, 1863. RESOLUTION.-In Clause 6 of the "Rules for Grants-in-Aid" it is provided that "no Grant will in any case exceed in amount the sum expended on the Institution from private sources." 2. Expenditure from schooling fees has not hitherto been uniformly recognized as part of the expenditure from private sources to which reference is made in this Rule. In 1858 it was indeed ordered by the Government of India that schooling fees should not be taken into account. The Secretary of State, however, having expressed an opinion that, in respect of Vernacular Schools, at all events, it would be sufficient to require that the amount of local contributions from all sources should equal the Government Grant, such a relaxation of the original practice has been since allowed in many instances, Circulars, &c. and occasionally in the case of Anglo-Vernacular Schools, as well as purely Vernacular Schools; and in March 1862, with reference to the proposed establishment of a School at Lahore for Christian children, the Punjab Government was expressly authorized to give it support by a "Grant-in-Aid to the fullest extent allowed by the Rules, i. e., a monthly allowance equal to amount of subscriptions and schooling fees.” It appears to the Governor-General in Council inexpedient to refuse to recognize the fees paid by the parents of the children who frequent a School as part of the amount 'expended on the Institution from private sources,' entitling the School to a Grant-in-Aid. The tendency of such a Rule must obviously be to induce the Managers of private Schools to make the schooling fee as nearly nominal as possible, and to take from the parents of the children whatever additional amount may be required under the name of subscriptions. No advantage, but, on the contrary, great evil is to be looked for from compelling recourse to such contrivances; and the GovernorGeneral in Council is therefore pleased to resolve that for the future, in respect of all Schools aided by a Grant from the public revenues, "the sum expended on the Institution from private sources" shall be held to include private contributions from all sources, schooling fees included. But in laying down this Rule it seems desirable to observe that it should by no means be assumed that to every School applying for a Grantin-aid a grant equal to the sum expended on the Institution from private sources is invariably, and as a matter of course, to be given. The Rule states that no grant shall in any case exceed the sum so expended, and it is the duty of the Educational Officers to examine carefully into the circumstances of each case, and to recommend such an amount, as a Grant-inaid, not exceeding and not necessarily equal to the amount expended from private sources, as may seem proper. |