First report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the endowed schools and hospitals (Scotland) : with evidence and appendix / [chairman, Sir Edward Colebrooke].
- Scotland. Endowed Schools Commission
- Date:
- 1873
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Credit: First report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the endowed schools and hospitals (Scotland) : with evidence and appendix / [chairman, Sir Edward Colebrooke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![Jobn 71. The Chairman.—What other well endowed schools have been offi- G.M-don, c;a]iv inspected by you ?—The Dollar Institution; the Carlaveroek parish Esq- school, endowed by the Hatton Bequest; the Milne Institution, Fochabers ; Nelson Institution, Paisley; and the Highland Society's School, Glasgow, —all of these unconnected with hospitals. Special and full reports on each were printed with the reports of the Privy Council Committee in the years 1845 and 1849, to which I beg permission to refer. All of these schools, except the one last named, the Highland Society School of Glasgow, add to their scheme of primary instruction not a little of the secondary kind. 72. Will you mention any other special circumstances in the state of these schools which you would deem any way pertinent to the object of the present inquiry,—first, in regard to the Dollar Institution?—The managers will, of course, by their able Principal or others, explain the origin, constitution, and general arrangements of that seminary. These appear to remain now in some respects pretty much the same as described in the report referred to. There are, however, some marked exceptions. (1) The management, vested by the founder in the kirk-session, was enlarged by Act of Parliament, in 1847, by the addition of two ministers of the neighbouring parishes, 1 the Prin- cipal of the University of Edinburgh, the Lord-Lieutenant, Vice- Lieutenant, Convener and Sheriff of the County of Clackmannan, the patron of the parish of Dollar, and two parliamentary electors of the parish of Dollar, and two such heritors of the parish, as are assessed for parochial burdens upon a real rent of £200 sterling, within the county. (2) The income from school fees, which for the year 1844 was £142, amounted in 1871 to £1G85. (3) The attendance, which in 1844 was 257, amounted for the last year to 606. Other particulars, different from any stated in the report, are noticed by the minister of the parish, one of the trustees, in the letter which he kindly permits me to present •—' Of the 606 in attendance last session, 426 were paying scholars of three grades of payment—29,112, and 285 respectively—and the con- ditions of such payment are explained in the private documents winch 1 handed to you. The remainder, 180, are free scholars, including 30 m attendance at the Sheardale School, which was established by the trustees for the benefit of children in the more remote part of the parish. fc>o tar as I am able to determine, very few of the 180 are children of natives of Dollar ; but all persons whose income is under £50 per annum are, atter a three years' residence in Dollar, entitled to free education. A few ot the paying scholars of higher grade come daily by rail from adjoining parishes; the rest are made up of boarders, and of the children of parents whose income is above £75 per annum, and who have not acquired the three years' residence qualification. Referring to the statement of income for 1871 you will notice that in the £5634 is included an item of £3G1J, the proceeds of sale of 3 per cent, consols. We had incurred an expense of nearly £4000 for additional class and hall accommodation, and we resolved to clear off the overdraft on the bank by selling out nearly £4000 of that portion of the 3 p. c. consols which is under the control ot the trustees. Hence the income from dividends is £y634 £361J — £2015. Of course, in time to come, it will be less to the extent ot interest on the stock we have sold.' 73. It would appear, then, that the income from school fees makes a pretty near approach to the amount of the dividends upon the sum that constitutes the endowment ?—It does, and to that extent the school may be considered as self-supporting. 74. Are any remarks suggested to you by that state of matters ?—-it would seom that a high class school once set on foot, with the help of a](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21465265_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
