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200 There are nineteen teachers, all Musalmans, whose average age is 36.5 years.

The following are the modes and amount of the remuneration given to the teachers:—

Nineteen teachers thus receive in all rupees 168-11-10, which averages to each rupeess 8-14-1 per month. There are no teachers who give all their instructions gratuitously, but in several of the scholars there are some schools who are taught without making any payment to the teachers. Those teachers who receive monthly wages or fixed salaries are generally dependent on the head or heads of one family; and of such families five are Hindu, whose allowances to the teachers are considerably in excess of the above average. In one of the Arabic schools instruction is given gratuitously to all the scholars, and the teacher receives his remuneration from Munshi Sharaf Khan. The institution has existed long, and has descended to the care of the Munshi its chief patron.

Fifteen of the schools have no other accommodations as school-houses than are afforded by the baithak-khanas and garden-houses of the principal supporters. Of the remaining two, one, a Persian school, has a school-house built by a respectable Hindu inhabitant at a cost of 40 rupees; and the other, an Arabic school, has a school-house built by the Musalman patrons at a cost of about 400 rupees. The latter is a brick building, and is used also as a dwelling-house by the maulavi and some of the scholars.

In 19 schools there are 109 scholars, averaging 5.7 to each school. Of the total number 102 are engaged in the study of Persian, and 7 in that of Arabic. Of the Persian scholars 61 are Hindus and 41 Musalmans, and of the Arabic scholars one is a