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320 subordinate to the examiner to correct the local influences by which he may be guided, or which may be ascribed to him. An allowance of 30 rupees per month including travelling charges will in general obtain the services of such a pundit, to be raised after periods of service of four years to 40, 50, and 60 rupees, dependent on good behaviour. After this, the assistant-pundit to an examiner should be eligible to hold the appointment of assistant-pundit to an inspector of a division with a salary of 100 rupees per month, or any other appointment in the native branch of the service which he may be ambitious to attain, such as those of pundit attached to the district court, of moonsiff, of sudder ameen, &c., the purpose being to stimulate his zeal and strengthen his integrity by always placing before him a higher object of ambition than any he has yet reached.

Third.—The same course generally will be pursued towards teachers of schools of learning as has been proposed towards teachers of vernacular schools. They will first receive books in which, after the requisite time allowed for study, they will be examined; and after a satisfactory examination their names will be registered, transmitted to Calcutta, published in the Gazette, and proclaimed in the district as those of approved pundits, of all which a certificate will be given. When a pundit after having been satisfactorily examined receives the second volume of the series he will be entitled to claim the use of three, six, nine, or twelve copies of the first for the instruction of his pupils, and so on in the four successive stages of the course. Approved pundits, like approved vernacular teachers, will be entitled to attend at the normal school of the district for four years, and for three months in each year, and to receive, during that period, subsistence-money and travelling expenses. The modes of instruction in schools of learning are in general much superior to those practised in the vernacular schools, but the normal schools may be, and it is hoped will be, conducted in such a way that even pundits may derive much instruction from them in the art of teaching. When a pundit shall have passed an examination in each of the four volumes of the series, when he shall have attended the normal school for four years, three months in each year, and when he shall have instructed six pupils in each of the four volumes, he will become, not entitled, but eligible, to an endowment of the same value as that proposed for the vernacular teachers of the same district. The number of endowments for vernacular teachers must be limited only by the wants of the population. The number of endowments for teachers of learning must be limited by very different considerations. They must be so few as not to be a burthenburden [sic] to the State. They must be so many as to give a hold on the whole body of the learned in a district. These objects will probably be attained by some such rule as the following, viz., that endowments shall be set apart for schools of learning