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126 Rupees (afterwards increased to 30,000) should be annually granted for the support of the institution, and that the superintendance of it should be vested in a Committee to be named by the Government. A sum of about a lac and twenty thousand Rupees was allotted by Government for the cost of Buildings and the purchase of Ground. The spot chosen was in an extensive Square lately formed in a centrical part of the city, and the first stone of the edifice was laid on the 25th of February 1821, with masonic ceremonies, in the presence of a large assembly of Europeans and a vast concourse of natives, who seemed to take a lively interest in the scene. The College Buildings are intended to provide accommodation for the professors and students, besides lecture rooms, and an apartment for the reception of a valuable philosophical apparatus presented by the British India Society to the native Hindoo College, but which, by an arrangement with the Managers of that seminary, will be applied to the benefit of both institutions.

following classes comprehend the ordinary course of study, to be pursued in the San-