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the measures of reform and improvement described in the two preceding sections, were in agitation, the Government was meditating the adoption of a resolution replete with benefit to the interests of education, and by the operation of which the advantage hitherto anticipated by the establishment of Institutions and Associations for the encouragement of literary pursuits among the natives, are likely to be rea-