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170 Society was instituted on the 1st of September, 1818, and adopted the following rules.

1.— an Association be formed, to be denominated “the Calcutta School Society.”

2.— it’sits [sic] design be to assist and improve existing Schools, and to establish and support any further Schools and Seminaries which may be requisite; with a view to the more general diffusion of usual knowledge amongst the Inhabitants of India of every description, especially within the provinces subject to the Presidency of Fort William.

3.— it be also an object of this Society to select pupils of distinguished talents and merit from elementary and other Schools, and to provide for their instruction in Seminaries of a higher degree; with the view of forming a body of qualified Teachers and Translators, who may be instrumental in enlightening their countrymen, and improving the general system of education. When the funds of the Institution may admit of it, the maintenance and tuition of such