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174 It was the wish of the General Committee to create a few regular or as they were termed “nominal” Schools, rather to improve, by serving as models, than to supercede the established Seminaries of the Country, designed rather to educate Children of the native poor, than the numerous youth whose parents are able and willing to pay for their instruction. It was evident, that however abundantly the public liberality might be evinced, gratuitous education could not be afforded to any extent commensurate with the immense numbers who might be candidates for it. Indeed, though the Funds of the Society had been supplied with considerable munificence, it was soon found expedient to transfer the three regular Schools which had been planted in the vicinity of Calcutta, to the superintendance of the Corresponding Committee of the Church Missionary Society. The charges for three Schools absorbed nearly two thirds of the Society’s annual income, an expenditure at one time nearly equal to the support of the numerous indigenous Schools. This branch, therefore, necessarily be-