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Rh of litigation, and partly from the fines realised from the mode of management, adapted to purposes of education in the manner stated, will be any deviation from the provision of the dead.'

In the following year the Hooghly College was opened with the surplus funds at the disposal of Government. The College was affiliated to the Calcutta University and was open to members of all religious communities, the building acquired for it being the fine house on the banks of the Hooghly originally built by the famous General Perron. So great was its success that, within three days of its opening, its students numbered twelve hundred in the English and three hundred in the Oriental Department. For thirty-seven years, the College was maintained by the Mohsin Fund. The proportion of Muhammadan students, however, was eventually considered too small to justify the expenditure of so large a portion of the Trust Fund upon it, and the maintenance of the Hooghly College was otherwise provided for. The income from the Trust Fund thus released was set apart, partly for the support of Madrassas at Dacca, Chittagong, Rajshahi and Hooghly, and partly for the assistance of Muhammadan students, by granting them two-thirds of their fees at any English school or college in Bengal. Whereas the income from the Trust Fund in 1835 only amounted to 45.000 Rs. it now amounts to over a lac and a half, and administered on these lines, the