Third report of the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into the endowed schools and hospitals (Scotland) : with appendix in two volumes / [chairman, Sir Edward Colebrooke].

  • Scotland. Endowed Schools Commission.
Date:
1875
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    Method of in quiry. 10 ENDOWED SCHOOLS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. purpose we held to be the ascertaining and recording of those Endowments throughout the country which had ceased to be applied to their original objects, or which, in the opinTon eith r of their administrators or of those who were locally interested in theL administration, had become, through change of circumstances harmful or comparatively useless. ^umstances. The Commissioners under the Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, were at liberty to modify the conditions attaching to those Endowments only which had taken effect fifty years bffo e their appointment. Assuming that only those prior to that daS Te'™ — ^---^^^^^ ^^^~s With a view to carry out our commission as thus interpreted we first directed Circular Letter 1, accompanied by Schedule 1 * to' be issued to the Clergy of aU denominations, Registrars, Inspectors of Poor, and Town Clerks, and we opened a coLspondence with various parts of the country as occasion required. The object of this Schedule was to ascertain the amount and nature of all Jl^ducational Endowments, and of those which could ' rightlv be made applicable' to Education. We compared the various retLs sent renewed our inquiries in a large proportion of cases and embodied the result in statistical tables, which are issued in two parts as an Appendix to this Eeport, and Summaries of wluch will be found in this Volume. We then classified the Endowments, in order to cany out effectuaUy that part of our commission in which our attention seemed to be specially directed to Endowed Hospitals and Schools We were instructed to inquire into the administration and manaee- ment and also into the system and course of study pursued in th^se Institutions, and 'to report whether any and what changes in the administration and use of such Endowments are expedient' In order to obtain the information necessary as the preliminary of our mquiries under this head, we issued Schedule 2+ to the administrators of Hospitals, and Schedule 3 J to the administrators of Endowed Schools. At the same time we separated from the mass of Endowments those which are connected with no special institution, but which were left (wholly or in part) for the promotion of Education in certain districts of country under various conditions Such are the Dick, Milne, Ferguson, and PhHp Bequests. We communicated also by circular § with the Universities. • Vide Appendix, Vol. II. x ^ y j jj