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TOTAL of the LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY's SCHOOLS, for the Year ending February, 1833.

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In the Day Schools as enumerated above, there were twenty-three Irish Classes, containing 325 Scholars; and in the Sunday and Adult Schools are included, seven Adult Irish Schools, containing 78 Pupils.

APPENDIX.

REGULATIONS FOR THE SCHOOLS.

The Schools of this Society shall, as far as possible, be placed under the patronage and superintendence of

VISITORS.

The Nobility, Clergy, or Gentry, resident in, or connected with any particular Neighbourhood, are respectfully solicited to superintend the adjoining Schools. The resident Parochial Clergyman shall invariably be requested to become the stated and permanent Visitor of all the Schools in his Parish; but not to the exclusion of other Ministers, Gentlemen, &c.

TEACHERS.

The Teachers of this Society shall be appointed by its Agent on the recommendation of the Clergyman, or other Patron or Visitor, especially interested in any particular School. Satisfactory testimonials of moral character, as well as of competent ability to teach, shall invariably be required. Individuals, so qualified, of different religious denominations, are eligible.

INSPECTORS.

A competent number of Inspectors shall from time to time be ap pointed, who shall, under the direction of the Society's Agent, itinerate through the districts;-open Schools-hold Quarterly, and take occasional, Inspections, and where so directed, settle with, and pay the Teachers. They are respectfully to attend to the suggestions of the Visitors,-apply for and receive Subscriptions and Donations, and endeavour, as much as possible, to promote the objects and interests of the Society. The General Inspectors shall usually be appointed from those Cursory Inspectors who have been found most efficient; and the Cursory Inspectors from the most deserving Scripture Readers. See the Society's Instruction to Inspectors, Scripture Readers, &c. page 23.

BOOKS.

It being the grand object of the Society to impart Scriptural Instruction to those under their care, the only books provided by the Society, and used in its Schools, shall be the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, without note or comment, in the ENGLISH and IRISH languages, and the Society's Spelling Books in ENGLISH and IRISH.

REMUNERATION OF TEACHERS.

The Teachers shall be paid according to the proficiency of the Scholars, as determined at the Public Quarterly Inspection and Examination. The Inspectors are to make their Report on the number of Pupils actually present at the Examination, and not on the numbers who are enrolled;—but, where the absence of any particular Pupils is satisfactorily accounted for, the Inspectors may, at their discretion, and sub. ject to the approbation of the Visitor, give the Teachers certificates, which will entitle them to payment at the next Inspection, provided the Scholars, so certified, shall at such Inspection evince the proficiency required for half a year.

SCALE OF PROFICIENCY,

For ascertaining the Amount Payable to the Teachers.

Pupils entered in the following Classes must be qualified to pass into the next Class in succession, within the following periods.

Alphabet Class in two Months,

Junior Spelling Class in four Months,
Senior Spelling Class in three Months,
Spelling-Book Readers in three Months.

WRITING AND CYPHERING.

Each Pupil on entering into the Spelling-Book Reading Class, is to commence Writing, and on entering the Testament Class is to commence Cyphering.

TASKS.

Each Pupil in the following Classes is, at the General Inspection for the Quarter, correctly to repeat from memory, as follows:

Spelling Book Readers' Class.-Four pages in the Reading Lessons, and two pages of the Spelling Columns in Spelling Book, Part the Second.

Bible Class.-Four Chapters, two from the Old and two from the New Testament, the latter from the Gospels, Acts, or Epistles, selected by the Visitor or the Inspector, at the preceding Inspection, and four pages of the Spelling Columns aforesaid.

The Teachers are NOT to be paid for any Pupils whose proficiency does not correspond with all the preceding requisitions, and it is discretional with the Inspector to deduct the value of the absent days of those Pupils who barely pass.

INSTRUCTIONS IN READING IRISH.

The art of reading Irish in the Roman or Celtic character, is to be taught ALL PUPILS WHO MAY DESIRE IT; and all Masters in Districts where the Irish is the common language of the adult population, are required to form an Irish Class; and for the extra attention and trouble attending the instruction of Irish Classes, an additional allowance of half-pay is granted the Teacher.

ADULT SCHOOLS.

In the Winter season, Adult Schools shall be held in the evenings, or at other suitable times, under the direction of the Visitors, Agents, &c. for the benefit of persons of riper years, who are desirous of Scriptural education. The Teacher shall not, however, be entitled to extra remuneration on account of the attendance of any of his Day School Pupils at the Adult School.

SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

Where Sunday Schools under the Sunday School Society do not exist, the Society's Teachers may open Sunday Schools. Books and Regulations will be supplied by the Agent.

GRATUITOUS DISTRIBUTION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.

Every person in the neighbourhood of a School, who is capable of reading, unable to purchase, and anxious to obtain a copy of the Holy Scriptures, in the English or Irish language, is at liberty to apply to the Inspector, who is authorised to give orders on the District Agent for the supply of those whose applications he may see reason to approve.

GENERAL INTIMATIONS..

1. No Teacher is to obtrude on the attention of his Pupils the peculiarities of his religious denomination. He is, however, to require their attention to the Grammatical import of their Reading Lessons and Tasks, and to the moral duties therein inculcated.

2. It is his duty to pay strict attention to the cleanliness of his Pupils; and watchfully to guard against and suppress every appearance of indecency and immorality.

3. Where the admission of Female Pupils in a School not exclu sively for Females is unavoidable, the Teacher is to see that the sexes sit apart, and hold no unnecessary intercourse.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SCRIPTURE READERS AND
CURSORY INSPECTORS.

SCRIPTURE READERS.

1. You are to travel in the district to which you are appointed, and read the Holy Scriptures in the English and Irish languages, from Mouse to house; affectionately urging upon the inmates, and upon others to whom you can obtain access, that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is able to make men wise unto salvation, through faith which is in Christ Jesus; you are especially to point out those passages in the word of God, which enjoin upon all men the duty of searching the Scriptures, of meditating upon them, and of walking according to their holy precepts, and which declare the sin and danger of neglecting this revelation of mercy.

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