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Chair; the following report was agreed on to be submitted to the Superintending Committee at their next meeting for their Adoption and Improvement.

That the first step necessary to be taken, be to provide a Master in all respects qualified to preside over one of the Schools, and to teach after the manner of Joseph Lancaster's plan.

That on account of the mode of Instruction being novel and mechanical, a person educated at Mr. Lancaster's school would be the fittest person for that purpose; and the Committee presume that such a person may be obtained at a moderate salary...for a term of 1, or 2, or 3 years....

That next, a sufficient number of Cards, Books, etc. should be provided, as will serve for the Education of 1,000 boys; as also a small number of medals and premiums of cheap cost, to distribute among such boys as may appear deserving of them, after the manner of Joseph Lancaster's school.

That the Committee write to Joseph Lancaster requesting his benevolent assistance....

That an Abridgement of Joseph Lancaster's plan, as made out by Mr. Farrell, and submitted herewith, appears to us to contain the essence of the plan....

That, for the present purposes, manuscript copies of the same should be given to the several masters of the schools, to regulate them in adopting Joseph Lancaster's mode of Instructing the Boys.... At a General Meeting of the Superintending Committee of the Poor Schools, held at Carey's Lane on 2nd May, 1806, Rt. Revd. Dr. Moylan in the Chair.

Resolved That...an advertisment ought to be published in one or two of the Cork News Papers for a fit and proper Head Master to be sent to England.......

(g) ADVERTISMENT FOR A TEACHER.

Wanted by the Committee for Superintending the Poor Schools of this City, a young man of good education and sound morals, capable of conducting and supervising a School for the Education of One Thousand poor Children, which the Committee have determined to establish on Mr. Lancaster's plan. As the importance of this situation is obvious, none need offer themselves but such as can adduce the best testimonials of their Characters and Abilities. A liberal salary will be given, and adequate security required.

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N.B. The Person approved of is to be sent to England to obtain a practical knowledge of the plan of Education.

At a General Meeting....on the 17th January, 1807... Resolved That the School be opened on Monday next by Mr. Shea, on the plan of Mr. Lancaster.

(h) RETROSPECT AND PROGRESS.

At a General Meeting......held in the Lancastrian School House, July 18, 1815, Rt. Revd. Dr. Murphy in the Chair, the following report was read by the Revd. John England:

The Committee of the Roman Catholic Poor Schools of the City of Cork...think it their duty...to lay before this meeting the good effects which have been produced......It is within the recollection of many of this Committee that under the restraints upon Roman Catholics......it was utterly impossible to give the Poor Children of their Communion the benefit of Education, because the Professor of that Faith was prevented by the Statute Law from being even an Assistant Teacher in the very meanest School in the Country.......This Committee feels gratification in being able to inform its supporters that...the improvements...made in Education by any persons in any place, have been seriously considered, and adopted either in part or entirely. The first efforts of the Committee were necessarily...imperfect...from the nature of the system of instruction then prevalent, and from the description of teachers they were obliged to employ...yet great numbers were taught to read, to write, and to cast accompts; very many were clothed, and some were apprenticed out to trades......The Gentlemen of the Monastery, admitted into that Institute solely from their capability and zeal, have even improved upon the plan of Mr. Lancaster; and the vast progress made by the children since these Gentlemen have taken charge of the Schools, is the best evidence of the benefits which have arisen from this change. Another great advantage which has been lately obtained is the establishment of the Lancasterian School by this Committee.......

The following is the Statement of the Number of Boys in the School:
NORTH SCHOOL:
MARDYKE SCHOOL:

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(i) WAR BONUS TO TEACHERS.

At a General Meeting of the Committee of the Poor Schools held at Carey's Lane on Monday the 31st of August, 1812.

Resolved that having considered the Salary of the Teachers to be too low in consequence of the increasing price of Provisions, each Teacher be in future paid at the rate of Thirty Guineas a Year.

(1) EVENING SCHOOLS; PUNISHMENT LIMITED.

At a General Meeting...on March 6, 1807....

Resolved that the report of the Sub-Committee on the subject of Evening Schools is hereby approved of, and is to be immediately adopted. That the following Masters be appointed to Superintend them at a salary of 14 guineas per year for each Master:

Mr. Connell for the Female School at Carey's Lane.
Mr. Callaghan for the Boys' School,

ditto.

Mr. Murphy for the Female School in the North Parish.
Mr. Curtin for the Boys' School

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That no punishment be inflicted by Mr. Shea on any boy under his care but such as is pointed out by Mr. Lancaster's plan.

A.D. 1799.

83.-Views of the Irish House of Commons on the Education of the Lower Orders.'

[P.R.O., Ireland, Parliamentary Papers, Lot 50, Paper 16.]

[House of Commons, Ireland. Report of Committee on the State of Education, made 22 February 1799.]

The Committee appointed to enquire into the State of Education of the lower Orders of the People, and the means of improving the same, having met according to Order, came to the following Resolutions:

Resolved....That the present State of the Education of the lower Order of the People in this Kingdom is highly defective, and requires the interposition of the Legislature.

...That the Establishing of one or more Schools in every Parish or Union of Parishes in this Kingdom would be useful to the Publick.

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...That the Masters for these Schools should undergo Examination, receive Certificates of their Morals and Ability, and be licensed Annually.

...That the Payment of such Masters should consist partly of a fixed salary, and partly of rewards proportioned to their Exertions and Success. ...That the Books permitted to be used in these Schools should be chosen by persons appointed for that purpose.

...That one or more Visitors should be empowered to inspect these and all other Parish Schools once in Every Year.

(b) Report from Committee of the Whole House on the Report of the State of Education of the lower Orders of the People. Reported February 26. 1799.

Resolved...that the House should be moved for Leave to bring in a Bill pursuant to the said Report.

A.D. 1799.

84.-License to a Papist Schoolmistress at Thurles, Co. Tipperary.

[Original (parchment) at Ursuline Convent, Thurles: founded by Anastatia Tobin, 1787.]

Patrick Hare, Clerk, Master of Arts, Vicar-General of the Most Reverend Father in God, Charles, by Divine Providence Archbishop of Cashel, Primate and Metropolitan of the whole Province of Munster, to our beloved in Christ, Anastatia Tobin, greeting. Whereas by an Act of Parliament made in this kingdom in the twenty-first and twentysecond year of his present Majesty's reign, a power is given to US to grant license to Papists, or persons professing the Popish religion, to authorise them to teach school, and to recall the same, WE do, therefore, hereby grant to you, the said Anastatia Tobin, whose probity of life is sufficiently certified to us, our license and authority to teach school in the parish of Thurles, in our Diocese of Cashel, pursuant to the tenor of the said Act, during our pleasure only and not otherwise. In testimony whereof we have caused the seal of our Consistorial and Metropolitical court of Cashel to be hereunto affixed. Dated this third day of June, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Nine.

Pat. Hare, V.G.

85.-Imperial Grants for Education in Ireland.

[(a) Annual Account to the House of Commons, printed 6 March, 1807; (b) and (c) Report of Commissioners of Accounts in Ireland, 1812, pp. 59-63.]

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(a) For defraying the Charge of the Incorporated Society in Dublin, for promoting English Protestant Schools in Ireland

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For defraying the Expense of the Foundling
Hospital in Dublin ...
For defraying the Expense of the Hibernian
School for Soldiers' Children

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22,500 0 0

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8,210 10 10

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1,081 2 2

For defraying the Charge of the Female Orphan
House near Dublin

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For defraying the Expenses which may be incurred by the Association for Discountenancing Vice, and promoting the knowledge and practice of the Christian Religion

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For defraying the Charge of the Roman Catholic

Seminary

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1,391 2 6

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(b) The Account of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Association incorporated for Discountenancing Vice, and Promoting the Knowledge and Practice of the Christian Religion, 1807-11.

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