West India, 1842, Offices and Individuals : Charities and religious societies on the subject of education : Returns; Memorial; List; Commission; Index; Report; Financial document; Correspondence 1837 - Mar 1843.

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Other

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English

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Letter writing.

Letters.

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1 online resource.

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English

Summary:

Correspondence, Original - Secretary of State: Letters from religious societies, the Treasury and Sir Francis Cockburn, governor of the Bahamas, on the subject of 'Negro Education'. Correspondents and subjects are as follows: Mico Charity: returns of annual grants will be filled up and returned; thanks for extracts from magistrates' reports respecting their schools in St Lucia; reply to circular letter of 31 January relating to detailed appropriation of sums received from the Parliamentary grant; amount of aid requested from current year's grant; recommends Mr Thompson for employment; relinquishment of their schools at Bahamas; proposal of Mr Carlett, Wesleyan missionary, to take the normal school premises at Nassau; appropriation of Parliamentary grant. Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: application for £7,000; asks what sum they can expect from current year's grant; mode of applying £5,500 from Parliamentary grant. Church Missionary Society: will soon send the return required; amount they will require this year and which they intend to apply to their establishments in Sierra Leone; application for £1,850. Wesleyan Missionary Society: will soon send the return required; amount they will require from Parliamentary grant [two letters]; details of appropriation of grants since 1836; mode of application of Parliamentary grant. Baptist Missionary Society: amount they will require from Parliamentary grant; state that they will send statements of proposed application of grant and comment on the willingness of colonists to support benevolent objects; mode of applying the Parliamentary grant; details of appropriations of grants since 1836. Moravian Missionary Society: details of appropriations of grants since 1836; amount they will require for 1842; hope to receive some aid towards the school building fund. Scottish Missionary Society: request explanation of circular letter of 31 January; details of appropriation of grants since 1936; will say how much they will require as soon as they receive reports from Jamaica; amount they will require and statement of appropriation of 1840 grant; mode of application of grant [two letters]; Thomas Bonar, their treasurer. Ladies Negro Education Society: with respect to the gradual withdrawal of the grant; detailed statement of appropriation of grants since 1836; proposed appropriation of grant; amount requested for current year; requests aid for certain schools formerly held by the Church Missionary Society; proposed appropriation of £600 granted. Treasury: confirms that £13,000 will be paid to the Mico trustees, £900 to the Wesleyan Missionary Society, £670 to the Moravian Missionary Society, and £700 to the Scottish Missionary Society [four separate letters]. Sir Francis Cockburn, governor of Bahamas: his opinion that the normal school over which Mr Thompson presides will not be kept up by the colony. Bound in at the end of the volume are miscellaneous Colonial Office memoranda on the subject of 'Negro education'.

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AMDigital Reference:CO 318/156.

CO 318.