To lay before the Chairman at each meeting a list of the business of the day, including such as shall remain unfinished at any former meeting. To file all letters received, and keep true copies of all letters sent by him, as well as of advertisements, notices, &c. issued by the Society. To provide a book to contain the bye laws made, from time to time, by the Committee, for their government, and to produce the same at all meetings of the Committee. To make a minute of the business of every person calling on matters relating to the Society, and to report the same, with all letters. received, to the next Committee, or to the Sub-Committee to whom it may relate. To give due notice of all the meetings to the several Members of the Committee. T. T. WALMSLEY, SEC. H These Accounts examined and compared with the Vouchers, and allowed. THOS, PLUMER, } J. A. PARK, AUDITORS £15961 18 9 OF RECEIPT AND EXPENDITURE, to 18th of May, 1812. CONTRA-CR. By Investment in Public Funds and £. In 3 per Cent. Red. Ann. 6000l. cost. 3780 ..... y's } By Allowance to Masters, &c. in Training, under the direction of the Society, at the National School, &c.•• By Postage, Carriage of Packets, and incidental Expences By Balance as under, viz. In the Hands of the Central School master, Rev. W. Johnson. ... .... ... 750 0.0 ... } 15 12 6 In the Hands of the several receiving Bankers, as under, viz. At Messrs. Bosanquef & Co.'s .... 211 1 0 Boldero & Co.'s ...... 238 10 0 Drummonds' Gosling & Co.'s 1600 0 0 675 0 0 13 13 0 77 12 9 20 19 ...... 342 8 3 Robarts, Curtis, & Co.'s Sikes, Snaith, & Co.'s.. £15961 18 9 The following persons were appointed, January 26, Trustees, for the investment in the Funds of Money belonging to the Society. The Right Honourable the EARL of SHAFTESBURY, LORD RADSTOCK, Sir JOHN NICHOLL, Knt. The Rev. H. H. NORRIS, JOSHUA WATSON, Esq. The number of Bankers is now reduced to two, viz.- SIKES, SNAITH, & Co. Mansion House-Street. FORM for leaving a LEGACY to the SOCIETY. I give unto the Treasurer, for the time being, of the Society formed in London, under the title of "THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR "PROMOTING THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR IN THE PRIN"CIPLES OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, THROUGHOUT "ENGLAND AND WALES," the Sum of of lawful money of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, current in Great Britain, to be paid to him within Calendar Months next after my decease, out of such part only of my personal Estate as shall not consist of Chattels real, to be by him applied in promoting the purposes of the said Society; and I hereby direct and declare that the receipt of the Treasurer of the said Society, for the time being, for the said Legacy, shall be a sufficient discharge to my Executors for the same. No. X. THE applications alluded to come from Mr. Procter, of Newland, and Mr. BERKIN, of Mitchel Dean, who is Stipendiary Curale of that parish. At Newlaud they began to erect a new school in June last. The chief Subscribers to the building were the DUKE of BEAUFORT, the BISHOP of GLOUCESTER, and Mr. SECRETARY RYDER; but the estimate of the expence far exceeded the amount of the Subscriptions at that time. Mr. PROCTER, however, was proceeding in the work with great zeal; and the DURE of BEAUFORT and LORD GLENBERVIE had promised an annual Subscription towards the salary of a Master. At Mitchel-Dean a school has actually been built, and was opened on the 1st of January last. The building was undertaken by Mr. BARKIN, at the first, at his own risk. He has since been assisted by his private friends, and in particular by a liberal donation from the DUKE OF BEAUFORT, who has also promised an annual Subscription. But a considerable proportion of the expence still rests upon Mr. BERKIN himself. An estimate may be formed of the good likely to be produced by these schools from the information which has been furnished by this zealous promoter of the education of the poor. At the first opening of his new school he bad 140 scholars, and the number has since increased to 350. When Mr. BERKIN settled in the place, these children, as well as their parents, were living almost in a state of Larberism. Few of them were taught to read, and still fewer to distinguish Sunday from other days, by refraining from work, or by the performance of any act of eli ion. They are Miners and Colliers by occupation; and they inhabit that extensive extra parochial tract of waste Find without a Church upon it, which is called the Royal Forest of Dem. Mr. BERKINS su cess appears to have been very great, not only in teaching the Children to read, but also in improving their morals, and impressing their winds with proper notions of their religious dutics. The effect too upon the parents bas |