The appendix contains, as usual, the hospital and dispensary Appendix. returns of the past year, the official report on the students who have left the College, the various examination questions, with the answers of the most proficient students, a prize roll, and tabular statements of the results of all the examinations held. The answers of the students are printed without any correction of errors, either of grammar or of fact, contained in them.

The whole of the College is at present under repair, in consequence of which the Male Hospital has Buildings. been closed for the last two months. The female patients were transferred to the male wards, during the repair of the building occupied by the former, as there was no other institution of similar character in Calcutta, in which they could be placed,

The Museum has been transferred to the building formerly occupied by the Ceylon students. The quarters occupied by the Hindustani class have been specially inspected by the Military Board, with a view to increase considerably the accommodation of the students, and the general improvement of the ventilation of the building.

To increase the efficiency of the Local Committee, and to prevent the duty of visiting the College, and Changes. superintending examinations from encroaching excessively on the time of a limited number of the Local Officers of Government, and particularly to carry out the wish expressed by the Council of Education in their instructions to Local Committees, that they "lose no opportunity of impressing upon the inhabitants, and especially upon the wealthy and influential classes, that it is their duty to educate their children, and to encourage local subscriptions and donations" to the College, the Local Committee recommended that five gentlemen should be added to their number to represent the principal divisions of the community of Dacca; and the appointments were made by the Government accordingly.

Mr. Cargill having been selected by the Lieutenant Governor of the N. W. Provinces to be the Principal of the Delhi College, Mr. D. Foggo, of the Hindu College, was appointed by the Council of Education to succeed him, as head master. Mr. Cargill made over charge of his office on the 1st of July, and Mr. Foggo joined on the 19th of the same month. The Council of Education desired that their thanks might be communicated to Mr. Cargill, before leaving, "for the zeal and ability with which he performed the duties of head master and Professor of Mathematics in the Dacca College."

Mr. Smith, who had been removed from the Jessore School to this College, at the recommendation of the late Inspector of Schools, having been allowed ample time to acquire a fair insight into the manner in which the duties of a head master of a school are conducted in a College, was permitted by the Council, an opportunity offering, to return to his former situation at Jessore. Mr. Robinson, the second master of the junior department, was promoted to the head-mastership in succession

to Mr. Smith; and Mr. Lefevre obtained promotion to the mastership vacated by Mr. Robinson. No master on the spot being at the time considered eligible to succeed Mr. Lefevre, Babu Prosunno Coomar Surbadhicary, the first student of all the Colleges of 1848, was appointed by the Council of Education to the vacant third mastership. No other changes have taken place during the year.

Number on the Rolls, end of Session, September} 46

30th, 1850,

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15 279 340

Of the "withdrawals," fifteen were removed, as was intimated in the last annual report they would be, for incapacity, as manifested at the last annual examinations, so that the increase during the year is thirty instead of fifteen. The daily average attendance is 293 to 328, the latter number being the average on the rolls during the session. The attendance was very seriously affected at the commencement of the period reported on by the breaking out of cholera which drove out of the city all who had country residences; and afterwards, during March, April and May by the Smallpox which committed dreadful ravages in Dacca.

During the session, application was made to the Principal by Messrs. Sarkies and Minas, and Babu Rae Out-Students. Mohun Rae, for admission to the College; but, as they were not admissible under the rules in force, and wished to attend only the lectures in Literature, Composition and History, Mr. Lewis recommended that they might be

permitted to attend these lectures on paying a fee of a hundred rupees each for the session. The parties named consenting to the terms, the Council of Education sanctioned the proposal, passing the following order on the occasion:

"The Council consider the circumstances to be most creditable to the Officers of the Dacca College, as proving the high public estimation to which it has been raised by their zeal and ability."

The fees received during the year for tuition amounted to four thousand four hundred and nine, being six hundred rupees in excess of the sum realised last session from the same source.

Fees.

The library has been freely resorted to during the session. Mr. Henry Atherton, C. S., a benefactor to The Library. the College, before leaving Dacca for the Cape, on Medical Certificate, placed his books at the disposal of the College for the use of the students, till his return. The Right Reverend the Bishop of Calcutta, who left the following memorial of his visit to the Dacca College in August, "It gives me great pleasure to witness the prosperity of an institution in this noble building, of which I laid the first stone, November 20, 1841," presented some valuable works to the library, on the occasion. Ninety-four works, in