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to obtain some
further information
respecting this school.You
only give one Authority for the
name, you know
more are Req'd [Required]
What did the
government
build the school
for?
You show it
as a public
building on
the trace, yet
the description
and name
would lead me
to suppose it
was a private one.

'Barrsbrae
Cottage' you
only give one
Authoruty for this
name. Mr Simple
the owner. Is
it not known
to any other
person by the
name ?
J.C. Giles
for Capt. [Captain] Bayly
R.E. [Royal Engineers]

Mr. Woods and
Cap. [Captain] Leggat of Pt. [Port] Glasgow
Can be quoted, they
inform me that Goverment
gave £850 towards the
erection of it, and about
as much more was
subscribed for, through the efforts
of Dr. [Doctor] Bar of St. Enochs
Glasgow who was then
Parish Minister here.
At the same time it
is not in connection with
the Parochial School but is
what the people call a
Government or Public
School.
It is quite a common thing
or the Government to erect or
to assist to erect Schools
in localities
in Scotland, when applied
to in a proper way by
the Inhabitants. Just
in the Same System as
the most of the Quad Sacra
Churches, where the Ministers receive
see other side


Mr. Simple
has recently
purchased this
property and
given this name
to it. It is not
yet known
by any in this locality
but will Soon come
to be generally known
by the name given