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[Page] 76 TOWN OF PAISLEY

Clothing , and Outfitting, and if need be, the maintaining of Boys who have resided within the Parliamentary Boundary of Paisley for at least three years, and whose Parents have died either without leaving Sufficient funds for that Purpose, or who from misfortune have been reduced or who from want of means are unable to give a Suitable education to their Children." The Institution is under the Sole management and direction of the Trustees, who have thrown it open to the general Public in Payment of fees, forming as it were an Amalgamation of the Boys on the funds with those paying fees, thus not only are the latter used as a lever power to elevate the former in the Scale of Society, but also the fees chargeable from the pupils not on the funds enable the Trustees to Secure efficient and first Class teachers, as well as to give Burseries to the boys on the funds at the Annual examinations; there is another feature in Connection with this Institution and which is Worthy of notice, the Children Attending the School do not Know who is or who is not upon the funds, this fact is Known only to the trustees and the Parents and guardians of the Children So admitted, and the teachers; the Parents being Allowed the Privilege to fix the Colour and Style of the Pupils dress; thus the rich and the Poor are undistinguishable, all equally cared for and impartially treated, none able to tell the rich man's Son from that of the Poor Widow; The Several teachers and Assistant teachers are Paid by the Trustees a liberal Salary each, there were 109 Boys on the funds of the Institution last year (1857) And upwards of 400 Pupils Attended who Paid School fees, Affords tuition in the various branches of an English, Commercial and Classical education, as Well as drawing and Vocal Music, _____________
"The John Neilson educational Institution" is Said to have been built on the Site of the Pretorium of a Roman Camp, and that the remains of which existed in the beginning of the eighteenth Century, but were