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of both sexes, whose elementary education is defective, we expect the boys to attend the evening school three times in each week, for at least six months in the year; and girls and women for such longer period as may appear to us to be desirable.

"It is our purpose to impose a fine of sixpence per week upon glass-house boys who absent themselves from school without sufficient cause, and not longer to employ any whose conduct is reported by the master to be bad, or whose attendance is not kept up with regularity.

"We propose to hold an examination of all our young people from time to time, and to institute a system of rewards for those whose attendance, good conduct, and progress merit such distinction.

"We shall be glad to find our intentions in this matter fully appreciated by those whose welfare is to be thereby affected, and to know that those whose education is in a satisfactory condition will still give a regular attendance on the schools and classes, both for the sake of their own progress, and as an example to those whose education is not in so satisfactory a state.

"CHANCE BROTHERS & Co."