Excerpt from Historical and Other Papers and Documents, Vol. 2: Illustrative of the Educational System of Ontario, 1856-1872, Forming an Appendix to the Annual Report of the Minister of Education Chiefly through the efforts of the Honourable Isaac Buchanan, a Grant in aid of Common School Education of Fifty thousand pounds, ( 50,000 = $200,000, ) a year, was made by the Legislature of United Canada in 1841. For many years this annual Grant was divided between Upper and Lower Canada on the basis of Population, as required by the Special Act on the subject of 1843, - the amount coming to Upper Canada, on this basis, was Twenty-one thousand pounds, ( 21,000 = $84,000, ) and to Lower Canada, Twenty-nine thousand pounds, ( 29,000 = $116,000.) This division was continued for each of the seven following years. In 1848, the Chief Superintendent, in a Letter to the Provincial Secretary, appealed against the continuance of this division, as, in the meantime, (between 1841 and 1848), the population of Upper Canada (710,000) had increased in a larger proportion than that of Lower Canada (700,000). He, therefore, proposed that, for the present, the share of the Grant coming to Upper Canada should be Twenty-four thousand pounds, ( 24,000 = $96,000, ) and that to Lower Canada, Twenty-six thousand pounds, ( 26,000 - $104,000.) The request that this equitable division be made was not granted. Again, in March, 1849, the Chief Superintendent called the attention of the Government to the subject and to the continued inequality of the division of the Legislative Grant, but still without effect. In December of the same year, another effort was made by the Chief Superintendent, (in a Letter to the Inspector General, ) to have this continued inequality in the division of the Grant removed, and that the division be made on the basis, which he had proposed, in his Letter to the Provincial Secretary of the 17th of October, 1848. The basis proposed was regarded by the Inspector General as equitable; but no Order-in-Council was passed to give it effect. This state of things continued until 1851, when the Editor of this Volume, (as Deputy Superintendent, ) during the Chief Superintendent's second official visit to Europe and the United States, wrote a Letter to the Provincial Secretary in March, 1851, requesting that the Department be informed of the decision of the Governor General-in-Council on the subject of the division of the Parliamentary Grant. In reply, the Provincial Secretary stated, that an Order-in-Council had been passed, making an equal division of the Legislative Grant between the Provinces, giving to each one Twenty-five thousand pounds, ( 25,000 = $100,000.) Note. - The amount thus lost to Upper Canada by not making an equitable division of the Grant as required by law, and as requested, was at the rate, at least, of Three thousand pounds, ( 3,000 = $12,000, ) a year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."