The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-23 00:00:00

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

NAME.
No. 1. That the name of the institution be " The Liver-
pool Collegiate Institution,—for the Education of the Com-
mercial. Trading, and Working Classes."

OBJECT OR DESIGN.

2. That the objectOr design of this institution be, to " pro-
vide for the inhabitants of Liverpool, an education suited to
their wants, upon the most moderate terms, and at the same
time to maintain indissolubly the connection between sound
religion and useful learning ;" and for this purpose, " Instruc-
tion in the doctrines and duties of Christianity, as taught by
the united church of England and Ireland, shall for ever be
communicated in combination with literary, scientific, and
commercial information ; and with a view to the permanence
of the institution on this basis, all the officers, professors,
and masters, (except the teachers of Oriental literature, and
the foreign modern languages,) shall be members of the es-
tablished church."

OF TIM SCHOOLS.
3. There shall not be less than two day schools and an
evening school.
4. The course of education in the first day school, shall in-
clude the classics, English literature, and composition, geo-
graphy, civil and ecclesiastical, modern languages, mathe-
matics, natural history and philosophy, chemistry, drawing,
anti such other useful learning as the committee hereinafter
appointed, shall from time to time determine.
5. The course of teaching in the second day school, shall
be of a less extended kind, and on a less expensive scale, but
shall embrace such requisites of a sound general education,
as shall enable the pupils to enter upon the business of life,
with advantage to themselves, and the community.
6. The course of teaching in the evening school, shall be
arranged with a special view to the instruction and improve-
ment of students, (more particularly of those who may leave
the day schools of the institution to engage in business ;) in
the mechanical arts immediately connected with their seve-
ral employments, and in the scientific principles on which
they are founded ; and provision shall be made in it to enable
young men to pursue particular branches of classical, mathe-
matical, and commercial knowledge ; classes shall be or-
ganised for the study of navigation, geography, nautical as-
tronomy, naval architecture, civil engineering, chemistry,
natural philosophy, the arts of design, modelling, the modern
languages, as well as for the communication of such other
learning as the committee shall deem proper from time to
time to introduce.

7. The exercises of each school shall be commenced and
terminated with prayer, at which the attendance of every
pupil will be required; and the reading and exposition of the
Holy Scriptures will form a portion of the daily business of
the schools.

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OF THE PATRON, PRESIDENT, AND VICE-PRESIDENTS.
9. Whenever any of the offices of patron, president, or
vice-president, shall become vacant, it shall be filled up by
the life governors, who shall likewise add to the number of
vice-presidents all donors of £5OO or upwards, who may pos-
sess the qualification required by the second rule.
OF THE VISITOR.
10. The visitor shall be always the bishop of the diocese.
He shall have full power at all times to inspect the schools,
and inquire into the nature of the instruction carried on
therein, both as to its religious and secular character, and
suggest to the Committee any improvement that he conceives
can be adopted in them.
OF THE TREASURERS.
11. Two treasurers shall be elected annually by the Com-
mittee. They shall keep an account of all monies received
or paid on account of the Institution, but shall not make
any payments without the authority of the Committee, ex-
pressed by the signature of the chairman.

AUDITORS.
12. Two auditors shall be appointed annually by the cm-

mittee, who shall examine the accounts of the treasurers, and
report the correctness of the same, or otherwise, to the com-
mittee.

OF THE LIFE GOVERNORS.

13. The. life governors shall elect seven trustees, to whom
the whole landed and other property of the Institution shall
be conveyed in trust, for the application of the same at all
times for the purposes before mentioned ; and they shall
from time to time till up any vacancies occurring in the num-
ber of the said trustees.

14. They shall also fill up from time to time any vacancies
that may occur in the offices of patron, president, and the
vice-presidents.
15. They shall also, once at least in each year, fill up the
vacancies that occur in their own body, as well as those
which shall occur in the committee as hereafter mentioned.
16. They shall meet twice at least in every year, viz., on
the first Monday in April, and the first Monday in October,
and further shall hold such special meetings, as may from
time to time be necessary ; and at such meetings, the sub-
ject only for which they are called shall be entertained ; and
no new law, or alteration of an old one, shall be adopted,
unless agreed to by two-thirds of the governors present, nor
unless twenty-one governors shall then be present.
17. In case the life governors shall omit to fill up the va-
cancies, as herein mentioned, for the space of twelve months
after they occur, the power of doing so shall lapse to the
visitor.