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Maybole 28 May 1851
Present Mr R McMillan Mr Brown
The claim of Robert Closs who requests
his child - a boy aged 8 who can neither read nor write,
to be admitted to the School and who assures that so
soon as trade brings him employment, he will pay a
weekly allowance of 3d per week from the date of his
admission was considered.
The Meeting authorise the teacher to
receive the boy on payment of the proposed allowance of
three pence per week for the period of four weeks - and
to give credit for that period of the allowance, but if
the same is not then paid the Meeting will consider
whether they will longer allow him to remain.
The teacher stated that Jas. Henderson,
one of the boys taught at the School, is now an
apprentice tailor with Mr John Fergusson, who is highly
satisfied with his service and his behaviour - that
hitherto Mr Fergusson has supplied him with victuals
each day except Sunday and with clothes, and that he
sleeps in his Mother’s room - but that she is about to
leave having been deprived of her room from inability to
pay for it and is obliged to beg - and she is most
anxious that her boy be provided with a bed |
