Documentary History Of Education In Upper Canada From The Passing Of The Constitutional Act Of 1791 To The Close Of Dr Ryersons Administration Of The Education Department In 1876 1848 1849 PDF Download

Excerpt from Documentary History of Education in Upper Canada, Vol. 8: From the Passing of the Constitutional Act of 1791, to the Close of the Reverend Doctor Ryerson's Administration of the Education Department in 1876; 1848-1849 The want of a cash-book seems to have been unfelt by either the Bursar, or the College Council, until the unexpected discovery of that Officer's default, a'ter an incumbency Of over twelve years. This discovery brought out the fact, that he had not kept any separate, or, at least, any instructive record of his own private cash account, and that Of the University. An Endowment, consisting of nearly a quarter of a million acres of the choice lands of the Province, nearly all in occupancy under lease, and valued by the Council, at its first meeting, as worth no less than one pound per acre, was thus, (after many years of previous mismanagement by the Servants of the Crown, ) at the outset subjected to defective administration. N o proper rent-roll accounts were Opened, or compiled, showing the pecuniary relations existing between the Tenants and the Proprietor. Rents were received when offered; Lands were sold when sought for purchase money was taken when brought in interest was accepted when tendered and such occurrences gave the first introduction to the names of the respective parties to the account of the University. But the reappearance of such names in the accounts, depended entirely on the parties own choice, or on their Own conceptions of moral, or business, Obligations. The Crown Schedule handed over to the University, when the Endowment was bestowed upon it, gave the names of the lessees, or Occupants, of Lands but no attempt was made until a recent period, when the want of such a compilation was severely felt, to open a regular set of accounts with the whole of the Tenants Of the University. 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.