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Papers relating to clergy and school lands
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Clergy and School Lands Committee reports

Contains Reports of the Committee to the Quarterly General Court of the Trustees of Clergy and School Lands. Reports on: Financial matters of the Corporation; matters concerning the establishment, maintenance and management of schools and churches in the colony; and matters relating to land owned by the Trustees.

Papers relating to clergy and school lands

  • AU AU-MTC 033/7
  • Series
  • 1828-1830

Contains documents relating to the operation of the Clergy and School Lands Corporation. Includes The Bye Laws of the Trustees of Clergy and School Lands in NSW, Committee Reports, Commissioners report and a Report on Church and School Establishments of the Colony by Archdeacon T.H. Scott.

Broughton, William Grant

Report on church and school establishments of the colony, by T.H. Scott to Governor Darling and the Trustees of Clergy and School Lands

Gives a detailed report on the condition of church and school establishments in the colony in 1825 and 1829. In doing so he reports on the increases of Chaplains between 1825 and 1829 and recommends where additional schoolmasters and chaplains are required. Offers suggestions relating to future appointments of colonial chaplains. Reports on the school establishments in orphanages and matters relating to parochial infant and primary schools.Includes enclosures showing state in which the churches and schools were found in 1825 and their state in 1829.