| Description | <p>Copy dispatch No. 244, dated 24 December 1861, from Charles J MacCarthy, Governor of Ceylon, to the Duke of Newcastle, regarding school returns for the District of Matura and the peninsula of Jaffna. The following are enclosed:</p>
<li>"Returns for Schools in the Matura District, shewing average numbers of Native Children who have attended them during the past 5 years", with appended remarks.</li>
<li>Letter from E P Hastings to James Swan, Assistant Colonial Secretary, dated 13 August 1861, regarding enclosed memoranda and returns for colonial schools in Jaffna, for the years 1856 to 1861.</li>
<li>Copy dispatch No. 377, dated 30 July 1861, from James Swan, Assistant Colonial Secretary, to the Governor Agent's Office, Colombo, regarding the existing records of sickness and mortality amongst Aboriginal children attending colonial schools in Ceylon.</li> |