Transcribed from the [1832?] Tilling edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

                        [Picture: Pamphlet cover]





                                  RULES
                                  OF THE
                         Western Grammar School,
                                BROMPTON.


The following Gentlemen have been elected Honorary Officers of the
Institution:

                               _President_,

              SIR THEOPHILUS LEE, Crescent House, Brompton.

                            _Vice-Presidents_,

HON. & REV. GERARD VALERIAN WELLESLEY, D.D. Rectory House, Chelsea.
REV. HENRY BLUNT, A.M.  Sloane Street.
F. C. PARRY, Esq. A.M. F.A.S.E. 4, Onslow Terrace, Brompton.
T. STAVELEY, Esq. 9, Brompton Square.

                           _Joint Treasurers_,

C. THISLETON, Esq. 4, White Hall.
H. W. BURGESS, Esq. 134, Sloane Street.
CAPTAIN G. HARRIS, R.N. C.B. 8, Brompton Crescent.

                               _Secretary_,

E. KNOWLES, Esq. 22, Brompton Crescent.

                               _Physician_,

JAMES VEITCH, Esq. M.D. Cadogan Place.

                               _Surgeons_,

GEORGE WOOLLEY, Esq. 8, Brompton Row.
GEORGE GLEN, Esq. 18, ditto.

                               _Architect_,

W. F. POCOCK, Esq. 10, Trevor Terrace.

                               _Committee_,

1.  REV. J. F. LATEWARD, A.M. Kensington.
2.  REV. JOHN MORISON, 1, Hans Place.
3.  REV. R. H. SHEPHERD, 9, Palace Street, Pimlico.
4.  E. J. CLARK, Esq. M.D. Hyde Park Place, West.
5.  CAPTAIN PEEVOR, 36, Church Street, Chelsea.
6.  W. JERDAN, Esq. Grove House, Brompton.
7.  B. P. HOBART, Esq. 24, Brompton Crescent.
8.  S. SMITH, Esq. 14, South Parade, Chelsea.
9.  W. LEACH, Esq. Manor Street, ditto.
10.  SETH SMITH, Esq. Wilton Place.
11.  . . .
12.  . . .

                                * * * * *

                               _Auditors_,

1.  SAMUEL SHEPHERD, Esq. Marlborough Square.
2.  NICHOLAS GRAT, Esq. Robert Street, Chelsea.

                                _Bankers_.

                  MESSRS. COCKBURN, and Co. White Hall.




RULES
OF THE
Western Grammar School,
BROMPTON.


SECTION I.
_Of the Institution_, _and the Proprietors_.


RULE I.  The Institution shall be divided into One Hundred Shares, the
holders of which shall be deemed and called the Proprietors; no
Proprietor being entitled to hold more than three Shares. {1}

RULE II.  Each Proprietor shall pay into the hands of the Treasurers,
(Sect. IV. Rule VI.) Fifteen Pounds for each Share he or she may hold.

RULE III.  Each Proprietor shall pay to the Treasurers an annual sum of
Nine Guineas, by equal quarterly payments, in advance, for each Share he
or she may hold; the said sums to be payable on the first Monday in the
Months of January, April, July, and October, in every Year, at the
Committee Room, between the hours of One and Three.

RULE IV.  Until such person shall have paid to the Treasurers such sum of
Fifteen Pounds, he or she shall not be held to be a Proprietor.

RULE.  V.  Each Proprietor shall subscribe his or her Name to the
Declaration hereinafter mentioned, (See p. 19;) and until such
Declaration shall be signed, no person whatever shall be held to be a
Proprietor, nor be entitled to any privilege, right, or interest
whatever, in this Institution.

RULE VI.  Each Proprietor shall be answerable for his or her quarterly,
and all other payments, whether he or she have a Nominee in the School or
not.

RULE VII.  If any Proprietor shall neglect to pay to the Treasurers the
amount of his or her Subscription, and other monies which may be due by
such Proprietor, for 28 days after the same shall have become due, he or
she shall forfeit the sum of 10_s_; and if, after notice being given by
the Secretary of such penalty having been incurred, such Proprietor do
not pay the amount of his or her Subscription, together with the penalty,
within the period of 28 days, then such Proprietor’s Share or Shares
shall be forfeited; and such Proprietor, his or her Heirs, Executors,
Administrators, and Assigns, shall have no right, interest, property, or
privilege, in the Institution, or in any part thereof; provided,
nevertheless, that such Proprietor may appeal to a Special General
Meeting, by giving notice of such his or her intention to the Secretary,
on or before the day when his or her next Subscription would have become
due; and at such General Meeting it shall be determined whether any, and
what relief shall be given.

RULE VIII.  Every Proprietor shall have the privilege of nominating to
the School one Pupil, in respect of each Share he or she may hold: such
Pupil, if the son, grand-son, step-son, brother, or nephew, of the
nominating Proprietor, shall be admitted without ballot; but if not so
related to the nominating Proprietor, he shall not be admitted without
the previous consent of the Committee of Proprietors; such consent to be
ascertained by ballot, (Sect. II. Rule IV.) and such ballot not to be
made, unless the Nominator do give fourteen days previous notice thereof
to the Secretary; which notice shall contain the name of the Nominee, and
the names, rank, station in life, and residence of his Parents or
Guardians.

RULE IX.  The Proprietors shall be at liberty to transfer or bequeath
their several Shares: but in every case of a transfer, the Purchaser or
Grantee shall be first approved of by ballot, at a General Meeting of the
Committee.  Every Purchaser or Grantee having been so approved of, shall
be entitled to all the advantages of an original Proprietor.

RULE X.  Any person having a Proprietor’s Share bequeathed to him, or
inheriting such Share, or taking it under Letters of Administration, may
nominate a Pupil in respect to such Share; such Pupil to be admitted by
ballot only.

RULE XI.  Any person obtaining a Share as above, may be admitted as a
Proprietor, by ballot, subject to his or her signing the Declaration
hereinafter mentioned.

RULE XII.  Any Proprietor, on giving previous notice to the Secretary, of
his or her intention, shall have the power of inspecting the Minutes of
the Committee at any General Meeting of the Proprietors.



SECTION II.
_Of the Meetings of Proprietors_.


RULE I.  AN Annual General Meeting of the Proprietors shall be holden at
the School Room on the last Monday in April, at Two o’Clock precisely, of
which notice shall be given; the business of such Meeting being to elect
to the vacancies in the Committee, as hereinafter provided for, (Sect.
III. Rule II.) to receive a Report, and hear the Minutes of the Committee
for the preceding year; to pas» the Treasurers Accounts; and to enquire
generally into the affairs of the Institution.

RULE II.  No proposition for making an alteration in the Roles of the
Institution, or for forming any new Rule, shall be considered at a
General Meeting, except on a requisition, signed by Ten Proprietors, to
be delivered to the Secretary, at least thirty days before such General
Meeting: the Secretary shall make known to the body of Proprietors the
nature of the subject to be discussed; but no such proposition for
alteration in the Rules shall be finally decided upon, except at a
subsequent Special General Meeting, to be summoned for the purpose.

RULE III.  Special General Meetings of the Proprietors may be holden at
the Institution, whenever the Committee hereinafter named may deem it
necessary, or whenever an appeal is made to the authority of such
Meeting; the Secretary, on the direction of the Committee, or at the
request, in writing, of the Appellant, to convene such Meeting, giving
each Proprietor at least seven days notice thereof, stating the hour and
place of meeting, and the subject to be laid before the Proprietors: such
Meeting may also be convened by the Secretary, with the like notice, upon
his being requested to do so by a requisition signed by seven
Proprietors.

RULE IV.  All questions at General Meetings shall be decided by a
majority of the Proprietors, except on occasions of balloting for a
Proprietor or Nominee, when not less than three-fourths of the votes
given shall be deemed to constitute a majority.

RULE V.  All Lady Proprietors not attending any General Meeting, may vote
by Proxy, to be tendered by a Proprietor; but no Proprietor shall be
allowed to hold more than one Proxy, and the said Proxy shall not have
effect for more than one Meeting.

RULE VI.  The President or Chairman for the time being shall, at all
Meetings, have a casting vote.

RULE VII.  Any General Meeting, Special or Annual, may be adjourned for
the purpose of concluding any business regularly before it, of which
adjournment no special notice shall be given.

RULE VIII.  Whenever notice is to be given to any Proprietor on any
subject, it is to be understood that a letter sent to his or her last or
usual place of residence, shall be deemed sufficient.



SECTION III.
_Of the Government of the Institution_, _and Duties of the Committee_.


RULE I.  The affairs of the Institution shall be under the management and
direction of

  A President,

  Vice Presidents,

  Three Joint Treasurers,

  A Secretary,

  A Physician,

  Two Surgeons,

  An Architect,

and twelve other Proprietors, any five of whom shall be competent to act
as a Committee.

RULE II.  Of the Officers and the twelve other Proprietors, constituting
the Committee of Management of the Institution, eight shall go out
annually, and a like number be elected in their stead; the eight who go
out to be however eligible for re-election.  The first Re-election to
take place at the Annual General Meeting in the year 1832; but,
nevertheless, no such Re-election shall take place, unless a Requisition
for that purpose be made by twelve Proprietors, and sent to the Secretary
thirty days prior to the Annual General Meeting.  In the event of such
Election being required, the eight Members of the Committee who retire
shall be those who have attended the least frequently at the previous
Meetings of the Committee.

RULE III.  The Committee shall have power from time to time to make such
Provisional Rules and Regulations respecting the conduct and management
of the School, and the general affairs of the Institution, as they may
deem necessary: such Provisional Rules and Regulations shall have force
until the next General Meeting of Proprietors, when they shall be
confirmed or annulled, as the Proprietors may see fit.

RULE IV.  Any vacancy occurring in the Offices or Committee during the
year, may be supplied by the Committee, at a Special Meeting to be called
for that purpose, by election, either from their own body, or from the
Proprietors at large.

RULE V.  The Committee shall hold their Meetings on the first Tuesday
Evening in every Month, and oftener when they shall consider it
necessary, on such days, and at such places, as they may from time to
time appoint.

RULE VI.  The Committee shall, at their Monthly Meetings, choose two of
their body, as _Visitors_, for the succeeding month: such Visitors shall
be the only Proprietors having right of access to the School during
School hours, [except as hereinafter provided;] but the Visitors may at
any time introduce into the School, at their discretion, any other
Proprietor or Stranger.

RULE VII.  The Visitors shall not interfere with the internal Regulations
of the School, but shall inspect the School at least once a week, and
shall report to the General Committee any irregularities or improprieties
they may observe.



SECTION IV.
_Special Duties of the Officers_.


RULE I.  The President, or one of the Vice-Presidents, shall preside at
all Meetings, or, in their absence, such other Proprietor shall preside
as may be appointed provisionally.

RULE II.  The President or Provisional Chairman shall have a casting vote
at all Meetings.  (See Sect. II. Rule VII.)

RULE III.  The President or Provisional Chairman shall sign the Minutes
of Proceedings made at all Meetings.

RULE IV.  The President shall have charge of the Original of the
Declaration and Signatures of the Proprietors of the Institution, and
shall also have the custody of the Register of Shares.

RULE V.  The President shall sign all Certificates of Shares and
Transfers of Shares.

RULE VI.  The Treasurers shall receive all monies payable or due to the
Institution, and shall place the same to the account of the Institution
at the Bankers.

RULE VII.  The Treasurers shall make all payments by draft on the
Bankers, to be countersigned by the Secretary, or, in his absence, by a
Deputy: the signature of one Treasurer to such draft shall be sufficient.
Their accounts shall be made up at the usual Quarter Days, and audited,
ready to be presented at the then next periodical Meeting of the
Committee.

RULE VIII.  The Secretary shall conduct and record the Correspondence of
the Institution, and keep Minutes of the Proceedings of the Committee,
and of the General Meetings of Proprietors.

RULE IX.  He shall convene all Meetings by Written Notices.

RULE X.  He shall fill up and countersign all Certificates of Shares, and
Transfers of Shares.

RULE XI.  He shall have the custody of all the Printed Copies of the
Rules of the Institution.

RULE XII.  He shall keep the Duplicate of the Declaration, signed by the
Proprietors.

RULE XIII.  He shall be a Member of all Committees, and, in his absence,
a Deputy may be appointed at any Meeting then assembled.

RULE XIV.  The Medical Officers shall, as often as they deem it
expedient, or may be required by the Committee, visit the School for the
purpose of ascertaining the state of cleanliness and ventilation of the
School, and all other matters that may conduce to the health of the Boys;
and shall make such Report to the Committee as the case may require.

RULE XV.  They shall particularly attend to any appearance of contagious,
infectious, or epidemic disorders, and if they apprehend the existence of
any such disorders, or have reasonable grounds to expect that they may be
likely to appear, they shall forthwith report the same to the Committee,
or take such steps as the urgency of the case may require.

RULE XVI.  The Architect shall from time to time examine the Buildings
belonging to the Institution, and report upon the state of the same,
suggesting to the Committee what alterations, improvements, or repairs,
may be necessary.  He shall superintend all the alterations and repairs,
and examine the estimates and charges for the same, and report whether
the works be properly done, and whether the costs be reasonable.

RULE XVII.  There shall be two Auditors appointed at every Annual General
Meeting, who shall audit the Accounts of the Institution, and report
thereon to the Committee.—The Auditors shall not be Members of the
Committee.



SECTION V.
_Of the Masters_.


RULE I.  There shall be the following Masters—A Head Master, a Second
Master, an Assistant Master, a French Master, and a Drawing Master.

RULE II.  The Masters shall be elected as often as occasion may require,
by the Committee, by ballot.

RULE III.  The Head and Second Masters shall be Graduates of the
University of Oxford, or of Cambridge.

RULE IV.  The Committee shall have the assistance of the Head Master in
examining the competence of the Assistant Master.

RULE V.  None of the Masters shall be subject to removal from their
respective Offices, except on account of non-adherence to the Rules of
the Institution, inability, incapacity, negligence, immoral conduct, or
other sufficient cause; their removal to be determined upon by the
Committee, at a Special Meeting to be convened for that purpose.

Three Calendar Months’ notice, in writing, shall be given by the
Secretary to any Master intended to be removed, except for any flagrant
misconduct, or gross immorality; in which cases the dismissal shall be
immediate.

Any Master intending to resign his Office, shall give three Calendar
Months’ notice, in writing, of such his intention to the Secretary.

RULE VI.  The internal regulation of the School shall be under the
management of the Head Master, who shall carry into effect the system of
education specified in these Rules, subject to the control of the
Committee.

RULE VII.  The Head Master shall keep a Register of the Scholars, in such
form as the Committee shall determine.

RULE VIII.  The Head Master shall also keep a Register of the progress
made by the Pupils in the course of their studies; which Register shall
be open to the inspection of the Visitors, and be produced to the
Committee at their periodical Meetings.

RULE IX.  The Head Master shall report to the Committee what Books,
Mathematical Instruments, Stationery, &c. may from time to time be wanted
for the purposes of the Institution.  He shall also furnish the
Committee, quarterly, with an account of such Books and Instruments lost,
or wilfully destroyed, as, in his opinion, ought to be charged to the
Pupils by whom they shall have been so lost, or destroyed.

RULE X.  The Head Master may suspend any of the other Masters, except the
Second, in the event of any flagrant misconduct; but he shall forthwith
give notice of such suspension to the Secretary, in order that it may be
submitted immediately to the decision of the Committee.

RULE XI.  The French Master shall attend the School, on such days, and
for such period in each day, as the Head Master may fix, with the
approval of the Committee.

RULE XII.  The Drawing Master shall attend the School under the same
regulation as is fixed in regard to the French Master.

RULE XIII.  The Head Master, and Second Master, may take Boarders, who
are Scholars of the Institution, but none others; such Scholars to be in
no case considered or treated as private Pupils.  The Head Master shall
not take more than Fifteen Boarders, and the Second Master not more than
Ten.

RULE XIV.  The Head and Second Master shall have the privilege of sending
their own sons as Pupils to the School, subject to the same rules as
affect the other Pupils, except the annual payments.

RULE XV.  The Head, Second, and Assistant Masters, are to attend in the
School Room, from Seven o’Clock in the Morning until Eight; from Ten in
the Day until One; from Three in the Afternoon until Five, from the 1st
of April to the 30th of September, inclusive; and from the 1st of
October, to the end of March, from Nine o’Clock, until Noon, and from
Half-past One, until Four, Holidays excepted.

RULE XVI.  None of the Masters shall be allowed to perform any duty, or
undertake any occupation, or employment, which shall in any way interfere
with their attendance and duties in the School.

RULE XVII.  No Master shall inflict corporeal punishment, except the Head
Master; and the cane only shall be used for that purpose.

RULE XVIII.  If any Master shall have cause of complaint, he is to state
it in writing to the Secretary, who will submit the same to the Committee
for their decision.



SECTION VI.
_Of the Pupils_, _and System of Education_.


RULE I.  The Pupils shall be admitted as prescribed by Rule VIII, Section
I.; but no Pupil shall be received into the School, until he shall have
acquired some knowledge of Reading and Writing, and of the two first
Rules of Arithmetic.

RULE II.  An efficient System of Education shall be adopted; embracing
the Latin, Greek, French, and English Languages and Literature;
Composition; Elocution; the Mathematics; and Drawing; and Lectures on
subjects connected with the Sciences and Arts, shall be occasionally
delivered by the Masters and others to all the Pupils, under the sanction
of the Committee, which the Proprietors, and Parents of Nominees, shall
be at liberty to attend.

RULE III.  The Madras System of Education, as practised at Charter House
School, shall be adopted, as far as it may be found available.

RULE IV.  A portion of the Scriptures and Prayer shall be read at the
commencement of the Morning, and the termination of the Afternoon, School
each Day.

RULE V.  A Public Examination of the Pupils shall take place in the week
previous to the Summer Vacation; the mode of such Examination to be under
the direction of the Committee.

RULE VI.  Eight days Holidays are to be allowed at Christmas, commencing
on Christmas Eve, and ending on New Year’s Day; and Five Weeks in the
Summer, commencing on the Monday nearest the Twentieth of July.—The
Holidays at Easter are to commence on Good Friday, and end on Easter
Monday, both inclusive.—A half Holiday is to be allowed on Wednesday and
Saturday in each week.

RULE VII.  The Pupils shall punctually return to the School on the day
succeeding the conclusion of the Holidays, unless prevented by sickness,
(to be certified in writing,) or by any family calamity, under the
penalty of Ten Shillings.

RULE VIII.  In the event of any flagrant misconduct on the part of any
Scholar, it shall be competent for the Head Master immediately to suspend
him; and he shall report such suspension, with the cause thereof, to the
Visitors, for the information of the Committee, who shall decide thereon,
and may, if they see fit, confirm such suspension of the offending Pupil;
but an appeal shall lie from the Proprietor on whose Share the Scholar
was admitted to the School, to a General Meeting of Proprietors to be
convened for that purpose.



SECTION VII.
_Of the Property and Funds of the Institution_.


RULE I.  The Land, and the Building thereon, and all other Property of
the Institution, real and personal, shall be vested in Twelve Trustees,
to be elected from among the Proprietors, and shall be held by the said
Trustees for the purposes of the Institution.  They shall execute a Deed,
declaring the purposes of such Trust; and when they shall be reduced to
Three in number, the Proprietors, at a General Meeting, convened for that
purpose, shall fill up the number to Twelve; and thereupon a proper Deed
or Deeds shall be executed, for vesting the Property of the Institution
in the surviving and new Trustees, and declaring the Trusts thereof; and
so, from time to time, as often as may be necessary, for perpetuating the
Trusts.

RULE II.  Every transfer or bequest of a Share, and also the title of
every Assignee, Legatee, or Legal Representative, shall be entered in the
Register of the Institution; of which entry a Certificate shall be given
by the Secretary, and for which Certificate One Pound, over and above the
Stamp Duty, shall be paid to the Treasurers, to be carried to the general
Fund of the Institution.

RULE III.  Every Member of the Institution shall be furnished with one
Copy of the Rules.

                                * * * * *

Declaration to be signed by the Proprietors.—

We, whose names are here underwritten, being severally Proprietors of the
Institution, called The Western Grammar School, do hereby severally
declare for each of ourselves, and for our respective representatives,
that we have not and that we will not claim, any interests, rights,
privileges, or advantages, whatsoever, in the said School, or in the
monies, goods, chattels, or property, whatsoever, belonging to, or
supposed to belong to the same, excepting such interests, rights,
privileges, or advantages, as may be claimed by us or either of us, or
our representatives, by virtue of the Rules or Bye-Laws of the said
Western Grammar School, now made, or hereafter to be made, by the
majority of the Proprietors of the said Western Grammar School.

                                * * * * *

_Memorandum_.—The Secretary will keep a Register of Shares that may
become vacant, and of persons desirous of obtaining Shares.

                                * * * * *

                                * * * * *

                        TILLING, PRINTER, CHELSEA.

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FOOTNOTE.


{1}  The book has short margin notes of each rule which have been omitted
in this transcription.  E.g. the note for Rule I. was “Proprietors and
number of Shares.”—DP.