The Beautiful Tree: Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century c5.s17.31

c5.s17.31

30. To cover the first expense of these schools, and to provide further for their gradual extension, if found, advisable, without entailing any additional or new expense on government, it might be provided, that, on the demise of any persons now holding *Yeomiahs* or alienated lands, a new inquiry be instituted; and that, though the same may have been continued for more than one generation by the British Government, it be resumed, and carried to a new fund, to be termed the school ‘fund’ (to which the proposed expense should also be debited), unless it is clearly stated that the body of the original grant to be ‘*hereditary*’, on the intention of the ruling power at the time to make such grant hereditary, be clearly proved to the satisfaction of government.