SIXTH REPORT
OF THE
VISITORS OF MAYXOOTH COLLEGE.
1851.
Presented to both Hottses of Parliament ly Command of Her Majesty.
TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
May it Please Your Majesty,
We, the undersigned Visitors of the College of Maynooth, in pursuance of the provisions of the Act passed in the session held in the eighth and ninth years of Your Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to amend two Acts parsed in
" Ireland for the better Education of Persons professing the Roman Catholic
" "Religion," &c, and also an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom, for amending the said two Bills, held on the 2d day of December 1851 a Visitation of said College.
We assembled at 12 o'clock, the appointed hour, in the reception-room oi tin-College, and having arranged the order of the Visitation, proceeded to the Great Hall of the College, where the Superiors, Professors, and students wtre¬ assembled, The names of the Superiors, Professors, and students were called over by the senior Dean ; 18 Superiors and Professors answered to their names.
One Professorship having become recently vacant, 516 students were found to be in attendance, 7 absent, 2 on leave, and 5 on account of illness.
We asked the President if he had any complaint or any statement to make that called for the interference of the Visitors.
The President replied, that he was happy to inform the Visitors that he had
no complaint to make.
The students had attended to their studies with assiduity and success ; and their moral conduct was irreproachable.
In fact, there has been no deviation from rule or discipline in the College since the k*t visitation which called for anything severer than admonition.
We made a similar inquiry of the other Superiors and Professors, and finally of the students, who made no complaint.
We then announced, that if any cause of complaint should arise in the Colleo-c before the next Visitation, whether it affected the Superiors, Professors
or students, the Visitors would receive and attend to any such complaint, when authenticated by the signature of complainant, and forwarded ty any of the Visitors.
We then asked if the oath of allegiance had been taken by all the students.
The President replied, that all the students who had entered the College before the last Visitation had taken the oath of allegiance, and that those who had entered since will take it at the next Quarter Sessions, that being the tir^t opportunity presenting itself for so doing since their entrance.
