The tenor of a minute of the meeting next following was to the effect that enough money had been secured for the completion of the work.[702]
State of school satisfactory 1784
A digest of report of 1790
In 1784 another visit was received from the committee of the quarterly meeting, whose purpose was “the establishing and keeping up suitable schools,” as recommended in the several years past.[703] The reports of the committee of the school at this date indicate that the status was nearly what was expected by the yearly meeting, respecting (1) foundation, (2) masters, (3) supervision by committees, (4) accommodations for the master, etc.[704] In 1787, Nathaniel Newlin one of the meeting’s representatives to the quarterly meeting brought back a request from that body for “a circumstantial account” of the state of schools, to be transmitted to the quarterly meeting the next eighth month.[705] The said Nathaniel was placed on the school committee in the eleventh month following,[706] and later, John Bull and Benjamin Bartram were appointed in the places of Aaron Oakford and Phillip Price who requested to be released.[707] In the first month of the year following there was produced a report by the committee, which in fact became the governing document for the schools established and to be established in Darby. There is presented here a digest of the report; a complete statement of it may be found in [Chapter II].
1. Recalling the advices of the yearly meeting, they recognize:
a. the advantages arising from established schools, and
b. the losses sustained from a want thereof.
2. Therefore it is agreed that in the future five Friends should be appointed and called the Overseers of Darby School, three of them to be sufficient number to transact business.
3. Their duties:
a. Visit the school.