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Anglo-Chinese College
Deed.
I, Robert Morrison, D. D. of the University of Glasgow, having been sent to China in the
year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seven, by a Society of Christians, meeting
in London, and composed of members of various British Churches, for the purpose of learning
the Chinese language, rendering the Sacred Scriptures into the said tongue, and composing an
English-Chinese Dictionary, with the ulterior view of the diffusion of the Christian Religion in
China, and the Extra-Ganges nations; and having, in the year 1818, nearly brought these
several works to a conclusion, my mind was led to pray to God for direction, and to meditate
on what farther means could be used to bring about the final object of my Mission.
The Divine Providence having increased my personal property in a small degree, I
determined to appropriate One Thousand Pounds sterling to found a College, to be called the
Anglo-Chinese College, the...”
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“...management shall devolve on the senior member of
the Chinese department, and the acting committee of the Ultra-Ganges Missions; and in case
of the failure of regularly appointed Trustees, and of such senior member and committee, the
management of the College shall devolve on the above-named Missionary Society in London.
Sealed, signed, and delivered, at Canton, in China, where no stamps are used, this
twentieth day of March, A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty.
[Signed] Robert Morrison.
In the presence of us, who have hereunto set our names,
[Signed] J. B. Urmston,
Chief for all affairs of the Honourable East India Company in China.
[Signed] J. Reeves.
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