Note 3 — CONCILIAR SEMINARIES

This seminary was founded in 1870 by the very reverend Fray Mariano Cuartero, the first bishop of the diocese. The building is of stone with a galvanized iron roof supported by 160 beams. There are six Paulist priests, and two lay-brothers in charge of the institution, who are aided by three native clerics—pupils in the same seminary, who teach the Latin classes under the direction of the rector. The following fees are charged: matriculation, four pesos; boarding pupils, nine pesos per month, payable quarterly; and the three per cent of the stipend of the priests of the diocese. Instruction is divided into four years of Latin, and three of philosophy. The total number of pupils enrolled without distinction of courses or studies, from 1870 to 1885 inclusive, was 5,344; the total number of graduates, 4,397. Of those enrolled under secondary instruction, 86.1 per cent graduated; under philosophy, 85.9 per cent; under dogmatic theology, 85 per cent; and under moral theology and liturgy, 82.5 per cent. See Census of Philippines, iii, pp. 598, 599. ↑