APPENDIX.
 

Attendance of the Children on the Sabbath.

In conformity with a prominent feature of this institution,
which happily combines religious with intellectual education, its
pupils, independent of instruction in the principles of Divine
truth received through the week, have ever been required to
attend divine service on the Sabbath. Subsequent to the Revo¬
lutionary War, the children assembled every Sabbath at the
school-room in Garden Street, in ample time to proceed with
their teacher to the seats provided for them in the "Old
Church."

After Sabbath Schools were established in the city, they at¬
tended the one held in the Consistory building, at the corner of
Nassau and Ann streets, till the year 1829, when a school was
organized in the New or Middle Church, Nassau Street; and
here, under Sabbath School instruction and the teachings of the
sacred desk, they remained till the year 1840, when they occu¬
pied the gallery of the North Church, attending at the same time
the Sabbath School in the Consistory building, at the corner of
Ann and Nassau streets. In September, 1841, a majority of the
children having been found to reside north of Grand Street,
Consistory directed them to attend the Sabbath School and church
in Ninth Street, between Broadway and the Fourth Avenue.

This institution being the only one of the kind connected
with the Dutch Church, and being composed of children whose
parents resided in the vicinity of the churches which they respect¬
ively attended, it became an onerous duty for the scholars to at¬
tend twice on the Sabbath, from distances ranging from Dey
Street to Twenty-third Street, and from the North to the East
River. Many communications on the subject having been
addressed to the Trustees by the parents, the Consistory, in Jan¬
uary, 1847, granted the Board the privilege of permitting the
children to attend Sabbath School and church at those churches
with which their parents were connected, and near which they
resided.

This privilege was then generally enjoyed by the children,
under the following regulations, which accompanied each cer¬
tificate :

Resolved, That in all cases in which any pupil of the school is permitted to
attend Sabbath School and church elsewhere than at Ninth Street, it shall lie