The form of subscription above mentioned was used for raising funds till 1793 when a committee on schools incorporated it with a few other suggestions in their plans.[422] These may be summarized as follows: [Sidenote: Summary of later form used for subscription] 1. Each contributor to subscribe a principal sum. 2. All sums to be lumped together and invested in trustees, accountable to the monthly meeting. 3. All interests to be paid annually and applied each year to the schools in the compass of the monthly meeting. 4. All tutors to be members of Friends. 5. Funds to be first applied to the schooling of poor Friends’ children, their necessities to be judged by the monthly meeting. 6. The remainder to be applied equally to the payment for other children, proportionate to the time they attend school.[423] 7. Interest to continue till the principal is paid. 8. All principals paid in are to be invested or “put to use” by the trustees. [Sidenote: Amount of subscriptions] The total number of subscriptions listed up to date was 117; the total amount subscribed was £759; the individual subscriptions varied from £1 to £25.[424] The meeting also succeeded in getting such former donations, as Harker’s legacy, appropriated to this permanent fund.[425] [Sidenote: Special committee on schoolmasters] In 1796 Jeremiah Praul, Joseph Yerkes, and Benjamin Kite were appointed to have the care of receiving all applications from prospective masters, and in case of vacancies to seek and have ready a list of available and well-qualified members.[426] [Sidenote: Wrightstown] [Sidenote: Progress slow; reasons] One can hardly attempt to place a date for the beginning of the schools in Wrightstown Meeting. But by a report made late in the eighteenth century (1792) we gather a very good idea of the state of schools in that locality. The cause of the rather halting progress is perhaps found in the latter part of this committee’s report, which states that the best plan conceived is for each particular meeting to raise its own subscription for its own school,[427] which in part was right, but more direction on the part of the monthly meeting would doubtless have produced better results. The report of 1792 is here submitted. [Sidenote: Want of money to pay qualified teachers]