On November 7th of the same year a circular is issued, regulating the hours of study for these officers, in which a considerable amount of latitude is permitted, for they are _allowed_ to present themselves at 8.30 a.m., and _required_ to do so at 3 p.m., but must leave the Yard at 5 p.m. They are to form a mess outside, or otherwise arrange for their board, etc.; there is to be no public expense incurred, and they are not to remain more than one year. An extra assistant master was appointed to assist in their studies. The number to be admitted was twenty-four, but this was apparently increased in June, 1830, to thirty-six. The College went on upon these lines for some years longer, but the end was drawing near. On March 15th, 1835, the officers who conducted the examinations for lieutenant deplore the deficiency of the candidates as observers, recommend that each officer be required to have a sextant, that a proper place be provided in which to keep them, and that captains be required to report half-yearly as to their efficiency and the condition of their sextants. In 1836 the abolition of the College as a training school for young officers is evidently decided upon, as only forty-three scholars are reported upon during that year; on January 15th, 1837, the Lieut.-Governor writes a long letter to the Admiralty, making various suggestions in connection with the "approaching event"; and on February 19th sends a catalogue of the library and a list of pictures, with suggestions concerning the bestowal of them. Finally, on April 12th, 1837, he reports that he has handed over the keys of the public part of the "late Royal Naval College," and recommends the staff lately serving under him. Pensions are allowed to most of these, on rather a mean scale, and they all protest vigorously, with the result that a few receive slight augmentation; but Mr. Tate, the Preceptor, after twenty-nine years' service, only gets £140 per annum. In a long letter to the Admiralty just before his retirement, Inman mentions that he has "examined about two thousand five hundred midshipmen and schoolmasters; a work certainly of no great difficulty, yet one of great responsibility"; he disclaims any wish to make much of any "trifling elementary works" which he has compiled, but "ventures to mention" his Navigation and Nautical Tables. He concludes by saying that he will be grateful for any sum their Lordships may award him, which will enable him to live creditably during his few remaining years. The corner of this letter is turned down, and "£400" briefly inscribed upon it. This was subsequently increased to £460; which indeed appears little enough. Inman lived for over twenty years after his retirement, and died in 1859, at the age of eighty-three. Sir Henry Keppel, the veteran Admiral of the Fleet, in his book, before alluded to, gives some reminiscences of his experiences at the College.