premises of an earlier date than the school building grant need not be sent, as copies of them are already in the possession of the Department. The managers will be able to furnish the school board with information on this point.

29. A solicitor should be employed in the case of every transfer under section 23, to consider and fill up the forms 96 and 96T.

30. Although a solicitor should be employed to advise the board as to the legal part of the case, all communications with the Education Department on the subject of a proposed transfer under section 23, must be made, through the clerk of the school board.

31. The correspondence as to the formalities required to effect a transfer of a school under section 23, should be kept separate from any discussion of the transfer in question as having reference to the supply of the school accommodation for the district.

32. Where it is proposed to transfer more than one school, the correspondence as to the transfer of each school should be conducted separately.

ELECTION ORDERS.

Section 5, Act of 1873.- Confirmation of orders as to elections, &c.—The orders and regulations of the Education Department mentioned in the first schedule to this Act, and all orders of the Education Department incorporating the said orders or regulations, so far as they so incorporate them, are hereby confirmed, and shall be deemed to have been duly made, and to have been within the powers contained in the principal Act, and shall continue in force until revoked or altered by any order made under the provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act.

FIRST SCHEDULE, Act of 1873.

Orders and regulations of the Education Department relating to elections of and applications for school boards.

7th October, 1870.

27th October, 1870.

27th October, 1870.

21st December, 1870.

21st December, 1870.

6th January, 1871.

15th March, 1873.

Order fixing the boundaries of the divisions of the metropolis, with the number of members to be elected by each division, and appointing the returning officer for the first election of the school board for London and his deputies. Order regulating the first election of the school board for London.

General regulations for the first election of school boards in boroughs (a).

General regulations for the first election of

school boards in parishes not situate within municipal boroughs, or within the metropolis. General regulations as to passing resolutions for application for school boards in parishes not situate within municipal boroughs or within the metropolis (a).

Regulations for the first election of a school board for the district of the local board of Oxford.

General regulations as to the formation of united school districts.

(a) These two Orders are given in full in this Appendix.

GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE FIRST ELECTION OF SCHOOL BOARDS IN BOROUGHS.

At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 17th day of November, 1873.

By the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education. Their lordships read, and approved the following:

General Regulations for the First Election of School Boards in Boroughs.

1. The number of members of the school board of a borough shall be from five to fifteen, as may be determined in each case.

2. The returning officer shall be the mayor of the borough, or other officer who, under the law relating to municipal elections, presides at such elections.

3. The first election of members of the school board shall be held on some day, to be fixed by the returning officer, and within twenty-eight clear days after the date of the requisition to elect a school board which will be sent to the mayor.

4. Fourteen clear days at least before the day fixed for the election the returning officer shall prepare, sign, and publish, such notice of the election as is hereinafter prescribed.

5. The notice shall specify the number of members to be elected, with the day fixed for the election; and shall also specify a place for the reception of the nomination papers hereinafter mentioned.

The notice shall be in the form annexed to this order, or to the like effect.

6. After publication of the notice, but not less than ten clear days before the day fixed for the election, any two persons whose nanies are on the burgess roll of the borough may nominate as a candidate, any one person of full age, by sending to, or delivering at, the appointed place, a nomination paper, subscribed by such two persons as aforesaid, and stating the christian name and surname, with the place of abode and description of each subscriber, and of the candidate nominated; and the returning officer shall send, forthwith, notice of such nomination to each candidate.

A person shall not join more than once in nominating a candidate in the election.

7. No nomination paper shall be received after four o'clock in the afternoon of the last day upon which such paper may be received, and

no person shall be a candidate unless he has been nominated within the time and in the manner aforesaid.

The returning officer shall decide whether any nomination is valid, and his decision shall be final.

8. Eight clear days at least before the day fixed for the election, the names, places of abode, and descriptions of the several candidates nominated as aforesaid shall be advertised by the returning officer in one or more of the newspapers circulating in the borough, or shall be published in like manner as in the case of an election of councillors.

9. After delivery of a nomination paper, but not less than six clear days before the day fixed for the election, any candidate may be withdrawn by delivering at the place appointed, a notice of such withdrawal, addressed to the returning officer, and signed by the candidate.

Such notice shall not be delivered later than four o'clock in the afternoon.

10. If no more persons are nominated as aforesaid than there are members to be elected, such persons shall be deemed to be elected on the day fixed for the election, and the returning officer shall, on the said day, publish a list of the names, with the places of abode and descriptions of the persons so elected, and such publication shall be conclusive evidence of the election.

The returning officer shall forthwith transmit a copy of such list to the Education Department.

11. If after the time herein before limited for the withdrawal of any candidate more persons remain as candidates than there are members to be elected, the returning officer shall forthwith publish the names, places of abode and descriptions of the several candidates, and give notice that a poll will be taken on the day fixed for the election, between the hours specified in such notice.

12. The returning officer shall determine the number and situation of the polling stations, and shall publish the same not less than three clear days before the day fixed for the election.

No public house shall be used for a polling station, or for the purpose of an election.

13. If the borough is divided into wards, each voter shall give his vote in the ward in which the property in respect of which he is entitled to vote is situate, and if it is situate in more than one ward, he shall vote in any one of the wards in which it is situate.

14. The returning officer, or some person or persons appointed by him for this purpose, shall preside at each polling station, provided that only one person shall preside at the same time.

15. The poll shall commence at such an hour, not earlier than 8 a.m., and close at such an hour, not later than 8 p.m., as shall be fixed by the returning officer, but the poll shall be open for seven hours, and no longer.

16. Subject to the provisions of this order, the poll shall be taken in like manner as a poll at a contested municipal election is directed by the Ballot Act, 1872, to be taken; and subject as aforesaid the provisions of that Act shall apply to the election in like manner as if they were contained in this order, with the substitution of the term "school board election" for the term "municipal election": provided that :— (a). Every voter shall be entitled to a number of votes equal to the number of the members of the school board to be elected, and may give all such votes to one candidate, or may distribute them among the candidates as he thinks fit.

(b). The voter may place against the name of any candidate for whom he votes the number of votes he gives to such candidate in lieu of a cross, and the form of directions for the guidance of the voter in voting, contained in the Ballot Act, 1872, shall be altered accordingly.

(c.) The provisions of sections three, four, eleven, and twenty-four of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall be deemed to be regulations contained in this order which involve a penalty within the meaning of section ninety of the Elementary Education Act, 1870.

17. The person presiding at the poll may, and if required by any two voters shall, put to any voter at the time of his applying for a ballot paper, but not afterwards, the following questions, or one of them, but no other :

(1). Are you the person whose name appears as A. B. on the list of burgesses, being registered therein as being rated for property described therein to be situate at

[Here specify the street, &c., as described in the burgess roll.]

(2). Have you already voted at the present election? And no person required to answer any of the said questions shall be permitted or qualified to vote until he has answered the same.

18. In case of an equality of votes, the returning officer shall deter mine by lot the persons to be elected. The election shall be deemed to have taken place on the day fixed for the election.

19. The returning officer shall publish notice of the result of the poll and of the names of the persons elected. He shall also forthwith transmit a copy of such notice to the Education Department, and deliver the voting papers to the town clerk, to be kept for six months among the records of the borough, and section 64 (b) of the Ballot Act, 1872, shall apply as if it were inserted in this order.