BYE LAWS OF THE HANSLOPE SCHOOL Board. Know all men by these presents, that— At a meeting of the school board for Hanslope, duly convened and held at the Board Room on Thursday the 13th day May, 1875, at which meeting a quorum of the board are present, the said board do hereby, in pursuance of the powers to them given by the Elementary Education Act, 1870, and subject to the approval of the lords of the privy council, make the following bye-laws : 1. All bye-laws heretofore made by this board under section 74 of the said Act are hereby wholly revoked. 2. In the following bye-laws The term "school" means either a public elementary school, or any other school at which efficient elementary instruction is given. The term "public elementary school" means a school or department of a school at which elementary education is the principal part of the education given, and at which the ordinary payments do not exceed ninepence a week, and which is conducted in accordance with the regulations contained in the 7th section of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. The term "board" or "school board" means the school board for Hanslope. The word "parent" means a parent as defined by the Elementary Education Act, 1870. Words in the singular include words in the plural number, and words of the masculine include those of the feminine gender. 3. The parent of every child of not less than five nor more than twelve years of age, residing within the parish of Hanslope, is required to cause such child to attend school unless there is some reasonable excuse for non-attendance. 4. Subject to the provisions of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, and of these bye-laws, the time during which every such child is required to attend school is the whole time for which the school selected shall be open. 5. Provided, that no boy between ten and twelve years of age shall be required to attend school so long as he is actually at work by virtue of a certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of the Agricultural Children Act, 1873; and that no girl of a similar age shall be required to make more than one attendance daily, either in the morning or in the afternoon, during the time the school selected shall be open, so long as she is, to the satisfaction of the board, beneficially and necessarily at work. 6. Provided also, that nothing contained in these bye-laws shall prevent the withdrawal of any child from any religious observance or instruction in religious subjects, or shall require any child to attend school on Sundays, or any day exclusively set apart for religious observance by the religious body to which his parent belongs, and that no requirement herein contained shall be held or construed to apply to any child employed in labour and receiving instruction in conformity with the provisions of the Factory Acts or of the Workshops Regulation Act, 1867, or shall be of any force or effect in so far as it may be contrary to anything contained in any Act for regulating the education of children employed in labour. 7. Provided also that no child between ten and twelve years of age who shall be certified by one of Her Majesty's inspectors as having reached a standard of education equivalent to the fourth standard of the Code of 1875 shall be required to attend school. 8. No parent shall be required to cause his child to attend school(a) If such child is under efficient instruction in some other manner: (b) If such child has been prevented from attending school by sickness or any unavoidable cause: (c) If there is no public elementary school which such child, being under six years of age, can attend within half a mile, or, being over six years of age, can attend within two miles, the distances in either case being measured according to the nearest road from the residence of such child. 9. Every parent who shall not observe or shall neglect or violate these bye-laws, or any of them, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding five shillings (including costs) for each offence. (L. S.) In witness whereof we, the School Board of Hanslope, have set our common seal this 13th day of August, 1875. R. WALPOLE, Chairman, REPEALED SECTIONS OF THE ACTS OF 1870 AND 1873. BY THE ACT OF 1873. Section 28, Act of 1873.-Repeal and savings.-The principal Act is hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of the fourth schedule to this Act: Provided that (1). Any order or regulation of the Education Department made under any enactment hereby repealed shall continue in force as if it had been made under this Act: (2). Any school board elected under any enactment hereby repealed shall continue and be deemed to have been elected under this Act: (3). The repeal of any Act or enactment by this Act shall not(a) Affect anything duly done or suffered under any such Act or enactment; or (b) Affect any right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued or incurred under any such Act or enactment, or bye-law; or (c) Affect any penalty, forfeiture, or punishment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any such Act, enactment, or bye-law; or (d) Affect any investigation, legal proceeding, or remedy in respect of any such right, privilege, obligation, liability, penalty, forfeiture, or punishment as aforesaid; and any such investigation, legal proceeding, and remedy may be carried on as if this Act had not passed, FOURTH SCHEDULE, ACT OF 1873. Act Repealed. A description or citation of a portion of an Act is inclusive of the words, section, or other part first or last mentioned, or otherwise referred to as forming the beginning or as forming the end of the portion comprised in the description or citation. Extent of Repeal. The sub-section numbered ten in Section 37 (10), Act of 1870.-The school board shall apportion the amount required to be raised to meet the deficiency in the school fund among the different parts of the metropolis mentioned in the third column of the first schedule to this Act in proportion to the rateable value of such parts as shown by the valuation lists for the time being in force under "The Valuation (Metropolis) Act, 1869," or, if any amount is so required before any such valuation list comes into force, in the same proportion and according to the same basis in and according to which the then last rate made by the Metropolitan Board of Works was assessed. Section 57, Act of 1870.-Borrowing by school board.-Where a school board incur any expense in providing or enlarging a schoolhouse, they may, with the consent of the Education Department, spread the payment over several years, not exceeding fifty, and may for that purpose borrow money on the security of the school fund and local rate, and may charge that fund and the local rate with the payment of the principal and interest due in respect of the loan. They may, if they so agree with the mortgagee, pay the amount borrowed, with the interest, by equal annual instalments, not exceeding fifty, and if they do not so agree, they shall annually set aside one fiftieth of the sum borrowed as a sinking fund. For the purpose of such borrowing the clauses of "The Commissioners Clauses Act, 1847," with respect to the mortgages to be executed by the commissioners, shall be incorporated with this Act; and in the construction of those clauses for the purpose of this Act, this Act shall be deemed to be the special Act, and the school board which is borrowing shall be deemed to be the commissioners. The Public Works Loans Commissioners may, on the recommendation of the Education Department, lend any money required under this section on the security of the school fund and local rate without requiring any further or other security, such loan to be repaid within a period not exceeding fifty years, and to bear interest at the rate of three and a half per centum per annum. Section 59, Act of 1870.-Accounts to be made up and examined.—The accounts of the school board shall be made up and balanced to the twentyfifth of March and twenty-ninth of September in every year. The accounts shall be examined by the school board and signed by the chairman within fourteen days after the day on which they are made up. As soon as practicable after the accounts are so signed they shall be audited. Section 60 (9), Act of 1870.--Subject to the provisions of this section, the Poor Law Board may from time to time make such regulations as may be necessary respecting the form of keeping the accounts and the audit thereof. Section 80, Act of 1870.-Mode of publication of notices.-Notices and other matters required by this Act to be published shall, unless otherwise expressly provided, be published,— (1). By advertisement in some one or more of the newspapers circulating in the district or place to which such notice relates: (2). By causing a copy of such notices or other matter to be published to be affixed, during not less than twelve hours in the day, on Sunday on or near the principal doors of every church and chapel in such district or place to which notices are usually affixed, and at every other place in such district or place at which notices are usually affixed. Section 89, Act of 1870.-Penalty on personation of voter.-If any person wilfully personates any person entitled to vote in the election of a school board under this Act, or answers falsely any question put to him in voting in pursuance of an order made under the second schedule to this Act, or falsely assumes to act in the name or on behalf of any person so entitled to vote, he shall be liable on summary conviction for every such offence to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. Section 90. * * * * knowingly personate and falsely assume to vote in the name of any person entitled to vote in any election under this Act, or forge or in any way falsify any name or writing in any paper purporting to contain the vote or votes of any person voting in any such election, or * * * * |