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25. Give consent to school boards to borrow money.

§ 45

26. Give consent to school boards to depart from trusts administered by them under § 46.

§ 46

27. Inspect accounts of school boards; order accounts to be printed at expense of school boards.

§ 48

28. Appoint accountant.

§ 50

29. Receive abstract of receipts and expenditure of each school board, and transmit to Department to be

laid before Parliament.

§ 51

30. Confirm judgment of school board as to dismissal of teachers in public schools appointed before Act.

§ 60

31. Require from school boards a statement of the funds and revenues of higher class public schools, and application of the same.

Approve of school boards draining elementary in-
struction out of higher class schools.

§ 62, sub-sec. 3

§ 62, sub-sec. 4

§ 62, sub-sec. 5

§§ 62 & 63

Determine disputes as to fees to be paid in higher

class schools.

Approve school board's determination to increase
number of higher class schools.

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE SCOTCH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT.

any Committee of the Privy Council appointed by Her Majesty on Education in Scotland.

Definition.

of

"Scotch Education Department" shall mean the Lords

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Duties and Powers.

1. Appoint day (failing third Friday in October) for first meeting of the Board; and fix place of meeting.

2. Determine from time to time the rates and conditions
according to which Parliamentary grants may be
given:

Frame and issue the minutes containing the
rates and conditions.

§ 4

§§ 5 & 67

3. Appoint time for election of school boards subsequent to the first, having regard to the circumstances of the localities.

General Order.

§ 13

4. In default of election of school board subsequent to

the first taking place, order an election.

Or allow existing school board to continue in

office;

Or nominate a school board.

Order.

Receive and lay before Parliament abstract of receipts

and expenditure of each school board.

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Duties and Powers of Department-continued.

6. Make regulations as to examinations of candidates for

certificates of competency.

7. Grant certificates of competency.

§ 57

§ 58

8. Frame and issue the minutes containing the rates and conditions of distribution of Parliamentary grant.

§ 67

9. Inquire as to new denominational schools.

§ 67

10. Regulate building grants.

§ 67

11. Approve of time-tables in public and State-aided schools.

§ 68

12. Report to Parliament.

§ 75

N.B.—After three years (or five, if the term of the Board's endurance should be extended), all the powers and duties of the Board devolve upon the Department.

§ 3, sub-sec. 6

SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL DUTIES OF THE BOARD, DEPARTMENT, AND SCHOOL BOARDS,

IN ORDER OF TIME.

1872.

Regulations for the examination of candidates for) Immediately after

certificates of competency to be made by the
Department.

First meeting of Board of Education.

1873.

1872.

the passing of the Act, § 57.

October 18th, § 4.

1873.

Order of Board for union of small burghs with By February 6, their parishes.1

§ 11.

By February 6,

Rules of Board for first election of school boards.212, sub-sec. 5.

1 Order, cf. Appendix, p. 164.

2 Issued January 21, 1873, cf. Appendix, p. 155.

1873.

§ 20.

1873.

Board require sheriff of county to take preliminary) Three months after steps for conduct of first elections on failure of publication of rules,1 i.e., 21st April. old managers of parish and burgh schools to do so.) § 12, 3 and 4. School boards must be elected in every district.) By August 6th, If any failure Board nominates. Estimates of deficiency in school fund to be sent By June 12th, to parochial boards. Town councils of each burgh pay over to school) At Martinmas, board annual contribution from common fund. Application for building grant transmitted to) By December 31st, Department.

1874.

§ 44.

§ 46.

§ 67.

1873 or 1874. Within 9 months

of election of school

Reports on state of education in each district to boards. In no case

be transmitted to Board.2

Treasurers of school boards transmit first accounts to accountant of Board.

1875.

Board to order election of school board in a burgh for which a school board had not previously been elected.

Board to order discontinuance of a burgh school) board, and the inclusion of burgh in area of parish.

Termination of endurance of Board's term of office, unless extended by Order in Council.

Department to appoint time for election of school board subsequent to the first.

1 Issued January 21, 1873, cf. Appendix, p. 155.

later than May 6, 1874, § 27.

1874.

January 1st, § 49.

1875. Not before August 6, 1875, § 18.

Not before August 6, 1875, § 19.

August 6th, § 3.

Three years after first election of school board, § 13.

2 This duty will be in many cases discharged before the end of 1873. But in other cases it will not be discharged till 1874. Reports from every school board must be transmitted before the 6th of May 1874.

THE EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) ACT.

1872.

35 & 36 VICTORIA, CHAPTER 62.

An Act to amend and extend the provisions of the Law of Scotland on the subject of Education.[6th August 1872.]

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HEREAS an Act was passed by the Parliament of Scotland, in the First Parliament of King William, in the year one thousand six hundred and ninety-six, intituled Act of "Act for settling of Schools:"

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And whereas another Act was passed in the session of the forty-third year of the reign of His Majesty King George the 43 G. 3. c. Third, chapter fifty-four,1 intituled " An Act for making better 54. "provision for the Parochial Schoolmasters, and for making "further regulations for the better government of the Parish "Schools, in Scotland;" and another Act was passed in the session of the first and second years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter eighty-seven,2 intituled "An Act to 1 & 2 Vict. "facilitate the foundation and endowment of additional c. 87. "Schools in Scotland;" and another Act was passed in the session of the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth years of the 24 & 25 reign of Her present Majesty, chapter one hundred and seven,3 Vict.c.107. intituled "The Parochial and Burgh Schoolmasters (Scotland) Act, 1861:"

And whereas it is desirable to amend and extend the provisions of the law of Scotland on the subject of education, in such manner that the means of procuring efficient education for their children may be furnished and made available to the whole people of Scotland:

And whereas it has been the custom in the public schools of Scotland to give instruction in religion to children whose

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