25. Give consent to school boards to borrow money. 845 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. § 62, sub-sec. 3 class schools. Approve of school boards draining elementary in- Determine disputes as to fees to be paid in higher Approve school board's determination to increase. § 62, sub-sec. 4 § 62, sub-sec. 5 §§ 62 & 63 SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL PROVISIONS REGARDING THE SCOTCH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. Definition. "Scotch Education Department" shall mean the Lords of any Committee of the Privy Council appointed by Her Majesty on Education in Scotland. Duties and Powers. $1 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 Frame and issue the minutes containing the § 4 §§ 5 & 67 3. Appoint time for election of school boards subsequent to the first, having regard to the circumstances of the localities. § 13 General Order. 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 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, 1872. IN ORDER OF TIME. 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 Rules of Board for first election of school boards. 1 Order, cf. Appendix, p. 164. § 11. By February 6, § 12, sub-sec. 5. 2 Issued January 21, 1873, cf. Appendix, p. 155. 1873. 1873. Board require sheriff of county to take preliminary) Three months after steps for conduct of first elections on failure of old managers of parish'and burgh schools to do so. publication of rules,1 By August 6th, § 20. School boards must be elected in every district.) 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. § 46. 844. Application for building grant transmitted to) By December 31st, Department. 1874. Reports on state of education in each district to 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. § 67. 1873 or 1874. Within 9 months of election of school boards. In no case later than May 6, 1874, § 27. 1874. January 1st, § 49. 1875. Not before August 6, 1875, § 18. Board to order discontinuance of a burgh school Not before August board, and the inclusion of burgh in area of Termination of endurance of Board's term of Department to appoint time for election of school board subsequent to the first. 1 Issued January 21, 1873, cf. Appendix, p. 155. 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.] HEREAS an Act was passed by the Parliament of Scot year one thousand six hundred and ninety-six, intituled Act of "Act for settling of Schools:" 1696. 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) 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 A |