Poor Law

Board may

order Children

to be re

moved from School.

School to be open to Inspection.

Guardians to bring back Child.

Description of Child to be sent.

appoint such Person as they shall deem proper to examine into the
Condition of the School, and to report to the said Board thereon, and
if satisfied with such Report that Board may, by Writing under the
Hand of One of their Secretaries, certify that such School is fitted
for the Reception of such Children or Persons as may be sent there 5
by the Guardians, in pursuance of this Act; and it shall be lawful for
the said Board, if at any Time they shall be dissatisfied with the
Condition or Management of such School, by Notice addressed to
the Managers, and signed as aforesaid, to declare that the Certificate
is withdrawn from and after a Day to be specified therein, not less 10
than Two Months after the Date thereof.

3. If the Poor Law Board shall be of opinion that any Person is aggrieved by any Child being so sent or kept at such School as aforesaid, the Board may order any such Child to be removed, and the Guardians shall forthwith cause such Child to be removed from 15 the School, and every Engagement previously entered into for the Payment of the Charges of such Child shall thereupon cease, and become void for the future.

4. Every School wherein any such Child shall be received shall be open to the Visitation and Inspection of any Inspector appointed 20 by the Poor Law Board, and he shall be empowered to make any Examination into the State and Management of the same which he shall deem requisite, and the Condition and Treatment of the said Children therein, and shall make his Report thereon to the said Board; and the Guardians by whom any Child may have been sent 25 to any such School as aforesaid may from Time to Time appoint any one of their Body to visit and inspect such School, and such School shall at all reasonable Times be open to such Visitation or Inspection.

5. The Guardians shall at the Expiration of the Time for which 30 the Child shall have been sent to the said School, upon the Requisition of the Managers or other governing Body, or the Superintendent thereof, or upon the Withdrawal of the Certificate, as herein provided, cause such Child to be removed therefrom, and brought back to their Parish or Union, and in default of their doing so they shall be 35 liable to pay the Charges incurred in the bringing back of such Child.

6. No Child shall be sent to such School unless he or she be an Orphan, or deserted by his or her Parents or surviving Parent, or be One whose Parents or surviving Parent shall consent to the sending to the said School, and no Child so sent may be retained therein 40 beyond the Age of Sixteen.

7. Nothing

ance in

7. Nothing herein contained shall enable the Guardians to keep ContinuChild in any School against the Will of such Child, if above the School not to any Age of Fourteen, or of the Parents or surviving Parent of such Child, be compulwhatever be the Age of the Child.

Б 8. The Expenses incurred by the Guardians in respect of any Child under this Act shall be charged to the same Fund and in the same Manner as the Relief otherwise supplied to such Child would be charged.

9. No Child shall be sent under this Act to any School which is 10 conducted on the Principles of a Religious Denomination to which such Child does not belong.

sory.

Charge of Expenses ope how to be borne.

Child not to

be sent to School of

another Denomina

tion.

tion.

10. The several Words used in this Act shall be construed as in Interpretathe Act of the Fourth and Fifth Years of William the Fourth, Chapter Seventy-six; and the Word "School" shall extend to any 15 Institution established for the Instruction of blind, deaf, dumb, lame, deformed, or idiotic Persons.

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Make further Provision for the Education of the
People in Scotland.

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HEREAS an Act was passed in the Forty-third Year of Preamble. the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third,

Chapter Fifty-four, intituled "An Act for making better 43 G. 3. "Provision for the Parochial Schoolmasters, and for making further c. 54. 5" Regulations for the better Government of the Parish Schools in "Scotland;" and another Act was passed in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter

One hundred and seven, intituled "An Act to alter and amend the 24 & 25 Vict. "Law relating to Parochial and Burgh Schools and to the Test c. 107. 10" required to be taken by Schoolmasters in Scotland:" And whereas it is desirable that the present System of Parochial Schools in Scotland should be extended and enlarged, and that additional Schools should be established in rural Districts and in populous Places: Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the 15 Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same:

1. In this Act the following Words shall have the Meanings hereby Interpreta. assigned to them:

tion.

Commissioners appointed.

"Committee of Council" shall mean the Committee of Her Ma-
jesty's Most Honourable Privy Council for Education:
"Commissioners" shall mean the Commissioners appointed by or
under this Act for the Time being:

"Sheriff" shall include Sheriff Substitute:

"District" shall mean a District fixed by the Sheriff under the Pro-
visions of this Act:
"Ratepayers" shall mean and include the Owners and Occupiers
of Lands and Heritages situate within such District of the
yearly Rent or Value of Pounds or upwards:
The Expression "Lands and Heritages" and the Expression
"Valuation Rolls" shall have the same Meanings as are assigned
to these Expressions in "The Valuation of Lands (Scotland)
Acts," Seventeenth and Eighteenth Victoria, Chapter Ninety-
one, and Twenty-first Victoria, Chapter Fifty-eight.

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2. The following Persons, namely, Sir Ralph Anstruther, Baronet, Lord Rector of the University of St. Andrews; the Reverend John Tulloch, Doctor of Divinity, Principal of St. Mary's College in the said University; the Honourable Charles Baillie, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, Assessor for the University Council in the 20 said University; John Hunter, Esquire, Assessor for the Chancellor of the said University; the Right Honourable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow; the Reverend Thomas Barclay, Doctor of Divinity, Principal of the said University; James Moncrieff, Esquire, Her Majesty's Advocate, Dean 25 of the Faculties in the said University; Andrew Bannatyne, Esquire, Assessor for the University Council in the said University; Alexander Thomson, Esquire, of Banchory, Chancellor of the said University; Edward Francis Maitland, Esquire, Her Majesty's Solicitor' General for Scotland, Rector of the University of Aberdeen; the 30 Reverend Peter Campbell, Doctor of Divinity, Principal of the said University; Alexander Kilgour, Doctor of Medicine, Assessor for the University Council of the said University; the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone, Rector of the University of Edinburgh; Sir David Brewster, Principal of the said University; Archibald 35 Campbell Swinton, Esquire, Dean of the Faculty of Law in the said University; David Mure, Esquire, Member of Parliament, one of the Curators of the University Court in the said University; and such additional Persons, not exceeding Four in all, as Her Majesty may by Writing under the Hand of One of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries 40 of State appoint, shall be and are hereby appointed Commissioners for the Purposes of this Act, and shall have a Common Seal, and Four of the said Commissioners shall be a Quorum; and the Chairman of the Commissioners, or in his Absence One of the Com

missioners