Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government
Board, this Twenty-seventh day of October, in the year
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

DANBY P. FRY,

Assistant Secretary.

G. SCLATER-BOOTH,

President.

ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS TO REGISTER OF ATTENDANCE FOR WORKHOUSE SCHOOLS.

TO THE GUARDIANS OF THE POOR of the several Unions and Separate Parishes in England and Wales;—

TO THE BOARDS OF MANAGEMENT of the several District Schools formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844, and the Acts amending the same;

And to all others whom it may concern.

Whereas the Local Government Board, by a General Order, dated the 27th day of October, 1877, gave directions with respect to the attendance, for the purpose of the Elementary Education Acts, of children attending workhouse schools certified by the Board to be efficient; and it is expedient that provision should be made with respect to the registration of attendances in every workhouse school, as hereinafter mentioned:

Now therefore we, the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given by the statutes in that behalf, hereby order as follows, with respect to the registration of the attendance of children in every workhouse school:

ARTICLE I. The schoolmaster or schoolmistress, as the case may be, shall, within fifteen minutes from the commencement of the required instruction in secular subjects, mark the attendance of each child present at every meeting of the school in an Attendance Register according to the Form No. 1 in the Schedule to this Order; and shall from time to time make out a Summary of the Attendance Register according to the Form No. 2 in the said Schedule, which Summary shall be duly examined and signed by the clerk.

ARTICLE II.-The Attendance Registers shall be produced to the visiting committee, on their visits to the school, and to the guardians or the board of management at such times as they may direct.

ARTICLE III.-Every Attendance Register shall be carefully preserved by the guardians or the board of management for ten years.

ARTICLE IV.-The standards of examination to be observed shall be those prescribed in the Code of the Education Depart

ment in force for the time being. (1) A list of the children arranged according to such standards shall be prepared by the schoolmaster or schoolmistress, as the case may be, and presented to the school inspector of the Local Government Board at the time of his annual examination of the school.

ARTICLE V. The instruction in the school shall be given at the time specified in a time-table to be prepared by the schoolmaster or schoolmistress and approved by the guardians or board of management, as the case may be.

ARTICLE VI.--In this Order,—

The word "union" includes any union of parishes incor-
porated or united for the relief or maintenance of the
poor under any Act of Parliament;

The term " separate parish" means a parish or place which
is under a separate board of guardians;
The word "guardians" includes any governors, directors,
managers, acting guardians, vestrymen, or other officers
appointed or entitled to act in the distribution or ordering
of relief to the poor from the poor rates under any Act
of Parliament;

The term "clerk" means the clerk to the guardians or the
clerk to the board of management, as the case may be ;
The term "workhouse school" includes any school belonging
to a union or separate parish which is under distinct
management from that of the workhouse, whether the
school buildings are part of the workhouse premises or,
being separate from the workhouse, are situated either
within or without the limits of the union or separate parish,
and also any school belonging to a school district formed
under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844, and Acts
amending the same.

(1) For standards of examination prescribed, see p. 528.

(This and six preceding columns are repeated for 12 weeks.)

I

Number of School meetings}

during the Week

Total Number of School Meetings during the Quarter.

SCHOOLMASTER OR SCHOOLMISTRESS.

The Schoolmaster or Schoolmistress, as the case may be, is responsible for the accurate keeping of this Register.

Every attendance must be marked in ink at each meeting of the school; the morning attendance by a stroke marked thus ; the afternoon attendance thus \. A horizontal line will denote that no meeting of the school has taken place. Absence through sickness must be shown by the letter "S."

Absence on account of industrial work should be shown by the letter "W." Absence through any other cause should be shown by the letter "A." There should be no erasures, and no blanks.

*The Average Number of Scholars in attendance will be found by dividing the total number of attendances by the total number of school meetings.

SCHOOLMASTER OR SCHOOL MISTRESS.

Examined on behalf of the Guardians,

(Clerk to the Guardians [or to the Board of Management].

{Clerk

Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this Third day of April, in the year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.

JOHN LAMBERT,

Secretary.

G. SCLATER-BOOTH,

President.

An order to the like effect has since been issued to the Board of Management of the Metropolitan Asylums District with reference to the Training-ship Exmouth.