The Elementary Education Acts, 1870-1891

member of, by holding office under or contract with board, 134-
140; by corrupt practices, 206, 232; by corrupt or illegal practices
in parliamentary election, 125, 126; by bankruptcy, &c., 127, 219,

220;

appointment of managers of schools by, 83, 155;

appointment of officers by, 140, 226, 269; of officer to enforce bye-laws
as to attendance at school, 144, 311-313; to take proceedings for
sending children to industrial school, 144, 311-313; to levy rates on
default of rating authority, 160; to act as treasurers of schools provided
by school board, 570;

may provide, fit up, &c., schools, 89; provide offices, 331: give prizes,
90; purchase or take on lease lands, 89; supply requisite apparatus
for school, 89; discontinue school, 88; change site of school, 88; use
of school provided by, for poll in parliamentary election, 90; assess-
ment of schools provided by, to local rates, 91–93;

may be constituted trustees for educational endowment or charity, 244,
245;

powers of, under Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 93–96, 246; as
to compulsory purchase and expenses of inquiry, 93–96; as to sale
or leasing of land, 102;

transfer of elementary school by managers to, 102-104, 548; transfer of
school endowment to, 104, 193, 244, 245; re-transfer of school by,
to managers, 112, 113;

may remit school fees, 84, 113, 182, 283; not to pay school fees, 113,
182, 186, 283; establish free schools, 114; contribute to certified
industrial school, 114-118, 245, 346; establish certified industrial
school, and certified day industrial school, 118, 297, 298, 345,
669-674;

may make bye-laws as to compulsory attendance at school, 181–193,
230, 250-252, 305-307, 349, 350, 558; as to remission of school fees,
182; may alter or revoke bye-laws, 182; may obtain returns of
school attendance from school managers, 250;

may give certificates as to school attendance of children in canal boats,
474;

borrowing powers of, 117, 118, 119, 158, 161, 174, 233-235, 297, 331,
346; mode of raising amount of deficiency in school fund, 147, 156,
157, 246, 334;

conditions of fee grant to, 362, 365, 366; may admit children without
payment of fee, 374; provision of free school accommodation by,

371;

enforcement of precepts of, 158, 159;

to furnish returns, 171, 176-180, 211;

resolution of, in favour of united school district, 240;

purchase of School Board Chronicle by, 157;

appearance of, in legal proceedings, 199, 322, 323; proceedings for
non-attendance at school to be authorised by two members of, 323;
inspection of books of, by ratepayers, 166, 201, 575;

powers and expenses of, under Act of 1876, to be deemed powers and
expenses under Education Act, 1870, 313;

expenses paid by, if sanctioned by Local Government Board, exempt
from disallowance by district auditor, 167;

to be deemed in default on failure to comply with requisition of Edu-
cation Department as to school accommodation, 76; on failure to
keep schools efficient or to provide additional school accommodation

required, 88; on neglect to comply with regulations as to conduct
of schools, 83, 84; on failure to fulfil duties under Act of 1876, 310,
311; on failure to make bye-laws, 350; proceedings of Education
Department when in default, 171–175, 310, 311;

appointment of, by education department, 132, 133, 171, 172, 218, 310,
311; tenure of office of members so appointed, 172;

proceedings of Education Department, if not elected on day fixed for
first election, or cease to exist, 132, 133, 171, 172, 218:

scheme of adjustment under Municipal Corporations Act, 1862, to be
referred to Education Department if affecting, 356; new borough
not to be placed by scheme under more than one, 356: scheme may
be made on petition of, 356; may validate acts done by, since date of
charter, 356;

provision in aid of technical and manual instruction by local authorities
on request of, 708.

See also Accounts, Audit, and Local Authority.

SCHOOL BOARD CHRONICLE, purchase of, by school board, 157.
SCHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON, election of boundaries of divisions

and number of members to be elected, 145-148, 228, 359; rules as
to election, 145, 146, 222, 223, 342, 343; provision of offices for,
89, 90; contributions of, to industrial schools, 118; provision of
"Babies' rooms" by, 90;

rules as to retirement of members of, 217-221, 223; alteration in
number of members of, 149; constitution of, 145; name of, 145;
appointment and salary of chairman of, 146, 147, 149, 225; loans to,
under Board of Works Loans Act, 162; apportionment of expenses
of, 147, 246; powers of, for obtaining payment of contributions,
147;
regulations of, as to religious instruction in schools, 80, 81. See also
School Fund.
SCHOOL BOARDS may combine for providing or maintaining schools,
155; accounts of, combined, 572, 573; accounts of, for united dis-
tricts, 578;

schemes of adjustment under Municipal Corporations Act, 1862,
extended to, 356.

SCHOOL BOARDS ACT, 1885, 355.

SCHOOL DISTRICTS, constitution of, 67, 196, 240, 241, 271, 273;
formation and dissolution of united, 149-153, 240, 273;
contributory, 154, 155; combination of, 155, 156.

SCHOOL ENDOWMENT. See Endowment.

SCHOOL FEES, in schools of school board to be approved by Educa-
tion Department, 84; prepayment of, 85, 86, 184, 185; recovery of,
when in arrear, 86, 87; remission of, by [school board, 84, 283;
payment of, not to be made by school board, 113, 182, 186, 283;
payment of, by guardians, 229, 230, 283, 325, 326, 353, 617-646;
when paid for children from workhouse to be repaid by County
Council, 329; paid by guardians for children of non-paupers, mode
of charging, 321, 322, 621-624; bye-laws as to remission of, by
school board, 182; bye-laws made by school attendance committee
not to provide for remission or payment of, 307; payment or remis-
sion of, not to be parochial relief to parent, 84, 113, 283; payment
of, by Education Department out of parliamentary grant, in the
case of children possessing certificates, 302, 307, 308, 339, 340;
offence of fraudulently obtaining remission or payment of, 322;

schoolmaster's account of, 571, 590; allowance of, by way of loan,
645; to be carried to school fund, 156; limit of, in schools receiving
fee grant, 365; power to modify, where fee grant is received,
369; scholars may be admitted by school board without requiring,
374.

SCHOOL FEES APPLICATION AND REPORT BOOK, 620-623,
637, 641.

SCHOOL FEES ORDER BOOK, 621, 622, 624, 637, 638.

SCHOOL FEES RECEIPT AND PAYMENT ACCOUNT, 621,
622, 624, 642, 643.

SCHOOL FUND, definition of, 156; how deficiency in, to be raised,
147, 156, 157, 246, 334; in metropolis, 147, 246;

to be charged with expenses of school board appointed by Education
Department, 174, 175; with remuneration of auditor and expenses
incident to audit, 163, 169, 170;

with costs of public inquiry, 96, 181; with expenses of election of
school board, 217, 223, 257-259, 504.
SCHOOLHOUSE, definition of term, 62; recovery of possession of,
from teacher dismissed, 200; use of rooms in, for poll at parliamentary
election, 90; as committee-rooms of candidate at parliamentary
election, 90, 91; letting of, for other than school purposes, 93; loans
for, 233-235;

gifts of lands for, 129, 130; mortmain not to apply to bequests of land
for, 129, 130.

SCHOOLHOUSES may be provided, fitted up, &c., by school board,
89; borrowing powers of school boards for, 158, 161, 174, 233-235;
rules as to planning and fitting up, 530.

SCHOOL, INDUSTRIAL. See Certified Industrial School.
SCHOOLMASTER of school provided by school board, accounts of,

571, 590-592; liability of, to surcharge for fees in arrear, 87; lia-
bility of, for income tax on servant's wages, 143. See also Teachers.
SCHOOLMISTRESS of school provided by school board, duty of, as to
accounts, 571, 577, 590-592. See also Teachers.

SCHOOL PRIZES, 90.

SCHOOL REGISTERS, mode of keeping, 541, 544, 663.

SCHOOL SITES ACTS, 434; powers under, may be exercised by

school board, 96; by managers of public elementary school, 101, 102.
SCHOOL YEAR, definition of, 375.

SCHOOLS, rules as to planning and fitting up, 530; school board may
establish free, 114; assessment of, to local rates, 91-93; use of, for
poll at parliamentary elections, 90; use of, as committee-rooms for
candidate at parliamentary election, 90, 91; letting of, for other than
school purposes, 93;

refusal of admission to, 188, 517;

discontinuance of, by school board, 88; change of site of, 88; closing
of, through epidemic, 521, 525;

See also Elementary School, Public Elementary School, School Board,
Children, Religious Instruction, Inspection, Parliamentary Grant,
Schoolhouses, Officers, Managers.

SCHOOLS FOR SCIENCE AND ART, transfer of, to local authori-
ties acting under Technical Instruction Act, 1889, 714, 715.
SCHOOLS FOR SCIENCE AND ART ACT, 1891, 714.
SCOTLAND, application of Act of 1876 to, 274, 336.
SECRECY, infringement of, in elections, 203, 204.

SECRETARY OF STATE, definition of term, 333; sanction of, to
transfer of school, 106;

certifying by, of day industrial school, 298; may withdraw certificate,
300. See also Order in Council;

consent of, required to provision of and loans for industrial schools by
school boards, 297, 345, 672-674; to approve of the rules of certi-
fied day industrial school, and hours of detention in the school, 298;
to prescribe or recommend the conditions on which parliamentary
grants are to be made to certified day industrial schools, 298, 302,
702; to fix sum to be paid by parents when children are received
into certified day industrial school without order of Court, 299,
698, 699; to make orders prescribing forms for sending children
to day industrial school, and mode in which they are to be sent,

300.
SECURITIES OF OFFICERS for due discharge of duties, 143.
SERVICE OF NOTICES, requisitions, &c., 197, 198.

SERVICE OF SUMMONSES under bye-laws, 189, 190.

SITES. See Lands.

SLANDEROUS STATEMENTS at meetings of school board, lia-
bility for, 130, 131.

SPECIAL ACT for purposes of Land Clauses Act, 246.

STAMP DUTY on cheques of school board, 226; on appointments of
officers, 140; on Financial Statements, 164, 165.

STANDARDS of examination of children for parliamentary grant,
528-530.