to time directed for the purpose by the Local Government Board.

As to provision of code as to "attendances," see p. 56.

The Local Government Board have issued an order dated the 27th of October, 1877, directing what shall be deemed "an attendance' for the purpose of this schedule in the case of a child in a workhouse school. The Board have also issued an order prescribing a form of Attendance Register for workhouse schools. These orders will be found in the appendix, pp. 211, 214.

As to the persons by whom certificates of school attendance are to be given in the case of children in a workhouse school, see regulations of the Education Department, art. 28 (2) in appendix, p. 136.

(12.) The Code of 1876 in this schedule means the Code of the Minutes of the Education Department made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six with respect to the parliamentary grant to public elementary schools in England, and in the case of a school in Scotland means the Code of the Minutes of the Scotch Education Department made in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six with respect to the parliamentary grant to elementary schools.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

RULES AS TO A LOCAL COMMITTEE.

(1.) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the school attendance committee may from time to time add to or diminish the number of members, or change the members of any local committee appointed by them, or may dissolve any such committee.

For provisions of the Act as to appointment of local committees, see sec. 32.

A local committee have no power to appoint a paid officer to aid them in carrying out their duties.

(2.) A local committee shall, unless the school attendance committee appointing them otherwise direct, continue in office until the first meeting of that committee after the next annual appointment thereof, and thereafter until a new local committee is appointed.

RULES AS TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE COMMITTEE AND LOCAL COMMITTEE.

(3.) Subject to any regulations made in the case of a school attendance committee by the council or guardians appointing it, and in the case of a local committee by the school attendance committee appointing it, the provisions of the third schedule of the Elementary Education Act, 1870, with reference to proceedings of managers appointed by a school board, shall apply to the proceedings of a school attendance committee and a local committee under this Act, as if the body appointing the committee were a school board.

The provisions referred to in the third schedule of the Education Act, 1870, are as follows:

The managers may elect a chairman of their meetings. If no such chairman is elected, or if the chairman elected is not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting. The managers may meet and adjourn as they think proper. The quorum of the managers shall consist of such number of members as may be prescribed by the School Board that appointed them, or, if no number be prescribed, of three members. Every question at a meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on that question, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote.

The proceedings of the managers shall not be invalidated by any vacancy or vacancies in their number.

The Local Government Board by their order of the 14th April, 1877 (p. 197), have prescribed regulations with regard to the meetings of School Attendance Committees appointed by guardians. The committee are to meet for the dispatch of business, and from time to time, as occasion may require, make such regulations with respect to the summoning, notice, place, management, and adjournment of such meetings, and generally with respect to the transaction and management of business, as they think fit. The proceedings of the committee are to be duly recorded in a minute book to be kept by their clerk. At each meeting the minutes of the last preceding meeting are to be read to the committee, and the minutes are to be signed by the chairman presiding at the meeting at which the same are read. No business involving the employment or payment of any officer, any new expense, or any payment (except the ordinary periodical payments), or any business which under the Elementary Education Acts requires the consent of the Education Department

is to be transacted at any meeting of the committee, unless notice in writing of the general nature of the business has been sent to every member of the committee four days at least before the meeting.

(4.) Any casual vacancy in a school attendance committee or local committee may be filled up by the body who appointed such committee.

(5.) A school attendance committee shall continue in office until the first meeting of the council or guardians appointing it after the next annual election of councillors and guardians, and thereafter until the new committee is appointed.

(6.) A committee appointed by guardians shall be appointed at the first meeting after the annual election of guardians, or some other meeting fixed with the approval of the Local Government Board for the purpose.

The Local Government Board expressed an opinion that it was only when the guardians had failed to appoint a School Attendance Committee at their first meeting after the annual election of guardians that the Board were empowered to approve of some other meeting being fixed for the purpose of the appointment.

THIRD SCHEDULE.

RULE AS TO ELECTION OF SCHOOL BOARD.

If any casual vacancy in the office of a member of a school board occurs by death, resignation, disqualification, or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled by the remaining members of the school board, if a quorum, at a special meeting of the board called for the purpose.

The quorum is such number of members not less than three, except in the metropolis, where it is to be not less than nine, as may be fixed by the School Board.

Session and Chapter.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

ACTS REPEALED.

Short Title.

Extent of Repeal.

30 & 31 Vict. c. 146 The Workshop Regu- Sections 14 and 15.

lation Act, 1867.

33 & 34 Vict. c. 75 The Elementary Edu

cation Act, 1870.

Section twenty-five, so much of section seventy-four and of any byelaw made thereunder as is affected by the repeal of section twenty-five, and the rule numbered fifteen in the first part of the second schedule, and the rule numbered six in the third part of the second schedule.

36 & 37 Vict. c. 67 The Agricultural Chil- The whole Act.

dren Act, 1873.

36 & 37 Vict. c. 86 The Elementary Edu- Section three. cation Act, 1873.

37 & 38 Vict. c. 88 The Births and Deaths Section twenty-nine.

Registration Act,

1874.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION (INDUSTRIAL

SCHOOLS) ACT, 1879.

[42 & 43 VICT., CAP. 48.]

AN Act to amend the Law respecting the Powers of School Boards in relation to Industrial Schools.

[11th August, 1879.]

Whereas under the Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873, and the Elementary Education Act, 1876, a school board have power, with the consent of one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, to establish, build, and maintain industrial schools, and to spread the payment of the expense of such establishment and building over a number of years not exceeding fifty, and to borrow money for that purpose:

And whereas a school board, under the said Acts, have the same power as is given to a prison authority by section twelve of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, to contribute money towards the alteration, enlargement, or rebuilding of an industrial school, or towards the establishment or building of an industrial school, or towards the purchase of land required for the use or for the site of an industrial school:

And whereas under the Reformatory and Industrial Schools Act Amendment Act, 1872, section twelve of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, is extended to authorise the prison authority themselves to undertake anything towards which they are authorised by that section to contribute:

And whereas doubts have arisen whether a school board have power to undertake themselves anything