Writing. A sentence slowly dictated once from the same book.

Copy books to be shown (small-hand, capital letters, and figures).

Arithmetic. Long division and compound addition and subtraction (money).

STANDARD IV.

Reading. To read with intelligence a few lines of poetry selected by the inspector.

Writing. Eight lines slowly dictated once from a reading book.

Copy books to be shown (improved small-hand).

Arithmetic. Compound rules (money) and reduction (common weights and measures).2

STANDARD V.

Reading.1-Improved reading; and in day schools recitation of not less than 75 lines of poetry.3

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Writing.-Writing from memory the substance of a short

story read out twice; spelling, grammar, and handwriting to be considered.

Arithmetic.-Practice, bills of parcels, and simple proportion.

STANDARD VI.

Reading.1-Reading with fluency and expression; and in day schools recitation of not less than 50 lines of prose, or 100 of poetry.3

Writing. A short theme or letter, the composition, spelling, grammar, and handwriting to be considered. Arithmetic.-Proportion, vulgar and decimal fractions.

1 See note as to reading, Standard I.

2 The "weights and measures" taught in public elementary schools should be only such as are really useful; such as avoirdupois weight, long measure, liquid measure, time table, square and cubical measures, and any measure which is connected with the industrial occupations of the district.

3 The passages for recitation may be taken from one or more standard authors, previously approved by the inspector. Meaning and allusions to be known, and if well known to atone for deficiencies of memory.

ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS TO CERTIFICATES OF BIRTH.1

To all Superintendent Registrars, and Registrars of Births and Deaths in England and Wales; and to all others whom it may concern.

WHEREAS by Section 25 of "The Elementary Education Act, 1876," it is enacted as follows:

"Where the age of any child is required to be ascertained

or proved for the purposes of this Act, or for any purpose connected with the elementary education or employment in labour of such child, any person on presenting a written requisition in such form and containing such particulars as may be from time to time prescribed by the Local Government Board, and on payment of such fee, not exceeding one shilling, as the Local Government Board from time to time fix, shall be entitled to obtain a certified copy under the hand of the registrar or superintendent registrar of the entry in the register under the Births and Deaths Registration Acts, 1836 to 1874, of the birth of the child named in the requisition."

Now therefore, we, the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given by the statutes in that behalf, hereby order as follows::

ARTICLE I. The requisition to be made to entitle any person to obtain a certified copy of an entry of a registry of birth under the section above cited shall be in the form set forth in the schedule to this order; and the fee to be paid to the registrar or superintendent registrar shall be sixpence for each such copy furnished by him under that section.

1 See sec. 25 of 39 & 40 Vict., c. 79, p. 63.

SCHEDULE.

THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1876.

Requisition for a certified copy of an entry of birth for the purposes of the above Act, or for any purpose connected with the elementary education or employment in labour of a child.

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To the Superintendent Registrar or Registrar of Births and Deaths having the custody of the register in which the birth of the under-mentioned child is registered I, the undersigned, hereby demand, for the purposes above mentioned, or some or one of them, a certificate of the birth of the child named in the subjoined schedule.

Given under the seal of office of the Local Government Board, this twenty-second day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.

G. SCLATER-BOOTH, President.

JOHN LAMBERT, Secretary.

PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEES OF NON-PAUPER CHILDREN.1

ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS TO PROCEEDINGS OF GUARDIANS AND THEIR OFFICERS, AS TO SCHOOL FEES OF NON-PAUPER CHILDREN.

To the Guardians of the Poor of the several Unions named in the Schedule B to this Order; and to all others whom it may concern.

WHEREAS by section 34 of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, it is enacted as follows :—

"All enactments relating to guardians and their officers and expenses, and to relief given by guardians, shall, subject to the express provisions of this Act, apply as if the guardians, including the school attendance committee appointed by them, and their officers acting under this Act, and expenses incurred, and money paid for school fees, and relief given under this Act, were respectively acting, incurred, and paid, and given as relief, under the Acts relating to the relief of the poor, and the Local Government Board may make rules, orders, and regulations accordingly;"

And whereas by section 10 and section 35 of the said Act it is enacted as follows:

"The parent, not being a pauper, of any child, who is

unable by reason of poverty to pay the ordinary fee for such child at a public elementary school, or any part of such fee, may apply to the guardians having jurisdiction in the parish in which he resides; and

1 See secs. 10 & 35, pp. 34, 78.

it shall be the duty of such guardians, if satisfied of such inability, to pay the said fee, not exceeding threepence a week, or such part thereof as he is, in the opinion of the guardians, so unable to pay."

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"Money given under this Act for the payment of school fees for any child of a parent who is not a pauper, and is resident in any parish, shall be charged by the guardians having jurisdiction in such parish, to that parish, with other parochial charges.' And whereas it is expedient that regulations should be made under the above-cited enactments, so far as respects guardians of the poor and their officers:

Now therefore, we, the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given by the several statutes in that behalf, hereby order as follows, with respect to each of the Unions named in the Schedule B to this order:

ARTICLE I. The guardians may, with the approval of the Local Government Board, appoint a person or persons, or one or more of their officers, as Inquiry Officer or Officers, to discharge the duties hereinafter prescribed with reference to applications by parents, not being paupers, for payment of school fees.

Provided that no person shall be so appointed who has not reached the age of twenty-one years.

ARTICLE II.-Every such appointment shall be made by a majority of the guardians voting on the question.1

Provided that no appointment shall be made unless a notice that the question of making such appointment will be brought before the guardians has been given and entered on the minutes, at one of their two ordinary meetings next preceding the meeting at which the appointment is made, or unless an advertisement giving notice of the consideration of such appointment shall have appeared in some public paper by the direction of the guardians at least seven days

1 The 4 & 5 Wm. 4, c. 76, by sec. 38, provides that no act of any meeting of guardians shall be valid unless three members are present and concur therein. Consequently, if only three guardians are present at the meeting at which the appointment is made, there cannot be a valid appointment unless the guardians are unanimous.