by the initials of one of the members of the committee, or of the clerk or the assistant clerk to the Board of Guardians.1 (2.) A School Fees Order Book, according to the form prescribed by the general order of the Local Government Board first above recited, shall be kept for the use of each relief committee; and the first four columns in such book shall, as far as practicable, be entered up by the clerk or the assistant clerk before each meeting of the committee, and the remaining columns, containing the particulars of the decisions or directions of the committee, shall be filled up at the meeting by one of the members of the committee, or by the clerk or the assistant clerk.2 (3.) The School Fees Order Book, filled up as above required, and signed by the clerk or the assistant clerk, shall be laid before the Board of Guardians at their ordinary meeting held on the same day as the sitting of the relief committee, or at their next ordinary meeting after such sitting, as may be more convenient; and thereupon the clerk shall enter on the minutes of the Board of Guardians the fact of the same having been so laid before them. ARTICLE III.-In this order— The term "" guardians includes any body of persons performing the functions of guardians within the meaning of the Acts relating to the relief of the poor. The term "union" means any union or incorporation of parishes under any general or local Act, and any single parish having guardians as above defined, under any general or local Act. As to the School Fees Application and Report Book, see p. 170. 2 As to the School Fees Order Book, see p. 172. Birmingham. Great Yarmouth. Paddington. Plymouth, Saint Giles-in-the SINGLE PARISHES. Fields and Saint George, Saint Mary, Islington. Bloomsbury. Saint Leonard, Shore- Saint Marylebone. Saint Mary Abbott's, Saint Mary, Lambeth. nal Green. Saint Pancras. Toxteth Park. Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this fifth day of September, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven. G. SCLATER-BOOTH, President. [Orders to the like effect have since been issued to the Aston, Darlington, Redruth, Norwich, and Walsall unions.] PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEES OF NON-PAUPER CHILDREN. ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS TO APPLICATIONS TO DISTRICT RELIEF COMMITTEES. To the Guardians of the Foor of the several Unions named in the Schedule to this Order, and to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS by certain general orders bearing date the 22nd day of March, 1877, and the 4th day of June, 1877, addressed, amongst others, to the guardians of the poor of each of the unions named in the schedule to this order, the Local Government Board made regulations with respect to the proceedings of the guardians under the Elementary Education Act, 1876, by reason whereof all applications by parents, not being paupers, for payment of school fees, whether made directly to the guardians or through an inquiry officer, are exclusively controlled and managed by the guardians of the union sitting as a Board; And whereas by orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, and the Local Government Board, issued to the guardians of the poor of the said several unions, certain parishes in those unions have been formed into districts for relief purposes, and the guardians of each union are required from time to time to appoint a committee of their members for each district so formed, to receive applications of poor persons therein requiring relief, and to examine into the cases of such poor persons, and to report to the guardians thereon; And whereas it is expedient that the committee so appointed, hereinafter termed the District Relief Committee, should be authorised to receive applications made as aforesaid for the payment of school fees, and to examine into the same, and report to the guardians thereon: Now therefore, we, the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given by the statutes in that behalf, hereby order as follows; that is to say, ARTICLE I. The guardians of the poor of each of the unions named in the schedule to this order may, if they think fit to do so, authorise the District Relief Committee who are appointed or may be appointed by them, to receive all applications for payment of school fees on account of parents, not being paupers, residing or being in the district for which such committee is appointed, and to examine into the same and report to the guardians thereon; and such committee shall thereupon deal with all such applications accordingly. ARTICLE II.-Whenever the guardians of a union give authority to the District Relief Committee in pursuance of Article I. of this order, each inquiry officer whose district. or any part thereof is assigned to the committee shall submit to them at every meeting the School Fees Application and Report Book, which he is required to keep by the general order of the Local Government Board first above recited; and a note of the recommendation of the committee upon every application for school fees, whether made through an inquiry officer or directly to the committee, shall be inserted at the meeting of the committee in the proper columns of such book, and authenticated in the proper column by the initials of one of the members of the committee, or of the clerk or the assistant clerk to the Board of Guardians. ARTICLE III. The term "guardians" in this order includes any body of persons performing the functions of guardians within the meaning of the Acts relating to the relief of the poor. Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Govern- |