PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEES OF NON-PAUPER CHILDREN. ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS TO THE DUTIES OF PAY CLERKS. To the Guardians of the Poor of the several Unions named in the Schedule to this Order, and to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS by certain general orders dated respectively the 22nd day of March, 1877, and the 4th day of June, 1877, addressed, among 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, including the appointment by the guardians, with the approval of the said Board, of a person or persons, or one or more of their officers, as inquiry officer or inquiry officers, to discharge certain duties with reference to applications by parents, not being paupers, for payment of school fees; And whereas by Article IX. of the first above-recited order, it is provided that "the fees ordered to be paid as aforesaid shall be paid by the guardians through the inquiry officer or otherwise;" and by Articles X. and XII. it is provided that the inquiry officer, if the guardians require the school fees to be paid through him, shall make such payments, and shall keep an account to be termed the "School Fees Receipt and Payment Account," and perform certain other duties in regard to such account; And whereas the guardians of each of the unions named in the said schedule have been empowered by orders of the Poor Law Commissioners, the Poor Law Board, or the Local Government Board, to appoint a pay clerk to distribute relief to the poor within the union or a portion of the union, and those orders or other orders issued by them prescribe the duties to be performed by such pay clerk; And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made to enable such guardians to assign to the pay clerk the duty of paying the school fees ordered by them: Now therefore, we, the Local Government Board, in pursuance of the powers given by the several statutes in that behalf, hereby order as follows: ARTICLE I.-The guardians of the poor of each of the unions named in the schedule to this order may, if they think fit, with the approval of the Local Government Board, require the person for the time being holding the office of pay clerk in such union, to pay the school fees ordered by them, either as regards the whole of the union or the part of the union for which he may be appointed to act as pay clerk, according as the case may be. ARTICLE II.-When the pay clerk is required by the guardians to pay the school fees as aforesaid, the following regulations shall take effect: (1.) The guardians may pay to the pay clerk for his services in respect of school fees such remuneration as may from time to time be approved by the Local Government Board, and the remuneration so awarded to him shall be paid at the times and in the manner prescribed by the regulations in force for the time being with respect to his remuneration for his duties as pay clerk. (2.) The pay clerk shall duly and punctually pay to the School Board or school managers, in accordance with the directions given to him by the guardians, the school fees which may be ordered by the guardians to be paid. (3.) The pay clerk shall keep, in the form prescribed by the last above-recited order, the "School Fees Receipt and Payment Account," 1 in which shall be 'As to School Fees Receipt and Payment Account, see p. 173. entered all moneys received and paid by him on account of the guardians, under their proper dates. He shall balance this account once every month, or oftener if required by the guardians to do so, and shall submit it, with the proper vouchers, to the clerk to the guardians for examination, at such periods as they may appoint. (4.) The said account shall, together with the proper vouchers, be submitted by the pay clerk to the auditor of the union at the same times as the other books and accounts of the union are submitted for audit; and the auditor shall audit the same, subject to the regulations in force in the union for the time being in regard to the audit of accounts, which, both as regards the auditor and the officer concerned, shall, so far as they are applicable, apply to the said account. (5.) The provisions with respect to such account contained in Article XIII. of the first above-recited order shall apply,1 with the exception that in the statement by the auditor in the form, No. 5, referred to in that article, the term "pay clerk shall be inserted in connection with the column which relates to that account. 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. 1 For article referred to, see p. 169. 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. PAYMENT OF SCHOOL FEES OF NON-PAUPER CHILDREN. ORDER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD AS TO OF SCHOOL FEES BY WAY OF ALLOWANCE LOAN. To the Guardians of the Poor of the several Unions named in the Schedule to this Order, and to all others whom it may concern. WHEREAS by section 10 of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, 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 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;" And whereas by section 34 of the said Act, 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 |