ARTICLE III.-Every attendance register shall be carefully preserved by the guardians or the Board of Management for ten years. ARTICLE IV.-The standards of examination to be observed shall be those prescribed in the code of the Education Department in force for the time being. A list of the children arranged according to such standards shall be prepared by the schoolmaster or schoolmistress, as the case may be, and presented to the school inspector of the Local Government Board at the time of his annual examination of the school. ARTICLE V.-The instruction in the school shall be given at the time specified in a time-table to be prepared by the schoolmaster or schoolmistress, and approved by the guardians or Board of Management, as the case may be. ARTICLE VI.-In this order The word "union" includes any union of parishes incorporated or united for the relief or maintenance of the poor under any Act of Parliament. The term "6 separate parish means a parish or place which is under a separate Board of Guardians. The word "guardians" includes any governors, directors, managers, acting guardians, vestrymen, or other officers appointed or entitled to act in the distribution or ordering of relief to the poor from the poor rates under any Act of Parliament. The term "clerk " means the clerk to the guardians or the clerk to the Board of Management, as the case may be. The term "workhouse school" includes any school belonging to a union or separate parish which is under distinct management from that of the workhouse, whether the school buildings are part of the workhouse premises or, being separate from the workhouse, are situated either within or without the limits of the union or separate parish, and also any school belonging to a school district formed under the Poor Law Amendment Act, 1844, and Acts amending the same. The Schoolmaster or Schoolmistress, as the case may be, is responsible for the accurate keeping of this Register. Every attendance must be marked in ink at each meeting of the School; the morning attendance by a stroke marked thus; the afternoon attendance thus [has taken place. A horizontal line will denote that no meeting of the School Number of School Meetings during the Week. 16 17 18 Absence through sickness must be shown by the letter "s." Absence on account of industrial work should be shown by the letter "w.' " Absence through any other cause should be shown by the letter "a." There should be no erasures and no blanks. Schoolmaster or Schoolmistress. *The average number of scholars in attendance will be found by dividing the total number of attendances by the total number of school meetings. Schoolmaster or Schoolmistress. Examined on behalf of the Guardians, { Clerk to the Guardians [or to the Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this third day of April, G. SCLATER-BOOTH, President. An order to the like effect has since been issued to the Board of Management of the Metropolitan Asylum District, with reference to the training ship Exmouth. CERTIFIED DAY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. ORDER IN COUNCIL. At the Court at Windsor, the 20th day of March, 1877. Present the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. WHEREAS by the 16th section of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, it is enacted as follows: If a Secretary of State is satisfied that, owing to the circumstances of any class of population in any school district, a school in which industrial training, elementary education, and one or more meals a day, but not lodging, are provided for the children, is necessary or expedient for the proper training and control of the children of such class, he may, in like manner as under the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, certify any such school (in this Act referred to as a day industrial school) in the neighbourhood of the said population to be a certified day industrial school. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Order in Council, to apply to a certified day industrial school the provisions of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, and the Acts amending the same, with such modifications as appear to Her Majesty to be necessary or proper for adapting such provisions to a day industrial school, and bringing them into conformity with this Act; and such order may provide that a child may be punished for an offence by being sent to a certified industrial, in lieu of a certified reformatory school, or may otherwise mitigate any punishment imposed by the said Act. It shall be lawful for Her Majesty from time to time, by Every such order shall be laid before both Houses of Now, therefore, in pursuance of the above-mentioned Act, Her Majesty is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Most Honourable Privy Council, to order that the following provisions, being modified provisions of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, and the Acts amending the same, shall apply to certified day industrial schools :— Extent of Order. 1. This order shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. CONSTITUTION OF CERTIFIED DAY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. Description of day industrial schools and managers 2. A day industrial school within this order shall mean a school in which industrial training, elementary education, and one or more meals a day, but not lodging, are provided for the children. The persons for the time being having the management or control of such a school shall be deemed the managers thereof for the purposes of this order. Inspector of day industrial schools and assistants (29 & 30 Vict., c. 118, s. 6). 3. The person who for the time being is inspector of industrial schools under the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, shall be also the inspector of day industrial schools. The Secretary of State may from time to time appoint a |