(c.) Internal Space. The schoolroom and day-rooms must each be of such dimensions as to allow (d.) 10 square and 100 cubic feet for each child present therein. Lavatories.-Sufficient lavatory accommodation must be provided. If on the favourable report of the inspector a certificate be granted for the school, the rules of the school must be submitted for the Secretary of State's approval. The rules must specify (a.) The name and locality of the school; (b.) The constitution and powers of the governing body; (c.) The religious denomination (if any) with which the school is connected; (d.) The conditions of age, sex, health, etc., under which children will be received into the school; and must embody the following regulations: 1. Number.-The number of children in the school shall not at any time exceed the number for which the certificate has been granted, except with the special sanction of the Secretary of State. 2. Hours of Attendance.-The school hours shall be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., but the school shall be open to receive children at any time in the morning after 6 a.m. 3. Dietary. The children shall be supplied with one or more meals a day of plain wholesome food, according to a dietary to be approved by the inspector. 4. Instruction.-The secular instruction shall consist of reading, spelling, writing, dictation, arithmetic, and vocal music, and as far as practicable the elements of geography and English history. It shall be given for three hours daily. The religious instruction may be in accordance with the religious denomination of the school, or if the school is connected with no religious denomination, the daily course shall include simple family worship, hymns, and the reading of the Scriptures, with explanations and instruction suitable to the age and capacity of the children attending the school. But this rule is subject to the 23rd clause of the said Order in Council, which provides that no child shall attend any religious observance or any instruction in religious subjects to which observance or instruction his parent objects. 5. Industrial Training.—The industrial training shall be, for boys, farm or garden work, or any common trade or handicraft; for girls, needle-work, house-work, cooking, and, so far as practicable, training in household duties. 6. Time-table.-A time-table, showing the hours of attendance, school instruction, work, meals, etc., as approved by the inspector, shall be kept conspicuously affixed in every schoolroom. 7. Discipline and Punishment.-The superintendent of the school shall be authorised to punish any child attending the school, in case of misconduct. Punishment may consist of forfeiture of rewards and privileges; confinement (not in a dark room) during school hours; or, in the case of boys, moderate personal correction. All punishments, with the fault committed, shall be recorded in a book kept for the purpose, to be laid before the managers at their meetings, and to be open to the inspector for examination. 8. Recreation.-The children shall be allowed two hours daily for recreation and exercise, and may be taken out for exercise beyond the boundaries of the school. 9. Visitors. The school shall be open to the inspection of visitors at convenient times to be fixed by the managers. 10. Journal. The superintendent shall keep a journal, in which he shall record all that passes of any importance, to be laid before the managers at their meetings, and the inspector on his visits. 11. Inspector.-All books and journals of the school shall be open to the inspector for examination, and if he think it necessary, he may examine any teacher employed in the instruction of the children. His consent shall be necessary to the appointment of the principal schoolmaster and schoolmistress; and previous notice shall be given to him of the appointment or discharge of the superintendent, and of the discharge of the principal schoolmaster and schoolmistress. 12. Registers, Returns, etc.-The superintendent shall keep a register of admissions, with such particulars concerning the parentage and previous circumstances of each child as may be found requisite. He shall also keep a register of the attendances, distinguishing therein the children according as they are sent under orders of detention, or under attendance orders, or attend without any order of court. He shall submit such register of attendances, duly vouched by himself and the managers, to the examination of the inspector at the end of each quarter, and at such other times as the inspector may require. He shall also regularly send to the office of the inspector such returns and accounts as may be required, and in the month of January in each year a full statement of the receipts and expenditure of the school for the year ended on the 31st day of December previous, showing all debts and liabilities duly vouched by the manager. 13. General.-The officers and teachers of the school shall maintain the discipline and order of the school, and carefully attend to the instruction and training of the children in conformity with these rules and the provisions of the Order in Council of the 20th day of March, 1877, and the children shall comply with these rules and obey the officers and teachers of the school. PARLIAMENTARY GRANT TO CERTIFIED DAY INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. RECOMMENDATIONS OF SECRETARY OF STATE. WHEREAS it is enacted by the 16th and 17th sections of the Elementary Education Act, 1876, as follows :— There may be contributed out of moneys provided by Parliament towards the custody, industrial training, elementary education, and meals of children sent by an order of court other than an attendance order under this Act to a certified day industrial school, such sums not exceeding 1s. per head per week, and on such conditions as a Secretary of State from time to time recommends. * * * * * The managers of a certified day industrial school may, upon the request of a local authority, and of the parent of a child, and upon the undertaking of the parent to pay towards the industrial training, elementary education, and meals of such child, such sum, not less than 1s. a week, as a Secretary of State from time to time fixes, receive such child into the school under an attendance order, or without an order of a court; and there may be contributed, out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of that child, such sum not exceeding 6d. a week, and on such conditions as a Secretary of State from time to time recommends. * * * * The conditions of a Parliamentary contribution to a certified day industrial school, to be recommended by the Secretary of State, shall provide for the examination of the children according to the standards of proficiency for the time being in force for the purposes of a Parliamentary grant to public elementary schools; but may vary the amounts of the contributions to be made in respect of such standards respectively. Any conditions recommended by a Secretary of State, for the purposes of contributions to a day industrial school, shall be laid before Parliament in the same manner as minutes of the Education Department relating to the annual Parliamentary grant. Now, in pursuance of the said Act, I, the Right Honourable Richard Assheton Cross, one of Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, hereby recommend that the sums to be contributed out of moneys provided by Parliament (hereinafter called the grant) to the managers of any certified day industrial school, in respect of children attending the same under orders. of detention, attendance orders, or without any order of court, shall be such sums, and shall be paid on such conditions as are hereinafter respectively set forth. I. No grant shall be made except on a report of the inspector showing that the conditions of the grant have been fulfilled. The inspector may delegate to an assistant the duty of examining the attendance and proficiency of the children. II. The principal teacher of the school shall be approved by the inspector of certified day and industrial schools. III. The grant shall be payable in part quarterly for attendance, in part annually for proficiency, and for the discipline and organisation of the school. IV. For the purpose of so much of the grant as is payable annually, the year is reckoned as ending with the last day (inclusive) of the month preceding that fixed for the inspector's annual visit; and for the purpose of so much of the grant as is payable quarterly, the quarter is reckoned |