THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1876. (39 AND 40 VICT., c. 79.) WITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, AND INDEX. BY HUGH OWEN, JUN., OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW, THE EDUCATION ACTS MANUAL (ELEVENTH EDITION), "THE SCHOOL BOARD AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING PROVISIONS OF FACTORY ACTS, AS TO SCHOOL ATTENDANCE, AND SPECIMEN BYELAWS. London: KNIGHT & CO., 90, FLEET STREET. 1.876. PREFACE. As the Elementary Education Act, 1876, constitutes new local authorities for securing the education of children in districts not under the jurisdiction of School Boards, and its provisions are to a great extent distinct from those contained in the Education Acts of 1870 and 1873, I have considered it desirable to issue this edition of the Act in a separate form, embodying in the notes those sections of the previous Acts which are referred to in the statute. In order to afford the means of readily obtaining a general knowledge of the provisions of the Act, a digest of the several clauses is given in the Introduction, and to the text of the statute notes are appended which it is hoped may be of some service to the members of Boards of Guardians, Town Councils, and Sanitary Authorities, as well as School Boards, on whom new and important duties will devolve in connection with public elementary education. |