Scotland.

An Act to Amend and Extent the Provisions of the Law of Scotland on the Subject of Education.

[6th August, 1872.

Preamble.

And whereas it has been the custom in the public schools of Scotland to give instruction in religion to children whose parents did not object to the instruction so given, but with liberty to parents, without forfeiting any of the other advantages of the schools, to elect that their children should not receive such instruction, and it is expedient that the managers of public schools shall be at liberty to continue the said custom.