The following Memorandum of Instructions, applicable to all cases where municipal boards or divisional councils do not exercise the privilege of becoming, or of appointing managers, is published for general information:

1.	For the purpose of establishing an undenominational public school or for the nomination of managers of an undenominational public school, a meeting of householders within the limits of the division, or town, or village, or field-cornetcy, as the ease may be, should be convened.
2.	A notice of at least three weeks should be given of such a meeting by a printed or written notice, affixed to some place of public resort within the limits above mentioned.
3.	As soon as it shall have been resolved by a majority of votes to establish an undenominational public school, or to nominate new managers, as the case may be, all householders who are willing to subscribe a guarantee for the payment of the local expenses of the school (including half-salary of teacher, house-allowance, and rent of school-room, as required by Education Act, No. 13, 1865) should be invited to subscribe their names, wiih the amount of their respective guarantees.
4.	The list of guarantors being completed, the meeting should be invited to elect from the guarantors a board of managers, not less than five in number, to hold office for three years.
5.	The chairman who shall have presided at such a meeting should, as soon as may be, transmit the names of the managers thus elected, together with a copy of the proceedings of the meeting, to the Superintendent-General of Education, Cape Town.
6.	The managers (as soon as their names shall have been approved by Government according to law, must proceed to sign the necessary forms of guarantee required by the Government, and must nominate their teachers and frame school-regulations.
7.	The managers should also frame rules for the conducting of their own meetings periodically, and for the keeping of proper records of their proceedings.
8.	The managers should call together the whole body of guarantors once in every year, by a notice affixed as aforesaid, and submit to them a complete statement of the financial affairs of the school.
9.	When a vacancy occurs in the board of managers by insolvency, or death, or removal from the district, the guarantors should be called together by the chairman of the board to nominate another member to fill the vacancy.