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Index.

• Accounts of School Board, when to be made up, 14; examining and auditing of, 15; Local Government Board to make regulations for, 15.
• Act, principal, repealed, to what extent, 28.
• ——Elementary Education, 1870, ex-tent of repeal of, 22; twenty-fifth section of, repealed, 31.
• ——Elementary Education (Orders), 1874, 23; Orders of ditto, 24.
• ——Elementary Education, 1876, 25.
• ——temporary modifications of, 49.
• ——Wenlock Elementary Education, 22.
• Acts, repeal of, 49, 53.
• Age, evidence of, as to children, 18.
• Amendment of 33 and 34 Vict. c. 75, 16.
• Application for School Board, 20; of managers for inspection of school, 60.
• Articles, new or modified, appendix of, 80.
• Assistant teachers, 85.
• Attendance, of children, how enforced, 37; effect on grants, 63, 65; how calculated, 66.

• Candidates for School Board, how nominated, 20.
• Certificate of child's attendance, 17; of child's proficiency, 17; supplemental provisions as to ditto, 38; of birth, 39.
• ——of teachers, examinations for, 70; classes of, 71; regulations as to third class, 72; provisional, 73; probation of candidates for, 71; future rating of certificates issued before January 1871, 73.
• ——under Labour Acts, 71.
• Children, neglected and vagabond, 31.
• Clerk, of School Attendance Commit-tee of Guardians, 43.
• Committee, School Attendance, rules as to, 52; increased or diminished by Guardians, 41; may be appointed by Urban Sanitary Authority, 42.
• ——Local, rules as to, 52; appointed by School Attendance Committee, 41; how constituted, 41.
• Correspondent, for school, with the Department, 60.
• Corrupt practices, effect of, 11.

• Default of Local Authority, provisions in case of, 39; expenses incurred by, 39, 41.
• Denison's Act, repealed, 10; provisions substituted, 10.
• Diary, school, 69.
• Domestic economy, 65.

• Elections, orders as to, confirmed, 10; of School Boards, 11, 20; questioning of, 11.
• ——to fill casual vacancies, 48.
• Employer, when exempted from penalty, 45.
• Employment of young children, 28; penalty for illegal, 29.
• ——of children in factories, and education of, 30.
• Evening scholars, examination of, 70; grants to, 70.
• Evening schools, grants to, 66. Examination of children by inspector, rules as to, 89.
• Excuses for non-attendance at school, 31.
• Expenses of School Attendance Committee, 42; of Overseers or Guardians, 16.

• Factories' Act (1874), 56.
• Factory Act (1844), 54.
• Fees, payment of, for poor parents, 31; contribution for, of children with certificates, 36.
• ——school, charge to parish for, 43.

• Gifts, power of School Board to accept, 13; conditions, 13.
• Grants, annual parliamentary, conditions of, 36; to schools, 58; preliminary conditions of, 61.
• ——to day schools, 62; regulations as to amount of, 62; regulated by reports of inspectors, 63; and by attendances, 63.
• ——special, for isolated schools, 64.
• ——for pupil-teachers, 64; for specific subjects of instruction, 65.
• ——to evening schools, 66; to industrial schools, 34.
• ——calculation of, 66.
• ——reduction of, 68.page 96
• Guardians to make education condition of relief, 10; saving cases, 10; payment of fees by, 10; from what funds, 10.

• Industrial Schools Act (1866), 32; amendment of, 14; children may be sent to, 32; duty of Local Authority under, 33; provisions of, to be applied, 35.
• ——schools, license to child to live out, 33; School Boards to provide, 33; prison authorities, power of as to, 34; grants to, 34, 36; weekly payments of parents to, 34; conditions of admission, 35; closed by Secretary of State, 35.
• Infants,' schools or classes, 63.
• Inspectors, their duties, 29, 59; visits of, 59, 63; examinations by, 63, 64.

• Justices, their power, 17.

• Land, purchase of, 14.
• Legal proceedings, 16; by summary jurisdiction, 16; court, 17.
• Loans, 12; new provisions as to, 12.
• Local Government Board, power as to relief, 10.
• ——Authority, 29, 31.

• Managers of schools defined, 60.
• Meetings of School Board, 21.
• Monitors, regulations as to, to fill vacant pupil-teacher ships, 74.

• Needlework, 62-64.
• Notices as to School Board, how published, 15; penalty for injuring, 16.
• ——of business of School Board, 21.

• Officers, of Local Authority, 40; powers of, 40.
• ——of School Board, 47.
• Orders, attendance, 31; disobedience to, 32.
• Overseers to assist returning officers, 11.

• Parish, Provisions as to part of, 48.
• Pauper parents, 10; children, 45.
• Penalties for non-attendance at school, 17; power of court as to, 17.
• Penalties for non-appearance before Justice, 17; for forgery of certificate, 18; for false information, 18.
• Pensions to teachers, 80.
• Poll for School Board, how conducted, 20.
• Proficiency, required for employment, 50; for payment of fees, 51.
• Prosecutions under this Act, 44.
• Pupil-teachers, engagement of, 74; forms of, 84; number allowed, 74; schedule of qualifications, 82.

• Register of voters of School Board, 21.
• Registrars of births and deaths, duties of, 39.
• Report of managers, 73.
• Requisition of parish, provision as to, 37, 38.
• Returns to School Boards, 16; power of Local Authority to send, 47.

• Schools, elementary, defined, 58; provisions as to, re conscientiæ, 58; public, but not elementary, 18.
• ——-Attendance Committee, how formed, 29; duties, 29.
• ——-Board, election of, 53, 44; dissolution of, 46.
• Standards of examination, 67.
• Subjects, specific, of instruction, 65; grants for, 65; table of, 88.

• Teachers, staff of, 61, 68; of pupil-teachers, 74; of assistants, 85.
• ——-classes of, 70; certificates of, 70.
• Terms, explained, 18, 48.
• Training colleges, grants to, 76; admission into, 77; examination of students in, 78.

• United school districts, 13.
• Urban Sanitary Authority, powers under this Act, 42.

• Vacancies in School Boards, 21.
• Valuation lists in metropolis, 14.
• Votes of members of School Boards, 21.
• Voting for School Boards, 21.

• Welsh, examination in, 64.