not present at the time appointed for holding the same, the members present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of such meeting. The managers may meet and adjourn as they think proper. The quorum of the managers shall consist of such number of members as may be prescribe by the school board that appointed them, or, if no number be prescribed, of three members. Every question at a meeting shall be determined by a majority of votes of the members present and voting on that question, and in case of an equal division of votes the chairman shall have a second or casting vote. (2)

The proceedings of the managers shall not be invalidated by any vacancy or vacancies in their number.

(1) See sec. 15, as to appointment of managers by school boards. These rules with reference to the proceedings of managers appointed by a school board are, by the 39 & 40 Vict., c. 79, Rule 3, of Schedule 2, post, made applicable to the proceedings of school attendance committees and local committees appointed under that Act.

(2) As to casting vote of chairman, see note on Rule 5 in this schedule.

School district of

Form of Precept. (1)

to wit.

To the council [or overseers, &c.,] of the borough [or parish] of

day of

These are to

into the

require you, the council [or overseers] of the borough [or parish] of from and out of the moneys in the hands of your treasurer [or your hands], to pay on or before the hands of A. B., treasurer of the school board of the said district, the sum of quired for the expenses of the said school board up to the 18 ; and if there are no moneys in the hands of your treasurer [or your hands] to raise the same by means of a rate.

of

(Signed)

being the amount re

C. D., Members of the school board of the
E. F.,

district of

G. H., clerk of the said school board.

(1) See secs. 37 (10 and 11), 54, 55, and 56. As to the signing and service

of the precepts, see sec. 81 and third Schedule, No. 6.

FOURTH SCHEDULE.

SCHOOL SITES ACTS.

The following Acts may be cited together as the "School Sites

These several Acts will be found in the Appendix, p. 298.

FIFTH SCHEDULE.

DIVISIONS OF METROPOLIS.

Name of Division.

Marylebone.

Finsbury.

Lambeth.

Tower Hamlets.

Hackney.

Westminster.

Southwark.

City.

Chelsea.

Greenwich.

As to the boundaries of the divisions of the metropolis,

see sec. 37.

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT (1870)

AMENDMENT ACT.

(36 & 37 VICT., c. 86.)

AN ACT ΤΟ AMEND THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT

(1870), AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES CONNECTED THERE

WITH.

[5th August, 1873.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

PRELIMINARY.

Short Title.

1. This Act may be cited as "The Elementary Education Act, 1873;" and this Act and "The Elementary Education Act, 1870" (in this Act referred to as the principal Act), may be cited together as "The Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873."

Construction of Act.

2. This Act shall be construed as one with the principal Act, and the expression "this Act" in the principal Act shall be construed to include this Act.

EXPENSES OF EDUCATION.

Repeal of 18 & 19 Vict. c. 34 (Denison's Act), and Substitution of other Provisions.

3. The Act of the session of the eighteenth and nineteenth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter thirty-four, intituled, "An Act to provide for the education of children in the receipt of outdoor relief," is hereby repealed as from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four; and in lieu thereof be it enacted as follows:

Where relief out of the workhouse is given by the guardians

or their order by way of weekly or other continuing allowance to the parent of any child between five and thirteen years of age, or to any such child, it shall be a condition for the continuance of such relief that elementary education in reading, writing, and arithmetic shall (unless either there is some reasonable excuse within the meaning of section seventy-four of the principal Act or the child has reached such standard of education as may from time to time be fixed for the purpose of this Act, so far as regards any district in which bye-laws under section seventy-four of the principal Act are in force by any such bye-law, and in any other district by a minute of the Education Department, or the child is employed in pursuance of a certificate under "The Agricultural Children Act, 1873," and is not attending school) be provided for such child, and the guardians shall give such further relief (if any) as may be necessary for that purpose.

Any such relief to a parent as above mentioned shall not be granted or refused on condition of the child attending any public elementary school other than such as may be selected by the parent.

The guardians shall not have power under this section to give any relief to a parent in order to enable such parent to pay more than the ordinary fee payable at the school which he selects, or more than one farthing for each attendance at such school, as defined by the minutes of the Education Department for the time being in force with respect to the Government grant.

30 & 31 Vict., c. 6.

All relief given by guardians under this section shall be paid out of their common fund, and where given by the guardians of any union in the metropolis as defined by "The Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867," shall be deemed to be expenses repayable from the Metropolitan Common Poor Fund, within the meaning of section sixty-nine of that Act, and shall be repaid to such guardians accordingly.

This section is repealed from the 1st of January, 1877, by the 39 & 40 Vict., c. 79, post. For the substituted provisions, see sec. 40 of that Act.

Power of Local Government Board as to Relief and Guardians. 4. The Local Government Board shall have the like powers with respect to guardians acting under and relief