Grants for School Fees. It is also provided that when, during the first five years after the 1st of January, 1877, a child before he attains the age of eleven years obtains a certain certificate of proficiency in reading, writing, and arithmetic, and also of previous due attendance at a public elementary school, the school fee payable by the child at a public elementary school in the course of the three years, next after he obtains the last of such certificates, not exceeding the ordinary fee charged at the school, may be paid by the Education Department out of moneys provided by Parliament (39 & 40 Vict., c. 79, sec. 18). THE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT, 1870. (33 & 34 VICT., c. 75.) AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR PUBLIC ELEMENTARY [9th August, 1870.] 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: (that is to say)— PRELIMINARY. Short Title. 1. This Act may be cited as the "Elementary Education Act, 1870." This Act and the Elementary Education Act, 1873, may be cited together as the "Elementary Education Acts, 1870 and 1873" (36 & 37 Vict., c. 86, sec. 1, post). The Elementary Education (Orders) Act, 1874 (see 37 & 38 Vict., c. 90, post) is to be construed as one with those Acts. 2. This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Ireland. Definition of Terms. 3. In this ActThe term "metropolis" means the places for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855: (1) The term "borough" means any place for the time being subject to the Act of the session of the fifth and sixth years of the reign of King William the Fourth, chapter seventy-six, intituled "An Act to provide for the regulation of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales," and the Acts amending the same: (2) The term "parish" means a place for which for the time being a separate poor rate is or can be made:(3) The term " person" includes a body corporate: The term "Education Department" means "the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education": (4) The term "Her Majesty's Inspectors" means the inspectors of schools appointed by Her Majesty on the recommendation of the Education Department: The term "managers" includes all persons who have the management of any elementary school, whether the legal interest in the schoolhouse is or is not vested in them: (5) The term "teacher" includes assistant teacher, pupil teacher, sewing mistress, and every person who forms part of the educational staff of a school: The term "parent" includes guardian and every person who is liable to maintain or has the actual custody of any child: (6) The term "elementary school" means a school or department of a school at which elementary education is the principal part of the education there given, and does not include any school or department of a school at which the ordinary payments in respect of the instruction, from each scholar, exceed ninepence a week: (7) The term "schoolhouse" includes the teacher's dwellinghouse and the playground (if any) and the offices and all premises belonging to or required for a school: The term "vestry means the ratepayers of a parish meeting in vestry according to law: (8) The term " ratepayer" includes every person who, under the provisions of the Poor Rate Assessment and Collection Act, 1869, is deemed to be duly rated: (9) The term "Parliamentary Grant" means a grant made in aid of an elementary school, either annually or otherwise, out of moneys provided by Parliament for the civil service, intituled "For Public Education in Great Britain." (10) (1) The places within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works under the Metropolis Management Act, 1855, are the parishes of St. Marylebone; St. Pancras; Lambeth; St. George, Hanover Square; St. Mary, Islington; St. Leonard, Shoreditch; Paddington; St. Matthew, Bethnal Green; St. Mary, Newington (Surrey); Camberwell; St. James, Westminster; St. James and St. John, Clerkenwell; Chelsea; St. Mary Abbot, Kensington; St. Luke, Middlesex; St. George the Martyr, Southwark; Bermondsey; St. George-in-the-East; St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Hamlet of Mile End Old Town; Woolwich; Rotherhithe; and St. John, Hampstead (included in Schedule A of the Act); the districts of Whitechapel, Westminster, Greenwich, Wandsworth, Hackney, St. Giles, Holborn, Strand, Fulham, Limehouse, Poplar, St. Saviour, Plumstead and Lewisham, and St. Olave (included in Schedule B of the Act); and the Close of the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, the Charter House, Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, Staple Inn, and Furnival's Inn (included in Schedule C of the Act). The parishes and places included in the districts in Schedule B, above referred to, are:-Whitechapel District: St. Mary, Whitechapel; Christchurch, Spitalfields; St. Botolph-without-Aldgate, in the county of Middlesex; Holy Trinity, Minories; Precinct of St. Katharine; Hamlet of Mile End New Town; Liberty of Norton Folgate; Old Artillery Ground, and District of Tower. Westminster District: St. Margaret and St. John the Evangelist. Greenwich District: St. Paul, Deptford, including Hatcham; St. Nicholas, Deptford, and Greenwich. Wandsworth District: Clapham; Tooting Graveney; Streatham; St. Mary, Battersea, excluding Penge; Wandsworth, and Putney, including Roehampton. Hackney District: Hackney and St. Mary, Stoke Newington. St. Giles's District: St. Giles-in-the-Fields and St. George, Bloomsbury. Holborn District: St. Andrew, Holborn above Bars; St. George the Martyr; St. Sepulchre, in the county of Middlesex; Saffron Hill, Hatton Garden, Ely Rents and Ely Place and the Liberty of Glasshouse Yard. Strand District: St. Ann, Soho; St. Paul, Covent Garden; St. John the Baptist, Savoy, or Precinct of the Savoy; St. Mary-le-Strand; St. Clement Danes and Liberty of the Rolls. Fulham District: St. Peter and St. Paul, Hammersmith and Fulham. Limehouse District: St. Anne, Limehouse; St. John, Wapping; St. Paul, Shadwell, and Hamlet of Ratcliff. Poplar District : All Saints, Poplar; St. Mary, Stratford-le-Bow, and St. Leonard, Bromley. St. Saviour's District: Christchurch and St. Saviour (including the Liberty of the Clink). Plumstead and Lewisham District: Charlton-next-Woolwich; Plumstead; Eltham; Lee; Kidbrooke; Lewisham, including Sydenham Chapelry, and the Hamlet of Penge. St. Olave's District: St. Olave; St. Thomas, Southwark; and St. John, Horselydown. (2) The word "borough," as thus defined, includes not only the several boroughs specified in Schedules A and B of the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835, but all municipal boroughs which have been incorporated since the passing of that Act. The Borough of Wenlock is not to be deemed a borough for the purposes of this Act (see 37 & 38 Vict., c. 39, post). (3) This interpretation has the effect of rendering every parish, township, parochial chapelry, hamlet, vill, precinct, or other place for which a separate poor rate is or can be made, a "parish" for the purposes of the Act. The interpretation is extended by sec. 77, which provides that where a parish is situated partly within and partly without a borough the part outside the borough is to be deemed a “parish." Sec. 12 of the 36 & 37 Vict., c. 86, post, further provides that where any part of a parish is separated from the principal part of a parish, the Education Department may, with the consent of the Local Government Board, direct that each part of the parish shall be for the purposes of the Act a parish by itself. Divisions of a parish for ecclesiastical purposes only are not recognised by the Act. (4) The head of the Education Department is the Lord President of the |