CONTENTS. Order in Council, 3rd of June, 1839 Order in Council, 10th of August, 1840 Order in Council, 22nd of November, 1843 Minute, 16th of January, 1844 Questions relating to Normal and Model Schools, preliminary to the consi deration of any application for a Grant Extracts from Minutes of Committee on Education, 24th September, 1839 43 44 47 51 Form of Balance Sheet of School-Building Account Extract from Minutes of 3rd December, 1839 Extract from Minutes of 4th January, 1840 Extract from Minutes of 15th July, 1840 Instructions to Inspectors of Schools, August, 1840 Envelope Letter concerning Grants for building Schools Instructions for answering the Questions-Form (A) • Circular, and Questions-Form (B) Circular-Grants for building Teachers' Residences General Specification of Works to be performed in erecting a School-House Form of Agreement with a Schoolmaster or Schoolmistress, and Managers or 64 66 68- 70 71 74 80 An Act to secure the Terms on which Grants are made by Her Majesty out of the Parliamentary Grant for the Education of the Poor; and to ex- plain the Act of the fifth year of the reign of Her present Majesty, for the conveyance of Sites for Schools (19th July, 1844) Form of Conveyance of a Site or Buildings for a National School Form of Conveyance of a Site to Trustees for a School, on the plan of the Form of Conveyance of a Site to Trustees, for a Parish School, not being in connexion with the National Society, or the British and Foreign School Form of Conveyance of a Site to Trustees for a Church of England School, not being a Parish School, nor in connexion with the National, or British Form of Conveyance of a Site or Building by a Spiritual Corporation Sole, Form of Application, for Aid to an Endowed School (No. 1.) Form of Application for Aid to an Endowed School (No. 2.) Letter to Inspectors of Schools Respecting Grants for Apparatus, 7th August, Schedule of Apparatus for Elementary Schools, sold at the Depôts of various Publishers and of certain Societies in London Form of Recommendation of a Grant towards the Expense of a Group of Parallel Desks, (according to the plan of the National Society's Central School, Westminster,) for teaching Writing in a School Letter to Her Majesty's Inspectors respecting Incomes of Schools, 13th Letter to Her Majesty's Inspectors respecting Schools Aided by Treasury Minute of Committee respecting Warming and Ventilation of School-rooms Minute respecting Selection of Site Minute on Methods of teaching Reading, Writing, and Vocal Music, Preparatory Minute of the Committee on Education, relating to a Manual of Statistics of Applications for Aid, from Parliamentary Grant, in 1843-44 1. School for 116 Children, with a Master's House. 2. School for 210 Children, with a Master's House. 3. School for 223 Infants, with a Mistress's House. 4. & 5. Elevation and Plan of a School for 273 Children, with a Master's Ilouse. 6. School for 300 Children, with a Master's House. 7. School for 400 Children, with a Master's House. 8. & 9. Elevation and Plan for a School for 436 Childreu, with Residences for 10. School for 464 Children, with a Master's House. 11. School for 517 Children, with a Master's House. Order in Council. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3rd of June, 1839. Present, THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Report from the Committee of Council appointed to superintend the application of any sums voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting Public Education; which Report, dated the 1st of June, was in the words following, viz. :— Your Majesty having been pleased, by your Order in Council of the 10th April, 1839, to appoint us a Committee of Council to superintend the application of any Sums voted by Parliament for the purpose of promoting Public Education; We, the Lords of the said Committee, have this day met, and agreed humbly to present to your Majesty the following Report: 66 The Lords of the Committee recommend that the sum of Ten Thousand Pounds, granted by Parliament in 1835 towards the erection of Normal or Model Schools, be given in equal proportions to the National Society and the British and Foreign School Society. That the remainder of the subsequent Grants of the years 1837 and 1838, yet unappropriated, and any grant that may be voted in the present year, be chiefly applied in aid of Subscriptions for building, and, in particular cases, for the support of Schools connected with those Societies; but that the rule hitherto adopted of making a Grant to those places where the largest proportion is subscribed be not invariably adhered to, should application be made from very poor and populous districts, where Subscriptions to a sufficient amount cannot be obtained. "The Committee do not feel themselves precluded from making Grants in particular cases which shall appear to them to call for |