payment by, of school fees for children of poor persons, not paupers,

242, 487-512;

delegation of powers as to fees of non-pauper children to committees,
503, 506;

may pay expense of publication of notices, 212, 275; duty of officers
of, as to publishing notices, 212;

mode of charging school fees for non-paupers, 278, 490–493;

may obtain contribution from part of parish, 288. See also Expenses.

HUSBANDRY, operations of, exception to prohibition of employment for,
241.

HYMNS, rules as to, in schools of London school board, 74.

INCORPORATION of Commissioners Clauses Act, 135, 199, 316; Lands
Clauses Acts, 82, 88; Metropolis Management Acts, 120,
121; School
Sites Acts, 85, 88; Charitable Trusts Acts, 89.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. See Certified Industrial School.
INFANT SCHOOLS, grants for, 365, 366.

INGATHERING OF CROPS, exception to prohibition of employment of
children for, 241.

INQUIRY as to proposed compulsory purchase of land by school board,
83; costs of, 84, 85;

as to decision of Education Department as to public school accommo-
dation, 68, 69; formation or dissolution of united school district, 124-
126; of contributory districts, 129;

appointment of inspector to hold, 151; notice and place of holding
sittings, 152; proceedings at, 151, 152; report on, 152; deposit of
report on, 152; costs of, 152;

as to complaints as to time-tables, 66, 237, 239.

INQUIRY OFFICERS, appointment of, by guardians, 487, 488, 501;

qualification, tenure of office and remuneration of, 487, 488; duties of,
488-491, 504, 506, 507. See also Regulations of Local Government
Board.

INSPECTION of public elementary schools, by Her Majesty's Inspectors,
64, 361, 382; of schools not provided by school board, 161, 162;
of books, &c., of school board, by ratepayers, 138, 160, 438.
INSPECTORS, definition of term "Her Majesty's Inspectors," 56; period

of visits of, 361, 382; duties of, with regard to time-tables, 65, 66, 98,
414, 415; instructions to, as to certified efficient schools, 464.
INSPECTORS appointed by Secretary of State, to enforce provisions as
to employment of children in factories, workshops, and mines, 236,
237; of certified day industrial schools, 529, 530, 541, 542;

of returns, appointment of, 151; powers of, 151.

See also Inspection.

INSTRUCTION in religious subjects. See Religious Instruction.
INTEREST, payment of, when illegal, 132.

JUSTICES, summary proceedings before, 174, 213–215, 277, 278; may
make order for attendance of child at school, 214, 245, 246; may on
non-compliance with order impose penalty or send child to industrial
school, 248; may order parent to contribute to maintenance of child
in certified industrial school, 254; may send to certified day industrial
school children liable to be sent to certified industrial school, 253;
may make order for entry on premises when child believed to be
illegally employed, 268; make order for production of child, 214, 215;
when members of school board, adjudicating on school board sum-
monses, 159.

LABOUR, children employed in. See Employment of Children.
LANDS, powers of school board to hold, 109, 110; purchase, or leasing of,
by school board, 79; compulsory purchase of, 82-85, 208, 209; powers
of managers of public elementary school, as to purchase of, 88; sale,
or leasing, or exchauge of, by school board, 89.
LANDS, gift of, for schools, 111, 207, 208.

See also School Sites Acts.

LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION ACTS, construction of, 82, 88,
208, 209; powers of school board under, 82-85, 208, 209; of managers
of public elementary school under, 88.

LAW COSTS, members of school board may apply moneys to indemnify

themselves against, 110.

LEASE of schoolhouse by school boards, 89.

See also Lands.

LEDGER of school board, 433, 434, 445, 458, 459; when not required to

be kept, 435.

LEDGER OF UNION, account in, of expenses of school attendance
committee, 520.

LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, 174, 213-215, 271, 277, 278; appearance of
school board in, 166, 277-279;

evidence of minutes of school board in, 110; of orders of Education
Department in, 164, 165, 286, 287.

See also Evidence.

LETTING of schools, 81.

LICENCE in Mortmain. See Mortmain.

LICENCE for child sent to certified industrial school to live out of school,
251.

LOAN, allowance of school fees by way of, 511.

LOANS to school boards, 132, 135, 136, 145, 146, 199, 200, 252, 285; to

school board of London, under Board of Works Loans Act, 1869, 136;
to be carried to school fund, 130;

accounts as to, 434, 460;

to school board appointed by the Education Department, 145, 146;
repayment of, on re-transfer of voluntary school, 99.

LOCAL AUTHORITY, school board constituted, 236; school attendance
committee appointed by council of borough constituted, 236; school
attendance committee appointed by guardians constituted, 236;
school attendance committee appointed by urban sanitary authority
constituted, 272, 273;

duty of, to publish provisions of Act, 236; to enforce provisions as to
employment of children, 236, 237; to assist inspectors appointed by
Secretary of State in enforcing Act in case of children employed in
factories, workshops, and mines, 236, 237; to report to Education
Department infraction of conscience clause in public elementary
schools, 237; to furnish returns to Education Department, 147–150,
175, 286;

may suspend restrictions as to employment of children, for operations of
husbandry and ingathering of crops, 241; limitation of period of sus-
pension, 241; issue of notice by, as to suspension, 241; copies of
notice to be furnished to the Education Department and to overseers,
241; copies of notice to be fixed on church and chapel doors, and may
be advertised, 241;

duty of, in certain cases to apply for an order directing attendance of
child at school, 245, 246. See also School Attendance Orders;
duty of, as to application for order for sending child to an industrial
school, 248; classes of children who may be sent to an industrial
school, 103, 104, 248, 253, 256;

duty of, as to obtaining and enforcing order for contribution by parent
to cost of child sent to certified day industrial school, 254; to apply
sums received under order in aid of their expenses, 254;

at request of, and of parent, child may be received into certified day
industrial school, when parent undertakes to pay certain sum, 254,
255, 537, 540, 541;

powers of, to make bye-laws for school attendance, 260, 261; duty of,
to enforce, 262;

may obtain from registrars returns of births and deaths, 265, 266;
may give certificates of school attendance of children in canal boats,
156, 157;

appointment and payment of officers by, 267, 268, 269, 513, 514, 518;
officer of, may obtain order for entry on premises when child believed to
be illegally employed, 268, 269; proceedings for non-attendance at
school to be authorised by two members, 278;

expenses of school board as, 269;

expenses of other local authority, 269, 519-521. See also Expenses;
power of Education Department in case of failure of, to fulfil duty, 266,
267.

LOCAL COMMITTEES, appointment of, by school attendance committee,
271, 295, 296; rules as to, 295, 296; continuance in office of, 295,
296; regulation of proceedings of, 296; casual vacancies in, 296;
not to make bye-laws or take proceedings before a court, 271.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD, powers of Poor Law Board trans-
ferred to, 137; to issue regulations as to accounts, 142, 210, 211;
order of, as to accounts of school board and school managers, 432;
appeals to, against disallowances and allowances, 138–142;
powers of, as regards auditor and audit, 137, 138, 210, 211; instructions
of, as to time and place of audit, 137, 138, 210, 211;

consent of, to detach part of parish being deemed a separate parish,
205;

may make regulations as to the discharge of duties of guardians and
officers under the Act of 1876, 275, 487, 501, 503, 506, 508, 511;
when consent of, to appointment of officers required, 269; may make
regulations as to the officers and expenses of the school attendance
committees appointed by guardians, 275, 513, 518; to prescribe fee
to registrars for certificates of birth, 264, 485; to prescribe form for
returns to local authority of births and deaths, 265, 485;

circular letters of, as to expenses of school attendance committees, 519-
521.

See also Regulations of Local Government Board.

LOCAL LOANS ACT, 204.

LOCAL RATE in boroughs, 60, 180; in Oxford, 60, 174, 180; in
Wenlock, 230; in metropolis, 60, 180; in parishes not in boroughs or
metropolis, 60, 180, 288; in united and contributory districts, 124,
133, 134; in divided parishes, 162, 205, 288.

LODGERS, eligible for election as members of school board, 108.
LOG BOOK, provisions of New Code as to, 373.

LONDON CITY, boundaries of divisions of, 122; election of members of
school board in, 120, 121.

LONDON SCHOOL BOARD. See School Board for London.

MAINTENANCE of schools, grants for. See Parliamentary Grant.
MANAGEMENT of schools of school board, 73, 207, 208.
MANAGERS of elementary schools, definition of term, 56;

to furnish returns, 149, 213; default of, in making returns, 151;
may apply for public inquiry as to decision of Education Department as
to public school accommodation, 68, 69;

powers of, to comply with conditions for parliamentary grant, 179;
grants to. See Parliamentary Grant;

transfer of school by, to school board, 89-91, 407; transfer by, of school
endowment, 91; re-transfer to, of school by school board, 98, 99;
powers of, under Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, 88; School Sites
Acts, 88;

formation of school board, when, unwilling to continue school, 70, 71;
for schools of school board, appointment of, 75, 130; minimum number
to be appointed, 75; delegation of duties to, 75, 130; tenure of office
of, 75; chairman of, 190, 191; proceedings of, 190, 191; accounts of,
435, 458, 462; appointment of, for schools of combined boards, 130.
MANDAMUS to rating authority for payment of precept of school board,
132, 133.

MARRIED women, voting of, in elections, 106, 107.

MAYOR to be returning officer in boroughs, 330, 336.

MEETING OF RATEPAYERS for application for school board, regula-
tions as to, 340; united district, 345.

MEETINGS OF SCHOOL BOARD, 188, 227, 228; proceedings at, 110,
188-190, 227, 228;

quorum at, 188;

of managers appointed by school board, 190, 191; proceedings at, 190,
191; of vestry, 58, 59; of school attendance committees and local
committees, 296.

MEMBERS of school board. See School Board.

METROPOLIS, definition of term, 55; parishes, &c., included in, 56, 57;
division of, for election of school board, 120-123, 186, 187;

boundaries of divisions of, 122; number of members to be elected in,
120, 122;

provision of offices for school board of, 80; public school accommo-
dation in divisions of, 121.

See also School Board for London.

METROPOLIS MANAGEMENT ACTS, 120, 121.

METROPOLITAN COMMON POOR FUND, educational relief, a charge
on, 195, 280.

MINES, education of children employed in, 327; enforcement of pro-
visions as to employment of children in, 236, 237.

MINUTE-BOOK of school board, 433;

of managers of schools provided by school board, 435.
MINUTES of school board, to be received in evidence, 110;

of Education Department, evidence of, 164, 165, 286, 287.

MONITORS, when may be employed instead of pupil-teachers, 378.
MORTGAGES, clauses as to, in Commissioners Clauses Act, 135, 199, 316.
MORTMAIN, licence in, not required by school board, 109, 110, 207,

208;

not to apply to bequests of lands for schools, 111; applies to edu-
cational endowments and trusts vested in school board, 208.