The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-12-21 00:00:00

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STOURBRIDGE FREE GRAMMAR

SCHOOL.

The draft scheme of the Endowed Schools
Commissioners for the management of the Free
Grammar School of King Edward VI., in this
town, has just been published.
The scheme provides that the object of the
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foundation or t-rust shall on
.to supply a.liberal

and practical education to boys &Id girls by
means of schools at Stourbridge. And from the
date of this selmwe all the particulars which by

tho Etol.owed Schoois Act: 1889, sec. 46, are

capable of being hereby repealed and abrogated,
shall, so far as relates to the management of this
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endowment, be repealed
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the establis.hrnent. of this scheme—and of two

other schemes framed by the Endowed Schools
Commissioners,. for the management of certain

charitable foundations,in.Stourbridge, viz. : (1)

a scheme for the foundation known"aWheeler'a

Charity; (2) a scheme for the foundations known
as Mover's, Mary Hickman's, and Oliver's Chari-
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ties respectively ; it is intended that all these
foundations shall be united and placed under one
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management, and be a singlc. foundation or
trust. The governing body, hereinafter called
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the governors, shall eventually, when full and
complete, consist of ten persons, constituted as
follows :—Ono shall be ex officio governor, viz.,
the Chairman of the Town Commissioners of

Stourbridge, if he will accept and undertake to
act in the trusts of this scheme. One shall be a
member of the bench of magistrates acting for
the Petty Sessional Division of Stourbridge, no-
minated by such magistrates to hold office for the
term of five years (if he remains so long a mem-
ber of the bench) with capacity for re-appoint-
ment. Four shall be representative governors.
Four shall be cooptative governors. . Of the

representative governors, two shall be elected by
the Town Commissioners of Stourbridge, and
two by the parents or guardians of day scholars
on the roll of the boys' school of this founda-
tion. The parent or guardian of each boy shill
be entitled to one vote for each place to be filled.

The re,preseutative governors sgall be appointed
to hold office for the term of four years, with
capacity for re-election. The first elections shall
take place as soon after the date of this scheme
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as can be conveniently managed. If, during his

term of office, any representative governor be-
comes bankrupt, or incapacitated to act, or ex.
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presses to the. governors in writing his wish to
retire, or meats for the space of two years to at-
tend any meeting, the governors shall cause a
record of the fact to be entered in their books,
and the body to whom the election belongs shall,
as soon as conveniently may be, proceed to elect
a new representative governor to hold office for
the term aforesaid. The following persons shall
hold office as the first cooptative governors ;
The Rev. C. H. Craufurd, Rectory, Oldswiuford;
J. Harward, Esq., solicitor, Stourbridge; R. L.
Freer, Esq., surgeon, Stourbridge; E. West-
wood, Esq., The Laurels, Oldswinford ; the Rev.
D. Robertson, 'the Lye, near Stourbridge; H.
0. Firmstone, Esq., Wollaston ; the Rev.
J. S. Bolder°, Amblecote. The cooptative gov-
ernors shall (subject to the provisions of the
next ensuing clause) hold office for the term of
seven years, and shall then retire, but be capable
of re-appointment. Until the number of coup.
tative governors has been reduced below four,
no appointment of a new coliptativo governor
shall be made. The office of cooptativo
governor shall, except as to term of office,
he vacated in the same way as that of represen-
tative goveriattr, and after the number of such
governors has been reduced below four, on each
vacancy 801110 person able and willing to act in
the trust of this scheme :shall be appointed by
the whole body of governors. Every governor
shall, at or before the first meeting he attends in
that character, sign a written memorandum de.
closing his acceptance of the office of governor,
and his willingness to do his duty as such. And
until he has signed such a declaration he
shall not be entitled to discharge the functions
of a governor. It shall be competent for the
electors under clause 5 and for the governors to
choose women to be governors. No master or
mistress in the schools shall be a governor. The
The governors shall hold meetings in some con-
venient place in Stourbridge, or elsewhere, as
often as may be found necessary for the manage-
ment of the trust, and at least twice in each
year, on some convenient days to be appointed
by themselves. A quorum shall be constituted
whenever one-third of the governors are present.
Any two governors may at any time summon a
special meeting for any cause that seems to them
sufficient. All special meetings shall be convened
by notice in writing to the governors, specifying
the object of the meeting. All matters and
questions shall be determined by the majority of
the governors present at any meeting; and in •
case of equality of votes, the chairman shall
have a second or casting vote. Full accounts
shall be kept of the receipts and expenditure of
the governors, and such accounts shall be stated
for each year, and examined and passed annually
at the first meeting in the ensuing year, and
signed by the governors then present. The go-
vernore shall cause sufficient abstracts of the
accounts to be published annually in one or more
local newspapers. All lauds and hereditanients
belonging to the trust, and all estates and inte-
rests therein, shall from date of this scheme vest
in the Official Trustee of Charity Lands, and his
successors; and all stock in the public funds,
and other securities belonging to the trust, shall
be transferred to and vest in the Official Trus-
tees of Charitable Funds, by whom the divid-
ends and income arising therefrom shall be from
time to time paid to the governors or their order.
From end after the date of this scheme the exist-
ing corporation of the governors of the posses.
slow, revenues, and goods of the Free Grammar
School of King Edward the Sixth, in the parish
of Stourbridge, in the county of Worcester, shall
be dissolved, and, except as herein otherwise
provided, all property, rights, and powers vested
in that corporation shall be transferred to and
vested in the governors created by this scheme.
In future, the Stourbridge Endowed Schools
shall consist of —(1.) A school for boys, to be
called the Grammar School of King Edward VI.
(2.) A school for girls, to be culled Wheeler's
Girls' School. The schools (except as herein-
after expressly mentioned) shall be for day scho-
lars exclusively. Within two years after the
date of this scheme, the governors shall erect,
ns up, and furnish for the grammar school, a
convenient and suitable laboratory, and they may
in such manner as is found practicable, enlarge
• the playground, and improve the existing build-
ings, so as to render the same more convenient
for the parposes of the school. For these pur-
poses they shall be at liberty to expend the capi-
tal funds of tho trust to the extent of £5OO.
Plans and estimates of such proposed new build-
ings, fittings, furnishings, and improvements
shall be submitted to the Endowed Schools
Commissioners, or, if their functions have ceased,
to the Charity Commiesimineis, and the written
approval of the proper tribunal shall be obtained
in each case before a contract is entered into.
No person shall be disqualified for being a mas-
ter in the schools by reason only of his not being
or intending to be, in holy orders. The gover-
nors shall appoint the head master at some meet-
ing to be called for that purpose, as soon as con-
veniently may be after the occurrence of a vac-
ancy, or after notice of an intended vacancy.
Ile shall be a gr ideate of some Univeasity with-
in the British Empire. The circumstance that
he has taken or made, or omitted to take or make,
any oath or declaration on obtaining a degree
shall not affect his qnalification. In order to ob-
tain time best candidates, the governors shall, for
a sufficient time before making any appointment,
give public notice of the vacancy, and invite
competition by advertisements in newspapers,
or by such other methods as they may judge
best calculated to secure the object. The gover-
nors may dismiss the head master without as-
signing cause, after 6 calendar months' written
notice, given to bins in pursuance of a resolu-
tion passed at two consecutive meetings held at
, an interval of at least fourteen days, and duly
convened for that express purpose, such resolu-
tion being affirmed at each meeting by not less
than two-thirds of the governors present. Every
head master, previously to entering into office,
, shall be required to sign a declaration to be en-
tered in the minute book of the governors. The
head master shall dwell in the house assigned for
his residence, and shall give his person,rl atten-
tine to the duties of the school, and shall confine
himself to the prescribed course of instruction.
Daring his tenure of office he shall not accept
or hold any benefice having the cure of souls, or
any office or appointment which, in the opinion
of the governors, may interfere with the proper
performance of his duties as head master.