The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

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but when several schools applying for apprentices lie
within a moderate distance of a town my lords request you
to pursue the following course. You will take down the

names of the mos Le scholars, and appoint a day on
which they may be assembled with other candidates from
neighbouring schools, in order that their comparafive qua-
lifications may be determined by an examination in ac-
cordance with their lordships' minutes. For this purpose
it is desirable to procure the use of some public room in
the town, or other central place, in which the candidates
may be assembled for examination.

Your report on each school will of course be separately
made. This report, and the examination papers accom-
panying it, will be considered in this department ; and if
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indentures of apprenticeship will be filled up here, and
transmitted to the managers of the school to be duly exe-
cuted by all the parties interested.

Besides cases thus arising out of the explanations which
you are requested to make during your visits to each school,

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stipendiary monitors may also be -made to the Committee
of Council by the managers of other schools, many of
which may not have previously been under inspection.
When the preliminary inquiries are completed, my lords
will, from time to time, transmit such applications to you,
and will authorize you, if necessary, temporarily to with-
draw from the route of inspection which you would other-
wise have pursued. You will then make arrangements to
visit each of these schools, and to report upon it in refer-
ence to the application for apprentices, and will afterwards
resume your tour of inspection.

In the appropriation of grants for the erection of school
buildings, attention has been paid to the tenure of the
site and to the structure of the school deed, especially in
every thing that could affect the permanency and good
management of the trust. The majority of schools
erected with and from the public funds are secured by
valid conveyances, and in a great number of them clauses
are inserted providing for the management of the school,
and defining the powers and duties of those to whom it is
confided.

The objects sought to be secured are-1. Permanency.
—2. Efficient management.
The Committee of Council will, in all such cases, re-
quire the following preliminary conditions

1. That the school-rooms be of sufficient size and
height, well ventilated, warmed, and supplied with school
furniture, apparatus, and books.

2. That the school-room be not liable to any uses likely
to interfere with or disturb its occupation during the or-
dinary hours of school keeping, or to occasion a sudden
termination of its employment for education.
3. That the proprietor, trustees, or managers of the
school sign an agreement, that if the school-room cannot,
by reason of the nature of the trusts of the deed or
otherwise, continue to be appropriated to the education
of the poor during the apprenticeship of the pupil

,eacher, the amount of t
Rid gratuities to the teachers

le stipends of the apprentices,
hall be repaid on the oc-

currence of every such interruption.
All schools aided with grants towards their erection,
enlargement, or towards the supply of school furniture,
have, either by a clause in the conveyance, or by an in-
dorsement thereon, or by a memorial under the provisions
of 7 and 8 Victoria, chap. 37, secured to the Committee
of Council the power of visiting and examining the school