XVIII. QUERIES to be answered on Application to the CoмMISSIONERS of EDUCATION for an additional Salary to the Teacher, and for supply of Books, &c., for Evening School, County of 1. Is this School held in the same room in which the Daily National School is conducted? 2. What number of Pupils was in actual attendance at the date of this application? 3. What has been the average attendance each evening for the last three months? 4. How many of the Pupils attend the Day School? 5. Are any of them Adults, and what is the average age? 6. Are they employed in various daily occupations in the im mediate neighbourhood? 7 What branches are taught? 8. What are the hours of attendance? 9. What are the Weekly Payments of Pupils, and the average amount received per week? 10. Do Females, as well as Males, attend, and how many Fe males (if any)? 11. When was School (Evening) established? 12. What is the name of Teacher? 13. Is he Master of the Day School? XIX.-EXPLANATORY CIRCULAR as to Vesting School-houses in the Commissioners of National Education in their Corporate capacity. SIR, EDUCATION OFFICE, 1848. By direction of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, we herewith transmit to you the present Form of Lease of Premises for the Building of National School-houses, towards the erection of which the Commissioners shall make grants. Such premises, you will perceive, are henceforth to be vested in the Commissioners in their Corporate capacity. We are further desired to call your attention to the following extracts from the Twelfth Report of the Commissioners, for the year 1845, announcing their adoption of this modification, and the reasons upon which it is founded :- I.-1. In commencing our present Report, it is our gratifying duty to express our acknowledgments for the Charter of Incorpotion, which Her Majesty has been greatly pleased in the course of last year to grant us. 2. We have already availed ourselves of it so as to effect a very important improvement in the plan originally adopted, which was for having National School-houses built by aid from the public, so conveyed to Trustees, as to be secured for the purposes of National Education, according to the existing National System. 3. The course hitherto has been to have the legal title vested in private individuals on the proper trusts, but this has led to much inconvenience, and indeed, positive mischief; for, besides difficulties through the decease of Trustees, change of residence, and unwillingness or incapacity to act, there has been a very general neglect as to the keeping of School-houses in repair, and the only remedy for such neglect would be proceedings against the Trustees, a course most desirable to be avoided. 4. Therefore, being now enabled to take conveyances of property to ourselves in our Corporate capacity, we have, according to the communication which we have already had the honor of making to your Excellency upon the subject, resolved, that, in every case in which we make a grant for building a National School-house, we shall take upon ourselves the trust for the public, and the charge of keeping the premises in repair; leaving, however, the Local Managers, who in general are not the Trustees, just the same right as to the appointment and removal of Teachers, and the general conduct of the School, as they at present possess under our control. 5. With respect to the School-houses heretofore built by aid from us, and which are already vested in Trustees in the way we have mentioned, we have resolved, according to the permission which your Excellency has granted to us, to accept (when such is the wish of the Patrons) transfers of such Schools to us, and to undertake the repairs in this case also. With reference to the last paragraph, we have to state, that a form of Conveyance has been prepared, of which we also forward a copy, for transferring to the Commissioners in their Corporate character, where the parties locally interested shall so desire, School Buildings and Premises heretofore vested in Trustees. Before, however any such transfer can be effected, the original Granter, or his Representative, as also the Trustees, should notify, in writing, to the Commissioners, their assent to the assignment. As some misapprehension appears to exist upon this subject, the Commissioners have also directed us to transmit to you copies of the old form of Lease, as well as of the Conveyance from the Trustees to the Commissioners. By a comparison of these instruments with the New Lease, you will observe that the principles on which the National Schools are conducted, remain unaltered; that the appointment and removal of the Teachers, and the general management of the Schools are expressly secured to the Local Patrons: - that no power is sought by the Commismissioners which they have not always had the means of exercising by resorting to a Court of Equity; - and that the only change made or contemplated is, the substitution of a permanent and responsible public body for private Trustees, so as more effectually to secure the due application of local contributions, and of the public grant, to the purposes for which they were intended, and more fully to provide for the repairs of the National School-houses, hitherto so much neglected by the Trustees. Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty BETWEEN in the of the First Part, THE COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL Trustees, EDUCATION IN IRELAND, of the Second Part, and named and approved of by and on behalf of the said Commissioners of the Third Part. WHEREAS the said well and sufficiently seized or possessed of ALL THAT Lot or piece of Ground hereinafter mentioned and demised, or intended to be demised, AND WHEREAS it is the wish and intention of the said and of the said Trustees, Parties hereto, that School with the approbation and under the control of the said Commissioners, also Parties hereto, shall be established in the Parish of and County of AND WHEREAS there built and erected on the Ground hereinafter mentioned and demised, School-house for the Education of the Poor Children (Male and Female) in the Parish of NATIONAL SCHOOL, which is finished and properly adapted to the purposes of Schools, such as those intended to be established as aforesaid, - and the said Commissioners have, in order to promote the Establishment of said School, directed that a sum of Sterling, should be paid to the said Trustees, Parties hereto, out of the Funds, placed at the disposal of them, the said Commissioners, which said sum of Sterling, together with another sum of Sterling, raised by voluntary contribution, or locally subscribed, makes up the sum of aforesaid, to be called Sterling, which last-mentioned Sum of Sterling has been laid out and expended in the erection of said School-house, on said Lot of Ground, in the Parish aforesaid, agreeably to the Conditions required by the said Commissioners, in NOW THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH granting aid for that purpose. that the said for the Considerations aforesaid, and in order to effectuate the purposes aforesaid, and for and in consideration of the Yearly Rent, Reservations, and Agreements, hereinafter reserved and mentioned Demised, Granted, Set, and to Farm-Let, and by these Presents Demise, Grant, Set, and to FarmLet unto the said as Trustees aforesaid, containing in Front Feet or thereabouts, and in breadth in the Rere Feet or thereabouts, and in depth from Front to Rere Feet or thereabouts, meared and bounded as follows:-that is to say, together with all Buildings and Improvements erected and made thereon, and all and singular the Rights, Members, Privileges, Passages, Appendencies, and Appurtenances to the said Lot of Ground and Premises belonging or in any wise appertaining, which said Lot of Ground and Premises are more particularly described, laid down, and delineated by the Map and survey thereof hereon inserted TO HAVE AND TO HOLD all and singular the said hereby granted and demised Ground, House, and Premises, with their Appurtenances, unto the said Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, for and during upon the several Trusts, and to and for the Uses and Purposes hereinafter mentioned, expressed and declared of and concerning the same, and to and for no other Use Trust, Interest, or Purpose whatsoever, they, the said Executors, Administrators, and As signs, Yielding and Paying unto the said Heirs, Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, during the continuance of this Demise, the Sum of One Penny on the Feast of St. Michael, in each and every Year, and it is hereby expressed and declared, and it is the true intent and meaning of these Presents, and of the several and respective Parties hereto, that the said Demise hereby made shall be and continue during the term aforesaid, subject to and upon the Trusts, Regulations, Uses, Conditions, and Purposes hereinafter mentioned, expressed, and declared of and concerning the same, that is to say, That each and every School, to be kept and established on the Premises hereby Demised, shall be kept open for a competent number of hours in each day, at the discretion of the said Commissioners, and shall, during said hours, be used for Moral and Literary Education only, and that one day in each week, or part of a day in the week, independently of Sunday, shall be set apart for the Religious Instruction of the Children, on which day or part of a day such Pastors or other Persons as may be approved of by the Parents or Guardians of the Children respectively shall have access to them in the School-room for that purpose, whether those Pastors or Persons shall have signed the original application or not; and also that convenient opportunity be afforded to them for the same purpose on other days of the week. Provided always, and it is the true intent and meaning of these Presents, that where any course of Religious Instruction is to be pursued in any such School as aforesaid, during School hours, to which the Parents or Guardians of any of the Children attending such School shall object, an arrangement shall be made for having such Instruction given to those who are to receive it at a stated time, and in a separate place, so as that no Children whose Parent or Guardians object to their being so, be present at it; and further, that the Titles of all Books which are intended to be used in the ordinary School business, shall be reported to the said Commissioners, and that no other Books shall be used in such Instruction save and except those which are so reported and sanctioned by the said Commissioners; and further, that if any other Books than the Holy Scriptures, or the Standard Books of the Church to which the Children using them belong, be employed in communicating Religious Instruction, then, and in such case, the Title of each such Book shall be made known to the said Commissioners; and further, that all the Master and Masters, Teacher and Teachers of each and every such school for the time being, shall not only, in the first instance, if the said Commissioners shall see fit, before he, she, or they shall be so appointed, have received previous Instruction in the General Normal Establishment in Dublin, or at one of the District Model Schools of the said Commissioners, and shall also have obtained from the said Commissioners if they shall so think fit, Testimonials of good conduct and general fitness, but shall be liable to be Fined and Removed, or Suspended from time to time, and at all times, when and as often as the said Commissioners shall deem it necessary, in such way and manner as they shall deem expedient, or see fit upon good and sufficient cause being shown; and that the said Commissioners, or their Officers and Superintendents for the time being, or any of them, shall, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, be allowed and permitted on demand to visit and examine each and every such School whenever and so often as they or any of them shall think fit or deem it necessary; and further, that the public of all denominations, whether Clergy or Laity, shall also have access to each and every such School, in the manner and under the restrictions particularly set forth in the Rules and Regulations of the said Commissioners, under the Head and Title of "Inspection of Schools," to observe how such School may be conducted; and that no Meetings of any kind whatever be summoned, held, or convened, or permitted so to be, in any such School-house, or in any part or room thereof, or on the premises hereby conveyed or intended so to be, save such as may relate exclusively to the business thereof-and that no petition or document of any kind whatsoever, save such as may relate exclusively to the business of the said School, be brought or carried into any such School-house or Premises, or any part thereof, for signature or otherwise; and that such School-house and Premises, or any part thereof, shall not be converted into a place of Public Worship, or used for any purpose save that of such School; and that from and after the day of the date of these Presents, every such school-house shall be kept in full and sufficient repair by Local Contributions solely, and that Local Contributions shall also be raised towards payment of the Teachers' Salary of every such School, after the manner set forth in the Rules and Regulations of the said Commissioners. PROVIDED ALWAYS, and it is hereby fur |