VIII. Aids to Schools previously established. 1. 1. The aid granted to Schools previously established is limited to Salary and Books. 2. Before such aid can be granted, the Commissioners must be satisfied that the case is deserving of assistance; that th're is reason to expect that the School will be efficiently and permanently supported; that some local provision will be made in aid of the Teachers' Salary, either by School-fees or otherwise; that the School-house is in good repair and provided with a sufficient quantity of suitable Furniture; that a competent Teacher has been appointed; that the School is in operation; and that there is a sufficient daily average attendance of Children. 3. Before the Commissioners consider any application for aid, they require, from the Inspector of the District, a report upon all the circumstances of the case. 4. To entitle a School to a continuance of aid, the Honse and Furniture must be kept in sufficient repair, by means of local contributions; the School conducted, in all respects, in a satisfactory manner, and in accordance with the regulations of the Commissioners; and it must appear from the Register of the School, that there is a sufficient daily average attendance of Pupils. 2. Workhouse Schools. Extract from the Act for the more effectual Relief of the Destitute Poor of Ireland, 1st and 2nd Vict., ch. 56, sec. 49: 66 "And be it enacted, that no order of the Commissioners, Such Schools are received into connexion, and grants of Books made thereto, on condition that they shall be subject APPENDIX A. II. Rules and ers. APPENDIX A. 11. Rules and Regulations of Commission ers. to inspection by the Commissioners, or their Officers, and that the provisions of the above enactment, in reference to Religious Instruction, shall be faithfully observed. The Commissioners have resolved, with the concurrence of the Poor Law Commissioners, to award annual gratuities to a certain number of the Teachers of the Workhouse Schools, in connexion with the National Board, who shall be recommended by the District Inspectors. For Scale of Gratuities and the conditions under which they are awarded, see section V. 3. SCHOOLS ATTACHED TO PRISONS. Such Schools are received into connexion, upon the same general principles as the Workhouse Schools, and grants of Books are made thereto. IX.-1. As Applications for aid have frequently been made in respect of expenses incurred previously to any commnunication with the Commissioners, they desire it to be distinctly understood, that they will not hold themselves bound to grant assistance in any case, unless application shall have been made to them in the first instance, unless such application shall have been approved of, and unless they shall have funds at their disposal when they come to decide upon the case, to enable them to grant the required aid. Applicants are therefore recommended not to incur any expense towards the payment of which they expect the Commissioners to contribute, until the decision of the Board shall have been communicated to them. 2. Applicants for assistance are not to understand that the Commissioners are bound to grant the full amount of aid, as set forth in the foregoing Regulations, in every case; nor can they grant any unless they have sufficient funds for the purpose, which depends upon the amount placed at their disposal by Parliament. 3. Persons desirous of obtaining assistance from the Commissioners of National Education, under any of the foregoing heads, will, upon intimating to the Secretaries the nature of the aid required, be furnished with the Forms, upon which their application must be laid before the Commissioners. 4. All communications in reference to National Schools should be made by the Manager or Correspondent. The Commissioners do not correspond with Teachers. 5. All letters should be directed as under. No communications are received which are not prepaid, except those containing Documents sent from this office, and which are APPENDIX A. required to be returned. The Secretaries, Education Office, II. Rules and ers. Marlborough-street, DUBLIN. By Order of the Commissioners, MAURICE CROSS, Secretaries. III. FORMS OF LEASES AND ASSIGNMENT. No. 1.-Form A. of Lease to Commissioners of National III. Forms of Education, in their Corporate Capacity. BETWEEN day of THIS INDENTURE made the in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and of the first Part; of the second Part; and THE COMMISSIONERS OF NATIONAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND, of the third Part. WHEREAS the said Commissioners, by Her Majesty's Royal Charter, bearing date the 26th day of August. in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-five, have been incorporated, and are by said Charter empowered to take and hold Lands as therein mentioned. AND WHEREAS the Education of the Poor of Ireland has been heretofore, and is now carried on by the said Commissioners, on the principle of avoiding all interference whatsoever with conscientious scruples on the score of Religion, and accordingly, the Schools under their control are open alike to Children of all religious denominations; and no Child is required to be present at any religious instruction or exercise of which his Parents or Guardians may disapprove, and opportunities are afforded to all Children to receive separately, at particular periods, to be specified in the Rules of each School, such Religious Instruction as their Parents or Guardians approve of. AND WHEREAS the management of such Schools belongs to the respective local Patrons thereof, who have the power of appointing the Teachers subject to the approbation of the said Commis Leases and APPENDIX A. sioners, and of removing them of their own authority. AND III. Forms of Assignment. WHEREAS the said School to be called desirous that a National National School, should be established on the principles aforesaid, on the lot of ground hereinafter demised; and the said has granted and demised, and by these Presents grant and Parish of containing Barony of and bounded To hold the same to the said Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, from the day of the date of these Presents, for and during Yielding therefor during the said term, the Rent of One Penny on the Feast of St. Michael, in every year, if same shall be demanded. 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 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, and that where any course of Religious Instruction is to be pursued in any such School as aforesaid, during Schoolhours, 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 a stated time, or in a separate place, so that no Children whose Parents or Guardians object to their being so, be compelled to receive or to be present at it. And further, that no Books shall be used in the ordi nary school business, save and except those which shall be APPENDIX A. reported to, and sanctioned by the said Commissioners. III. Forms of And further, that if any other books than the Holy Scrip- of Leases and tures, or the Standard Books of the Church to which the Assignment. Children using them belong be employed in communicating Religious Instruction, then, and in such case, the Title of each such Book or Books shall be made known to the said Commissioners. And further, that all the Master or Masters, Teacher or 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 the said Commissioners 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 further, that the Public of all denominations, whether Clergy or Laity, shall 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 or 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 the said Commissioners, and that Local Contributions shall be raised towards payment of the Teachers' Salary of such School, after the manner set forth in the Rules and Regulations of the said Commissioners. PROVIDED ALWAYS, and it is hereby further expressed and declared to be the true intent and meaning of |