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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 immediate 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 Females (if any)?

11. When was School (Evening) established?

12. What is the name of Teacher?

13. Is he Master of the Day School?

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No. 9. QUERIES to be answered on Application to the
COMMISSIONERS of EDUCATION for aid towards Pay-
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School, County of, in the Barony of

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1. Is the Industrial Department carried on in the room where the Children are assembled for Literary Instruction; or, in a separate apartment?

2. If in the latter, what are its dimensions?

3. Is the Industrial Department conducted by the Literary Teacher?

4. State the name and age of the Industrial Teacher. 5. Has she been instructed in any Industrial TrainingSchool?

6. If so, state the name of it.

7. What description of Needlework or other Industrial occupation is carried on in the School?

8. From what source is the work procured and how disposed of?

9. If for benefit of Children, what do they receive per week? 10. State the precise time devoted each day to Literary Instruction.

11. State the precise time devoted each day to Industrial Instruction.

12. When did the Industrial Department commence operation?

13. What is the average attendance of pupils in the Industrial Department?

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16. Have all those adults been educated at any National Schools?

17. Are they able to Read, Write, and Cipher ?

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No. 10.-INSTRUCTIONS for making Applications for
Salary and Books.

Education Office,

SIR, We have to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter requesting Aid towards the establishment of a National School.

For the sake of uniformity, and to facilitate official reference. we enclose two blank Forms, upon which we are to request you will make your application, forwarding to us duplicate copies of it.

We are to observe, that the following are the principal heads of information which it is desirable all applications should

contain:

1. The Name of the School.-2. The situation as to County, Parish, Townland, and Barony.-3. Name of the nearest Post Town, and in which direction.-4. Description and condition of the House.-5. Number of School-rooms and dimensions of each.-6. Condition, description, and quantity of Furniture.-7. Names and Ages of Teacher or Teachers.-8. Average daily attendance of Children, Males and Females.-9. The School hours.-10. Arrangement, and time for Religious Instruction.-11. The Books used, (if those of the National Board, which of them).-12. Arrangement for admission of Visitors.-13. The Management of the School; if under an Individual, his name and address; If under a Committee, by whom elected.-14. Name and address of Correspondent. All applications must be signed by the parties making them; and it is particularly requested that their religious denomination (distinguishing the Clergy from the Laity) may be stated.

In supplying the foregoing "heads of information," the Commissioners do not mean to prescribe any form of application from which you are not to deviate-the propose them merely for your assistance; and you will please to bear in mind, that it is most desirable the rules by which the School is governed should be distinctly set forth, in order that the Commissioners may be enabled to come to a just decision upon the merits of your application.

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In order that you may be fully aware, what extent of aid the Commissioners can give, we are to inform you, that, in consequence of the increased demands upon their funds for payment of Teachers' Salaries, the Commissioners have been compelled to limit their grants to Salaries and Books, except where they may see fit to grant aid for the building of Schoolhouses, in which case the Premises must be vested in them in their Corporate capacity.

The Commissioners do not make grants for the repairs of School-houses, and their grants for Furniture are confined exclusively to vested Schools; your application, therefore, will not be favourably entertained unless the School-house be in good repair, and provided with a sufficient quantity of suitable Furniture; a competent Teacher or Teachers must be appointed, and the School be in operation, before the application can be considered. You must also be prepared to show from a record kept in the School what has been the AVERAGE ATTENDANCE OF SCHOLARS.

Should your application be granted, the Salary will be rated according to the annexed statement of the regulations adopted by the Commissioners for the classification and remuneration of Teachers.

A supply of National School Books, proportioned to the number of Children in attendance, will be granted. The Funds of the Commissioners will not enable them to give a Free Stock sufficiently large for the entire wants of the School. It will consist chiefly of Books and Lessons suited to the junior classes, viz. -Spelling and Reading Tablets, First, Second, and Third Books, Grammars, Arithmetics, Copy Lines, and Arithmetical Tablets, also a Register and Report Book. The more advanced Lesson Books, Maps, Slates, Pencils, and Stationery, which you are expected to purchase, can only be granted on payment of the reduced prices.

You will also observe, that the Aid will not be continued unless you keep the School-house and Furniture in a proper state of repair, the Commissioners being prevented, by the rules laid down for their guidance, from allocating any portion of the Parliamentary Grant towards the repairs of any Schoolhouses except those that are vested in themselves.

As soon as you forward your application to us, in duplicate, upon the blank sheets herewith sent, we shall direct the District Inspector to appoint a convenient time to wait upon you for the purpose of inquiring into all the circumstances of the case, and procuring such further information as the Commissioners may require.

In conclusion, we are to inform you, that it is the rule of the Commissioners to consider each application in the order of the date at which it is received in this Office.

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No. 11.-INSTRUCTIONS for making Application for Aid APPENDIX A. towards Building National School-houses.

Education Office.

SIR, We have to acknowledge the receipt of your Letter requesting Aid towards the Building of a National School.

For the sake of uniformity, and to facilitate official reference, we enclose two Blank Forms, upon which we are to request you will make your application, forwarding to us duplicate copies of it.

We are to observe, that the following are the principal heads of information which it is necessary all applications should contain:

1. The name by which the proposed School is to be desig nated.-2. The situation of the proposed site, as to County, Parish, Townland, and Barony.-3. Name and profession of the person making a Lease of the site, under what title he makes the Lease.-4. The length of Tenure.-5. The Rent (if any).-6. The expected attendance of Children, Male and Female Whether one or two School-rooms will be required. -7. Name and address of Correspondent.

All applications must be signed by the parties making them; and it is particularly requested that their religious denominations (distinguishing the Clergy from the Laity) may be stated.

In supplying the foregoing "heads of information," the Commissioners do not mean to prescribe any form of application from which you are not to deviate-they propose them merely for your assistance, and to facilitate the Inspector of the District in making the necessary inquiries.

As soon as you forward to us your application, in duplicate, upon the blank sheets herewith sent, we shall direct the Inspector of the District to appoint a convenient time to wait upon you for the purpose of inquiring into all the circumstances of the case, and procuring such further information as the Commissioners may require; upon the receipt of his report, the application will be considered in the order of its date.

We beg to state, for your further information, that where the Commissioners make a grant for the erection of a Schoolhouse, they will require the Premises to be vested in them in their Corporate capacity, for the purpose of National Educacation, before the works are commenced; and no Grant will be made unless a satisfactory Lease for sixty years, or longer can be given, or for at least three lives, or thirty-one years.

Although the Commissioners do not absolutely refuse aid towards the erection of School-houses on ground connected with a place of Worship, yet they much prefer having them erected on ground which is not so connected, where it can be obtained; they therefore expect that, before Church, Chapel, or Meeting-house ground be adopted as the site of a Schoolhouse, strict inquiry be made whether another convenient site can be obtained, and that the result shall be stated to them.

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The cost of the house, including privies, is determined by the number of Children which it is intended to accommodate, allowing six square feet per Child. The Commissioners consider a sum not exceeding £1 for each, to be sufficient for the purpose, of which they will contribute two-thirds; the remaining one-third must be locally raised: for example, a School-house capable of accommodating one hundred Children should contain an area of six hundred square feet. The expense of erecting such a Building, including privies, should not exceed £100. Of this sum, the proportion granted by the Commissioners is £66 13s. 4d., being the two-thirds.

The quantity of furniture is also determined by the number of Children, and one-third of the whole cost must, in like manner, be locally raised.

Where a Grant is made for building a School-house, the applicants are bound to a strict observance of the Rules of the Board, a copy of which is transmitted herewith.

We are also to acquaint you, that the Commissioners, being desirous of complying with the increasing claims made upon them for assistance, will have no objection to entertain applications for Salary and Books, wherever temporary Schools can be established, until the new Building, should a Grant be made for the purpose, can be opened for the reception of the Pupils.

Should you consider it desirable to avail yourself of such assistance, you are requested to intimate it to us without loss of time, in order that the necessary forms of application may be forwarded to you.

The conditions upon which Salary and Books will be awarded are these That the School-house be in good repair; that it be provided with suitable Furniture; that a competent Teacher or Teachers be appointed, and the School in operation attended by a sufficient number of Children.

You are requested to observe that the Commissioners are prevented by the rules laid down for their guidance, from allocating any portion of the Parliamentary Grant towards the repairs of any School-houses, except those that are vested in themselves.

We are desired to state for your further information, that the rule of the Commissioners is to restrict their aid EXCLUSIVELY TO SALARY AND BOOKS, except to Schools towards the erection of which they may consider it proper to contribute, and which, as already stated, must be vested in them for the purposes of National Education.

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