same school, and it may be held on any day, between January 1 and April 30, that may be arranged with the inspector, provided that the school has met the required number of times (Article 22) since the date of the last examination.

108. If the evening school is connected with a day school, in receipt of annual grants, and the accounts of the two schools are kept as one account, the grant for the examination of the evening scholars is paid as part of the next annual grant to the whole school (Article 13).

109. If the evening school is not connected with a day school, in receipt of annual grants, or, being so connected, has a distinct and separate account, the grant is paid as soon as possible after April 30; at which date, in such cases, the evening school year is considered to end.

110. The inspector may make arrangements for the examination, at some convenient centre, of the evening scholars of several schools.

111. A separate examination will not be held for any school, unless twenty scholars are to be presented to the inspector. If less than twenty scholars are to be presented, they can be examined only at a collective examination (Article 110), or at the same time with the day scholars. The number to be presented must be stated in the managers' annual application (Article 106) to the inspector.

112. The inspector may either hold the examination himself, or entrust it to an assistant approved by the Department.

Certificates of Proficiency under the

Elementary Education Act, 1876, under Byelaws, or under any Labour Act.

113. Certificates of proficiency will be granted only after an examination held, as hereinafter described, by one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of schools, or his assistant. No separate examination of individual children will be held for the purpose.

113 (a). The inspector, after any visit paid to a school with notice (Article 11), will grant such certificates as may be required for children who have reached the standard prescribed by, or pursuant to the provisions of, the Elementary Education Act, 1876, or of any byelaw of the local authority of the district, or of any Act

for regulating the education of children employed in labour.

113 (b). Certificates will be issued for those scholars only who pass in all the three subjects in the prescribed standard, or in a higher standard.

114. For the purpose of these certificates the inspector or his assistant will examine

1. Any scholars in the school:

2. Other children, resident in the district, not being scholars in the school, allowed by the managers to attend the examination, on the application of the local authority of the district, or of a local committee.

115. When the candidates for certificates of proficiency in a district, not being scholars in an aided school, are more than fifteen in number, application for a special examination may be made by the local authority, or by a local committee, subject to the following regulations:

(a.) The application shall be sent to the Inspector for the district not less than twenty days before the date at which it is desired that the examination should be held.

(b.) The local authority, or local committee, must specify the number of children to be presented for examination, and must undertake

That all children within their district for whom certificates are needed will be allowed to attend the examination; and

That a convenient room will be provided for the examination on such day, and at such hour, as shall be fixed by the inspector.

116. The special examination may also be attended by any child qualified by age for full time employment who, having failed to pass, at the examination of its school, in one or more of the three subjects in the standard prescribed in the district, either by the Act of 1876 or by the byelaws of the district, wishes to be examined again for the purpose of obtaining a certificate.

116 (a). A child cannot be examined a second time until three months have elapsed since the date of the examination at which it failed, and must on each occasion be examined in all the three subjects of the standard in which it is presented.

117. The inspector will not grant certificates to individual children. He will forward to the managers of each school at which he has held an examination, and to the local authority, or local committee, in the case of each

special examination, a schedule showing the results of the examination of each child, and deputing the teacher of the school, or an officer of the local authority or local committee, to grant certificates to such children as have passed successfully.

117 (a). When this schedule is sent to the managers of a school, or to a local committee, they shall forthwith transmit a certified copy of it to the local authority for record.

CHAPTER III.

PENSIONS.

118. A limited number of pensions will be granted to teachers who were employed in that capacity at the date (May 9, 1862) when the minutes relating to pensions were cancelled :

(1.) The proposed pensioner must(a.) Be a certificated teacher in a public elementary school, or training college, at the time when the pension is applied for.

(b.) Have become incapable, from age or infirmity, of continuing to teach a school efficiently.

(c.) Have been employed continuously since May 9, 1862, as principal

or

assistant teacher in elementary schools or training colleges.

(d.) Be recommended by Her Majesty's Inspector, and the managers of the school served in.

(e.) Be 60 years of age (if a man), or 55 (if a woman), unless the pension is applied for on the ground of failure of health.

(2.) Pensions will be granted to those teachers only who have been, during the seven years preceding the application on their behalf, employed in schools or colleges, under inspection, and are deserving of such assistance.

(3.) Applications for a pension will be received only from the managers of the school in which the teacher is serving at the date of retirement.

(4.) These applications will be collected for decision on their comparative merits, twice a year, about Lady Day and Michaelmas.

(5.) Teachers who entered on the charge of a school before 1851, will be

119. The Department, as occasion requires, may cancel or modify articles of the Code, or may establish new articles, but may not take any action thereon until the same shall have been submitted to Parliament, and shall have lain on the table of both Houses for at least one calendar month.

120. The Code shall be printed each year, in such a form as to show separately all articles cancelled or modified, and all new articles, since the last edition, and shall be laid on the table of both Houses within one calendar month from the meeting of Parliament.

121. The schedules and notes annexed to the Code shall have the same effect as the Articles of the Code, and shall be subject to the provisions of Articles 119 and 120.

122. The changes in this Code will not affect annual grants falling due before April 1, 1878.

(Signed) RICHMOND AND GORDON,

Lord President of the Council.
SANDON,

Vice-President of the Committee
of Council on Education.

F. R. SANDFORD,

Secretary.

Education Department, February 12, 1878.

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H.R.H. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught; G.C.S.I.; Ram Singh Maharao, Raja of Bundi; Jaswant Singh, Maharajah of Bhurtpore; Ishri Prasad Narain Singh, Maharajah of Benares; and Azim Jah, Prince of Ascot; G.C.S.I.

Shivaji Chatrapati, Rajah of Kollapore; J. Fitzjames Stephen, Esq.; Raja Anand Rao Puar of Dhar; Arthur Hobhouse, Esq.; Man Singjee Raj Sahib of Drangdra; E. C. Bayley, Esq.; The Jam Shri Vibhajee of Nannagar; Sir George E. W. Couper, Bart.; and Rear-Admiral R. J. Macdonald, K.S.I.

John Thomas, Baron Redesdale; Earl of Redesdale.

6. Sir Arthur Kennedy, K.C.M.G., C.B.; Governor of Queensland.

8. William W. Cairns, Esq., C.M.G.; Governor of South Australia.

16. Rev. E. W. Benson, D.D.; Bishop of Truro.

17. C. Fitzwilliam Cadiz, Esq.; Puisne Judge at Natal.

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18. George Philipps, Esq.; Attorney-General for Hongkong.

19. J. M'Neile Price, Esq.; Surveyor-General for Hongkong.

23 A. S. Lumley, Esq.; Marshal of the Ceremonies.

25. Prince Leopold, Duke of Saxony, K.G.; G.C.S.I.

27. Prince Frederick William Victor Albert of Prussia; K.G.

Feb. 10. Horatio James Huggins, Esq.; Chief Justice of Sierra Leone.

13. C. F. Watkins, Esq.; Consul for Cyprus.

14. H. Fawcett, Esq.; ConsulGeneral and Judge at Constantinople.

19. Sir James Paget, Bart.; Serjeant Surgeon - in - Ordinary; P. G. Hewitt, Esq.; Serjeant-Surgeon Extra

Surgeon Extraordinary to Her Majesty. J. M'Neile Price, Esq.; Member of Council in Hongkong.

Feb. 20. V. H. M'Donald, J. Arthur, and J. E. Mutrie, Esqrs.; Members of Council in British Honduras.