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In the Parish or District, by such of the contributors during the then current year to in that case, the words the amount of ten shillings each at the least to the funds of printed in Italic may be omitted. the school being members of the Church of England and qualified by residence or estate as the persons to be elected as shall be present at the meeting duly convened for the purpose of the election or not being present thereat shall vote by any paper sent on or before the day of such meeting to the chairman thereof and signed by any such contributor in which shall be named the person or persons whom such contributor shall desire to elect and each of the contributors qualified to vote shall be entitled at every such election to give one vote in respect of each such sum of ten shillings so however that no person shall be entitled to give more than six votes in respect of any sum so contributed Provided that no appointment to serve the office of church or chapel warden nor any election as aforesaid shall give or vest any right to or in any lay person to serve upon the Committee or in anywise to interfere with the management of the school and the funds and endowments thereof until after he shall have in the presence of the Chairman at a meeting of the said Committee made and signed in a book to be kept at the said school a declaration in the manner and form following that is to say “I, A.B., do hereby solemnly and sincerely declare that I am a member of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established" or " I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am and have been for three years last past a Communicant Omit one or the of the Church of England "¶ Provided also that no default other Form of Declara- of election nor any vacancy during any current year shall prevent the other members of the said Committee from acting until the next annual election or until the vacancy shall be filled up And it is hereby declared that no person shall be appointed or continue to be the master or mistress of the school who shall not be a member of the Church of England And the said Committee shall annually select one of the members thereof to act as secretary who shall keep minutes of the proceedings at the meetings thereof in a book which shall be provided for that purpose and shall give due notice of all extraordinary meetings to each member of the said Committee And the principal officiating minister of the said (parish) or (ecclesiastical district) shall be chairman of all meetings of the said Committee when present thereat and at any meetings from which he shall be absent the members attending the same shall appoint one of their number to be chairman thereof and all matters which shall be brought before any meetings shall be decided by the majority of votes of the members attending the same and voting upon the question And if upon any matter there shall be an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second being the casting vote And in case any difference shall arise between the minister or curate and the Committee of Management hereinbefore mentioned respecting the prayers to be used in the school not being the Sunday school or the religious

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instruction of the scholars attending the same or any regulation connected therewith or the exclusion of any book the use of which in the school may be objected to on religious grounds or the dismissal of any teacher from the school on account of his or her defective or unsound instruction of the children in religion the minister or curate or any member of the said Committee may cause a written statement of the matter in difference to be laid before the Bishop of the diocese within which such school shall be situated a copy thereof having been previously communicated to the Committee or minister or curate if they or he shall not have been parties or privy to the making of the statement respectively and the Bishop may enquire concerning and determine the matter in difference and the decision of the Bishop in writing under his hand thereon when laid before the said Committee shall be final and conclusive in the matter And the Committee of Management for the time being is hereby expressly required to take all such measures as may be necessary for immediately carrying the said decision into complete effect And in case any difference other than and except such difference as last described shall arise in the Committee of Management the minority thereof (being not fewer in number than one-third of the whole of the said Committee) may make request in writing to the Lord President of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council for the time being and to the Bishop of the diocese wherein the said school shall be situated, and thereupon the said Lord President may nominate one of the Inspectors of schools appointed as aforesaid to be an arbitrator in the matter in difference and the said Bishop may nominate one of the beneficed clergymen of his Diocese to be another arbitrator in the same matter And the arbitrators so nominated as aforesaid shall jointly select one of Her Majesty's Justices of the peace being a lay member of the said Church of England as another arbitrator And in case they shall not jointly select such third arbitrator within the space of thirty days next ensuing their first meeting the Archbishop of the province within which the said school shall be situated and the said Lord President may jointly appoint a third arbitrator And the three arbitrators so nominated as aforesaid shall enquire concerning the matter in difference and the award in writing under the hands of the said arbitrators or of any two of them when laid before the said Committee shall be final and conclusive in the matter And the Committee of Management for the time being is hereby expressly required to take all such measures as may be necessary for immediately carrying the said award into complete effect And it is hereby further declared that if the said Bishop or the said arbitrators upon any such reference as aforesaid shall direct or award that any master mistress or teacher in the said school shall be dismissed such direction or award when a copy thereof shall have been served upon the said master mistress or

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teacher personally or by the same being left at his or her place of abode or at the school aforesaid addressed to the said master mistress or teacher as the case may require shall operate as a dismissal of the said master mistress or teacher so as to prevent him or her thenceforth from having any interest in his or her office or in the said school or premises under or by virtue of this deed and so as to disqualify him or her from holding thenceforth any right or interest under this deed by virtue of his or her previous or any future appointment. And the said Committee may within one month after each annual election select and appoint a Committee of not more than ladies being members of the said Church of England to assist them in the visitation and management of the girls and infants schools which ladies Committee shall remain in office until the end of the current year.

Management Clause-B.

AND it is hereby declared that the said school shall be Deeds of Church of Eng- at all times open to the inspection of the Inspector or Inspectors of schools for the time being appointed in conformity with the Order in Council bearing date the 10th day of August 1840 and shall always be in union with and conducted according to the principles and in furtherance of the ends and designs of the National Society for promoting the Education of the Poor in the principles of the Established Church throughout England and Wales and subject to and * The words printed in conformity with the declaration aforesaid the said school in Italic are to be omit- and premises and the funds and present endowments thereof tended to place the and such future endowments in respect whereof no other School in union with the disposition shall be made by the donor thereof shall be directed National Society.

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controlled governed and managed in manner hereinafter specified that is to say the principal officiating minister for the time being of the said (parish) or (ecclesiastical district) shall have the superintendence of the religious and moral instruction of all the scholars attending the said school with power to use or direct the premises to be used for the purposes of a Sunday school under his exclusive control and management but in all other respects the management direction control and government of the said school and premises and of the funds and endowments thereof and the selection appointment and dismissal of the schoolmaster and schoolmistress and their assistants (except when under the provisions hereinafter mentioned the dismissal of any master mistress or assistant shall be awarded by the Bishop of the diocese or the arbitrators as the case may be) shall be vested in and exercised by a committee consisting of the principal officiating minister for the time being of the said (parish) or (ecclesiastical district) his licensed curate or curates if the minister shall appoint him or them to be a member or members of the said committee† + Here may be inserted, if deemed ad- and of of whom the following visable,"such of the

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continuing to be§ (members) or (communicants) of the Church Omit of England as by law established and to have a beneficial interest to the extent of a life estate at the least in real property situated in the said (parish) or (ecclesiastical district) or to be resident therein or in a Parish or Ecclesiastical District adjoining thereto|| and to be contributors in every It may be considered year to the amount of twenty shillings each at the least to the purely parochial constifunds of the said school and any vacancy which shall occur titution for the School, when duly qualified in the number of the persons last mentioned by death re- managers can be found signation incapacity or otherwise shall be filled up by the in the Parish or District. election of a person or persons so qualified as aforesaid and printed in Italie may be the persons so to be elected shall be elected by the majority of votes of such of the contributors during the year current at the time of the election to the amount of ten shillings each at the least to the funds of the said school being members of the Church of England and qualified as the person to be elected by residence or estate as shall be present at the meeting duly convened for the purpose of the election or not being present thereat shall vote by any paper or papers sent on or before the day of such meeting to the chairman thereof and signed by any such contributor in which shall be named the person or persons whom such contributor shall desire to elect and each of the contributors qualified to vote shall be entitled at every such election to give one vote in respect of each such sum of ten shillings so however that no person shall be entitled to give more than six votes in respect of any sum so contributed provided also that no ¶

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such election shall give or vest any right to or in any lay sary, person to serve in or upon the said committee or in anywise or Chapel Warden, nor to interfere with the management of the school and the funds any. and endowments thereof until after he shall have in the presence of the Chairman at a meeting of the said Committee made and signed in a book to be kept at the said school a declaration in the manner and form following that is to say "I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am a member of the United Church of England and Ireland as by law established" or "I, A.B., do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am and have been for three years last past a communicant of the Church of England ”米米 Provided also Omit one that no default of election nor any vacancy shall prevent the other Form of Declaraother members of the said Committee from acting until the require. vacancy shall be filled up And it is hereby declared that no

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'person shall be appointed or continue to be the master or mistress of the school who shall not be a member of the said Church of England And the said Committee shall annually select one of the members thereof to act as secretary who shall keep minutes of the proceedings at the meetings thereof. in a book which shall be provided for that purpose and shall give due notice of all extraordinary meetings to each member of the said Committee. And the principal officiating minister of the said (parish) or (ecclesiastical district) shall be chairman of all meetings of the said Committee when present thereat and at any meetings from which he shall be absent the members attending the same shall appoint one of their number to be chairman thereof and all matters which shall be brought before any meetings shall be decided by the majority of votes of the members attending the same and voting upon the question And if upon any matter there shall be an equality of votes the chairman shall have a second being the casting vote And in case any difference shall arise between the minister or curate and the Committee of Management hereinbefore mentioned respecting the prayers to be used in the school not being the Sunday school or the religious instruction of the scholars attending the same or any regulation connected therewith or the exclusion of any book the use of which in the school may be objected to on religious grounds or the dismissal of any teacher from the school on account of his or her defective or unsound instruction of the children in religion the minister or curate or any member of the said Committee may cause a written statement of the matter in difference to be laid before the Bishop of the diocese within which the school shall be situated a copy thereof having been previously communicated to the said Committee or minister or curate if they or he shall not have been parties or privy to the making of the statement respectively and the Bishop may enquire concerning and determine the matter in difference and the decision of the Bishop in writing under his hand thereon when laid before the said Committee shall be final and conclusive in the matter And the Committee of Management for the time being is hereby expressly required to take all such measures as may be necessary for immediately carrying the said decision into complete effect And in case any difference other than and except such difference as last described shall arise in the Committee of Management the minority thereof (being not fewer in number than one-third of the whole of the Committee) may make request in writing to the Lord President of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council for the time being and to the Bishop of the diocese wherein the said school shall be situated, and thereupon the said Lord President may nominate one of the Inspectors of schools appointed as aforesaid to be an arbitrator in the matter in difference and the said Bishop may nominate one of the beneficed clergymen of the said diocese to be another arbitrator in the same matter And the said arbitrators

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