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Catholic Poor School Committee as to the mode of securing it) to effect a satisfactory settlement of a Management Clause for Roman Catholic Schools. The terms might be as general as possible, and perhaps "management and superintendence,' as applicable to the religious and moral instruction of the children and to every other department of school management generally, might avoid the objections to more specific terms, and meet the views of both the Lords of the Privy Council and the Catholic Poor School Committee.

SIR, I HAVE the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 19th of August, and to inform you that it has been submitted to the Lord President of the Council.

The Committee on Education hope that the enclosed clause will be found to embody the views which the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee have expressed, consistently with the principles which my Lords have laid down for the administration of the Parliamentary Grant.

I am to state that their Lordships are not prepared to make any further alteration in the clause, and that, in case the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee should have further alterations to propose, my Lords must confine themselves to approving or disapproving of them when specifically submitted.

Their Lordships trust that they have, in the course of the foregoing communications, given sufficient proof of their earnest desire to meet the views of the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee and to afford ample security that the religious instruction in Roman Catholic Schools erected with public aid shall be given conformably to the doctrine and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church.

If, however, my Lords should be disappointed in the expectation which they entertain that the question between the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee and themselves is at length brought to a satisfactory conclusion, their Lordships are unable to anticipate a result more in accordance with their wishes from

any proposition or explanation remaining to be made on their

part.

I have the honor to be, &c.,
(Signed)

The Hon. Charles Langdale,
Roman Catholic Poor School Committee.

R. R. W. LINGEN.

And it is hereby declared that the said school shall be at all times open to the inspection of the Inspector or Inspectors of Schools for the time being appointed in conformity with the Minute of the Committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council on Education relating to conditions of aid to Roman Catholic schools and bearing date the 18th day of December 1847 Provided always that such Inspector or Inspectors shall be in all things guided and limited in their duties by the instructions of the said Committee of Council to Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools dated August 1840 so far as such instructions are modified and limited by the said Minute of the 18th day of December 1847 and are applicable to Roman Catholic schools but not further or otherwise and any departure from the terms of the said last mentioned Minute on the part of Government shall not oblige the committee of management of the said school either to submit to any inspection other than that mentioned in the said Minute of Council or to refund the money advanced by Government or any part thereof and the said school and premises and the funds and present endowments thereof and such future endowments in respect whereof no other disposition shall be made by the donor thereof shall be directed controlled governed and managed in manner hereinafter specified that is to say the priest or priests for the time being having care of the congregation assembling for religious worship at the Roman Catholic church or chapel of St. in

the parish of
under or by virtue of faculties
duly received from or confirmed by the Roman Catholic
bishop for the time being of the district or other ecclesiastical
division in which the said parish is situate so long as such
faculties shall be subsisting and unrevoked shall have the
management and superintendence of the religious instruction
of all the scholars attending the said school with power on
Sundays to use or direct the premises to be used for the pur-
poses of such religious instruction exclusively But in all
other respects the management and superintendence of the
school and premises and of the funds and endowments thereof
and the selection appointment and dismissal of the school-
master and schoolmistress and their assistants (except as
hereinafter is excepted) shall be vested in and exercised by a
committee consisting of such priest or priests for the time
being holding faculties as aforesaid and of
other
other persons being Roman Catholics of whom the following
shall be the first appointed That is to say

And any vacancy which may occur in the number of persons last mentioned by death resignation incapacity or otherwise shall be filled up by the election of a person being a Roman Catholic and the power of electing such person shall be vested in the remaining members of the said committee until the Roman Catholic bishop of the district or other ecclesiastical division within which the said school shall be situated shall in writing direct that the election shall be by the contributors to the funds of the said school and thereupon and thenceforth such election shall be vested in such of the contributors during the then current year to the amount of 10s. each at the least to the funds of the said school being Roman Catholics 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 10s. so however that no person shall be entitled to give more than six votes in respect of any sum so contributed Provided nevertheless that no default of election nor any vacancy shall prevent the other members of the committee from acting until the vacancy shall be filled up 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 committee The priest or senior priest for the time being of the Roman Catholic church or chapel of St.

aforesaid shall be chairman of all meetings of the 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 such 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 it is hereby declared that no priest shall be or continue a member of the said committee or exercise any control or interference whatsoever in the said school who does not hold faculties duly received from or confirmed by the Roman Catholic bishop for the time being of the district or other ecclesiastical division in which the said school is situated subsisting and unrevoked and that no person shall vote at any election for or be appointed or continue a member of the said committee or be appointed or continue a master or mistress in the said school or be employed therein in any capacity whatsoever who is not a Roman Catholic Provided always that the

priest or senior priest for the time being of the Roman
Catholic church or chapel of St.
aforesaid shall

have power to suspend any teacher from his office or to
exclude any book from use in the said school upon religious
grounds a written statement to that effect by the said priest or
senior priest having first been laid before the committee and
such suspension or exclusion shall endure until the decision of
superior ecclesiastical authority thereon can with due diligence
be obtained and such decision shall when obtained and laid
before the committee in writing under the hand of such su-
perior ecclesiastic be final and conclusive in the matter And
the committee of management for the time being is hereby
expressly required to take all such steps as may be necessary
for immediately carrying the said decision into complete effect
And it is hereby further declared that if the said superior eccle-
siastical authority upon any such reference as aforesaid shall
direct or award that any master or 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 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 committee may from time to time at a meeting to
be held in the month of
in each year elect and
appoint a committee of not more than
ladies
being Roman Catholics 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.

SIR,

(No. 17.)

18, Nottingham Street, Marylebone, 29 October 1850.

I HAVE the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 26th instant, enclosing a clause, which the Committee on Education hope may be found to embody the views lately expressed by the Catholic Poor School Commit

tee.

I beg to assure their Lordships that I shall have great pleasure in laying their proposed clause before a general meeting of the Committee upon the 26th of next month, in the confident anticipation that this correspondence will at length be brought to a satisfactory conclusion.

I would only wish to suggest that, as in the clauses prepared for insertion in the Trust Deeds of Church of England Schools, the word "moral " as well as "religious instruction" is adopted. the same term should likewise be added in their Lordships' proposed Clause for Roman Catholic Schools. As I can anticipate no objection upon the part of the Lord President of the Council to the adoption of these similar terms in the respective Clauses of Church of England Schools and Roman Catholic Schools, I would earnestly press for their Lordships' reply previous to the meeting of the Catholic Poor School Committee in next month, when I sincerely trust that I shall be authorized to express their concurrence in the proposed clause.

To the Secretary.

I have the honor to be, &c.,

(Signed)

Committee of Council on Education,

Catholic Poor School Committee.

CHARLES LANGDALE.

(No. 18.)

SIR,

Committee of Council on Education, Privy Council Office, Downing Street, 9 November 1850.

In reply to your letter of the 29th ultimo, I am directed by the Lord President to state that the Education Committee of the Privy Council regard with satisfaction the probability of closing the correspondence upon such terms as may enable my Lords to co-operate in the erection of schools with the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee.

Their Lordships will be prepared to admit the word "moral" only in the same context as that in which it occurs in the Deeds of Church of England Schools, viz., "superintendence of the moral and religious instruction."

If the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee prefer this context to the present wording, " management and superintendence of the religious instruction," their Lordships have no objection to offer to the substitution of the one for the other.

The Committee of Council must however decline to approve of any third context, compounded out of the two foregoing contexts, and not occurring in the Deeds of Church of England Schools. They trust therefore that the Roman Catholic Poor School Committee will, by not submitting any such proposal, spare them the pain of having to withhold their approbation. I have the honor to be, &c. R. R. W. LINGEN.

(Signed)

The Hon. Charles Langdale,
18, Nottingham Street, Marylebone.