At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 19th Day Royal Assent,

Whereas there was this Day read at the Board, a Report of a Committee of the Lords of Her Majesty's most Honorable Privy Council, dated the 30th Day of May last, in the Words following, vizt.:

Your Majesty having been pleased, by your Order in Council of the 9th of March last, to refer unto this Committee, a Letter from One

ACT RELATING TO
CERTAIN CHARI-

TIES AND

SCHOOLS IN THE
PARISH OF

MAUGHOLD AND
TOWN OF RAM-

SEY.

of Your Majesty's Under-Secretaries of State,
transmitting two Acts of Tynwald passed by the
Legislature of the Isle of Man, on the 27th of
February last, intituled "An Act to continue
for a limited Time a certain Act of Tynwald
therein mentioned, relating to Insolvent Debtors ;”
and "An Act to enable the Vicar and Wardens of
the Parish of Maughold, to make Sale and dispose
of certain Houses and Premises in the Town of
Ramsey belonging to the Poor; and to enable the
Trustees of the National School in the said Town,
to make Sale of their present School-house and
Appurtenances, and to re-invest the Proceeds, and
for the Appointment of other Trustees; and to settle
and determine who are in future to be Trustees of
the Grammar School in the said Town of Ramsey;
and to enable them to make Sale and dispose of the
present Grammar School-house and Premises, and
re-invest the Proceeds, when a sufficient Sum can be
obtained, in the Purchase of Premises more eligible
for a Grammar School:" The Lords of the
Committee, in obedience to Your Majesty's
said Order of Reference, have this Day taken
the said Acts into Consideration, and do agree
humbly to report as their Opinion, to Your Ma-
jesty, that it may be adviseable for Your Majesty
to approve of, and ratify the said Acts.

Her Majesty having taken the said Report into Con-
sideration, was pleased, by and with the Advice of
her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and to order,
as it is hereby ordered, that the said Acts (which are
hereunto annexed) be, and the same are hereby con-
firmed, finally enacted, and ratified accordingly: and
the Right Honorable Sir George Grey, Bart., One of
Her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, is to
take the necessary Measures herein accordingly.

Wm. L. Bathurst.

At a Tynwald Court holden at St. John's ACT RELATING TO
Chapel, the 5th Day of July, 1850.

CERTAIN CHARITIES AND SCHOOLS IN THE PARISH OF MAUGHOLD AND

SEY.

The before-written Act of Tynwald having received TOWN OF RAM. the Royal Assent, at Buckingham Palace, the 19th Promulgation. Day of June, 1850, present, the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council, the said Act was this Day published and promulgated on the Tynwald Hill, according to the ancient Form and Custom within this Isle. Witness our Subscriptions :

Charles Hope, Lt.-Govr.
C. R. Ogden, Atty.-Genl.
Mark H. Quayle, C. R.
Jos. C. Moore, Archdeacon.
T. Ar. Corlett, Vicar-Genl.

:

14° VICT., 1851.

SCHOOL ACT.

1704.

ISLE OF MAN TO WIT.

AT a Tynwald Court holden at St. John's Chapel, on the Fifth Day of July, in the Thirteenth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, and in the Year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, Before His Excellency the Honorable Charles Hope, Lieutenant-Governor, the Council, Deemsters, and Keys.

An Act for making better Provision for Parochial and other Schoolmasters, and for making further Regulations for the better Government of the Parochial and other Schools, in the Isle of Man.

Act of Tynwald, WHEREAS by an Act of Tynwald, promulgated in the Year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and four, it is provided, "That for the promoting of Religion, Learning, and good Manners, all Persons shall be obliged to send their Children, as soon as they are capable of receiving Instruction, to some Petty School, and to continue them there until the said Children can read English distinctly, unless the Parents give a just cause to excuse themselves, approved by the Ordinary in open Court."* And Act of Tynwald, whereas by an Act promulgated in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen, it is enacted, That the Teachers of the Parochial or Petty Schools shall be allowed to receive over and above their Salaries, the Sum of Two Shillings and Eleven Pence a Quarter, for each and every Scholar taught to read English, and Three Shillings and Six Pence a Quarter for each and every Scholar taught

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* Mills' Statute Laws, page 160.

to Read and Write." And whereas in many of the SCHOOL ACT. Parishes of this Island some Quarterlands are so situated as to derive no Advantage from the Parochial School. And whereas many of the Parochial School Houses have need to be enlarged, and some of them are without Houses of Residence for the Masters, whereby the Parish may be prevented from deriving any Benefit from the Grants for Education made under the Authority of Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland. And whereas it is expedient that further and more effectual Provision should be made for the Parochial and other School-masters of this Island, and for the better Regulation and Government of the Parochial and other Schools, so as to extend the Benefit of those Schools, as far as may be, to all the Inhabitants of the Island, and especially to improve the Education of the poorer Classes. We, therefore, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, Deemsters, and Keys of the Isle of Man, do humbly beseech your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lieutenant-Governor, Council, Deemsters, and Keys of the said Isle, in Tynwald assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That at any Time after the Promulgation of Ten or more this Act, any Persons being Cess-payers of any Parish petition the within this Island, and having been so for not less General, for the than One Year immediately preceding the Date of the try to determine Requisition hereinafter mentioned, who may desire the Adoption of that such Parish should come under the Operation of Parish or otherthis Act, may deliver a Petition signed by not less than Ten such Cess-payers, containing the Names of their Places of Residence, to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop, or his Vicar-General, for Permission to hold a Vestry to determine whether the whole, or any

Mills' Statute Laws, page 414,

H

Cess-payers may

Bishop or Vicar

this Act in their