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provision to apply only to houses of the Rowton House type."
In reply to this suggestion the County Council stated that it was
never the intention that the clause should apply to houses other
than lodging houses of the Rowton House type and that it was
proposed to amend the clause in question to make that clear. The
Bill with amendments received the Royal assent on the 15th
August.
Education
(London).
58.—This Bill, as introduced, provided that as ordinarily constituted
the Education Committee was to consist of
92 Members of which 36 were to be Members of the
County Council appointed by that Authority, 31 Members of and
appointed by the Metropolitan Borough Councils (2 by the Common
Council, 2 by the City of Westminster, and 1 by each of the
Borough Councils) and 25 appointed by the London County
Council in accordance with a scheme to be approved by the Board
of Education; and that the Borough Councils were to be the
Managers of all provided elementary schools in their respective
Boroughs, and were, subject to any general directions given by the
County Council and to the power of the Council to determine the
number, qualifications and salaries of teachers, to exercise the
powers and duties of management as respects those schools
(including the power of appointing and dismissing teachers and
the custody of the buildings). This Council approved of these
proposals. In May the Government proposed to make certain
amendments in the provisions of the Bill relating to the constitution
of the Education Committee by which there would have
been only 12 Members representing the Borough Councils, and
also in the provisions relating to the management of schools. The
Government were informed that this Council were strongly of
opinion that the original provisions in the Bill with regard to the
constitution of the Committee should be retained so that each
Borough Council should be separately represented, and that such
Councils should have statutory powers for the management of all
provided elementary and secondary schools. The following
resolutions were also passed at a Conference of representatives of
the Cities of London and Westminster and the Metropolitan
Borough Councils convened by the Corporation of London which
Aldermen Anderson and Dryden and Councillor Keeling attended
as this Council's representatives, viz.:—