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"That in the opinion of this Conference no Bill can be regarded as
"satisfactory to the Cities and Boroughs of the County of London which
"does not provide for large representation of the Borough Councils on
"the Education Committee."
"That this Conference while deploring that the Government have
"deleted from the Bill the proposed representation of the Borough
"Councils upon the Education Committee would yet urge upon the
"Government that there should at least be delegated to the Borough
"Councils larger powers of administration."
59.—Eventually the Government withdrew from the Bill the
provisions relating to the representation of Borough Councils upon
the Education Committee and the Bill after amendment was
passed and received the Royal Assent on the 14th August last.
60.—The following report on the Act was laid before the
Council by the Town Clerk, viz.:—
EDUCATION (LONDON) ACT, 1903.
Under this Act Metropolitan Borough Councils have powers relating
to the following matters, viz.:—
1.—Appointment of Managers and the grouping of Public Elementary
Schools provided by the Local Education Authority
(sec. 2)*
2.—Sites of new Public Elementary Schools (sec. 2).
3.—Appointment of a Manager in respect of each Public Elementary
School not provided by the Local Education
Authority (sec. 6 of Education Act, 1902).*
4.—Arrangements between Councils for the exercise of any powers
of an authority having powers under the Act in respect
of the management of any school or college within the
exercise of the Council (sec. 20 of Act of 1902).
Section 1 applies the Education Act, 1902, subject to the provisions
of this Act, to London.
Section 2 provides that every public elementary school provided by
the Local Education Authority (the London County Council) within
the area of any Metropolitan Borough shall have a body of Managers;
* There are 31 "provided" schools (exclusive of 4 special schools
referred to in the concluding part of section 2 of the Act of 1903),
and 33 " non-provided" schools in the Borough of Wandsworth.