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penalty of not exceeding £10, for a second offence £20, and for
a third or subsequent offence, or where the person committing the
offence has any betting transaction with a person under sixteen
years of age, to a fine of £50 or to imprisonment for not exceeding
six months. The Council presented petitions in favour of the
Bills. The House of Commons' Bill was dropped, but the other
Bill passed and received Royal Assent on the 21st December.
92. No action was taken with regard to the other Bills abovementioned.
Patriotio
School.
93. The London County Council in April, 1906, gave notice
of their intention to accept the transfer from the
Patriotic Fund Corporation of the school at the
Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth Common, under
the provisions of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. This
Council objected to the proposal on the grounds that the school
was a non-local one providing for the education of children from
all parts of the country, that there did not appear to be any need,
financially, for the transfer, and that the Corporation ought not
to be relieved of their responsibility to maintain the school; and
also asked the Board of Education to be allowed to be heard
against the proposal. The Board of Education replied that they
had considered this CounciPs representations, but, in view of the
facts that the children in the asylum were resident in London,
that the Patriotic Fund Corporation did not propose themselves
to continue the school if the transfer did not take effect, and in
that event it would be necessary for the County Council to find
school accommodation for the children, involving the erection of
a new school, they were not prepared to refuse to consider the
proposal on the grounds of this Council's objection. The transfer
was sanctioned and took effect on the 1st January, 1907. For the
purposes of management the school has been added to the Garratt
Lane, Swaffield Road, and Wandsworth Guardians Schools
Group.
94. The Council has also had before it the subject of the
expiration of the lease of the land belonging to the Patriotic Fund
Corporation adjoining the asylum, and the London County
Council were asked whether they had taken any steps with the
view of the acquisition of the land to add to Wandsworth Common
; but the County Council replied that they did not see their