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local authority (here the Vestry), to enter workshops;
and it makes it the duty of the local authority to enforce
the provisions of the Act, or at least those provisions
of it which relate to the matters enumerated
above.
The same Act requires that every child employed in
a workshop shall attend school, and subjects to penal-;
ties the parent or occupier of a workshop who neglects
to see that this requirement is carried out. It requires
also the principal teacher of a school attended by any
child employed in a workshop to give, on the application
of an occupier, a weekly certificate of the child's
attendance, and gives the teacher power to demand
from the occupier a weekly sum in payment of the
child's schooling, which the occupier may deduct from
the child's wages. It is for the Inspector or SubInspector
of Factories, however, and not for the local
authority, to see that the requirements of the latter
clause are complied with.
In order to carry out the Act, hand-bills in large
type were prepared, one comprising the chief points
in relation to which the masters of workshops are made
liable, one—comprising the chief matters affecting
teachers of schools; and they were distributed for the
purpose of hanging up in a conspicuous place, the