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completed the audit, he shall sign the balance sheet. It appears from the
published statement of accounts and balance sheet for the year ending 31st
December, 1889, that such balance sheet has not been signed by the Auditor, if
there was one, but has been signed by ten Governers instead ; further, no mention
is made in the said statement of accounts of any sum paid out of the Foundation
as remuneration to any Auditor, thus clearly establishing the fact, that there has
been no Auditor appointed, and no audit taken of the accounts, as laid down
in the amended scheme.
8. By Clause 14 of the amended scheme, it was provided that the
Governing body of the Boys' School should consist of 22 members, of whom one
shall be the Master and three the Wardens of the Mercers' Company for the
time being, nine shall be appointed by the Court of Assistants of the Company,
and the remaining nine shall be appointed as follows:—
Three by the Hebdomadal Council of the University of Oxford; three
by the Council of the Senate of the University of Cambridge; and three by
the Senate of the University of London.
By Clause 15, it was provided that Governors of the Girls' School (which
has not yet been established) should consist of the said 22 persons, and of four
women, to be chosen by them.
9. The Mercers' Company have virtually the whole management of this
School, having 13 votes to 9 of the Universities; the members of two
Universities, owing to distance, can hardly be expected to attend all General
or Special Meetings of the Governing Body or of its Committees; and that of
the present 22 members, seven of whom form a quorum, three bear the name
of Palmer, and four the name of Watney. The Clerk to the Governors also
bears the name of Watney.
10. No provision is made by the said amended scheme for giving to the
people of London, in which the School is—or might be—situated, any share in
the management, by representation, either direct or indirect; through elected
bodies, as the London County Council, the School Board for London, or
otherwise.
11. No Girls' School or Schools has or have been yet established as
ordered for not less than 400 girls under the provision of Clause 35 (2) of the
amended scheme, though the Governing Body are now erecting an enormous
Gymnasium, the cost of which could easily have been made to defray the
expense of the erection of a Girls' School.
12. By Clause 35 (1) it is ordered to have a School, divided into two Departments,
one of which shall be a Classical Department for about 500 boys, and
the other a Modern Department for about 500 boys; and, judging from the
published statements of accounts, there were but 440 boys who paid tuition
fees, and 153 boys on the Foundation, making a total of only about 600 instead
of about 1,000 boys; further, the number of boys in each Department of the
School cannot be accurately determined, but it is believed that the major part
of the boys who pay tuition fees are in the Modern Department, and all—or
nearly all—of the 153 boys on the Foundation are in the Classical Department,
instead of 77 as ordered by Clause 75 of the amended scheme.
13. Clause 38 of the amended scheme declares that there shall be a Head
Master of each Department of St. Paul's School, and that the Head Master of
the Classical Department shall be called the High Master. Under Clauses 54
and 55 they have, among other powers, the appointment and removal of all