8th. That it shall be the business of the master, with the assistance of the under master or usher, regard being had to the qualifications required of them by the preceding 7th rule, to teach the classics, mathematics, reading, writing, and arithmetic, to the children of such persons as are able and willing to pay in part for their education (the rate of charges to be paid to the master for such education being fixed by the committee), and also to teach the same several branches of education (or such of them as the committee may from time to time direct) to such twelve poor children or more or less, the number to be fixed by the committee, belonging to the parish of Stokesley (the children belonging to the township of Stokesley being nevertheless first preferred) whose parents may in the judgment of the committee be thought so poor as not to be well able to pay for themselves.

9th. That independently of the profits to be derived by the master from teaching the classics, mathematics, reading, writing, and arithmetic, according to the last rule, he shall be allowed an annual salary of 1307. to be paid half yearly, so soon as the dividends of the stock in which the charity funds shall be invested shall be received, and out of which salary he shall pay to the under master or usher such an annual sum as shall from time to time be fixed by the committee.

10th. That in case a house shall hereafter be purchased as a residence for the master according to the 6th rule, there shall thenceforth be deducted from his salary, such a yearly sum as the committee shall think proper, and the master shall also be at the expense of keeping such house in repair, and shall pay all taxes and assessments in respect of it.

11th. That once in every half year the boys shall be publicly examined in the several branches of education, and the best rewarded for their proficiency by prizes, for which purpose the sum of 51. shall be set apart out of the dividends of the charity fund every year.

12th. That the surplus dividends of the stock in which the charity fund is or may hereafter be invested shall form a fund for repairs and improvements, and the trustees shall be justified in paying for such repairs and improvements ordered by the committee out of that fund, but they shall not touch the capital without the order of the lord chancellor on a special application to his lordship for that purpose.

13th. That in the course of the month of December in each year, the rector of Stokesley for the time being shall summon or cause to be summoned, by a written notice to be personally served on each of the other members of the committee, or left at their respective places of abode, a general meeting to be held on some day not earlier than the 15th or later than the 30th day of January then next following, at

which meeting the trustees of the charity funds shall produce their accounts to be audited, and such accounts shall not be considered as allowed so as to discharge the accounting party till they shall have been signed by the major part of the members of the committee present at the meeting, the chairman having a casting vote; but if from absence from Stokesley or any other cause, the rector for the time being shall omit to summon or call such general meeting, then it shall be lawful for any four of the committee for the time being, on or after the 1st day of January in each year, to summon or call such general meeting by personal notice on the several other members of the committee, or by leaving the same as to the rector at the rectory house in Stokesley, and as to the other members of the committee at their respective places of abode, such notice to be given ten days at least previously to such meeting being appointed to be held.

14th. That it shall be lawful for any four members of the committee for the time being, from time to time, as and when they shall see fit, to summon or cause to be summoned by written notice to be personally served on the remaining members of the committee, or to be left as respects the rector for the time being at the rectory house in Stokesley, and as respects the other members of the committee at their respective places of abode, a special meeting for the transaction of such business connected with the due regulation and management of the said charity and its funds, as may from time to time arise, the object and purpose of each such meeting to be shortly stated in the notice thereof to be so given. And it shall be lawful for the members present at each such meeting to transact all such business as shall be specified in the notice thereof to be so given, and if necessary, to adjourn such meeting to some future day or days as often as occasion may require, the notice of each such meeting to be given fourteen days at the least previously to the day appointed for its being held.

15th. That the rector of Stokesley for the time being shall be the chairman at all meetings of the committee, but in case of his absence from any meeting, then the chairman shall be chosen by a majority of members present at any such meeting, and in case of the members being equal the members present shall draw lots for a casting vote, which casting vote shall determine the election of such chairman.

16th. That the committee shall have the appointment of the masters so often as there shall be occasion for it, but no one shall be appointed without previously producing a certificate, in the handwriting of the rector for the time being, that he has been examined and is duly qualified for the office.

17th. That the committee shall have the power of removing

any master for misconduct or irregularity, and the master so removed shall forthwith quit the possession of the schoolroom and premises, and shall lodge the keys at the rectory house in Stokesley, to be kept by the rector till the appointment of a

new master.

18th. That whenever the committee is mentioned in these rules, the decision of the major part of them present at any meeting is to be understood, and the chairman in case of the votes being equal shall have in addition a casting vote (g).

DIRECTIONS in the Scheme of a Grammar-school.

1st. That the grammar-school master shall have a salary of 1. per annum, and shall also have the assessed taxes and necessary repairs of the school house and premises paid and allowed out of the rents of the said trust estates, such taxes and repairs having been usually paid and allowed in addition to the salary of the grammar-school master; and that such salary shall be paid quarterly; and that the system of education in the said school shall entitle the free scholars, who are taught the classics, to be also taught English grammar, writing and arithmetic, without any charge or further salary in respect thereof; and that such scholars shall not be admitted or admissible into such school until they shall have attained the full age of eight years. And that a schoolroom be erected on part of the ground belonging to the grammar-school for the purpose of teaching English, writing and arithmetic, and that the sum of 7. and no more be expended in the erecting such room. And that an additional usher be appointed by the master of the said school for the purpose of teaching English, writing and arithmetic, at the annual salary of 1.

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2nd. That an usher or assistant be appointed under the said grammar-school master, with an annual salary of the said usher being allowed 1. per annum from the funds of other estates, and that the head master shall have the nomination and appointment of such usher or assistant, who shall be a member of one of the universities, or otherwise well qualified for the duties of the office, of the established church, and that such salary shall commence from the period of such appointment being made, and shall be paid quarterly.

(g) In re Preston School. The above rules and regulations were absolutely confirmed by the court,

29th July, 1834. Reg.lib.B. 1833, fol. 1255.

DIRECTIONS in a Scheme as to Exhibitions for Two Boys to be sent from a Grammar-school to either of the two Universities.

That a sufficient part of the rents and profits of the said charity estates shall be set apart at the half-yearly receipts of the rents and profits of the charity estates, for the purpose of paying the several sums of 801. and 807., and carried by the receiver of the charity estates to a distinct account, to be called the exhibition account; and that payment of the said exhibitions shall be made to the persons entitled thereto by half-yearly payments, (that is to say) on the 12th day of January and 12th day of July in each year; and that the mayor and aldermen, vicar and four churchwardens for the time being of the said town of N. or the major part of them for the time being, shall have the right of electing the said exhibitions, but that previous to such election the said electors shall call to their assistance such person or persons as the archbishop of York for the time being shall from time to time appoint, for the purpose of examining before them such boys as may be candidates for the said exhibitions, with respect to their classical learning and fitness for such exhibition; and that the person so to be appointed shall be paid his reasonable expenses out of the rents of the said charity estates, not exceeding ten guineas. That the first election of such exhibitions shall take place on the day of now next ensuing, and that boys whose education at the said school may have ceased since the of 1830, shall be eligible on such first election as well as boys now in a course of education at the said school; and that fourteen days previous to such and every future election, the master of the said grammar-school shall deliver or cause to be delivered to the said several electors of such exhibitions, a certificate of the names and ages of all the boys in the said school or who may have ceased to belong to the said school since the said day of , 1830, who in his opinion shall appear to be proper candidates for such exhibitions. And that no boy shall be competent to be elected to the said exhibitions who has not been educated in the said grammar-school of N. during the space of three years at the least, nor until he has attained the age of seventeen years, and that such exhibitions shall be continued to such boys as shall be elected thereto for the space of four years, from the time they shall become members of the college in which they may be admitted, and provided they so long continue to be resident members of such college.

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SCHEME for the application of a Sum of Stock given by Will, dated April, 1791, for the support of a School (h).

That the school so established at Ketton shall be permanent, and be considered as founded and endowed under the will of the said testatrix, for the purpose of educating poor female children, born of parents residing in the said parish of Ketton, in useful knowledge suitable to their stations in life, and for instructing them in habits of industry and in religious and moral principles; and the same shall be carried on at such place within the said parish, and in such manner as the trustees hereinafter named shall direct. That the said 10007. 3 per cent. reduced annuities, shall remain in the name of the accountant general of the court of chancery, in trust in this cause, and the interest or dividends thereof shall be paid by him to the vicar of the said parish of Ketton for the time being, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned. That the Rev. the vicar of Ketton, and , a justice of the peace for the said county, shall be the present trustees of the said charity; and in all future times the vicar for the time being of Ketton aforesaid, shall be one of the trustees of the said charity, and that the said [justice] and [vicar], and any other of the trustees of the said charity for the time being, shall and may as often as circumstances may require, by writing under their hands, nominate and appoint any other person, such person being a respectable justice of the peace

(h) The following is the bequest upon which the above scheme is founded:-"I appropriate 10007.reduced annuities, to charity. I desire that this sum may remain for ever sacred to that purpose, and that the interest accruing from it, amounting to 30l. per annum, may be expended in one of the two following manners: 1st. If a school of industry should be established in the village of Ketton in Rutland, on a liberal plan, well calculated to promote religion, morality and industry amongst the poor; I desire that this 307. per annum, may be applied to the support of so laudable an institution. 2ndly. If no such school of industry be established in the village of Ketton in Rutland, or if it be not permanent, I desire that this 301. per annum may be applied to the purpose of well educating poor female children, born in the said parish of Ketton, by placing them at a school where they may acquire

useful knowledge and habits of industry, and in like moral and religious principles. I request of my sister, A. M. E. during her life, and ever after of the person who shall be vicar of Ketton aforesaid, provided he be of respectable character, jointly with a respectable justice of the peace for the county of Rutland, to choose the most deserving and necessitous objects, and to see that the money be properly applied according to the spirit of this clause, which has charity for its object."

The master found by his report that there had been no permanent school of industry established at Ketton, answering the description in the will; but that A. M. E. named in the will had established a school for educating female children, according to the directions in the will, and that after her death children had been educated at the same school as directed by the will.