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above the age of ten years who shall pay
a School Fee not exceeding 10s. per
quarter, and in each instance be admitted
to such Schools as hereinafter stated.

2. That the Schoolmaster or Schoolmistress shall receive applications from
   persons desiring to obtain admission for
   children at these of charges abovenamed,
   and shall forward the same to the Superintendent for his approval, and in the
   event of the applications being in excess
   of the number of pupils the School can
   accommodate, the Superintendent and
   Executive Council shall decide which
   children shall be entitled to enter.

3. That in districts which are not sufficiently populated to support a School,
   even when receiving aid as herein specified,
   the Superintendent shall be empowered to
   pay any additional sum he may consider
   equitable and sufficient to pay for the
   services of a competent Schoolmaster or
   Schoolmistress.

4. That Schools receiving aid shall at
   all times during School hours be subject
   to the inspection of the Superintendent or
   of any person appointed by him for the
   purpose.

5. That this system of Educational Aid
   shall be brought into operation on the 1st
   day of July, 1866.

The attention of Schoolmasters and
Schoolmistresses, and of the parents or
persons having charge of children towards
whose education the assistance of the
Provincial Government is desired, is
directed to the following statement of the
manner in which the above resolutions
will be carried into effect:—

1. Pupils, in respect of whom the
   Government contribution is allowed, are to
   be admitted on the same footing and pass
   through the same general course of in-
   struction as those not receiving such
   assistance.

2. Masters and Mistresses of Schools
   desiring to take pupils under these regulations are requested to give written notices
   to the Superintendent that such is the
   case, before Saturday, the 26th instant,
   stating also the situation of the School,
   the usual number of pupils of each sex
   hitherto attending it, and the number
   which the school could accommodate.

3. In case any doubt should be felt by
   the Government as to the nature of the
   instructions given at any school, further
   information will be called for.

4. If several schools are situated very
   near to each other, the assistance of the
   Government may be restricted to that
   school which appears to be most efficiently
   conducted.

5. The rates of 26s. per annum for
   pupils between five and ten years of age,
   and 40s. for those over ten years, are the
   highest that are to be charged for the
   assisted pupils in addition to the Government contribution. If a lower scale than
   this is to be adopted in any school, it is
   requested that the Superintendent may be
   informed what the charges will be.

6. Printed forms of application for
   assisted education will be furnished to all
   Schoolmasters and Schoolmistresses desiring to admit pupils on the above conditions,
   whose schools shall have been approved
   by the Superintendent, and the parents or
   friends of any child for whose education
   assistance is asked, are to obtain a form of
   application from the Master or Mistress of
   the school which they wish the child to
   attend, and return it properly filled up
   and signed.

7. All such applications are to be
   opened by the Schoolmaster or Schoolmistress to whom they are addressed, and
   forwarded with any remarks which may
   seem requisite to the Superintendent.

8. These regulations apply equally to
   children of both sexes.

9. These regulations will remain in
   operation until the 30th June, 1867, and
   due notice will be given of any change
   which it may be found desirable to introduce after that date. Should their operation be extended beyond that time, fresh
   applications must be made on or before a
   date to be hereafter specified on behalf of
   pupils for whom a continuance of the
   Government assistance is desired.

T. Kelly,
Provincial Secretary.

BURIAL GROUNDS PROTECTION
ORDINANCE, 1864.

NOTICE

Bringing St. Mary’s Churchyard under the
provisions of the Burial Grounds Protection
Ordinance, 1864.

Superintendent’s Office,
New Plymouth, May 12, 1866.

WHEREAS by the 1st clause of the
“Burial Grounds Protection
Ordinance, 1864,” it is provided that it
shall be lawful for the Superintendent
from time to time, by notice published in
the Government Gazette, to declare public
burial places within which the provisions
of the said Ordinance shall be in force. Now
therefore I, Henry Robert Richmond,
Esquire, Superintendent of the Province
of Taranaki, do hereby declare the Burial
Ground in the Town of New Plymouth