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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1892.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 181.
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The following letter, with enclosure, from the Inspector of Schools, reporting the result of the examination of the Grant-in-Aid Schools, is published.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 16th April, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
No. 13.
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, HONGKONG, 9th February, 1892.
SIR, I have the honour to forward under this enclosure the usual tabulated Summary of the amounts earned, during the year 1891, by those Public Schools which are under the Grant-in-Aid Code (1883), and I beg to recommend that the account contained in this Summary be audited as usual and that, if the account is found correct, a warrant be issued authorizing the Colonial Treasurer to pay to the Managers and Teachers concerned the sums to which they are respectively entitled and which amount in the aggregate to $22,576.97.
2. The afore mentioned sum is what the Grant-in-Aid Code of 1883 entitles the Managers and Teachers of 81 Schools, with an enrolinent of 5,132 scholars, to claim on the basis of the examinations conducted in accordance with the Code. In the preceding year (1890), 76 Schools, with an enrol- ment of 4,656 scholars, earned under the same regulations the sum of $22,015.46 which had to be subjected, however, to a pro rata reduction of 10.5 per cent. as the sum nominally earned exceeded the amount of the Educational Vote available by $2,265.16. The increase in the amount $22,576.97 earned in 1891, as compared with that of the preceding year $22,015.46, amounts to $561.51 and is to be accounted for by the increase which has taken place in the number of Schools (6) and scholars (476). There is no need for a reduction in the present case as the Educational Vote for the present year ($24,000), after providing for other contingencies, leaves available for the purposes of the Grant- in-Aid Code the sum of $23,700.80, so that after paying the Grants now applied for, there will be a surplus of $1,123 lapsing into the Treasury.
3. Details, as to the manner in which the above mentioned Schools have earned this Grant and as to the results of the annual examinations which they have undergone, will be given in my Annual Report on Education and in the Tables appended to it. But I may here mention the fact that this public grant of $23,700 covers only a portion (about three-seventhis) of the actual expenditure of the schools concerned.
4. I now beg to recommend that the enclosed accounts be audited and that, on their being found correct, a warrant be issued for the payment, by the Colonial Treasury, of the sum of $22,576.97 as Grants-in-Aid for the year 1891.
5. It has been customary since 1884, for the Education Department to supply the Colonial Treasury with a detailed list of the payees and of the amounts due under the provisions of the Grant- in-Aid Čode to the respective Managers and Teachers to whom warrants in accordance with the enclosed accounts will be forwarded. These warrants are then paid on presentation at the Treasury and retained there as Vouchers of the payments thus made. This mode of payment has all along worked satis- factorily and I propose to follow the same plan in the present case.
I have the honour to be,
The Honourable W. M. GOODMAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
Sir,
Your most obedient Servant,
E. J. EITEL, Inspector of Schools.