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CHAPTER II.

INSPECTION.

14. The Inspector is required to visit schools, to enquire whether the conditions Duties of of Annual Grants have been fulfilled, and to report to the Government.

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out notice.

15. The Inspector may visit at any time without notice any school in which Visits with- the Scholars are receiving instruction under the Code. The Manager or Teachers must, if required, produce for his inspection the registers, log-book, and, after due notice, the cash-book. Any of these documents may be required to be sent to the Inspector or to the Government.

CHAPTER III.

MANAGEMENT.

16. The Managers are held responsible by the Government for the conduct of Duties of their schools, for their maintenance in efficiency, and for the provision of all need- Managers, ful furniture, books, and apparatus, and in particular of:—

(a.) Suitable Registers ;

(b.) A Diary or Log-book;

Note (1) The Log-book must be stoutly bound and must be kept by the principal Teacher, who is required to enter in it from time to time such events as the introduction of new books, apparatus, or courses of instruction, any plan of lessons approved by the Inspector, the visits of Managers, absence, illness, or failure of duty on the part of any of the school Staff, or any special circumstances affecting the school that may, for the sake of future reference or for any other reason, deserve to be recorded. No reflections or opinions of a general character are to be entered in the Log-book.

Note (ii) In the case of schools where the principal Teacher is not European, the Manager

are required to record their visits in the Log-book, and to note therein the Attendance at the time of their visite.

Note (iii) The summary of any report made by the Inspector and any remarks made upon it by the Government must, as soon as communicated to the Managers, be copied verbatim into the Log-book and signed by them.

(c.) A Cash-book ;

(d) The Code and Revised Instructions for each year.

17. Managers are supplied with a form of Annual Return, which they are Managers' required to have ready for the Inspector immediately after the end of the School Returns. Year. Any other Returns called for by the Government must be duly made.

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18. It is the duty of Managers to see that the Admission and daily Attendance Registers of the Scholars are carefully registered by or under the supervision of the principal and accounts. Teacher, and periodically to verify them, and to keep accurate accounts of incoine and expenditure.

19. Notice must be sent to the Inspector by the Manager, as soon as is possible in each case, of every date upon which a school will be closed, or its ordinary work suspended, during the year. These dates should include the usual and any special holidays, and any closure on account of epidemic sickness.

NOTE. This Article is not intended to limit the discretion of Managers in closing a school tempo-

rarily in the event of a sudden emergency.

20. The Managers must at once comply with any notice of the Sanitary Authority or of the Medical Officer of Health, requiring them for a specified time, with a view to preventing the spread of disease, or any danger to health likely to arise from the condition of the school, either to close the school or to exclude any Scholars from attendance, but after complying they may appeal to the Government if they consider the notice to be unreasonable.

CHAPTER IV.

ANNUAL GRANTS.

GENERAL CONDITIONS.

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21. The conditions required to be fulfilled by a school in order to obtain an Conditions Annual Grant are those set forth in the Code. The decision of Government whether these conditions are fulfilled in any case is final and conclusive,