This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...Ordinance in the morning or in the afternoon." (6.) "The Regulations, p. 14, 78. (1.) state the conditions under which the 'presence' marks are to count as attendances. It is obvious that these conditions, in present circumstances, cannot be regulated in private schools. (22.) "For the above reasons, and the reason that an Educational District Officer "may enter premises only where children reside or are employed for the purpose of "making enquiries (Ord." 3, 1876, Section 12), it is manifest that where parents "select in Court, Private Schools, the Magisterial order may be set at defiance: for "there is no machinery for its enforcement. Further, it is not easy to perceive "how a Magistrate can order a parent to cause his child to make 25 attendances at a "place where 1 Attendance, ' as defined by Law, may not be possible. (23.) "I therefore most respectfully submit--(-.) "That provision be made for the registration of private schools; (b.) "That a condition for registration should be the obligation to keep registers "of admission and attendance; ('.) "Conceding to the Government the right for an Educational District Officer "to obtain, when he requests it, a return signed by the Principal Teacher, of "the attendance, age or ages of any child or children being a scholar or "scholars of the School. (24.) "If the above views be not correct, then a parent summoned has only to "select a private school so as to stop, so far as he is concerned, the whole existing "machinery of the Ordinance entitled " An Ordinance to enforce Elementary Educa"tion." But the law, if it is to work equitably all round, is bound, in some such way "as that in...