39. What is the population?

40. State what charitable or other funds and endowments for the education of the children of the poor exist in this district.

41. Enumerate the schools for the children of the poor existing in this district, and the number of children each will accommodate.

42. Among other reasons for expecting that the schools will be efficiently and permanently supported, state the probable amount Of annual subscriptions and donations.

Of annual collections.

Of annual produce of endowment.

Of school-fees.

Of any other source of income.

43. What is the salary of the schoolmaster? What is the salary of the schoolmistress?

44. Is the schoolmaster provided with fuel?

Is the schoolmistress provided with fuel?

45. What income do the schoolmaster and schoolmistress derive from other sources than the salary afforded?

46. Do the schoolmaster aud schoolmistress devote their whole time to the duties of their office; and if not, state what other occupation they have?

47. What is the average annual expenditure for books, apparatus, &c.? For repairs?

For fuel?

48. What other expenses are incurred?

49. What is the number of children on the books?

50. What is the average attendance?

51. Have the schoolmaster and schoolmistress, or either of them, received instruction in the art of teaching in any, and what, model or training school, and during what period?

52. Are any, and if so, how many, monitors employed to assist the master?

53. Are they paid; and if so, how much per week?

54. What method of instruction is employed, distinguishing1. The system of mutual instruction.

2. The mixed method of instruction.

3. The simultaneous method.

55. Has the school at a previous period received aid from the Parliamentary grant? if so, when, for what purpose, and to what extent? The above Questions, and Replies to them, were read and signed at a meeting of the School Committee (or Trustees) of the School, duly convened on this

(Signed)

day of

1844.

SPECIFICATION of WORKS to be performed in erecting a SCHOOL-HOUSE in reference to the accompanying Drawings.

at

SCHOOL-HOUSE.

EXCAVATOR.

Dig out for the foundations of all the walls, for the cesspools and drains, and wherever else required for the full performance of these works. Where the soil is of a sound and uniform nature, the trenches for foundations, &c., are to be cleanly cut at the required level, and the level is not to be formed by replacing earth where it has been cut out. If in any place, and wheresoever the earth be defective, loose, or in any way unsound, such earth is to be removed to the requisite depth, and the level is to be formed by filling in and well ramming earth of the same kind and quality as that which forms the bottom of the other parts.

Dig out to the depth of 8 inches from the under side of the floorjoists the whole area within the walls of the intended School-house, and leave the same at a perfect level.

Provide and convey to the site, and fill in so much good sound earth, brick, or other rubbish of the nature required by the as may be necessary to bring up the surfaces of the ground of the yards, gardens, fore-court, to the required levels or inclines, and

form the same levels and inclines.
Fill up, and dig anew for ditches, drains, cesspools,
may be directed.

as

Remove and cart away from time to time, and at the completion of the works, all superfluous earth, building rubbish, and building materials.

Concrete.*-Form, for all foundations of walls, beds of concrete; those for the walls of the School-house inches thick, and spreading inches on each side beyond the lowest course.of footings; those for inches thick, and spreading, inches on each side beyond the lowest course of footings.

The concrete to consist of clean sharp gravel or fine sharp broken stones and hydraulic stonelime in the proportion of 1 to 7, mixed with water, and thrown from stages 10 feet above the bottom of the foundations.

BRICKLAYER.

Bricks.-The whole of the bricks used in the building to be new, good, sound, hard, and well burnt; those which are not otherwise described are to be

Mortar. The mortar to be carefully compounded of

stone-lime, and clean sharp sand, in the proportion of one-third lime to two-thirds sand; the lime to be fresh, and to be carefully kept from exposure until required for use.

Cement.-The cement to be

Walls. Carry up the footings for the external walls in courses the first course being laid

jacent external ground in

feet below the level of the ad

bricks, regularly diminishing to the

* If requisite.

thickness of the walls which are to be carried up in

brick,

; the gables

bricks to

are to be carried up in

Dwarf Walls.-Build the dwarf walls of the ground-floor with footings, the lowest in

bricks, of which thickness these walls

minishing in three courses to
are to be carried up courses to receive

bricks, regularly di

sleepers.

Partitions.*-Form the internal partitions of brick-flat nogging. Fender and Walls.-Build, in half brick, fender-walls for hearths of ground-story with brick-footings.

Trimmers to Hearths.-Turn trimmers in half brick to hearths of other stories, to be 12 inches longer than the openings.

Foundations to steps.-Carry up foundations for steps.

Fire and Air flues.-Carry up the fire-flues 9 inches x 4 inches in the clear; the air-flues 4 inches square in the clear, with openings for ventilation where directed; all properly cored and pargetted.

Course of Slates in Walls.†-Lay a course of slates between two beds of cement each 4-inch thick, throughout all the walls, at the level of the finished ground surface.

Rain-drains.-Lay from rain-water down-pipes 6-inch earthenware drain-pipes, bedded in clay and jointed with cement.

Provide here for the performance of all other bricklayer's works, such as cross-walls for paving, area-walls, piers for columns, tiling of roofs, foottiling, brick-paving, facing of walls, mouldings, and projecting courses of bricks, chimney-pots, &c.

Workmanship.-All the brickwork is to be well bedded and flushed in with mortar as the work proceeds, care being taken that no vacuities are left between the joints or courses. No four courses to rise more than one inch in addition, to the height of the bricks. Turn in cement inch relieving arches over all openings, and invert arches under same. All reveals to be carefully performed. Bed and point in mortar all bond-timber, lintels, woodbricks, and templets, and other timber so requiring; and bed and point with lime and hair all the door and window frames; and back up with solid brick work to all timbers, stone work, iron work, and other things to be set in the brick work. The faces of the walls to show Flemish bond; the headers being all whole bricks and the perpends truly kept.

CARPENTER AND JOINER.

Timber. All the oak timber is to be of English growth; all the other timber is to be either Dantzic, Riga, Memel, or yellow fir; all the joiner's work, flooring-boards, skirtings, and other wood work are to be of the best yellow Christiana deal, except where otherwise described. The timbers and deal are to be cut square, and to be free from sapwood, shakes, large, loose, and dead knots, and all other defects. No American timber is to be used.

* State which partitions are to be of brick nogging, if any are to be lath and plaster.

This provision is to prevent damp from rising in the walls. In very dry situations it may be omitted.

Workmanship.--None of the joists, rafters, or quarters are to be more than 12 inches apart. All plates, purlins, and bond timber are to be in as long lengths as possible, and well scarfed and secured at the junctions. The tie-beams and all other timbers of roofs and floors are to be in whole lengths, unless shown otherwise in drawings, or described otherwise herein, or allowed in writing by the

Materials, &c.-Provide and fix all necessary shores, struts, beads, stops, fillets, angle staves, wood bricks, centering, templets, and all other joiner's work and labour nccessary for the due execution of these works, providing all materials, including ironmongery, to render the same complete and perfect.

Frame Three Months before setting up.—All the joiner's work is to be rough framed as soon as possible after the signing of the contract, and no frame-work is to be set up until at least three months after it shall have been so framed. All timber work which shall split, fracture, shrink part at the joints, or show any flaw or defect from unsoundness, want of seasoning, or bad workmanship, is to be removed and put together anew, or replaced by new materials; so that the whole of the carpenter's work may be delivered up in a perfect state at the completion.

Scantlings. All the timbers are to hold their full scantlings at the completion of the works. The scantlings of the principal timbers are to be as follows:

Here supply a list of scantlings.

Folding Floors.-Lay 11-inch yellow deal folding floors to the Straight-joint Floors.-Lay 14-inch yellow deal straight-joint and iron-tongued floors to the

Window-frames.*--The windows of

fir frames

to have solid

wrought, rebated, framed, and chamfered;

oak sunk and weathered sills.
Double-hung Sashes.-Fit up the windows of

with

inch ovolo sashes double-hung, with iron weights, axle-pulleys, patent lines and patent spring-sash fastenings in deal-cased frames, with oak sunk and weathered sills.

External Doors.-The external doors are to be inch deal framed and braced, lined with inch battens tongued, in Gothic rebated and beaded frame tenoned into stone steps; each to have two lock, Norfolk thumb-latch, and Fix an iron spring to each door to prevent

inch butts and strong two inch barrel bolts. it from slamming.

Internal Doors. The square; each to have two

internal doors are to be inch four-pane inch butts, Norfolk thumb-latch, and two inch barrel bolts and strong door-spring; with wrought, framed, and chamfered door-cases; those on stone floors or thresholds to be tenoned into same.

Lead-casing to Feet of Door-cases.-Completely wrap round and separate from the stone the feet of all door-cases tenoned into stone with a piece of milled lead.

* Provide for openings.

All the faces of the joiner's work are to be wrought.

Stone.

Provide here for all other carpenter's and joiner's works, such as to stairs with balusters, hand-rails, &c., closets and shelves, skirting, windowshutters, &c., sky-lights and borrowed lights, raising the floor in steps for class-desks and galleries, &c.

MASON.

All the stone used in the mason's work is to be

of the best quality, free from shakes, flaws, rents, and all other defects, and laid so as to be compressed according to its natural bed.

Foundations of

a complete course of

-Bed for the foundation of

laid at the depth of

string courses of

below the finished surface of the ground. String-courses.-Put to

stone

walls

inches, moulded, mitred, and run with lead at all the joints therein. Water Table to Chimneys.-Put at the foot of each stack of chima water table of

neys

weathered, and throated.

Window-sills.-Put to the windows of

stone, wrought,

inches wide, laid sloping, wrought fairly in front, and with tooled soffit ends and level tops beneath the sash-sills. Landing to Doorways.—Put to

steps of

stone back-jointed and fixed complete.

Sills to External doors.-Put to

wide, and 18 inches wider than the openings.

Slabs and Hearths.-Put

to fireplaces.

in

chimney

Chimney-jambs.-Neatly point the jambs of chimneys of

cement as far as the top of the arch.

Chimney-pieces.-Put to the fireplaces of

inches wide and mantels

Cramps. Labour.-Provide and fix, and run with lead, copper cramps and plugs, wherever requisite. No cramps of iron are to be used. Run the joints with lead. Cut all requisite rebates, grooves, chases, holes, back-joints, fair edges, and perform the other labour usual or necessary to mason's work.

Leave the whole work perfect at completion, previous to which all the mason's work is to be well cleaned off.

Where good stone is cheap, to the above may be added clauses for the execution by the mason of walls and Gothic finishings, heads, mullions, and joints of windows. Provide also for internal paving, copings to gables, &c., corbels to support flues, &c., granite bases to iron columns, &c.

SLATER.

Slates.-Slate the whole of the roofs with

slates, laid

and cut close, and overlapping inches, nailed with copper nails, two to each slate; point the under sides with lime and hair, and lay the eaves double.

The ridges are provided for as plumber's work; but may be formed of "Imperial sawn slate, 5 in. wide, laid and pointed with slate cement, and screwed to the ridge-board," or they may be formed of ridge-tiles by the bricklayer.

* If of stone