PLASTERER. Ceilings. Lath with double laths, plaster, float, set and white ceilings of of of Ceilings.-Lath with double laths, plaster, set, and whiten ceilings Timbers of Roof.-Size white timbers of roof or ceilings, where seen. Walls.-Properly stop and colour the walls of colour. of a Walls, Brick Nogging, &c.-Render, set, and colour the brick-work Quarter Partitions.-Lath, plaster, set, and colour. Dressings.*-Execute the dressings to and the in cement. PAINTER. times with the best oil and colour the whole Iron-work.-Paint of the iron-work, the first two coats of colour being red-lead paint, and the last coat being colour. Wood Work.-Properly prepare, knot, and stop the whole of the wood work usually painted, and paint times with the best oil and colour, all those parts thereof which are not described to be otherwise painted or finished in other clauses of this specification. Doors. Grain extra in imitation of oak, and varnish twice with best copal varnish the Provide for extra painting to timbers of roof where seen, closet-fronts and doors, sashes of windows, &c. GLAZIER. Glass.-Glaze all the windows and lights with good second Newcastle crown glass. In Wood.-Properly bed, brad, and back-putty to all the sashes in wood. In Lead.-Glaze the windows of in small squares set in strong church-window lead, and secured to the saddle-bars by strong copper bands. Clean and leave perfect the whole of the glazing at the completion of the works. Provide for glazing of sky-lights, fan-lights, borrowed lights, sash-doors, &c. PLUMBER. Lay the gutters with 7 lbs. milled lead, turning up 9 inches against the wall and 12 inches up the roofs, with all requisite rolls and drips; no part of the gutters is to be less than 12 inches wide, and the fall is not to be less than 1 inch in 10 feet. the gutters to the rain-pipe beads. shafts to be of 5 lbs. milled lead Provide proper lead shoots from The flashings of the chimneyinches wide. Provide for a sink, with bell-grating and waste-pipe to privies, rain-water cistern, with service pipe to sink and overflow pipe to privies, covering of dormers, &c., and flashings. * Cutting bricks or stone should be substituted for cement finishings, if practicable. Cover the hips and ridges with 4 lb. milled lead 16 inches wide, properly dressed and secured. SMITH. Iron Guttering.-Provide and fix inch cast-iron semicircular guttering on cast-iron brackets to the eaves throughout, and inch diameter down-pipes, with heads and shoes, delivering into the drain. Iron-work to Roofs.-Provide and fix all the necessary iron-work for the roofs. X Enumerate straps, bolts, &c., to timbers of trusses. Chimney-bars.-Provide and fix No. chimney-bars inch inch caulked at both ends, and bent to the figure of an arch, if required by the design. Window-bars.-Provide and fix to saddle-bars -inch square, not more than into walls 4 inches. Cast-iron Gratings.*. lation in external walls open and shut in floors, windows wrought-iron apart, and tailing -Provide No. cast-iron gratings for venti inches X inches. No. with valves to inches X inches x to be opened and shut by strings and pulleys in ceilings inches. These gratings are for ventilation. See 8vo edition of Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1839-40, pages 85 and 129; for specifications of privies, fittings, yards, external walls, and fences, see pages 130-3. 1844. The said doth hereby, in consideration of the salary and other benefits hereunder agreed to be paid and supplied to him by the said managers and trustees of the said National School, undertake, promise, and agree to teach and instruct the children not exceeding in number who shall from time to time attend the said school during such hours in the day, and on every such day as shall be appointed by the said managers and trustees in the following subjects, that is to say, reading, writing, and to keep such register of the attendance of the scholars at the said school, and of the payment of school-fees by or on behalf of the children instructed in the school, and such register of the proficiency of the scholars as may be required, whether by the trustees of the school or by any Act of Parliament, and to maintain good order and discipline in the said school, and to train the children both in the school and playground in good habits and manners.* And the said doth promise and agree, if required by the said trustees or managers, or any of them, to attend all examinations of the scholars at the said school, or of the said school when the said managers and trustees, or the government inspector, or any other person authorized by the said managers and trustees to examine or inspect the same, shall think proper to do so. And further, to give to any of the said scholars, or to the said managers and trustees, any such certificate relative to the said scholars as may be required by the said managers and trustees, or under the provisions of any Act of Parliament. †(And further, to pay to the trustees or managers of the said school, or to their treasurer or banker, all moneys received by him from or on account of the scholars at the said school or otherwise on behalf of the said trustees or managers once in every month, or oftener, if required by them.) And in consideration of the said undertaking and agreement of the said the said trustees or managers do for themselves, their executors or administrators, promise and agree to and with the said his executors and administrators, to pay him a salary at and after the rate of 7. per year, to be payable quarterly, to commence from the with a proportionate payment to be made in the event of the death of the day of *In schools of industry it will be desirable to set forth the duties of the master or mistress in superintending and conducting the employments of the children. If the master is to be paid by the fees, omit this passage. If any arrangement be made with the master as to his enjoying a portion of the school-fees, he should be required, in the first instance, to account to the trustees and managers, and pay the whole amount of school-fees received by him into their hands, and afterwards receive his proportion thereof from the trustees and managers. said unexpired quarter. or the determination of this contract in any And the said trustees and managers do further promise and agree to and with the said that so long as the said shall continue to be the master of the said school, and this agreement shall continue to be in force, but no longer, the said shall have the liberty of occupying the said schoolhouse, and the premises attached thereto, and of inhabiting the residence for the master attached to the said school, and of occupying the same with his family and servants. And the said further in consideration of the premises, doth hereby for himself, his executors and administrators, undertake, and promise, with and to the said to take all proper care to preserve the said school premises, and the books, implements, furniture, and fixtures therein from destruction, damage or injury; and where any loss shall occur to the same which might have been prevented by the exercise of reasonable care and attention on his part, to make good the same. And the said doth hereby for himself, his executors and administrators, further promise and agree with the said their executors and administrators, in consideration of the premises, to keep the said master's residence in good and tenantable repair; and on quitting the same, that he or in the event of his death, that his executors or administrators shall pay to the said managers and trustees such amount as shall be determined by two persons, one to be chosen by himself or his executors or administrators, as the case may be, and the other by the said managers and trustees, in respect of the dilapidations which shall then appear in the said residence through the want of such repair on the part of the said master during his occupation. And the said administrators, promise and agree to and with the said doth for himself, his executors and their executors and administrators, in consideration of the premises, to pay to them the sum of 7. per month by way of liquidated damages for so long a time as he shall continue to hold and occupy the said school and school-residence after he ceases to be the master, and this agreement shall have been determined, which sum he doth agree may be levied by the said managers and trustees, upon his goods and chattels by distress and sale thereof, in all respects as rent is recoverable from tenants by landlords, at the expiration of each month as the same becomes due. Lastly, it is hereby mutually agreed by and between the parties hereto, that this agreement may be put an end to at the expiration of three calendar months, to terminate at any period by a notice in writing to be signed by the said master or by the major part of the trustees or managers of the said school for the time being; such notice, if given to the said master, to be delivered at the said school, and if given by him, to be left at the place of abode of some one of the trustees and managers of the said school for the time being. In Witness whereof the several parties have hereunto set their hands Witness Forin of Indenture of Apprenticeship of a Pupil-teacher, where his Father does not join. of the second part; and A. B. of National School,† of the third part: Witnesseth, that the said J. D., of his own free will, and with the consent and approbation of the said T. U., W. X., and Y. Z., doth hereby place and bind himself apprentice to the said A. B., to serve him for five years from the date hereof in his business of a schoolmaster in the *National Schoolt aforesaid. And in consideration of the acceptance by the said A. B. of the said J. D. into his service, and of the covenants on the part of the said A. B. hereinafter contained, he, the said J. D., doth promise and engage that he will, at all times during the said term of five years, faithfully and diligently serve the said A. B. in his business of a schoolmaster in the* National Schoolt aforesaid, and will not, except from illness, absent himself from the said school during school-hours, and will conduct himself with honesty, sobriety, and temperance, and will not be guilty of any profane or lewd conversation or conduct, or of gambling or any other immorality. And in consideration of the premises, he, the said A. B., doth hereby, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant with the said J. D., his executors, administrators, and assigns, that he, the said A. B., shall at all times during the said term, or so much thereof as he shall continue master of the said school, to the best of his ability teach the said J. D. the business of a schoolmaster, as carried on in the said school, and afford him daily opportunities (Sundays and the usual school-holidays only excepted), of observing and practising the art of teaching in the said school, under the superintendence of him the said A. B., and devote two hours in every evening (except as aforesaid) to the further personal instruction of the said J. D., in the several branches of useful learning usually taught in the said school, including reading, writing, arithmetic, mensuration, geography, the History of England, Scripture History, [and instruction in the principles of the Christian religion, according to the doctrines and discipline of the united Church of England and Ireland,] with a view to perfecting him therein and qualifying him for a schoolmaster; and pay unto the said J. D. as a recompense for his services Pounds in the first year, Pounds in the third year, and Pounds in the second year, Pounds in the fourth year, Pounds in the fifth year of the said term, by four equal quarterly payments, on the day of *Here insert the name of the parish or district. the + Or parish school, or school on the British system [as the case may be]. The clause in brackets will of course be omitted in the case of a pupil-teacher n a school on the British system. |