CAPTAIN GROSVENORasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether he is aware that Captain Armstrong, a well known political agent in Westminster, has been appointed to take the Census within that city for the London School Board; and, whether, having regard to the facility with which such an office may be connected with the registration of voters at Parliamentary Elections, he is of opinion that a political agent is a proper person to hold, it?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTERsaid, in reply, that he imagined that this Question applied to the appointment of an officer by the School Board under Section 35 of the Act. That section did not give the Education Department any power to control the School Board, or even to give any 957 opinion to the School Board in regard to any such appointment. The Department was brought so much into contact with the School Board that they thought that they should not interfere except when they were empowered by the Act to do so. Under these circumstances he could express no opinion upon such appointment. His own opinion was that no appointment by the School Board should be of a political nature, and his knowledge of the Board led him to suppose that no appointment could have been made with any political object.