§ MR. WATKIN WILLIAMSasked the Vice President of the Council, Whether School Boards out of London may appoint as chairman a person not a member of the Board?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, it was not in his power to give an authoritative Answer to the Question of the hon. Member, as the Education Department was not empowered to interpret the law. His opinion, however, as to the operation of the law was, that as it gave power to the Department to fix the number of the members of the school boards at the first election, it was not open to the school boards to increase that number, so that if they appointed a chairman outside the board he could not be a member of it.