§ MR. CALDWELLI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether the Scotch Education Department are aware that Black-friars Hall, Dennistoun, Glasgow, has been sanctioned as a free school and known as Whitehill Public School (No. 2 Temporary); whether it is a condition of admission to that school that a schedule of particulars be filled up and that the authority of the Glasgow School Board be received; whether he is aware that children, who applied for admission on Monday last week, have not yet been admitted, owing to the alleged want of sanction of the Glasgow School Board; and whether such restrictions on admission to free schools are in accordance with the Code or with law?
*THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. P. B. ROBERTYSON,) ButeThe Blackfriars Hall has been sanctioned as a temporary school under the name of the Whitehill Public School, No. 2. It is presumed that the school is to be one to which the relief of fees is to apply, but the School Board have been asked to submit regulations for this relief in terms of the Code. The Education Department know nothing of any such condition of admission to the school as is referred to in the hon. Member's question; and until I have further 1081 information on the point, I am unable to say whether the condition imposed is, or is not, in accordance with the Code or with law.