§ MR. CALDWELLI beg to ask the Lord Advocate whether, in Return 84, the "scale of fees per week" are per week the school is open, or the amount of fee per annum divided by 52; and whether the school fees art; payable weekly, monthly, or quarterly?
§ MR. M. T. S. DARLINGIn obtaining information for the Return from the School Boards concerned, the Department asked for the weekly fees, as this seemed to be what was desired by the hon. Member, and the fees have been entered exactly as they were supplied to the Department. It would, however, appear that quarterly fees are charged in most of the schools, and that, in order to comply with the request for weekly fees, the quarterly fees have been divided by 11 or 12. But I cannot say with certainty what number of weeks each Board considers the quarterly fee to cover.