§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTONI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he is aware that in the case of Price's Charity, value £60 a year, now devoted to the elementary education of the poor in the Parish of Cwm-dawddwr, in the County of Radnor, the Charity Commissioners, after the publication of the names of four Trustees proposed to be added to the Governing Body, without any public notice and without any opportunity being given to the inhabitants and the general public to express their opinions, added three more names to the list at the nomination of the Joint Education Committee of the County Council, making nine Trustees in all for the administration of £60 a year; and whether the 32 & 33 Vic, c. 110, s. 6, which gives the Charity Commissioners power to dispense with public notices in case of "modifying a proposed order" authorises them to entirely re-construct the Governing Body of a Charity by adding one-third to the number of Trustees, without complying with the provisions securing notice to the public?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT of THE COUNCIL (Sir W. HART DYKE,) Kent, DartfordMy hon. Friend the Member for Penrith will answer this question.
MR. J. W. LOWTHERFull publicity was given to the names of the three gentlemen referred to in the question at a meeting held on March 11 1890, of inhabitants of parishes interested in the Charity—now applied as stated, but a grammar school by repute —and was subsequently evidenced by a memorial and a counter-memorial, each signed by about 200 names, presented to the Commissioners on July 7 and August 16 of that year respectively. In these circumstances the Commissioners, when deciding in October last to include these names in the draft order, mainly on the ground that the Parish of Rhayader was entitled to a share of representation, did not consider it to be necessary to publish1 names already so well-known and so much canvassed in the locality. the nominees of the existing Trustees having been retained in the order, the Commissioners consider their own action to have been supplemental rather than re-constructive; and this appears to them to bring the case within the discretion, as to publication, allowed by Section 7 (not 6) of the Act 32 & 33 Vic, c. 110.
§ MR. STANLEY LEIGHTONI beg to give notice that I will call attention to the matter and move a Resolution.