§ MR. M. J. KENNY (Tyrone, Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state whether, in paying the result fees for the year ending 31st March, 1890, to the teachers of the Legcloughfin National Schools in the parish of Upper Badoney, County Tyrone, a sum of £16 1s. 6d. was withheld from them, although paid for the previous year; and if he will give the reason for this deduction from the teachers' salaries?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR,) Manchester, E.From the Report I have received from the Commissioners of National Education it appears that the sum of £16 1s. 6d. referred to was the amount of a surcharge which it was necessary to make in respect of payments following the results examination in April, 1889, made on the supposition that the schools were entitled to a share from the rates of 1889–90, but which it 1471 was subsequently found could not legally be sustained, inasmuch as up to March 26th, 1889, the Gortin Union, in which the schools were then situated, had been a non-contributory one. At that date the Gortin Union was dissolved, and the schools are now attached to the Strabane Union, which is a contributory one.