§ MR. WALRONDTo ask Mr. Attorney General whether he is aware that the Board of Education, by a scheme as to Berkhamsted Grammar School, 1622 sealed on 13th May, 1907, withdrew from the residents of Berkhamsted the rights reserved to them by the scheme of 8th January, 1903, and even withdrew from the ratepayers who have resided for seven years in Berkhamsted or North-church the rights expressly preserved to them by the draft scheme as published by the Board in December, 1905, without any notice of such alteration of the draft; and whether, seeing that the effect of such alteration is to deprive the inhabitants of the last remnant of that right to free education which, for over 300 years, formed a fundamental part of the constitution of this school, and that the Board claim the right to make such an alteration without notice, as if it were a mere modification of the draft, and without communicating the alteration proposed to the councils of the rural parishes affected, he will give his sanction to an appeal to the Court of Chancery, under Section 8 of The Charitable Trusts Act, 1860, from the said Order of 13th March, 1907, in order that the Court may grant such relief as the case may require.
(Answered by Sir John Walton.) I have no information as to the terms of the scheme or the circumstances in which it has been settled or published. If an application, complying with the usual practice, is made to me for my authority to appeal, I will consider the application and deal with it.