§ Mr. JOHN MURPHYasked the Chief Secretary if the Commissioners of National Education would accept for the year ended December, 1908, the average attendance calculated upon the first 200 days of the year to qualify for payment of salary to assistant mistresses where epidemics and other causes reduced the average for the entire qualifying period?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education have no power under Treasury Regulations to accept an average calculated in the method set forth in the question.