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Official Publications. 



Particulars are also given of the amounts raised by loan on the 

 security of the local rate under the Technical Instruction 

 Act, 1889 — mainly for the erection of science, art, and technical 

 schools. 



The total amount of the residue grant received under the Local 

 Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act by the councils of counties 

 and county boroughs in England (excepting the county of 

 Monmouth) was £855,258, of which £817,970 was appropriated 

 to educational purposes, and £37,288 to the relief of rates. Of 

 the 49 county councils, 41 applied the whole of the residue to 

 technical education ; and of the councils of the 64 county 

 boroughs, 59 devoted the whole to the same purpose. Many 

 counties, boroughs, and urban districts also devoted money 

 raised by rate to technical education. 



The total amount expended on technical education during the 

 year was £1,008,948. 



The total amount of residue grant paid to the 13 county 

 councils and the councils of the 3 county boroughs in Wales 

 and Monmouth was £41,042. These local authorities devoted 

 the whole of it to intermediate and technical education, and the 

 councils of 8 counties, 3 county boroughs, 4 boroughs, and 8 

 urban districts made grants out of the rates under the Technical 

 Instruction Acts. The total amount expended on technical 

 education under the Technical Instruction Acts during the year 

 was £48,451. 



Ireland: Report of Proceedings under the Diseases of Animals 

 Acts for the year 1902. [Cd. 1583.] Price 6\d. 



During the year 1902, Ireland again enjoyed complete im- 

 munity from pleuro-pneumonia and foot-and-mouth disease. 

 Glanders or farcy was reported in 10 instances, as compared 

 with 5 in 1 90 1, while the number of cases of parasitic mange 

 was 161, or 13 less than in 1901. No outbreak of anthrax was 



