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Local Authorities in Scotland (Technical Education), 1 900-1. 

 [H.C. 182.] Price yd. 



This return indicates that the total amount of the residue 

 grant paid to county councils, burgh councils, and Com- 

 missioners of police burghs, in Scotland, in respect of the year 



1 899- 1 900 was £87,600, of which £62,447 was allocated to 

 purposes of technical education, and £25,153 to the relief of rates. 

 Out of the 33 county councils, 26 applied the whole of the 

 grant to technical education, and 4 a part of it, while 3 applied the 

 grant wholly to the relief of rates. Of the 206 burghs and 

 police burghs, 53 applied the whole and 73 a part of the residue 

 grant to technical education ; 80 applied the whole to relief of 

 rates. 



No amount was applied to the building or maintenance 

 of science and art schools, art galleries, or museums out of the 

 local rate under the Public Libraries Acts. The total amount 

 available for purposes of technical education during the year 



1900- 1901, including balance in hand, contributions under 

 section 2 (5) c of the Education and Local Taxation Account 

 (Scotland) Act, 1892, bank interest, &c, was £81,959, and the 

 total amount expended was £61,700, of which £i6,oy^ was 

 handed over to Secondary Education Committees. 



