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residue is being applied, not to educational purposes, but to relief 

 of rates. In addition, the councils of 10 county boroughs are 

 levying a rate, or making grants out of the rates, under the 

 Technical Instruction A.cts. 



The 13 county councils and the councils of the three county 

 boroughs in Wales and Monmouth are devoting the whole of the 

 residue to intermediate and technical education, chiefly under 

 the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889. In addition, the 

 councils of six counties and county boroughs are levying a rate, 

 or making grants out of the rates, under the Technical Instruction 

 Acts. The estimated total amount to be devoted annually to 

 intermediate and technical education in Wales and Monmouth, 

 under the Welsh Intermediate Education Act, 1889, is 42,861^. 

 In some cases the ampunt allocated by the councils each year 

 out of the residue received under the Local Taxation (Customs 

 and Excise) Act, 1890, is accumulating, as the schemes submitted 

 to the Charity Commissioners are not yet in operation, and in 

 these cases the levying of the rate under the Welsh Act is in the 

 meantime deferred. 



In the case of Scotland, 23 out of the 33 county councils are 

 applying the whole of the residue to technical education, and 

 seven a part of it only, while one has the matter under considera- 

 tion, and two are applying the residue to the relief of rates. Of 

 194 burghs and police burghs, 21 are applying the whole, and 50 a 

 part, of the residue to technical education ; one has not decided ; 

 and 122 are applying the whole to the relief of rates. The latter 

 number, however, includes a few cases in which it is probable 

 that the residue will be applied to technical education. 



United States Tariff: Return respecting the Gvustoms Tariff^ of 

 the United States ; contain ing a complete Statement of the 

 Rates of Import Duty leviable under the New Tariff Act 

 passed by Congress on the lUh August 1894, compared 

 with those which were previously leviable under the Tariff 

 Act of 1890, and various Statistical Tables relating to the 

 present and past Tariffs, the Imports into, and Exports 

 from, the United Kingdora in its Trade with the United 

 States, etc. [C.-7579.] Price 9d. 



This return has been published by the Commercial Department 

 of the Board of Trade. The volume contains a comparative 

 statement showing the rates of import duty leviable under the 

 present and previous Customs Tariffs of the United States, the 

 remaining provisions of the Tariff Act of 1894 ; and numerous 

 statistical tables. 



