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during the year 1895-6 was 793,507/. 17^-. yd. These amounts 

 are exclusive of the sums allocated to intermediate and 

 technical education under the Welsh Intermediate Education 

 Act, 1889. The amounts raised by loan on the security of 

 tie local rate under the Technical Instruction Acts were in 

 1894-5, 119,258/. 15^. 2d. ; in 1895-6, 152,000/. 195". \d. 



In England (excepting the county of Monmouth), thirty- 

 eight out of forty-nine county councils applied the whole of 

 the residue received under the Local Taxation (Customs and 

 Excise) Act to technical education, and eleven county councils 

 employed a part of it for the same purpose. Of the councils 

 of the sixty-one county boroughs, fifty-four devoted the whole 

 of the residue to technical education, and seven a part of it. 

 Further, the councils of thirteen county boroughs, sixty-seven 

 boroughs, and 109 urban districts, in England, made grants 

 out of the rates under the Technical Instruction Acts ; and 

 seven local authorities devoted funds to technical educa- 

 tion out of the rate levied under the Public Libraries Acts. 

 Twenty-five local authorities raised sums by loan on the 

 security of the local rate under the Technical Instruction 

 Acts, during each of the years 1894-5 and 1895-6. 



In Wales and Monmouth the thirteen county councils and 

 the councils of the three county boroughs, devoted the whole 

 of the residue grant to intermediate and technical education, 

 chiefly under the Welsh Intermediate Education Ace, 1889. 

 In addition, the councils of eight counties, three county 

 boroughs, five boroughs, and seven urban districts, made 

 grants out of the rates under the Technical Instruction Acts ; 

 and one of these authorities devoted part of the Public 

 Libraries rate to technical education. In Wales and 

 Monmouth no amounts were raised by loan on the security 

 of the local rate under the Technical Instruction Acts during 

 the two years in question. The estimated total amount to be 

 devoted annually to intermediate and technical education, 

 under the Wel&h Intermediate Education Act, 1889 — out 

 of the residue and the local rate — is 42,861/. 



During the year 1895-6 the Jd. rate under that Act was 

 levied (wholly or partly) in nearly all of the sixteen counties 

 and county boroughs. 



