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sum £28,832 was applied to technical education, and £137,021 

 to relief of rates. 



Part II. is a summary of the total payments into and out 

 of the Local Taxation (Scotland) Account for the same years. 



Local Authorities in Scotland [Technical Education), 1896-7 

 and 1897-8. [H.C. 368.] Price gd. 



This is a return showing the extent to which, and the 

 manner in which, local authorities in Scotland have allocated 

 and applied funds to the purposes of technical education 

 during each of the two years ended respectively on the 15th 

 day of May, 1897, and the 15th day of May, 1898, under the 

 following Acts : Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 

 1890; Education and Local Taxation Account (Scotland) 

 Act, 1892 ; Technical Schools (Scotland) Act, 1887 ; Technical 

 Instruction Amendment (Scotland) Act, 1892 ; and Public 

 Libraries Acts. 



The total amount of the residue paid to the county 

 councils, town councils of burghs, and commissioners of 

 police burghs in respect of the year 1896-97 was £48,073, 

 as against £38,262 in the previous year. The proportion 

 spent on technical education was £32,600 in 1897-98, 

 compared with £28,738 in 1896-7, the balance being in each 

 case devoted to relief of rates. In the latter period 27 out of 

 the 33 county councils applied the whole of the residue to 

 technical education, and four a p£irt of it, while two applied the 

 whole of the residue to relief of rates. Of the 205 burghs and 

 police burghs, 60 applied the whole and 58 a part of the 

 residue to technical education, and 87 applied the whole to 

 relief of rates. Nothing was applied to the building or main- 

 tenance of science and art schools, art galleries, or museums, 

 out of the local rate under the Public Libraries Acts. The 

 total amount expended on technical education during the 

 year 1897-98, including balance in hand and contributions 

 under Section 2 (5c) of the Education and Local Taxation 

 Account (Scotland! Act, 1892 was £34,591, and the amount 

 handed over to secondary education committees was £6,258, 



