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The total amount of the residues paid to the councils of 

 counties and county boroughs in England and Wales in 

 respect of the financial year 1894-5 was 755,278/. 3s., of which 

 612,626/. 14s. ioi. was appropriated to educational purposes, 

 and 142,65 1/. 8s. 2d. to relief of rates ; the latter sum including 

 108,844/. 4 s - 2d. devoted by the London County Council to 

 the relief of rates. 



As regards Scotland twenty-five out of the thirty-three 

 county councils applied the whole of the residue to technical 

 education, and four a part of it, while four applied the residue 

 to the relief of rates. Of the 204 burghs and police burghs, 

 forty-six applied the whole and fifty-four a part of the residue 

 to technical education; 10 1 applied the whole to the relief 

 of rates ; and three did not furnish returns. No amounts 

 have been 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. Five school boards 

 made grants out of the school fund under the Technical 

 Schools (Scotland) Act, 1887, and at the date of the Return 

 another school board had decided to avail itself of the 

 provisions of that Act. 



The total amount of the residue paid to the councils of 

 counties, town councils of burghs, and commissioners of 

 police burghs, in Scotland, in respect of the year 1894-5,. 

 was 39,300/. 14s. lid., of which 28,201/. 12s. 3d. was appro- 

 priated to technical education, and 10,864/. lis. yd. to the 

 relief of rates ; no information having been furnished 

 as to the disposal of the balance of 234/. us. id. 



In the case of Ireland, the residue is not applicable to- 

 technical education. Eleven local authorities made grants- 

 out of the rates under the Technical Instruction Acts ; and 

 one of these authorities also applied part of the rate levied 

 under the Public Libraries Acts to technical education. Two 

 other local authorities (Portumna and Tuam Unions^ decided 

 to put the Technical Instruction Acts in force. The Return 

 shows that the total amount expended on technical educa- 

 tion by seven local authorities during the year 1894-5 was 

 4,169/. ys. iod. y and that the estimated total expenditure on> 

 technical education by eleven local authorities during- the 

 year 1895-6 was 4,218/. 35. 10./. 



