ROYAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY, PRIMARY EDUCATION, IRELAND.
Query IS.
Account of Receipts and Expenditure from December 31st, 1866, to December 31st, 1867.
Dr.
To Balance from December 31st, 18G6, .,
Treasury Grant to December 31st, 1867, „ Donations for the Institution, .
„ Payment by parents, .
„ Payments of Boroughs and Counties, ,, Farm and Garden Account, ,, Industrial Department Account, ,, Interest on Bank Account, .,
Money borrowed,
£ s.
d.
65 19 9i 1,828 8 0 1,099 0 7 54 3 5 747 7 0 108 11 9 62 11 7 G 16 8 748 15 4
£4,721 13
Cr.
By Salaries, „ Provisions, ,, Clothing, ,, Washing, Fuel, and Light, „ Repairs, Rates, and Insurances.
„ Furni'ihinjr, Bedding, and House Sundries, ,, Printing', Books, and Office Expenses, .
„ Travelling; and Police Charges, ,, Medical Expense", &c, ,, Rewards to Boys in School, ,, Chapel Expenses, „ Railway Carriage and Sundries, „ Outfits, Passage, &c, to Juvenile*!
Discharged, „ Additional Buildings, Gas Apparatus, &c, „ Interest on Borrowed Money, .
„ Balance in hand December 31st, 18G7,
£ 420 1,408 356 217 147 108 (58 76 44 4 15 52 287 1,154 108 121
s.
d.
0 0 14 8} 13 10* 15 u 5 n* 0 8 13 Si-6 n% 6 11 1 0 0 8 1 3 17 31 8 114 15 4 11 Sa-Audited 15 January, 1868,
£4,681 13 8J By A.
M.
Rjlnojlw.
19.
Cost per head,
(1.)
Food, (2.)
Clothing, .
(3.)
Industrial instruction, (4.)
Literary instruction, (5.)
Establishment charges, rent, repairs, <irc.
£ d.
10 V <) *2 13 5J 1 2 6 0 10 0 8 18 ^3
d.
11
23 11
7L
7.L
20.
Agriculture, shoemaking, cabinebmaking, tailoring, bakery.
Nmqo of Master.
James O'Donohue, Michael Clanchy, Richard Malone, Hugh Fitzsiiuons, Joseph Everard, .
Ago.
34 35 45 42 24
Wages por A nnuni.
£50 and board, £30 do.
£26 do.
£26 do.
£7S, no board,
Previous Occupation.
Farmer.
Shoemaker.
Tailor.
Baker.
Cabinetmaker.
21.
Reading, writing, arithmetic, book-keeping, navigation.
Namo of Master.
Age.
Wagos por Annum.
Previous Occupation.
Peter Dignam, .
Timothy Doyle, .
21 25
£30 and board, £30 do.
Schoolmaster.
Do.
No.
of Query.
Eeply.
22.
By the Directing Manager twice weekly, and by
the Prefect of Discipline, who reads a short moral lecture, every evening.
Distribution of Time.
a.m.
Sundays.
6 —Rise, say prayers, and wash.
6.30—Mass.
7 —Catechism in the schools.
7.30—Breakfast
and recreation.
8.40—School.
9.40—Recreation.
10 —High mass, sermon, <Jic.
a.m.
Weet Days.
5.30—Rise,
say prayers, and wash.
6 —Mass and school.
7.30—Breakfast.
S —Work.
12.10—Leave
work.
12.30—Dinner
and recreation.
1.30—Work.
5A5—Leave work.
6.15—Drill:
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
School: Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Ablutions, &c.:
Saturdays.
7 —Supper and recreation.
8 —School.
9 —Night prayers and rest (sleep 8 hours).
12.25—Dinner
and recreation.
1.30—Military
evolutions for all the boys, half-an
hour.
Drill with music, one hour.
3 —Instruction and benediction.
4 —Recreation.
6 —School.
(On wet Sundays and holidays at 5J
o'clock.)
7 —Supper and recreation.
8 —School.
8.30—Night
prayers, and rest.
At meals silence is observed, while one of the boys
reads aloud.
At breakfast the Holy Scriptures are road; and at dinner and supper instructive amusing books are read.
N.B.—In
winter time the boys engaged in farm work
go to the study as soon as it is getting dark.
