Educational Endowments (Ireland) Commission: annual report, 1891-92, minutes of evidence and appendices

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SEVENTH REPORT 

OF THE 

EDUCATIONAL EIDOWMEITS (IRELAND) COMMISSION, 

TO HIS EXCELLENCY ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON 

BARON HOUGHTON, Loud Lieutenant General and General Governor op Ireland. 
May it please Your Excellency, 

We, the Commissioners appointed under the Educational Endowments (Ireland) Act, 1885, have the honour to submit to your Excellency the following Report of our proceedings during the seventh year in which the Act has been in operation, that is, from October 1, 1891, to September 30, 1892. 
The powers of our Commission have been extended to March 31, 1893, by "The Expiring Laws Continuance Act, 1891." 
On March 10, 1892, our Secretary, Mr. 
Wm. 
Edward Ellis, M.A., 
resigned his office, having been appointed to an Auditorship under the Local Government Board; and the Judicial Commissioners on March 11, promoted Mr. 
N. 
D. 
Murphy, M.A., 
Barrister-at-Law, the Chief Clerk of the Commissioners, to the office of Secretary, and appointed Mr. 
Frederick Redmond, B.A., 
Barrister-at-Law, to be Chief Clerk. 
In January, 1892, Mr. 
Leslie J. 
Gill, Clerk of the Commission, sent in his resignation on his appointment to a Clerkship under the Congested Districts Board, and his place was filled by Mr. 
Stanislaus Murphy, B.A. 
In July, 1892, the Rev. 
James B. 
Dougherty, M.A., 
resigned his Commissionership, and on July 21, 1892, your Excellency's predecessor, by warrant under his hand, appointed the Rev. 
Hamilton B. 
Wilson, D.D., 
to be an Assistant Commissioner. 
The number of meetings which we held during the year for the transaction of the business of the Commission was as follows: 

122 Meetings of the Full Commission. 
45 Meetings of the Judicial Commissioners. 
44 Meetings of the Assistant Commissioners. 
Total, 211 Meetings. 
A Return of the attendances at these Meetings is annexed; infra p. 
xxvi. 
Besides attending the meetings included in this Return, we have individually taken part in the preparation of Schemes, and have attended at the office for the transaction of other business. 
The annexed abstract of our Minutes, infra pp. 
xxvi.-cxi., 
contains a summary of our proceedings since our last Report. 
During the year, twenty-eight Draft Schemes were published ; fourteen Schemes were revised, signed by the Judicial Commissioners, and submitted for the approval of the Lord Lieutenant in Council; eighteen Schemes were provisionally approved, four were remitted to us with Declarations, and eighteen were finally approved by the Lord Lieutenant in Council. 
Since the commencement of the Commission, one hundred and fifty-eight Schemes have been published; one hundred and twenty-three Schemes, including nineteen Amended Schemes, have been signed by the Judicial Commissioners ; and one hundred Schemes have been provisionally approved by the Privy Council. 
The total number of Schemes remitted to us by the Privy Council from the commencement is twenty ; and the number of Schemes finally approved by the Lord Lieutenant in Council, and now in force, is ninety-eight.