The following table, compiled from returns furnished through the managers, shows for each province and county the amounts received by the teaching staff in (a) school fees, and also (b) their receipts from other sources of local aid during the year ended 31st December, 1904.

STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT

FROM

1ST APRIL, 1904, TO 31ST MARCH, 1905,

SHOWING THE FUNDS AT THE DISPOSAL

OP

THE COMMISSIONERS

OP

NATIONAL EDUCATION, IRELAND,

AND HOW THESE FUNDS HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED.

R. NAISH,

Accountant.

The following STATEMENT of ACCOUNT will show the FUNDS at

Model Schools:-
School Fees received from Pupils attending Model
Schools. (A portion of these fees (£10 Os. Od.) is
included in the payments made by the Commissioners
to the Teachers of these Schools: the remainder
(£1,790 5s. Od.) was appropriated in aid of the Vote,

Book and School Apparatus Department:

Net Amount received for Books and other School Requisites sold to National Schools (appropriated in aid of the Vote),

Sundry other Receipts in aid of Vote for 1904-1905,

17,660 0 0

1,800 5 0

218 5 1

196 14 0

Miscellaneous.

Private Contribution Fund :-

Dividends on Legacies and Donations (private contribu-
tions) invested in Government Securities,

Deposited for Manual and Practical Instruction Equipment,
Receipts for School Requisites to be supplied by Vendors,

Sundry repayments of moneys due to the account of the Vote
of previous year (1903–04),

Income Tax deductions, payable to Inland Revenue Department,

Stoppages from Quarterly Salaries of Teachers of onefourth Premiums for Pensions, under Act 42 & 43 Vic., 3. 74, 1879,

Premiums of Insurance of Sundry Officers in Service of
Board (North British and Mercantile Insurance Company),

Carried forward,

the disposal of the COMMISSIONERS in 1904-1905, and how they distributed :

(a) Includes £10,000 paid out of Grant from Ireland Development Fund towards cost of providing a new Residence for King's Scholars in Marlborough Street Training College.

(b) Includes £410 paid out of Grant from Ireland Development Fund towards cost of additional King's Scholars in Our Lady of Mercy Training College.

(c) Includes £6.872 118. 4d. paid out of Grant from Ireland Development Fund for Salaries of Assistant Teachers recognised on an average attendance of 50 pupiis; includes also £10 appropriated towards payment of Teachers out of School Fees received from Model School pupils.

(d) The total Free Stocks granted in 1904-1905 amounted to £817 12s. 7d., as follows:-Ordinary National Schools, £742 78. Id.; Model Schools, £72 58. 6d.; Manual and Practical Instruction £3.

STATEMENT of ACCOUNT-continued.

Brought forward.

£ s. d. 1,419,969 0 11

Total,

£1,449,969 011