XXIV. STATISTICS (Nos. 1 and 2) of Evening and Industrial Schools in connexion on the 31st December, 1848. No. 1.-List of Nineteen Evening Schools in connexion with the Commissioners on the 31st December, 1848. No. 2.-List of Nine Industrial Schools in connexion with the Commissioners on the 31st December, 1848. County. County. XXV. LISTS (Nos. 1, 2, and 3) of Fifty Agricultural Schools in connexion on the 31st December, 1848, whether Building or in Operation. No. 1.-Eight Model Agricultural Schools in Operation. Roll School. No. 2.-Twenty-one Model Agricultural Schools in course Antrim, 35288 Ballymoney. ditto, 55302 Dundrod. Limerick,. 31 5564 Tervoe. Donegal, 14705 Dunlewey. 225424 Derrycastle. 255615 Ardfinnan. 345616 Kilbride. Galway, 32 5289 Guirraune. Leitrim, 16 1125 Leitrim. ditto, 16 5252 Five-mile Bourne. No. 3.-Twenty-one Ordinary Agricultural Schools in XXVI.-1. ARRANGEMENT for the CLASSIFICATION of the TEACHERS of NATIONAL SCHOOLS, and INCREASING the SALARIES of those who may be considered deserving. To come into Operation from the 1st April, 1848. Teachers of National Schools are divided into three Classes, to which the following Salaries are attached : Masters of Agricultural Model Schools, with farms of eight or ten acres annexed, who are competent to conduct both the Literary and Agricultural departments, are to receive £10 per annum in addition to the Salary of the Class in which they may be placed. Masters of National Schools, with a small portion of land annexed, consisting of from two to three acres, for the purpose of affording Agricultural instruction, will receive £5 per annum, in addition to the Salary of their Class, provided they are competent to conduct both the Literary and Agricultural departments, and that the Commissioners shall have previously approved of Agriculture being taught in the School. All newly-appointed Teachers, who have not previously conducted National Schools, are considered as Probationers, and must remain as such for at least one year, at the expiration of which time they will be eligible for classification, and may be promoted, even before being trained, to any Class, except the first: if placed in a higher Class, they will receive the full amount of Salary to which they may become entitled, from the commencement of the second year of their service under the Board. All Teachers must remain at least one year in a lower division of any Class, before they are eligible for promotion to a higher division; and they must remain two years in a lower Class before they are eligible for promotion to a higher Class. This Regulation does not apply to Probationary Teachers, nor to Teachers who may be promoted on the recommendation of the Professors at the termination of the course of training. None but Teachers trained at the Normal School of the Commissioners are eligible for promotion to any division of the First Class, and only upon the recommendation of the Professors, at the termination of the course of training, or of a Board of Inspectors. Examinations are to be held at specified times, by the Inspectors, with the view of promoting meritorious Teachers; while those who may have conducted themselves improperly, or in whose Schools the attendance has considerably decreased, will be liable to be depressed. The Commissioners will not grant Salary to an Assistant Teacher or to a Teacher of Needle-work, unless they are satisfied that the appointment is necessary; and such Teachers, even though they may |