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given. The Committee recommended that, with 
certain exceptions and modifications, the administra- 
tive and scheme-making functions of the Board 
relating to the endowments within the terms of 
reference should be devolved by orders of the Board 
on the County Councils as Local Education Authori- 
ties for elementary education, that a statutory list 
of purposes (which might be extended or altered 
by order of the Board) should be made, to which 
such educational endowments might be applied, 
and that the County Councils should be empowered 
to consent without the formalities of a scheme to 
their application to any of the authorised purposes. 
[n the case of endowments originally given to 
non-educational purposes, the Committee recom- 
mended that the Board should be empowered to 
restore them to non-educational purposes as directed 
by a scheme to be made by the Charity Com- 
missioners. 
Diversions of Benefits from ¢ the Poor” 
No action was taken on these recommendations, 
but the last recommendation introduces a topic 
which at different times has excited lively interest. 
Before the Act of 1870 many non-educational endow- 
ments were devoted to educational purposes, pre- 
sumably on the ground that at that time elementary 
education was the greatest need of the poor. Under 
the Endowed Schools Acts also a good many * dole ” 
charities and other non-educational endowments 
were appropriated under schemes to purposes mostly 
of higher education. Cause of grievance was,