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jurisdiction over educational endowments till 1899. 
The Endowed Schools Commission had up to 1873 
dealt by scheme with endowments having an income 
of £93,635, and had in prospect proposals relating 
to an income of £85,000 more. In 1876 the gross 
income of educational endowments known to the 
Charity Commissioners was stated at £646,882, and 
in 1892 the income of endowments available for 
secondary education in England, at £697,132. In 
1895 the Bryce Commission put the gross income 
available for secondary education, or purposes of 
the Endowed Schools Acts, at £735,000." As regards 
elementary education, in 1895 an income of 
£154,242 from endowments was applied to main- 
tenance of public elementary schools. 
The Act of 1902 violated, in respect of endow- 
ment for elementary education, an old-standing 
principle of Charity Law. It provided, in Section 
13, that where the rates made provision for a 
purpose of an elementary school, e.g. the payment 
of a schoolmaster, to which income of an endowment 
had to be applied under the trusts, the income 
should not be applied to other educational purposes, 
but should be paid to the Local Education Authori- 
ties and applied by them directly in relief of the 
rates in the parish or parishes concerned. This 
provision was of no advantage to the Local 
Authorities, its administration was very troublesome 
and difficult, and except in a few parishes the relief 
to the rates was insignificant. "A Departmental 
Committee of 1911 recommended the repeal of 
the section. . 
Mr. Birrell’s Bill of 1906 as introduced contained