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August, 1875. BYE-GONES. 283 58. After defraying the expenses of management, and of any ordinary repairs or improvements which the income of the re¬ pairs and improvements fund or the yearly sum payable instead thereof may be insufficient to answer, the governors shall em¬ ploy the income of the foundation in paying the head master, and in making the several payments herein-before directed or authorized for the purposes of the school. 59. The governors may, if they think fit and the income at their disposal suffice for the purpose, agree with the head master for the formation of a fund in the nature of a pension or super¬ annuation fund, the main principles ef such agreement being that the head master and the governors respectively shall con¬ tribute annually for a period of twenty years such sums as may be fixed on; that these contributions shall accumulate at com¬ pound interest; that in case the head master serves his office for twenty years he shall on his retirement be entitled to the whole accumulated fund ; that in case he retires earlier on ac¬ count of permanent disability from illness he shall also be en¬ titled to the whole of the same fund; that in all other cases he shall, on his ceasing to be master, be entitled to the amount produced by his own contributions. If any question shall arise upon the construction or working of this provision, the same shall be referred by the governors to the Charity Commissioners, whose decision thereon sball be final and conclusive. 60. The residue of income of the foundation, if any, may be employed in improving the accommodation or convenience of the school buildings or premises, or generally in extending or otherwise promoting the objects and efficiency of the school. Whatever shall not be so employed shall, on passing the yearly accounts, be treated as unapplied surplus, and shall be deposited in a bank for the account of the governors, to the intent that the same, so soon as it shall amount to a suitable sum, shall be invested in the name of the Official Trustees of Charitable Funds in truit for the foundation in augmentation of its general en¬ dowment. General. 61. The governors shall, out of moneys to be raised for that purpose, if needful, out of the capital endowment or property of the foundation, by sale or otherwise, subject to the consent and approval of the Charity Commissioners, repay to Michael Sey¬ mour Forster, the present master, the sum of £287 12s 4d, being the amount already expended by him in the permanent improve¬ ment of the property of the foundation, by way of draining, providing school apparatus, and otherwise. 62. lhe governors may receive any additional donations or en¬ dowments for the general purposes of the foundation. They may also receive donations or endowments for any special ob¬ jects connected with the school, which shall not be inconsistent With or calculated to impede the due working of the provisions of this scheme. Any question arising upon this last point shall be referred to the Charity Commissioners for decision. 68. Within the limits prescribed by this scheme the governors shall have full power from time to time to make regulations for the co duct of their business and for the management and con¬ duct of the sohool and the masters, teachers, officers, and scholars thereof, and such regulations shall be binding on all persons affected thereby. And subject to revision by the Charity Commissioners upon application nude to them for the purpose by any person interested, and to the other provisions of this scheme, the governors shall have exclusive powtr to determine all questions relating to the oonduct, government, and discipline of the school, or the masters, teachers, officers, and scholars thereof, or their respective rights, position, and privileges. 64. Any question affecting the regularity or the validity or ration of any proceeding or decision of the governors under last foregoing clause, shall be determined conclusively by the Charity Commissioners upon the like application; and if any aoubt or question arises among the governors as to the proper construction or application of any of the provisions of this scheme, the governors shall apply to the Charity Commissioners lor their opinion and advice thereon, which opinion and advice When given shal be binding on the governors and all persons iodecuf ft0 th6 ttU8t 8haU** afltected by the WMrtton 66. From the date ef this scheme all jurisdiction of the ordi- VSSOSS^SS&SSr th*UoeBfli,,g of My mMter to «^»-The.C£ar.ity Commissioners may from time to time, in the HKS? of *Plt ordi?«y Jurisdiction, frame schemes for the rotation sf any portions of this schema, provided that such •Wjemes be no. inconsistent with anything contained in the En¬ dowed Schools Acts, 1869,1878, and 1874^ 67. From and after the date of this scheme the foundation shall for every purpose be administered and governed wholly and exclusively in accordance with the provisions of the same scheme, notwithstanding any former or other Bcheme, act of parliament, charter, or letters patent, statute, or instrument re¬ lating to the subject matter of this scheme. 68. The governors shall cause this scheme to be printed, and a copy shall be given to every governor, master, and assistant master upon their respective appointments, and copies may be sold at a reasonable price to all persons applying for the same. 69. The date of this scheme shall be the day on which her Majesty by order in council declares her approbation of it. Published by Order of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales. D. C. RICHMOND, Secretary, Endowed Schools Department. August 4, 1875. NOTES. WATERSPOUT AT WELSHPOOL.—The fol¬ lowing I cut from an old newspaper which fixes the date of its occurrence at 1679, and professes to glean its information from an old record :—" In October, about Three a Clock in the afternoon, the Inhabitants thereabout saw a very thick Cloud, which being gathered together all on a sudden, it broke up on one of the Mountains hard by, and fell with such fury, and in such a great quantity that the like was never observed before; which immediately procured such a vast Torrent of Water, that divers Trees were torn up by the Roots with the Violence thereof, and several StoneB of an immense bigness which had been hewed out of a Rock, were carried away therewith j which the flood bore down impetuously into a Valley against a Water-mill, which it threw down, and also the dwelling-house adjacent there unto; but all the People escaped except one Woman who was sick in bed, and for haste could not be removed : it pro¬ ceeded against a Stone Bridge, which could not resist its fury, and then comiDg against a strong Stone Wall, its fury was stopp'd for a while, but on the sudden above three more yards fell down, and most part of a Manor-house next it was washed away, and carried into the river Severne. This Spout or Waterfall occasioned this vast inundation within an hour after it fell, and it was very observable that there was no sign of any Bain within a Mile of the Place at that time ; the damage and loss occasioned thereby can hardly be computed; and it is muGh to be feared will occa¬ sion a Scarcity of Corn and other Grain the next year." SCARCITY OF GRAIN IN 1795 (Jan. 27, 1875). —As I have said before, this was a disastrous year, and it would appear that it opened badly in our county by severe frosts in January, followed by great floods in February. Of course the " working classes" were as improvident as they always are, and the frost found them without a penny to provide food and tiring. So subscriptions were the order of the day, and £200 was collected at a town meeting in Shrewsbury on the 14th of January, and further contribu¬ tions were pathetically solicited in the newspapers. Thus, the Salopian Journal of Jan. 21 burst out with, " Say ye, whose generous bosoms expand with the milk of human kindness, how noble, how snblime the gratification to famish —thus cheaply too—a large relief so seasonable and impor¬ tant, to this large number of our distressed fellow-creatures." In the Principality matters were no better, and in spite of the voluntary contributions everywhere on the part of the soft-hearted, the recipients of the bounty soon became riotous. On Feb. 19, we are told that at Convoay and Bangor Ferry the colliers and others seized vessels from