continue in the School till further order, her friends paying for her a guinea a month.

17. In case any pupil shall be dismissed the School for misbehaviour, or for any other cause, there shall be allowed to the person, who made the original payment for her, a guinea for each month of the unexpired time of her original term of two years.

18. Upon every admission, an undertaking shall be signed by the friends of the pupil, for receiving her home again at the end of two years, or whenever she shall be dismissed the School.

19. The dismission of pupils for misbehaviour, or for any other cause, shall be at the discretion of the School Committee; but such dismission shall not be final and conclusive, until confirmed by the Ladies Committee.

20. Enquiries shall be made from time to time how far any Boarding Schools, which are approved by the Ladies Committee, may be able and willing to co-operate in promoting the objects of the School, by taking some of the pupils, or other young women, on very moderate terms, for instruction as Teachers or Governesses.

No. X.

Copy of the Agreement, signed by the Parents of the Children, learning the Straw Platt, in the West-street Schools.

In any schools that may be opened for employing children in the Straw Platt, it would not only be inconvenient to the school but prejudicial to the scholars themselves, if, when they have nearly or quite learnt the work, they are to be open to any offer of a trifling increase of price, and to quit the establishment, as soon as they can make another engagement, that appears to them to be more profitable. In the Fincham School several instances have occurred of children having quitted it, on account of temptations held out to them and their parents, of a higher price for their work; and in most instances the children have again solicited, and not without success, their re-admission into the school.-To guard against this inconvenience, the following agreement was prepared for the schools in West-street. In the

hope that it may be useful in other similar schools, it is submitted to the consideration of the reader.

WE the undersigned, whose children have

been admitted into the Free School in Weststreet, Seven Dials, are desirous that our children in the school should have the benefit of learning the platting of split straw, the profit whereof, it is said, may amount to six shillings a month or more; and we do hereby agree that their earnings by the split straw platt shall be applied-first, to pay the one shilling a month to be allowed for their schooling, and in addition to it three-pence a week more for the extra expense of the manufacture; and we further agree that the rest of their earnings (after deducting any thing that may be expended for them by their own desire in clothing) be laid up and reserved for the following purpose, viz. that if the child continues in the school until the age of fourteen years, the whole amount of its earnings, with the parent's consent, be applied in clothing and placing out such child, or otherwise for its benefit, at the discretion of the Committee. But if the child

quits the school or dies before the age of fourteen, then the earnings (except as to any part which the Committee may think proper to give to the child, or to the child's parents) are to go to the maintenance and support of the school. In case, however, any of the children, or their parents, shall be desirous that any of the children shall learn to write, and the Committee shall approve thereof, then the further sum of three-pence a week shall be deducted from the earnings of each child, so learning to write.

March 21st, 1804.

No. XI.

A Commission Warehouse has been opened on the 4th of June 1804, at the request of the Society, by Messrs. Corston and Shackle, Ludgate Hill, for the sale of Straw Platt manufactured in schools, or by cottagers or others, who may not otherwise have advantageous means of disposing thereof. The terms are as follows:

1. PERSONS sending in straw-platt to the commission warehouse for sale, are to transmit with it a bill of parcels, the name of the school where, or of the persons by whom, made; and of the banker to whom, and the person to whose account, when the article is sold, the produce shall be paid.

2. When any article is sent into the warehouse, an entry thereof shall be fairly made in the day-book, and the goods shall be prized by Messrs. Corston and Shackle: the price thereof, and the time and place when and where it was made, shall be marked on each article,