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10. No person already holding an exhibition will be permitted to compete again for the same exhibition. 11. An evening exhibition in science and technology may not be held simultaneously with a junior artisan evening art exhibition. 12. As a rule, the Board's exhibitions are not tenable in conjunction with any other scholarship or exhibition which carries with it a money payment to the exhibitioner, and. exhibitioners are required to inform the Board in the event of their being elected to any other scholarship or exhibition. 13. The principals of institutions at which the Board's exhibitions are held are required to report to the Board on the conduct and progress of the Board's exhibitioners in December and June of each year on forms supplied by the Board for the purpose, and the continuance of any exhibition will be conditional upon such reports being satisfactory. Principals are requested to inform the Board whenever exhibitioners are' frequently absent from their classes through illness or any other cause, and special reports should be sent at any time when circumstances may appear to call for such action. Note.—Apprentices and others engaged in art industries, such as goldsmiths' work, silversmiths' work, carving, pottery manufacture, printing and lithography, bookbinding, and design for furniture or any other artistic trade, should become candidates for the art scholarships or exhibitions offered by the Board, particulars of which can be obtained from the Board's secretary. Sidney Webb, Chairman of the Board. St. Martin's Place, W.C, October, 1897. Wm. Garnett, Secretary of the Board. Regulations for Domestic-economy Scholarships. The Technical Education Board will, in February next, proceed to award ten free scholarships in domestic economy, to be held at Wandsworth Technical Institute, under the following conditions :— 1. The selection of candidates to be left to the discretion of the Board. 2. Candidates must be resident in the Administrative County of London, and must continue to reside therein during the tenure of their scholarships. 3. Candidates must be either pupils about to leave school, being not less than thirteen years of age and having passed the Fifth Standard, or ex-pupils who have left school for a period of not more than one year, having been thirteen years of age at the time of their leaving, and having also passed the Fifth Standard. 4. The names of candidates must be sent to the secretary of the Board, marked " Domestic Economy Department," not later than the 22nd January, 1898, on forms obtainable by written application at the Board's offices. The Board will require evidence that the pecuniary circumstances of the parents are such that they cannot reasonably be expected to allow their children to continue their education without such aid as the scholarships are intended to afford. No candidate whose parents are in receipt of more than £2 a week, or £100 a year, will be eligible for a scholarship. 5. The Board reserves the right at any time to determine any scholarship without notice upon being satisfied that its continuance is for any reason undesirable, and on all questions connected with the award or tenure of the scholarships the decision of the Board shall be final. 6. Successful candidates must be provided with a certificate of health, forms for which will be sent to successful candidates from the Board's office, and which must be given on the opening day of the term to the head-teacher of the domestic-economy school. In the case of any candidate who may be judged by the lady superintendent of the domesticeconomy school to be physically unfit for the work of the school, a medical examination will be required. 7. Candidates must undertake to attend the school of domestic economy on five days in the week, at such hours as shall be decided upon by the governing body, for a period of five months, during which they will be instructed in cookery, needlework and dressmaking, laundry-work, housewifery, and hygiene. 8. All materials and books will be supplied by the governing body of the institute, and, in order to facilitate the attendance of children of the poorest parents, the scholars will be provided with dinner and tea on the days on which they attend the school, and will retain possession of the dress and other garments made by them during the needlework lessons. The head-teacher and managers of each public elementary school for girls within the neighbouring parliamentary divisions of the County of London are invited to nominate three candidates for the selection of the Board. Note.—Further scholarships will be offered at the end of the five months' course to girls whose parents shall desire them to remain for a further course of instruction, and the award of these scholarships shall be made by the Board on the recommendation of the head-teacher of the domestic-economy school. The scholarships will entitle the holders to twenty-one weeks' instruction, together with a dinner and tea on each school-day. A few apprenticeships in dressmaking have been awarded each year by certain of the city companies to girls recommended to them for proficiency in this subject from amongst the Board's free scholars at the domestic-economy schools. Sidney Webb, Chairman of the Board. St. Martin's Place, December, 1897. Wm. Garnett, Secretary of the Board. Regulations for Art Scholarships and Exhibitions (1898). The Technical Education Board will proceed in April, 1898, to award not more than one hundred junior artisan evening art exhibitions, not more than thirty artisan art scholarships, and not more than twenty schools of art scholarships, under the following conditions :—