The leasehold houses bequeathed by Roger Pimble, being Nos. 51 and 53, High Street, held from Brazenose College, Oxford, for twenty-one years, from Lady Day, 1864, at £4, and underlet at £220 per annum. Five-eighths of the rent of the “Goat” public house, from Catherine Dicken’s bequest. The Millington land at Acton, being 5a. 0r. 7p. copyhold {17b} of the Manor of Acton, let at £20 per annum. A sum of £421 17_s._ 3_d._, representing a bequest by William Briant Arundell made about the year 1830. The royal bounty of £73 10_s._ received from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in respect of an annual grant of £50 per annum by Queen Anne, and £30 by Prince George of Denmark. And by this order of the Charity Commissioners of 13th December, 1875, which is made “in the matter of the Charity called the National Schools in the parish of Kensington, with the subsidiary endowments belonging thereto,” it was directed— That the piece of ground being the site of Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6, Church Court, should be held in trust by the Vicar and Churchwardens of Kensington, “to permit the premises to be for ever appropriated and used solely as and for a school for the instruction of children and adults of the labouring, manufacturing, and other poorer classes of the parish of Kensington.” Such school was directed to be conducted as a public elementary school under the 7th section of the Elementary Education Act, 1870. The management of the school is vested in a committee named by the order, which also provides for their future appointment, and in whom is vested the power of engaging and discharging the teachers and regulating the attendance fees and all other matters. The school remains as constituted by this order. A large sum of money was necessarily expended in the erection and equipment of the new schools, so large that I find the income from rents during the year ending 31st December, 1890, only amounted to £143 16_s._ 5_d._ (which since the charity received five-eighths of the present rent of the “Goat” public house, which is £150 a-year, or the sum of £93 15_s._ from that source) shows that very little other endowment is left. {17c} I regret to say that I learn that the royal bounty is to be reduced for the future to the sum of £10 10_s._ a-year, the Commissioners of Woods and Forests declining to pay any larger sum, regulating the payments of the royal bounty by the proportion which the contributions from the public in the parish bears to the total property of the parish, and the proportion which the Crown property bears to the other property in the parish. On the other hand, I hear that the land at Acton is coming in for building, find will probably shortly be sold on advantageous terms, or leased at an increased rent. There is accommodation in these schools for 364 boys, 256 girls, and 260 infants, a total of 880.