Treasury Grant in aid of intermediate education was embodied in a Government Bill, though this was not regarded as a satisfactory measure and did not become law. The Act of 1889 originally provided for a Welsh Board of Education, but the measure was accepted by the Welsh Parliamentary representatives without this provision as a large instalment of educational facilities.
A.D. 1890.—By 53-54 Victoria, c. 60, s. 1, ss. 4, passed in 1890, the Councils for the counties, where the Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889 applied, were given financial powers to apply certain customs and excise duties towards intermediate and technical education.
A.D. 1902.—The last Statute requiring notice is the University of Wales Act, 1902 (2 Edward 7, c. 14). On the 30th of November, 1893, her late Majesty Queen Victoriagranted a charter constituting and founding a University in and for Wales with the name of the University of Wales. By this Act Parliament recognized the degrees of the new University and conferred upon graduates of the University of Wales (Prifysgol Cymru) the same privileges and exemptions given to the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and the Victoria University at Manchester. A supplemental charter was granted in 1906 to the University of Wales by his present Majesty King Edward the Seventh, who as Prince of Wales was its Chancellor, and as King is now its Protector.
We have now discussed the considerable number of public Statutes collected in this volume, and only a few general observations remain to be made. It has been thought unnecessary to reprint any of the marginal notes thereto, for they do not form any part of the Acts of Parliament. Where convenient, the older forms of spelling are left unaltered, and it has been found impracticable to include the long catalogue of private and local Acts promulgated by the Imperial Parliament in relation to Wales. Such
