Elementary education (refusal of grant). Return for each year since the passing of the "Elementary Education Act, 1870," of the number of new schools to which annual grants have been refused by the Education Department for other reason than non-compliance with the general requirements of the code; also, copies of a memorandum addressed by the Wesleyan education committee to the Education Department respecting the proposed addition to article 7 (b) of the new code of regulations for 1878; and, of the reply of the department thereto [electronic resource].