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SCHOOL ACT 
 
 OF 
 
 Prince Edward Island, 
 
 31st victoria: Cap. 6. 
 
 INTITULED 
 
 "AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND 
 
 AMEND THE SEVERAL LAWS 
 
 RELATING TO EDUCATION." 
 
 PASSED 24th APRIL,.1868 : WENT INTO OPERATION 
 
 1st JUNE, 1868. 
 
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 PRINTED BV J. H. FLETCUKR, LOWER QUEEN STREET 
 
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 SCHOOL^ACT. 
 
 THE REVISED AND AMENDED ACTS OF 
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 
 
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 BELATINO TO 
 
 EDUCATION; 
 
 CONSOLIDATED AND AMENDED BY THE LEGISLATURE 
 IX THE SESSION OF 1868. 
 
 XXXP VICTORIA, CAP. VI. 
 
 [Passed 24th of April, 1868.] 
 
 WHEREAS the Laws now in force establish- 
 mg a svstem of free education in this ^'••""''''• 
 Island require consolidation and amendment: 
 I. Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant 
 Governor, Council and Assembly, that from and 
 after the passing of this Act, the several Acts 
 hereinafter mentioned, that is to say : An Act «•?•»»• ^ 
 made and passed in the twenty-fourth year of the s'^"^'"'!;., 
 reign of Her present Majesty, Chapter thirty- f^-X*?'. 
 SIX, An Act made and passed in the twenty-sixth ^""Sft " 
 year of the same reign. Chapter five, an Act ""'"«- 
 
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 2 Cap. 6 31st VICTORIA. 1868 
 
 W!and 18 of -v» 1 i 
 
 «-''"'"''-^* ""'^P^'f^'^ ^" *e thirtieth yoar of the 
 same re.g„, Chapter eight, (except^as herein! 
 
 rhi"tt°nthCi?;or4'e iir^r'izT r' 
 
 -venth Victoria, Chapter tt^^LesWr^^r 
 
 Board 'of TT Ti 
 
 ™"rp%V ,,"; .^rom and after the passino. of this A,.f 
 .■p°;:,.L.'? *! ^'eutenant Governor in Council Ian it • 
 »; "ft« and appoint eleven fit and pier erZ' 
 
 and two tO DG and Onna+i+n+« ^ T> i ^. ^ ^ perSOllS 
 
 -'•»"•• of whTch Tmbe la^r^*^ of Education, one 
 . lieutenant Governor in r "^'P-?"*"'' "^^ "'« 
 Secretary of the Board 1^ ."''',, '° ^^ *''« 
 thereof shall, b like iZt 7 ''*''''" ^''"''^'•^ 
 examining membertXe duty it'^sCn t' T 
 examine candidates for licenses to t,!!)^ ' ,*'' 
 
 attend the mepfino-cr.f « u r. /^^i^YO, and to 
 members tlSreoJT^ "^ ^"'^'"'^ ^^ "^^inary 
 
 III- Five members of the Boirrl «l,„ii u 
 ..«<,„.„. quorum, and the Board shall ^„ / '^,'' *'" ^ 
 
 X-".'-" Thursday in ea«h month tdsl^n" •" '•'"'' 
 the place and time o?ev;ry suchm*'Ttf"*"='^°^ 
 wg, by advertizing tbl ZZ ■ ^t^^^^''^- 
 Ga.^«a newspaper^of thisTsC,'" /^ ^°^«^ 
 days pr^vious^ t^o such l^ee ?n5 ^L'T. ''■". 
 -Doard may mepf nn «,i,.i, ^u ^' "^ *"® said 
 
 - they n.I/dtm°"„:ot;r??r:^^^^^^^^ 
 without such notice being rlqS*?^ gS' 
 
 !rrt BoaJd swrrotrrvi""";" «-«"«- of the 
 
 r«l,;r ^last Thursday inhem3 *"'"■""»"'«- on the 
 
 y in tne month, commencing with 
 
 I 
 
 Board to 
 
 meet 
 monthly, 
 and 5 mem 
 ber« to b 
 quorum. 
 
1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
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 Cap. 6 
 
 * the montn of January in each year, and in each 
 case, for the purpose of examination, the Board 
 may adjourn from day to day, and also hold 
 special meetings for the same purpose, as may ^^'f,*^ 
 be arranged or ordered by the Bqard from time '""•-• 
 to time. purpoM. 
 
 V. The Secretary so appointed by thb Lieut. s.i„. at 
 Governor m Council shall be paid the sum of «--«^"^. 
 seventy.five pounds for his services and to pro- 
 vide necessary stationery and pay other con- 
 tingent expenses. , ^„ ;■ 
 
 V. Each member of the Board shall receive ^"o^"" 
 nine pounds yearly for his services, .except thei^*""'"' 
 two examining members, who shall be paid 
 twenty pounds a year each : the salary of each 
 niember to be subject to a deduction of fifteen 
 shillings for every time he. shall be absent from 
 any monthly sitting of the Board, without suffi- 
 cient excuse. 
 
 VII. The Lieutenant Governor in Council 
 may, at any time, and from time to time re- °- -T* 
 move or supersede any member or members of"-"- of 
 the Board, and nominate and appoint a new Si% l^j 
 member or members thereto, instead of the **""'"' 
 member or members so removed! or superseded 
 and when and so ^ often as any vacancy or vacan- 
 cies shall occur in such Board, by death or other- 
 wise the said Lieutenant Governor in Coun'^il 
 shall appoint a fit person, or fit persons to fill 
 such vacancy or vacancies. ■\!r!i _ - 
 
 VIII. No Schoolmaster or mistress '1ic*ensed ^'^^"'^•- 
 to teach under this Act, or under the said here- F"'"« 
 by repealed Acts, or any former Law relating y"«-«'* 
 to Education, who shall have been, or mav nt^^^to'el 
 
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 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 shall hereafter be, absent from this Island, or 
 who shall have discontinued the practice of 
 teaching, or not been employed therein under 
 any agreement to teach under this Act, or any 
 present Act relating to Education, for the space 
 of two consecutive years, shall not hereafter be 
 permitted or qualified to teach under this Act, 
 unless he or she shall again appear before the 
 Board and be examined, and receive from the 
 Board a new license or certificate to teach. 
 
 OandldtUi 
 for oiCe* of 
 teaeher to 
 b* cxsmln 
 «d, and If 
 fooBd eom- 
 paUat, r«- 
 eeire €nti- 
 
 flCAt*. 
 
 OtrtifleatA 
 of eharac- 
 ttr, ice, to 
 b« pro- 
 duced. 
 
 Bond «■ 
 report of 
 School Tif- 
 Itor may 
 require 
 teacher to 
 be re-ex- 
 amined, & 
 If found 
 Incom- 
 petent, It- 
 cenae can- 
 MUad. 
 
 IX. Any person who may be a candidate to 
 become a District Teacher or Schoolmaster, or 
 mistress, in this Island, shall, on one of the bi- 
 moTxthly meetings of the Board, or any other day 
 which the said Board shall appoint, submit him- 
 self or herself to an examination before the 
 Examiners of the Board, and if the Board shall, 
 on receiving the report of the Examiners, be 
 satisfied with the qualifications of such candi- 
 date, they shall give him or her a certificate of 
 his having passed such examination ; provided 
 that no such certificate shall be granted to any 
 person who shall not have produced to the Board 
 a certificate of good moral character, signed by 
 at least two persons of respectability, one of 
 whom shall be a Clergyman or Justice of the 
 Peace, resident in the neighborhood where the 
 applicant may have last resided or usually re- 
 sides. 
 
 X. If any School Visitor shall report to the 
 Board of Education tiiat any teacher, licensed 
 to teach under any of the former Acts relating 
 to Education, is unqualified to teach, the Board 
 of Education may, at its discretion, order such 
 teacher to be re-examined before the Board, and 
 
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 upon such re-examination shall grant, or refuse, 
 a certificate or license to teach to such person, 
 and if a new certificate or license as aforesaid, 
 be refused to such person by the Board, his for- 
 mer certificate or license shall be deemed to be 
 cancelled. 
 
 XI. tt shall be the duty of the Board of Edu- 
 cation, assisted by the Visitors of Schools o^'r^Yti *' 
 if fhey require it, to prepare suitable forms and^'«'"n.lc., 
 regulations for making all returns required by '°'"'"°^"" 
 this Act, and conducting all necessary proceed- 
 ings thereunder, and to cause a copy of the same, 
 with such instructions as they shall deemneces- 
 
 , sary for the guidance of District and other 
 schools, th6 same not beings inconsistent with 
 this Act, as also a copy of this Act, to be fur- 
 
 , nished to each teacher having an engagement 
 to teach under this Act, which Act and docu copy of 
 ments shall be at all times kept in each school- b^tt' £ 
 house by the teacher, and shall be open to the Joum! 
 inspection of the Trustees of such school and all 
 persons by law authorized to visit the same. 
 
 XII. Upon complaint made to the Board, of Bo.rd. em- 
 gross misconduct or neglect of duty on the part fH^l 
 ot any person holding a certificate as a District crc'.i° 
 Teacher, the said Board, after due investigation S^titt 
 and satisfactory proof of such misconduct or ne- 
 glect of duty, shall have power to cancel or 
 revoke the certificate held by such District 
 Teacher as aforesaid, and shall also have the 
 same power if any such teacher as aforesaid, hav- 
 ing entered into an engagement to teach in any 
 District as hereinafter mentioned, do not com- 
 plete the whole term of his engagement, unless 
 such teacher be prevented from so doing by sick- 
 

 Trutt«oi, 
 See,, wish- 
 ing to ro- .1 
 move teach- 
 er, to lodge 
 cotnpluint 
 with Board, 
 'Who mny 
 
 ' " enquire In- 
 
 " to lame. 
 
 ond receive 
 evidence. 
 
 Board may 
 require per 
 flonnl at- 
 tendance of 
 parties. 
 
 and if - 
 iluemed 
 Met,'08«ary 
 reraovQ 
 teacher, &c 
 
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 ness or other incapacity, or unless the said en- 
 gag(3ment be dissolved by order or permission 
 of the Board. 
 
 XIII. In the event of any dispute between 
 any of the trustees or the inhabitants of any 
 District, and the teacher as to his conduct as 
 teacher, the trustees or inhabitants intending ' 
 to prosecute such complaint, with the .view of 
 removing him from the school, before the expi- 
 ration of his agreement, shall be obliged to lodge 
 with the Board a written statement of such 
 complaint, and, at the same time, to send a 
 copy thereof to the teacher, and the Board 
 may inquire ii^to such complaint in such way s 
 to them may seem most fit, and the evidence 
 as well on the part of the trustees or inhabi- 
 tants in support of the charge or complaint, as 
 on the part of the teacher in answer thereto, may 
 be taken by affidavit or written depositions be- 
 i6re any Justice of the Peace for the County to 
 to he nominated by the said Board for that pur- 
 pose, and transmitted to the said Board for their 
 consideration and final decision thereon • pro- 
 vided always that the Board may, if they think 
 fit, require the parties and their witnesses to 
 appeal' personally before them, in or touching 
 the matter of such investigation, and, on suoh 
 complaint being estr-blished, the said Board may ' 
 in their discretion, supersede such teacher, and 
 authorise the trustees of the District to enWffe 
 another teacher in his place, although the term 
 of the agreement with the teacher so suspended 
 may not have expired, but such last mentioned 
 teacher shall, nevertheless, be entitled to re- 
 ceive the proportion of his salary up to the time 
 of his dismissal. 
 
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 bffice, 
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 said en- 
 >ermission 
 
 between 
 s of any 
 onduct as 
 intending ' 
 
 .view of 
 the expi- 
 i to lodge 
 b of such 
 o send a 
 e Board 
 h way s 
 evidence 
 ■ inhabi- 
 plaint, as 
 'eto,may 
 tions be- 
 )unty, to 
 bhat pur- 
 for their 
 3n ; pro- 
 jy think 
 lesses to 
 touching 
 3n tjuch 
 -rd may, ' 
 ler, and 
 engage 
 he term 
 upended 
 ntioned 
 
 to re- 
 le time 
 
 ( 1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 ?n whnl '/' heretofore .,ep a. book orrcginter 
 
 \i^^}LT!t^''^''^ ^"^^ 1^ operation, and hkving 
 
 fe 1. ^'' u t?*'*^'^ ^^ «"PP«^t ""dor this 
 lAct and the inhabitants or teachers of all School 
 Inol fv" claiming support under this Act shall 
 cause the particulars and extent thereof to be 
 forwarded to the Secretary of the Board of 
 pducation, who shall enter the .same in roto,tion 
 as they come into his office, in the said Book or 
 
 nfL^' ^* '^^" ^'^ ^"*^ oporatic^ shall be 
 
 ntered and registered within thre. months 
 
 liter the day when the determination of the 
 
 am Board shall be notified respecting the same, 
 
 DiiJXT- ^'L"'?''*^'^'^ ""''^ "^ "^^^ School 
 wirVS''??;^'^? *^ *^^'^^ in existence and 
 ,|stebh.hed a the time of the passingof this Act, 
 
 tfcv l,^'^'''^'?^^ ^^ ^^'^ '^''^ ^^^^d' "<^r shall 
 IZ T^ ^^"^ ^''*'^'*' ^" ^^^ teacher therein, 
 |r ^f il^^^d to any allowance under this Act 
 
 J fntil the same has been referred to the Lieut' 
 
 governor in Council, and the erection of such 
 
 , I^I^f rict and the granting of such allowance 
 
 mndl hv I^ T ?'''. ™«ti^"«d by special order 
 made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council 
 directed to the Board of Education. 
 
 ^l^^^S!"^^^^ Education may receive 
 ^ take to themselves, and their suc4ssors in 
 Oftce, m cases where the owners of the lands 
 refuse conveying them to the trustees of the 
 Pistrict, or will not otherwise secure them to 
 |ie inhabitants of the District, by conveyance 
 aeeds and conveyances of the pieces of land 
 
 • ■ > * 
 
 Register fof 
 UiatLoU to 
 he kflnt by 
 yocretary „' 
 of. Uoard. 
 
 Special an- 
 ient of Lt. 
 Governcrin 
 Council 
 essential to 
 establish 
 new School 
 Diatrict. ^ 
 
 Board may 
 rocoivo 
 Convey- 
 ances of 
 school sitea. 
 
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Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1«68 
 
 Mod* of 
 changinf 
 altea of 
 Rchool- 
 bo'j>. les. 
 
 Board may 
 alter boun- 
 daries of 
 Bchool Dis- 
 tricta, &c., 
 and change 
 ■itea of 
 achool-. 
 housea 
 therein. 
 
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 whereon the schoolhouses now or hei:eafter 'to 
 be erected shall be situate, and shall hol4 the, 
 same in trust for the inhabitants of the District 
 where the same lands are situate for thenurpOses 
 of Education and of this Act. When, anil go 
 often as at least two-thirds of the inhabitants, 
 resident householders within any School Dis- 
 trict, now registered, or hereafter to become 
 registered under this Act, shall desire to. alter 
 the site of the schoolhouse therein, and shall 
 signify such their desire, in writing, to the Board 
 of Education, specifying therein the site to 
 which the schoolhouse is proposed to be re- 
 moved, and briiig also accompanied by a written 
 memorandum from the owner or lessee of the 
 contemplated site, offering to execute a ^eed or 
 lease thereof to the Board of Educatipn, or to 
 the trustees of such school, for the purposes 
 thereof. It shall be lawful for the said Board, 
 if they see fit so to do, to make an order for such 
 alteration to be made wiien and so soon as the 
 contemplated site shall be conveyed to the Board 
 of Education, or otherwise, in accordance with 
 the last preceding section of this Act. 
 
 XVI. The Board of Education, for the time 
 being, with the consent of the Administrator of 
 the Government in Council, and without ap- 
 pointing Commissioners for that purpose, as 
 hereinafter mentioned, may alter, enlarge or 
 diminish the size or boundaries of any school 
 District or Districts now or hereafter established, 
 and also may re-arrange the boundaries and 
 diminish the number of Districts where npces^ 
 sary or desirable, and, at the same time, change 
 the site of the schoolhouse or houses therein, 
 so as to meet the altered circumstances of the 
 
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 aist VICTORIA. 
 
 CJap. 6 
 
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 District or Districts, and may make all orders 
 necessarj for effecting and perfecting auch. 
 change of site or other alterations hereinbefore 
 inentioiied, and in any case where an applied^ 
 tion shall be made in writing to the Board, i 
 
 signed by at least ten inhabitants, householders,, 
 m any such District or Districts, in -vrhich any 
 such alteration or re-arrangement is proposed 
 to be made, requesting stichalteratiooa or re- 
 arrangement, so as to render such District or 
 Districts more suited to the convenience of th^ 
 respective (inhabitants therein, it shall be lawful 
 for the Board, in their discretion, if they deem 
 it necessary, to noniinate and appoint three Board may 
 competent persons^ not resident in the District Sns 'to 
 or Districts, respecting which the application -frlpS? 
 may have ;been so made, to examine into the «" ''aK: 
 particulars, and such persons so appointed a» "°"'' """' 
 aforesaid, after notice of their intention so to 
 do shull have been posted for at least six days 
 previous on the schoolhouse in the District, or' 
 if the application shall concern more than 'one 
 District, then on the respective^ schoolhouses in 
 the several Districts in question, shall attend at^ 
 such ume and place in such D'3trict, or either 
 of such Districts as shall in such notice' be speci-^ 
 tied, and shall personally then and there proceed' 
 to make enquiry in such manner and to such 
 extent as they, or a majority of them, shall'^ ""n^' 
 deem requisite, and i f they should be of opinion ' 
 that the interest or convenience of the inhabi- 
 tants would be promoted hy an alteration in the 
 bouiiiaries of such District or Districts respec- 
 tively, or should deem it expedient that euch -- - 
 Districts should be merged into one, or other- 
 """" "' -arransred. tliov sbnll f.^ op^^\|.^jj. 
 
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 if on 
 
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 3l8t VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 the manner or define the extent of such altera- 
 tion, and shall, thereupon, report such their 
 opinion and determination under their hands, or 
 the hands of a majority of them, to the said 
 Board, whose order or decision thereon, when 
 sanctioned by the Administrator of the Govern- 
 ment in Council, shall be final and conclusive, 
 and, upon such order of the Board being so con- 
 firmed, the same shall be duly notified to the 
 inhabitants of the District or Districts respeo 
 tively, regarding the boundaries Or extent of 
 the alterations respecting which such deter- 
 mination shall have been made, by letter 
 addressed and mailed in the General Post Office, 
 in Charlottetown, by the Secretary of the Board 
 of Education, to one of the Trustees of any Dis- 
 trict so altered, or wherein the site of any 
 Bchoolhouse shall be changed. 
 
 XVII. Every person who shall be appointed for 
 the purpose in the last preceding clause mention- 
 ed, shall receive from the Public Treasury eight- 
 pence per mile for every mile necessarily travell- 
 ed by him for the purposes therein mentioned, 
 and also the sum of ten shillings collectively for 
 the report in writing, and transmitting the same 
 to the Board, the same to be paid on producing a 
 voucher and certificate thereof, signed by the 
 o^n^tiS*** Secretary and three members of the Board, who 
 Bo.'rd?' ^^^^^ therein state that the application on which 
 the commission has been issued was reasonable, 
 and if otherwise, then the expenses shall be 
 borne by the applicants. 
 
 SaSir 1 '^^^^^- J^^ ^11 cases where the site of a school- 
 Se.^'"" u "^^' within any established district is, or has 
 r«inn,«™*^ been leerallv alfprpfl npr]o«> iU^ .x-^,»:^: i?j.L' 
 
 Fees of 
 OommiB 
 alon. 
 
 
 
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1868 
 
 3l8t VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 11 
 
 any 
 
 ,; 
 
 ^4 
 
 \ 
 
 i^ 
 
 Act, or any present or former la\f relating to SSSJl" 
 Education, and such schoolhouse is situated upon 
 land held under lease, deed or otherwise, the 
 Trustees of such school district shall be and they 
 are hereby authorised and empowered to remove 
 the schoolhouse or building from its former site, 
 unless there be a special clause in such lease or 
 other instrument prohibiting such removal. 
 
 «. 
 
 XIX. All school districts as now registered 
 by the Board of Education, are hereby declared 
 to be established and confirmed as school dis- 
 tricts, and shall be entitled to all the rights and 
 benefits conferred upon or belonging to school 
 districts to be established by this Act, notwith- 
 standing any want of form or any error or irre- 
 gularity whatsoever in the mode of naking any 
 original application for the laying off, defining 
 or establishing of any such districts, or in any 
 other preceding Act, matter or thing necessary 
 to be had, done or performed under this Act, or 
 any former Law relating to Education, prior to 
 or in respect of any such registration whatsoever, 
 and a certificate of any such registry as afore- 
 said, or of any school district hereafter to be 
 registered under or pursuant to this Act, granted 
 under the hands of a majority of the Board of 
 Education, or under^the hand of the Secretary 
 of the Board for the time being, shall be evi- 
 dence sufficient and conclusive of the establish- 
 ment and boundaries of such district respec- 
 tively, in all actions, suits or other precee^lings 
 in any Court of Law or equity, or before any 
 Court or tribunal whatsoever, in all matters 
 touching or relating to such school district or 
 the school therein, or where it may be neces- 
 
 All School 
 
 DiitrieU 
 
 ferolerly 
 
 registered 
 
 eonfimed, 
 
 notwith- 
 
 ■taBdinc 
 
 want ei 
 
 form, fte. 
 
 CertlflcBte 
 of Registry 
 signed by 
 SecretarrJ 
 &c., to be 
 conclusive 
 eyidence of 
 establish- 
 ment of 
 school- 
 house, &•., 
 of district. 
 
12 
 
 Gap^ 
 
 aigt vig!poria: 
 
 1868 
 
 Mode of ^iioi/m,i,. ., , ,1 ,j,-. j^,. . .,■ , 
 
 proceeding YY r^ 'liL -i J i. ■ ., r ' -'.►./*m>«; 
 
 S r thf !a^ Sir '" ^S'^^^^f ¥«^ f^ 
 a« maintaitiance under this i^t^h'nw'^ '^''^^^ 
 
 ,. Kz'ST^SffSSt 
 
 •"'"'-"eifKAv ^f >i ^^'^oiars attending the same or 
 
 S:L: -laa&tenaace at the a^Se 1 ZT',- ™** 
 .;,:■, r: Aould arise between the r^' K-t V 1''?"''^ 
 
 district,- as to wS is enf if l^H .''"*? "^^"^l^ 
 i-Lpm.., 01- most entitllrf^V ' ^®'*,*° ■"^^^ntenance, 
 
 '"•""•%-^plicatiorS t Sl^in'* r' "^'^ ^» 
 BoaW of Education sigSV'ltW^fi J" '^' 
 habitants, householders in ,K- *^ . ^® '"" 
 of them to h-ive+i^-f,*®*™''"'" either 
 
 in eitiS of sucrcie^'ir^fr'l^^' *^'^"' -«J 
 
 Board oi'EducttiS hti tt r'"' '"' **>« 
 of the case reauire it t!> „ • ^'^ •circumstances 
 
 ; «>-e persons^e^'lSrof ?h1p^^^^^ 
 Commissioners for thp VZ .o ® ^^'^'^^ oi- 
 
 ■;r;„ resident nei^ to but -.nfr^'^ °^?'"''" ^«bH 
 ":•,:: ■;:;teiested in St^r of ^ ^? <^f «"* «r in! 
 
 '^ ^"^.^'^fParticulaVand suot'^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 missioners, after notice of tv. • *' V™°«'' or Corn- 
 do, shall have been Z ^.'''I mtention so to 
 dayspreviou" on L^f'^^i ^""^ '^^ '«««* «x 
 attinS at suc^ Le and n tlf °"'\°"««^' *«» 
 «aid district., as shalU^ it '". "'f'' "^ the 
 and shall pe^onallv t1 en ,. .u'"" '^'^ ^Pecified, 
 
 ^akeenq^ir^rKarrtnTtrr *" 
 tent;as they, or a majority of them I 'n'l '^■ 
 requisite, and shall, Li/upon fix' at "deTe? 
 
 
1868 
 
 J /i 
 
 1^6* mnaimiA. c^.'^ 
 
 13 
 
 ^^^^:Mi:!f' -v th. districts 
 
 should be r^mmm^ r *^® schoolhouses ?„« '•eB.oa 
 
 theyfeiallfiv,;"„:K ''^ *° maintenance, 
 
 their option and det '"•?' ^^ "^P"'"* ^"°h 
 hands, o^r ^ h^ni oA °'*-r ""'^'^^ t^^i' 
 the Board nfVR .■ ^ majority of them, to 
 
 ■ shall be^nn,^"'"*"'"' ^''°«e decision thereon 
 
 snail be conclusive, .and the said Board nf^T """' '™- 
 cation shall be and «*..,, T , °^™ o* Edu- po*erea ,„ 
 
 to withhold or susnin^*^., ■'" ^-'t^y empowered S'f 
 by such schools o?!?tv.*'' mamtenanw claimed ■"„""*„ 
 
 entirely or until such t^'' °^ *'lt'"' '*"'^ ^t^^^*- """ 
 *anhLeS™™^«^ *^ schoolhouse 
 
 duly notifiprl.* ^:^ • I . ?* -Education shall be 
 
 iTd^Mnn? • "" *^^ '"'^^'^^^t^nts of the district 
 in dispute, m manner as pointed onf i^ ^^^^}^^ 
 teenth action of this Lt *^^ ®'''' 
 
 . -^^'^I- Eachf Justice df^h^i^flp^ ^ n^ ■' '• 
 sioner of STrinli n^u+ "i« J^eace or Commis- pea^e to 
 r. , ■ ^^ omcUj Debts nommatpd onri or^r^^• a j ''^ allowed 
 for the ' nurnosp I'n +1.^ i x ^^ appointed to Jueticea, 
 
 mentioned shall L !•.''? P^^^eding section Prece.r»r 
 
 per mile^for ea^h mHe I ' '"^.^^^^S^t Pence 
 Ci-rr, .. ^^^ J^'icn mxle necessarily travelled hv 
 hnn .0 and. throughout such School D^trH^^^ 
 also the sum of tpn cTiin,-^ n ^-^^^^^^'-^ ana 
 
 
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1.4 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 ?rocMd°ng XXII. When and so often, after the passing 
 i° w 'SS of this Act, as the inhabitants of any Settle- 
 Ssfo? * nient, Township or District, shall desire the 
 hotiwi. erection of a new school district near to their 
 plaxjes of residence, and when not less than five 
 such inhabitants, being householders, shall make 
 request in writing, intimating such their desire 
 to the Board of Education, then it shall be the 
 duty of the Board of Education to nominate 
 and appoint a Justice of the Peace or Commis- 
 sioner of Small Debts, residing near to, but not 
 being a party interested in such proposed dis- 
 trict, to examine into the same, and it shall be 
 the duty of such Justice or Commissioner, after 
 notice of his intention for such purpose having 
 been duly posted for six days, in three of the 
 most public places in the settlement or district 
 where such inhabitants reside, to attend at the 
 place in each district named in the notice, and 
 there personally to make such enquiry in such 
 manner and to such extent as by him shall be 
 deemed requisite, and thereupon to fix and de- 
 termine upon the most proper and eligible site 
 or sites for such schoolhouse, or schoolhouses, 
 and the proper limits and boundaries of the dis- 
 trict or districts thereof, and shall report such 
 his opinion and determination, in writing, under 
 his hand, to the said Board of Education, whose 
 decision thereon shall be conclusive, and if the 
 said Board shall approve of the erection of any 
 such school district, and the 3pecial order and 
 sanction of the Lieutenant Governor in Council 
 for that purpose, as hereinbefore required in 
 such cases, can be obtained, they shflfll notify 
 the same to the said inhabitants, and, on the 
 other requisite for school districts being com- 
 
 
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1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 15 
 
 
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 h 
 
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 plied with, shall cause the said district to be 
 registered in the Book to be kept by the Secre- 
 tarp, as hereinbefore mentioned, and the Justice 
 of the Peace or Commissioner of Small Debts 
 shall be entitled to the same fees as in the 
 twenty-first section of this Act mentioned. 
 
 XXIII. When any new School District shall ,^"57^ °« 
 
 V - 1 to dl strlctB 
 
 be hereafter applied for and erected, and the ^^,"g'j^^^;jfj 
 School Visitor for the County wherein the said J^^^jjjj'^ 
 district is situate, shall certify that the inhabi- houses. 
 tants thereof are in poor circumstances and re- 
 quire pecuniary assistance to enable them to 
 build a schoolhouse therein, then it shall be 
 lawful for the Lieutenant Governor in Council 
 'to grant the sum of five pouiids to the Trustees 
 of such district to be expended in erecting such 
 schoolhouse. 
 
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 XXIV. Every schoolhouse hereafter to be nimeniions 
 erected and used as such, within any district houses. 
 now or hereafter established under this Act, and 
 
 not already contracted to be built, shall not be 
 less in clear area than four hundred square feet, 
 nor in the height of post than ten feet clear 
 between the floor and ceiling, or to be built 
 nearer to the highway than ten yards. 
 
 XXV. In all cases where a schoolhousG is school i 
 now or shall hereafter be erected on Church erTted on 
 grounds, and the trustees or managers of such gJounds, 
 Church property are desirous of obtaining the Sn bene"-^' 
 benefits of this Act, and of having such school Act!j?^" 
 established as a district school, a lease of such " 
 schoolhouse shall be given by the parties in 
 whom such property is vested, or who shall have 
 
 the lesal control over the. mme, to the Board of 
 
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 J? Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 Education, for the time being, to hold to them 
 f and their successors in office for such term ag 
 
 may be required for the purposes of this Act, or 
 as may be agreed upon in that behalf. 
 
 house may, XXVI. The public schoolhousc in every dis- 
 S majority ^^i^t cstabHshed or regulated under this or any 
 be^u7ed''by for^iier Act relating to Education, may, with' the 
 master for, conscut of thc majority of the trustees thereof, 
 classes. |3g ugg^ \yy ^Yie licensed teacher thereof, 
 for the purpose of teaching night or evening 
 classes therein, for his or her own benefit, and 
 such schoolhouse may be used as a place of wor- 
 ship, or for any other lawful public meeting, 
 with the consent of the trustees, as aforesaid, 
 and at such time as they may appoint ; pro- ' 
 vided always, that in no case shall it interfere 
 with the duties of such licensed teachei, and 
 provided further, that the ^^oard of Education 
 shall have full power to prevent any such pub- 
 "lic schoolhouse being used at any time ckiring 
 the regular school hours in each day fo^' any 
 othei* purpose, or by any other person than such 
 licensed teacher, for teaching a public sebooi 
 therein urder this Act. 
 
 f;'M 
 
 !<? 
 
 ; 
 
 ^urabT of XXVII. The average number of schol^irs for 
 SS'^'lt-*" daily attendance at distri;;t schools . shall here- 
 tendance to ^f^^j. ^^ ^^ ^j^g followiug proportlou to thc uum-. 
 
 Sidren her of children, between the ages of fi^ e and 
 number 48. gixtcen ycars, in such districts respectively, 
 that is to say, in districts where there are forty 
 children and upwards, but less than fifty with- 
 in the ages aforesaid, the average number of 
 scholars for daily attendance shall be t^renty. 
 In di,stricts where there is the number of fi ft 
 
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1868 
 
 31st YICTORIA. 
 
 Cap; 6 > pl7 
 
 children, and less than sixty within the ages 
 aforesaid, the average daily attendance, shall be 
 twenty-five scholars, and in districts where ;!Ji';4*. to 
 there are sixty children and upwards, the aver- ^'^ 
 age daily attendance at the school therein shall whs^so. 
 be thirty, and in all cases where the.,iiV|erage 
 daily attendance of schplars at such schools shall 
 hereafter be found to be less than the nuTOf)ers 
 hereinbefore prescribed for such schools, .respec- 
 tively the salary allowed by this Act, to jthe ?AS«^ 
 Teachers of such schools shall be reduced ; -WPh '^tScYeJcy. 
 redugtiqn to bear the same proportion to the 
 number of schools deficient of, or less th^^n , jb}ie 
 aforesaid averages respectively, as ;thei said 
 Teacher's salary be^rs to such average, wjii^h 
 said average shall be reckoned half yearly, and 
 ^11 parents of children within the bounds of Howredac 
 such district, shall be liable to make up and ^^^^l^^^^H 
 contribute towards such deficiency in prqportipn 
 to the number of children within the said ages, 
 which such parents may have respectively, and :, 
 in default of such contribution, after the sarhe ' 
 shall have been duly demaftded, the sM 
 amount so to be deducted from the said salary 
 shall be raised by an assessment to be^levfed by 
 the Trustees, on the parents or guardians of ^11 
 chiWrenin the said school district; such assess- 
 ment to be apportioned as to them, or a majority 
 of tlietn, shall, under the circumstances df the 
 case, and due' regard being had td the means of 
 the various parties, appear just and reason- 
 able, and to be levied, raised, and recoveri^d, in 
 such manner, and subject to such rules, coiidi- , ^ 
 tions, and regulations, as are presci^ibed for 
 levying or recovering assessment by this' Act. 
 
 '; XXVIIi; No Schoolmaster or I'eacber shall 
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 I 
 
 18 ^ Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 mtd'to "■ A^ ^^i^i^led to any allowance by virtue of this 
 
 SnkT" ;?^*' .unless the inhabitants of his, or her school 
 
 kSo'u u^^?b ^^^^^ ^^^"^^ ^^'^^ provided a sufficient 
 
 iTd^'*'!!^^ ^^ ^^^ *° ^® exclusively used for that pur- 
 
 ^•♦^^ pose, Cexbept as in this Act provided) and also 
 
 that there have been, at the least, forty children 
 
 ' betweett the ages of five and sixteen, renident 
 
 within his or her school district for the six 
 
 
 
 months imtnediately preceding the period of his 
 'Ot her claiming his allowance, and that the 
 average daily attendance of scholars during the 
 said «ix months, shall not have been less than 
 tw^hly. Provided always that this provision 
 shall not extend to school districts now or here- 
 after to be registered under this Act, in which 
 there shall not be the number of forty scholars 
 withm the aforesaid age residing, if the daily 
 average attendance of such children at the 
 school therein amounts to twentv 
 
 XXIJC. And whereas there are certain settle- 
 ments in this Island not included within the 
 ^^ limits of school districts heretofore established, 
 found. and where the requisite number of forty child^ 
 , ren^ within the ages of five and sixteen, cannot 
 i, be found within one and a half miles of a central 
 part, then and in every such case on a written 
 . requisition made by the inhabitants thereof, to 
 to the Visitor of Schools for the County wherein . 
 the said settlement is situate, it shall be the 
 s duty of the said Visitor to enquire into the cir- 
 3,;cumstances of such application, and as to the 
 
 «-^ -^ w-I^- "".1. '^^i r'"'' '^^*^^^ *^^ ^S^« aforesaid 
 vffi°' i'"" *^^ ^^'^ ^^^^^^ aiid the said Visitor shall 
 
 uti ±o;T- ^^^P^"^ '?, ^^ri^i^g to the Board, who 
 
 dutriot., to navmg duly considered the circumstances of the 
 
 ^ case, may, if they think proper so to do and 
 
 Proviso, 
 
 
 ProTiaion 
 for aetUe- 
 menu 
 where 40 
 children 
 cannot 
 
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»jiji,ijin!jjjt4"jf4»i,'i 
 
 1868 
 
 3 J8t VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap, 6 
 
 19 
 
 subiect to the approval of the Lieutenant Govji,. 
 ernor in Council, authorise the erection of mo^/ 
 settlement into a minor school district, and th^, , 
 registration thereof as such, and building Com^v. 
 mittees and Trustees may thereupon be apr.i, 
 pointed for such minor district in the same 
 manner as in other cases, and such Trustees may I'rTT: 
 be annually elected, and shall have the same SiWJ; 
 powers as Trustees in those districts where the ^ 
 requisite number of forty scholars can be found, 
 and the teacher engaged to teach m such 
 minor district where the number of scholars is 
 less than forty, shall also be subject to the same 
 rules and regulations as in cases where there ^ 
 are forty scholars, and shall be entitled to re* ' 
 ceive from the Treasury of this Island, on pro- 
 duction of certificates signed as in other cases 
 under this Act by the Trustees of the district 
 and the Secretary of the Board of Education, if 
 such teacher be a male, the sum of thirty shill- 
 ings per annum for each scholar taught by him, T-«h.r ^ . 
 calculating the same according to the daily aver- {JlJfJ-W"- 
 age attendance, as shown by his Register or "jj^^ 
 Journal; and if a female teacher, the sum of 
 twenty shillings per annum for each scholar 
 taught by her in like manner ; such certificate 
 to state the number of scholars actually taught 
 according to such daily average. 
 
 XXX. There shall be only two classes of S^*' 
 district school teachers or masters, exclusive ot 
 Grammar School masters, who shall be licensed 
 to teach in this Island, of whoni the first or i,t cIm.. 
 lowest class shall be competent to teaph Book- 
 keeping, English Grammar, Reading, Arith- 
 metic and Geography, without the use of ther,^^ 
 
 r-ii 1 __j ^i* T^rU/^rv, fV>o Rponnd or hicrnerciass 
 \jriobes ; anu ui vvi^^^iii vi^^ nr^^.^. — ^ 
 
 
26 
 
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 1868 
 
 Behool ' at. 
 lowanca 
 ni»y be 
 withheld 
 antll pre- 
 ■erlbed re- 
 ruUtionii 
 observtd, 
 ke. 
 
 teaehw 
 irotr'.ifa. ' 
 tote I«bor. 
 %o. 
 
 Teachers 
 under 21 
 years of 
 
 Ht», where 
 allowed. 
 
 Teacher not 
 to embark 
 Iq mercan- 
 tile purewlta 
 
 ^*P- « 31flt VICTORIA. 
 
 Sbia 'S:/^'%^'. ^^ ^"^P^^-^t to teach 
 
 to t ,^h to fL r'^' -P™^* their capability 
 Vj. :• "• tne satiHfaotion of the Board nC 
 
 . cer^fi^"/ '^\'^''^^' '" their dincreLn git 
 « certificate or license to anj such candidate 
 
 XXXI. All schools claiminff allowance to 
 Teachers therein under this Act, wEn tho 
 
 scriKfto^r- ^'■rJ'"' "^^^ P - 
 foi the rnn t P>-«««"bed by the School Visitor 
 
 SrLS""o YdiX'^shrfr rr'T'' - 
 
 and adopted, sb!I TA^ st'BrrdlatsTet 
 
 on Juries and liS nTfot^lditrf "^ 
 poses under this Act. ^^'cational pur- 
 
 XXXIII. Any Teacher uudfr thn n„o f 
 twenty-one y.ars. shall not be permitted to 
 enter into an enffagement with tv.^ n. " *" 
 the school district fnwhichTe'' I'^'^T "' 
 brought up, withou" first obtainrn^th'"' ^'"' 
 of the Board of Education t& ^' '""^'°' 
 
 nnSSrASrsStanS T^^ ^ 
 
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1868 
 
 to teach 
 [ensura- 
 d Geo- 
 l candi- 
 pability 
 oard of 
 , grant 
 late. 
 
 nee to 
 in the 
 )n pre- 
 Visitor 
 te, or 
 served 
 see fit 
 sed or 
 me as 
 cation 
 
 ing to 
 from 
 tiding 
 pur- 
 re of 
 d to 
 es ot 
 be jn 
 sent 
 
 1868 
 
 31st VIOTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 21 
 
 pay 
 
 k in 
 -tion 
 
 /I 
 
 1 
 
 XXX\ . Wh-n any child shall not reside F''"'' "°t 
 withm any sdiooi district, th.' scliool of which ^"'"-"x"' 
 IS not m operation, such cliild shall be entitled -»'°""'°". 
 to attend at the nearest school district the 
 Teacher whereof shall be receiving 'pay under 
 this Act, and such Teacher shall be bound to 
 receive P id instruct every such child, unless 
 the numU r ot children already in attendance 
 at his school shall exceed fifty. 
 
 XXXVI. The Trustees of any 'school con- E,pu,.,on 
 stituted or regulated under this Act, or under -h/a^'^'"" 
 any former Act relating to Education, shall """*"'"'• 
 have and be vested with full power and autho- 
 rity to expo any^scholar for gross misconduct 
 
 or misbehaviour. 
 
 XXXVII. All males and females over five ^" "hud- 
 years, and not exceeding seventeen years of age -^-rex* 
 residing in any school district in this Island,' -yati-n^^^: 
 s all be entitled to attend the school therein 
 
 the reacher whereof shall receive pay under 
 this Act, and the said Teacher shall be bound 
 to receive and instruct all such children. 
 
 XXXVIII. In all cases the vacation of each ^"";^" ?^ 
 school constituted and regulated under this Act '^"^ "- 
 Zl. T nv ^P^^^^tio". excepting always the' 
 
 chools in Charlottetown and GeoVtown, shall 
 be two in number m each year, that is to say a 
 Jing vaca 1011 extending from the tenth day 
 of May to the thirty-fii^fc day of the same montl^ 
 and an autumnal vacation of twenty-one davs 
 to take place iu the month of October, aiid 
 which shall be fixed by the respective Trustees 
 of the several schools, and no deduction shall 
 be made from the salary of th^ Tp>»nhav r.^^ «^,. 
 
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 "I 
 
 / 
 
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 22 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 m 
 :.l 
 
 Inhabitants 
 of a district 
 
 ■ 
 
 time added to the period of his service on ac- 
 count of such vacations being allowed, and every 
 alternate Saturday shall be allowed as a holiday 
 to the Teacher in each district school. 
 
 ........... XXXIX. The inhabitants of any school dis- 
 
 '^rnZT' tnct Within this Island, who shall have pro- 
 vided a schoolhouse tlierein, in conformity with 
 all the provisions of this Act, shall, and they 
 are hereby required to nominate and appoint 
 tive Irustees, such nomination and appoint- 
 ment to take place at a meeting of the inhabi- 
 tants of such district, called by a written or 
 printed notice, signed by at least three resident 
 householders within said school district, and 
 posted in at least three of the most public places 
 within thp ..me seven days prior to such 
 meeting which notice may be in the form of 
 the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (D ) 
 and a majority consisting of a least nine per- 
 sons, of the resident houseiioiders present at 
 such meeting, shall be competent to appoint 
 such Trustees, and it shall be the duty of such 
 Trustees, three of whom shall be a quorum, to 
 examme the school of said district quarterly in 
 each venr, and at all times in conjunction with 
 the Visitor of Schools for the County, to inqTire 
 into the order and direct the disc pline\nd 
 regulations of such school, and also to give any 
 leensed Teacher who has had the management 
 thereof the necessary certificates required by 
 this Act; audit shall be the further duty o^* 
 such Trustees to forward a notice of their ap- 
 pomtmc^.t, immediately after «uch appointment, ' 
 to the Board of Education, provide! always 
 that where the appointment of the Trustees tf 
 the bcaooi m any school district, shall have have 
 
 Duties of 
 Trustees. 
 
 
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•1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 23 
 
 been made under and by virtue of the laws 
 heretofore in force, relating to Education, and 
 such Trustee shall be in the office at the pass- ^Tcf" at'" 
 ing of this Act. They shall continue and be P"'t""on-°' 
 held to be the Trustees of such school, under and ^'"'^'^^ 
 for the purposes of this Act. 
 
 XL. In order to 
 
 obviate the necessity and provinj 
 consequent expense of a more formal proof of i'ngs tSiect 
 the calling of any meeting, for the appointment &c.?*pc'nt- 
 of Trustees under this Act, or any former Act •impiified"* 
 relating to Education, an affidavit of the posting 
 of such, notices for the calling of such meeting, 
 shall in all cases of the appointment of Trustees 
 which shall hereafter take place, be made by 
 the person posting such notices, or other person 
 who can prove the fact of the several notices 
 having been duly posted before any Justice of the 
 Peace, for the County wherein the school district 
 is situate ; which affidavit shall be in the form, 
 or to the effect, prescribed in Schedule (E), tol!''^^"^' 
 this Act annexed, and shall be affixed to the 
 Register or books of record kept by the Trus- 
 tees of the school therein ; and a copy of such 
 affidavit, certified by any two of the Trustees 
 of said school for the time being, shall be prima 
 .facie evidence in any Court of Law or Equity, 
 or before any Court or tribunal, or persons what- 
 soever, of due notice of such meeting having 
 beenfgiven. 
 
 XLI. In each school district now erected, or may"a«eM 
 hereafter to be constituted by virtue of this holder',. 
 Act, a majority of the Trustees thereof shall enJa' 0?""^ 
 have power tc assess all the inhabitants, house- ^"children 
 
 holders, rysident therein, who shaii have a child mLir^an^i 
 or children withir the ages of five or seventeen '"*'• ' 
 
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l<M>'***«|MMllipw 
 
 24 
 
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 Gap.' 6 
 
 Sl'ijt VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 yeiarsj of his own, or under his care and guar- 
 dianship, and who shall have been so resident 
 for six months previous to the making of the 
 assessment ; and no other person or persons 
 whomsoever, in a sum to provide the necessary 
 books and maps directed to be found by the 
 School Visitor, and the fuel required therein, 
 and such Trustees as aforesaid, or the majority 
 Power to , thereof, are hereby empowered to apportion the 
 JweMmTnt: ^^^^ assessmcut between such resident house- 
 holders, according to the number of children 
 within the ages aforesaid respectively, belong- 
 ing to them. The assessment upon each 
 parent to be increased in proportion to the 
 number of his or her children within such ages ; 
 and such assessment shall be recoverable with 
 costs as hereinafter, in the forty-ninth section 
 of this Act directed. And when recovered shall 
 be applied for the purposes for which the same 
 shall have been levied. 
 
 School 
 books or' 
 
 tees 
 
 XLII. The Trustees of any district school, or 
 b'e'^^'rdrred a majority of them, shall have power to order 
 by Trus- ]jqq^q q^ maps to bc provided for the use of such 
 schools ; and shall have power to assess the 
 resident householders having children, as in the 
 last proceeding section mentioned within the 
 said district, for the cost of such books and maps ; 
 and which assessment shall be recoverable with 
 costs, in the manner pointed out by the forty - 
 ninth section of this Act. 
 
 XLIII. No parent or guardian, or other per- 
 
 No sum to 
 be paid by 
 
 &"cTtor son, shall be liable or required to pay any sum 
 goiig'^lo or amount, per head or otherwise, for or on 
 
 a nntui ft 
 
 Teacher whereof shall receive pay under the 
 
 .f 
 
1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 26 
 
 authority of this Act, provided always that ^'<>^«'- 
 nothing herein contained shall extend or be 
 construed to extend, to prevent the inhabitants, 
 or any one or more of the inhabitants of any 
 school district in this Island from voluntarily Volant, 
 subscribing any sum or sums of money whatso- ^f^p'^P^ 
 ever, towards the pay or support of the Teacher porVof"^" 
 of the school therein, in addition to the allow- '"" "' 
 ance to which such Teacher may be entitled 
 under this Act. And in all cases where any 
 such voluntary subscription may be entered 
 into, and signed by any inhabitant or inhabi- 
 tants as aforesaid, either as an inducement to 
 any efficient master to take charge of a school, 
 or for any other reason whatsoever. The Mas- maren*"" 
 ter or Teacher of the said school shall be en- Sent of''" 
 titled to demand and receive from the person ^*°h^l%- 
 br persons respectively, signing the same, the """'' 
 lamount of his or their respective subscriptions, 
 lin accordance with the terms thereof; and in 
 default of payment, such teacher shall be en- 
 Ititled to sue for the same, in manner by law 
 Provided for the recovery of small debts. 
 
 XLIV Two. of the Trustees of every school two xra. 
 ^^Pappointed by virtue of the Laws heretofore initft'in*?o 
 !•;;* force, or hereafter to be appointed bv virtue of *''"'?? *"-'P 
 tnis Act, shall, m rotation, go out of office in the i^be^e?/"- 
 month of July in each year, commencing with lLd° ' ^**' 
 the two members first nominated and appointed. "' 
 And the inhabitants, resident householders in 
 ;such district, wherein is th" school to which 
 they shall be appointed Trustees, at a meetinc' 
 to be held on any day in the month of Jul/ 
 yearly ; and to be called by the Trustees of said 
 
 "-^ ^v.vi-^c txicicui jjivcii iii fciie manner 
 
 provided by the thirty-ninth section qf this 
 
mAnOm 
 
 26 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 Act, shall elect two new Trustees in their stead, 
 having the like power and authority ; and until 
 such election shall be had, the two retiring 
 Trustees shall romain in office, provided never- 
 theless, that if the said inhabitants think fit, 
 they may re-appoint, at the bottom of the list, 
 such Trustees going out by rotation, and im- 
 mediately after such election or re-election. 
 And whether new appointments fbe made or 
 not, the Trustees of said school shall notify the 
 proceedings to the Secretary of the Board of 
 Education. 
 
 in'BcTnrd'of XLV. In thc cvcut of any vacancy or vacan- 
 b"; de-'t"; cies occurring from time to time, in any Board 
 ftc","hoWa ^^ Trustees for any school district, appointed or 
 filled up. : elected by virtue of the laws heretofore in force, 
 or hereafter to be appointed or elected under 
 ^ this Act, by reason of the death, absence, or 
 refusal to act, of any Trustee or Trustees after 
 his or their appointment or election. The in- 
 habitants, householders of such district, are 
 hereby empowered to proceed to call a meeting 
 in the same manner as provided for the first or 
 annual meeting of Trustees, and to choose or 
 elect one or more person or persons to supply 
 such vacancy or vacancies. And the Trustee 
 or Trustees so chosen or elected, during the 
 currency of any year, shall have the same power 
 in all respects, as if he or they had been elected 
 at the commencement of the year, or at the last 
 previous general election of Trustees. 
 
 ioubt" "c**.! XLVI. In the event of any disputes or doul)ts 
 
 oX ne*^ arising or existing as to the legal election or 
 
 xSif^..^' resignation of any School Trustee or Trustees, 
 
 or the right of my person or persons to aeBixme 
 
1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 27 
 
 vacan- 
 Board 
 ited or 
 1 force, 
 under 
 nee, or 
 i after 
 ^he in- 
 ^t, are 
 eating 
 irst or 
 )se or 
 supply 
 rustee 
 g the 
 power 
 lected 
 le last 
 
 loubts 
 ion or 
 istees, 
 sBume 
 
 the office or exercise the duties of Trustee or 
 Trustees of such school, the Board of Education 
 are hereby authorized and empowered to in-* 
 quire into and determine the same, and, if they 
 deem it advisable, on any account, to order a 
 new election of the whole, or any less number, 
 [of the said Trustees, and, for the better ascer- 
 taining the truth in such case, to require the 
 personal attendance before the said Board, and to 
 examine,on oath, any witness or witnesses, whose 
 evidence may be deemed necessary on such en- 
 quiry, and any witness who shall refuse to 
 attend so to be examined, after his reasonable K«inia» 
 expenses for doing so shall have been tendered *«• 
 to him, shall be liable to pay to the party com- 
 plaining, a fine of not more than five pounds, 
 nor . less than one pound, the same to be re- 
 covered, mth costs, in such manner as debts 
 under the Act relating to Small Debts are now 
 recovered. 
 
 XLVII. In case the said Board shall order a mLnSer^^of 
 new election of Trustees, a day, hour and place, Sew'efec- 
 shall be named in such order for that purpose, T?u.t«M. 
 and a copy thereof shall be posted on the school- 
 house of the district, at least six days before 
 the day so named, and the inhabitants, who 
 shall thereupon assemble, shall then and there 
 elect the necessary number of Trustees, who, 
 on being confirmed by the Board of Education, 
 shall be deemed to be in office until the first 
 day of July next, after the date of such election, 
 or until some new election duly authorized shall 
 take place. 
 
 Proof of 
 
 X T. w TTT Tr» oil naacka xirnrkr^ {4- tvioit \\n -nj^rtrta aDDoint> 
 
 sary to prove the appointment of Trustees ap- J^'^ai^. 
 
 \ 
 
 
 I 
 
ite 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 ► f 
 
 Board of 
 Traateei to 
 
 pointed by virtue of the Laws heretofore in 
 force, or hereafter to be appointed by virtue of 
 this Act, in any Court of Law or Equity, or be- 
 fore any Court, tribunal or persons, whatsoever, 
 a certificate stating the facts of such appoint- 
 ment, signed by the Secretary of the Board of 
 Education, shall be good and sufficient prima 
 facie evidence of such appointment in all matters 
 and questions touching the school district or the 
 school, respecting which such appointment shall 
 have been made, or in any manner in which 
 such appointments shall come in question. 
 
 xru.iee.to ..^^'I^- ^^cry Board of Trustees of school 
 Sr^o/pro- districts, appointed under, or by virtue of the 
 ceeding.. Laws heretofore in force, or to be appointed 
 under this Act, shall keep a book or record in 
 which their proceedings shall be entered, and 
 the minutes of each appointment hereafter to 
 be made of Trustees in any district after their 
 election as aforesaid, and their names shall be 
 entered and signed by the Chairman of the meet- 
 ing of inhabitants at which such Trustees shall 
 have been elected. In such book or record, 
 which shall afterwards be so kept by the Tius^ 
 tees as aforesaid, and when so signed, such ap- 
 pointment shall be held and be deemed to be 
 good and valid, and minutes of future meetings 
 and proceedings, elections and re-elections, shall 
 be entered therein, signed by any three of the 
 Trustees for the time being, and the particulars 
 of all assessments maie by any such Trustees 
 shall be also duly entered and signed by any 
 three of them, and the said book or register shall 
 be open to the inspection of all resident house- 
 holders of the diatnW. nnri fKo S/.V.^^i \tx^:j. ^ 
 
 thfe tounty, and if any mich assessment shall 
 
 ^-*V 
 
1868 
 
 )fore in 
 irtue of 
 
 or be- 
 soever, 
 ppoint- 
 Dard of 
 prima 
 natters 
 b or the 
 it shall 
 
 which 
 
 school 
 of the 
 Dointed 
 ;ord in 
 d, and 
 fter to 
 r their 
 lall be 
 ! meet- 
 3 shall 
 record, 
 
 Trus- 
 ich ap- 
 
 to be 
 (etings 
 5, shall 
 of the 
 iculars 
 astees, 
 7 any 
 r shall 
 house- 
 
 :x -/» 
 
 itur ui 
 
 i ^hall 
 
 186^ 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 29 
 
 
 not be paid by any party liable to pay the same 
 within ten days after a demand thereof made 
 upon, or at the residence of the debtor, by one 
 of the Trustees or some party authorized by a 
 majority of said Trustees in writing, to collect 
 the same, and produced to the debtor, then and j^^^^^ ^, 
 in every such case, the said Trustees or anv one recovering 
 or more oi them, or such other person as the ^''^ 
 majority of them may appoint, and in the name 
 of any one or more of the said Trustees may sue 
 the debtor before any Court for the recovery of 
 small debts, or Justice of the Peace, by sum- 
 mons or otherwise under such regulations as 
 may at the time be by law prescribed for the 
 recovery of small debts. And it shall be law- 
 ful at the hearing of such cases for the defend- 
 ant, if he shall see fit, to plead the inequality inaqnauty 
 of the rate, provided he give notice of his in ten- men', how 
 tion to do so in writing, to the Trustee or Trus- ^ " ' ' °* 
 tees, or other person in whose name the sum- 
 mons shall have been taken out, within twenty- 
 four hours after the serving of the same ; and 
 if he shall so plead, then it shall be lawful for 
 the said Court for the recovery of small debts, 
 or Justice of the Peace, before whom the sum- 
 mons shall be returnable, to hear such evidence 
 as may be adduced by either party, and to vary 
 the amount of rate and make an order for such 
 ail )unt of payment as justice may require. 
 Provided nevertheless, that if the defendant 
 making such plea, shall h|ive at any time there- 
 tofore acquiesced in the justice or equality of 
 such rate, by having on occasion of any former 
 assessment, paid his proportion or quota thereto. 
 
 Of anv na.rf", t,h«^VPof a+' f .<airnilnr raia r)v nrnnn-r. 
 •''1 ----- ~ __-, - , ^...,^ 
 
 tion, then aiach Small Debt Court or Justice o£ 
 
 I 
 
T*'*"^*«»»««»»^»6-)MI«.- 
 
 30 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 81st VICTORIA.. 
 
 1868 
 
 r/ 
 
 
 the Peace, shall not"; permit the same to be 
 neard, or any evidence connected therewith to 
 be adduced, but shall order the reasonnble costs 
 incurred by the plaintiff or plaintiffs, to be paid 
 by the defendant. 
 
 Book kept T rnu i 
 
 !'eVr-berr^-/*'%^°°k or rccord to be kept by the 
 &evi- Trustees t)f the several school districts constitu- 
 o?"^'a& ^^ ""^^^ *^^ several laws heretofore in force,— 
 etrd"."-^; *^'' Act~and signed by tlie persons and in 
 the manner mentioned, and set forth in the last 
 preceding section, shall be good and »nma facie 
 evidence of the truth of all statements, minutes, 
 matters, and things therein contained and set 
 forth m any Court of Law or Equity, or before any 
 i^ourt, tribunal, or persons whatsoever, whether 
 such statements, minutes, matters, or things, 
 shall relate to meetings of the inhabitants, the 
 appomtment or election of Trustees, or re-elec- 
 tions thereof ; assessments upon the inhabitants, 
 or other proceedings whatsoever of such Trus- 
 tees, and of the regularity and correctness of all 
 acts matters and things, relating to, ov con- 
 nected with such proceeding so entered, and set 
 torth m such book or record. 
 
 sEr , .I;I-Wherfe the erection of a new school dis- 
 JSiRrSi'!'^^^ |lb? sanctioned, by order of the Ad- 
 K.::ni f If ''^!;*.^! m Coundl under this Act, or in any 
 K-..''!^^^^ district already established, if the ma- 
 "jorityofthemhabitants, resident householders 
 therein, respectively, shall decide upon erecting 
 a new schoolhouse within the same or enlargin/ 
 or completing any schoolhouse already ereLd 
 or rebuilding or repairing the same, when 
 decayed, or procuring furniture for the 'scho^U 
 uuu.«, i. siiaii be iawful for such majority of 
 
1868 
 
 1868 
 
 3l8t VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31 
 
 resident householders to meet together and ap- 
 point a Committee of five persons. If in a newly 
 erected district, or if in a previously established 
 district, to make an order to give directions to 
 the Trustees of such district for the time being, 
 to assess the several resident householders 
 within the same, respectively, for the erection 
 of such schoolhouse, or for enlarging, completing, 
 re-building, or repairing the same, as aforesaid 
 or for procuring furniture for the schoolhouse, 
 as the case may be, and tojsuperintend the same ; 
 and which schoolhouse, as to size, shall be in 
 conformity with, and not of less dimensions than 
 those prescribed by the provisions of this Act ; p,^^ ^^ 
 but may be larger if a majority of said resident ofpropoieif 
 householders shall so order at such meeting, and houae.tojbe 
 a plan and specification of such schoolhouse, so m««ed to 
 to be erected, or of the contemplated enlarge- &o?,""*^' 
 ment, manner of completing, rebuilding or re- 
 pairing the same, or of the furniture rec^ lired, 
 having been submitted to, and approved of by a 
 majority of such resident householders, the said. 
 Committee or Trustees, as the case may be, 
 shall thereupon have full power to make such 
 assessments as aforesaid, for any of the purposes 
 above mentioned ; duo regard being had in ap- 
 portioning the amount of assessment to be paid 
 by each resident householder under this section, 
 to his or her circumstances and means, and the 
 benefit to be received by him or her from the 
 same. 
 
 LII. In the event of any one of such resident or°T™u"tee. 
 householders in any such district as aforesaid, foT°y Ynd 
 refusing to pay the amount for which he shall 'e8.ment"" 
 
 no un aaaaaaaA iirifV»ii-» flfj-rkori Antrc QfVo» 4Un &c. 
 
 ^,^, ...r ,,.„,. v,»..i.->..v., TTiviiiii iiiti_\^xi \Jici,\ a dlLd CliU 
 
 same shall be demanded of him or her, by or 
 
 \ 
 
32 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 on beha f of such Committee or Trustees, re- 
 spectively, as aforesaid, or after a memorandum 
 ot the amount of such assessment signed by a 
 majoritjy of said Committee, or Trustees, as the 
 case may be, or a copy thereof shall be left at 
 the dwelling house of such inhabitants, it shall 
 ^ be lawful for the said Committee or Trustees or 
 any one or more of them, respectively, in the 
 name of the whole, to sue for and prosecute the 
 debt or before any Court for the recovery of 
 bmallDebts, or Justice of the Peace, by sum- 
 mons or otherwise, under such regulations as 
 are by law prescribed for the recovery of Small 
 Debts; and it shall be lawful at the hearinrr of 
 any such case, for the defendant to plead the 
 inequality or excessive amount of the rate, pro- 
 vided he or she gives notice of his or her inten- 
 ^on to do so in writing, to such Committee or 
 irustees aforesaid, as the case may be, or to one 
 or more of them in whose name or names the 
 summons shall have been taken out, within 
 forty-eight hours after the serving of the same, 
 and If he or she shall so plead, then it shall be 
 lawful for the said Court, before which the 
 summo-.,^ shall be returnable, to hear such evi- 
 dence as may be adduced by either party, and 
 to vary the amount of the rate, and make an 
 order for such amount of payment as justice 
 may require. j ^^ 
 
 jX'IT:, ,,F"; ^^^ Clergymen Judges, Magistrates, 
 .ay^v,.u and members of the Legislature, shall have 
 .chooi.,&.. power to visit any public school under this Act 
 and to inquire into the management thereof or 
 any other object connected with its prosperity • 
 and may note down in a Visitors' Book, which 
 Bhall be kept bv everv Taac^^^ ^^« A_. . 
 
1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 38 
 
 pose, any omission observed in that department, 
 or any other remarks relating to the school. 
 
 LIV. Every Licensed Teacher shall hereafter Teacher to 
 keep a Register Journal of his school, which K^ter^oje? 
 shall be kept in the schoolhouse (until sent inuonoT^ur- 
 as hereinafter mentioned) containing the names ^'' °' 
 and ages, with notes of the progress and atten- 
 ance of the pupils ; and the said Journal shall 
 at all times be open to the inspection of the 
 School Visitor of the County, and Trustees of, 
 said school, and other persons authorized to 
 visit the same, as in the last preceeding section 
 mentioned, and also any member of the Board 
 01 Education, who may visit such school, and 
 such Journal shall, at the termination of the 
 Teacher's engagement, be by him or her for- 
 warded to the Secretary of the Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 LV. Where any schoolhouse within the 
 meaning of this Act, or any former law relating 
 to Education, has been, or shall hereafter be 
 erected on any site or piece of ground, with the 
 
 Where a. 
 school- 
 houie has 
 been built 
 and re- 
 organized : 
 br Board 
 
 consent of the owner, occupier, or tenant of tion.itshau 
 
 for origiaal 
 owner8,&c., 
 to Interfere 
 with the 
 same, &c. ■ 
 
 such land ; and such site and schoolhouse have 
 also been rocognized by the Board of Education, 
 as the legal site and schoolhouse for the district, 
 wherein the same are situate. Then and in such 
 case, it shall be illegal for the original owner, 
 tenant t»r occupant of such land, or any person 
 or persons in trust for such owner, tenant or 
 occupant, by deed or otherwise, whether regis- 
 tered or unregistered, in any manner to inter- 
 fere with such site or schoolhouse thereon 
 erected, or to prevent the free and peaceable 
 possession and use thereof, and access thereto 
 
34 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 3l8t VICTORU. 
 
 1868 
 
 and thereover by, or to the Trustees, Masters, 
 or children, or the inhabitants of the district or 
 iloard of Education, or others, for the purposes 
 ot ±.ducation, unless such interference shall be 
 expressly sanctioned by the terms of any Deed 
 i^ease or agreement, given by the owner, ten- 
 ant or occupant of, or person entitled to the 
 land on which the scb.oolhouse is, or shall be 
 erected, and any conveyance or deed of the 
 ^l/i v.^^^^^^""^ "^"^^^^ ^^ hereafter to be made, 
 snail be ineffectual to pass any estate therein, 
 so as to enable the grantee, or re-lease, or per- 
 son to whom it is or shall be conveyed, to in- 
 terfere with such site or schoolhouse thereon, or 
 any of the aforesaid parties in the free and 
 peaceable use, occupation, and possession'of the 
 same as aforesaid. 
 
 ihl'^^' ^""^^.^^^ ffter the passing of this Act, 
 the number of male district schools for Char' 
 
 Ihall^ofV"^ the Common and Royalty thereof 
 shall not exceed nine, and it shall be the duty 
 of the resident householders within such dis- 
 tricts respectively, having children under the 
 age of seventeen years, to meet together from 
 time to time as the necessity shall ar se T 
 the purpose of electing Trustees, in the s'ame 
 
 AoTZVh'' f/''^'^'^^ as is piovided by tSs 
 Act for the election and re-election of Trustees 
 for the ordinary school districts. ■'■^"siees 
 
 c^.. r,^tIr\^J^l ^T^.°^ Education shall have 
 *^r!^" -Sient^^^^^ time wj^^^^j^ j^^j^ deem 
 
 --""'' ^r the k'l^'^' t^^ City of Charlottetown, 
 
 oecMisry... scuooi Qistricts, the whole not to exceed fha 
 number of nine. incl.iHm «. f h.o« l._ .^_??f.^, ^^? 
 
 Nnmber of 
 mtlej 
 ■ii ooli In 
 Oti. riotte- 
 town and 
 Boyn Ity. 
 
 Hoaae- 
 bolden to 
 elect Trus- 
 tee!, 
 
 Board nay 
 tlvld© ' 
 
 I 
 
1868 
 
 1868 
 
 ?5; 
 
 tm 
 
 t \ 
 
 \ 
 
 8l8t VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 th 
 
 %/ ««■ MJVV4 UIJ bl 
 
 and an- J^«""od, 
 
 and to alter such division from time to time, 
 and re-arrange such districts as occasion may 
 require, and such division or alterations shall 
 be notified by advertisement in the Royal 
 Gazette newspapei*, from time to time, imme- 
 diately after the same shall have been made, qh a,. 
 Provided always, nevertheless, that, until any flr«eVuntii 
 new division or alteration be made and an- 
 nounced, the districts as now constituted and in 
 operation, shall continue and be in force. 
 
 LVIII. There shall be allowed in Charlotte- Thr«« 
 town, and the Common and Royalty thereof, hiih?«»" ^ 
 not more than three masters of the highest or ch"ioti°^ 
 second class, who shall be assigned by the Board *°*"* 
 of Education to such districts (with the consent 
 of the Trustees thereof,) within the said City, 
 as they may deem advisable, having a regard to 
 the ages and state of proficiency of the children 
 in the several districts, and giving preference to 
 the districts in which shall reside those most 
 advanced or proficient, and for each of the other 
 districts in the said City, Common and Royalty, 
 there shall be employed a master or teacher 
 of the first or lowest class; provided always,^'"''"*** 
 that, if the inhabitants of any one of said dis- 
 tricts, instead of sending their children to the 
 school in their own district, if such shall be in 
 operation, shall send them to the school in any 
 other district of the Town, Common or Royalty, 
 they may do so, unless the children at such last 
 mentioned school shall exceed sixty in number, 
 in which case,upon a representation made by the 
 Trustees of such last mentioned school, or other 
 persons interested therein, or who shall desire to 
 to send their children thereto,of the necessity of 
 having an additional master or teacher as an 
 
 31 <: 
 
4 
 I 
 
 (86 'C^p.6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 18u8 
 
 Board, 
 where 
 number of 
 Bcholarg 
 require it, 
 may ap- 
 point asiist- 
 ance under 
 certain 
 limitations. 
 
 assistant therein, it shall be competent for the 
 Board of Education to enquire into the matter, 
 and, if they see fit so to do. to appoint an addi- 
 tional master or teacher, of either class, as an 
 assistant Teacher in such school ; provided fur- 
 ther, that the Board shall not have power to 
 appoint such assistant master or teacher if the 
 number of masters and assi^'ants in Charlotte- 
 town, Common and Roy alt ,, =.. on actually en- 
 gaged and receiving Govei ■ ii' ' pay, exclusive 
 of the masters and teacx ira of the Normal 
 Female Schools, shall amount to twelve ; pro- 
 vided further, that no teacher in Charlottetown, 
 under this Act, shall be entitled to a salary un- 
 less he or she shall have taught at least thirty 
 scholars, and shall produce certificates to that 
 effect. 
 
 bo aid for ^^^' '^^^ scholars receiving instruction in 
 Bchoi»r«, in Charlottetown, and the Common and E'-valty 
 town'^ °' thereof, at any of the schools therein receiving 
 |)roou/e "* support from the Government, shall pay, at the 
 "^'' *'°" time of their first admission into said schools, 
 and thereafter quarterly, in advance, each the 
 sum of one shilling and sixpence, to be collected 
 by the Teacher of each school and paid over, if 
 a district school, to the Trustees thereof, and if 
 a j^'emale School, to the Secretary of the Board 
 of Education, and to be applied by such Trus- 
 tees, as the Secretary of the Board, respectively, 
 to the purchasing of fuel and the payment of 
 rent, and the cost of repairs of such school- 
 houses, and other necessary purposes, and if 
 such Trustees, or the Board of Education, re- 
 spectively, shall find that the said quarterly 
 payment is .lot sufhcient in amount for the 
 purchase of fuel and other purposes as aforesaid, 
 
 No Teacher 
 In Char- 
 lottetown 
 to draw 
 salary un- 
 less he 
 ahail have 
 taught 30 
 scholars. 
 
 Amonnt to 
 
 y 
 
 ) 
 
 t 
 
 
1868 
 
 8WVTOT0RIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 ^7 
 
 un- 
 
 re- 
 
 % 
 
 then the said Trustee?, or Board of Education, 
 respectively, may order and require a further 
 payment to be made by each scholar, not ex- 
 ceerling, however, in any case, the sum of thr6fe 
 sh aings, quarterly, in addition to the first men- 
 tioned quarterly payment of one shilling and 
 sixpence, and if the said sums, or either of them, 
 be not paid, the scholars in default shall be de- 
 barred from further instruction until the same 
 is paid, and the same shall be recovered by the 
 Teacher, in the name of any one or more of the 
 Trustees, or of the Secretary of the Board of 
 Education, respectively, before the Court of 
 Commissioners for the recovery of Small Debts, 
 in Charlotte town, from the parents or guardians 
 of the children so in default ; provided alwaiys, 
 that it shall be the duty of the Board of Educa- 
 tion, from time to time, to inspect the roorris in 
 which the various schools receiving support 
 under .Ms Act, in Charlottetown, shall be con- 
 ducted or placed, and if they shall find the ac- 
 commodation afforded, in any case, insufficient 
 for the number of children taught, or the con- 
 dition or position of the schoolhouse, or rpom, 
 otherwise objectionable, on the score of situation 
 ventilation or otherwise, the Board shall be 
 authorized to order the school to be removed to 
 some other house or room which they may be 
 able to secure, and shall think more fitting for 
 the purpose, and the quarterly fees in such case 
 shall be paid by the Teacher of the school to 
 the Secretary of the Board of Education, to be 
 applied tu the payment of rent, fuel, and other 
 necessary purposes, and the Board shall, in each 
 
 enup VinvP nn\Arpr if fViov finrl if r»c»n£»o«ar«\r fn 
 
 increase the quarterly payment to be made by 
 
 Mflde of re- 
 covering 
 same, &c. 
 
 • ■.•ti':«« : '!<; 
 
 Board to 
 inspect 
 ichool- 
 rooms. and 
 If unfit, 
 m ay order 
 remoral & 
 provide 
 others and 
 receive feus 
 paid by 
 ■cholars, 
 Sic. 
 
 Powoir of 
 Board to 
 InoreaBs 
 foechargad 
 
m 
 
 Cap. e 
 
 Slet VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 each scholar, up to, but not exceeding the full 
 
 amount prescribed by the present section of this 
 
 Act, and the Board shall also have power to 
 
 ordam two schools, to be kept in one building, 
 
 ffi --^ 1 ^"^ ^^ necessary, and can procure one 
 
 sumciently capacious for the purpose, and in any 
 
 case where the Trustees of any school in Char- 
 
 lottetown or Royalty, shall neglect to appoint a 
 
 proper Teacher, the Board shall have poVer to 
 
 bilh"^*^^ 8^d appoint one on its own responsi- 
 
 Sa™'' LX The Board of Education shall have 
 2SJ.rJi? f ^ff ^ inchide the farms of Township Lands, 
 Clfr. in ?°^*'^^ ^^, *^^. ^^^k Royalty Road of Charlotte- 
 iir V uu ^^y^^^y> ^? *^^ ^^me district or diitricts, 
 -t, .Chef, with the royalty district schools, or one or 
 other of tnem, according to their situations. 
 And the inhabitants of such farms, in accordance 
 with the terms of any such order by the Board 
 ot Education shall be entitled to send their 
 cni dren to the school named in such order, and 
 be liable to pay the same assessments and rates 
 or charges for fuel, furniture and book«, for 
 such school or for keeping up or repairing the 
 same, as the inhabitants of the Royalty are 
 
 LXI. There shall be allowed for Charlotte- 
 to vn under this Act, six female schools, if 
 found necessary, exclusive of the Orphan 
 School, with female Teachers. And when so 
 soon as there shall be more tlian fifty scholars 
 m attendance at each of the said female schools 
 and It shall appear to the said Board, that there 
 18 a^ sufficient number of scholars above said 
 numoer, w render it desirable or requisite to 
 
 Biz ftraala 
 ■ehool.| in 
 Cb«rIott#- 
 town, Iffl 
 neeeaiary, 
 «zcln.tT« 
 of Orphan 
 Mhool.. 
 
 AulaUnt. 
 
 iow«dt 
 
 
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 :! 
 
■».■-•*»—-« 
 
 1868 
 
 1868 
 
 81st VICTORIA. 
 
 so 
 
 ) 
 
 
 I 
 
 :! 
 
 Cap. -6 
 
 39 
 
 Orphans It 
 
 deitUttt* 
 
 ■ehosl, 
 
 Oharlott*- 
 
 town, aon- 
 
 tlnnad. 
 
 Sahtry of 
 TMehtr. 
 
 have further assistance, then the said Board may 
 establish one or two more schools, and appoint 
 one or two female Teachers thereto. 
 
 LXII. The school heretofore established in 
 Charlottetown, for the benefit of orphans and 
 children of destitute parents, resident in Char- 
 lottetown, shall be continued as now in opera- 
 tion, and shall be open as heretofore, free of 
 charge, to such children. And the Board of 
 Education shall, from time time, appoint a 
 competent Teacher ofeither sex- for such schoolp 
 who shall be entitled to receive therefot, a 
 salary of not more than fifty pounds per annum, 
 payable out of the public Treasury of this 
 Island, in such manner and under and subject 
 to such restrictions and regulations as shall be 
 prescribed by the Board of Education. 
 
 LXIII. The Teachei: of such school shall be 
 first examined by the Board, and, if found 
 competent, shall receive a certificate to teach 
 the primary branches of Education, whether he 
 or she shall or shall not be able to qualify as a 
 first class Teacher under this Act, and the said 
 Board may cancel and revoke such certificate, 
 for such reasons, and in such manner as men- 
 tioned in the twelfth section of this Act. 
 
 LXIV. Orphan children shall have prefer- 6,ph.n 
 ence of admission to said school, and no child hiiS"?.? 
 shall be admitted thereto, if under the age ofi'SG?' 
 four years, nor continued therein if above the *•• *°' 
 age of twelve years, nor shall any child be ad- 
 mitted unless recommended by a certificate in 
 writing, to be signed by a clergyman, resident 
 in the said town, and also by a member of tha 
 Board of Education. 
 
 Orpban 
 •«h«ol 
 TMchar to 
 b* •xamia- 
 •db7 
 Board, fta. 
 
 ?o 
 
4{l G&^i^ 
 
 3lst VICTOEIA. 
 
 1868' 
 
 i 
 
 Ezpence of 
 Orphan 
 
 out of 
 Treasury. 
 
 Orphan 
 School to 
 conform- - 
 able to or- 
 dinary 
 School 
 Regula- 
 t^OB, 3tfl« 
 
 Orphan I^XV. A^ sum of iDoney sufficient to defray 
 »r;ed the expenses of fitting up sai^ Orphan ^cb^^^^^^^ 
 house, or room, and the rent thereot, witn booKS 
 and fuel for the same, shall be pn id annually 
 out of the public Treasury of this Island, into 
 ;.; the hands of the Secretary of the Board ot 
 Education for such purposes, and said Secretary 
 shall account for the same to the Board. 
 
 LX^^I. The said school and the Teacher there- 
 of,shall in all respects,as far as circumstances shall 
 admit, be conformable and subject to the several 
 enactments, rules and regulations, prescribed tor 
 other schools and Teachers, in and by this Act, 
 and the number of scholars to be limited for the 
 said'-^^chool, either as regards sex or the aggre- 
 gate of both sexes, as well as the superiority ot 
 claims for admission thereto, shall, from time to 
 timev as oceai^on may require, to be ordered and 
 regulated by the said Board of Education. 
 
 LXVII. It shall be the duty of the senior of 
 Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, resident 
 for the time in Georgetown ; and he is hereby 
 required annually during the continuance of this 
 Act, on.the i^rst Tuesday in June, in each year, 
 to convene/a public meeting of the inhabitants, 
 householders in Georgetown, its Common and 
 Eoyalty, having children between five and six- 
 teen year&, to be holden at the Court House in 
 said Town; such meeting to be convened by 
 such justice giving, or causing to be given, at 
 least eight days notice thereof in writing, the 
 same to be published by being posted in three 
 OP more public places in said Town and Com- 
 mons, and three or more public places m the 
 said Royalty, and the inhabitants, householdiers, 
 
 ■ ..M.-\i;jC'i e<' 
 
 Duty of 
 Mentor Jus- 
 tice, 
 George- 
 town, to 
 call meet- 
 ing to elect 
 TruBteei, 
 &c. 
 
 i^ataattK!.' 
 
1868 
 
 1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 41 
 
 iefray 
 3chool- 
 books 
 nually 
 [, into 
 )ard of 
 iretary 
 
 : there- 
 's shall 
 several 
 bed for 
 is Act, 
 for the 
 aggre- 
 3rity of 
 time to 
 red and 
 1. 
 
 3nior of 
 :esident 
 hereby 
 se of this 
 sh year, 
 ibitants, 
 Lon and 
 and six- 
 Louse in 
 2ned by 
 ^iven, at 
 ing, the 
 in three 
 ad Com- 
 s in the 
 eholders, 
 
 ^1 
 
 m 
 
 'MMfC 
 
 or a majority present at such meeting, shall 
 elect five fit and proper persons, being also such 
 resident householders as aforesaid, to be Trus- 
 tees of the male and female schools in George- 
 town now established, or to be established under 
 this Act ) and such Trustees so to be elected 
 shall have the control of said schools, and the 
 selection of the Teachers, and make regulations JitSl°°of * 
 respecting the location thereof, and the Teach- Trusuoi. 
 
 ^ers thereof shall be entitled to receive payment 
 of their salaries quurterly, by warrant on the 
 Treasurer of this Island, on producing a certi- 
 ficate that the same is due, signed by a majority 
 of the Trustees, and certified by the School 
 Visitor and the Secretary of the Board of Edu- 
 cation, and that the Teacher has been actually 
 
 [teaching the number of scholars required by 
 Law, in the case of district schools, during 
 
 [the period for which the sum specified in the 
 
 [certificate is payable. 
 
 LXVIII. The children of the inhabitants of children m 
 Georgetown Common and Royalty may attend f^l^^ly 
 the schools in Georgetown, mentioned in the ^Jf °J jn 
 Jlast preceding section, but this privilege shall ^^nf ' 
 ^not inierefere with the erection of district 
 >^schools in Georgetown Royalty, in the same 
 manner as in other districts under this Act. 
 
 liXIX. The scholars receiving instruction at schoiari la 
 he said schools in Georgetown, shall pay quar- S^nto' 
 Wly each, the sum of two shillings and six-f/r?y,^"*'" 
 pence, to be collected by the Teachers and paid ^^' ***'''• 
 lover to the Trustees of the said school, appoint- 
 ed as hereinbefore mentioned, and to be applied 
 bv them to the i^nrchasino' of books and fuel 
 and to pay for rent and repairs of schoolhouses 
 
 6 
 
Cap- 6 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 I'^r; the said quarter vtv.?"f''' '''"" ^""^ ^''^t 
 .<. be P.M the purposes aforesaid th«„ +i, ^"^^eDt for 
 
 ftirtherLymentfo hi„^ u^^ ™*y "''''«'■'' 
 not exceedb " in . ^^^ ^? ^'^^ scholar, 
 
 shillings and sfvZr^ 'T ,*^ ™« °f two 
 the first fflentioSdn ^f *'""'^' '» addition to 
 «aid sumrofekher^oTth'"'^P"^'"'"-'"'' 'fthe 
 be not paid! thtLhX in°l°'" ""^ ^" *^'^'«°f 
 barred from further instil. ^"^ ""^^ ^e de- 
 
 untilthesametpad aX?-'^ T" *''«°1. 
 
 payment or any part thereof sLllh *^"'""*"'''^ 
 able by the Ten^L. ;" lu ' "" "e recover- 
 
 "•^- ■>' tees or 7 •'^?^'" '^ tl^e name of the Tr„; 
 recovering ^^^s, OP a maiont.v r^f 4^u^ i « i-rus- 
 
 ■"»•■ Commissioners for thf ""' ''^^°''« >* Court of 
 
 -w,eto;;y;;;:fSarji!-"^^^-. 
 
 at Georgetown from t!."!"""^''^ "^ ^'"*" Debts, 
 the scholars^ ' ^"^ Parents or guardians of 
 
 Two iTrua- 
 
 teea 
 
 George 
 
 ii-^.- town schoo/nhall l^lnt'Tom "^ ^'^ *^^°rs«- 
 J?-\,'° the first Tuesday if J^j* 1 '!"! f"""""^ "" 
 SX"- ^f"""- provided in resole/ t/^^*'""' "" ^^'^ 
 That is to say, the two n! ^ ^'''"«' «>hools, 
 ^hall go out, ^d thlinhTf fi^^t'Jnominafed 
 Town and the Common "nfp''"'? °^ t''* «aid 
 their annua] meetTn?" f f ^^^^^ thereof at 
 
 • |hall eleet.two peSs t tpX 'T •^^'^7'^^'^' 
 Power be ng neverfhoi" ^^-^ *heir p kces. 
 
 inhabitants to re-IfecSb/"''" *" '^e said 
 tees, or either of them ?fl "^^ 'f """S Trus- 
 do; theirnamesor tC;fme!^f f ^«« ^t so to 
 being then placed at theTortn t °"^ "^ them 
 in all cases of the elect on"" ' "'*' ^""^ 
 
 Trustees, notice thereof sha Ik Tu'^'-^'ection of 
 mediately forwnrd"-^ "■ be thereunon im. 
 " -''■■^^'""^- tiie Trustees ^ of Jd 
 
 Mode of 
 
 electiog 
 
 otb<bX0, 
 
1868 
 
 1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 I 
 
 .11 ^. 
 
 i ^ 
 
 'i 
 
 Cap. 6 43 
 
 school to the Secretary of the Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 LXXI. The introduction of the Bible to be The Bibie 
 read in all the :iublic schools in this Island, of Snker'K 
 every grade, re 3iving support from the public fion..r t 
 Treasury, is hereby authorized, and the Teach- schoou, &c. 
 ers are hereby required, to open the school on 
 each school day with the reading of the Sacred 
 Scriptures, by those children whose parents or 
 guardians desire it, without comment, explana- 
 tion or remark thereupon by the Teachers ; but 
 no children shall be required to attend during 
 such reading as aforesaid, unless desired by their 
 parents or guardians. 
 
 LXXII. Any Teacher, male or female, who 
 shall in addition to the qualifications required 
 by this Act, be qualified to teach the French 
 language, and who shall have taught in his 
 school, (French), to a class of not less than ten 
 pupils, shall, on producing from the Board of 
 Education, a certificate of' his competency to 
 teach the French language, be entitled to re- 
 ceive five p9unds over and above the salary to 
 which such Teacher may be entitled under this 
 Act; provided the Trustees of such school dis- 
 trict do raise the like sum of five pounds for 
 such Teacher by voluntary subscription from 
 the inhabitants, and provided further, that the 
 number of Teachers receiving the aforesaid in- 
 crease of salary, shall not amount to more th' 
 twenty. 
 
 LXXIII. The Normal School, at present n°™*» 
 established in Charlottetown for the training of """^^^^ * 
 male and female Teachers, shall be continued 
 
 Teaeber 
 .who can 
 teach 
 French to 
 receive Ave 
 pounds ad- 
 ditional 
 salary, &o 
 
 Provided 
 Trustees 
 contribute 
 five pounds 
 annually. 
 
 Not m^re 
 than 20 
 Teachers to 
 be entitled 
 this ia- 
 crease. 
 
 con- 
 
■"WS 
 
 44 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 Board to 
 regalate 
 manage- 
 ment of 
 Normal 
 School 
 
 under this Act, and shall be held in the build- 
 ing now used for that purpose. 
 
 LXXIV. The mode in which such Normal 
 School shall be continued, unless when other- 
 wise provided for by this Act, shall be ordained 
 • by proper rules and regulations from time to 
 time, to be made for that purpose by the Board 
 of Education, subject to the control, alteration, 
 supervision and approval of the Government. 
 
 &"!' LXXV. The Teacher of the Normal School 
 
 be°*2point° ^^^^1 ^® appointed and at pleasure removed by 
 QovJrnw, ^^^ Licuteuant Governor in Council, and shall 
 *<5- ' by himself and the Teachers being trained by 
 Hit dntiea. ^^^> tcach the children in attendance there the 
 ' ordinary branches of Education usually taught 
 in district schools, and shall also train in the art 
 of teaching such Teachers and candidates as may 
 attend under certificate of admission from the 
 Board, giving to the latter a thorough and com- 
 petent knowledge of the best method of con- 
 ducting a common district school, and especi- 
 ally teaching them the art of communicating 
 the several branches of common school educa- 
 tion, in a manner best suited to the* capacities, 
 ages, and conditions of the pupils who may 
 thereafter be under their care. 
 
 LXXVI. All students or scholars attending 
 the Normal School (except scholars of the 
 female school, connected with the said Normal 
 School, and persons attending the Normal 
 School for the purpose of qualifying themselves 
 as district and school Teachers under the pro- 
 visions of this Act) shall pay a fee of two 
 pounds per annum to the Drincir>al Master of 
 said school, which said fee shall be payable 
 
 Scholars - 
 attendingji 
 Normal 
 School, ex- 
 cept thoie 
 qualifyingi 
 for Teach- 
 era, and 
 certain 
 others, to 
 pay £'i an- 
 nually. 
 
 > i 
 
1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 45 
 
 r 
 
 AsBlstant 
 Matter in 
 Normal 
 School iray 
 be appoint- 
 ed whien 
 £60 per 
 annnm 
 raised for 
 fees, &o. 
 
 Salary of 
 Assistant,8t 
 how paid. 
 
 quarterly in aavance, and when collected, paid 
 into the Public Treasury of this Island by the 
 said principal Master of the Normal School. 
 
 LXXVII. Whenever the number of scholars 
 attending the Normal School, liable to pay the 
 sum of two pounds mentioned in the last pre- 
 ceding section, shall be sufficient to make the 
 total of their respective fees equal to the sum 
 of not less than sixty pounds per annum, then, 
 and in such case, the Lieutenant Governor in 
 Council shall appoint an assistant Master to the 
 said school, who shall be paid the salary of 
 eigh-^v-five pounds a year, and the amount of 
 such lees shall be applied towards the payment 
 of such salary, and the balance of such salary 
 shall be paid out of the Public Treasury by 
 warrant drawn quarterly in the usual manner. 
 
 ^ LXXVIII. The number of scholars, in addi- J^Soiarl, °' 
 tion to Teachers, or those desirous to be trained * g'ui^ed'" 
 as such, who shall b^ entitled to attend at such ^^ ^°"^- 
 Normal School, shall be regulated by order of 
 the Board of Education, subject to the consent 
 and approval of the Lieutenant Governor in 
 Council; 
 
 LXXIX. The Board of Education may, ^'f PeSf."/ "'^ 
 they think fit, as heretofore, cause one of the mJy bl 
 Charlottetown female schools to be held in the N^fmS 
 aforesaid schoolhouse, in a room to be fitted up ISiding, 
 apart from the school for male scholars, to be *"' 
 held therein, and place the said female school 
 and the Teacher thereof under the supervision 
 of the principal Master of the Normal School, 
 who shall train (if approved by the Board) 
 Teachers, and candidates to be Teachers there- 
 in ; and the Board shall have power to pre- 
 
^^^gfll^SS^ 
 
 siMMmff 
 
 4e 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 Candidates 
 for Teach- 
 ers entitled 
 to attend 
 Normal 
 Bchool free 
 of charge, 
 
 &0. 
 
 Salary of 
 Normal 
 School 
 Teacher. 
 
 Three 
 School Visi- 
 tors, (one 
 lor each 
 County, to 
 be appoint- 
 ed. 
 
 scribe and ordain what children shall have the 
 right to attend as pupils of the female depart- 
 ment of the Normal School. 
 
 LXXX. Every Teacher, whether male or 
 female, or person who shall be a bona fide 
 candidate for the office of Teacher, of whose 
 qualification the Board shall be the judge, upon 
 being examined by the said Board, and on pro- 
 ducing a certificate thereof, certifying to the 
 proficiency of such candidate, and to his or her 
 being qualified to become a student for the office 
 of School Teacher, shall, if he or she desire, be 
 entitled to attend at the Normal School, and 
 receive instruction and training in the art of 
 teaching, free of all fees and charges, for a period 
 not exceeding five months. 
 
 LXXXI. The sum of two hundred pounds 
 shall be paid to the Teacher of the Normal 
 School, by warrant on the Treasurer, in the 
 usual manner, payable in quarterly payments, 
 from the date of his appointment, on his pro- 
 ducing from the Board of Education, a certifi- 
 cate of his being intitled to the same. 
 
 LXXXII. From and after the passing of this 
 Act, there shall be three Visitors of Schools for 
 this Island ; that is to say, one for each of the 
 Counties of King's, Queen's and Prince Counties, 
 and it shall and may be lawful for the Lieut. 
 Governor, for the time being, in Council, as 
 soon as this Act shall go into operation, to ap- 
 point three fit and proper persons to such officel, 
 and to displace any such person or persons so 
 appointed, at pleasure, and to appoint another 
 person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacan- 
 js, and one of such three persons so appointed 
 
 I 
 
 j' 
 
 I 
 f 
 
 1 
 
 1^ 
 
 r 
 
1868 
 
 31st VICTOKIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 47 
 
 I 
 
 * 
 f 
 ¥1 
 
 1^ 
 
 j 
 
 shall be Visitor of Schools for King's County, 
 one other shall be Visitor of Schools for Queen's 
 County, and the third shall be Visitor of Schools 
 for Prince County. 
 
 LXXXIII. Neither of such Schools Visitors J"'"""' "»» 
 shall engage in trade or business, whilst hold- '" "">§** 
 ing the ofKce of Visitor ; and it shall be the <^""'"'- ' 
 duty of each School Visitor to visit all the ' 
 schools in the County for which he shall have 
 been appointed, twice in every year, and to 
 assist the Board of Education in prescribing the 
 course of Education to be pursued in such 
 schools, and the books, diaries, lists of attend- 
 ances, and other records to be kept therein, and 
 m ordering what books shall be used in the 
 bchools, what shall be the hours of attendance 
 of the scholars, and commencement of terms, 
 and other necessary details connected with the 
 management of the schools ; and each of such 
 Visitors shall have power, and he is hereby 
 directed, whenever he shall see fit, to call a 
 meeting of the Trustees connected with the re- 
 spective schools within his County, and to make Kepon to 
 to the iJoard of Education a quarterly report in ^°"^' 
 writing, of his visits, stating therein the con- 
 dition of every school, the method of teaching 
 practised therein, the number of scholars, state 
 and description of schoolhouses, and whether in 
 such schools the provisions of this Act, and the 
 orders of the Board of Education relating to 
 such schools have been complied with, and such & «' 
 other information as he may deem it necessary '•«fe'-e"«e to 
 to give, and it shall be the duty of the Board to ^^p"*"' 
 
 fonrfpp ^7^ ^^^"^^ °^ ^^^ Legulature, within 
 -our^een ^toys axtcr the meeting thereof, with 
 such parts of said Visitor's Reports, including 
 
48 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 I ! 
 
 ■ 
 
 Vliitor to 
 enter hli 
 name and 
 
 the statistics thereof, as they may deem neces- 
 sary, together with, if they deem fit, their own 
 remarks thereon, and a copy of such extracts 
 and remarks shall be published annually in one 
 of the public newspapers of the Colony. 
 
 LXXXIV. The School Visitor of each County 
 
 d^at^^of vuit for the time being is hereby required., at each 
 
 book,"'^" and every visitation 'made by him, to the 
 
 schools of his County, to enter his name and the 
 
 date of his visitation in the book or record kept 
 
 by the Trustees of such schools for that purpose. 
 
 ITtrl i*° LXXXV. It shall be the duty of the School 
 §rTmS ^^* Visitors to visit frequently the Normal School, 
 School. and to assist the Board of Education in direct- 
 ing the management thereof., 
 
 !?£,«' LXXXVI. The salary of each School Visitor 
 under this Act, shall be one hundred and fifty 
 pounds per annum, to be paid quarterly from 
 the date of his first appointment, by warrant 
 drawn in the usual manner on the Treasurer of 
 this Island, on producing the certificate of a 
 quorum of the Board of Education, of his being 
 entitled to receive the same. 
 
 No Clergy- LXXXVII. No Clergyman or Minister hav- 
 "racS^^V ing charge of a congregation of religion, or 
 Mselsmtnt! Tcachcr, or head of any Educational Establish- 
 ment, whether such Establishment shall be in 
 operation under this Act, or otherwise, in this 
 Island, shall be liable to pay any assessment 
 imposed by this Act for the purposes of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 LXXXVIII. Every school Teacher is hereby 
 
 Teaeher 
 within 20 
 
 days to 
 
 eead notice 
 
 required, within twenty days after his enter- 
 
1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 ! I 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 49 
 
 ing into his engagement as Teacher, to transmit °[^l'^t^i 
 to the Secretary of the Board of Education a iSry^^"* 
 notice thereof, in writing, in the form in the ®**'**- 
 Schedule of this Act, annexed, marked (B), 
 stating the date at which he shall have entered 
 into such engagement, and the day on which . 
 the school under his charge shall have bera 
 opened, and such engagement as aforesaid shall 
 in no case be .entered into for a longer or shorter 
 p(^rIod than twelve months from the commence- 
 ment thereof, and every such agreement and 
 engagement shall be duly made and entered F"- <>t 
 into in writing between the said Teacher and""*-, .ent. 
 the School Trustees, to be appointed as by 
 this Act directed, and shall be in the form or 
 to the effect prescribed in the Schedule to this 
 Act annexed, marked (A.) 
 
 LXXXIX. It shall be the duty of the Trus-Traiteoion 
 tees of schools in this Island, and they are here- to^"i?fe''" 
 by required in all cases, when entering into an fSnh' num- 
 engagement or agreement with any Teacher, to •^hoia/s in 
 state and set forth in every such agreement &<-° '"""°*' 
 what is the total number of scholars or children 
 within the age of five and seventeen years in 
 their district, and also the average daily attend- 
 ance of scholars required by this Act for .. 
 such school when the same is a district school. ' 
 
 XC. The Journal or Register required bv the ^^ ,, * ; 
 
 nri. r ii i- n .^ • ,. ^ ^y v^ic Teacher to 
 
 htty-lourtli section of this Act to be kept by ^*//^y ^°'"- 
 every Licensed Teacher,and forwarded by him or '"'^ °"'"*''" 
 her to the Secretary of the Board of Education, 
 shall, before being so forwarded, be certified to 
 as to the correctness thereof, upon oath, by every 
 such Teacher before a Justice of the Peace. 
 
■ 
 
 3l8t VICTORIA. 
 
 When • 
 Grammar 
 
 _„^__. XCI. When, and as often as the resident 
 bl "•a"i^. householdf rs in any two adjoining country 
 Sitric/*' ' school districts in this Island, having children 
 ■eb«oi.. within the age of five and seventeen years, or to 
 the Trustees of such districts, shall be desirous 
 of obtaining the establishment of a Grammar 
 School in lieu of the two district schools within 
 their districts, and the Trustees of both of said 
 districts, on behalf of such resident householders 
 therein as aforesaid, shall signify such, their 
 desire, in writing, to the Board of Education, 
 and shall provide a suitable building for the 
 purpose of such Grammar School, the same to be 
 of not less area than six hundred square feet, 
 and to be at least ten feet in the height of the 
 post, that then, and in every such case, the said 
 men ^^^^^ ^^ Education shall have power, and they 
 IVgt Tw? ?^® l^ereby required to merge said two districts 
 Sr'*?'oM^?*^ ^^^.^ ^'l^ *^ establish therein a Grammar 
 tSP°' School, in lieu of the two district schools there- 
 tofore in operation in such districts, and to ap- 
 point a Teacher to such Grammar School, who 
 shall be qualified to teach the various branches 
 hereinafter specified, and the Board of Education 
 shall have power at any time, upon the appli- 
 cation of the Trustees of any such Grammar 
 
 Teacher 
 Ice. 
 
 to 
 
 TTibcr - 
 
 Grammar „„^ «^v^ii vji i aixiixiai 
 
 aJJofntedT School as aforcsaid, to appoint an Usher or 
 assistant Teacher to such school. 
 
 other 
 
 Oraranar 
 Seboola 
 when »]' 
 lowed. 
 
 XQII. The Board of Education shall likewise 
 have power at their discretion, subject to the 
 proviso as to the number of Grammar Schools 
 m the next section set forth, to establish in any 
 a)unty school district in this Island, a Grammar 
 bchool m heu of the district school, should it 
 
 an appucation be made to them by the Trus- 
 
 ..:, 
 
 i 
 
1868 
 
 1868 
 
 81st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. '5 
 
 61 
 
 ... 
 
 Numbtr of 
 Grama ar 
 Schools 1b 
 Conntiea 
 (txcept 
 whers for- 
 med by 
 merger of 
 dlatrict 
 schools) 
 limited. 
 
 tees or householders of the district, and the 
 said Board of Education shall appoint to such 
 Grammar School a Teacher possessing the quali- 
 fications hereinafter prescribed. 
 
 XCIII. The number of Grammar Schooli in 
 each of the Counties of this Island, to be allowed 
 or recognized under this act, over and above 
 those Grammar Schools formed by the junction 
 of two district schools under this Act, or in 
 Charlottetown, Georgetown, or Summerside 
 shall not exceed the following number, that is 
 to say, in Prince County three, in King's 
 County three, and in Queen's County five, unless 
 the establishment of an additional Grammar 
 School, or additional Grammar Schools shall on 
 recommendation of the Board of Education, be 
 sanctioned by order of the Lieutenant Governor 
 in Council. 
 
 XCIV. The Board of Education, at any time "IBowd 
 if they, on examination, or the report of the ^^^^ **"' 
 examiners, find that a candidate for a Teacher's flWm.°y 
 hcense is not likely to become fitted to be a t"?d«c."i 
 Teacher without attending at the Normal School sS? 
 shall require such candidate to attend at such 
 Normal School for any period they may think 
 fit, not exceeding five months, before they will 
 again allow such candidate to offer himself for 
 examination. 
 
 XCV. From and after the passing of this Act Sn"*' 
 the Board of Education shall have power to s£f ", 
 continue in Georgetown a Grammar School g«o"««- *° 
 in addition to the male and female schools s^""" 
 
 which are borphv oiifli/^«ir,^.j i^ l_ _^. , t i I; side, &c. 
 
 - — V •'"'^^"wii.ocvi to De eHtaDiisneu. 
 
 and provided for therein, and in Summerside* 
 
mmmm 
 
 tn 
 
 Cap. fe 
 
 31st VICTORIA, 
 
 1868 
 
 I 
 
 ii f 
 
 Governor 
 t« appoint 
 Tenchera 
 to Jsuch 
 Gcararaar 
 Bcboola. 
 
 tit-, 
 TCI -v; 
 Fee pay- 
 •ble by; 
 cnildreK at 
 tending^. 
 
 Condition! 
 precedent 
 to Teacher 
 obtaining 
 I. is aalary. 
 
 Grammar School in addition to the district 
 school already established therein, respectively; 
 and the Administrator of the Government,, for 
 the time being, in Council, shall from time to 
 time, appoint the Teachers to such Grammar 
 Schools, whose qualifications for teaching shall 
 be those in this Act prescribed, and such Teacher 
 »hall charge, collect and receive, from the 
 parent or guardians of the children attending 
 such schools, a tuition fee, or such sum perjiead 
 for every child taught by him, as shall be fixed 
 by the Board of Education in that behalf, and 
 subject to such rules »nd regulations as they 
 shall prescribe, a,nd the same in default of pay- 
 ment, shall and may be recovered, as in other 
 cases under this Act ; provided always, that no 
 such Teacher, as last aforesaid, shall be en- 
 titled to draw the Government allowance pay- 
 able to him under this Act ; .until he shall first 
 have produced the certificate of the Secretary 
 of the Board of Education, and one other mem- 
 ber of the said Board as herein prescribed and 
 required, in regard to district school Teach- 
 ers, or until he shall have filed with the said 
 Secretary of the Board of Education, a certifi- 
 cate, under the hands of a majority of the 
 Trustees of his school, certifying to the effect, 
 as in the form in the Schedule (C), to this Act 
 annexed. 
 
 Tuition fees XCVI. The tuitiou fees to be collected by 
 
 edbyffi: the said respective Grammar School Teachers 
 
 purchSe of ill Georgetown and Summerside, shall be duly 
 
 uei, &c. applied and appropriated under the directions 
 
 of the respective Trustees of said schools, in the 
 
 purchase of books and fuel, und in repairing the 
 
 respective schoolhouses or buildings; and an 
 
 T 
 
1868 
 
 1868 
 
 3lst ViCTORti. 
 
 Cai). 6 
 
 53 
 
 If 
 
 ' I- 
 
 account of such fees and of the appropriation 
 thereof, shall b( duly kept and laid before the 
 Board of Educni, on, regularly, at least once in 
 ever year after the establishment of such re- 
 spective Grammar Schools. 
 
 XCVII. The Teacher to be appointed to each gc'CT" 
 and every Grammar School now established, orJiutfbJ 
 to be established under this Act, shall, in addi-SL£jj„ 
 tion to the qualifications of second or higher oreet^i'"^ 
 class Teachers by this Act, be qualified . teach Kd'^^&Y 
 the Latin, Greek, and French languages, in such 
 proficiency as the Board of Education shall deem 
 requisite, and shall hold the certificate of the 
 said Board, of such his qualifications. 
 
 XCVIII. At the time of making the appoint- 
 ment of Teacher, to each of the Grammar 
 Schools to be established in Georgetown and 
 Summerside, under this Act, the Lieutenant 
 Governor in Council, shall likewise appoint 
 Trustees to each of such schools, respectively, 
 whose powers and duties shall be the same as 
 those of the Trustees of ordinary school districts 
 under this Act. 
 
 XCIX. The parents or guardians of any child children m 
 or children residing within any of the respec- X^'sTZ 
 tivo Counties, in which the said respective SlTor 
 Grammar Schools of Georgetown and Summer- Sro^m- 
 side shall be situate, shall have the privilege of &c ^ "*'°**" 
 sending such child or children, to be taught in 
 the Grammar Schools established in any such 
 County Towns, respectively, and such p^^rents 
 or guardians shall not be liable to pay any as- 
 sessments or contributions towards the salarv 
 of the Teacher of the school of the district, 
 wherein such child or children may reside (so 
 
 Lt. Gover- 
 nor, &c., to 
 appoint 
 TruBtees 
 of Gram- 
 mar schools 
 in George- 
 town and 
 Summer- 
 side, with 
 certain 
 dutlea and 
 power*. 
 
54 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 81st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 far as such child or children are concerned) so 
 long as such child or children shall be in attend- 
 ance at such Grammar School, provided such 
 parents or guardians shall have given notice of 
 their intention to send any such child or child- 
 ren to such Grammar School, at the time of any 
 such district school assessment aforesaid, being 
 levied for the year. 
 
 Grammar ^' ^^".^^^^^ for the Said Grammar Schools to 
 TrSr ^^ established under this Act, save and except 
 ?n?rSr ^^^^ Grammar Schools in Georgetown and Sum- 
 manner, . merside, shall be appointed in the same manner 
 as provided by this Act for the appointment of 
 Trustees or ordinary district schools, and all the 
 provisions of this Act prescribing the duties and 
 powers of Trustees of said district schools shall 
 apply to and regulate the duties and powers of 
 the Trustees of such Grammar Schools, save and 
 except the two Grammar Schools in this clause 
 excepted. 
 
 SjiyX CI. Every Teacher, before he shall be entitled 
 to'd'po.Yt to draw the Government allowance under this 
 l^LmeM. Act, except the Teachers of the Grammar 
 flciu. ' ftc. School in Georgetown and Summerside, shall 
 deposit, or cause to be deposited with the Secre- 
 tary of the Board of Education, one part of the 
 original agreement made by him, or on his be- 
 half, with the Trustees or inhabitants of any 
 school district, or a true copy thereof, attested 
 on oath, which said agreement shall be in the 
 form or to the effect prescribed in the Schedule 
 in this Act annexed, marked (A), and a certi- 
 feTflca^e';^ ^^atc iu the form in the Schedule to this Act 
 annexed, marked (C), shall be endorsed thereon 
 or thereto annexed, under the hands of a ma- 
 
1868 
 
 I • 
 
 i 
 
 1868 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 Cap. 6 56 
 
 Secretary 
 of Board to 
 certify clff us 
 of Teiicher, 
 and amount 
 of his sal- 
 ary, &c. 
 
 jorily 01 the Trustees of his school, in the man- 
 ner prescribed by this Act (which said certifi- 
 cate shall be signed by the said Trustees in 
 presence ofa Justice of the Peace) certifying 
 that the provisions of this Act in all respects 
 have been duly complied with, and also certifVinft 
 to the good conduct, attention and sobriety of 
 such Master, during the term he shall have kept 
 ills school, pursuant to such agreement, which 
 conduct shall also be thereon certified by one or 
 more Justice of the Peace, and the said Secre- 
 tary, with the concurrence of one other mem- 
 ber of the said Board of Education shall certify 
 the class to which such Teacher shall belonc. 
 and the amount to which, by law, and as shall 
 .^tistactorily appear by such certificate, the said 
 Teacher shall be entitled, and shall also certify 
 that the said agreement, or an attested copy 
 thereof, as aforesaid, has been duly filed and 
 that the same has been framed in accordance 
 with the provisions of this Act hereinbefore 
 expressed, and on the production of such certi- 
 cate last mentioned, such Teacher shall be en- 
 titled to receive from the Treasury of this 
 Island such amount as he or she, according to 
 
 h'\!!'i^^' '/^f. ^^^ qualifications, shall 
 be by law entitled to, the same to be paid 
 by quarterly payments, on production of the 
 certificates and other requisites prescribed by 
 this Act, by warrants under the hand and seal 
 •.u .t^^"*^""""^ Governor for the time being 
 Council ''"" '' ''"' ^'-^^i^^^^'^ ^--"'^ 
 
 CII. It shall not be necessarv tlijit tlw Tr.-^.T.u.t™. 
 tees shall sign the certificate mentioned'in^ the" -•">=«• 
 last preoedmg section, collectively and in the "'"'""' 
 
 Whlcli 
 shall be 
 paid quar- 
 terly by f 
 warrants. 
 
 liM 
 
•t 
 
 66 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 presence of each other, provided the same be 
 signed by them individually at different times. 
 
 tio'o^.chooi's cm. The two schools which were established 
 
 Lot 24, con t • .• -ii t l ' i. i 
 
 tinued un- and are now in operation, m the district known 
 of BoarT°^ as the Anglo Rustico District, or Township 
 Number twenty-four, in this Island, (one school 
 having been found insufficient to aflbrd the 
 means of Education to all the children therein)" 
 f^hall be continued as now in operation, and the 
 Board of Education are hereby authorized to 
 divide and alter the said district in such way 
 and manner as they may deem expedient, so as 
 to meet the exigency of the case, anything here- 
 in contained to the contrary, notwithstanding, 
 provided always that no Teacher, appointed to 
 take charge of any such school or schools in the 
 said Anglo Rustico District, shall, at any time, 
 be recognized as a district Teacher, or be en- 
 titled to a salary, unless such person shall have 
 obtained a license as a first or second class 
 Teacher from the Board of Education,|and shall 
 comply with the provisions of this Act. relating 
 hold license ^^ (]istrict Tcachei's. 
 
 i :.1 
 
 Teacher 
 therein to 
 
 DfstrictH 
 found simi- 
 larly cir- 
 cumstanced 
 as Anglo 
 Ru9ti<^o 
 District 
 may b** 
 dealt with 
 In the same 
 manner. 
 
 CIV. In case any other established school 
 district in this Island shall be found similarly 
 circumstanced with the said district, hereinbe- 
 fore designated the J^ -^^^do Rustico District, it 
 shall be in the power . , the Board of Education 
 to apply the same remedy in relation thereto, 
 by dividing or altering the same, and establish- 
 ing an additional school therein, as is mentioned 
 and set forth in the last preceding section, in 
 regard to the said Anglo Rustico District, and 
 with the like restrictions in all respects as 
 therein prescribed, in regard to the Teacher of 
 
 n 
 
 \'i 
 
 y^# 
 
 it. 
 
 '.f 1 
 
1868 
 
 ^ ^1" 
 
 
 f 
 
 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 ■yiba 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 any such additional school, being a duly licensed 
 Teacher, and the Trustees of his school shall 
 conform in all respects to the provisions of this 
 Act. . •■' ' 
 
 -^CV. There shall be paid as salaries to the 
 several classes of Teachers, assistant Teachers,, 
 and Ushers of Grammar Schools in the several 
 districts and towns in this Island, (save and 
 except the Teacher and Usher of the Charlotte- 
 town Grammar School) hereinafter mentioned, 
 the respective yearly salaries following, that is 
 to say : to male district Teachers of the first or 
 lowest class, the sum of fifty-five pounds per 
 annum; to male district Teachers of the second 
 or highest class, the sum of sixty pounds per 
 anrum; to female district Teachers, the sum 
 of forty pounds per annum; to male district 
 Teachers of Grammar Schools, when two dis- 
 tricts combine to form a Grammar School, as 
 hereinbefore mentioned and provided, the sum 
 of one hundred pounds per annum; to male 
 district TeacTaers of Grammar Schools, where 
 districts are not no combined, the sum of ninty- 
 five pounds per annum ; to Ushers of such first 
 named Grammar Schools, the sum of ten pounds 
 per annuni; to Teachers of Grammar Schools in 
 Georgetown and Summerside, the mm of one 
 hundred pounds each per annum; and to the 
 Ushers of Georgetown and Summerside Gram- 
 mar Schools, the sum of fifteen pounds per 
 annum ; to male Teachers of schools in Char- 
 lottetown, of the first or lowest class, the sum 
 of seventy-seven pounds per annum; and to the 
 assistant of such last named- Teacher, the siim 
 of sixty-^ix ponndhr perannum; to Teachers of 
 
 in Cliar- 
 
 67 
 
 Salaries of 
 
 TeachtrsJ 
 
 annually. 
 
 Male 
 
 Teachers, 
 l8t class, 
 £55. 
 
 Do. 2Qd 
 class, £60. 
 Female 
 Teachers 
 
 £40. 
 
 Grammar 
 School 
 Teachers 
 where dis. 
 trlcts merg- 
 ed, £100. 
 
 Do. wbofe 
 no merger,' 
 
 £95. 
 
 Ushers, 
 
 £10. 
 
 G ammar 
 School 
 Teachers 
 in George- 
 town and 
 Summer- 
 side, £100. 
 
 Ushers 
 same, £15. 
 
 Ch'town 
 male 
 
 Teachers, 
 Ist class, 
 £77. As- 
 sistant £66. 
 
 the second or highest class of schools 
 8 
 
»ammmm 
 
 ^S Cap. 6 3lBt VICTORIA. 1868 
 
 snTeUM,' lottetown, the sum of one hundred pounds per 
 
 iown,*£iM. annum ; and to the assistant of such last named 
 
 Auitunt Teacher, the sum of sixty-six pounds per annum ; 
 
 ^••- to female Teachers of female schools in Char- 
 
 Terh,V. lottetown, the sum of forty-nine pounds ten 
 
 ^ZT^*9 shillings per annum ; to Teachers of the female 
 
 ^H-^'V schools in Georgetown, the sum of forty pounds 
 
 G^rg- per annum ; and lastly, to the male Teachers of 
 
 town, ,£40. the first or lowest class, licensed by, and hold- 
 
 it"n.M' i^g a certificate from the Board of Education, 
 
 Ti'r c.p. previous to the passing of the Act, of the twenty- 
 
 Itin" «°°* ^bi^ Victoria, Chapter fourteen, since repealed, 
 
 .mined, but who shall uot havc passed an examination, 
 
 ci.m, U4«..and obtained a certificate from the said Board, 
 
 subsequently to the passing of the said repealed 
 
 Act, and who shall have heretofore declined or 
 
 refused to submit to be re-examined by the said 
 
 Board, or having so submitted, shall not have 
 
 been entitled to a certificate of qualification, the 
 
 sum of forty-five pounds per annum ; provided 
 
 always, that until a Teacher of any district or 
 
 Tewher. ^^" school shall havc been actually engaged 
 
 ha"e.*S??ed ^^s^ » Tcacher in conformity with the provisions 
 
 ? Je"rin*° ^^ *^^^ •^^*^' ^^ ^^^ hereby repealed laws relating 
 
 FMe T* n ^ education, for a period of three years, he shall 
 
 ««pjliemie, 
 £5 Idri* of 
 
 Su»i7 » "* entitled to the full salary hereby directed 
 
 °"* '" to be paid to the Teachers of the class to which 
 he may belong, biit the salary of such Teacher 
 shall be reduced yearly, and every year, until 
 he shall have completed three years of teaching 
 under this Act, or the former Acts, relating to 
 education, by deducting the sum of five pounds 
 therefrom in every case. 
 
 •auryto be CVI. Thc scvcral and respective salaries afore- 
 .wplaJt 1 said, shall be paid by warrant, on the public 
 uflcSi^jw. Treasury, at sjuch time or times, and under and 
 
 ^ 
 
 iiy 
 
 :\f 
 
 ii \ 
 
 .".'-'Art'i 
 
 i 
 c 
 a 
 I 
 
1868 
 
 ids per 
 
 named 
 
 -nnum ; 
 
 Ckar- 
 ids ten 
 female 
 pounds 
 ihers of . 
 [ hold- 
 ication, 
 wenty- 
 pealed, 
 nation, 
 Board, 
 jpealed 
 ned or 
 iie said 
 b have 
 on, the 
 ovided 
 rict or 
 figaged 
 visions 
 ilating 
 e shall 
 irected 
 which 
 'eacher 
 
 until 
 aching 
 tng to 
 X)unds 
 
 J afore- 
 public 
 er and 
 
 P. 
 
 I h- 
 
 n\ 
 
 1868 
 
 AiJ OT(),K 38 i 
 
 3l8t VICTORIA. Cap. 6 
 
 '■"'•■•■'' ' jJiiinyu iiJUi'. .:■ ..nil .lit, /' 
 
 subject to the same provisions, restrictions atid 
 qualifications, and on the production of the c^r^ 
 tificates, attestations and papers, and perfor- 
 mance of the services hereinbefore mentioned, 
 and shall also be subject to be reduced in amount 
 for want of the daily average attendance of 
 scholars as hereinbefore provided. 
 
 69 
 
 CVII. All acts, orders, deeds, transactions' 
 matters and things whatever, made, done» had 
 or executed by the Board of Education, or by 
 or under their direction, sanction, priority or 
 authority, under and by virtue of any Act or 
 Acts hereby repealed or heretofore in foreoj rev 
 Jating to education, and aU appointment of 
 Trustees and other persons whomsoever^ under 
 «!tid by virtue of the said Acts, and all agree- 
 ments contracts, arraiigements, obligations, lia* 
 Dihtxes, matters and things wtiiitsoever, had; 
 made, done, executed, incurred^ entered into o^ 
 subsisting by or between the inhabitants, oi*^ 
 householders^ or school Trustees in any school 
 pistrict^ town, place or locality whatsoever,, in 
 this Island, and any Teacher or Teachers; or 
 m and between any other person or persons; at 
 the time of the passing of this Act, in pursuance 
 orunderyorby virtue, of the Acts hereby re- 
 pealed, or any law heretofore in force, relating 
 to education, ar6 hereby expressly declared to 
 be, and the same shall cemtinue to be in all re- 
 spects good, valid, absolute, binding, and effeo- 
 tual, both at law and in equity, under the 
 operation of this Act, as if the said recited Acts 
 — — -."---J --r^v ui wiCLLi, 3i/iii icuiainea m luli 
 ■orce, and not in any manner repealed. 
 
 Former 
 Actt,orderi 
 3ce., of 
 Board of 
 UdaoatloB 
 and other* 
 ■ustalned 
 aa if re- 
 pealed Acta 
 were eoa 
 tlDued ia 
 force, ar«. 
 
Act to ^o 
 Ih force on 
 1st June, 
 1SG8. 
 
 Schedule 
 (A.) 
 
 Form of 
 
 1 , 
 
 '; I 
 
 6Q Cap. G 31st VICTORIA. 1868 
 
 CVIII. This Act shall go into force and opera- 
 tion on the first day vf June next, and not 
 before that time. 
 
 SCHEDULE A. 
 
 . FORM OS AGREUMENT WITH TEACHER.. ,, 
 
 Th6sc Presents witness that A'. B., Licensed Te&cher, doth hereby 
 agree and engage with C. D., E. F., Q. H-, LiJ., and K- L., Trus- 
 tees of the District School, or Grammar School, Town- 
 ship Number , in Prince Edward Island, to' conduct the said 
 school duly, faithfully and punctually, in accordance Tyith the Law, 
 and the rules and regulations of the lioard of Education for, and 
 during the term of one year from the day of according 
 to the best of skill and ability, and the said Trustees, on 
 their part, agree, and engage to keep the Schoolhouse in said Dis- 
 trict in substantial repair, and comfortable for the Teacher and 
 scholars, to provide sufficient fuel, cut, at all times for the use cf 
 said school, to provide such books and school furniture as may be 
 prescribed by the lioard of Education and Visitor of Schools— to 
 visit and inspect said school— to direct the discipline thereof— to 
 keep in as regular attendance as possible all the scholars resident 
 in said District, amounting to ip number ;* and that the 
 said parents shall also make good any reduction in the amount of 
 the salary of the said A. B., which may be occasioned by a defici- 
 ency in the average daily attendance of scholars, as required by 
 law for the said district, which said average is scholars;* and 
 on the performance of the said Teacher of his part, of this agree- 
 ment, to give him the Certificate necessary to enable him to re-, 
 ceive the allowance to which he shall be entitled from the Treasury 
 of this Island. (If there be any further agreement between the 
 parties as to any allowance to the Teacher for his board or other- 
 wise, insert the same here.) 
 
 In witness whereof, the said parties to* these presents, have here- 
 
 u: . 
 
 untolset their hands and seals the 
 
 18 
 Signed, sealed and executed > 
 in the presence of M. N. ) 
 
 day of 
 
 A.D., 
 
 A. B. (seal) 
 CD. (seal)) 
 E. F. (seal) 
 G. H. (seal) f 
 I. J. (seal) 
 
 Teacher. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 Schedule 
 (B.) 
 
 K. L. (seal) j 
 
 N. B. When the School is a Grammar School, the words be- 
 tween the asterisks, in the prfeceding form, to be left out. " 
 
 SCHEDULE B. 'i''!'",'' 
 
 m 
 
 NOTICE FROM TEACHER OF HIS ENGAGEMENT. ., 
 
 I hereby give notice that I have entered into an agreenieut, bear- 
 
 no't7ce''of '"S ^^^^ ^^^ ^^y °^ *° ^^ leacn the iscnooi vur 
 
 engagemert Grammar School) in the settlement of in Township Number 
 
 / \ 
 
1868 
 
 [1 opera- 
 and not 
 
 ■ t 
 
 oth heteby 
 , L.,Tnjs- 
 30I, Town- 
 ct the said 
 ,h the Law, 
 1 for, and 
 according 
 'ustees, on 
 said Dis- 
 lacheF and 
 the use cf 
 as may be 
 schools — to 
 thereof— to 
 rs resident 
 Dd that the 
 amount of 
 ly a deflci- 
 required by 
 olars;* and 
 this agree- 
 lim to re- 
 le Treasury 
 jtween the 
 I or other- 
 have here- 
 
 Teacher. 
 Trustees. 
 
 B words be- 
 
 '.-■■\ .{y.r. 
 
 mieut, bear- 
 Schooi (of 
 ip Number 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 1868 31st VICTORIA. 
 
 ..nrl ♦K?f f'P '^'*'J^^" °f Royalty of ) for the term of ' 
 
 ?°d that J^he^^jd bchool was opened on the day of 18 
 
 ' ^4 do cWtify that the foi ^c:oing statement is correct. 
 
 CD. 
 E.F. 
 G.H. 
 
 61 
 
 M;II 1'/; ■[•A ,<>!;■..:» 
 
 " 'or- 
 
 '.)•[. 
 
 ■ .' I./U I •Yi-, 
 
 SCHEDULE C. 
 
 Tru3teds. 
 
 teacher's certificate to obtain salart. 
 
 Schedule 
 
 (0.) 
 
 We, the undersigned Trustees of the School at Townshio No ^«rtEe 
 do hereby certify that A. B., Teacher of the' clai ?or 1°^!?'""' 
 
 sh?n nZ^v ^'^°" ' f^ ^T*^^^ °f *^^« ^^^^'"^^ School on^o4n- "'"'• 
 sh p Number ) (or as the caso may be) has diligently, faith- 
 
 fully and soberly, discharged his duties -during the last moS h^ 
 as leacher of our School, and has, during the said perioTdulv 
 
 pli?d ViT?hi l.wir'^-^t°^'' ^"? ^P ^" ''^'' respecThas com^ 
 plied with the laws now in force, relating to Education and is en- 
 
 Sphn*^.lf '' •"' *^' 'T °^ ^«^ h'« said serv ces and that a 
 
 fnir ^"f ' '"^ ^^^^.^i'V^ce with the provisions of th^ laws now in 
 force, has been provided, and that th^average attendance Jt this 
 bchool during the past six mon.hs has been in number a1 
 
 witness our hands this day of 18 "umoer, as 
 
 > Trustees. 
 led/e^'aHl 'h«^l?® foregoing statements, to the best of my know- 
 
 ^& b^'thS T^u\t^7n%%!;^ncl '''''' '''''''^'^'^' ^^ 
 
 J. P. 
 
 SCHEDULE D. 
 
 Schedule 
 (D.) 
 
 FORM OF NOTICE OF MEETING TO APPOINT TRITSTEES. Form of 
 
 NOTICE °°"<'« o' 
 
 A .• /. meetlnff ^to 
 
 A. B.-) 
 
 E ji > Trustees. 
 
 qIh.j 
 
 SCHEDULE E. 
 
 FORM OF AFFIDAVIT OF NOTICE BEING POSTED 
 
 County ) 
 to wit) 
 
 J. K,. of in the said County, maketh oath and saith that a 
 
 Schedule 
 (E.) 
 
 Affidavit of 
 
 posted. 
 
62 
 
 Cap. 6 
 
 A morn ?^ 
 
 ,7 '. i 
 
 8lBt VICTORIA. 
 
 1868 
 
 ' ' . ) ■ . „ . . i 
 
 truf qopy of tibe notice or paper writing hereunto wneiei.'wii/on 
 
 r.«!t-^ ^ K^^P.^ J"'**?', (or iMt as the caee maybe) <|»i1t 
 posted at each of the three following olaces within School District 
 Number on Tnwn«K;r. m.,«,k»- ■ / *u. . l. v 
 
 Number on Township Number 
 
 that id to sav: one copy thereof on Mr. 's 
 
 case may be) aiiother copy thereof at and the tmrd < 
 
 D' tr' t^ '^'** **' **^* ™°^' ^^^^^° ^^^^ ^''^'° ^^' ^'^ 
 
 Sworn to before me this ) . 
 day of 18 < 
 
 L. M., J. P. 
 
 (or as the case may be) 
 
 '- forge, (or as the 
 
 third copy at 
 
 School 
 
 I 
 
 / j>^ 
 
1868 
 
 K. 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Anglo RusTico District, ' '" - ' ' 
 
 '».. Tiro SoboQls oontioued therein, under control of Board of Edu- 
 cation, 56. 
 Teachers of, to hold license from Board, 56. 
 DiBtncls similarljrjcircumstanced, to have like privileges, 56. 
 
 I AsSESBMBNt, . 
 
 ' ' (1,: It: 'r><vo(( Mv. 
 
 Trn^teefl may assess for books, maps, school repairs, fael. Ac, 
 
 Particulars to be entered in Trustees' Book, 28. 
 
 l-ortheerectiopofanewSehoolhoqse, or repairing or enlarce- 
 ment of the old, 31. ** «^«»rge 
 
 How recovered, 31, 32. 
 
 ^^ Inequality of, how pleaded, 31, 32. 
 
 (^H Clergymen, T6achers,;&c., exempt from, 48. 
 
 Vtbbaoe, 
 
 ^^ Ayerage attendance of Scholars required, 16. 
 Minimum in Charlottetown, 38. 
 
 {iBLE, 
 
 *^" The reading of, authorized in all public Schools, 48. 
 fOARD OF Education, 
 f Constitution of, 2, 
 
 Duties of Examiners, 2. " >< a,./ !| 
 
 Quorum of, lor business, 2. 
 
 Time of monthly meeting, 2. 
 
 Notice monthly meeting, 3. 
 
 Examination meetings to be bi-monthly; 2, 3. 
 
 Salary of Secretary, 3. 
 
 Salary of the other members of, 3. 
 
 Salary reduced in case ot absence from monthly meeting, 3. 
 
 Members of, removable at pleasure. 3. ^ 
 
 Vacancies in, how filled, 3. 
 
 iLttLlLtedXs!''' '"■''"""""'' ""-» !"»»»* i"eo«.pe.,„., 
 
 ^"sSu^i"™'' ^«S»'»«»"' »■"* i-'Tuclio-., for guidance of 
 
 ^r~lv.'?.-f ''™"'P'?'S'': "•."""conduQ. 01 Teache„, 5. 6. 
 — »^ — Y-'?"t'iWM?t;yance5 01 sciiooi aite.', 7, 
 
 I 
 
■ 'T^^^PWWPII!"^!*!'-!****^^* 
 
 f l lWU Mi iL i - ,iJ am>p^ 
 
 /l 
 
 64 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 II ^ 
 
 
 ;i 1 
 
 May alter the boundaries of School District, 8. 
 
 May appoint Commissioners to report on proposed alterations, 9. 
 
 May suspend maintenance of School in certain case 13. , , ,a 
 
 May authorize a minor District, 18, 
 
 May withhold School allowrance until prescribed regulations are 
 
 observed, 20. 
 May order a new election of Trustees, 26. 
 May examine wftnesses on oath, 27. 
 
 Have power to divide the City of Charlottetown into Districts, 34. 
 May appoint assistant Teachers when required, 36. - 
 To inspect Schoolroomi^, and receive fees paid by scholars, 37. 
 To regulate management of Normal School, 44. 
 To furnish the Legislature with parts of the Visitors' Reports, 47 
 Have power to establish Grammar Scho is, 50. 
 
 Books ; . ■ ■ "' 
 Prescribf^d by Board of Education, 20. 
 May be ordered by Trustees, 24. 
 
 Trustees may assess for, 23, 24. , " 
 To be purchased by fees paid in Grammar Schools of George- 
 town and Summcrside, 52. ;' 
 
 Candidates 
 
 For the office of Teacher to be examined, and if found competent, 
 
 receive certificate, 4. 
 Must produce certificate of good (character, 4. 
 To receive instruction and training, free of charge, in Normal 
 
 School, 44. 
 If unfitted, must atiend at Normal School, 51. 
 Certificates 
 
 or registration of School District, 11. 
 
 TeaclitM-'s certificate to obtain saliry may be signed by Trustees 
 
 separately, 5 . 
 P'orm of, 60, 
 
 Chaklottetoavn, Common and Royalty,, 
 
 Number of Districts allotted to, 34. 
 
 Division into Districts, 34. ! 
 
 Teachers for, and their s:ilaries, 35, 36. 
 
 Aesisiant Teacher appointed where number of children require 
 
 it. 38. 
 Cost of fuel, rent, &c., how defrayed, 36. 
 How recovered, 37. 
 
 Clergymen 
 
 May vi;=!it iiiid iniitiire into manag'^nient of Schools, 52. 
 Not liable to assessment for School fees, 48, 
 
 a^: 
 
 Si" 1 
 
 / \ 
 
 
 i 
 
W'w'llllllM ■> 
 
 / 
 
 'I! 
 
 H 
 
 
 y? 
 
 r%l.-i 
 
 f 
 
 INDEX. 65 
 
 [ Complaint 
 
 Against Tf.acher of misconduct, 5. 
 How investigated, 6. 
 
 )Eii:DS 
 
 Of School sites, may be held by Board, 7, 8. 
 
 )ISPUTES 
 
 Between Trustees and Teachers, 6. 
 Between adjacent Schools, as to right of maintenance, 12. 
 As to the election or resignation of Trustees, 27. 
 
 I8TRICTS, 
 
 Registry of, to be kept by Secretary of Board, 7. 
 
 Time limited for registration, 7. 
 
 New Districts, how formed, 7, 
 
 Boundaries of, how enlarged or diminished, 8, 9. 
 
 Former Districts registered, confirmed, 11. 
 
 Minor School Districts, how and where to' be formed. 18 
 
 In Charlottetown and Royalty, 34, 85. ' 
 
 ECTION 
 
 Of Trustees, 22. 
 Dispute as to legality of, 26, 27. 
 New election may be ordered by Board, 26, 
 Engagement 
 
 Ot Teachers to be for one year, 49. 
 Notice of, to be forwarded to the Board, 49. '' 
 Copy of, to be furnished, to obtain salary, 54. "* 
 ,. Form of; GO. •" 
 
 HviDENOE, 
 
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 Certificate ot registry of Districts to be received as, 11. 
 lo prove election of Trustees, 26 27. 
 Record of Trustees to be received .as, 30. 
 
 Extent # 
 
 And boundaries of Districts to be registered, 6, 
 Of new Districts, how defined, 8, 9, 14. 
 Fjses 
 
 ^^hc^'^^Ll' ^^'"HJ'^siooers employed to investigate disputes 
 between adjacent Districts, 9. & f 
 
 Of persons employed to report on alteration of Districts, 10. 
 *or laying off new Districts, 13. 
 
 To be charged in female Schools in Charlottetown, 36. 
 How recovered, 37, " , wu. 
 
 9 
 
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 66 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Paid by scholars attending Schools in Georgetown, 41. 
 Payable by children attending Grammar Schools at Geor8;etown 
 and Suramerside, 51. 
 
 Female Teachers, 
 
 Number of, for Charlottetown limited, 38. 
 
 Board may engage one of the City female Teachers for Normal 
 
 School, 45. 
 Salary of, 57. 
 
 French, 
 
 Teacherd who can teach French to be allowed additional salary, 
 provided Trustees raise a like sum, 43 ; number of, limited. 
 
 Fuel and Furniture 
 
 May be assessed for, 23, 31. 
 
 Georgetown, 
 
 Trustees of, how elected, 40 41. 
 
 Children of Georgetown Royalty, 41. 
 
 Quarterly payment for incidental expenses of, 41. 
 
 Grammar School for, continued, 51. 
 
 Teacher of, how appointed, 52. 
 
 Trustees of, how appointed, 53. 
 
 Salary of Teacher of, 57, 
 
 Of Usher 57. 
 
 Of female Teacher, 57. 
 
 Grammar Schools 
 
 ^ May be formed in certain cases, by the union of two District 
 Schools, 50. 
 
 Dimensions of Schoolhouse, 50. 
 
 Teacher of, appointed by Board, 50. 
 
 An Assistant may be appointed, 50. 
 
 Limited number of, may be established in the diffei'ent Counties, 
 in lieu of District Schools, 51. 
 
 At Georgetown and Suramerside, continued, 51. 
 
 Teachers of, appointed by Government, 52. 
 
 Qualifications of Teachers of 53. 
 
 Trustees of, in Georgetown and Suramerside, appointed by Gov- 
 ernment, 50. 
 
 Children in the respective Counties may go to Georgetown and 
 Suramerside Grammar Schools, 53. 
 
 Trustees of, to be chosen in the usual way, except Georgetown 
 and Suramerside, 54. 
 
 Salary of Teachers of, 57 ; Ushers of, 57. 
 Journal, 
 
 Each Teacher to keep a Journai, 33. 
 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 67 
 
 iora;etown 
 
 Normal 
 
 il salary, 
 ,ed. 
 
 District 
 
 Counties, 
 
 by Gov- 
 town and 
 iorgetowu 
 
 /'^. 
 
 To be forwarded to the Secretary of the Board, at the close of 
 
 engagement, 33. 
 To be certified on oath, before a Justice of the Peace, before 
 
 being farwarded, 49. 
 Justices of the Peace 
 
 May investigate disputes in certain cases, when appointed by 
 Board ot Education, 12. 
 
 Remuneration for so doing, 13. 
 
 May be employed to determine School sites, and remuneration 
 therefor, 14. 
 
 Duty of Senior Justice of the Peace in Georgetown, 40. 
 
 To certify good conduct of Teacher, 40. 
 License TO Teach, 
 
 Prerequisites for, 4. 
 
 May be revoked for misconduct, 5, 6. 
 Maps, 
 
 Assessment allowed to orocure, 24. 
 Militia, 
 v,v 1^1^ Teachers exempt from service in, 20. 
 
 Minor School District, 
 
 May be formed in settlement where 40 scholars cannot be found. 
 
 18. 
 Remuneration to Teacher of, 19. 
 Misconduct, 
 
 :' Complaint of, against Teacher, how investigated, 5, 6. 
 
 ::m Trustees of School may expel a scholar for, 21. 
 
 ■| Nearest School, 
 
 Child not residing in district, &c., may attend, 21. 
 Normal School, 
 
 Continued and conducted according to regulations of rhe Board 
 of Education, 43, 44. 
 1^ Teacher of, appointed .by Government, 44. 
 
 ^ His duties, 44. 
 
 An assistant master may be appointed, 45. 
 
 Scholars attending at, except tiiose qualifying for Teachers, to 
 
 pay fees, 45. 
 Number of Scholars at, regulated by Board, 45. 
 One female Teacher may be employed in, 45. 
 To be visited frequently by School Visitor, 48. 
 Candidates unfitted for the office of Teacher to attend at 52. 
 Notice 
 
 Of meeting of Board of Education, 2. 
 
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 68 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Of laying out new District, 9, 13. 
 Of meeting to elect Trustees, 22, 28. 
 Of Teacher's engagement, 59. 
 Occupant 
 
 ^irrpVri' ^:"f^"««"«ed Schoolhouse has been erected, de- 
 barred from interference with the same 38. 
 Orphan School ' 
 
 Publiolllnf '''^""^ '." '"""' convenient place in Charlottetown, 30. 
 i'ubhc allowance, and terms of admission to. 39 
 Incidental expenses of, paid from (he public Treasury, 40 
 Subject to the regulations of the Board of Education,' 40 
 
 ir'EACEABLE POSSESSION 
 
 ^^tfot°33.^^''"'''' '"^ '''''' ''''''*° ^°' '^' P^^'P^^'^^ °^ ««J"ca- 
 Plea of Inequality 
 
 Of assessment for School purposes, 29. 
 Public Worship, 
 
 Schoolhouses may be used for, with consent of Trustees 16 
 Quorum ' 
 
 Of Board of Education, 2. 
 Of Board of Trustees, 22, 23. 
 Record, 
 
 Every Board of Trustees to keep a record of proceedings 28 
 Registration ' 
 
 Of Districts, to be kept by Secretary of Board, 6. 
 Of Districts to be legal evidence, 11, 
 Regulations 
 
 For management of Schools, 5. 
 Consequences, if net observed, 20 
 
 Normal School subject to regulations of Board of Ed-.cation 44. 
 Repairs ' 
 
 Of Schoolhouse may be assessed for, 30, 
 Report 
 
 "•""D'Se^to/;""' °' C-™-'""- -Ployel in ,„era.i„„ 
 Of School Visitors, 46. 
 Salaries, 
 
 Reduction of, for deficiency of average 17 
 To bo paid quarterly, 55. s ) • 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 69 
 
 erected, de- 
 
 tetown,39. / 
 
 40 
 
 [0. 
 
 of ed 
 
 II ca- 
 
 16. 
 
 s, 28. 
 
 ition, 44. 
 
 
 alteration 
 
 SCHOOLHOUSES, 
 
 & ff ^^^^'^ K "^'^ ^"'^ regulation to be kept in, 5. 
 
 MnL^ jemoved t^ form a new District, 10. 
 
 Modes of determining sites for, 8 13 
 
 t-rrant in aid of erection, in certain cases, 15. 
 
 Mmimum and dimersions of, 15. 
 
 When erected on Church lands, hov.' secured, 15. 
 
 t;u\rs:Vr ""'''' ^'^^^^^' ^^^'^^ ^^-^-P- ^^^ ^y -nsent of 
 
 May not be interfered with, when once legally erected unl.,, 
 ScHOLlnr ^"' '" ^''^ '^ conveyance, ^33 ' '''' 
 
 Average number of, 16, 17. 
 
 Legal number of, in order to form a District, 13. 
 
 May be exneL^f "'• "'^>^ ^^"«^^ '" ^^e'nearest, 21. 
 A 'I® ®^P^"ed for misconduct, 21 
 
 Age of School attendance, 21, 
 
 Secrktary of Board of Education' 
 
 To be appointed by Government, 2 
 His salary, 3. 
 
 Register of Districts to be kept by, 6 
 
 D^stS 1^0."'"' '"' "" '' ^^^^'•^'•°" '" boundaries of their 
 To certify class to which Teacher belonc^s, 55 
 
 Mode of changing. 7. 
 Mode of determining, 9, 10. 
 Statutp: Labor, 
 
 Licensed Teachers exempt from, 20. 
 
 SUMMERSIDE, 
 
 Grammar School in, continued, 51. 
 leacher of, appointed by Government, 52 
 luition fet's, how applied, 52 
 Salary of Teacher of, 58. 
 
 Teach KRs 
 
 Absent from the Island or disco ,„,,..„„ . ^ . 
 
 not 10 resume without re-examination, 3. ^^ '''*' ^"^''^ 
 
 ntinuing teaching f( 
 
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 70 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Candidates for the office of, to be examined, and if found com- 
 petent, receive Cfrtificate, 4. 
 
 Conduct of, subject to investigation before the Board of Educa- 
 tion, 5, 6. 
 
 Licenses of, cancelled on proof of misconduct, 5, 6. 
 
 Of a minor District, whether male or female, to receive a certain 
 
 sum per scholar, 19. 
 Ordinary District male Teachers, of two classes, 19. 
 ^ Branches to be taught by each, 19. 
 Exempt from statute labor tmd militia duty, 20. 
 Under twenty-one years of age, not allowed to teach where 
 
 brought up, unless by permission of Board, 20. 
 Not allowed to embark in mercantile pursuits or keep a tavern, 20. 
 Must keep a Journal, 30. 
 Of Orphan School, Charlottetown, 39. 
 Who can teach French to receive additional salary, 43. 
 Candidates for the office of, entitled to attend Normal School 
 
 free of charge, 44. 
 Not liable to assessment for School fees, 46. 
 To send notice of engagement to Board, 48. 
 Must certify on oath to correctness of Journal, 49, 
 Must deposit copy of engagement with the Secretary of the 
 
 Board, and an endorsed certificate of faithful performance of 
 
 duty, previous to receiving salary, 54. 
 Salaries of, 57. 
 
 Salaries of those licensed before passing of Act of 23 Vic. Cap. 
 
 14, and not passcfl subsequently, 58. 
 Until they have served three years, to receive in each case, £5, 
 less of siilary, a' nually, 58. 
 Of Grammar Schools, vide Grammar Schools. 
 Trustees, 
 
 Number of, appoiuteci, and how, 22. 
 May expel a scholar lor misconduct, 22, 
 Duties of, 23. 
 
 Meeting for appointment of, how certified, 22. 
 May assess for books, maps, fm;!, &c., 23. 
 Two to go out annually, in rotation, 25, 42. 
 Vacancies in Board of, how iilk-d, 24. 
 Board of Education may order a new election of, 27. 
 Time and manner of new election, 27. 
 Proof of appointment of, 27. 
 Board of to keep recoru, 28. 
 This record to bo prima jacie fvidencu, 30. 
 May assess for n«iw Schoolhouse, or repairing or etilaraing th(^ 
 old one, 30. ^ ^ ^ 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 71 
 
 May sue for assessment, 31. 
 
 Of Georgetown, how appointed, 40, 42. o„^„,flrside how 
 
 Of Grammar Schools of Georgetown and Summerside, how 
 
 appointed, 51. ^ 
 
 Of the other Grammar Schools, oi, - „«„*«!„ *;»; 
 
 CertiLate given by, to Teacher, may be s.gnefl separately, 68. 
 Form of ogreemeDt of, with Teacher, CO. 
 Form of notice of meeting to appomt, Sb, bu. 
 
 "'•"May be appointed in the country and town Grammar School, 50. 
 
 Vacations, 
 
 Time and number of 21. # 
 
 Vacancies . , „ 
 
 In the Board of Education, how failed, d. 
 In the Board of Trustees, how fiiled, 25. 
 In the office of Visitor, how fiUed,.46. 
 
 VisiTOiis OF Schools ' 
 
 May report on qualifications of reacher, 4. 
 Duties of, in respect to mmor Schor ^ 1». 
 Three appointed, (one for each County) 4b. 
 Not to engage in business, 47, 
 To visit the Schools twice a year, 4/. • 
 
 with details, 47. . , ;iq 
 
 Visits of, to be recorded in Trustees book, 48. 
 Salary, and how payable, 48. 
 Voluntary Subscriptions 
 
 For the support of Teachers, 25. 
 How recovered, 25.