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Original copiaa In prtntad papol Act. [30///. Ma If, 1849.] TXTIIEREAS it is expeilient to make jivovision for Preamble. » » the oetter estal)lis]iiiient iiiul maintenance of Public Schools, in tliatpartof tliis Province formerly Upper-Canada : 13e it therefore enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and mtituled. An Act to rc-unite the Provinces of Upper and Lower-Canada, and for the Government of Canada, and it is hereby enacted by the authority supcrinten.]- of the same. That tiie Ciovernor of this Province <'"J^"f^*=^°o'^ may from lime to time a])point by Letters Patent for \?pE!.Ca- under the Great Seal of this Province, a fit and pro- "^^j^^!^ "" per })erson to be Superintendent of Schools for Up- per-Canada, and to hold his office during pleasure ; and the said Superintendent shall he allowed Four hundred and twenty pounds currency salary per an- »u Governor in Council. Duties of tJie Suixjrintcnd- «nt. Apportiouinfj monevs. timn, and shall be allowed Three Imndred and fifteen pounds currency per annum for a clerk, and the con- tingent expenses of his office to be by him accounted To give sccu- for according to the terms of this Act ; and the said "iJjJct^^thc Superintendent shall give security to Her Majesty, to the satisfaction of the Govei*nor in Council, in the sum of Two thousand pounds currency, and shall in the exercise of his duty be subject to all lawful directions or orders that the (rovernor or person ad- ministering the Government of this Province may by and witli the advice of the Executive Council give in respect thereto. II. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Schools for Upper-Canada: First. After deducting certain sums, as hereinaftt^r provided, to apportion, on or before the fifteenth day of April in each year, all moneys appropriated by the Legislature for Common Schools in Upper-Ca- nada, for the then current year, according to the ra- tio of population in each County in Upper-Ca- nada, as coinpared with the whole population of such part of this Province according to the cen- sus of the population thereof, which shall have been last taken and returned at the time of such apportionment ; or, if the census or returns uj)0!i which such ap[)ortionment, according to this pro- vision of this Act, ought to be made, be so defect- ive in respect to any County that it will be impract- icable to ascei'tain thereby the share of the School moneys which ought to be ap[)ortioned to the sai'^ County, then he shall apportion such moneys accord- ing to the best evidence in his power, having respect to a fair and equitable apportionment thereof accord- ing to the said ratio of population. Certifyngap. Serondli/. To certify to the Inspector-General of poruonmcntrf, ^j^jg Province tiie apportionment so made, and to ffive also iinmodiate notice thereof to the Clerk of any ajid give the Municipal Council of each County in Upper- Canada, stating the amount of money apportioned to each, the aggregate amount of the apportionments, and the ratio of popuhition according to which the h:everal apportionments sJiall have been made. Third! I/. To see that all monies apportioned by him, under the authority of this Act, be a})plied to the purposes for which they shall have been granted, «ind to withhold from each and every County from which a satisfactory report respecting the moneys last apportioned thereto shall not have been receiv- ed, all further share of the Legislative Grant for Schools till such report shall have been furnished by ^..id County. Fotn/h/i/. To prepare suitable lorms and regula- lious fur nuiking all re])orts, and conducting all ne- cessiiuy })roceedings uiuler this Act, and to cause the same, with such instructions as the Board of Educa- tion lor Upper-Canada shall deem necessary for the belter organization and Covernment of Public or Connnon Schools, to be transmitted to the several Boards and Officers rocjuired to execute the provisions of this Act; and to prepare and to transmit to the Clerk of each Township, Town or City in Upper- Canada, for the use of the Municipal Council of such Township, Town or City, a copy of any plan or plans of School Houses that the Governor in Council may approve of and order to be furnished for such pur- pose. Fifthlu. To furnish, from time to time, to the or- der of any rviiperintendent of the Common Schools of any Township, Town or City in Uj)per-Canada, such and so many copies of this Act, and of the forms, re- gulations and instructions prepared by him, as shall in such order be stated to be necessary for the use of any School or Schools in the said Township, Town or City. Seeing to aj>. plication of monevM. Preparing forniKj rcf^ula- 'ion^ &c. Also copies of plans tor School Houses, Fiirni-ihing forms, ciipici* of Actj &c. I Collecting iiw formation roH- pcctiii^ eiluca- tion. Reporting y«nrly to tho Governor. Sixth/ 1/. To employ all lawful means in his power to collect intbrmation on the subject of cniuca- tion, and to diffuse it among the people in Upper- Canada. >SVrr/? //////. To submit annually to the Governor of this Proviuf e, on or before the first day of August in each year, a re})ort of the slate of tho Normal, tJram- mar, Conuuon and olhor Public Schools or Educa- tional Institutions in Upper-Canada, shewing the amount of j)ublic moiu\ys expended for educational purposes in Upp(M*-Canada, so far as tho same shall have been made known to him, and shewing likewise from what sources the siiid moncvs shall have been dcriv'd, together with siicli information res])ecting the state of education in Upper-Canada, and plans and suggestions for the improvement ttiercoi', as he shall deem to be expedient, in order that tlu; same may l)e laid betore llie L(>gishUure at tiie meeting thereof next Ibllowing. Sciiooi money-, Ilf. Vud bc it (Miactcd, Tluit the suui of moiicy to pVvabif'to '"'^^ ''^ amiually distributed for tlie encc-u'agement of County Trca- Coumiou Sclioois in l'j)per-Canad.c aforesaid, shall be payable on tlu* iir^t day of May in each year, by Warrant to the Treasurers of the several Counties in Upper-Can cula. DuiyofCoun- IV. And be it cnactcd, That each County Trea- ty Tfcasmcrs. ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^,|j^^ j^^ ^jj,^jj j^.^^^^ received the sum of money apportioned to his County, immediately give notice thereof in writing to the Clerk of the Munici- pal Council of his County. Dutvof ciork V. And be it enacted, That the duty of the said CouncU?'^^' Clerk shall be, when he shall have received notice of the apportionment of School moneys for his County, and also when the Treasurer of his County shall have given him notice that the said apportion- ment lias been received by bim, to lay tbe same as soon as possible before ibc Municipal Council of tbe said County. VI. And be it enacted, Tbat the said Municipal Rosemd fund Council shall in its discretion cause a sum not exceed- JJrtSn'jijowt ing Twenty-live per cent, of the said apportionment to Sciicoisjec- be deducted from the said apportionment, and consti- *'^*"'* tuted a fund for the relief of such School Sections as may not, without special assistance, be able to establish or maintain Schools; and the said Municipal Council shall, in its discretion, cause the said fund to be dis- tributed to such School Sections in such amounts as it shall judge to be proper : Provided always, that the Provwo m to said Municipal Council shall not authorize any such "^'"o'^"' ^f ***^* School Section to receive in any year, from such School Uelief Fund, a sum exceeding ten pounds cur- rency ; And provided also, that it shall not authorize riovisc. aid any portion of the said fund to be paid to any School "j^VrTcerS"'' Section in which the inhabitants may be sulficiently cmcs. wealthy to be able to support a School without such assistance ; nor to any section which m:iy be con- veniently united to another School, Section, and so be made able tp support a School ; nor ^o any School Section which shall not have raised, by taxation or otherwise during the then current year, a sum at least equal in amount to the sum which said Municipal Council shall have apportioned to such section ; nor unless it shall appear that the sum which such section shall have raised, shall have been applied to the pay- ment of the Teacher of such section for such year ; nor unless it shall have been certified to the Council that such section shall not have received any portion of the residue of the Legislative Grant, to be dis- tributed as hereinafter provided, after the aforesaid sum shall have been deducted. VII. And be it enacted. That the said Municipal J^^f^J^^gf jj^j^f Council after deducting from the apportionment of 8 RPprfionmfn« School moncys for its County as aforesaid, a sum tornny ounfy sufficient for a School Relief Fund, shall apportion the residue of the said apportionment to the several Townships, Towns and Cities in the County, accord- ing the ratio of population In each, as compared with the whole population which shall have been last taken and returned at the time of such apportionment ; or if the census or returns upon which such appor- tionment ought to be made, be so defective that an apportionment made according to it would be unjust, it may and shall be lawful for the Council to appor- tion such School moneys according to the best evidence in its 'jower, having respect to a fair and equitable appovtionment thereof according to the said ratio of population : Provided always, that before such ap- portionment be made, the population of such School Section or Sections as are to receive any portion of tlie School Relief Fund, shall be deducted from the population of the several Townships, 'l\)\vns or Cities in which such section shall be located, and the appor- tionments to such Townships, Towns or Cities shall be made according to the population in them respec- tively, (exclusive of the population of the relieved School Sections,) as compared with the whole popu- lation of the County in which such Townships, Towns or Cities may be. Proviso as to The ratio oi'ap- portionnicntf;. .Notice to the Township, Town, and City Councils in the County, md to the Su- {erint«ndpnt>' jf Schools. VIII. And be it enacted. That the Municipal Coun- cil of each County in Upper-Canada shall, after it shall have apportioned as aforesaid the School moneys for Its County, immediately cause a notice thereof to be given in writing to the Clerks of the several Township, Town or City Councils in its County, and to the Township, Town and City Superintendents of the Schools of the County, and shall cause to be stated therein the amount of money apportioned to each Township, Town and City, respectively, — the aggregate amount of the apportionments, — the ratio of 9 population according to which the said apportion- ments shall have been severally made, — the number and designations of the School Sections which are not to be included in the number to which the money apportioned to any Townsliip, Town or City is to be distributed, — and the amount granted from the School Relief Fund to each sucli School Section for the maintenance of a School therein. IX. And be it enacted, That the notice in writing TroaBun rs of which the said Municipal Council shall give any SSn?yJ,lX^ Township, Town or City Superintendent of the FruitcniicnN Schools of its County as aforesaid, shall be sufficient L. '*""''"'"'' Warrant to the said Superintendent to receive from the Treasurer of tho said County the sum of School money which shall have been apportioned to his Township, Town or City ; and it shall be the d;uy of the said Treasurer to pay the same to the said Superin- tendent on the authority of the said notice, and on no other, without retaiuing any pev-centagc thereon. X. And be it enacted. That the Sunerintendent of ,!^^'/f j^jj;!;,,. Schools in each Township, Town and City shall be t;.i- Townn,' ' appointed by the Council of such Township, Town Je^f,ow an. or C'ity, and shall hold office during the pleasure of pii'tci-sccu- the said Council, and shall, before he enter on the "'^' **^' duties of his office, enter into a bond with two or more sufficient sureties to such amount as shall be required by the said Council, and such bond shall be to the said Council, and shall be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such Superin- tendent, and the sureties thereto shall be to the satis- faction of the said Council ; Provided always, that if Proviso : if in- insufficient sureties be accepted by the said Council, ueH'be taiic""' the members of such Council who shall have voted for the accepting of such sureties shall be personally holden in lieu of the said sureties and amenable in their stead, if the said Superintendent shall fail to perform the duties required of him by this Act. 3 I f 10 Superintend- XI. And be it enacted, That any person appointed ap^?nted*for to be the Superintendent of the Schools of any rnorc than one Township, Town or City, may be appointed likewise ***^* to be the Superintendent of any other Township, Town or City in Ids County, or of the Schools of all the Townships, Towns and Cities in the same; Proviso as to Provided always, that he shall, as is required by the £veraoere, 1 cacuers. -To see that Teachers and perform the duties required of them by this Act. Sixth/ 1/ — To sue for and collect, by his name of Suing for pen- office, all the penalties and forfeitures imposed by '^*"^' '^^' this Act and which shall have been incurred by any officer or inhabitant of the Township, Town or City, and with respect to which no other provision shall have been made. TV Scvcnllily — To apply for and receive from the Treasurer cf the County the sum or sums of money apportioned to the said Township, Town or City by the Municipal Council of the County thereof, and apply the same as the Municipal Council of the said Township, Town or City shall direct; Provided always, th \i he shall not pay any part of the money apporti(ne.l to any School Section of said Township, Town or City by the Municipal Council thereof, unless it shall appear that a sum at least equal in amount to the moneys apportioned to such sections, shall for the payment of the salary of the Teacher of the Common School thereof for the then current year, have been levied on the inhabitants of such section ; nor unless a School shall have been in operation therein during six consecutive months, either within the year for which the said money shall have been apportioned, or within the last three months of the preceding year, and so much of the then current year consecutively following such por- Rec«!:ving and applying school moneys. Pioviao : con- ililions on which money may be allowed to any School section. 12 fi?.me. Ill :i: tion of the preceding year, as w ith the said portion shall constitute six months ; nor unless, when there shall have been a School in operation therein during a portion of the preceding year, a sufficient report therefrom shall have been received ; nor unless it shall be that no portion of the money apportioned to such Township, Town or City for the preceding year shall have been paid to such section for the payment of the salary of the Teacher of the School thereof for such year. i^eceivinir EigJit/ili/ — To Call for an.l receive from the Col- CcKV/and lector of such Township, Town or City, all moneys ai plying the ^jjat for School purposcs shall by virtue of and under the authority of any By-law or By-laws of the Muni- cipal Council of the Township, Town or City, be raised in the Township, Town or City, and distribute or apply them for such purposes as the provisions of such By-law shall direct. Ninthlij — To retain in his hands, subject to the order of the jNIunicipal Council of the said Town- ship, Town or City, all moneys which shall have been apportioned to the School Sections of such Township, Town or City, and which shall not have been called for, or which he shall not have been able to apply according to the provisions of this Act ; w^hich moneys such Council may, in its discretion, add to the moneys to be next distributed to the School Sections of such Township, Town or City, and distribute them as a part of the apportionment to be then next distributed. Tenthlij — To see generally that the provisions ol this Act, so far as they relate to such Township, Town or City, be complied with; and to make a Report annually on or before the first day of March in each year to the Municipal Council of such Town- sliip. Town or City, and a similar report annually. Retaining .'■fione ys not cnlJf(i for. Seeing to the oxfcution of this Act, ami report in?. I 13 on or before the same day to the Municipal Council of the County in which such Township, Town or . City shall be ; which Report shall be in such form what the re- as the Chief Superintendent of the Common Schools j^^* ^^''^'^ ^on- of Upper-Canada shall have appointed: and shall state : of School Sections in such Township, Town or City, S'^hooisec tic, as. 1. The whole number of School Sections or parts Description of School Sections in such Townshi] ~ separately numbered and described. 2. The number of children, over the age of live Number and and under the age of sixteen years, taught in each, — uiot"f?ughf also the number of persons over the age of sixteen years taught in each, — the sexes of each of such classes, — and the number of children over the ageof five years and under the age of sixteen years resid- ing in each of such sections or parts of sections, and their sexes. 3. The length of time a School shall have been in Time cacii operation during the year in each Section, — the books ^*^^°?l "^^'" *i \ At t - A ^ 1 lit .-, operation, &c. used, and the subjects taught, — and whether the Teacher shall have been duly qualified, and the Trustees have duly reported. 4. The amount of moneys which shall have been Moneys re- received by each section, and the amount collected cx'^jj^jg j ' by each, distinguishing the amount appropriated by the Municipal Council of the Township, Town or City,-the amounts from the S6hool Relief Fund, — the amounts raised by assessment, — the amounts raised by the Trustees, — and the amount from any other and what sources ; also, how all such moneys have been expended, and whether any and what part remains unexpended, and from what cause or causes. 5. The number of his School visits during the Srhooi visits, year, — the whole number of School Houses in the iieiSe-. &c. Township, Town or City ; the number hired, — the Pri»*te Schools, Librariea, and miscellaneouE information. Case of the Superintend- ent not report- ing provided for: Penalty on him. u number which are the property of their School Sec- tions ; and the number which shall have been erected during the year; with his opinion respecting such School Houses as respects their affording accommo- dation, — their healthfuliiess and their adaptedness for the purposes of a School ; also whether such School Houses were built by voluntary contribution or by a tax imposed on the inhabitants of the School Section. 6. So far as he may be able to ascertain, the num- ber of private Schools kept in the Township, Town or City, — the number of pupils and the subjects taught in such Schools. 7. The number and extent of the Schools and Public Libraries in such Township, Town or City, where situate, and how established and supported; also any other information he may possess respecting the educational state, wants and advantages of the Town- ship, Town or City : and any suggestions he may think proper to make, with a view to the improve- ment of the Schools and to the diffusion of useful knowledge in such Township, Town or City. Xin. And be it enacted. That in case the Super- intendent of the Common Schools of any Township, Town or City, shall not, on or before, the first day of March in any year, transmit to the Municipal Coun- cil of his County, or shall not on or before the said day in any year, transmit to the Municipal Council of his Township, Town or City, his Report as herein- before provided, it shall be the duty of the said Clerk of such ('ouiieil to give immediate notice of such neglect to the Townreeve, Mayor or Warden of his Council ; and the share of the School moneys apportioned to the Township, Town or City whose Superintendent siiall not have reported, may be, in the discretion of the ^'uni{•ipal Council of the County in which such Township, Town or City may be situate, withheld till such Report for such Town- ship, Town or City shall have been made and trans- mitted either by such Superintendent or by a person authorized by the Municipal Council of such Town- ship, Town or City to make and transmit the same ; and the Superintendent who shall have neglected to make such Report, shall forfeit to the use of his Township, Town or City, for the School purposes thereof, the sum of Ten pounds, which shall be reco- ^ i«w rcco»a- verable from such Superintendent at the suit of his ^ ' ^' successor in office, whose duty it shall be to sue for and collect the same, in his name of office, in any Court possessing competent jurisdiclion ; Provided Proviso: if always, that if the Municipal Council of his Town- ''erfnte'nT ^*" ship. Town or City shall continue in his office of Su- le continued. perintendent the person who shall have been guilty of such neglect, any person whatever being an inha- bitant of such Township, Town or City may in such Court sue for and recover the same for the use of his Township, Town or City as aforesaid; And pro- proviso; iimi- vided likewise, that the suit for the recovery of said Nation of suit. sum of Ten pounds shall have been commenced, on the complaint of such person, within three calendar months from and after the time when such Report ought to have been transmitted. XIV. And be it enacted. That each Township, Town and City Superintendent of Common Schools shall keep a just and true account of all School moneys received and expended by him in each year, and shall deliver the same to the Clerk of the Muni- cipal Council of his Township, Town or City, to be by such Clerk laid before the Council ; and in case of the i^moval from office of any such Superinten- dent, or in case of his resignation or his removing his residence from the County in which the Township, Town or City for which he shall be Superintendent may be situate, he shall imjnediately render to his Accounts to be kept hy Su[)er> intenJrnts for Townshine, Towns, «c., and rendering thereof— case of removal, death, &c,, provided far. -* If h'i Penalty for ni'glcct to ac- count, or pay over balance. Appointments of Superin- tendents to be reported to the Council of the Comity, &c. Also va- cancies. 16 successor iu office a just and true account of all School moneys received and expended by him during the then current year, and of all balances in his hands, and shall forthwith pay over all such balances to his said successor, who shall appropriate the same in like manner as it should have been appropriated by such Superintendent, had he remained in office ; and if any vacancy in the office of such Superintendent shall occur, by the death of such Superintendent, his per- sonal representatives or sureties shall render such account and pay over such balances ; and every such Superintendent who shall refuse or neglect to render such account or to pay over such balance, shall forfeit and pay the suui of Twenty-five pounds, which toge- ther with such balance, so far as the same can be ascertained, and interest and costs thereon, shall be recoverable from such Superintendent or his sureties, at the suit of such successor, whose duty it shall be to sue for the same in his name of oiliee, in aiiv Court possessing competent jurisdiction ; and every personal representative or surety of any deceaseii Superintendent who shall refuse to render such account or to pay over such balances, shall forfeit and pay a like sum, to be in like manner sued for and collected. XV. And he it enacted, That it shall be the duty of every Township, Town or City Clerk, to report in writing to the Municipal Council of the County in which his Township, Town or City may be, every appointment of a Township, Town or City Superii»- tendent of Common Schools which shall have been made from time to time by the Municipal Council of his Township, Town or City, and the name and address of the person so appointed, w ithin seven days after such Superintendent shall have entered into a bond as aforesaid, for the faithful performance of his duties as such Superintendent, and it shall be the dutv of such Clerli likewise within seven davs after of be shii m^ of all luring lands, to his n like such if an J shall 17 a vacancy shall have occurred in the office of Town- ship, Town or City Superintendent, to report such vacancy to the Municipal Council of his County, and also to report the same as soon as possible to the Municipal Council of his Township, Town or City. XVI. And be it enactH, That the Superintendent Emoluments of the Common Schools of any Township, Town or ^2!"" City, shall be paid by such salary or per-centage as the Municipal Council of such Township, Town or City shall appoint, and such salary shall be raised and levied rateably upon- the whole rateable property in the Township, Town or City, according to the assessment laws which shall then be in force. XVII. And be it enacted. That all the divisions of What shall be Townships, Towns or Cities in that part of this " sdiod Scc- Province formerly Upper-Canada, which shall have ^'°P^>" ""''er been established before this Act shall be in force, and which shall then exist and be called *' School Sec- tions" shall not cease, but shall continue to be School Sections for the purposes of this Act, until altered as hereinafter provided ; and the Trustees of such Sections shall be as if they had been chosen by virtue of and under the authority of this Act, and shall have all the powers, and discharge all the duties of Trustees, and be subject to all the liabilities and penalties to which Trustees are subjected by this Act, until their successors shall have been appointed. XVIII. And be it enacted. That it shall and may Municipal be lawful for the Municipal Council of each Town- SS"'"''' ship, Town and City in Upper-Canada to alter any School Sec- School Section of such Township, Town or City, or cause a new division of such Township, Town. or City into School Sections, or to unite two or more of such Sections, and determine the site on which the School House of any School Section in the Township, Proviso as to Town or City shall be built; Provided always, that Sef &c ^'"'* 8 ' « If 18 any alteration of the site of any School House, or any alteration of any School Section which shall not have been made with the consent of the Trustees of the Section, shall not take effect until three months after notice thereof shall have been given in writing to one or more of such Trustees. I^utyofthc XIX. And be it enacted, That it shall be the licw'scction?. duty of the Municipal Coancil of each Township, Town or City aforesaid, whenever it shall have formed a new School Section in any Township, Town or City to appoint a person or persons who nTc?^&c'"^' ^^^^'^ *^^^^ ^'^^ ^'^^^ School Section Meeting in said ' section ; and to communicate to such person or per- sons, in writing, the description and number of the Section ; and it shall be the duty of such person or persons, within twenty days thereafter, to prepare a notice in writing, describing sucli section ana appoint- ing the time and placj lor the meeting, and to cause copies of such notice to be posted in at least three public places in the section, at least six days before the time of holding such meeting. Klcction k)t' School Trus. tees, in new iSccUons. Annual Meet- ing for flec- tion of Trus- tees for each Seclion, XX. And be it enacted, TJiat at the first School Section Meeting which shall be held in a new School Section, tlie landholders and householders thereat, being residents in said Section, shall elect three fit and proper persons to be Trustees of such Section, and such })er.«ons shall hold oflieo until the second Tuesday in January next after their election, and until tlieir successors in oflice j^ball have bt.cu ap- pointed. XXI. And be it enacted, Tliat on tlio second Tues- day ill JaiRuivy next atlcr there shall have been a first School Section Meeting held in any new School Sec- tion, the landholders and householders resident in such Section shall a^ain meet at the hour of twelve of the clock at noon, at such })lace as shall have been m Notice of Meclinir. 1& appointed by a majority of tlie Tnistees of the Sec- tion, who shall cause notice of the meeting to be posted in at least three public places in the Section, at least six days before the time therein appointed for the holding of the meeting ; and a like meeting shall, from and after the passing of this Act, be in like manner held in every School Section in Upper-Ca- nada, on the second Tuesday in January in every year; and the duty of the Trustees of each School Section in Up])er-C'an«ida sliall ])o to give notice of such meeting in tiu) nuinner aforesaid and at the time afbrcsaiil. XXII. And be it enacted, That when the meeting First elections held on the second Tuesday of January in such and [heir Term School Section shall be the first School Section J'i'j^'J'eJ'JJ;"" Meeting held on such day, the landholders and house- holders present thereat shall choose three fit and proper persons to be the Corporate School Trustees of such section, who shall respectively hold office for a term of one, two and three years, and shall retire irom office in the order of their appointment, — the first appointed to retire at the end of one year, the second appointed to retire at the end of two years, and the third appointed to retire at the end of three years ; Provided always, that no Trustee Proviso as to shall retire from office until his successor shall fro'uTiike; have been appointed, nor be relieved from the obli- gations, liabilities and penalties belonging to his of- fice as Trustee, till the Townshij), Town or City Superintendent of Schools, whose duty it shall be to see that he shall have faithfully discharged his duty, shall have relieved him therefrom. XXIIT. And be it enacted^ That at each meeting Subaquent of tlie landholders and householders of each School TrusueVb«° Section in Up])er-Canada, which shall be held on elected. the second Tuesday in January in any year after the year in which Corporate Trustees shall have been 3* 20 appointed, the landholders and honseholders present shall by a majority elect one fit and proper person who shall Succeed the Trustee whose term of office Term of office, shall have expired, and the person then elected shall continue in office three years, and until his successor Proviso aa to in otficc shall have been elected ; Provided always, re election. ^|^jj|. ^^^ persou whosc term of office shall have ex- pired may be re-elected, if he be willing. Penalty on XXIV. And be it enacted, That if in consequence 5u>rej'to*Kivc ^^^ *^'® notice hereinbefore required not having been notice of lucct- givcu, there shall have been held no first School ln^d*"L'gi;'ing Section Meeting, or meeting for the election of Cor- it-how levied, porate Trustees, or subsequent mec^ting for the elec- tion of one Trustee, the person or persons whose du- ty it shall have been to give such notice, shall indi- vidually forfeit a sum not exceeding Two imunds, which shall be recoverable for the School purposes of such section, by prosecution before any Justice of the Peace, who is hereby authorized on the com- plaint on oath of any two inhabitants of such section to hear and determine the same, and to convict the party, and to issue a Warrant to levy the penalty, by sale and distress of the offender's goods : and in such default of holding such meeting, any three resident free- holders shall have authority, within twenty days after the time at which such meeting should have been held, to call such meeting, by giving six days' notice to be postefl in at least three public places in such School Section. Penalty on XXV. Aud be it cuactcd, That if any person 7jil^u!^actvc^ chosen as a Trustee shall refuse to serve or shall, at or to act. any time during the term of his Trusteeship, refuso to do his duty as a Trustee, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding Five pounds, which sum shall be col- lected and applied in the same manner as the fines imposed by the foregoing provision of this Act are to be collected and applied ; and, if one or more va- refui 91 cancies Hhall occur among the Triir.iees, by reason of refusal to serve, permanent absence from tlie School Section, death or incapacity from sickness, such va- Vacancies, cmicy or vacancies shall be filled up by the electors ''°* **"*'*• of such School Sections, at a meeting to be called for that purpose by the surviving Tnistee or Trus- tees ; and in case of there being no surviving Trus- tee, the Municipal Council of tlie Township, Town or City shall fill up the vacancies, and the person or persons who shall be appointed to fill up the vacan- cy or vacancies shall continue in office during the period for which the person or persons whom he or they shall succeed would have been required to serve. XXVI. And be it enacted, That no School Trus- nfidortion tee shall be re-elected, except by his own consent l^,"'^''"'"'""' during the four years next after his going out ol office. XXVII. And be it enacted. That at every School Who shall Section Meeting of the landholders and houseliolders ISo'nfof of each Section in Upper-Canada, whether the same Trustees, &c. shall have been called as hereinbefore provided or otherwise, the landholders and householders present thereat shall by^a majority, appoint one of themselves to preside over the proceedings of the said meet- ing, and one of themselves also to record the said proceedings ; and the duty ol the said persons shall be to prepare two copies of the record of the said Reconu of tiio proceedings and transmit one of them to the Clerk '"^'^*"'' '"^''* of the Municipal Council of the Township, Town or City, and post one in such place as they shall deem to be the most public one, within the School Section in which such meeting shall liave been held. XXVIII. And be it enacted, That the School Trus- school Trus- tees in each School Section shall be a Corporation, corporation. ■ Coi|K)rat»' numc ami powor^*. Corporation not to liiil tbr want of Trus- tCOiJ. Ir.iPtfTs. Appoinliti}: Secrctan- TrcRsurer. Taking pofl- scsDion of 22 under llic name of " J'/if tSrhool Trit.sfers of Sertian iiunihrr in thf Townnhip^ Town or City of in ihc Coftnff/ of ;" and shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and may sue and he sued, and shall generally have (he same powers which any other hody politic or corporate has with regard to the purposes for which it is constituted ; l)ut tliey shall not at any time hold real proj)eriy. XXIX. And be it enacted, That no such Cor- poration shall cease by reason of the want of Tnis- tees, but the powers of the Corporation in such case, as regards tlie holding of any personal property be- longing to such Corporation, shall become vested in the Superintendent of the Schools of the Township, Town or City in which the said Corporation may be situate, until the Municipal Council of such Township, Town or C'ity, shall as hereinbefore pro- vided appoint persons to (ill up the vacancy which shall have occurred. XXX. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Trustees of each School Section in I^pj)er-Canada : Firsf. To ap})oint one of themselves to be Secre- tary -Treasurer of their School Section, whose duty it shall be to keep a minute of the proceedings of the Trustees in a book kept for tLat purpose, — to re- ceive the moneys from whatever source derived, be- longing to his School Section, for School purposes, — to account to his colleagues for such moneys, — and to disburse them as a majority of the Trustees shall di- rect ; Provided always, that the directions of the ma- jority shall be in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Sccondlif. To ttke possession of all property which shail have been acquired for Common School purp of tl 23 purposes in their section, and hold the same for such '^^'"'*'' P'f* purposes ; and acquire and hold for the Corporation Ejtho of their section, any and all personal property, mo- """"• neys and incomes belonging to said Corporation for Common School purposes ; and use and ap})ly the same according to the terms of acquiring or receiv- ing them, until by law the power hereby given be taken away or modified. Tlurdlff. To do whatever may be expedient with TaJwingcarcof regard to building, repairing, renting, renewing, t>*!"^ ^"*^"' warming or keeping in order the School House of their section, and also to do whatever may be expe- dient for the keeping in order the appendages to tlu; same, and the lands, fences and moveable property ot whatever description which shall be the property of their School Section ; Provided that no rate shall be ProvUo as t» levied for the building of a School House, or for the irrs^wr'''^' purchasing of a site for a School House in any School Housok. Section, otherwise than under a By-law of the Mu- nicipal Council of the Township, Town or City in which such section shall be ; nor unless a memorial praying that such rate shall be levied, sh;ill have been signed by a majority of the landholders and house- holders of such section, and shall have been submit- ted to said Council by a person or persons authorized by the said majority to submit the same. Fourthly. To adopt such means for the main- Maimen&nce tenance of the School of their section as at the School ""^^^'^ ^'^"^^ Section Meeting of the landholders and household- ers of their section, held on the second Tuesday of January in any year, shall have been approved of for such year by a majority of the landholders and householders present at such meeting, being re- sidents in the section ; Provided always, that the means piovUo. approved of at such meeting shall be in accordance with the provisions of this Act as hereinafter pro- vided. Preparing Rate Bllf-its contents, &c. Collection. certain cases. 24 Fifthly. To determine on and prepare a Rate Bill, which, in their discretion, may be payable quar- terly, half yearly or yearly, and sha" contain the name of every person liable to pay for the instruc- tion of children sent by him to the Common School of their section, or for the instruction of himself at such School, or for firewood, or for any charge ne- cessarily incurred by such attendance ; and shall contaii) the amount also for which such person shall be liable ; and the same may be collected by themselves, or by any one of them, or by their Collector appoint- ed by theui to collect the same ; and if they employ a Collector, five per centum may be added thereto for the cost of collection and be collected therewith ; Proviso : pay- Provided always, that they shall not enibrce the wfforced iu'^ ^ payment of any Rate Bill, if the majority of the landholders and householders of their section as aforesaid, and as hereinafter provided, shall have de- termined to support the Common School thereof by a tax upon the rateable property in the section, and the Municipal Council of the Township, Town or City shall have, accordingly, levied an assessment on such section sufiicient for the support of sucU School. Sixthly. To exempt wholly or in part from the payment of the Rate Bill, such indigent person or persons within their School Section, as they shall think proper ; and in case of default of payment by any person to whom the claim agninst him, on the Rate Bill shall have been made known by them, to levy the amount by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of sucli person under the authority of a Warrant issued by any Justice of the Peace, and in case such person reside without the School Secti.m, and have no goods or chattels within it at the time of making sucli collection, to sue for the amount of the claim in their name of Onlce, in any Court of com- petent jurisdiction and recover the Game with costs Exempting in* digent persons, Levying the Rate, 6c. irm thereon ; and for the collection of such rate, the Powew of Col- Collector appointed hy the Tnistees shall have within '''*^''"* their School Section the same powers that the Col- lector of any County Rate shall have for the collection of such rate. Seventhly, To ascertain the number of children Determining over the age of five years and under the age of six- cSren°&c. teen years, residing in their School Section, and allow them and any person, and all persons residing in their section, to attend the Common School thereof, so long as the conduct of such persons si,. 11 be agree- able to the rules of the School. Eiij^hthh/. To engage and appoint from time to time Engaging " duly qualilied person or persons to teach the Com- '^^^'^ "' ^' mon School of their section ; and to give .such per- son or persons tlic necessary orders upon the Super- intendent of their Township, Town or City, for the portion or' })ortions of School money to which, ac- cording to the provisions of this Act, the said person or persons shall be entitled. NintJdy. To select from a list of books wliich shall If^.^'"'^ have been made out by the Board of Education for their County, the books that shall be used in their School ; and to allow the use of no other. Tcnthly. To see that their School is conducted ^^^'^^l^'l^l^ ■,. ^ , , . 1 . 1 1 1 1 1 <> -11 conduct of tlie accordmg to the regulations which shall be lurnishea school. by the Chief Superintendent. Eleventhly. To prepare and transmit annually, on Making an- or before the second Tuesday in January, a Report to "j^J'suiKn^" the Superintendent of tlic Common Schools of their tendent. Township, Town or City, which shall be signed by a majoritj of thejn, and be according to a form v hich shall be provided by the Chief Superintendent, and shall specify : -^mm^m'ir^'ifi^mmm' Contents of theRepfr'.. Contents of the Re)x>r(. Contents of the Report. Contents of the Rcfwrt. ♦ft Contcnte of tlie Repor'. 26 1. The whole tiir^e that the School of their section shall have been in operation, under a qualified Teacher, during the year which shall have ended on the thirty- first day of December next before the day on which the Report shall be dated. 2. The amount of moneys received from the Su- perintendent of the Schools of their Townshi)), Town or City, and the amount of moneys received from other sources, distinguishing the same, and the pur- poses for which all such moneys shall have been ex- pended. 3. The number of children over the age of five years and under the age of sixteen years, residing in their section on the last day of December aforesp'd ; the names of the parents or otlxers with whom such children shall then respectively have been residing ; and tlie number of children that shall have been re- siding with each. 4. The iHimber of children over the age of five years and uiuler the age of sixteen years that shall have attended their School during the year ; the number of persons over the age of sixteen years that sliall liave attended during the same ; the name of each individual of both classes, and the nur ber of days that each individual shall have attended, and the month or months in which those days were. 5. The branches which shall have been taught in their School during the year, — the number of pupils in each branch, — the sex or sexes of such pupils, — the text books used, — the number of public lectures on oubjects connected with the objects and interests of education which shall have been delivered in their section during the year, — by whom they shall have been delivered,— the number of times w^hich the Township, Town or City Superintendent and any otlier person or persons shall have visited their School 27 during the year, — and the names of such pupils as shall have aistinguishcd themselves by good conduct and proficiency during the same. XXXI. And be it enacted, Tliat the Secretary- secretary Treasurer of each School Section in Upper-Canada, mSTa wpy shall make a fair copy of the Report of the Trustees fof the Tea.' of his section, and shall at or before the time of Rq»rtf &lc^. transmitting the said Report to the Township, Town or City Superintendent, certify the said copy to be true, and shall forthwith give it to the Teacher of the School of his section ; and the duty of the Teacher Duty of Tea. shall be to post the same immediately in a conspicuous ^''^'^ '^^ ^^ '•'- place in the School House of the said section, and *^' ^^ see that it be preserved for the information of the inhabitants of sucli section, during at least one month from and after Ibe time at wliicli it shall have brtMi posted. XXXII. And ])e it enacted, That it shall be the duty P,"ti<^-' of of every Teacher of a Common School in Upper- ^' '"" Canada, further : First. To teach diligently and faithfully, all the Teachers branches required to be taught in his School, ac- *'"'''^''* cording to the terms of his engagement with the Trustees of such School, and according to the pro- visions of this Act. Secondly, To keep a record, which shall be ac- Teachers cording to a form which shall be provided by the *^^*'"- Chief Superintendent. Thirdly. To maintain proper order and discipline Teacher's "n his School, according to the regulations which ^""*'' shall be provided by the Chief Superintendent. Fourthly. To have at the end of each quarter a Teacher^* public examination of his School, and to give due '^"*'^'" notice of the time thereof to the Trustees of his I'' i ■i : . Teacher's duties. Teacher's iluties. if School, and to the parents and guardians of his pupils, so that all interested in his School may have an opportunity of attending. Fifthly. To act as the Secretary to the Trustees of his School, if they shall require him, in the pre- paring of their Reports : Provided always, that the time of his engag -:flent with such Trustees shall not have expired before the time of preparing such Report. • ' Sirthlij. To furnish in writing such information as the Superintendent of the Common Schools of his Township,»Town or City shall require respecting the state of his School, or respecting any of his pupils, or respecting any thing in regard to which it shall be the duty of such Superintendent to report, and res- pecting which it shall be in the power of such Teacher to give information. Sujidintcnd- XXXIII. And be it enacted, That the Superintend- hoWmonoyV ent of thc Common Schools in each Township, until the an- Towu or City in Upper Canada, shall have authority made. ^"^^^ '^ to withhold from any School Section, avid from the Teacher or Teachers of any School Section, such portion or portions of moneys which shall have been apportioned to such section, or raised therein for the School purposes thereof, and shall be in his hands on the first day of December in each year, until he shall have received from the Trustees of such section their annua! Report for such year. XXXIV. And be it enacted, That if any Trustee of a Common School in Upper-Canada, or any Teacher of such School, shall, with the intent of obtaining a larger sum than the just proportion of School moneys to such School, make a false '*eport, or communicate false information to the Superintend- ent of the Common Schools of his Township, Town or City, he shall on his being convicted thereof be- Punishmcnt of Trustees or Teachers making false EejKjrts, &c. 29 )f his have jstees B pre- >t the ,11 not such ion as of his ig the Dupils, lall be 1(1 res- such intend- mship, ihority )m the , such e been for the inds on ntil he section fore any Justice of the Peace, on the complaint of any person whatever, for each offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding Five pounds to the School Fund of his Township, Town or City, and shall be liable to be tried and punished for misdemeanor. XXXV. And be it enacted. That the Municipal DutjrofMani. Council of each Township, Town and City, in Uc^inTeJJbg Upper-Canada, shall, in every year, and within the fu^?TA"''^*® ,.*V. „.. o ' •'.*'. , that obtained limits of Its powers of imposing taxes, cause to be f-m Govem- levied for the payment of the Teachers of the Com- "** mon Schools of its Township, Town or City, for the then current year, such sum of money as, clear of all charges for the collection thereof, shall be at least equal to the amount of public money which shall have been apportioned to such Township, Town or City for such year; and this sum, to be so raised, How collected. shall be placed upon the proper Collectors* Rolls, and shall be collected by such Collector in such man- ner as his duty shall be to collect any other tax for such Township, Town or City, and shall be by him paid over to the Superintendent of the Common Schools of such Township, Town or Cit}^ within the period fixed by law for the payment of rates to the Treasurer, to whom such other taxes or rates col- lected by him shall be payable ; and such Collector Account by shall therewith give to such Superintendent a state- Collector. ment in writing whereby such Superintendent shall know the amount which shall have been collected in each School Section ; and such Superintendent shall Payments to pay to the Teachers of the Common Schools of his Tcaciiers. Township, Town or City, such amounts as shall have been so certified by such Collector to have been collected in their School Sections respectively ; Pro- Proviso as to vided always, that such Superintendent shall retain deponed "°^ in his hands the sum which shall be payable to the "po"- Teacher of any School Section from whi^h no sulfi- cient Report for the year shall- have been received, ^^ ! until the Trustees of his School shall furnish such Report. • ' ;' . su^nntcn.!. XXXVI. And be it enacted, That in case the rhecoiSor'^ amount which the Superintendent of the Common do not p -y Schools of any Township, Town or City shall re- ovor the proper ^.^j^^ ^-^^^^ ^j^g Collector of the rates of such Town- ship, Town or City for any Scliool purpose, shall be less than the amoiuit which, according to the By-law of the Municipal Council of his Township, Town or City providing for the collection of the same, fhould have been collected in such Township, Totvn or City, it shall be the duty of such Superintendent to give notice of the discrepancy immediately to the Clerk of such Council, so that the Council may as soon as possible cause the Collector to account for it. When tlie proper amount IS raiseil, the money may be apportioned among the Teachers by a certain rule. Frcviso, XXXVII. And be it enacted. That when the Munici- pal Council of any Township, Town or City shall have caused to be levied, for the payment of the salaries of the Teachers of the Common Schools of its Township, Town or City, for the current year as aforesaid, a sum at least equal to the amount of public money appor- tioned to such Township, Town or City for such year, it may and shall be lawful for such Council to apportion the said public money to such Teachers according to the ratio of days which the aggregate attendance of the scholars of each School in sucli Township, Town or City shall exhibit as compared with the days which the aggregate attendance of all the scholars of all the Schools in such Tow'nship, Town or City J^iall exhibit, and the Superintendent of the Schools of such Town.'^hip, Town or City shall pay such apportionments at such time as the said Council shall direct : Provided always, that a rate equal to the whole amount apportioned to such Townsiiip, Town or City shall have been levied as aforesaid ; And provided also, that the attendance of % 1] such ■ ^-^ ; • 1 the imon il re- own- allbe y-law m\ or nould n\ or Biit to o the 31 any person or persons over tlie age of sixteen years shall not be included in the attendance according to which such apportionment shall be made. XXXVIII. And be it enacted, That it may and shall be lawful for the Municipal Council of each Township, Town and City in Upper-Canada, to cause to be levied on the inhabitants of all or any School Section within its Township, Town or City, for the purchasing or procuring of School sites, — the erecting, repairing, renting, furnishing or warming of School Houses, — the purchasing of necessary books, maps, globes, black-boards and other apparatus for the use of the Schools of such section, — for the pay- ment of Teachers, and for Common School purposes generally, (and over and above the sum of money required by this Act to be equal to the public money apportioned to such Township, Towii or City), — such assessment as such Council shall judge to be expe- dient ; any thing in any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding ; Provided always, that the said additional assessment shall in no case be levied unless a majority of the Trustees of the School for the benefit of which such assessment shall be intended, shall have petitioned for the same, and shall have certified such Council t'lat a majority of the land- holders and householders present at the School Sec- tion Meeting of their section, held on the second Tuesday of January in the then current year, did ap- prove of such assessment ; And provided also, that when an assessment for the full amount required for the support of the School of any section for any year shall have been levied on the inhabitants of such section, such School shall be free, and no fee shall be required of any inhabitant of the section for instiuc- tion received therein, by his children or himself, during such year ; And provided further, that it may and shall be lawful, nevertheless, for the Trustees of such School Section to determine and prepare a Kate Municipality may itnpoao such rates hh shall be thought requi- site for School purposes, on any School ycction. Proviso : con- ditions of aildi< tional assess- ment — consent of Trustees, &c. Pro^ isp. ProvisD. 32 How such as- seument shall be collected. It Collector to account. Superintend- ent's Juty. Superior Schools mty he formeii tor Unions of Sections, Bill for the contingent expenses of mch year, and to recover the same from the person or persons liable for the same, according to the provisions of this Act regarding the duties of Trustees. XXXIX. And be it enacted, I'hat the assessment so to be made for Common School purposes generally, shall be placed upon the proper Collectors* Rolls and shall be collected by the Collector, in the same manner as it shall be his duty to collect any other rate for his Township, Town or City, and shall be paid over by him to the Superintendent of the Common Schools of the Township, Town or City, within the period fixed for the payment of rates to the Treasurer, to whom the payment of such other taxes or rates collected by him shall be payable : and such Collector shall give in writing to such Super- intendent a statement of the amount payable to each School Section, and of the purposes also for which they shall be payable ; and such Superintendent shall according to such statement disburse such amounts to the Trustees of the School Sections in which they shall severally have been collected ; and in case the amounts specified in the said statement shall not agree with the amounts specified in the By-law or By-laws of the Municipal Council authorizing such assessment, it shall be the duty of such Superintendent to give to the Clerk of the said Council immediate notice of the discrepancy. XL. And be it enacted. That in case a majo- rity of the rateable inhabitants ol each of any two or more adjoining School Sections shall petition the Municipal Council of the Township, Town or City in which such sections may be situate, to unite such sections for the purpose of establishing a School i: which the Scholars shall be classified according to j their knowledge, and each class shall be a separate department and each department shall be under a ^w^ 33 (Ufferent Teacher, and the Teachers thereof be under the supervision of a Head Master who shall be Teacher of the senior department thereof, it may and shall be lawful tor said Council to unite said sections ; Pro- ^"'''"J^ ' *"'^* vided always, that the Schools of the sections respect- iio'ime tlX ively shall not be discontinued, nor such sections be i"'^*'^'^- constituted one School Section until a suitable School House shall have been erected in a central and conve- nient place within the limits which shall constitute the new section, nor until such School House shall have been completed to the satisfaction of the said Council, and according to a plan which shall have been approved of by such Council. XLI. And be it enacted. That when two or more f^m > i oi s.jc h sections shall have been constituted one School Sec- tVon« na'lL'^*^*^ tioD, the powers of the Trustees of the several sec- ti'e'r^chooi tions shall cease, and the personal property of the '"^"^ ' ^' several sections which shall have been held by the Trustees of them for School purposes, shall become vested in the Superintendent of the Common Schools of the Township, Town or City, in trust for the new section, until the Municipal Council of such Town- ship, Town or City shall have called a tirst School Section Meeting in such section, and until Trustees shall have been elected, as hereinbefore provided ; but the Trustees whose powers shall cease shall, Proviso as to nevertheless, not be relieved thereby from the obli- '^^"''''*''' gations, liabilities and penalties belonging to their office as Trustees, till the Superintendent of the Com- mon Schools of their Township, Town or City, shall have been satisiied respecting the same, and have relieved them as hereinbefore provided. XLII. And be it enacted, That all lands, houses, Ke.i property tenements and property of every description, which p\*it|,o!ierio 'jj have been heretofore acquired for Common School v*«i<^J ?" t|»o purposes, and vested in the District Council of any iutST'^^ District in Upper-Canada, or vested in the hands of 3 34 They may alienate it, &c. Proviso : in «hat case only It may be alion- Ated. Trustees in any Towiisliip, Town or City in Upper- Canada, shall after this Act shall be in force, be vest- ed in the Municipal Council of the Township, Town or City in which such trust may be situate ; and all such property to be hereafter acquired for Conunon Scliool purj)oses, in Upper-Canada, shall be vested in such Municipal Councils, in trust for the School Sections to which tliey shall respectively belong ; and it may and shall be lawful for such Councils to sell, convey or excliange such property in such portions and in such manner, and at surh times as they shall judge to be expedient for tlie inter- ests ot the sections to which such property shall belong ; Provided always, that such propt-rty shall not be sold, nor convoyed nor exchanged, nor in any way disposed of by any such Municipal Council, un- less a petition or memorial, signed by a majority of the lajidholders and householders resident in the sec- tion to which such property shall belong, and praying for such disposal of such property, shall have been presented to the said Council; nor unless such dis- posal shall by for the better promoting of the objects for which such property shall have been acquired. XLIII. And be it enacted. That for the purposes of this Act, two or more adjoining School Sections which may be severally situated in two or more ad- joining Townships, nuiy be constittited one School Section; Provided always, that the provisions herein- before enacted in respect to such imion shall have been complied with, and that the Municipal Councils of the Townships, Towns or Cities respectively in which such sections may be situated, shall have con- curred in such union. fa what XLIV. And be it enacted, That every such Union &J.7any'''Buch School Scctiou as shall be composed of portions of Union rihaii be adjoining Townships, Towns or Cities, shall for the purposes of this Act belong to the Township, Town Sections in dif- fi^rent Town- abipe may bo HOited. 5Y<>^o. mF 35 or City in which the School House of the section shall be located, and the inhabitants of such portion or portions as may not be in the Township, Town or City in which the School House may be located, shall for all the purposes of this Act, be rated as belonging to the said Township, Town or City, and the appor- tionments of public money which shall belong to said portion or portions, shall be paid into the hands of the Superintendent of the Common Schools of the Township, Town or City in which such School House shall he located ; any thing in this Act or in any law or Statute to the contrary notwithstanding. XLV. And be it enacted. That iii case any por- Teachers may tion of any Township or portions of adjoining Town- i^e allowed to ships be so situated that the inhabitants shall be Son".**" unable to support a properly qualitied Teacher, it may and shall bo lawful for the Municipal Council of such Townshij) to authorize any such Teacher to take charge of two Schools, and teach them on alternate days, or during alternate periods on the same day or during alternate weeks or months, or any period that such Municipal Coiuicil shall judge to be expedient ; Provided that the distance from the ex- Proviso •& to treme limits of one School Section to the extreme IwSn^uch limits of the other shall not be less than eight miles. SchooU. XLVI. And be it enacted. That if the nuijority of As to a Section tVie inhabitants of any School Section in which a GrrmmaV'^^ Grammar School is located, shall petition tlie Muni- School Ucs. cipal Council of the County in which such section may be situate, to couvstitute such Grammar School the Senior Department of the School of the said sec- tion, it may and shall be lawful for sucli Municipal Council to grant such petition ; Provided always, Proviso as to that the union of the said School and the Connnon fK. ^^'""^ Schools of a section shall not take place unless a suitable building shall have been erected and com- pleted as aforesaid ; And provided also, that the sum Provino as to 36 to Atteoii School, rroviso at- lo poor thiUWcu. Actofu. c. ofmoiif-^ now annually appropriated ami applied to 00, 0.3, c. 4. ^j^^ Teachers of each Grammar School in Upper- Canada, by virtue of and under the authority of the Act of the Legislature of Upper-Canada, passed in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of King (ieorge the Thinl, and inlituled, Au Act to repeal part ofy and to amend the Lairs now in force for estahtishing Pu- blic Schmh in ih scvnal Vistricts of this Province, and to citend the provisions of the sanie, shall, alter the union of any such School and tlif Connnon Schools of its section, be still a})propriatc(l and ap- plied to the paying of the salary of the Teachers Provvo n^h! thcrcof; And provided likmvise, tliat no person being an inhabitant of the Comity in which such section iriay Im^ situate, shall be debarred from attending such School on the same terms that tlie inbaliitants of such section shall Ik; allowed to attend ; And provid- ed, moreover, that ten poor children, as is provided ibr in the Statute aforesaid, sliall l>e taught thereat gratis. Trustees of XLVII. And be it enacted. That when any Gram- ^'j™"!" 0' ^^^ School and the Common School of its section the secuoll, to shall have been united as aforesaid, the Trustees of the Common School and the Trustees of the Gram- mar School shall conjointly direct the course of instruction to be pursued in such united School, and conjointly manage the separate trusts thereof as the provisions of law relative to sucli trusts shall direct. Cnunmar XLVIII. And be it enacte:, U QaoTUO). Chairman. Calling first meeting. to be necessary, — that three of their number shall form a qumum. for the transaction of ^ "siness, — that at their first meeting in every year they shall choose one of their num.ber to be their Chairman for the year, — and that their meetings shall be lielu in the County Hall of their County ; and it shall be the duty of the per- son whose name shall stand first in the Cominission appointing each Board, to call the first meeting of each. LTII. And be it enacted, That the Clerk of the ^^^^ ^ Crmnty Municipal Council of each County in Upper- dutieTassuch" Canada shall be the CierR oi the Board of Education of his County, and shall enter all the proceedings of the said Board in a book to be kept by him for that purpose, and shall receive and keep fo. such Board uU books and papers belonging to the Board, and under the direciion of the Board sihall prepare ull their Reports, and do and execute all such writing, having reference to the duties of the Board, as the Chairman thereof or any member thereof shall require of him. LIV. And be it enacted. That the duties of the said Board shall be : County Clerk to be Clerk of the Board : hie Dudes cf ths Board. Examining Teachors and giving certifi- cates. Fir.1. To all persons who shall offer candidates for teaching Common examine as Annulling certificates, themselves Schools in their County, with respect to their moral character, learning and ability ; and if satisfied of the candidate's qualifications in these respects, to give him a special certificate authorizing him to teach die School specified therein for one year only ; or a general certificate authorizing hin» to teach any Common School in the County until such certif jate shall be revoked. Secondly. To annul any certificate given by them, or by any former Board or by (he Master of the Normal School whenever they shall see just cause for doing so. 39 Thirdly. To select and reconmend proper books selecting for the use of the Public Schools of their Co'^nty, and ^''**~' ^°^^ fa cause a list of such booJcs as they shall select to be sent to each Township, Town and City Superin- tendent of Schools in ♦heir County, for his guidance and direction: Provided ahvays, that no person Proviso as t« attending any public School shall be required to jf f °"^ "*^* read or study any book containing controverted theological dogmas or doctrines, or to join in an)' exercise of devotion or religion, which shall be objected to by him, or (in case he be a child) shall be objected to by his parents or gtiardians. Fourthly, To keep a record of their proceedings, Kcconiincr and report, annually, to the Superintendent of Schools Sllgs fnd^^^' for Upper-Canada, at their meetinff which shall be in vf'^^^% to , July, givmg a stateme»' ot their proceeduigs, and tntiorU. c. such other statements ami suggestions relative to edu- cution as they may deem expedient. LV. And be it enacted, That ii may and shall Municipal be lawful for the Municipal Council of any Town- -o"nfi n«»y 1 • ni y , • * . i> ■, constitute any snip, I own or City to constitute any one oi the school a Comr.on Schools oir its Township, Town or City a "^^^^'"^''^''^ Model-School for such Township, Town or City, and to appropriate in aid thereof, a sum in each year not exceeding twenty-five pounds, over and above the sum to which such School shall be entitled as a Com- mon School of such Township, Town or City : Proviso. Provided always, that any sum so appropriated shall be expended in the payment of a Teacher or Teachers, and tor no other purpose ; And provided also, that a proviso as to suitable School House shall have been provided foi" ^ft^bie Schod , , , n 1 f-i 1 1 I -i House, ac. the accommodation of such School, and gratuitous instruction :;hall be afforded at such School to all Teachers of Common Schools within such Township, Town or City, during such periods and under such regulations as the Superintendent of such Schools may from time to time direct. Normal School for Upper Canaua : Us |iurpo8ps. Board of Di- rectors to bo appointed for tho Norniiil School. 40 ^ LVI. And be it enacted, That there shall be in Upper-Canada a Normal School which shall contain one or more Elementary Model-Schools, in which Teachers of Common Schools shall be instructed in the science of education, and be taught the art of teaching, according to such regulations as the Board of Managers hereinafter provided for may make, and as the Governor in Council shall approve of. LVII. And be it enacted. That the Governor of this Province shall have the authority to appoint not more than seven persons (of whom the Superin- tendent of Schools for Upper-Canada shall be one) who shall be a Board of Directors for superintending the Normal School for Upper-Canada, and shall hold office during pleasure, and be subject to all lawful orders and directions, in the exercise of their duties, that shall from time to time be issued by the Governor. LVIII. And be it enacted, That the duty of the said Board of Directors shall be to adopt needful measures for establishing a Normal School as afore- said, and for procuring and furnishing suitable build- ings for the accommodation of such School and for procuring books and apparatus — to determine the number of Teachers which shall be in such School, and the compensation which they or others who may be employed therein, shall receive for their services, — to prescribe the conditions on wL'ch pupils shall be received into such School, — to make from time to time rules and regulations for the management and good government of such School, — and to do all other things that they may deem expedient to promote the objects and interests of such School. the bS"^ LIX. And be it enacted. That the meetings of Chairman^ &c. such Board shall be held at such place as shall be appointed by the Superintendent of Schools for Upper- Canada, — that the first meeting thereof shall be called Duties of tho Board r Pi- rectors. •II m 41 i ttit'ii, Luoi'uni. by the said Superintendent, — that thereat the Board shall appoint a Chairman, who shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board, — that in the absence of such Chairman, a Temporary Chairman may be appointed, — tliat the said Board shall appoint the times of its ordinary meetings, — that a special or ex- f^P'-'^ i' f'eet traordinary meeting may be called at anytime by the Chairman of the Board, or by the said Superintend- ent, but notice thereof must be given in writing to the other members to be present, — that at all meetings of the Bo'.rd, three members shall be a quorum for au the transaction of business, — tnat the Secretary or jS^'^c' '^"' Clerk of the Normal School shall be the Recording Clerk to the Board, and shall enter all its proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose, — and that the expense attending the proceedings of the Board shall ,j accounted for as part of the contingent expenses of the Normal School. LX. And be it enacted, That a sum not exceed- Appropriation ing one thousand live hundred pounds, shall be, as s^i^oTcon- heretofore, yearly allowed for the salaries of Teach- tinued. ers, and for all other contingent expenses of such Normal School ; and that a further sum not exceed- ing one thousand five hundred pounds in the aggre- gate shall, when required, be expended in procuring suitable buildings and accommodation for the said Scho'.'i I.r' . /i».d be it enacted. That the Board of l)i- {Jj,^^'^"!^^^, rectors :c . the Normal School, shall be a Board of to be a Board Education ior Upper-Canada, and its duty as such J^f^^c'!'''*" Board of Education shall be to counsel and direct the Their duties. Chief Superintendent of Schools for Uppjr-Canada in respect to the duties hereinbefore and hereinafter required of the said Superintendent to discharge. ] XII. And be it enacted. That it may and shall Aid to persons be *; vful f'^rthe Superintendent of Schools for Upper- wishing to be. 42 come Teach- ers. (iitions on which such aid may be given. Canada, by and with the advice of the other Members of the Board of Education for Upper- Canada, to ap- propriate out of the Legislative grant for Common Schools, a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds annually, to the assisting of such persons as may be desirous to be qualified to be Teachers of Common Schools, and shall have been recommended by the Board of Education of any County, as fit and proper to be received into the Normal School, but shall not have means sufficient for their maintenance thereat ; rrovis..: con- Provldcd always, that any person to be so assisted shall, beiore he be received into the said School, enter into a bond with two sufficient sureties, which shall be to the Board of Directors of the said School, that lie shall, during -.-'■ ^ time as the Board of Directors of the Normal h>. A shall have stipulated with him, after he shall huve received a certificate of quali- fication, teach a Common School in Upper-Canada, or repay the amount which shall have been expended from the aforesaid grant on his account. LXIII. xViid be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Board of Education in Upper-Canada, to give to any person who shall have satisfactorily complied with such course of studies as shall have been required of him, according to the regulations of the Normal School, a certificate of qualification to teach a Public School in Upper-Canada, and such certificate shall, until the end of one year after the date thereof, entitle any Public School that shall have been taught by the holder of such certificate, during not less than six months of such year, to receive such apportionment of public money as by this Act or any other Act or Statute is or shall be directed to be paid to such School. ' Directors 01 ^ LXIV. And be it enacted. That it shall be the aiid an True- ' duty of the Board of Directors of the Normal School tees for School of Upper-Canada, and the duty likewise of the Board may grant certifi- cates of quah- lication as 'I'eachers ; their effect. 43 purposes iu U. C, to report a.id account yearly to the Chief Super- intendent. Aid townrda a Teacher's Institute in each County. Trustees or Managers of all Trusts for purposes of Education in Upper-Canada, (respecting a Report from whom there is no other provision in this Act,) to prepare and transmit annually, on or before the twenty-first day of December, to the Superintendent of Schools for Upper-Canada, a detailed account of all moneys received by them for their respective trusts during the year, and of how Fuch moneys shall have been expended, and to give such additional information respecting such trusts and the Institution Nor which they shall be held, as shall be in their power to give. LXV. And be it enacted. That it may and shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, to expend annually a sum not exceeding twenty-five pounds in any County or Kiding in Upper-Canada for the encouragement of a Teachers' Institute in each County or Riding, under such legu'ations as may from time to time be prescribed by the Superintendent of Schools for Upper-Canada, by and with the sanction of the Governor in Council. LXVI. And be it enacted, That it may and shall Aid towards t)e lawful for the Governor in Council, to expend hchoTubra- annually a sum not exceeding two thousand pounds, "" '" ^ ^• for the establishment and support of Common School Libraries in Upper-Canada, under such regulations as may from time to time be prescribed by the Superin- tendent of Schools for Upper-Canada, by and with the sanction of the Governor in Council. LXVII. And be it enacted. That it shall and may Prpmiijm to be lawful for the Governor of this Province, by and with pllnsfor ^** the advice of the Executive Council, at such time as ^S^'^] he shall deem expedient to publish in ti^e Canada Gazette, or other Official Gazette, and such other papers as he shall deem necessary to give the same sufficient publicity, that fifty pounds will be given for such three best plans of School Houses as shall, at ?tli(, 44 such time as the Governor shall name, hare been submitted and approved of. -^ - ' pSdTihis I^XVIll And be it enacted, That the sums specialiy Act to be dc authorized to be expended under the provisions of fh"egranu"u. this Act, shall in tlie order in which provision is c- made for the expending of them, be deducted from the portion of the Legislative grant for Common Schools, payable to Upper- Canada, and be payable in the same order ; Provided always, that the amount heretofore appropriated for the support of the Normal, Model and Common Schools in Upper- Canada, shall not be lessened by the deduction of such sums therefrom. Proviso as to certain grants. Kecital. kScIiooI^ may bf established f colored people. Proviso as to aids, &c., to such Schools. LXIX. And whereas the children of the colored inhabitants of certain portions of Upper-Canada, have by causes arising from tlie prejudices and ignor- ance of certain other inhabitants of the said portions of the said part of this Province, been prevented from attending the Common Schools of the sections in wliich tliey respectively reside : Be it enacted, That it may and shall be lawful for tlie IMunicipal Council of the Township, Town or City in which such colored inhabitants reside, to authorize the establishing of any number of Schools for the educa- tion of the children of colored people that they may judge expedient ; and such Schools shall be subject to the same regulations and obligations that this Act prescribes in respect to all the Common Schools in Upper-Canada ; Provided always, that such Schools shall be aided from the School Relief Fund of the County in which their Section may be situate, or shall receive their apportionments of the public moneys for the support of Common Schools :^ccording to the same ratio according to which such moneys shall be apportioned to the other Common Schools in Upper- Canada. 45 LXX. And be it enacted, That such colored Allowance for people shall be entitled to receive for the support of coTored '" of the Teachers of their School or Schools such Schools. sum or sums of money as they may have paid for School purposes to the Collector of the rates of their Township, Town or City ; and it shall be the duty of such Collectoi to account for the same to the • Superintendent of the Schools of such Township, Town or City, in the way and manner hereinbefore prescribed in respect to the School moneys belonging to other Common Schools, and the duty of such Superintendent shall be to pay to the Trustees of such colored School or Schools the sum or sums so ■ belonging to such Teacher, or belonging to such colored School or Schools for the purposes thereof. LXXI. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty 9"^^ ''"°"' of the Superintendent of the Common Schools of any ent%'i"toci Township, Town or City in Upper- Canada, in which loreJ Scin^ois. there may be separate Schools for colored people, to report respecting such Schools in his Annual Reports to the Municipal Council of his Township, Town or City, and to the Municipal Council of his County, stating, in respect to the colored population of his Township, Town or City, all that he is hereinbefore required to state in respect to the white population thereof; and it shall be the duty also of such Super- intendent in whose Township, Town or City there may be colored people, or people who are aborigines of Canada, residing, to communicate in his Reports aforesaid, such information respecting the state of education among such people as may be in his power. LXXII. And be it enacted. That it shall be the ^'"nuipal duty of each County Municipal Council in Upper- makryuariy Canada, to cause an Annual Report of the slate of [^IJj'^'^^'j "" " .he Common Schools of their County to be made in U) Hk^ super- ^ such form as shall be prcFcribed by the Superin- u!X'''&/"' tendent of Common Schools for Upper-Canada, and 4Q Present Dis- trict Superin- tendents to deliver all pa- pers, snoneyd, &c., to the Su- perintendents appointed un- der this Act, on ist March, 1850. Acti.in given in case of re- fusal, &c. to be transmitted at such time as the said Superin- tendent shall appoint ; and also to furnish to the said Superintendent, from time to time, such additional information as he may require ; and it shall be the duty of such Superintendent to retain in his handcl the sum apportioned to any County, till from the Municipal Council of such County he shall have received such Report and such information as he shall have required therefrom. LXXIII. And be it enacted, That each District Superintendent of Common Schools who may be in office on the thirty-first day of December of this pre- sent year, shall continue to exercise all the powers which lie is nov^ authorized to exercise, and to perform all the duties which he is now required to perform, until the first day of March ol the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty; and shall on the said day, deliver into the hands of the Superintendent of Com- mon Schools for each Township, Town or City within his District, all papers in respect to the Com- mon Schools of eac|i, and all moneys (remaining in his hands) which shall have been apportioned to each ; and for every refusal to comply with this enactment, on the part of any District Superintendent of Common Schools, he shall be subject to forfeit, to the use of the Township, Town or City interested in such refu- sal, twice the amount of the sum or sums of moneys (exclusive of costs) which may be involved in such refusal ; and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Common Schools for each Township, Town or City interested in such refusal, to sue any such de- faulting District Superintendent of Common Schools, for the amount of such forfeit before any Court of Law competent to take cognizance of such cases, and to collect the same with the costs thereon ; and the amount which he shall collect shall, after deducting necessary expenses, to be added to the apportionment it of School moneys to such Township, Town or City for the then current year, and be distributed there- with to the Common Scliools of suc!i Township, Town or City as hereinbefore provided. LXXIV. And be it enacted, That the Normal Present Nor- School now in operation at Toronto, in Upper- SbSo" u*** Canada, shall for the purposes of this Act, and until c. umii ai- otherwise provided for according to the provisions of *'"''' **"■ this Act, continue to be the Normal School for Upper-Canada ; and the Teachers thereof, and all others being servants employed therein, shall conti- nue to discharge their duties as heretofore, until ihey shall have been superseded by the appointment of other persons according to the provisions of tliis Act. LXXV. And be it enacted, That the Board of J^^^jj^^iJ^J^eju. Education for Upper-Canada, shall, on the first day of c. toViiver" January tf the year one thousand eight hundred and 't«i>ap"f anJ fifty-one, deliver to the ouperintendciit of Schools for perintemicnt Upper-Canada, all papers and rraneys in their hands ^"'^ ^' or keeping respectively, and belonging to their res- pective trusts ; and the said Superintendent shall hold the same for such trusts respectively, or shall dispose of them as hereinbefore provided, or if there be no provision relative to the disposal of them, then the Governor in Council may give the necessary directions relative thereto. LXXVl. And be it enacted, That the Teachers Teachers to be who shall receive certificates of qualification under *^'^'^"*"^''^' this Act, shall bo arranged in three classes, according to their attainnicnts and ability, in such manner as shall be prescribed by the Superintendent of Schools for Upper-Canada, with the sanction of the Governor in Council. LXXVII. And be it enacted, That from and after After ut Jan., ihe first day of January of the year one thousand JfjeJ!'t""iJ*"^' eight hundred and fifty-one, no Teaclier of a Common deemed quaii. tho state of the School Fund Khali pfirmit. 48 fiod uniesE he Scliool ill Upper-Canada shall be deemed to be qu a- hM a ceitifi. jj^^^ y^jggg ^^ ^ | ^ ^^ ^ | ^ ^^ ^ ^ f e c c l V e d a certificate of qualification, either from the County Board of Edu- cation, signed by the Chairman, or from the Prin- cipal of the Normal School of Upper-Canada. School uf Art LXXVIII. And be it enacted, That when, over b«ra?a*biwhed ^"^ abovc the sums hereinbefore provided for the inu.c. when purpose of Education in Upper-Canada, there shall ""'*"*" ""^^ be of that portion of the Legislative grant for Com- mon Schools, which shall belong to Upper-Canada, a sum sudicient for the establishing and maintaining of a School of Art and Design for Upper-Canada, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor in Council, to appropriate for the establishing and maintaining of such a School, a sum not exceeding in any year, five hundred pounds ; and such School shall be in connexion with the Normal School of Upper-Canada, and shall be under the control of the Board of Direc- tors of the said Normal School : and such Board shall make regulations for the said School of Art and Design, and shall manage all the aflfairs thereof, and do in respect thereof in all things as they are herein- before required to do in respect to the said Normal School. Power to LXXIX. And be it enacted, That the Municipal Scifti dc- Councils of Townships, Towns and Cities in Upper- eide certain Canada, shall, withiu tlic limits of their respective School matters, m i • m- i rf-i-i* i • ^ • • 1 ownsliips, 1 owns and Cities, have competent juris- diction to decide upon all matters relating to Com- mon Schools, which shall have been submitted to them by the parties interested, and for the deciding of which no provision is hereinbefore made ; and the decisions of such Councils shall be final. Interpretation clause, II '■'t^'^^H wm » '^yU f^m \* X ^^fl I.XXX. And be it enacted. That the word ** Teacher" wherever it occurs in this Act, shall mean female Teacher as well as male Teacher, excepting when it is applied to the Principal or 49 Head Master of a Normal or Model -School in which there may be more than one Teacher ; and for all the purposes of this Act, Incorporated Villages shall be implied in the terms " Township, Town and City," and the word " School," shall likewise mean Schools and shall apply to Schools for females as well as males, and such Villages shall be entitled to all the privileges, and be under all the obligations belong- ing to Townships, Towns and Cities, by virtue of and under the authority of this Act. I.XXXI. And be it enacted, That upon, from and J^'f^Ac?. Ind after the first day of January of the year one thousand commcnce- eight hundred and fifty, all Laws and Statutes hereto- fore or now in force for the establishment and main- tenance of Common Schools in Upper-Canada, or for the amendment of any such Laws or Statutes, shall be repealed ; and that this Act shall have force and effect, upon, from and after the said day, and not before ; Excepting always, that it may and shall be lawful for the Governor, immediately after the '"CMurei passing of this Act, to issue any Commission, or make any appointments, or for the Governor in Council to adopt such preparatory measures for the carrying out the provisions of this Act as he may deem expedient; such Commission, appointments and measures to come into force upon, from and after the said first day of Jaiiuary, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and not before. mcnt of this Act. Proviso as to preparatory MONTllE.\L: Printed by Stewart DEiinisitiRE and Geouoe Dbsbarats. Printer to tlio Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.