professors and instructors as the Council considers requisite for the purposes for which the institution is established.

11. (1) The members of the teaching staff of the institution having the rank of professors, and such representative of any university of the province or elsewhere as the Council may select, shall constitute a body corporate, under the name of the Nova Scotia Technical College.

(2) The said corporation shall have power to grant such degrees as it may determine, to prescribe the several qualifications therefor, the course of study to be pursued in the several departments, and in respect to all matters of discipline and all matters connected with the educational work of the institution shall have the conduct and control thereof.

(3) In the event of any part or parts of the course of study prescribed for the said institution for the first and second years being included in the educational work done in the universities recognized by the Council in this province or elsewhere, the Council of Public Instruction shall exclude such part or parts from the course of study of the said institution.

(4) The principal shall report from time to time the proceedings of the corporation to the Council of Public Instruction, and the Council may modify or reverse any action or ruling taken or made by the corporation.

12. The annual expenditure incurred in connection with the institution shall be defrayed out of the provincial treasury.

LOCAL TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

13. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time establish, in such places as it may be deemed advisable, local technical schools to furnish industrial education of such character and extent as will most effectively meet the requirements of the population and industries of the locality.

14. No such local technical school shall be established until the necessity or desirability thereof, the amount of local aid to the furnished, the facilities which can be afforded and the advantages to be derived have been reported upon by the Director of Technical Education, and he has recommended the establishment of such school.

15. (1) The Council of Public Instruction may make such rules and regulations as they deem advisable for the support, conduct and management of the school.

(2) Subject to such regulations the Council may associate the Board of School Commissioners of the place in which the school is established, or a committee thereof, or any other person or persons with the Director in the management of any local technical school.

16. The Council of Public Instruction shall, upon the recommendation of the Director, appoint such instructors as may be required for the carrying on of such schools and shall fix their salaries.

17. Such sums as may be required in addition to the local aid provided, for the establishment and maintenance of the local technical schools shall be paid out of the provincial treasury.

17A. The Council of any City, Town or Municipality may grant such amount as is deemed expedient towards the support of a local Technical School, and may include such amount in the annual estimates, and such amount shall be rated and collected annually in the same manner and with the same remedies as other rates and taxes.

SCHOOLS FOR MINERS.

18. The schools of instruction for miners established under the provisions of chapter 22 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, "Of Schools of Instruction for Miners," are hereby continued and hereafter the establishment and maintenance of such schools

shall be under the direction of the Council of Public Instruction.

19. Such schools shall be for the purpose of instructing persons who wish to prepare themselves to undergo examination by the board of examiners for the purpose of obtaining certificates of competency as underground managers or overmen or stationary engineers, under the provisions of "The Coal Mines' Regulation Act," and amendments thereto.

20. All such schools shall be under the supervision and control of the Director of Technical Education.

21. (1) The instructors in such schools shall be appointed by the Council of Public Instruction upon the recommendation of the Director.

(2) Such instructors shall be paid such salaries as the Council determines.

22. No teacher in any such school shall take from any intending candidate any fee for the instruction given by him; provided, however, that this provision shall not apply in the case of any person desiring instruction but not contemplating examination for a certificate.

23. No fee shall be charged by the board of examiners to candidates who have been prepared at any school established or continued under the authority of this Act.

24. All expenditure necessary for the establishment and maintenance of said schools, including buildings, rent, apparatus, instruments, instruction, fuel, light and incidental expenses shall be defrayed out of the provincial treasury on the certificate of the Director of Technical Education.

25. The Council of Public Instruction may from time to time make such regulations as are necessary or expedient for the conduct and management of said schools, and may amend or repeal the same.

26. Chapter 22 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, "Of Schools of Instruction for Miners," is repealed.

EDUCATION OF THE DEAF.

1. (1) The parent or guardian of any deaf or deaf mute person of sound mind, between the ages of six and eighteen years, who has, under the provisions of "The Poor Relief Act," a settlement in any municipality, city or town, may apply to the warden of such municipality, or to the mayor of such city or town, for an order for the admission of such person into the School for the Deaf at Halifax, which order the said warden or mayor shall at once grant under his hand and the corporate seal of the municipality, city or town, on being satisfied that such deaf or deaf mute person is between the ages above prescribed and of sound mind, and has a legal settlement in such municipality, city or town.

(2) Where such deaf or deaf mute person has no such settlement within the Province, the parents or guardians of such person residing for at least one year in any city, town or municipality may apply to the Warden of the Municipality, or to the Mayor of such city or town, for an order for the admission of such person into our Institution, which order the Warden or Mayor shall grant under his hand and the corporate seal of the municipality, city or town, on being satisfied that such deaf or deaf mute person is between the ages of above prescribed, and has no legal settlement within the Province.

2. Such order shall entitle the deaf or deaf mute person named therein to be received into the School for the Deaf at Halifax, subject to the rules and regulations of that institution and to the conditions in this Chapter prescribed, to be educated and boarded therein during the school term.

3. (1) Pupils under twelve years of age shall be entitled to remain ten years; those entering between the ages of twelve and fifteen years shall be entitled to remain eight years, and those between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years, six years.

(2) In the case of hopeless incapacity, serious misconduct, or other sufficient cause on the part of any pupil, the allotted term may be shortened at the discretion of the board of directors of the institution.

4. For every deaf or deaf mute person received into the School for the Deaf at Halifax, under an order from the warden of a municipality, or under an order from the mayor of an incorporated town which contributes to the municipal school fund, and educated and boarded therein, the board of directors of the institution shall be entitled to receive from the provincial treasury the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, payable half-yearly, and also to receive annually the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars payable yearly, from the municipal school fund of such municipality.

5. For every deaf or deaf mute person who is admitted into the School for the Deaf at Halifax, under an order from the mayor of a city or town, an allowance to the board of directors of the institution of one hundred and fifty dollars per annum shall be rated upon the inhabitants of such city or town, in case such city or town does not contribute to or draw from the municipal school fund, and in such case such sum shall be paid to the directors for each such deaf or deaf mute person sent to the institution. And there shall be paid to the directors from the provincial treasury for each such deaf or deaf mute person for which such city or town contributes such allowance, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, in the manner provided in the next preceding section.

6. The directors of the institution shall furnish semi-annually to the Council of Public Instruction full returns of the names, ages and residences of the pupils in respect to whom grants under this Chapter are claimed.

7. In the annual apportionment of the municipal school fund the Superintendent of Education shall include the amounts due the directors of the institution, and issue drafts therefor on the treasurers of the respective municipalities.