returns for his special grade or class as required of all other teachers. The returns of these teachers when accurately summed up by the principal in the prescribed return for all the schools of the section, will then give the exact summation of all the items for the whole section. 45. The "Class A" teachers' licenses awarded on the scholarship basis of the "gradeA" provincial high school syllabus prior to 1908, shall be known as "Academic" licenses of the same status as those to be awarded on the "University graduate examination syllabus, entitling holders in qualified positions to the Academic, assistant or lower Provincial Aid grants as indicated in Section 61 of the Education Act and the Regulations of the Council from time to time. The class A licenses subsequent to 1908 may be quoted as a "superior first class." The Academic license is necessary to qualify for the Academic grants in County Academies. SCHOOL MEETINGS. 46. The following outlines indicate a convenient order of the business to be transacted by the annual school meeting: ORDER OF BUSINESS. (1) To elect a chairman and secretary of the meeting. (2) To hear the minutes of the previous annual meeting read. (3) To receive the report of the auditors of the accounts of the school board. (4) To receive the report of the school board on the work of the board during the year, with the requirements and estimates for the ensuing year. (This report should contain a detailed inventory of all the property of the schools, including maps, apparatus of all kinds, library books, etc., and should be filed for permanent record with the secretary, or copied into secretary's record book at the end of each school year's transactions). (5) To elect a new trustee or trustees. (6) To determine the amount to be raised by assessment on the section during the ensuing school year. For certain purposes such as buildings and repairs, the meeting may determine the amount to be paid for a series of years, for which money may be borrowed under the conditions determined by the Act; but for the purpose of the annual statistics required to be entered into the school registers and into the annual returns under oath, only the amount of any such vote or instalment of debt as is to be levied on the school section during the school year is to be reckoned as the amount of the vote for the year). (5) To take a vote on the adoption of the "Compulsory Attendance" law if it has not already been once adopted. (8) To consider any subject deemed of importance to the educational interests of the school section. (9) To adjourn the meeting to another date if all the business of the annual meeting has not been completed. 47. The statute requires the trustees to forward a copy of the minutes of the annual meeting to the inspector within one week after the meeting. The inspector will report to the education office in the annual school directory the amount of the money voted. 48. The school meeting should be careful, in voting its estimates, to authorize a sum amply sufficient to enable the trustees to meet the liabilities of the school year. Any balance remaining in the hands of the trustees is, of course, to be carried to the credit of the next school year, while any deficit arising from an authorized expenditure may be carried forward and provided for in the estimate of the following year. 49. As a general rule it is recommended that the money voted at the annual meeting shall be levied and collected within the first half of the school year, so as to enable the trustees to pay the semi-annual instalment of the teachers' salaries promptly. The municipal fund will come in with any balance from the sectional assessment to pay the last instalment of the teacher's salaries for the year. 50. In some fishing districts it may be found desirable to take advantage of that provision of the law under which the Council may fix for a given section an earlier date for its annual school meeting than the last Monday of June. If any such cases exist, it is very desirable that these early annual meetings be held on the same day. The first Monday in March is fixed as likely to be the most generally convenient date. Sections feeling the necessity of an early date for the annual school meeting should thru their trustees, make an application to the Council thru their inspectors before the end of January, so that the inspectors may be able to transmit all such applications, with recommendations or comments thereon, to the Council, by the 1st day of February, in order that due notice can be given in time for the holding of the meetings on the first Monday of March. 51. The school sections whose annual meeting at date have been fixed by the Council for the first Monday in March are specified in the following list: |