(10.) To promote the advancement of education by holding public meetings as frequently as possible, and especially to encourage the establishment of schools in sections where none exist.

(11.) To aid the Superintendent in carrying out a uniform system of education, and generally in giving effect to this act, and the regulations of the Council of Public Instruction.

(12.) To transmit to the Superintendent, on or before the first day of December and June in each year, a statement of the half-yearly distribution, and also by the first day of Decem ber in each year, a general report of his labors, noting the condition of the schools in his county, and the means of im provement, stating the sections visited where schools did not exist, and the results of such visitations, and furnishing there with such statistical information as the Superintendent may solicit.

103. Each Inspector shall receive semi-annually from the Treasury the sum of one dollar and a half for each school inspected by him during the half year, and for every Teacher regularly employed in his county, a sum equal to five per cent. on one half the average of the annual grants to the several classes of Teachers as specified in section eighteen of this act; also an allowance for stationery, postage, and printing, not to exceed ten dollars for each Board of Commissioners of which he is Clerk.

XVIII.-VISITORS OF SCHOOLS.

104. Members of the Legislature, Ministers of Religion, and Magistrates shall be visitors of schools.

XIX.-COMMISSIONERS OF SCHOOLS.

105. The Governor in Council shall have power to appoint seven or more Commissioners for each district named in the annexed Schedule A, who shall form a Board of School Com. missioners, of whom five shall be a quorum.

106. In every county where there are two or more sepa rate Boards of School Commissioners empowered to draw upon one and the same County school fund, there shall hereafter be one Board of Commissioners instead of such separate Boards, and the members of the existing Boards shall be members of the new Board, and any trust or property vested in existing Boards shall vest in the new Board; provided, however, that such consolidation of Boards shall take place only upon the joint request of the separate Boards of Commissioners at their semi-annual meeting. The Council of Public Instruction shall have power to determine the places of meeting of Boards