XVIII.-VISITORS OF SCHOOLS.

1. The Prescribed Register has spaces specially prepared for visitors to note therein the condition in which the school is found by them. Visitors are expected to make an entry in the Register at each visit to a school.

of Commissioners; and each Board of Commissioners shall have power to re-number consecutively the school sections within its district.

107. The Governor in Council shall appoint seven persons to be Commissioners of Schools for the city of Halifax; and on the first day of November in each year, or so soon thereafter as convenient, the City Council of Halifax shall select and appoint from such body six members, of whom the Mayor may be one, to be and act as Commissioners of Schools for the said City, for the period of one year, in conjunction with the Commissioners appointed by the Governor; and the thirteen Commissioners thus named shall constitute a Board of School Commissioners for the City of Halifax, and such Board shall be a Corporate Body and may exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of Trustees of Public Schools in and for the said City.

108. All vacancies occurring by any means, either by death, retirement from the City Council, or otherwise, of any of such Commissioners during the current year after selection, shall be filled as soon as may be by the said Council; and at the end of such year the same members or any of them may be re-elected by the Council.

109. The Board of Commissioners for the City shall be entitled to receive a sum, in no case to exceed a thousand dollars annually, as remuneration for their services; such remuneration to be apportioned according to the promptness and regularity of the attendance of the members of the Board, and the amount of labour performed by each, as the Board may decide.

110. The Council of Public Instruction shall have power to fix the time of the semi-annual meeting of each Board of School Commissioners, and call special meetings of any Board when deemed necessary; also to make such regulations for the guidance of School Boards as may seem best fitted to secure uniformity in their proceedings.

111. Each Board of Commissioners shall meet semi-annually on the day appointed by the Council of Public Instruction, and shall elect a Chairman at the regular meeting in the autumn, who shall call a special meeting when required by two members of the Board, or when directed by the Council of Public Instruction. In case of a special meeting, the Chairman shall notify the Inspector of the same, and if the Inspector be unable to attend, the Board shall appoint a Secretary pro tempore who shall record the proceedings of the meetings, and preserve such record for the Inspector, and transact any other necessary business, as directed by the Board; and in case of the absence