travelling expenses of student-teachers attending the School as shall be deemed proper, not exceeding twenty-four dollars.

(2) To revise and enlarge the Inspectoral Districts and to appoint qualified Inspectors for the same, not exceeding six in number, to prescribe their duties, to determine the salary of each Inspector, not exceeding for salary, travelling expenses, and contingencies of office, the sum of twelve hundred dollars.

(3) To divide the Province into School Districts, and from time to time create new Districts, or alter boundaries, having due regard to the number of children, and the ability of each District to support one or more efficient schools: towns, villages, and populous localities, having a community of interests shall, as far as practicable, form a single District, and no District shall contain less than fifty resident children between the ages of five and sixteen years, unless the area of such District shall contain four square miles; and in the erection of Districts the Board may obtain such assistance as may be found necessary:

(4) To make regulations for the organization, government and discipline of Schools, for the arrangement and order of School premises, and for the classification of Schools and Teachers, to appoint examiners of Teachers, and to grant and cancel Licenses:

(5) To prescribe text books and apparatus for the use of Schools, books for School Libraries, plans for the construction and furnishing of School Houses, and courses or standards of instruction and study for Schools:

(6) To determine all appeals from the decisions of Inspectors, and make such orders thereon as may be required:

(7) To prepare and publish Regulations under which moneys may be drawn and expended:

(8) To make such Regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect this Chapter, and generally to provide for any exigencies that may arise under its operation.

6. Whenever the Board of Education shall unite two or more Districts, or divide or otherwise alter any District, it shall have power from time to time to make such order or orders as it may deem proper respecting the continuance and constitution of the Board of School Trustees, removing as it may deem proper any Trustee or Trustees, and appointing other or others in his or their place, and respecting the rights, property and liabilities of the Districts affected by such union, alteration, or division, and to re

Sec. 47 Vic., cap. xii, 1884.

lieve, if it shall see fit, any person in whole or in part from assessments made and ordered in such year previous to such division or alteration, and which may remain uncollected, and generally to order and direct all things which may become necessary to give effect to such union, alteration, or division.

7. When in any division* or alteration of a School District heretofore made, or which shall be hereafter made, under the authority of Sec. 5,† Chapter 65, Consolidated Statutes, the Board of Education shall have made or shall hereafter make an order respecting the liabilities of one or more of the Districts affected by such division or alteration to the other, the Board of School Trustees of the latter District may maintain an action at law upon such order of the Board of Education against the District or Districts by such order made liable to the other for the amount in such order stated.

8. The Board of Education shall have power to attach to a District as part thereof, any body of dyked marsh or river island wherever situate, which may belong to parties resident in such District.

CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT.

9. It shall be the duty of the Chief Superintendent of Education, and he is hereby empowered

(1) To have, subject to the Board of Education, the supervision and direction of the Inspectors and Schools:

(2) To enforce the provisions of this Chapter, and the regulations and decisions of the Board of Education:

(3) To apportion the County School Fund in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter, withholding the same, and all Provincial aid, from Districts presenting a false or insufficient return, and dealing with forfeited balances as directed by the Board of Education:

(4) To furnish the Inspector with the numbers and boundaries of the Districts within the respective Counties, and from time to time, as new Districts are created, or boundaries altered, to furnish such new boundaries; and the certificate of the Inspector shall be evidence of such boundaries:

(5) To cause copies of this Chapter, with Regulations of the Board of Education, together with all necessary forms and instructions, to be published and furnished gratuitously to Inspectors, Trustees, and Teachers:

(6) To prepare annually a Report upon the Schools subject to his supervision, accompanied with full statistical tables and detailed

accounts of the expenditures of the moneys appropriated under this Chapter, and offer suggestions on educational subjects; which Report shall be laid before the Legislature within ten days after the opening of the next succeeding Session thereof.

10. It shall be the duty of each of the Inspectors, and he is hereby empowered

(1) To visit each School within his Inspectoral District; to examine the Schools and School Houses and premises; to inspect the School Register, and generally to ascertain if the provisions of the School Law are there carried out and obeyed, and to transmit to the Chief Superintendent a report of such inspection as often as the same may be required by the Board of Education:

(2) To furnish Trustees and Teachers with such information as they may require respecting the operation of this Chapter and the performance of their duties, and to advise with the Teachers in all that may tend to promote their efficiency and the character and usefulness of their Schools:

(3) To aid the Chief Superintendent in carrying out a uniform system of Education, and generally in giving effect to this Chapter and the Regulations of the Board of Education:

(4) To appoint a Trustee or Trustees of Schools in cases hereinafter provided, and to investigate and determine upon complaints respecting the election of Trustees; and appoint an Auditor whenever the annual meeting, or a meeting at which Trustees have been elected, has failed to do so, or when the Auditor appointed dies or refuses or becomes incapable of acting or has permanently left the District:

(5) To determine and report to the Chief Superintendent the Districts, in his opinion, entitled during the following year to special aid as poor Districts, with the grounds of such opinion.

MODE OF SUPPORT.

11. The salaries of Teachers shall be provided for from the three following sources, viz. :-Firstly, the Provincial Treasury; secondly, the County School Fund; thirdly, District Assessment: All other items of fixed or current expenditure shall be provided for by District or Local Assessment; and the purchase of School Houses and lands, and erection of School buildings, may be provided for by loan, extending over a period not exceeding seven years.

PROVINCIAL AID.

12. Legally qualified Teachers employed in Schools supported and conducted in conformity with Chapter 65 of the Consolidated Statutes shall receive from the Provincial Treasury according to the following rates for the School year: Male Teachers of the first class, one hundred and thirty-five dollars; of the second class, one hundred and eight dollars; of the third class, eighty-one dollars. Female Teachers of the first class, one hundred dollars; of the second class, eighty-one dollars; of the third class, sixty-three dollars. Assistant Teachers, if provided with a class-room separate from the school-room, but within the same building, and regularly employed at least four hours each day, shall receive one-half of the foregoing sums according to the class of license; one-half the amounts named shall be paid half-yearly or ratably, according to the time the Teachers or Assistants shall have satisfactorily taught in Schools as aforesaid within the School year.

COUNTY ASSESSMENT IN AID OF SCHOOLS.

13. The County Secretary in each County shall annually, at or about the time when the assessment for ordinary County and Parish rates is usually ordered, but so as that in fact the assessment herein directed may be made up, assessed and levied at the same time as other County and Parish rates (if any) are made up, assessed, and levied, determine upon a sum which shall be sufficient to yield an amount equal to thirty cents for every inhabitant of the County, according to the last preceding census, together with an amount not exceeding ten per cent. for probable loss and expenses of disbursing, and shall apportion such gross sum amongst the several Parishes, Cities, and Towns, in the same proportion as other County rates were next preceding the issuing of the warrant, as hereinafter mentioned, apportioned or assessed, or ordered to be apportioned or assessed, upon and amongst the several Parishes, Cities, and Towns, as nearly as the County Secretary may be able to get at such apportionment, or in the want of any such previous apportionment, then according to what the County Secretary may deem to be the relative valuation, for taxable purposes, of the real and personal property and income of the several Parishes, Cities, and Towns; and the County Secretary shall forthwith, in the like manner as if the same had been ordered by the County Council, and either by warrant in form (A) hereunto appended, or by including the same in any warrant issued

* Sec. 47 Vic., cap. xii, 1884.

for other County or Parish purposes to the Assessors of such Parish, City, or Town, specifying therein that the same is for a County School rate, order and direct the Assessors of rates of the several Parishes, Cities, and Towns, to assess and levy the amount so apportioned upon the several Parishes, Cities, and Towns, respectively, together with expenses of assessing and collecting; and the amount so ordered shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as if it had been by the County Council ordered to be assessed, levied and collected for ordinary County purposes: except where provision is in any City or Town otherwise made for the expense of assessing and collecting, a sum not exceeding, for assessing, two and one-half per cent., and for collecting, five per cent., shall be included in the warrant, if such warrant shall be transmitted to the Assessors in time to be proceeded upon at the same time as other rates (if any), but if not, or if there be no such other rate, then not exceeding, for assessing, five per cent., and for collecting, ten per cent.

14. The County Secretary shall, upon issuing the warrants as aforesaid, notify the Chief Superintendent of Education of the amount so ordered to be assessed and levied as a County School rate upon the entire County, exclusive of the expenses of assessing and collecting; and the County Treasurer shall notify the Chief Superintendent of Education of the amount received by him on such warrants, exclusive of the expenses of assessing and collecting; such amount shall be held by the County Treasurer as a County School Fund, and shall be paid out upon the order of the Chief Superintendent of Education, and not otherwise, except as herein directed; and the County Treasurer shall, for receiving and disbursing such County School Fund, be entitled to receive one per cent. on the amount thereof.

15. The Chief Superintendent shall apportion one-half of such amount at the close of each half year to the Trustees of Schools conducted in accordance with this Chapter and the Regulations of the Board of Education, to be applied towards the payment of the Teachers' salaries, and in the following manner: - There shall be allowed to the Trustees of each District, in respect of each qualified Teacher, exclusive of Assistants, by them employed, the sum of thirty dollars per year, and the balance of such amount shall be apportioned to the Trustees according to the average number of pupils in attendance at each School, as compared with the whole average number of pupils attending the Schools of the County, and the length of time in operation; one-half the sum assessed as a County rate in