Of teachers, &c.

6th. The number of qualified Teachers, their standing, sex, and religious persuasion; the number, so far as he Of private schools may be able to ascertain, of private Schools, the libraries, &c. number of pupils and subjects taught therein; the number of Libraries, their extent, how established and supported; also, any other information which he may possess respecting the educational state, wants and advantages in each Township of his charge, and any suggestions which he shall think proper to make with a view to the improvement of Schools and diffusion of useful knowledge.

VIII. SCHOOL VISITORS AND THEIR DUTIES.

School visitors authorized to visit the schools, attend examinations, and exa

of each school,

&c.

XXXIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for each of said School Visitors, to visit, as far as practicable, all the Public Schools in such mine into the state Township, City, Town or Village; especially to attend the quarterly examinations of Schools, and, at the time of any such visit, to examine the progress of the pupils, and the state and management of the School, and to give such advice to the Teachers and pupils, and any others present, as he may think advisable, in accordance with the regulations and instructions which shall be provided in regard to School Visitors according to law: Provided always, that a General Meeting of such Visitors may be held at any time or place which General meetings may be appointed by any two Visitors, on sufficient may be called. notice being given to the other Visitors in the Township, City, Town or Village; and it shall be lawful for such Visitors, thus assembled, to devise such means as they may deem expedient for the efficient visitation of the Schools, and to promote the establishment of Libraries and the diffusion of useful knowledge.

Proviso:

Duties and objects of such meetings.

IX. DUTIES OF THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. Chief Superintendent of Schools appointed.

XXXIV. And be it enacted, That the Governor may, from time to time, by Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Province, appoint a fit and proper

person to be Chief Superintendent of Schools for Upper Canada, who shall hold his office during pleasure, and shall receive a salary of the same amount as that now provided by His salary.

the contingent expenses ffice.

of

his

Το be allowed two clerks; their salaries.

Duties of the Chief Superintendent.

law, or as may hereafter be provided by law, for the Superintendent of Education in Lower Canada; and shall be responsible to, and subject to the direction of, the Governor-General, communicated to him through such Department of Her Majesty's Provincial Government, as by the Governor may be directed in that behalf; and shall account for the contingent expenses of his office, as provided in respect of To account for other public offices; and shall be allowed two Clerks, who shall receive the same salaries as are or shall be by law attached to similar offices in the education law of Lower Canada, to commence from the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. XXXV. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Chief Superintendent of Schools: Firstly. To apportion, annually, on or before the first day of May, all moneys granted or provided by the Legislature for the support of Common Schools in Upper Canada, and not otherwise appropriated by this Act, to the several Counties, Townships, Cities, Towns and incorporated Villages therein, according to the ratio of population in each, as compared with the whole population of Upper Canada; or when the census or returns upon which such an apportionment is to be made, shall be so far defective, in respect to any County, Township, City, Town or Village, as to render it impracticable for the Chief Superintendent to ascertain from such data the share of school moneys which ought then to be apportioned to such County, Township, City, Town or Village, he shall ascertain, by the best evidence in his power, the facts upon which the ratio of such apportionment can be most fairly and equitably made, and make it accordingly.

To apportion all moneys granted by the legislature for the support of common schools, and in what ratio.

Secondly. To certify such apportionment made by him, to the Inspector-General, so far as it relates to the several Counties, Cities, Towns and incorporated Villages in Upper Canada, and to give immediate notice thereof to the Clerk of each County, City, Town and Village interested therein, stating the time when the amount of moneys thus apportioned, will be payable to the Treasurer of such County, City, Town or Village.

To prepare suitable forms, &c., for executing the law, and transmit them to local school officers.

Thirdly. To prepare suitable forms, and to give such instructions as he shall judge necessary and proper, for making all reports, and conducting all proceedings under this Act, and to cause the same with such general regulations, as shall be approved of by the Council of Public Instruction, for the better organization and government of Common Schools, to be transmitted to the officers required to execute the provisions of this Act.

To cause copies of the school law, regulations, &c., to be printed and distributed as occasion may require.

Fourthly. To cause to be printed from time to time, in a convenient form, so many copies of this Act, with the necessary forms, instructions, and regulations to be observed in executing its provisions, as he may deem sufficient for the information of all officers of Common Schools, and to cause the same to be distributed for that purpose.

To see that all school moneys apportioned by him are duly applied according to law.

Fifthly. To see that all moneys apportioned by him, be applied to the objects for which they were granted; and for that purpose to decide upon all matters and complaints submitted to him, (and not otherwise provided for by this Act,) which involve the expenditure of any part of the School Fund; and to direct the application of such balances of the School Fund, as may have been apportioned for any year and forfeited according to the provisions of this Act: Provided always, that such balances of the School Fund shall be expended in making up the salaries of Teachers in the County to which they shall have been apportioned.

CHAPTER III.

FORMS FOR TOWNSHIP COUNCILS.

SECTION 1. Form of Notice to be given by the Township Clerk to the person designated
by the Municipal Authority to appoint the time and place of the first School Section
Meeting.
TOWNSHIP CLERK'S OFFICE,

18-.

SIR, I have the honour to inform you, that in conformity with the 3rd clause of the 18th section of the Common School Act, 13th and 14th Vict., Chap. 9, the Municipal Council of this Township has authorized and required you, within twenty days after receiving this notice, to appoint the time and place of holding the first School Meeting for the election of three Trustees for School Section No. --, which School Section is bounded and may be known as follows: [Here insert the description of it.] Copies of your Notice are to be posted, in at least three public places in the School Section above described, at least six days before the time of holding such meeting. I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant, A. B., Township Clerk. REMARKS. In notifying the formation of several School Sections, or the formation of parts of Sections, the phraseology of the notices should be varied, at the discretion of the Township Clerk, and in accordance with the proceedings and directions of the Council.

The Notices of School Assessments, and Assessments for the erection and furnishing of School-houses, for the purchasing of School Sites, &c., may be given in such a manner as the Council shall direct.

For Form of Deed for a School Site, &c., see Chapter I, Section 12.

the forms for calling annual and special school meetings in townships by School Trustees, given in the first chapter of these Forins and Instructions, will afford a sufficient directory to Trustees in Cities, Towns and incorporated Villages for calling similar meetings. The same reference may be made in respect to the forms of School Rate-bills and agreements with Teachers, as far as it may be thought expedient to adopt them.

3. School Trustees of Cities, Towns and Incorporated Villages, will also adopt such forms as they may think proper, in laying, from time to time, before their respective Councils estimates of the sums required by them for Common School purposes; likewise in preparing for publication the annual reports of their proceedings, as required by the eleventh clause of the twenty-fourth section. To facilitate the performance of the duty required by the latter part of the same clause, a blank annual report will be prepared and transmitted to the Board of Trustees in each City, Town and incorporated Village. This remark does not, of course, apply to incorporated Villages the current year (1850,) until the end of which their present School Section divisions and Trustees remain unchanged, and will report as heretofore by filling up the blank reports provided for

them.

4. The School Registers and Visitors' books kept in each Common School of any City, Town, or incorporated Village, are the same as those required to be kept in each Common School of a township; respecting which, see remarks in chapter I of these Forms and Instructions.

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SECTION 2. Form of intimating to Trustees the alteration of their School Section. TOWNSHIP CLERK'S OFFICE, SIR,--In conformity with the 4th clause of the 13th section of the Common School Act, 13th and 14th Viet, chap. 9. I have to acquain you that the Municipal Council of this Township has altered the School Section of which you are Trustee, in the following manner: [Here insert the changes which have been made, and the description of the new School Section.] These changes will go into effect from and after the twenty-fifth day of next December, according to the 4th clause of the 18th Section of the Act. You will please communicate this notice to the other Trustees of your School Section. I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant, A. B., Township Clerk.

To D. E.,

Trustee of School Section No.-, Township of REMARK. In giving notice of the formation of Union School Sections, see the remarks at the end of the following section 3.

SECTION 3. Form of intimating to the Local Superintendent of Schools the alteration of a School Section. TOWNSHIP CLERK'S OFFICE, 18-. SIR,-In conformity with the 4th clause of the 18th Section of the Common School Act, 13th and 14th Vict. Chap. 9, I have to acquaint you that the Municipal Council of this Township has altered School Section, No. -, in the following manner: [Here insert the changes which have been made, and the description of the new School Section. These changes go into effect from and after the twenty-fifth day of next December, according to the 4th clause of the 18th Section of the Act. I am, Sir,

The Local Superintendent of Schools for the County or Township of

Your obedient Servant,
A. B., Township Clerk.

N. B. When the Union School Section is formed or altered, as authorized by the 5th Proviso of the 4th clause of the 18th Section, the Clerk of the Township in which the School-house of such Union Section is situated, should communicate the requisite notices to the parties concerned. See 6th proviso of the 4th clause of the 18th Section, compared with the 4th Section of the Act.

CHAPTER IV.

FORMS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR COUNCILS AND TRUSTEES IN CITIES, TOWNS, AND INCORPORATED VILLAGES.

1. The forty-seventh and twenty-fifth sections of the Act require the Mayors of Cities and Towns and the Town Reeves of Incorporated Villages to call the first School Meetings in their respective Municipalities for the election of Trustees. The sections of the Act referred to are so explicit as to the manner in which such notices should be given, that it would be superfluous to insert any form for them in this place.

2. According to the twenty-sixth section and the ninth clause of the acenty-fourth section, the annual and special meetings for the election of Trustees, and for any other school purpose, are to be called by the Board of School Trustees of each City, Town, or Incorporated Village. The notices in every such case should be signed, in behalf of the Board of Trustees, by the Chairman or Secretary,—should be given to the taxable inhabitants of the city, town, ward, or village concerned, and should specify the object of the meeting called. With these remarks,

CHAPTER V.

FORMS AND INSTRUCTIONS FOR COUNTY COUNCILS, COUNTY BOARDS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, AND LOCAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS.

1. The Duties of County Councils, or the Councils of Unions of Counties, (see 48th section) are so clearly stated in the several clauses of the twenty-seventh Section of the Act, that it is needless to make any explanatory remarks in reference to them; nor is it necessary to furnish any forms for bonds of security required of County Treasurers or SubTreasurers of School moneys, or forms of notices required of each County Clerk to each Local Superintendent of his appointment and of the amount of money apportioned to the Township or Townships of his charge, and to the Chief Superintendent of the name and address of the County Treasurer and of each Local Superintendent of Schools in the County, and also transmitting to the Chief Superintendent a copy of all the proceedings of the County Council on School matters, and an abstract of the auditors' annual report to the Council.

The Treasurer of each County, City or Town (see section 42) should either apply personally, or appoint some person at the Seat of Government, to apply and receive the Legislative School Grant apportioned to such County, City or Town. The proper form of a Power of Attorney for that purpose must be familiar to every officer concerned; also that each such Power of Attorney must be witnessed, signed, and forwarded in duplicate.

2. On the fidelity and ability with which County Boards of Public Instruction fulfil the functions assigned to them in the 29th section of the Act, depend the character and efficiency of the Schools as affected by the character and qualifications of the Teachers. Much has been said about incompetent Trustees and their employment of incompetent Teachers; but Trustees cannot employ such Teachers by means of the School Fund, unless such Teachers are licensed to teach. It therefore remains with the County Boards (chiefly with the Local Superintendents) to say whether a penny of the School Fund shall be misapplied in payment of any intemperate, immoral, or incompetent Teacher. In giving certificates of qualification, County Boards should not, therefore, regard individual applicants, but the interests of youth, the destinies of the rising and future generations of the country. As the fifteenth Section of the Act recognizes the validity of Local Superintendents' certificates of qualifications until the expiration of the current year (1850,) the functions of County Boards in this respect will hardly commence until the year 1851, before which time a Programme of Examination and Instructions, as authorized by the twenty-ninth Section of the Act, will be provided, according to which the future examinations and classification of Teachers will be conducted and determined.

3. No Local Superintendent will need a form for notifying the Trustees of each School Section within his jurisdiction of the amount of the School Fund apportioned to such Section for any one year; or of a form of cheque upon the County Treasurer or Sub-Treasurer for school moneys in behalf of legally qualified Teachers. No explanation can make the important duties of each Local Superintendent plainer than the several clauses of the thirty-first Section of the Act; and the form of conducting the correspondence which the duties of his office requires, ie left to his own judgment. The Chief Superintendent of Schools will furnish each Local Superintendent with a blank annual report for himself and for the Trustees of each School Section within bis charge.

MISCELLANEOUS REMARKS.

1. Appeals to the Chief Superintendent of Schools, &c.—All parties concerned in the operation of the Common School Act have the right of appeal to the Chief Superintendent of Schools; and he is authorised to decide on such questions as are not otherwise provided for by law. But for the ends of justice-to prevent delay, and to save expense, it will be necessary for any party thus appealing to the Chief Superintendent: 1. To furnish the party against whom they may appeal, with a correct copy of their communication to the Chier Superintendent, in order that the opposite party may have an opportunity of transmitting, also, any explanation or answer that such party may judge expedient. 2. To state expressly, in the appeal to the Chief Superintendent, that the opposite party has thus been notified of it. It must not be supposed that the Chief Superintendent will decide, or form an opinion, on any point aflecting different parties, without hearing both sides-whatever delay may at any time be occasioned in order to secure such a hearing.

2. The foregoing directions do not, of course, refer to communications asking for advice on doubtful points, or prudential measures of a local or general character.

3. Communications generally.-The parties concerned are left to their own discretion as to the forms of all communications, relating to Common Schools, for which specific Forms are not furnished in the foregoing pages.

4. All communications with the Government, relating to Schools conducted under the authority of the Common School Act, 13th and 14th Victoria, Chapter 9, should be made through the Education Office, Toronto.

5. Communications with the Government, not so made, are referred back to the Education Office, to be brought before His Excellency through the proper Departmentwhich occasions unnecessary delay and expense.

CHAPTER VI.

GENERAL REGULATIONS FOR THE ORGANIZATION, GOVERNMENT AND
DISCIPLINE OF COMMON SCHOOLS IN UPPER CANADA;
Adopted after mature consideration, by the Council of Public Instruction, as authorized
by the Act, 13th and 14th Victoria, Chapter 9, Section 38.

SECTION 1. Hours of Daily Teaching, Holidays and Vacations.

1. The hours of teaching each day shall not exceed six, exclusive of all the time allowed at noon for recreation. Nevertheless, a less number of hours for daily teaching may be determined upon in any school, at the option of the Trustees.

2. Every alternate Saturday shall be a holiday in each school.

3. There shall be three vacations during each year; the first, eight days, at Easter; the second, the first two weeks in August; the third, eight days, at Christmas.

4. All agreements between Trustees and Teachers shall be subject to the foregoing regulations; and no Teacher shall be deprived of any part of his salary on account of observing allowed Holidays and Vacations.

SECTION 2. Duties of Trustees.

1. The full and explicit manner in which the duties of Trustees are enumerated and stated in the several clauses of the twelfth section of the Act, renders it unnecessary to do more, in this place, than make some expository remarks on the nature of the general duties of Trustees, and the relations subsisting between them and the Teachers whom they employ. The law invests Trustees with most important functions; they are a corporation, and as such, the ownership and control of the School Site, School-house, and all the property attached thereto, is vested in them; they are to provide and furnish the School-house and premises, and apparatus and text-books for the School; and they alone have authority to employ the Teacher. Their duties are, therefore, of the greatest importance, and they should be well understood.

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2. While the Trustees employ the Teacher-agree with him as to the period during which he shall teach, and the amount of his remuneration-the mode of teaching is at the option of the Teacher and the Local Superintendent and Visitors alone have a right to advise him on the subject. The Teacher is not a mere machine, and no Trustee or Parent should attempt to reduce him to that position. His character and his interest alike prompt him to make his instructions as efficient and popular as possible; and if he does not give satisfaction, he can be dismissed according to the terms of his agreement with his employers. To interfere with him, and deprive him of his discretion as a Teacher, and then to dismiss him for inefficiency, which is the natural and usual result, is to inflict upon him a double wrong, and frequently injures the pupils themselves, and all parties concerned. It should then be distinctly understood, as essential to the Teacher's character, position and success, that he judge for himself as to the mode of teaching in his school, including, of course, the classification of pupils, as well as the manner of instructing them. It is, nevertheless, the duty of the Trustees to see that the school is conducted according to the regulations authorized by law.

It is therefore important that Trustees should select a competent Teacher. The best Teacher is always the cheapest. He teaches most and inculcates the best habits of learning and mental developement, in a given time; and time and proper habits are worth more than money, both to pupils and their parents. Trustees who pay a Teacher fairly and punctually, and treat him properly, will seldom want a good Teacher. To employ an incompetent person, because he offers his incompetent services for a small sum, is a waste of money, and a mockery and injury of

the youth of the neighbourhood. We entirely concur with the National Board of Education in Ireland, in the following estimate of the qualities of a good Teacher :

"A Teacher should be a person of Christian sentiment, of calm temper, and discretion; he should be imbued with the spirit of peace, of obedience to the law, and of loyalty to his Sovereign; he should not only possess the art of communicating knowledge, but be capable of moulding the mind of youth, and of giving to the power, which education confers, a useful direction. These are the qualities for which Patrons (or Trustees] of Schools, when making choice of a Teacher, should anxiously look."

4. Trustees will always find it the best economy to have a commodious School-house, kept comfortable, and properly furnished. It is as difficult for pupils to learn, as it is for the master to teach, in an unfurnished and comfortless school-house.

5. In the selection of Books to be used in the school, from the general list authorized according to law, the Trustees should see that but one series of Reading books, one Arithmetic, or one for the beginners and another for the more advanced pupils, one Geography, &c. should be used in any one school, in order that the scholars may be classified in the several branches which they are studying Heterogeneous school books (however good each book may be in itself) render classification impossible, increase the labour and waste the time of the Teacher, and retard the progress of the pupils. But the Teacher and pupils labour at the greatest disadvantage, when they are compelled to use books which are as various as the scholars' names.

SECTION 3.-Duties of Teachers.

The sixteenth section of the School Act prescribes, in explicit and comprehensive terms, the duties of Teachers; and no Teacher can legally claim his salary who disregards the requirements of the law. Among other things, the Act requires each Teacher to "maintain proper order and discipline in his school, according to the forms and regulations which shall be provided according to law." The law makes it the duty of the Chief Superintendent of Schools to provide the forms; and the Council of Public Instruction prescribe the following regulations for the guidance of Teachers in the conduct and discipline of their schools.

It shall be the duty of each Teacher of a Common School ;

1. To receive courteously the Visitors appointed by law, and to afford them every facility for inspecting the books used, and to examine into the state of the school; to have the Visitors' book open, that the Visitors may, if they choose, enter remarks in it. The frequency of visits to the school by intelligent persons, animates the pupils, and greatly aids the faithful Teacher.

2. To keep the Registers accurately and neatly, according to the prescribed forms; which is the more important under the present School Act, as the 31st section of it authorizes the distribution of the local schoo fund according to the average attendance of pupils attending each school.

3. To classify the children according to the books used; to study those books himself; and to teach according to the improved method recommended in their prefaces.

4. To observe himself, and to impress upon the minds of the pupils, the great rule of regularity and order,-A TIME AND A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING,

AND EVERYTHING IN ITS PROPER TIME AND PLACE.

5. To promote, both by precept and example, CLEANLINESS, NEATNESS, and DECENCY. To effect this, the Teacher should set an example of cleanliness and neatness in his own person, and in the state and general appearance of the school. He should also satisfy himself, by personal inspection every morning, that the children have had their hands and faces washed, their hair combed, and clothes cleaned and, when necessary, mended. The school apartments, too, should be swept and dusted every evening.

6. To pay the strictest attention to the morals and general conduct of his pupils, and to omit no opportunity of inculcating the principles of TRUTH AND HONESTY; the duties of respect to superiors, and obedience to all persons placed in authority over them.

7. To evince a regard for the improvement and general welfare of his pupils, to treat them with kinduess combined with firmuess; and to aim at governing them by their affections and reason, rather than by harsh-ness and severity.

8. To cultivate kindly and affectionate feelings among his pupils; to discountenance quarrelling, cruelty to animals, and every approach to

vice.

Section 4.-Duties of Visitors.

1. The thirty-second section of the Act provides that all Clergymen recognized by law of whatever denomination, Judges, Members of the Legislature, Magistrates, Members of County Councils, and Aldermen, shall be School Visitors; and the thirty-third section of the Act proscribes their lawful duties.

FORMS AND INSTRUCTIONS

FOR EXECUTING THE PROVISIONS OF THE NEW COMMON SCHOOL ACT, 13th and 14th Victoria, chapter 9.

BY THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

Authorized and required by the third clause of the Thirty-fifth section of said Act.

CHAPTER I.

FORMS FOR TRUSTEES, AND FOR THE CALLING OF SCHOOL SECTION MEETINGS, &c.,

In conformity with the Common School Act, 13th and 14th Vict., chap. 9, Section 4-14.

SECTION 1. Form of Notice of a FIRST School Section Meeting.
SCHOOL NOTICE.

The undersigned inform the Freeholders and Householders concerned, that the Municipal Council of this Township has formed a part of the Township into a School Section, to be designated School Section, No.-, and to be limited and known as follows:--[ Here insert the Description of the Section. J

The undersigned having been authorized and required by the Municipal Council to appoint the time and place of holding the first meeting, for the election of Trustees for the School Section above described, hereby notifies the Freeholders and Householders of said School Section, that a Public Meeting will be held at on day, the of, at the hour of 10 o'clock, in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing three fit and proper persons as School Trustees of the said Section, as required by the School Act, 13th and 14th Vict. chap. 9, sect. 4. Given under my hand, this day of

18-.

[Name]

REMARKS. Should the person authorized and appointed by the Municipal Council to call the first School Section Meeting refuse or neglect to do so, be subjects himself to a penalty of one pound five shillings, recoverable for the purposes of such School Section; and, then, any two Householders are authorized, within twenty days, on giving six days' notice, to call a meeting for the election of Trustees. The form of their noticeto be posted in, at least, three public places in the School Section concerned, and at least, six days before the time of holding such meeting-should be as follows:

REMARKS. The above notice should be signed by a majority of the existing or surviving Trustees, and posted in, at least, three public places of the School Section, at least six days before the holding of the meeting. The manner of proceeding at the Annual Meeting is prescribed in the 6th section of the Act.

Should the Trustees neglect to give the prescribed notice of the Annual Section Meeting, they forfeit, each, the sum of one pound five shillings, recoverable for the purposes of the School Section, and then any two Householders of the School Section are authorized within twenty days' notice, to call such meeting. Their form of notice should be as follows:

SECTION 4. Form of Notice of an ANNUAL School Section Meeting to be given by two Householders.

SCHOOL NOTICE.

The Trustees of School Section, No.-, in the Township of having neglected to give notice of the Annual School Section Meeting, as prescribed by the 12th clause of the 12th section of the Common School Ae, the undersigned hereby give notice to the Freeholders and House

holders of the said School Section, that a Public Meeting will be held at ——, on ——, the - day of, at 10 of the clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing a fit and proper person as Trustee, as directed by law. Dated this day of, 18. A. B., Householders, C. D., School Section, No.REMARK. The mode of proceeding, at a School Meeting thus called, is prescribed in the 6th section of the Act.

SECTION 5. Form of Notice of a School Meeting, to FILL UP A VACANCY created by the death, permament absence, incapacity from sickness, refusal to serve, resignation, &c., on the part of a Trustee. SCHOOL NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to the Freeholders and Householders of School Section, No.-, in the Township of that a Public Meeting will be held at on the day of, at the hour of Ten of the clock, in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing a fit and proper person as School Trustee, in the place of -- (deceased, removed, incapatialed from sickness, absent, resignation, or who has refused to serve, as the case may be.] Dated this A. B., Surricing Trustees, or Trustee, 18C. D., (as the case may be.) REMARKS. A Trustee who refuses to serve when elected, forfeits the sum of one pound five shillings, but having accepted office, if he shall at any time refuse or neglect to perform the duties of that office he shall forfeit the sum of five pounds, recoverable for the purposes of the School Section; but a Trustee cannot be re-elected without his own consent. (See 8th section of the Act:) The mode of proceeding at a meeting called as above is the same as at an ordinary Annual School Section Meeting, and is prescribed

day of

in the 6th section of the Act.

SECTION 6. Form for Trustees calling SPECIAL Meetings. REMARKS It belongs to the office of Trustees to estimate and determine the amount of the Teacher's salary and all expeuses connected with the school; but it appertains to the majority of the Freeholders and Householders of each School Section, at a public meeting called for the purpose, to decide as to the manner in which such expenses shall be provided for, whether by voluntary subscription, by rate-bill on parents or guardians sending children to the school, or by rate on all the Freeholders and Householders of the School Section according to property. But should not a sufficient sum be thus provided to meet the expenses incurred for School purposes, the Trustees are authorized by the latter part of the 7th clause of the 12th section, to provide the balance in such manner as they may think proper. But for all the money received and expended by them, the Trustees must account annually to their constituents as prescribed in the 1-th clause of the 12th section. Besides calling Annual School Section Meetings, Trustees are authorized to call Special Meetings to consider the site and erection of a school-house, the mode of raising a teacher's salary, or for any school purpose whatever. The object or objects of each school meeting should be invariably stated in the notices calling it; and the notices calling any school meeting, should in all cases be put up six days before holding such meeting. One form is sufficient for calling a special school section meeting of any kind.

SPECIAL SCHOOL NOTICE.

SECTION 7. Form of Agreement between Trustees and Teacher. WE, the undersigned, Trustees of School Section, No.-, in the Township of - -, by virtue of the authority vested in us by the 5th clause of the 12th section of the School Act, 13th and 14th Vict., chap. 9, have chosen (Here insert the Teacher's name) who holds a certificate of qualification, to be a Teacher in said School Section; and WE do hereby contract with and employ him, at the rate of (here insert the sum in words, in currency.) per aunum, from and after the day hereof; and we further bind and oblige ourselves, and our successors in office, faithfully to employ the powers with which we are legally invested by the said section of said Act, to collect and pay the said Teacher, during the continuance of this agreement, the sum for which we hereby become bound-the said sum to be paid to the said Teacher (quarterly, &c., as the case may be,] And the said Teacher hereby contracts and binds himself to teach and conduct the School, in said School Section, according to the regulations provided for by the said School Act. This agreement to continue [here insert the period of agreement] from the date thereof. Dated this- - day of (Witness)

O. K.

REMARKS. This agreement should be signed by, at least, two of the Trustees, and the Teacher, and should be entered in the Trustees' book, and a copy of it given to the Teacher. The Trustees being a Corporation, their agreement with their Teacher is binding on their Successors in office; and should they refuse or wilfully neglect to exercise the corporate powers vested on them, they would be personally liable for the amount due a Teacher-see 16th clause of the 12th Section. As to the mode of settling disputes between Trustees and a Teacher, see the 17th Section. And, on the other hand, the Teacher is equally bound to faithfulness in the performance of his duties according to law. Sce section 16; and clause 8, of section 31.

SECTION 8. Form of Warrant for the Collection of School Fees. WE, the undersigned, Trustees of School Section, No., in the Township of in the County of by virtue of the authority vested in us

by the 8th clause of the 12th sect. of the Act, 13th and 14th Vict., chap. hereby authorize and require you (here insert the name and residence of the person appointed to collect the Rate Bill,) after ten days from the date hereof, to collect from the several individuals in the annexed Rate Bill, for the period therein mentioned, the sum of money opposite their respective names, and to pay, within thirty days from the date hereof, the amount so collected, after retaining your own fees, to the Secretary-Treasurer, whose discharge shall be your acquittance for the sum so paid. And in default of payment on demand by any person so rated, you are hereby authorized and required to levy the amount by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the person or persons making default. A. B. Given under our hands this

C. D. Trustees. E. F. Township of

RECEIVED from [here insert the person's name,] the sum of [here write the sum in words,) being the amount of his [or her] Rate Bill, for the [Month or Quarter, &c., ending on the 18-. day of Dated this -day of- 18-. A. B., Collector. EXPLANATORY REMARKS on the Imposition and Collection of Rate Bills, &c.1. The Collector should take a Receipt from the Secretary-treasurer, for all moneys paid him. The Secretary-treasurer should also take a Receipt from the Teacher for all inoneys paid him. The taking and giving receipts for money paid and received will prevent errors and misunderstandings.

2. The Trustees can raise the School fees by voluntary subscriptions, if they please. They can also appoint the School Teacher to act as Collector, if he chooses to accept of the appointment, and to give the required security. The Trustees can also, if they judge it expedient, impose any Rate Bill which they may think necessary for renting, and repairing and furnishing a School-house, or for the Teacher's salary, upon the inhabitants of their School Section, or they can apply to the Municipality of their Township to impose and collect such rate for those purposes.

3. As the School Accounts of each year must be kept separate by the Chief Superintendent of Schools, so must the Rate Bills. The Rate Bills and the Warrants can be made out for a month, or for one or more Quarters of a year, at the same time, as the Trustees may think expedient.

4. Those parents and guardians who pay the Rate Bills to the Secretary-treasurer, or Collector, within ten days from the date of such Rate Bill, and without being called upon fer it, will be exempt from paying the Collector's Fees.

5. The Collector, by virtue of the Warrant from the Trustees, can enforce payment of the Rate Bill by distress and the sale of goods, from any person who resides, or has Bds and chattels within the limits of the School Section. For the mode of proceeding the Trustees in case of personis rated, who may not at the time of collecting the Rate Bill reside or have goods and chattels within the limits of the School Secuun, see eleventh division of the 12th Section of the Act.

6. The Trustees should make the apportionment for Fuel in money, as one item in the Rate Bill, and then exercise their own discretion as to whether the item for fuel should be paid in money or wood-fixing the price per cord, to be allowed for the wood, describing the kind of wood, and the manner in which it should be prepared for the School. In case any person should fail to pay the amount of his wood-bill, in the manner and at the time prescribed by the Trustees, the payment should, of course, be enforced in the same manner as that of the School Teacher's wages, and the amount, thus collected, paid for the purchase of wood.

SECTION 10. Form of Trustees' Order upon the Local Superintendent. To the Local Superintendent of Schools for the Township of PAY to here insert the Teacher's name] or Order, out of the School Fund apportioned to School Section, No.-, in the Township of of there wrile the sum in words] Dated this -day of

18-.

the sum

A. B.,
C. D., Trustees.
E. F.,)

REMARKS. No part of the School Fund is allowed to be paid for any other purpose than for the salary of the Teacher; and the Local Superintendent is not authorized to give a cheque upon the County Treasurer or Sub-treasurer to pay the School Fund moiety of a Teacher's salary to any other than the Teacher interested, or to some person authorized by the Teacher to receive it.

This Endenture, made the

day of

SECTION 12. Form of Deed for the Site of the Common School House, Teacher's Residence, &c. in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and - in pursuance of the Acr to facilitate the conveyance of Real Property, between -, of the Township [Town or City] of in the County of -- and Province of Canada, of the first part, and the Trustees of School Section Number, in the Township of -, in the County of -, and Province aforesaid, of the second part, Wituesseth, that in consideration of — of lawful money of Cauada, now paid by the Trustees of the School Section aforesaid to the said party of the first part, who hereby grants unto the Trustees of the School Section aforesaid, their Successors and Assigns for ever, all that Parcel of Land, &c.

IN TRUST for the use of a Common School, in and for School Section Number in the Township of -, and in the County and Province

aforesaid.

THE said Covenants with the Trustees of the School Section aforesaid, that he hath the right to convey the said Lands to the Trustees of the School Section aforesaid. And that the Trustees of the School Section aforesaid shall have quiet possession of the said Lands: FREE FROM INCUMBRANCES. And the said COVENANTS

with the Trustees of the School Section aforesaid, that he will execute such further assurances of the said Lands as may be requisite.

En witness whereof, the said parties hereto have hereunto set their hands and seals in the day and year before mentioned.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of

J. G.

F. R. S

Witnesses.

J. D. (seal.) F. H. (seal.)

S. M. (seal.) Trustees. I. B. (seal.)

REMARKS. 1. If the Grantor be a married man, his wife's name must be inserted in the Deed, and this phrase added after the word "requisite:" And wife of the said -, hereby bars her dower in the said Lands.

2. When, however, the land has descended to the wife in her own right, she must, besides joining with her husband in the Conveyance, appear before two Justices of the Peace, to declare that she has parted with her estate in the land intended to be conveyed without any coercion or fear thereof by or on the part of her husband; and the Certificates of such Justices must appear on the back of the Conveyance the day of its execution. The form of the Certificate is as follows:-"We the undersigned Justices of the Peace for -, do hereby certify that on this day of -, 18, at the within Deed was duly executed in the presence of ,by. wife of -, one of the Grantors therein named; and that the said at the said time and place, being examined by us, apart from her husband, did appear to give her consent to depart with ber estate in the lands mentioned in the said Deed, freely and voluntarily, and without coercion or fear of coercion on the part of her husband, or of any other person or persons whatsoever." R. W, J. P. "A. M, J. P."

3. If the Deed be for the Site of a School-house in a City, Town or Incorporated Village, the words, Board of School Trustees for such City, Town or Village should be inserted instead of the words "Trustees of School Section Number", &c., in the foregoing fort. See the 24th and 26th Sections of the Act.

SECTION 13. Form of the Annual Report of School Trustees to the Local Superintendent of Schools.

Note. A copy of a blank form of the Annual School Report to be filled up and forwarded to the Local Superintendent before the 15th of January in each year, will be furnished to each set of Trustees. For the items of information to be included in the Report, see the 19th clause of the 12th Section of the Common School Act, 13th and 14th Vict., chap. 9. According to the thirteenth section of the Act, any Trustee wilfully signing a false report, will render himself liable to a severe penalty; and also, according to the sixteenth clause of the twelfth section, in the event of his refusing or wilfully neglecting, at any time, to perform his duty.

N. B. Remarks on the Duties of Trustees will be found in the General Regulations, chapter VI, section 2. The of School Books authorized by the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada, are: The National Books, Lennie and Kirkham's Grammar, and Morse's Geography.

It is to be observed, that, according to the fifteenth clause of the twelfth section, it is the duty of each Corporation of Trustees to procure annually, "for the benefit of their School Section, some periodical devoted to Education." The price of such a periodical is, of course, to be charged by the Trustees to the contingent expenses of their School Section, and included in the School Rate.

CHAPTER II.

FORMS FOR TEACHERS OF COMMON SCHOOLS.
SECTION 1. Form of a Teacher's Receipt.

1. Form of a Receipt to Parents or Guardians on the payment of their Rate Bill.

RECEIVED from [here write the name of the Pupil or person paying] the sum of there write the sum in words) currency, in payment of the Rate Bill due from [here write the name of the person in whose behalf payment is made] to School Section No.--, in the Township of -, for the [month or quarter) ending the 18-. Dated this day of A. B., Teacher. REMARKS. When the payment of the Rate Bill is made by the Parent or Guardian concerned, the receipt should state it accordingly.

The payment of the Rate Bill to the Teacher, within the time which may be prescribed by the Trustees, will exempt the person thus paying it from the payment of the Collector's fees. The Teacher should, of course, apprise the Collector of all payments made to him, so that the Collector may not be at the trouble of calling upon such persons; and should the Teacher not inform the Collector of such payments within the time prescribed by the Trustees, he should be liable to pay the Collector the usual Fees for the unnecessary trouble imposed upon him by such Teacher's neglect.

18-. SIR,-In conformity with the 3d clause of the 16th Section of the Common School Act, 13th and 14th Vict., Chapt. the Quarterly Examination of the School Section No. -, will be held n - day, the - of -, when the pupils of this School will be publiely examined in the several subjects which they have been taught during the quarter now closing. The Exercises will commence at 9 o'clock, A. M., and you are respectfully requested to attend them.

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, To C. D., School Trustee, or Visitor. A. B., Teacher. REMARKS. A copy of the above Notice ought to be sent to each of the Trustees, and to as many Visitors of the School Section as possible. Clergymen are School Visitors of any Township in which they have pastoral charge; all Judges, Members of the Legislature, Members of the County Council and Justices of the Peace, are School Visitors of the Township in which they reside. The Teacher should address a circular notice to those of them who reside within two or three miles of his School; he is, also, required to give notice, through his pupils, to their Parents and Guardians and to the neighbourhood, of the Examination.

For Holidays and Vacations, see General Regulations, Chapter VI, Section 1. For Remarks on the Duties of Teachers, see the same Chapter, Section 3.

SECTION 3. Form of a Teacher's School Register.

[The form at present in use to be continued.]

NOTE. As the first clause of the thirty-first Section of the Act contemplates the distribution of the School money to the several sections of a Township according to the attend ance of pupils at School, and not according to School population, the Teacher who fais to keep a full and accurate account of the attendance of pupils at his school, lessens me resources of the School Section. No Teacher is entitled to his salary who neglects to keep a full and accurate School register. On the other hand, according to the thirteenth Section of the Act, any Teacher who shall keep a false School Register, or make a false School return, will render himself liable to a severe penalty.

N.B. The order of the Trustees delivered to a Local Superintendent will be the Superintendent's authority and receipt for the cheque upon the County or Sub-Treasurer, and hat cheque will be the Treasurer's receipt for the amount specified on the face of it