II.-Average number of pupils at Montreal, in the Faculties and affiliated Schools, during the last three years (1896-99) :— III.--Catholic population of the four dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Montreal : (iv.) Statistics of Protestant Universities, 1897-8. (1.) MCGILL UNIVERSITY, MONTREAL, 1897-8. (2.) UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE OF LENNOXVILLE, 1897-8. (v.) Statistics of educational institutions, other than Universities, receiving grants for "Superior Education" in 1897-8. (1.) Protestant-Model Schools and Academies. ... 53 ... 26 Number of Protestant Model Schools (2.) Roman Catholic-Model Schools and Academies. 78 228 7 $824 $301 Number of Roman Catholic Model Schools 481 127 ... Number of Male Lay Teachers in these schools, with certificates 188, without certificates 20 208 Number of Female Lay Teachers in these schools, with certificates 353, without certificates 41 394 Number of Religious Teachers, male 836, female 2,372 3,208 $492 $120 (3.) Roman Catholic and Protestant Model Schools. 33 10,369 1,496 33 3 10,290 94 2,549 10,787 217 186 11,875 25,640 45 12,687 77 11,834 Number. Pupils. Number. Pupils. Number. Pupils. (vi.) Academies.-The following are the Statutes dealing with the conduct of Academies : It is competent to the corporations of school commissioners or trustees in any counties or parts of counties to combine for the purpose of establishing one or more academies therein. The mode of procedure in such cases is as follows:a. Wherever it appears desirable to the Roman Catholic or Protestant school commissioners or trustees, or to a majority of them, that an academy or academies should be established, the several chairmen of those school corporations may, by virtue of a resolution passed by each school corporation, be appointed academy delegates on behalf of the corporations; and the delegate last named convenes the first meeting of delegates by a notice of eight days of time and place; b. at the first meeting of these academy delegates those present or a majority of them elect a chairman and a secretary. If, in the opinion of the majority, it is thought necessary or desirable to establish one or more academies in the county or counties, a petition to that effect, founded on a resolution of the delegates, is prepared and forwarded to the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee, stating the facts of the case, and the petition is signed by the chairman and secretary of the meeting; c. at the next meeting of the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee, or at a meeting specially called for that purpose, the petition is taken into consideration, and, if approved by the majority of them, the petition is delivered by the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee to the Superintendent for transmission to the LieutenantGovernor in Council. If the Lieutenant-Governor approves the petition he may, by proclamation in the Quebec Official Gazette, signify his approval and establish such academy or academies; d. after this proclamation the board of delegates meet once more and elect three of their members to act as the first trustees of the academy, and these three trustees remain in office until the first day of the following August, when a regular annual meeting of the board of delegates is held. At this first meeting, as well as at the meeting to be held annually in August, the board of delegates appoints three of its number to act as trustees of the academy for the ensuing year. They also appoint an auditor or auditors of accounts. The academy trustees annually present to the board of delegates at the annual meeting a report of the educational work of the past year done in the academy, with a balance sheet and statement of income and expenditure duly audited by the auditors. The secretary of the board of delegates may be the secretary-treasurer of each board of academy trustees, or the academy trustees may appoint their own secretary-treasurer. The academy trustees, their secretary, and the auditors, conform mutatis mutandis to the provisions of the school laws in all respects, as also to the rules of the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee, as the case may be. To provide for the building and maintenance of such academies the Roman Catholic or Protestant school commissioners or trustees of the county, part of country, or counties wherein an academy is established, may levy a tax on the taxable real estate of the school municipality under their control, sufficient to provide a sum not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of a site and the building of an academy, and not less than $300 per annum towards the payment of teachers and the incidental expenses of the academy. The school commissioners or trustees are jointly and severally responsible to the academy trustees for the payment of the sums mentioned, and must pay over the sums to the academy trustees by equal half-yearly payments in January and July of each year. The academy trustees are entitled to charge monthly fees to the scholars for the maintenance of the academy, provided the fees do not exceed $1.50 per month, to be paid monthly in advance. No scholar two months in arrears for such fees can be permitted to attend the academy. Each academy fulfilling the conditions here stated and conforming to the rules and regulations in regard to academies from time to time adopted by the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee, is entitled to a share of the legislative grant for superior education in the discretion of that Committee of the Council of Public Instruction which is of its religious faith. (vii.) Model Schools. Certain special rules in regard to the financial support of Model Schools should be given here: 1. Commissioners or trustees may charge fees higher than the 40 cents per month allowed for elementary schools to the children attending model schools; and such fees may in model |