CHAP. 31.

Uncleaned fish

prohibited.

16. The board of health or general sessions may make orders for prohibiting the introduction into any city or and offal, how town, and for preventing the sale and the offering for sale of any kind of uncleansed fish, and for preventing persons from throwing offal into any place likely to be offensive or dangerous to the public health.

Limits for slaughtering animals to be regulated by sessions.

Penalties, how recovered.

Forfeiture for violation of orders.

Limitation of actions; prose

ducted.

17. Justices in general or special sessions may from time to time make orders fixing the extent and limits within which the slaughtering and dressing of animals for food shall be prohibited or conducted, under penalties not to exceed forty dollars for any one offence.

18. All penalties and expenses incurred under this Chapter shall be recovered in the name of the health inspector, and if there be none for the place then in the name of the Clerk of the Peace. In either case such inspector or Clerk shall be a competent witness. The proceeds of every prosecution after first deducting all reasonable charges shall be paid into the city or county funds.

19. Any person who shall violate any of the orders made under this Chapter, or shall obstruct any officer acting in discharge of his duty, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding forty dollars.

20. No action shall be commenced against any person cutions remov- for anything done or omitted under this Chapter unless Court, how con- brought within six months from the date of the offence charged; and, whenever any conviction shall have been removed into the Supreme Court at Halifax or an appeal thereto granted, it shall be the duty of the law officers of the Crown to conduct the prosecution or defence, as the case may be, on behalf of the public.

Fish may be sold.

21. Any corporation or individual may open a fish market in any part of the Province or vend fish therein, subject to the provisions of this Chapter.

CHAPTER 31.

Bessions to

preventing dan

animals.

1. The justices in general or special sessions may from make orders for time to time make orders for the protection of persons ger from rabid from the bite of dogs or other rabid or diseased animals; for the destruction of all animals rabid or supposed to be rabid and running at large, and for the prohibition of the sale of the flesh of any animal affected by the symptoms

usually attendant on canine madness, or otherwise dis- CHAP. 32. eased; and may affix penalties for the breach of such orders, not to exceed forty dollars for any one offence.

at large may be

2. Any person may kill or destroy any dog or other Rabid animals rabid animal found at large, and may secure and place in killed; if susconfinement all dogs or other animals at large and appear- confined. ing to be rabid, or exhibiting symptoms of canine mad

Bess.

pected, may be

TITLE VII.

OF EDUCATION.

CHAPTER 32.

OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

THE COUNCIL OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

1. The members of the Executive Council shall form Council of Public Instruction, five of whom shall be

quoruin.

2. The Governor in Council shall have power to appoint Superintendent a Provincial Superintendent of Education, who shall also be of education. Secretary of the Council of Public Instruction.

instruction,

3. The Council of Public Instruction shall have power: Council of publie (1.) To make regulations for the conduct of the Normal powers of. School, and to prescribe the conditions of admission and to regulate graduation of pupil teachers.

normal school.

(2.) To appoint, upon the recommendation of the Super Appoint inspecintendent of Education, an inspector of schools for each tors. county of the Province.

(3.) To prepare and publish regulations, under which To regulate moneys may be drawn and expended and teachers classified. rawing of

money.

(4.) To fix the time of the semi-annual meeting of each Meetings of board of school commissioners, and call special meetings of school boards. any board when deemed necessary.

(5.) To regulate the time in session, holidays and vaca- To regulate holtions of all public schools.

idays, &c.

text books, &o.

(6.) To prescribe, with the concurrence of the Superin- To prescribe tendent, suitable text-books and apparatus for all public schools, proper books for school libraries, and plans for school-houses.

(7.) To prescribe the form of school registers for all School registers. public schools.

CHAP. 32.

To determine appeals from commissioners,

&c.

(8.) To determine all cases of appeal from the decisions of commissioners and trustees, and make such orders thereon as may be required.

(9.) To make regulations for constructing, locating and

To make regula controlling county academies, and to authorize the payment of provincial grants to the same.

tions for aca

demies.

To arrange for separate

(10.) To receive the recommendation of any inspector, montate apart for separate apartments or buildings in any section for the different sexes or different colors, and make such decisions thereon as they shall deem proper.

To provide for exigencies aris

(11.) To make any provisions, not inconsistent with this ing under this Chapter, that may be necessary to meet exigencies occurring under its operation.

Chapter.

To draw grant for school libraries.

Grant conditional.

To draw public iners, &c.

(12.) To draw from the Provincial Treasury a sum not exceeding sixteen hundred dollars, for the establishment of school libraries, on the condition that any section raise a sum equal to the amount sought from the Council (consid eration being given to poor sections); the books to be selected from a general catalogue authorized by the Council, and the libraries to be managed under uniform regula tions prepared by the Council, and at all times to be open to the inspection of the Superintendent, Inspectors and Examiners.

(13.) To draw from the Treasury, upon the requisition grant for exam- of the Superintendent, a sum sufficient to pay the amount allowed to provincial examiners, and the expenses incurred by the Superintendent in furnishing printed instructions, blank forms, and copies of this Chapter, as directed by law; and, also, five cents a mile towards the travelling expenses of students attending the Normal School.

To publish report anu journa

To modify provisions as to inspection.

To appoint Provincial Board of examiners.

(14.) To draw annually from the Provincial Treasury such sum as shall be necessary for the publication of the Annual Report of the Superintendent of Education, and of an educational journal, a copy of which journal shall be supplied gratuitously to each board of trustees for their own and the teachers' use, and also to each inspector and each chairman of commissioners.

(15.) To modify or change, from time to time, as the interests of education may require, the provision requiring an Inspector for each County, and to make such provisions for the payment of Inspectors consistent with economy and efficiency as they may deem proper; provided that the expense of inspection shall in no case be increased.

(16.) To appoint four qualified persons, to constitute a Provincial Board of Examiners, to examine and report upon the written exercises of all candidates for license to teach in the Public Schools of this Province. The Council shall also have power to prescribe the mode in which examinations shall be conducted, to designate the times

and places at which candidates shall present themselves CHAP. 32. for examination, and to make such further arrangements

as may be necessary, in order to insure the uniform classi fication and licensing of teachers. The Examiners, 80 Examiners, how appointed, shall be paid at the rate of seven cents for paid. each paper submitted for their judgment; and the person appointed to conduct the examination in each county shall be paid a sum not exceeding three dollars per diem while actually engaged in the duty.

struction to

miks regula

4. The Council of Public Instruction shall have the Council of ingeneral superintendence of the Normal School, shall pre- superintend pare and publish regulations under which money shall be normal school, drawn and expended and teachers classified, and shall tions, appoint make such general regulations for the guidance of school examiners, &c. boards as may seem best fitted to bring about uniformity in their proceedings.

SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.

tendent.

5. The Superintendent of Education shall receive an Salary and duannual salary of one thousand two hundred dollars, and ties of superinfour hundred dollars for travelling expenses and contingencies of office. The Superintendent's duties shall be as follows:

(1.) To have, subject to the Council of Public Instruc tion, the general supervision and direction of the Inspectors, the Normal School, County Academies, and Common Schools.

(2.) To enforce the provisions of this Chapter and the regulations of the Council.

(3.) To promote the establishment and efficiency of County academies.

(4.) To hold public meetings and institutes of teachers, (5.) To inquire and report respecting the qualifications of teachers and the management of schools.

(6.) To inspect, as often as possible, all the county academies, and, when directed by the Council of Public Instruction, any school receiving provincial aid.

(7.) To prepare printed instructions and blank forms for all purposes required by this Chapter, and furnish them, together with copies of this Chapter and the regulations of the Council, gratuitously, to the Inspectors, Boards of School Commissioners, Trustees and Teachers. (8.) To make annually, for the information of the legis lature, a report on the state of the academies and schools subject to his inspection and supervision, accompanied by full statistical tables and detailed accounts of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated under this Chapter, and offer such suggestions on educational subjects as he may deem proper.

CHAP. 32. 6. The Superintendent shall, with the approval of the Superintendent, Council of Public Instruction, withhold the provincial with approval of grant, or a portion thereof, from any teacher who has not withhold grant. complied with the requirements of this Chapter.

council, may

Governor in

Council to appoint commisaioners.

boards of com

missioners.

COMMISSIONERS OF SCHOOLS.

7. The Governor in Conncil shall have power to appoint seven or more commissioners for each district, who shall form a Board of School Commissioners, of whom five shall be a quorum.

Consolidation of 8. In every county where there are two or more separate 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 of Commissioners; and each Board of Commissioners shall have power to re-number consecutively the school sections within its district.

Proviso.

Metings of b. a. ds.

Returns, when to be lodged at

9. Each Board of Commissioners shall meet semiannually 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 meeting, and preserve such record for the Inspector, and transact any other necessary business as directed by the Board; and in case of the absence of the Chairman, the Commissioners may appoint a Chairman pro tempore.

10. Each Board of Commissioners shall fix a day, which inspector's office. shall be at least two days prior to the semi-annual meeting, on or before which the returns of all common schools and county academies shall be lodged at the district office of the Inspector.

Commissioners

to receive in

11.

Each Board of Commissioners, at its semi-annual spector's report. meeting, shall receive the Inspector's report as to the condition of the schools of the district, and the Board shall examine the several returns, and, if found satisfactory,