Where other County Grammar Schools shall be Situated.

3. All other Grammar Schools established, on or before the first January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, shall be continued at the places where they are respectively held; but the Board of Trustees of each of the said Schools may change the place of holding such School, by a resolution to be passed for that purpose and approved of by the Governor in Council and the place of holding any Grammar School established since the first January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four, may be changed by the County Council of the County within which it is established.

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Investment of income from Grammar School Lands.

4. All moneys arising from the sale of lands at any time set apart for the encouragement of Grammar Schools in Upper Canada, and not specially granted to, or vested in, or for the benefit of any particular College, Grammar School, or other Seminary or place of Education, or otherwise departed with by the Crown, and all annual grants which have been or may after this Act takes effect, be made by Parliament, or which may be otherwise available from any other sources for that purpose, shall form a fund to be called The Upper Canada Grammar School Fund, and shall be invested in Government or other securities by the direction of the Governor in Council.

Conditions of Special Grant to Senior Schools.

5. Out of the annual income of such Fund, the sum of four hundred dollars shall be appropriated for the teacher of the Senior Grammar School in each County, (unless the average number of scholars be under ten,) and if the average number of scholars be under ten, then the sum of two hundred dollars. shall be so appropriated.

Annual Income to be apportioned by Chief Superintendent.

6. After deducting such yearly sum of four hundred dollars or two hundred dollars appropriated for each senior Grammar

School as aforesaid, the Chief Superintendent of Education shall annually apportion the residue of such annual income to the several Counties and Unions of Counties in Upper Canada, according to the ratio of population in each County and Union of Counties as compared with the population of Upper Canada.

Defective Census Provided Against.

7. If, in case of a defective census, the Superintendent thinks it expedient, he may, with the approbation of the Governor in Council, apportion such residue according to the best evidence which he can obtain of the relative proportions of such population, having respect to an equitable apportionment thereof, according to the said ratio of population.

Grammar School Apportionment Payable Half-yearly.

8. The sums of money annually apportioned to each County, as aforesaid, shall be payable to the Treasurer of the County entitled to receive it, one-half on or before the first day of July, and the other half on or before the thirty-first day of December, in each year, in such manner as may be determined by the Governor.

To be Expended in the payment of Teachers' Salaries alone. And such moneys shall be expended in the payment of the salaries of Teachers, and for no other purpose.

Apportionment to each Grammar School.

9. The sums of money apportioned out of the Grammar School Fund to each County, shall be distributed amongst the several Grammar Schools of the County, within the restrictions imposed by this Act, and under such rules and regulations as may from time to time be made by the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada, and approved by the Governor in Council.

$20,000 Granted for Superior Education.

10. In addition to the sums applicable in aid of Grammar Schools as aforesaid, or under the one hundred and twentieth

section of the Act respecting Common Schools in Upper Canada, the sum of twenty thousand dollars shall be yearly appropriated out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, for the encouragement of Superior Education in Upper Canada.

This Grant to be Distributed by Parliament.

And shall be distributed among the several Collegiate Educational Institutions in Upper Canada, or such of them as may be designated by an annual vote of the Provincial Parlia

ment.

Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada to appoint Inspectors of Grammar Schools.

11. The Council of Public Instruction shall appoint Inspectors of Grammar Schools, prescribe their duties and fix their remuneration.

Grammar Schools to prepare Pupils for the University of Toronto, or any affiliated Colleges-Programme of Studies.

12. In each County Grammar School provision shall be made for giving, by a Teacher or Teachers of competent ability and good morals, instruction in all the higher branches of a practical English and Commercial Education, including the Elements of Natural Philosophy and Mechanics, and also in the Latin and Greek Languages, and Mathematics so far as to prepare students for University College or any College affiliated to the University of Toronto,-according to a programme of studies and general rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada, and approved by the Governor in Council.*

*This Programme, Rules and Regulations, will be found in the Appendix to the Chief Superintendent's Annual Report for 1858, pages 106-117, a copy of which has been sent to each Board of Grammar School Trustees addressed to the Chairman.

Penalty for not Observing the Regulations.

And no Grammar School shall be entitled to receive any part of the Grammar School Fund, which is not conducted according to such programme, rules and regulations.

Qualification of Grammar School Masters.

13. No person (except a Graduate of some University) shall be appointed Master of a Grammar School, unless he has previously obtained a Certificate of qualification from a Committee of Examiners (one of whom shall be the Head Master of the Normal School,) appointed by the Council of Public Instruction.

Heads of Colleges, affiliated to the University of Toronto, to be Members of the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada.

14. The President of University College and the President or other Head of each of the Colleges in Upper Canada affiliated to the University of Toronto, shall, for the purposes of this Act, be Members of the Council of Public Instruction. Council of Public Instruction to Prescribe Text Books, Rules, &c.

15. Such Council shall prepare and prescribe a list of textbooks, programme of studies, and general rules and regulations for the organization and government of the County Grammar Schools, to be approved by the Governor in Council, and shall also appoint Inspectors of Grammar Schools, prescribe their duties and fix their remuneration.

DUTIES OF MUNICIPAL COUNCILS IN REGARD TO GRAMMAR

SCHOOLS.

16. The Municipal Council of each County, Township, City, Town and Incorporated Village, may, from time to time, levy and collect by assessment such sums as it judges expedient, to purchase the sites of, to rent, build, repair, furnish, warm and keep in order, Grammar School Houses and their appendages

grounds and enclosures, and for procuring apparatus and textbooks, and for providing the salary of the Teachers, and for all other necessary expenses of such County Grammar Schools.

Municipal Assessment, to whom Payable, and when.

And all sums so collected shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the County Grammar School for which the assessment is made. And the sums raised by local assessment or subscription for the support of Grammar Schools shall be payable each year on or before the fourteenth day of December.

Additional Grammar Schools may be Established.

17. The several County Councils may establish additional Grammar Schools within the limits of their Municipality, and appoint Trustees therefor according to the twentieth Section of this Act.

Condition.

But no new Grammar School shall be established until the state of the Grammar School Fund permits the application of a sum equal at the least to two hundred dollars annually to such new school, after deducting for each Senior County Grammar School the sum of four hundred dollars, and for each of the other Grammar Schools within such County, the sum of two hundred dollars annually.

[The Municipal Institutions Act, chapter fifty-four of the Consolidated Statutes for Upper Canada, also contains the following enactments:

[286. The Council of every County, City, and Town sepa rated, may pass By-laws for the following purposes :

Lands for Grammar Schools.

[1. For obtaining in such part of the County, or of any City or Town separated within the County, as the wants of the people may most require, the real property requisite for erecting County Grammar School Houses thereon, and for other Grammar School purposes, and for preserving, improving and repairing such School Houses, and for disposing of such property when no longer required.