Aiding Grammar Schools.

[2. For making provision in aid of such Grammar Schools as may be deemed expedient.

Pupils competing for University Prizes.

[3. For making a permanent provision for defraying the expenses of the attendance at the University of Toronto, and at the Upper Canada College and Royal Grammar School there, of such of the pupils of the Public Grammar Schools of the County as are unable to incur the expense but are desirous of, and, in the opinion of the respective Masters of such Grammar Schools, possess competent attainments for, competing for any Scholarship, Exhibition, or other similar Prize, offered by such University or College.

[4. For making similar provision for the attendance at any County Grammar School, for like purposes, of pupils of the Common Schools of the County.

Endowing Fellowships.

[5. For endowing such Fellowships, Scholarships or Exhibitions, and other similar prizes, in the University of Toronto, and in the Upper Canada College and Royal Grammar School there, for competition among the pupils of the Public Grammar Schools of the County, as the Council deems expedient for the encouragement of learning amongst the youth thereof.]

CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.

18. The Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, notify each County Council, through the Clerk of the Council, of the annual apportionment of Grammar School moneys to such County, and shall give notice of the same to the Minister of Finance.

Chief Superintendent to report Annually on Grammar Schools.

19. The Chief Superintendent of Education shall make annually to the Governor, on or before the first day of July, a report of the actual state of the Grammar Schools throughout Upper Canada, showing the amount of moneys expended in connection with each, and from what sources derived, with such suggestions for their improvement as he deems useful and expedient.

The Chief Superintendent to administer the Law.*

He shall see that the County Grammar School Fund apportioned by him, is, in all cases, applied to the purpose hereinbefore prescribed, and that each County Grammar School is conducted according to the rules and regulations legally established.

To furnish Act, Forms and Regulations.

And he shall prepare suitable forms, and give such instructions as he judges necessary and proper for making all reports and conducting all proceedings under this Act, and shall cause the same, with a sufficient number of copies of this Act, and so far as the same relate to Grammar Schools, copies of the general rules and regulations established and approved of as aforesaid, to be printed in a convenient form and transmitted to the parties required to execute the provisions of this Act.

GRAMMAR SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

Appointment by the County Council of Grammar School Trus

tees.

20. In each County in which one or more Grammar Schools are established, there shall be a Board of Trustees, consisting of not less than six or more than eight fit and proper persons, appointed by the County Council in the manner hereinafter provided.

Quorum.

Of which Board three shall be a quorum for the transaction of business.

Order of the Retirement of Trustees.

21. The Members of each Board of Trustees for each Grammar School in each County, in office at the time this Act comes into force, shall continue in office as such Trustees until

* All communications with the government relating to schools in Upper Canada, conducted under the authority of any Act of the Legislature should be enclosed to the Educational Department, Toronto; otherwise they will be referred back to that Department to be brought before His Excellency through the proper officer.

the thirty-first day of January then next, unless a vacancy occurs for which provision is hereinafter made, and on the said thirty-first of January, and annually on the thirty-first of January in each year, two of the Members of each Board of Trustees for the time being shall retire from the said board in rotation according to seniority in office.

Occasional Trustee vacancies supplied.

22. The County Council shall fill up any occasional vacancy in the said Board, and the person appointed to fill such vacancy shall hold office for the unexpired part of the term for which the person causing such vacancy had been appointed to

serve.

Annual appointments of Trustees by the County Council.

23. The County Council shall, at its first meeting to be beld after the first day of January in each year, appoint two Trustees to fill the vacancies caused by the annual retirement of two Trustees as aforesaid; but any retiring Trustee may (with his own consent) be re-appointed, and all Trustees for the time being shall hold office until their successors are appointed as herein provided.

Grammar School Trustees to be a Corporation.

24. The Board of Trustees of each County Grammar School shall be a Corporation by the name of "The Trustees of the County Grammar School," prefixing to the term “County" the name of the City, Town, or Village within which such Grammar School is situated.

Powers of the Trustee Corporation.

And shall have and possess all the powers usually enjoyed by Corporations so far as the same are necessary for carrying out the purposes of this Act;* and they shall meet at or near

By the Provincial Statutes' Interpretation Act, chapter five of the Consolidated Statutes for Canada, section six, sub-section twenty-four, Corporations are required to have a Common Seal, which should be at

the place where each such School is held, on the first Wednesday in February in each year.

Duties of the Board of Trustees.

25. It shall be the duty of such Trustees

*

To appoint Officers of the Board, &c.

(1.) Toappoint annually, or oftener, from amongst themselves, a Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer, and subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, to fix the times and places of the Board meetings, the mode of calling and conducting such meetings, and of keeping a full and correct account of the proceedings of such meetings.

To take Charge of County Grammar School.

(2.) To take charge of the County Grammar School for which they are appointed Trustees, and the buildings and lands appertaining to it.

To Appoint and Remove Masters, Teachers, Officers, &c.

(3.) To remove if they see fit, and in case of vacancies, appoint the Master and other Teachers in such School, and to fix their salaries and prescribe their duties.

(4.) To appoint such other officers and servants in such School as they may judge expedient, and fix their remuneration.

To Erect, repair and furnish School, &c.

(5.) To do whatever they deem expedient with regard to erecting, repairing, warming, furnishing and keeping in order, the buildings of such School and its appendages, lands and

tached to all documents emanating from the Board, all agreements, contracts, &c.

The Seal is required as authenticating the concurrence of the whole body corporate. Marshall v. School Trustees. No. 4. Kitley. 4. C. P. R. (U.C.) 375.

*The ninety-fourth and ninety-fifth sections of the Upper Canada School Act of 1850, in the Consolidated Statutes, make Grammar School Trustees members of the County Board of Public Instruction.

enclosures belonging thereto, and to apply (if necessary) for the requisite sums to be raised by Municipal authority for any such purposes ;

To Impose, and Sue for Rate Bill, on parents.

6. To settle the amount to be paid by parents and guardians for each pupil attending such School, and to fix the times of payment, and apply the moneys received therefor as they may judge expedient towards making up the salaries of Teachers, providing the proper apparatus, maps, text-books and registers, and defraying any other necessary expenses of such School; and they may sue for and recover such amounts, and when collected the same shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the said Board of Trustees :

To unite with Common School Board on certain conditions.

(7.) To employ in concurrence with the Trustees of the School Section, or the Board of Common School Trustees in the Township, Village, Town or City in which such Grammar School may be situate, such means as they may judge expedient, for uniting one or more of the Common Schools of such Township, Village, Town or City, or departments of them, with such. Grammar School; but no such union shall take place without ample provision being made for giving instruction to the pupils in the elementary English branches, by duly qualified English Teachers;

Powers of the Joint Board.*

And the schools thus united shall be under the management of a Joint Board of Grammar and Common School Trustees,

*The powers of the Joint Board include the direct levying of propertyrates, by the Board itself or an application from it to the Municipal Council to levy and collect whatever sums may be required. See the several clauses of the twenty-seventh and seventy-ninth sections of the Common School Act of 1850, in this Pamphlet. The union of the Boards implies a harmonious system and a gradation of schools; the Grammar School being