6. To visit all Common Schools within the Township, Town or City, at least once a year, and oftener, if he shall deem it necessary.

7-To examine all persons offering themselves as Candidates for teaching Common Schools within the Township, Town or City, and on being satisfied of the qualification of the Candidates in respect of moral character, learning and ability, to grant certificates in such form as shall be prescribed by the Superintendent of Common Schools; which certificates shall be valid for one year, and shall entitle the holder thereof to teach a Common School within such Township, Town or City, respectively.

8-To annul any certificate given by him or any of his predecessors in office, whenever he shall see just cause for so doing, by giving at least six weeks notice in writing to the Teacher who shall hold it, with the reasons which have led him to annul such certificate, and giving the same notice and reasons to the Trustees of the School District in which he may be employed, and leaving with the Teacher, if he shall think himself aggrieved by the decision, the power to appeal by Memorial to the review and decision of the County Superintendent.

XV. And be it enacted, that every Superintendent of Common Schools for any Township, Town or City, shall make out and transmit to the County Superintendent, between the first day of January and the first day of March in each and every year, a report in writing, in a form to be prescribed by the Chief Superintendent, bearing date on the first day of January in the year of its transmission, and stating:

1. The whole number of School Districts and parts of Districts, separately, set off within the Township, Town or City.

2.-The Districts and parts of Districts, from which reports shall have been made to the Township, Town or City Superintendent within the time limited for that purpose.

3.-The length of time a School shall have been kept in each of such Districts or parts of Districts, distinguishing what portion of that time the School shall have been kept by qualified Teachers.

4.-The amount of public moneys received in each of the said Districts and parts of Districts, and also the further amounts raised by the Trustees for School purposes, and the application of the same.

He shall give security.

Alterations

of School Dis trict.

No apportionment to

5. The number of Children taught in each over the age of five and under sixteen years; and also the number of children residing in each over the age of five and under sixteen years.

6.—The whole amount of the moneys received by the Superintendent, or his predecessor in office, during the year ending at the date of the report, and since the date of the preceding last report; distinguishing the amount received from the County Superintendent on account of the public money apportioned, the amount from the Township rate, and the amounts from any other and what sources.

7.-The manner in which such moneys have been expended, and whether any and what part remains unexpended, and from what cause.

XVI. And be it enacted, that every Superintendent of Common Schools for any Township, Town or City, shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, enter into a bond with two or more sufficient sureties to such amount as shall be required by the Township, Town or City Council, and such bond shall be to the Township, Town or City, and the sureties shall be to the satisfaction of the Township, Town or City Council, and such bond shall be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of such Superintendent.

XVII. And be it enacted, that no alteration of any School District, made without the consent of the Trustees thereof, shall take effect until three months after notice in writing shall have been given thereof to one or more of such Trustees.

XVIII. And be it enacted, that in making the apportionment of School moneys School Dis- among the several School Districts, no share shall be apportioned to any District no report for or part of a District, from which no sufficient annual report shall have been the preceding received for the year ending on the last day of December preceding the apportion

tricts, having

year.

Nor unless

certain other conditions

plied with.

ment.

XIX. And be it enacted, that no part of such moneys shall be apportioned or paid to any District or part of a District, unless it shall appear by such report, have been com- that a School had been kept therein for at least three months during the year ending at the date of such report, by a qualified Teacher, and that all moneys received from the Township, Town or City Superintendent during the year ending at the date of such report, have been faithfully applied in paying for the compensation of such Teacher.

Changes in

XX. And be it enacted, that if after the annual reports shall have been received, School Dis- and before the apportionment of the School moneys shall have been made by the

the limits of

Superintendent,

affect the ap

Superintendent, a District shall be duly altered or a new District formed, so as to tricts how to render an apportionment founded solely on the annual reports unjust, as between portionment in two or more of the said Districts, the Township, Town or City Superintendent certain shall make an apportionment among such Districts according to the number of children in each over the age of five and under sixteen years, ascertaining that number by the best evidence in his power.

XXI. And be it enacted, that when a School District shall have been formed at such time previous to the first of January as not to have allowed a reasonable time to have kept a School therein for the term of three months, such District having been formed out of a District or Districts in which a School shall have been kept for three months by a Teacher duly qualified during the year preceding the first day of January, the said new District shall be entitled to its allowance of School moneys; and the same shall be allotted by the Superintendent, according to the number of children over the age of five and under sixteen therein, to be ascertained according to the best evidence in the power of the Superintendent. XXII. And be it enacted, that all moneys apportioned by the Superintendent of any Township, Town or City under this Act, to the Trustees of a District or part of a District, which shall have remained in the hands of the Superintendent for one year after such apportionment, by reason of the Trustees neglecting or refusing to receive the same, shall be added to the moneys next thereafter to be appropriated by such Superintendent, and shall be apportioned and paid therewith and in like manner.

XXIII. And be it enacted, that in case any School moneys received by the Superintendent of any Township, Town or City, cannot be apportioned by him for the term of two years after the same are received, by reason of the non compliance of all the School Districts in the Township, Town or City, with the provisions of this Act, such moneys shall be returned by him to the County Superintendent, to be by him apportioned and distributed together and in the same manner with the moneys next thereafter to be received by him for the use of Common Schools.

The

same

as to new Dis

trict

formed

out of others.

Appropriation of moneys not applied for by the TrusSchool District.

tees of any

And of mo

neys which

cannot be ap

portioned by the local Su

perintendent.

School Districts forming part of two ad

ships.

XXIV. And be it enacted, that whenever it may be necessary or convenient to form a District out of two or more adjoining Townships, the Superintendents of such adjoining Townships shall jointly regulate such District, and shall each visit joining Townthe School therein established; and in such cases, or where any School-House shall stand on the division line of any two Townships, the Superintendent of either Township may examine into the qualification of any person offering to teach in such District, and may give him a certificate of qualification, and may annul the same, as herein before provided.

Proceedings in case the Superinten

dent of a City,

Town or

Township shall fail to make his

port.

re

Such Super. intendents to render ac

over balances,

&c.

XXV. And be it enacted, that in case the Superintendent of any Township, Town or City shall not, on or before the first day of March in any year, transmit to the County Superintendent his report, as hereinbefore provided, it shall be the duty of the County Superintendent to give immediate notice of such neglect to the Chief Superintendent of Common Schools, and to the Warden or Mayor of such Township, Town or City; and the share of the School moneys apportioned to such Township, Town or City, may, in the discretion of the County Superintendent of Common Schools, be withheld and be distributed amongst the other Townships, Towns and Cities in the County, from which the necessary reports shall have been received; and the Superintendent neglecting to make such report, shall forfeit to the use of his Township, Town or City, the sum of ten pounds; and when the share of School moneys apportioned to such Township, Town or City, or any part of such moneys, shall thus be lost to the Township, Town or City, the Superintendent guilty of the neglect aforesaid shall further forfeit to the Township, Town or City, the full amount of the moneys so lost with interest, to be recovered of him and his sureties; and it shall be the duty of the Township, Town or City Treasurer, upon notice of such loss from the County Superintendent of Common Schools, to prosecute without delay, in the name of the Township, Town or City, for such forfeiture, and the moneys recovered shall be distributed and paid by such Treasurer, to the several School Districts and parts of Districts, in the same manner as it would have been the duty of the Superintendent to have distributed and paid the same, if received by him as Common School money.

XXVI. And be it enacted, that each Township, Town and City Superintendent shall keep a just and true account of all School moneys received and expended by counts, pay him in each year, and shall deliver the same to the Township, Town or City Clerk, to be by him laid before the Council; and in case of the removal from office of any Township, Town or City Superintendent, or in case of his resignation or removal of residence from the Township, Town or City, he shall immediately thereupon render to his successor in office a just and true account of all School moneys received and expended by him during the year, and of all balances in his hands, and shall forthwith pay over all such balances to his said successor, who shall appropriate the same in like manner as it should have been appropriated by such Superintendent had he remained in office; and if any such vacancy shall happen by the death of any Superintendent, his personal representatives or sureties shall render such account and pay over such balance; and every Superintendent who shall refuse or neglect to render such account or to pay over such balance, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five pounds, which, together with such balance, so far as the same can be ascertained, and interest thereon, shall be recoverable from such Superintendent or from his sureties, at the suit of such successor, whose duty it shall be to suc for the same in his name of office.

Penalty for non-compli

ance.

XXVII. And be it enacted, that the Township, Town or City Clerk, in each Township, Town or City, respectively, shall be the Clerk of the Superintendent of Common Schools for such Township, Town or City, and he shall receive and keep all reports made to the Superintendent by the trustees of School Districts, and all books and papers belonging to the office of the Superintendent, and shall prepare, under his direction, all his reports, estimates and apportionments of school money, and shall record the same and his other proceedings in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall receive all such communications as may be directed to him by the Superintendent of Common Schools, and shall dispose of the same in the manner directed therein, and shall transmit to the County Superintendent all such reports as shall be made for him by the Township, Town or City Superintendent, and generally shall do and execute all such things as belong to his office, and may be required of him by the Superintendent for his Township, Town or City.

XXVIII. And be it enacted, that it shall be the duty of every Township, Town or City Clerk to report in writing to the County Superintendent for the County in which his Township, Town or City may be situate, every appointment of a Township, Town or City Superintendent which may be made from time to time by the Township, Town or City Council, and the name and address of the person so appointed, and also every vacancy occurring in the said Office of Township, Town or City Superintendent, within seven days after any such appointment or vacancy shall have taken place.

XXIX. And be it enacted, that there shall be a County Superintendent of Common Schools in each County, to be appointed by the Court of Wardens for such County, and to hold office during their pleasure; and in case the Court of Wardens shall neglect or refuse to appoint such Superintendent at their first meeting in each year, or at their first meeting after any vacancy may have occurred, it shall and may be lawful for the Governor of this Province to make such appointment, and the person so appointed shall hold office until a successor shall have been appointed by the Court of Wardens, and shall have given the security required by this Act.

XXX. And be it enacted, that it shall be the duty of the County Clerk, within seven days after the close of the first meeting of the Court of Wardens, held in any year or after any vacancy in the office of County Superintendent may have occurred, to inform the Chief Superintendent of Common Schools whether the Court of Wardens have or have not appointed a County Superintendent of common schools; and in case they have made such an appointment, it shall be the duty of the said County Clerk, to acquaint the said Superintendent with the name and

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