IV. COUNCILS AND TRUSTEES IN CITIES, TOWNS, AND INCORPORATED

VILLAGES, AND THEIR DUTIES. ›

Powers of Municipal Councils in Cities & Towns.

XXI. And be it enacted, ted, That the Council or Common Council of each City or incorporated Town in Upper Canada, shall be, and is hereby invested, within its limits and liberties as prescribed by law, and shall be subject to the same obligations as are the Municipal Counci! of each County and the Municipality of each Township by the eighteenth and twenty-seventh sections of this Act: Provided nevertheless, that the appointment of the Local Superintendent of Schools for such City or Town, shall be made by the Board of School Trustees for such City or Town,

be elected in each ward of C

ties and Towns

'XXII. And be it enacted, That in each ward in- Two Trustees to to which any City or Town is, or shall be divided according to law, two fit and proper persons shall be elected School Trustees by a majority of all the taxable inhabitants of such ward; one of which Trustees (to be Mode of retiring determined by lot, at the first Trustee meeting after from office. their election) shall retire from office the second Wednesday of January following his election; and the second of whom shall continue in office one year longer, and until his successor is elected; and the persons thus elected shall form one Board of School Trustees for such City or Town.

Persons thus elected to form a Board of Trustees.

be elected in each ward of a City or Town, the second Wed

nesday in January of each year. always, that

XXIII. And be it enacted, That on the second One Trustee to Wednesday in January of each year, at the time prescribed by the second section of this Act, one fit and proper person shall be elected Trustee in each ward of every City and Town, and shall continue in office two years, and until his successor is elected: Provided such election shall be held at the place where the last municipal election was held for such ward, and under the di- Mode of holding rection of the same returning officer, or, in his default, such election. of such person as the electors present shall choose; and such eleetion shall be conducted in the same manner as an ordinary municipal election in each ward of such City or Town,

tion.

XXIV. And be it enacted, That the Board of To be a corpora School Trustees for each City and Town, shall be a

Duties of the Board of Trustees in each City or Town.

thereof may

corporation under the name of "The Board of
School Trustees of the City (or Town) of
;" (the first meeting

in the County of

be called in the City or Town Council room by any Trustee), and it shall be the duty of such Board,

To appoint cer

tain officers, &c.

Firstly. To appoint annually or oftener, a Chairman, Secretary, Superintendent of Schools, and one or more collectors of school rates, (if required); and to appoint the times and places of their meetings, and the mode of calling them, of conducting and recording their proceedings, and of keeping all their School accounts.

To hold School Secondly. To take possession of all Common School Property, &c. property, and to accept and hold as a Corporation all property which may have been acquired or given for Common School purposes in such City or Town, by any title whatsoever; to manage or dispose of such property, and all moneys or income for Common School purposes, until the power hereby given shall be taken away or modified by law, and to apply the same, or the proceeds, to the objects for which they have been given or acquired.

To make all Thirdly. To do whatever they may judge expeneedful provisions in respect to dient with regard to purchasing or renting school Common School sites and premises; building, repairing, furnishing, premises, textbooks, &c. warming and keeping in order the school-house or school-houses, and its or their appendages, lands, enclosures and movable property; for procuring suitable apparatus and text-books; and for the establishment and maintenance of a school library or school libraries.

To determine the number and kind of Schools; em

ploy Teachers,

&c.

Fourthly. To determine the number, sites, kind and description of schools which shall be established and maintained in such City or Town; the Teacher or Teachers who shall be employed, the terms of employing them, the amount of their remuneration, and the duties which they are to perform; the salary of the Superintendent of Schools appointed by them and his duties; and to adopt, at their discretion, such measures as they shall judge expedient, in concurrence with the Trustees of the County Grammar School, for uniting one or more of the Common Schools of the City or Town with such Grammar School.

Fifthly. To appoint annually, or oftener, if they shall judge expedient, for the special charge, oversight, and management of each school within such City or Town, and under such regulations as they shall think proper to prescribe, a committee of not more than three persons for each school.

To appoint a committee of three to take the special charge of each school.

To make an estimate of the expenses of the schools.

Sixthly. To prepare from time to time, and lay before the Municipal Council of such City or Town, an estimate of the sum or sums which they shall judge expedient, for paying the whole or part of the salaries of Teachers; for purchasing or renting school premises; for building, renting, repairing warming, furnishing and keeping in order the school-houses and their appendages and grounds; for procuring suitable apparatus and text-books for the schools; for the establishment and maintenance of school libraries; and for all the necessary expenses of the schools under their charge; and it shall be the duty The Municipal of the Common Council or Council of such City or Town, to provide such sum or sums in such manner as shall be desired by said Board of School Trustees.

Council to provide for such expenses.

To levy school rate bills at their

discretion.

Seventhly. To levy at their discretion, any rates upon the parents or guardians of children attending any school under their charge; and to employ the same means for collecting such rates, as Trustees of Common Schools in any Township may do under the twelfth section of this Act: Provided always, that all moneys thus collected shall be paid The sums thus into the hands of the Chamberlain or Treasurer, of such City or Town for the Common School purposes of the same, and shall be subject to the order of the said Board of School Trustees.

Eighthly. To give orders to Teachers and other school officers and creditors upon the Chamberlain or Treasurer of such City or Town, for the sum or sums which shall be due them.

collected to be

paid into

the

hands of the Chamberlain Treasurer.

or

To give orders

for the payment

of Teachers, &c.

To call annual or

special school

Ninthly. To call and give notice of annual and special school meetings of the taxable inhabitants of meetings. such City or Town, or of any Ward in it, in the same manner and under the same regulations as are prescribed in the twelfth section of this Act, for the appointment of annual and special school meet

office of persons elected to fill vacancies.

Continuance in ings in the school sections of Townships: Provided always, that any person elected at any special ward school meeting, to fill a vacancy which shall have occurred in the Board of Trustees, from any cause whatever, shall hold office only during the unexpired part of the term for which the person whose place shall have become vacant, was elected to serve.

To see that the pupils are duly supplied with proper text books, &c.

To have their school conducted according to law.

To prepare and publish annual school reports,

&c.

Tenthly. To see that all the pupils in the schools are duly supplied with an uniform series of authorized text-books; to appoint a Librarian, and take charge of the school library or libraries, whenever established.

Eleventhly. To see that all the schools under their charge are conducted, according to the regulations authorized by law; and, at the close of each year, to prepare and publish, in one or more of the public papers, or otherwise, for the information of the inhabitants of such City or Town, an annual report of their proceedings, and of the progress and state of the schools under their charge; of the receipts and expenditure of all school moneys; and to prepare and transmit annually, before the fifteenth of January, to the Chief Superintendent of Schools, a report, signed by a majority of the Trustees, and containing all the information required in the reports of Common School Trustees, by the twelfth section of this Act, and any additional items of information which may be lawfully required, and made according to a form which shall be provided for that purpose by the Chief Superintendent of Schools.

To prepare and transmit an annual report to the

Chief Superinten

dent of Schools.

Contents of such report.

Powers of MuniXXV. And be it enacted, That the Municipality cipal Councils in incorporated vil- of every incorporated Village, shall possess and lages, exercise all the powers, and be subject to all the obligations with regard to the levying and raising of moneys for Common School purposes, and for the establishment and maintenance of school libraries, within the limits of such incorporated Village, as are conferred and imposed by this Act upon the Municipal Corporations of Cities: Provided always, that on the second Wednesday in January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, in each such incorporated Village, at the place of the then last annual election of Council

First election of trustees in such villages, the 2nd Wednesday in January, 1851...

How such elections to be held and conducted.

Six Trustees to

be elected in each incorporated vilage.

Mode of retire

ment from office.

lors, there shall be a meeting of the taxable inhabitants of such incorporated Village, and which meeting shall be organized and conducted in the same manner as is prescribed in the twenty-third section of this Act, for the conducting of annual school meetings in the wards of Cities and Towns; and at such meeting, six fit and proper persons, from among the resident freeholders or householders, shall be elected School Trustees for such incorporated Village; and the persons thus chosen shall be divided by lot into three classes, of two individuals each, to be numbered one, two, three; the first class shall hold office one year, the second, two years, and the third, three years, and until their successors are elected; but each Trustee retiring from office shall be eligible to be re-elected with his own consent : Provided secondly, that there shall be a like school Two Trustees to meeting annually in each such incorporated Village, ensuing annual at which two persons shall be chosen Trustees, in school meeting. the place of the two retiring from office, and shall continue in office two years, and until their successors are elected: Provided thirdly, that the first annual school meeting in each incorpo rated Village, shall be called by the Town-reeve of such Village, who shall cause notices to be posted in

be elected at each

Mode of calling the first annual

school meeting.

at least six public places of such Village, at least six days before the time of holding such meeting.

XXVI. And be it enacted, That the Trustees elected in each incorporated Village, according to the provisions of the preceding section, shall succeed to all the rights, powers, obligations and liabilities of the present Trustees, of such incorporated Village, and shall be a Corporation under the title of the "Board of School Trustees of the incorporated Village of in the County of · " and shall possess all the powers, and be subject to all the obligations, within the limits of such incorporated Village, as are conferred and imposed by the twenty-fourth section of this Act, upon the Trustees of Cities and Towns.

The trustees thus elected in each

incorporated village to succeed to all the rights, ob

ligations, &c., of the present trustees.

To be a corporation.

Their

powers. obligations, and duties the same as those of trustees in cities and towns.

V. DUTIES OF COUNTY MUNICIPAL COUNCILS.

XXVII. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Municipal Council of each County:

Duties of county councils.