To raise by assessment in each year, a sum equal to the Legislative school grant apportioned to such

county.

Such sum may be

increased at the discretion of the council; and the additional sum raised may be disposed of at the pleasure of the council, to aid poor school sections or increase the county school fund.

Firstly. To cause to be levied each year upon the several Townships of such County, such sum or sums of money for the payment of the salaries of legally qualified Common School Teachers as shall at least be equal (clear of all charges of collection) to the amount of school money apportioned to the several Townships thereof for such year, by the Chief Superintendent of Schools, as notified by him to such Council, through the County Clerk: Provided always, that the sum or sums so levied, may be increased at the discretion of such Council, either to increase the County School Fund, or to give spe cial or additional aid to new or needy school sections, on the recommendation of one or more Local Superintendents: Provided also, that the sum required to be levied in such County in each year, for the salaries of legally qualified Teachers, shall be collected and paid into the hands of the County Treasurer, on OF before the fourteenth day of December; and pro ty school assess vided likewise, that in case of the non-payment of any part of such sum into the hands of the County Treasurer at that time, no Teacher shall, upon appli cation, be refused the payment of the sum to which he may be entitled from such year's County School Fund, but the County Treasurer shall pay any local Superintendent's lawful order in behalf of such Teacher, in anticipation of the payment of the County School assessment; and the County Council shall make the necessary provision to enable the County Treasurer to pay the amount of such lawful order.

Time for the payment of the coun

ment.

No teacher to be

refused the pay ment of his due, on account of the non-collection of

any part of the county school assessment.

To raise money for County Common School Library.

To appoint local Superintendents of Schools, and provide for their salaries.

Secondly. To raise by assessment, such sum or sums of money, as it shall judge expedient, for the establishment and maintenance of a County Common School Library.

Thirdly. To appoint annually, a Local Superintendent of Schools for the whole County, or for any one or more Townships in such County, as it shall judg expedient; to fix (within the limits prescribed by the thirtieth section of this Act), and provide for the salary or salaries of such Local Superintendent or Superintendents: Provided

always, that no such Local Superintendent shall have the oversight of more than one hundred Schools and provided also, that the County Clerk shall forthwith notify the Chief Superintendent of Schools of the appointment and address of each such Local Superintendent, and of the County Treasurer and shall likewise furnish him w with a copy of all proceedings of such Council, relating to School assessments and other educational matters.

No local Superintendent to have charge of more than 100 schools. County clerk to

notify the Chief Superintendent of

schools of the names and adddress of local Superintendents, also of the name and address of the county Treasurer. Το secure all school moneys.

To see that no deduction be, made from the

county common school fund.

Fourthly. To see that sufficient security be given by all officers of such Council to whom School moneys shall be entrusted; to see that no deduction be made from the School Fund by the County Treasurer or Sub-treasurer, for the receipt and payment of School moneys; to appoint, if it shall judge expedient, one or more Sub-treasurers of School moneys, for one or more Townships of such County: Provided always, that each such Sub-treasurer shall be subject to the same responsibilities and obligations in respect to the accounting for School moneys and the payment of lawful orders for such moneys given by any Local Superintendent within the parts of the County for which he is appointed Sub-treasurer, as are imposed by this Act upon each County Treasurer, in respect to the paying and accounting for School moneys,

To appoint a subtreasurer of school moneys at its discretion.

To cause the school accounts to be audited, &c.

moneys shall

Fifthly. To appoint annually, or oftener, Auditors, whose duty it shall be to audit the accounts of the County Treasurer and other officers to whom school have been intrusted, and report to such Council; and the County Clerk shall transmit to the Chief Superintendent of Schools, on or before the first day of March in each year, a certified copy of the abstract of such report, and also give any explanations relating thereto, as far as he is able, which may be required by the Chief Superintendent.

County clerk to transmit to the Chief Superintendent an abstract of such accounts, &c.

VI. CONSTITUTION AND DUTIES OF THE COUNTY BOARDS OF PUBLIC

INSTRUCTION.

XXVIII And be it enacted, That the Board of

Trustees for the County Grammar School and the

D

Trustees of the

county grammar school and local

to

superintendents constitute a county board of public instruction More than one county board may be appointed in certain cases.

Three (including

Local Superintendent or Superintendents of Schools in each County, shall constitute a Board of Public Instruction for such County: Provided always, that where there is more than one Grammar School in a County, the County Council shall have authority to divide such County into as many Circuits as there are County Grammar Sch Schools, and the Trustees of each County Grammar School and the Local Superintendent or Superintendents of Schools in each circuit, shall be a Board of Public Instruction for such circuit: Provided also, that at any lawful meeting of such Board, not less than three members, including a Local Superintendent of Schools, shall constitute a quorum for examining and giving certificates of qualification to Common School Teachers, and not less than five members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any other business : Provided likewise, that the incidental expenses connected with the meeting and proceedings of each County Board of Public Instruction shall be provided for by the Municipal Council of such County.

a superintendent) to be a quorum for the examina

tion of teachersfive for other purposes.

Incidental expen

ses to be defrayed

by the county council.

Duties of each county board of

XXIX. And be it enacted, That it shall be the public instruction duty of each County Board of Public Instruction :

To meet quarterly, &c.

To examine and give certificates

of qualification to teachers.

Firstly. To meet not less than four times a year; to determine the time and places of its own meetings, and the order of its proceedings, and the manner of recording them.

Secondly. To examine and give certificates of qualification to Teachers of Common Schools, arranging such Teachers into three classes according to their attainments and ability, as shall be prescribed in a programme of examination and instructions to be provided according to law; also to annul any such certificate as it shall judge expedient: Provided always, that no certificate of qualification shall be given to any person as a Teacher, who shall not furnish satisfactory proof of good moral character; nor to any person who shall not, at the time of applying for such certificate of qualification, be a natural born or naturalized subject of Her Majesty, or who shall not,

Proviso:

Teacher must give proof of good moral character; must be a British subject.

be general or limited.

produce a certificate of having taken the oath of allegiance to Her Majesty, before some one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County in which he shall be a resident; and all Justices of the Peace are hereby authorized to administer such oath of allegiance: Provided also, that any such certificate of qualifica- Certificate may tion, shall be general, as regards the County, or limited as to time or place, at the pleasure of the majority of the members of the County Board of Public Instruction present at such examination Provided likewise, that every such certificate shall have the signature of at least one local Superintendent of Schools.

Must have the signature of one local Superintendent of Schools.

To select textbooks for schools, from the general

authorized list.

Thirdly. To select (if deemed expedient), from a list of text books recommended or authorized by the Council of Public Instruction, such books as they shall think best adapted for the use of the Common such County or Circuit; and to ascertain and recommend the best facilities for procuring such books.

Fourthly. To adopt all such lawful means in their power as they shall judge expedient, to advance the interests and usefulness of Common Schools, to promote the establishment of School Libraries, and to diffuse useful knowledge in such County or Circuit.

VII. DUTIES OF LOCAL SUPERINTENDENTS OF

Schools of

To facilitate the procuring of such books.

To provide for the establishment of a county school library.

To promote the interests of schools and the diffusion of useful knowledge gener

ally.

SCHOOLS.

dent of Schools. To be entitled to a remuneration of not less than one pound per school under his charge,

XXX. And be it enacted, that each Local Su- LocalSuperintenperintendent of Common Schools, appointed as provided for in the twenty-seventh section of this Act, shall be entitled, annually, to not less than one pound currency per School placed under his charge, together with any additional remuneration or allowance Council appointing him shall grant; and such Superntendent shall be paid the same in quarterly instalments by the County Treasurer.

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XXXI. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of each Local Superintendent of Schools:

which the

To be paid quarterly by the treasurer of the county.

Duties of Local Superintendents of Schools,

Todistribute the coraron school fund among the "several school sections accord

school

ing to the ratio of

attendance,unless otherwise directed.

First. As soon as he shall have received from the County Clerk a notification of the amount of money apportioned to the Township or Townships within the limits of his charge, to apportion the same (unless otherwise instructed by the Chief Superintendent of Schools), among the several school sections entitled to receive it, according to the rates of the average attendance of pupils attending each Common School, (the mean attendance of pupils for both summer and winter being taken), as compared with the whole average number of pupils attending the Common Schools of such Township.

On the order of trustees to give cheques to teach'ers upon the country or subCounty treasurer for school moneys.

Conditions of giving such cheques.

Secondly. To give to any qualified Teacher, and to no other, on the order of the Trustees of any school section, a cheque upon the County Treasurer or sub-Treasurer, for any sum or sums of money apportioned and due to such section: Provided always, that he shall not pay any such order of the Trustees of any school section, from whom no satisfactory annual school report shall have been received for the year ending the last day of the December preceding; nor unless it shall appear by such report, that a school has been kept by a qualified Teacher in such section for at least six months during the year Such conditions ending at the date of such report: Provided also, that the foregoing condition shall not apply to the order or orders of Trustees in any new school section, for money apportioned and due to such section.

not to apply to new school sections.

Το visit each school at least once a-quarter. Duties at such visitations.

Thirdly. To visit each Common School within his jurisdiction, at least once in each quarter; and at the time of each such visit to examine into the state and condition of the School, as respects the progress of the pupils in learning, the order and discipline observed, the system of instruction pursued, the mode of keeping the school registers, the average attendance of pupils, the character and condition of the building and premises, and to give such advice as he shall judge proper.

To deliver a pub. lic lecture in each

Fourthly. To deliver in each school section, at least once a-year, a public lecture on some subject least once a-year connected with the objects, principles, and means of

school section at