Rules for of normal schools. academy, model school or elementary school under the control of school commissioners or trustees. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 17. 2220. Regulations are made by the Council of Public government Instruction or by the Committees thereof, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, for the management of normal schools, and saving always the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of article 2217, for prescribing the terms and conditions on which students shall be received and instructed therein, the course of instruction to be followed, the mode and manner in which registers and books shall be kept, diplomas granted to students, and in which the reports, which the principal of each normal school is required to make to the superintendent, shall be made. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 21 § 2; 39 V. c. 15, s. 16. SECTION III. Lieutenant- may cause certain property on Jacques Cartier square, Mont real, to be sold. Mode of sale shall be fixed council and by order in notice shall be given. Proceeds of sale may be applied to normal PROVISIONS RESPECTING THE JACQUES-CARTIER NORMAL SCHOOL. 2221. It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to cause to be sold, by public auction, the properties belonging to the Government of this Province, situate in the city of Montreal, on Notre-Dame street, between Claude lane and Jacques-Cartier square, and on the said Jacques-Cartier square, together with all other properties situate in the same locality, which may be transferred and assigned to the Government of this Province by the Government of Canada. 2. The order in council passed for that purpose shall estab lish the division into lots of the said properties, the upset price of each of such lots, the period at which possession thereof shall be given to the purchasers, and the terms of payment; and notice thereof shall be given, at least three months before the sale, in the Quebec Official Gazette, and in at least four other newspapers, two whereof shall be published in the French and two in the English language; and, if deemed expedient, the said sale may be adjourned and advertised anew, in the same manner, but in such case notice for one month will suffice. 3. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may employ the proceeds of the said sale in the purchase of ground and in the construction of buildings suitable, in the first place, for the Jacques-Cartier Normal School, in or near Montreal, and Montreal and secondly, if the amount thereof admits, for the Laval Normal School, in or near Quebec. 35 V., c. 14, ss. 1, 2 and 3. schools at Quebec. Joint school may be held by Fabrique CHAPTER SEVENTH. FABRIQUE SCHOOLS. 2222. The Fabrique of any parish, and the school commissioners or trustees thereof, may, by mutual agreement in due manage ers. &c., to be commissioner form, unite for one or more years the Fabrique schools in and school operation, with any of the public schools held under this title. commission2. Any Fabrique contributing not less than fifty dollars Right of curé, annually towards the support of any school under the ment of school commissioners or trustees shall thereby acquire in certain a right to the curé and church-warden in office to be commis- cases. sioners for the management of that school only, if they were not so before. union in cer 3. No Fabrique shall so unite its school to those man- Agreement aged by commissioners or trustees of another faith, except required for under an express and formal agreement with the school com- tain cases. missioners or trustees of such other faith. C. S. L. C., c. 16, s. 9; 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 102. CHAPTER EIGHTH. POLYTECHNIC SCHOOL OF MONTREAL. under Laval 2223. The special school known under the name of the Control of "Polytechnic School of Montreal," is under the control of school placed Laval University, under the same name, and with the same University. character of special school which it had before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven. 50 V. c. 21, s. 1. 2224. The curriculum of the said school, as now in Curriculum force, shall continue, but may be modified or developed by the continued. said university as may be required. 50 V. c. 21, s. 2. 2225. The appointment of the principal, the professors, Appointment and staff necessary for the good working of the said school is of staff. made by the council of the university. 50 V. c, 21, s. 3. 2226. There shall be made annually to the superintendent Report to of public instruction a report containing: superintendent. 1. The course followed at the school and the modifications or developments made in the programme; 2. The number and classification of the students; 3. The state of the collections, instruments, laboratory and library; 4. A statement of the receipts and expenditure of the school. 50 V., c. 21, s. 4. of assessor. 2227. The superintendent of public instruction may Appointment appoint an assessor to attend the examinations at the end of the year. 50 V. c. 21, s. 5. 2228. The Laval University shall, in accordance with its Diplomas to charter, deliver to the students of the Polytechnic School the be granted. diploma of civil engineer, mining engineer, mechanical engineer, or industrial engineer, or other diplomas, according to the special course followed by each. Diplomas to tion of rank 2. Mention shall be made in the diploma that the student contain men- has passed his examinations throughout the course in a satisfactory manner, or with distinction or with great distinction or with the greatest distinction, according to the disciplinary rules of the said school. 50 V., c. 21, ss. 6 and 7. obtained. Publication of names in Gazette. Classification 2229. The names of the students receiving diplomas shall be published in the Quebec Official Gazette with the standing obtained by each, established by a general average of the standing obtained throughout the course. 50 V., c. 21, s. 8. 2230. The terms employed in article 2228 for the classifiof diplomas: cation of the diplomas shall be understood as follows: 1. The diploma of civil engineer shall be granted to the student capable of conducting and executing all works of art and of construction upon the surface of the soil; Civil engineer; Mining engineer; Mechanical engineer; Industrial engineer. 2. The diploma of mining engineer shall be granted to the student capable of conducting and executing all works of discovering, extracting and working of ores and minerals and their reduction to useful metals; 3. The diploma of mechanical engineer shall be granted to the student capable of designing, combining and constructing engines and machines used in manufactures; 4. The diploma of industrial engineer shall be granted to the student capable of applying the principles of physics and chemistry to production and manufactures. 50 V., c. 21, s. 9. Academies to exercise all powers and vileges now CHAPTER NINTH. ACADEMIES. 2231. The Roman Catholic and Protestant academies already established or which may hereafter be established in enjoy all pri- any city, town or incorporated village, exercise all the powers and enjoy all the privileges appertaining to them, or which may be conferred upon them by the city, town or incorporated village in which they are or may be situated. 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 100. and hereafter granted to them. School cor 2232. It shall also be competent to the corporations of porations may school commissioners or trustees, as the case may be, in any stablish one county, counties or parts of counties, to combine for the purmortaca- pose of establishing one or more academies therein. combine to emies. The mode of procedure in such cases shall be as follows: Mode of pro1. Whenever it shall appear desirable to the Roman Cathocedure to es- lic or Protestant school commissioners or trustees, as the case tablish joint academies. may be, in any county, counties or parts of counties, or to a majority of them, that an academy or academies should be established, the several chairmen of the said school corpora School corporations to tions, shall by virtue of a resolution passed by each school appoint their corporation be appointed academy delegates on behalf of the chairmen as said corporations. delegates. The delegate last named shall convene the first meeting of Notice of these delegates by giving a written notice of eight days of the meeting; time and place of such first meeting. chairman and secretary. forwarded to by whom called. 2. At the first meeting of such academy delegates, those Election of present or a majority of them shall elect a chairman and a secretary. If, in the opinion of the majority, it is thought necessary or Petition to be desirable that one or more academies should be established in Committee if the county, counties, or parts of counties, a petition to that of opinion effect, founded on a resolution of such delegates, shall be that academy pre- is necessary. pared and forwarded to the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee, as the case may be, stating the facts of the case; such petition shall be signed by the chairman and secretary of the meeting. by Committee. 3. At the next ensuing meeting of the Roman Catholic or Taking into Protestant Committee, as the case may be, or at a meeting consideration specially called for that purpose, the said petition shall be taken If Committee into consideration, and, if approved by the majority of the approve, petimembers of the Committee present at such meeting, the said tion to be sent petition shall be delivered to the superintendent for transmis- ant-Goversion to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. to Lieuten nor. Lieutenant If the Lieutenant-Governor in Council approves such peti- Approval of tion, he may, by proclamation in the Quebec Official Gazette, Governor. signify his approval, and establish such academy or academies, Proclamaand designate them as the "Academy or Academies of the tion. county of ," as the case Name of acamay be, if academies of county or counties, or "County of demies. Academy No. 1, 2, 3" as the case may be, if an academy of parts of counties. or counties of 4. After such proclamation, the board of delegates shall First trustees. again meet, and shall elect three of their members to act as the first trustees of such academy. ing of delegates. Election of Such trustees shall remain in office until the first juridical Term of office. day of the month of August then ensuing, when there shall be Annual meeta regular annual meeting of the said board of delegates. At such first meeting of delegates and at the meeting to be held annually thereafter on the first juridical day of August subsequent in each year, the board of delegates shall appoint three of trustees. their number to act as trustees of the said academy for the ensuing year. They shall also appoint an auditor or auditors Auditor. of accounts. trustees. The academy trustees shall present annually to the said Annual reboard of delegates at such annual meeting a report of the port of educational work of the past year of such academy, with a balance sheet and statement of income and expenditure, duly audited by the auditors appointed as above. The secretary of the board of delegates may be the secre- Secretarytary-treasurer of each board of academy trustees, or the treasurer. academy trustees may appoint their own secretary-treasurer. Duties of to conform to The academy trustees and the secretary-treasurer and auditrustees, &c., tors shall, in the performance of their several duties, conform school laws. in all respects, mutatis mutandis, to the provisions of the school laws, which refer to school corporations and their officers, and also to the rules and regulations of the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction, as the case may be. 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 100. Taxes may be chase of site 2233. To provide for the building and maintenance of such levied for pur- academies the Roman Catholic or Protestant school commisand for sup- sioners or trustees of such county, counties, or parts of counties, port of acade- wherein an academy is established, may levy a tax on the mies. Commission responsible taxable real estate of the school municipality under their control, sufficient in amount to provide a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars for the purchase of a site and the building of an academy, and not less than three hundred dollars per annum towards the payment of teachers and the incidental expenses of such academy as may be agreed on by the said board of delegates. The school commissioners or trustees, as the case may be, ers or trustees shall be jointly and severally responsible to the said academy for payment trustees for the payment of the sums above mentioned, and of such taxes; shall pay over the said sums to the said academy trustees by equal semi-annual payments on the second day of January and second day of July in each year. 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 100. when pay able. Monthly fees payable by academy pupils. Pupil in 2234. For the maintenance of the said academies, the said academy trustees shall be entitled to charge monthly fees to the scholars attending the same, such fees not to exceed one dollar and fifty cents per month, to be paid monthly in advance. No scholar being two months in arrears for such fees shall arrears not to be permitted to attend such academy. 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 100. attend school. Academies entitled to a share in grant for superior education. 2235. Each academy fulfilling the conditions of this chapter, and conforming in all respects to the rules and regulations in respect to academies adopted or which may be from time to time adopted by the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee, as the case may be, shall be entitled to a share of the legislative grant for superior education in the discretion of the Committee of its religious faith. 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 100. Grant of a certain sum CHAPTER TENTH. LIBRARIES IN SCHOOL MUNICIPALITIES. 2236. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may order that, from and out of the superior education income fund, a sum for libraries, not exceeding two thousand dollars may be appropriated annually, or during a certain number of years, to assist the &c. |