Sixth-The number of qualified Teachers, their classes, sexes, and religious denomination, the number (as far as he can ascertain) of private Schools, the number of pupils and branches taught therein, and any other information relating to education in each Parish, and suggestions with a view to the improvement of Schools, and the diffusion of knowledge.

16. The Inspector, on receiving from any Teacher in his District the original register, with all documents prescribed by the Superintendent, and duplicates, if he is satisfied that the School has been regularly kept six months, shall countersign the same, with such remarks thereon as he may deem necessary, and deliver them, with a certificate in the form following, to the Teacher::

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(or called ) there is a School House, that C. D. a Teacher having the requisite qualifications, and of the class, has taught

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therein from the day of instant, (or last) to my satisfaction, and that the inhabitants of the said District (or Parish) have subscribed and paid (or been assessed and paid, according to the fact) the sum of (or have furnished the said Teacher during the same period with board, washing, and lodging) towards the support of the said School.

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17. The Trustees shall divide their several Parishes into convenient Districts when necessary, and when a sufficient District School House has been provided, and the inhabitants, with the consent of the Trustees, agreed with a licenced Teacher for not less than six months, and secured his allowances, of which they shall give him a memorandum, having regard to the Provincial allowance apportioned for the year by the Superintendent to the Parish.

18. The Trustees shall suspend or displace any Teacher within their Parish for incapacity, or any improper or immoral conduct, and in snch case shall forthwith transmit their proceedings to the Superintendent for the information of the Board, who may refer the same to the inquiry and report of the local Inspector.

19. The Trustees shall admit into the Schools in their respective Districts three scholars, the children of indigent parents.

20. The Trustees shall, on receiving the application prescribed in this Title, call a public meeting of the inhabitants of any Parish or District rateable upon property, to determine upon the assessment prescribed in such Title, by notice advertised at least twenty days in a Newspaper published in the Parish (if any), and also posted up for the like period in five or more of the most public places in such Parish or District, at which meeting they shall preside, and transmit the vote of such meeting to the Assessors of the Parish, and shall receive and expend the amount, when collected and paid to them, in strict accordance with the decision of the majority at such meeting, as expressed by their written resolutions.

21. The Trustees shall define in writing the boundaries of each District, with or without reference to a plan or survey, to be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Peace, with the plan, if any.

22. The examiners shall hold their meeting when most convenient, and shall examine candidates for the situation of Teachers, who have been taught in the Training School, and shall report to the Board the result of each examination and the qualification of the candidates.

1. The Teacher of the Training School shall instruct the Candidates and Teachers attending, in the art of teaching and the best method of conducting a Parish School, especially the art of communicating the branches of Common School education in the manner best suited to the capacities, ages, and conditions of the pupils.

2. He shall give to each Candidate and Teacher a certificate of character and attendance.

3. The salary of the Teacher of such Training School shall

not exceed two hundred pounds per annum, and the salary of the male Teacher of the Model School shall not exceed sixty, nor the salary of the female Teacher fifty pounds per annum.

1. No Teacher shall receive a first or second class licence until he has attended the Training School not less than three months, passed his examination before the Board of Examiners, and obtained a certificate of qualification for the following requirements:-Male Teachers of the first class to teach spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, history, book-keeping, geometry, mensuration, land surveying, navigation, and algebra; of the second class, spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geogragraphy, history, and book-keeping; of the third class, spelling, reading, writing, and arithmetic: the said first and second class Teachers shall impart to their pupils a knowledge of the geography, history, and resources of this Province and the adjoining Colonies. Female Teachers of the first class to teach spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, history, and common needlework; of the second class, spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, and common needlework; of the third class, spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, and common needlework.

2. The Board may licence Teachers of the third class, not having attended the Training School, who shall obtain from the local Inspector to the Superintendent a certificate that they possess the necessary qualifications, and are of good moral character.

3. No unlicenced Teacher shall be employed in any School District.

4. Every Teacher shall faithfully teach all the requisite branches of education, and according to the terms of his agreement with the Trustees; he shall keep a daily register, maintain proper order and discipline, use the forms and carry out the regulations from time to time provided, keep a visitors' book and enter therein the visits of the Inspector and the Trustees respectively, and by precept and example seek to impress his scholars with the principles of religion, morality, and loyalty. No pupil shall be required to read or study in or from any religious book, or join in any act of devotion objected to by his parents or guardians.

5. When a School has been taught for a period of not less than six months, the Teacher shall exhibit to the Inspector the original register and all documents prescribed by the Superintendent, and duplicates thereof, for inspection, and when returned, countersigned by the Inspector, with the certificate prescribed by Section 16 of Chapter 49, he shall transmit the same forthwith by post to the Superintendent.

6. The Teachers shall receive from the Treasurer according to the following annual rates:-Male Teachers of the first class, thirty pounds; of the second, twenty four pounds; of the third, eighteen pounds. Female Teachers of the first class, twenty two pounds; of the second, eighteen pounds; and of the third fourteen pounds.

7. No Teacher shall be paid for a less period than six months, without the sanction of the Board, nor in any case unless the inhabitants shall have raised by assessment or paid for his support in the same proportion as the Provincial allowance, or shall have furnished him board, washing, and suitable accommodation during his engagement.

8. Ten or more resident freeholders or householders in any Parish, or five or more resident freeholders or householders in any School District, at their own cost may apply to the School Trustees to call a public meeting as directed in this Title, and a majority of the rate payers on property present at such meeting (there being not less than twenty in the case of a Parish, nor less than ten in case of a School District) who shall agree to raise any sum by assessment either for the support of the Teacher, the purchase of land to erect thereon a School House, the supplying such School with fuel, light,

and other necessaries, the building or repairing of any School House, the purchase of any books, maps, or apparatus for the use of any such School, or for any of such purposes, the sum so voted shall be assessed upon and collected from the inhabitants of such Parish or District and the non-resident freeholders, in the same manner as taxes for the support of the poor are by law assessed and collected, and when collected shall be paid into the hands of the Trustees to be expended as prescribed in this Title.

9. Any Parish or District putting into operation the principle of assessment as aforesaid, and the sum required for the Teacher being assessed and paid, shall, for every year such assessment is so made and paid, receive from the Province Treasurer twenty five per cent. over the allowance to Schools of the same class in Parishes or Districts not so assessed; the tuition money, in case of such assessment, not to exceed two shillings and six pence per quarter.

10. The dismissal of a Teacher by the Trustees shall be final, and his licence cancelled, unless he appeal within thirty days to the Board.

11. All persons appointed to sell books and apparatus shall, on or before the thirty first day of December in every year, make a return of the number sold and number on hand, with an account of the money received during the year; the return and money to be sent to the Superintendent.

12. Any Trustee who shall not expend the moneys received by him under the provisions of Section 8 of this Chapter, or who shall misapply the same, shall pay twenty pounds for each offence, to be recovered by any freeholder of the Parish or District; when recovered to be applied one half to the prosecutor, the other for the benefit of the Schools of the Parish or District.

13. In every incorporated County the taxation and assessment for the support of Parish Schools shall be regulated under the Title of Municipalities, so as not to interfere with the amount to be assessed.

14. Any Trustee who shall knowingly sign a false report, any Teacher who shall keep a false register or make a false return, or any Inspector who shall make a false report, shall for each offence pay ten pounds; when received it shall be