. V '4-t PAST AND PRESENT OF 1839, when he entered the service of the Church of England, taking charges in Nova Scotia . Not until 1825 did the Legislature actual¬ ly undertake the problem of education. In that year was-.passed an act for the encour¬ agement of education in the different dis¬ tricts and counties in this Island, which gave small grants of public money to aid in the erection of the district school houses, and in the payment of the teachers, but left the large part of the salary to be made up from fees paid by the pupils. This act was a great stimulus to the cause, and many district schools were established. Grammar schools were opened in each of the county towns, and principals were appointed at salaries of £50 per year. In 1828 the education act was amended, and in consequence the num¬ ber of schools increased, but in the Speech from the Throne it appears that "the cur¬ riculum needed broadening and enriching." The first R was not considered enough to make a full man. By the year 1829, the expenditure by Government upon education had increased to £327 6s. 8d., yet the Legislature was in the mood to do more. The need of teachers with higher qualifications was urgent, and a commission was appointed to negotiate a loan for the erection of a central academy. Although the smallness of the provincial revenue and the difficulties met with in rais¬ ing loans for governmental purposes delayed for some years the erection of the building, yet an act of this year created a board of management of nine trustees, of whom the Chief Justice was one, and made provision for. two masters, at equal salaries of £150 each, one or both of whom should reside in the building and receive boarders at rates fixed by the Government, and have division of the tuition fees paid by pupils at a rate to be fixed by the trustees. In the year, 1830, an act was passed to control the selection and appointment of masters, and the Board of Education consist¬ ing of five members was established. In this year £590 was placed at the disposal of the Government for the support of schools. In the year 1831, in addition to the amount of £590, there was granted to the Government £36 for the benefit of Acadian Schools , which was the first assistance for educa¬ tional purposes rendered by the state to the Island's earliest settlers, and also a grant of £50 to provide primary books in their own language for the Indians. The Government seems to have felt the burden of the expenditure upon Education, for we find the House again addressing the Lieutenant Governor , praying that the Glebe and School lands reserved for the sup¬ port of the clergy and the teachers be now sold, and the receipts be appropriated for the instruction of the youth. These lands were composed of tracts of one hundred and thirty acres in each of the sixty-seven town¬ ships that had been reserved by an order in council of 1707 at the time of the allot¬ ment of the province, and set apart, one hun¬ dred acres as a glebe for the ministers of the gospel and thirty acres for the use of the schoolmaster. This address of the House of 1834 was destined to meet with a response that had been refused to similar addresses of 1830 and of 1832; for Lieutenant Gov ¬ ernor Young was empowered by the Secre¬ tary of State for the Colonies to sell the Glebe lands and to reserve the moneys for further direction. In this year a committee appointed by the Legislature to investigate matters connected with education reported that since the establishment of the Board of