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for the same year 81 schools in operation receiving legislative aid, with an attendance of only 3,060 pupils, and 21 schools not ac- cepting such aid with an attendance of 450. The average salary of a school master at this date was £45. total, including the legis- lative grant.

W. H. Nelis, who had been district teacher in Princetown and Bedeque and was now master of the National School, since the retirement of James Breading at the end of 1839, petitioned the Legislature for in- creased assistance, and in his claim set forth that there was an attendance of 50 pupils, at £2 each, as follows: Twelve, whose fees were paid from the rent of Warren Farm; 5, from the legislative grant; 4, by public subscription; 24, by parents; 5, by gratuity; that the Bishop of Nova Scotia would assist him with a grant from the proceeds of the Glebe Lands, if the school were deeded to the Church of England and brought under its management. The Government seems to have heard the prayer of the petition for a grant of £25 was made to him. He lived in the building free of rent, and continued as master of the National School receiving a grant varying from year to year, until April 4, 1856, when the Legislature made “a grant of £8 to William H. Nelis, an aged school teacher, to carry him to his friends in the United States.”

In 1846, in an address from the House to the Governor, asking for a return of moneys in the Treasury from the sale of the Glebe Lands, the Treasurer of the fund re— ported that at June 19, 1840, the amount

already received had been £3,579 63. IOVzd.; that three-thirteenths (the frac- tion representing evidently the 30 acres for the school master and the total I 30 acres that had been reserved)

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of that amount had been paid into the pub- lic treasury agreeably to a despatch of Lord Stanley on September 3, 1842, and that a balance of £2,753 85. 9.5 till remained plus the interest to January I, 1847, making a total of £3,828; that Governor Fitzroy had appointed three commissioners to re ceive from all persons now holding them, all Glebe moneys and place them on invest- ment. These Commissioners and their suc- cessors continued the trust, and employed the funds for church purposes under the direction of the Anglican Bishop of Nova Scotia.

The School Visitor’s annual report for 1846 gave a classification of the schools then in operation, as follows: Primary or preparatory schools, teaching principally Reading and Spelling; French Acadian Schools for the Acadiansj Infant Schools (one in Charlottetown and one in George- town) ;the National School ;Female Schools, whose curriculum included the elementary subjects and also practical instruction in such industries as pertain to women (two in Charlottetown, two in St. Peter’s); Dis- trict Schools, divided into first-class cur- riculum including Reading, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic), and second-class (curriculum including the foregoing sub- jects and Latin and Mathematics, if pupils desire to avail themselves of these subjects). The Visitor praised the noble efl‘orts that many teachers made to attend at the Central Academy and rise to a license of the highest class, and declared them worthy of more encouragement than the statutory salary in- crease of £5. He asked for increased powers from the Legislature to require returns from the teachers in the schools, to arbitrate in district troubles, and to determine in mat- ters of curriculum. He enumerated the