368a PAST AND PRESENT OF sources from which the common schools of the time derived their support, viz.: The Provincial Treasury, fees paid by the pupils, partial assessment on the inhabitants, the Colonial Church Society of London. The following schools, viz: The infant schools at Charlottetown and Georgetown , the schools at St. Eleanor's, Crapaud , Milton, Rustico and New London received support from the Glebe Lands' Fund, which was under the direction and control of the Bishop of Nova Scotia , who extended aid on condi¬ tion that there was an Episcopal clergyman resident of the parish to superintend religious training, that the school house and land was held as the property of the church, and that the teacher was a member of the Church of England. The act passed by the Legislature in 1847 for the encouragement of education provided that the Board of Education should be composed of five persons according to the statute of 1844, ana" should meet quar¬ terly to examine and issue certificates to candidates for license to teach. The candi¬ dates should conduct a class before one of the masters of the and receive his recommendation as regards fit¬ ness and ability to teach. Thereafter there should be only two classes of school masters: First or lowest, to be competent to teach Bookkeeping, English Grammar, Reading, with meaning of words and sentences, Spell¬ ing, Writing, Arithmetic and Geography without the use of the globes; and second or highest class, to be competent to teach in addition Latin, Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Land-Surveying, Navigation, together with Geography and the use of the globes. Teachers of the first class licensed under the act of 1844 should be exempted from further examination. School build¬ ings should have a floor area of at least 168 square feet, and new schools of at least 256 square feet. No teacher of the first or low¬ est class should receive the legislative grant unless the district provided a sufficient school building and twenty scholars in regular at¬ tendance during the year, or in districts where the attendance fell short unless the amount paid by the inhabitants in assess¬ ment of tuition fees should be at least £20 exclusive of board and lodging; and simi¬ larly a second-class teacher should receive the grant only when £30 had been raised. Where schools were then closed, or in com¬ munities asking for schools, the inhabitants at a meeting called by the School Visitor might elect five of their number as trustees, and these trustees should have the power to assess the cost of a school building upon the inhabitants of the district that were houeholders and had children between seven and sixteen years of age, regard being had for the amount of property and the number of children of each householder, providing that no person should be assessed more than forty shillings for the erection of the school. The trustees might sue for the amounts that the rate-payers had subscribed to the teach¬ er's salary. When two-thirds of the inhab¬ itants of any district should have subscribed two-thirds of the amount of the teacher's salary, the trustees were empowered to assess the balance of the salary upon the other one-third of the inhabitants who had children of school age. In district sparsely settled where there were not twenty children, the teacher should be paid eight shillings per annum per pupil from the provincial treas¬ ury. Teachers of the first class (licensed before the passing of this act and not re¬ examined) should receive £10 from the treasury; those of the first class licensed un-