374a PAST AND PRESENT OE school year, say either in January or July, and making all engagements be for a term of twelve months. On'October i , 1858, there were in opera¬ tion in Charlottetown and three second class or highest schools, three first class or lowest, and three female schools. William Monk , headmaster of the Nor¬ mal School, reported April 30, 1859, that fifty-eight students were then in attendance, including fifteen females; that the number at the sixth session commencing March 1, 1858, had been twelve; the number at the seventh session, commencing July 27th. had been six. The number at the eighth ses¬ sion, comemncing November 1st; had been nine. His system was to have the stu¬ dents carry on work with the senior classes of the Model School in addition to their practice in teaching. He urged, however, the appointment of a male assistant that he might have time to devote to the distinc¬ tively teacher-training part of his work. Many of his ideas were contained in a series of suggestions submitted to the Gov ¬ ernment by the Board of Education on Feb¬ ruary 23, i 860, and afterwards embodied in the three acts of that year. The principal provisions of the first act were that teach¬ ers should be re-examined, but those who did not submit to examination might con¬ tinue at £45, if of the first class, at £50, if of the second class, suffering thereby a re¬ duction of £5 from the respective amounts previously received. Those teachers who should qualify under this act were to receive £55 and £60 respectively. Acadian teach¬ ers then at work licensed under previous acts should receive £35, not £40, as pre¬ viously. Candidates for teachers' licenses should attend the Normal School for a term of five months, after passing an entrance ex¬ amination to show qualification. The aver¬ age daily attendance at school should be eighteen, not twenty, and any deduction made from the teacher's grant by reason of deficiency in numbers should be made good to the teacher by the trustees through as¬ sessment on the parents of the children at¬ tending the school. The number of schools in Charlottetown for males should be re¬ duced from six to four in number. The Bible should be read in the ¬ emy, and the teachers in all the public schools should open school each day with readings from the Bible, without comment and in the presence of those only who volun¬ tarily attended for that purpose. A major¬ ity of the resident householders of any dis¬ trict might for the erection of a new build¬ ing or for changes to the old one order the trustees to make an assessment upon all the householders of the district. Teachers of the second class, if certified capable by the Board of Education, should receive ten shil¬ lings per annum from each pupil whom they instructed in Latin, Greek and the higher branches; but the amount so received should not exceed £5. By the second act of the same year it was provided that inasmuch as two district schools in Charlottetown had been closed by the act just recited, a second master should be appointed in the Normal School at a salary of £150 and, further, that ad¬ mission to the Normal School should not be on a certificate of good character only, but on an examination conducted by the Board of Education. The third act of the year was to give effect to the suggestion that "Our educa¬ tional establishment be completed by the ad¬ dition of a Provincial College." In accord¬ ance there was passed on May 2, i 860, an