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the Normal School building, should be al- lowed for Charlottetown, with salaries of £45 each. Salaries should be paid quar- terly. The Normal School should be under the control of the Board of Education, and should have a first and a second master; the latter with the assistance of the candidates in training should teach the pupils who at- tended there the ordinary branches of educa- tion. The visitor of schools should be a member of the Board of Education and should superintend the Normal School.

The school visitor of the time reported that the scholarships in connection with the Prince of \Vales College had done much to enlist public sympathy with education, and that there was a wide-spread desire in rural districts for the establishment of grammar or high schools that might fit pupils for en-

* trance to the college. The Board of Educa- tion had urged this and other matters upon the attention of the government in a series of proposals offered on April 9, 1862; that the schools of Charlottetown should be graded;

. that the Normal School should be raised to

the rank of a High School doing academic workin addition to its own distinctive duties, and have a qualified high school teacher added to its staff; that this principle should be extended to the country districts, and by uniting several schools secure the establish— ment of grammar or high schools, in which the classics might be taught and which might serve as links between the ordinary country schools and the Prince of \Vales College. By the act of 1863, which embodied this principle with others, it was enacted that the salaries of teachers of the first class should be £40, if licensed subsequently to the act of 1861: if licensed prior to that date £30; of the second class £45 and £35 re-

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spectively; of females in country schools £28 and £23 respectively instead of £38 105. and £31 105.; of females in school of Char- lottetown, £36; of male teachers in Char- lottetown £68 and £56 respectively instead of £93 105. and' £77. These amounts should be paid from the treasury to the teachers only when the district should have made up to the teacher the amount thereby deducted, but the Board of Education might recommend the payment of the salary in such districts as were too poor to raise the additional amount.

The average attendance should be fifty per cent of the resident pupils between five and sixteen years of age. Acadian teach- ers should thereafter qualify as others. If the resident householders of two adjoining school districts should desire the establish- ment of a grammar school in lieu of their two schools, and if the trustees should give a bond to the Board of Education to pay to the teacher to be appointed not less than £30 and to provide for school purposes a building not less than twenty-four feet square and ten feet clear to the ceiling, the Board of Education might merge the two districts in one, and establish a grammar school and appoint a teacher thereto, to re- ceive the salary of £70, and appoint also, if necessary, an usher to the school to re- ceive £10. The Board of Education might on request of the trustees of any district es- tablish therein a grammar school and ap- point a teacher to receive from the treasury the sum of £50, provided that the district trustees should give a bond to pay to the teacher an additional sum of £40. The con— tribution from the district might be raised by voluntary subscription, but in districts in which two—thirds of the householders had