37** PAST AND PRESENT OF reason the district school in Summerside was long closed, though at the same time the grammar school of that town was doing satisfactory work, having four pupils in algebra, seven in geometry, nine in French, nine in Latin, one in Greek. Indeed the grammar schools established by the recent acts seem to have filled a want, as the school visitors' report told of good attendance and gratifying work. Mr. William Monk , who had left the college at the end of 1862, was now principal at Summerside , with seven¬ teen scholars in attendance. Mr. John Ar- buckle, Jr., was at Georgetown with the large attendance of fifty-eight pupils, inas¬ much as the act of 1863 had closed the dis¬ trict school when it made provision for the grammar school. Mr. Leander G. McNeill was principal at Charlottetown with twenty- four students in attendance. An act of 1864 provided that the grammar school at Char¬ lottetown, established by an act of the pre¬ vious year should be continued in the Prince of Wales College building, and be under the direction of its trustees, and not under the control of the Board of Education. This act further provided that whenever stu¬ dents should be selected by the Board of Education and nominated to scholarships at Prince of Wales College but should be un¬ able to matriculate into the said college, these students might attend without fees the grammar schools of their own county until they were prepared to matriculate, and their term of two years of free tuition should be¬ gin at the date of entrance to the grammar school. The change made by the act of 186,3 in the manner of paying the teachers' sal¬ aries did not work out to the benefit of the educational system. The teacher got the re¬ duced amount from the treasury, but the £15 deducted was not made up to him by the dis¬ trict as the law directed. The great majority of the schools apparently had got themselves rated by the Board of Education as poor districts and so retained their school and their teacher at the statutory salary without contribution of their own. The school vis¬ itors reported irregular attendance of pupils, apathy on the part of the people, that the £15 taken off the treasury allowance to teachers had not been made up by the dis¬ trict, and that the best teachers were leav¬ ing. In accordance with their suggestion the act of 1867 made a return to the old method of paying the salaries of teachers; there should be paid from the treasury to male teachers of the first or lowest class £55; of the second or highest class £60; to female teachers £38; to male teachers of grammar schools, in united districts, £100; to the same in districts not the result of union, £95; to ushers in united districts, £10; to the grammar school teachers of Summerside and Georgetown , £100; to the ushers in the same, £15; to male teachers in Charlotte - town of the first class, Hyj; and to their as¬ sistants, £60; to teachers of the second class, £100; and to their assistants, £60; to female teachers, £45; to male teachers licensed prior to the year 1861, £45. The sum of £5 should be deducted each year from these amounts, until the teacher should have completed three years' work. The average attendance should be reckoned half-yearly, not quarterly. Another act of the year 1867, gave to the head professor of the Prince of Wales College the management of the institution, under the direction of the trustees. He was to determine the time table and the subjects to be taught by each teacher; to hold each