PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 379a year two public examinations of the stu¬ dents and scholars, and to examine on one Saturday of each month all the scholars taught in the grammar school, and once a quarter all students taught by the second professor. On June 30, 1868, Mr. Alex . In- glis resigned his position as principal of the institution and was succeeded by Mr. Alex . Anderson, who had been second professor since December 1, 1862. Mr. Leander G. McNeill was second professor from Au¬ gust 15, 1868, until September 15, 1870, when Mr. Thomas W. May took up the du¬ ties until the end of the calendar year. Mr.' Alex. Lowe was second professor from Sep¬ tember ij. 1871, until June 30, 1875, and Mr. J. C. Dunlop from September 15, 1875, until June 30, 1876. On October, 1, Messrs. Thomas A . LePage and Wellington Dixon became masters but remained only until September 20, of the following year. After the withdrawal of Messrs. Dixon and Lepage , Messrs. W. J. Alexander and A. Borthwick began work at the first of September, 1877, but the latter continued for one year only when Mr. Lepage returned to the college, but resigned together with Mr. Alexander on August 31, 1879, after the amalgamation of the college with the Normal School. In 1868 an Act dealing with Education had been passed repealing all previous legis¬ lation. The Lieutenant Governor in council was to appoint eleven persons to constitute a Board of Education, of whom five should form a quorum, and be the examiners of candidates for teachers' licenses. Meetings of the Board should be held on the last Thursday of each month and examination of candidates be held every two months. The Board of Education was given power to alter and rearrange school districts, and or¬ der the movement of the school buildings, if necessary; the school buildings were to be of four hundred feet floor area, with ten feet clear to the ceiling, and be situated at least ten yards from the highway. The av¬ erage daily attendance was to be fifty per cent, of the resident children between five and sixteen years of age, and deductions were to be made in teacher's salary proportionate to the deficiency as shown in the half-yearly returns. If the majority of the inhabitants of any district should vote for the erection of a new school building or tor the enlarge¬ ment or repairing of the old one, they might order the trustees to assess all the house- 1k ilders. Vacation was to be from May 10th to the 31st, with three weeks in October and the alternate Saturdays. The number of schools in Charlottetown and the should not exceed nine, and trustees were to be elected in the same manner as in dis¬ trict schools. There were to be but two' classes of teachers, second and first. Three second class teachers were to be allowed to Charlottetown and to be assigned to schools by the Board of Education, and first clacs teachers were allowed for the remaining schools. Children could attend any school. if the number in attendance did not exceed sixty. In that event the board was em¬ powered to open new schools, provided the number of teachers and their assistants, ex¬ clusive of those in the normal and female schools, did not exceed twelve. Tuition fees of is. 6d. per quarter, to be trebled if neces¬ sary, for rent and repairs of school build-; ing were to be paid by pupils. Six female schools were to be allowed for Charlotte¬ town, to be increased if necessary. Teach¬ ers with a class of ten pupils in French, cer-