380a PAST AND PRESENT OF tified by the Board of Education to be ca¬ pable of teaching that language should get an additional grant of £5, provided the dis¬ trict made up an equal amount, but this privilege was to be given to not more than twenty schools. School visitors, one for each county, were to be appointed at salaries of £150 each. Two adjacent districts on the vote of a majority of the resident house¬ holders might be merged in one district, and a grammar school opened, if a suitable build¬ ing were provided, of 600 feet floor area and ten feet clear. The Board of Education was empowered to open a grammar school in any section petitioning for the same, but the number of such should not exceed eleven, three for Prince county, five for Queens, and three for Kings. Assistant teachers or ushers might be appointed. Grammar school teachers should hold certificates from the Board of Education of ability to teach Latin, Greek and French. Salaries in district schools should be £55 per annum to male teachers of the first class, £60 to males of the second class, £40 to females, £95 to gram¬ mar school teachers in single districts, but £100 to such schools as resulted from the union of two schools, together with £10 to the usher, if any. The salaries in towns should be £100 for the teachers of the gram¬ mar schools in Georgetown and side, with £15 for the usher; of male teach¬ ers, of the second class, £100, and of their assistants £66; of teachers of the first class, £yy, and of their assistants, £66; of female teachers, £49 10s. A deduction of £5 was to.be made in the salary until the teacher had completed three years of service. Teachers licensed prior to i 860 received £45. In June, of that year, in accordance with the Act recited, there were appointed as visitors of schools for the several counties, Mr. Robert McKelvie for Prince, Mr. Wil ¬ liam McPhail for Queens, and Mr. John McSwain for Kings. Mr. William Beairsto succeeded Mr. Kelvie on October 21, 1870, and remained in office for two years. His successor, Mr. Thomas Foley , continued for only six months and was followed by Mr. Joseph Robson on May 5, 1873; on this date also, Mr. William McPhail was recalled to office after an absence of seven months in which it pleased the government to have Mr. Peter Gunn fill the position. Mr. Robson was succeeded on July 1, 1874, by Mr. Nor ¬ man A. Stewart . At the end of the year 1872 Mr. John McNeill , whose name had so long been associated with the inspectorate, and who had for many years been secretary to the Board of Education, was succeeded in the latter office by Rev. Donald McNeill , who for many years faithfully discharged his duties. The school visitors in their reports at the beginning of 1869 showed four grammar schools recently established in Prince county, viz. r at Alberton , Malpeque , Centerville, and Somerset, making a total of five for the county, four such schools in Queens county and two in Kings county. Thirteen schools were vacant and seventy-five schools were at work in Prince county with an enrollment of 3,070, and an attendance on the day of examination of 1,896. In Queens coun¬ ty there were sixteen schools in lottetown and and one hun¬ dred and forty-seven in the rural districts, all of which were in operation. The enroll¬ ment was 6,623, and the attendance on the day of visit 3,875; in Charlottetown the figures were 770 and 539, respectively. In Kings county, there were six schools in