384a PAST AND PRESENT OF The Superintendent of Education, who should be appointed by the Lieutenant Gov ¬ ernor in Council, should with the assistance of the inspectors supervise the educational work of the public schools directing the teachers to better methods and through sug¬ gestion and advice increasing their efficiency; and should in his duties exercise the author¬ ity of the Boarci of Education to move the schools towards uniformity in course and curriculum, and to bring all state schools un¬ der the government of the Public Schools ' Act and the rules and regulations of the Board of Education. The superintendent should prepare an annual report, setting forth the state or condition of the public schools, and in detail the expenditure upon them. Teachers should attend the Normal School for at least five months, be examined by the Board of Education and licensed, ac¬ cording to their attainment in three classes, first or highest, second and third; and they should receive as salaries from the provincial treasury, if males, $300, $225 and $180, re¬ spectively ; if females, $230, $180 and $130. Teachers reported by the inspectors to be do¬ ing inferior work should have from $20 to $40 deducted from the statutory salaries, and all teachers who had been engaged for five years in the profession should receive a bonus varying from $10 fo $40, according to the quality of their work in the schoolroom. A further increase of salary to the teach¬ er might be voted at a district meeting, to be raised by local assessment upon all the householders; in which case a like amount should be paid from the provincial treasury. The trustees of each school district should be a body corporate of three mem¬ bers, to continue in office severally for a pe¬ riod of three years and retire from office one each year, and the vacancies should be filled at the annual meeting of the district rate¬ payers to be held each year on the first Tues¬ day of July. A penalty of $10 to $20 was imposed on all persons who should, after election to the trusteeship, refuse or neglect to perform the duties of the office. The trustees should hold in trust all the school property then vested in the Board of Edu¬ cation, should buy or rent lands and build¬ ings, contract for the erection and furnish¬ ing of buildings, repair and keep in condi¬ tion such buildings, as were required for school purposes, and should provide equip¬ ment for them, according to the terms or instructions they had received from the rate payers at the school meeting; and they were empowered to borrow on the credit of the school district all such moneys as were re¬ quired by reason of the vote at such meet¬ ings. The trustees should have the power to select the site for the school building and to take possession of it at a fair valua¬ tion. They should provide school privileges free of charge to all resident children be¬ tween five and sixteen years of age, and also, if accommodation were sufficient, for all above that limit who should wish to avail themselves of the school. They should ex¬ act fees from no ratepayer for any child of his parentage or guardianship. They should select and engage the teachers and assist them in the grading and disciplining of the pupils. They should through their secretary assess and collect from the resident house¬ holders, either in poll tax which should not exceed one dollar per head, or in property tax, or in both, as ordered at the annual meeting, all the moneys voted for school purposes for the ensuing year, the secretary retaining for his work a percentage of the amount collected. The trustees should make