18 1868 - Education Act was passed repealing all previous legislation. It covered practically the same things with changes - slight or marked. 1877 - Public Schools' Act. It embodied findings of a Parliamentary Committee which had reported to the Legislature the year before, and recommendations of the Board of Education. The . Act covered the whole field of educational administration. The section particularly pertinent to the history of this school is that one in which Summerside and Charlottetown were severally constituted a district, living a Board of Trustees of 7 members - k appointed by the Government and 3 by the town. This Board had all the powers held by rural trustees. The Town Council was to provide monies for maintenance, in an r of Charlottetown and Summerside were subject to provisions of the Public Schools' Act which came into force July 1, 1877- * The Act met with considerable opposition. Hostility was provoked by clauses that made one straight uniform curriculum for all public schools, and that fined parents who did not send children to public school inasmuch as upon them fell assessment for deductions in teacher's salary by reason of deficiency in attendance. Others objected because assessment now fell on all in the district - with or without children. The "supplement" clause added to the injustice because it took more money from this aggrieved class and gave it to the teacher "who was but an idler in their midst"! Resentment was so strong in Charlottetown it delayed for months the appointment of its 3 members. The h Government members were appointed July 2,' 1877, but it was not until February k, l878, that a letter was read at the Board from the City Clerk appointing