An Act of this year provided that the Board of Education should, at its quarterly meetings, examine and licence candidates as teachers; that teachers should be of three different classes: First, or lowest, to be competent to teach English, Reading, Writing, and Practical Arithmetic, and to receive £5 from the Public Treasury; Second Class, to be competent to teach the subjects already mentioned, and, in addition, to be able to teach Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Land Surveying, Naviga¬ tion, together with English, Grammar, and to receive £10, from the Public Treasury; Third , or highest class teachers, to be competent to teach the above subjects, and to have a thorough knowledge of classics, the higher branches of Mathematics, together with Geography and the use of the Globe, and to receive from the Public Treasury £20. To obtain the Government grant for a teacher, a district should raise £20 for a First Class Teacher, and have an attendance of twenty scholars, with a proper school-house. In 1837 an Act was passed for the inspection of schools. John Mac - Neill was appointed Visitor, at a salary of £63, 13s., liy2 d. He performed the work for the whole Province until 1847, when an Inspector was ap¬ pointed for each County. His report in 1841 showed that the school system did not give the poor districts sufficient schools, or full advantages, as poor parents could not afford to pay the necessary fee, and even in wealthier districts the people depended on the board and accommodation of the teacher to satisfy the pledge made by them for the support of the school. Conse¬ quently, only a few children were in school. The average salary of a schoolmaster at this date was £45. In the school Visitor's report for 1846, he enumerated the sources from which the common schools derived their support, viz: the Provin¬ cial Treasury; fees by the pupils; partial assessment upon the inhabi¬ tants, and the Colonial and Continental Church Society of London. He stated that Crapaud , along with seven other schools, received support from the Glebe Lands' Fund, which was under the direction of the Bishop of Nova Scotia , who extended aid on condition that there was an Episco¬ pal Clergyman resident in the Parish to superintend religious training, that the schoolhous and land was held as the property of the Church, and that the teacher was a member of the Church of England. The Act of 1847 provided that thereafter there should be two classes of schoolmasters only: First, or lowest, to teach Bookkeeping, English, Grammar, Reading, with meaning of wards and sentences, Spelling, Writing, Arithmetic, and Geography without the use of the Globe; Second, or highest class, to teach, in addition to these, Latin, Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration, Land Surveying, Navigation, to¬ gether with Geography and the use of the Globe. School buildings should have an area of at least 168 sq. ft., and new buildings, 256 sq. ft. Teachers' salaries were paid half-yearly. This Act also made provision for the ap¬ pointment of a School Visitor for each County, who should visit the school twice a year. Teachers were to keep a School Journal, with names and attendance of pupils. Vacation was to be by mutual agreement be¬ tween the teacher and the trustees; otherwise, to be three in number, each of a week's duration, beginning severally on the first Monday in June, the second Monday in October, and the twenty-seventh day of December. Every teacher receiving a Treasury grant should teach gratis each year four pupils selected by the Trustees, but no scholar for a period longer than two years. No teacher should receive the grant who was un- -4 81 ►•■-