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Summerside. But all were alike subject to the authority of the Superintendent of Education and the Board of Education.

Several amendments to the Public Schools Act have been made since 1877. The most notable of these were passed by the Legislature in the sessions of 1912 and 1913. In 1912 the property of non-residents was made liable to assessment for all school purposes; the school trustees were enabled to correct, at any time, any error or omission made in the assessment roll, and also to prevent anyone from escaping the payment of his school taxes because of such error or omission, the Judge of the County Court being authorized to make corrections in the assessment roll and in the proceedings taken for the collection of school rates. It was made easier for the school districts to meet the require- ments of the law in respect to the average attendance of pupils, and it was also enacted that. “ every teacher shall be entitled to re- ceive from the Provincial Treasury an amount in addition to his statutory or regular salary equal to any amount raised for his sup- port by the district, but not exceeding twenty-five per cent of such statutory salary payable to such teacher,”——the only provisions be- i.1g, so far as the teacher is concerned, that the school shall have been satisfactorily taught and efficiently conducted, that the av- erage attendance shall have been good, and that no fraudulent act shall have been done by him for the purpose of obtaining the sup-

plement to his statutory salary. In the session of 1913, it was further enacted that " From

and after the first day of july next there shall be paid to each teacher the sum of one dollar per head for each child in average daily attendance during each half year, such payment being con- ditional upon the teacher's having served continuously in the same school for a period of at least one half year, and upon report of the Inspector that the Work of such teacher has been satisfactory, but in no case shall the allowance to any one teacher exceed $25.00 in any half year,—-provided that as to schools of two or more de- partments the sum so granted shall be based on the average daily attendance made by the whole school, and the said sum shall be divided between the teachers of such school in such proportion as the Superintendent shall deem proper."

It was also ordered that the teachers shall be paid monthly

instead of quarterly. In the session of 1914, it was enacted that the Board of

Education shall have power to purchase text books and books for schools and school libraries, stationery, furniture, school supplies equipment and apparatus for the use of schools and to sell and dispose of the same. Under the operation of this act school