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books etc. are obtained for use by the scholars at the least possi- ble cost.

The Board of Education was also empowered to make regu- lations providing for additional allowances or bonuses to teachers in recognition of services. Taking advantage of this power the Board now grants a retiring allowance of $150.00 per annum from the provincial treasury to all teachers who retire from the pro- fession after forty years of service in the schools of the province.

Several changes were also made in the regulations of the Board of Education. The old regulations dealing with school vacations were cancelled, and the following substituted in place thereof :

“ There shall be in all schools, except as hereinafter provided, a summer vacation of six weeks, beginning the first day of July, and a fall vacation of two consecutive weeks in the month of October, the latter vacation to be at such time in October as may be decided upon by the trustees. There shall also be in all schools a vacation of one week at the end of December.

“ Schools in Charlottetown and Summerside shall have a summer vacation of eight weeks, also one week's vacation at the end of December, but shall have no Fall vacation. Other incor- porated towns, also districts maintaining schools of two or more departments, may have the same system of vacations as that in Charlottetown and Summerside, provided the majority of the rate- payers present at the annual meeting vote in favor of the same, and that the Secretary of the meeting notify the Superintendent of the same."

Further, it was provided that there shall be five Inspectorates in the province with about ninety schools to be examined by each Inspector. These Inspectors, before required to report to the Superintendent of Education only once in each year, are now re- quired to report at the end of each week, stating the schools they have examined within the week and the conditions found to be prevailing in those schools.

As to the school sessions, sections 33 and 34 of the Regula tions of the Board were repealed, and the following substituted in place thereof:

” The school session shall be from 9.30 a. m. to 3.30 p.m., with one hour’s intermission at noon. There shall also be two re- cesses of not more than ten minutes each, one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon, when the school room must be aired."

The number of School Inspectorates into which the province is divided was in 1914 increased to ten, thus giving to each in- spector a group of not more than 48 schools and securing more