he held a first (highest) class teaching license, and received an annual salary of $196; his assistant, Thomas Murphy , held a third class license, and received an annual salary of 3115. Teachers' salaries were paid by the govern¬ ment, but school districts also provided an additional supplement, (khd tfireec.iboa-rd^ahd'.lbdgrin^ '(2<$>)' o oy/jf.-n.f.>■>■[.( ) ',-'■ , Students who completed grammar school and who passed an "entrance" examination were entitled to receive,free, five months of further education in teacher training at Prince of Wales College and Normal- School, Charlottetown . (2?) A large number of students from Somerset took advantage of this scholarship, and became teachers; their names are printed in Appendix (A). By 1870 there was a severe shortage of qualified teachers in P.E.I. In 1842 there were only 121 schools on the Island; by 1870 there were 372 schools. (2%) Using the salaries quoted above for Messrs. McLeod and Murphy as typical for 1877, they represent a considerable increase over the salaries in 1870; in M&Aj^etev the highest qualified teacher could receive ,£66, about $165.; and the least qualified received £.23, or about $57. (2$) Teachers remained in short supply in until the late 1880's. (30) A partial list of teachers in Sou' West/ Somerset is given in .Appendix ( E ). The fourth issue to be considered is the refusal of one proprietor, among several in the 1870's, to sell his land to the government; he was Robert Bruce Stewart , and he claimed ownership of 2996 and'1/2 acres in the southern half of Lot 27. (3f) Part of this land was in the settlement 56.