report shall also contain a statement of the receipts and expenditure of all Government money furnished to the section for common school purposes.

XI. In case of the absence of a Superintendent he may, with the sanction of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, appoint a member of his section of the Board of Education to act for him.

ESTABLISHMENT OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.

XII. The Protestant section of the Board of Education shall have power to establish and alter, with the approbation of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, school districts for Protestants, and the Catholic section shall have the same power with regard to Catholics; and the establishment of a school district of one denomination shall not prevent the establishment of a school district of the other denomination in the same place, and a Protestant and a Catholic district may in clude the same territory, in whole or in part; but there shall not, without the special sanction of the section, be more than one school in any school district.

XIII. When the Lieutenant-Governor in Council approves of the erection of school districts he shall name a day for the election of trustees.

XIV. The school district of any incorporated city or town shall be the same as the territorial limits of the said city or town, provided always that the minority may have power to extend their district so as to include members of their denomination residing in the vicinity, but in such cases, the children of the residents within the city limits only, shall be computed, in the division of school taxes levied on incorporated bodies within the city.

SCHOOL MEETINGS.

XV. At every school meeting as authorized and required to be held under this Act, the rate-payers, or if it is a first meeting in a new district, then the freeholders and house-holders present at such meeting or a majority of them,

(a)

(a) Shall elect a chairman; and the chairman of the Chairman. meeting shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the meeting, and in case of equality of votes, he shall give the casting vote, but he shall have no vote as chairman, and the chairman shall take the votes in the manner desired by a majority of the electors present, unless a poll be demanded by any elector present, when he shall be the Returning Officer, and shall within eight days after the holding of the meeting, report the proceedings thereat to the Superintendent;

(b) Shall elect a secretary; and the secretary shall re- Secretary. cord the proceedings of the meeting in a book kept for that purpose, and if a poll be held, he shall record the names of the voters, and the candidate or candidates for whom each elector votes; and such poll shall be kept open until four o'clock in the afternoon, unless at any time one hour shall have elapsed without a vote being recorded.

FIRST ELECTION OF TRUSTEES.

XVI. At the first meeting in any new school dis- Election of trict, such meeting being duly organized by the elec-trustees. tion of a chairman and secretary, the majority of the free-holders and house-holders present shall elect three persons to be school trustees for such district, and

(a) The first person elected shall continue in office for two years to be reckoned from the annual meeting next after his election, and until his successor has been appointed;

(b) The second person elected shall continue in office for one year to be reckoned from the annual meeting next after his election, and until his successor has been appointed, and

(c) The third and last person elected shall continue in office until the next ensuing annual school meeting, and until his successor has been appointed.

XVII. In incorporated cities and towns as well as First meetin other districts, the first meeting for the election of ing. school trustees shall be called by the Superintendent of Education both for the majority and the minority.

First, second and third person elected.

XVIII. At the first election of school trustees in cities and towns, the first person nominated and having the majority of votes in each ward, shall continue. in office for two years to be reckoned from the annual meeting next after his election and until his successor has been elected; the second person elected in each ward shall continue in office one year to be reckoned from the same period and until his successor has been elected, and the third or last person elected in each ward shall continue in office until the next ensuing annual school meeting and until his successor has been elected.

Annual school meet

be called.

ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETINGS.

XIX. On the first Monday of February in each year, ings-how to a meeting of the rate-payers of each school district of the age of twenty-one years and upwards, shall be called by the Superintendent of the section to which the district belongs, by notice posted by him on a schoolhouse if there is one, or in public places in the district at least three weeks in advance; and the majority of the electors present shall choose one or more persons, as the case may be, to be school trustees for the district.

Superintendent may appoint

If such notice to be given by the Superintendents respectively is not so given, the proceedings of the annual meeting, if held on the day prescribed by law, shall not be invalidated thereby.

XX. When in any district, for some cause or other, the annual school meeting has not been held on the another day. first Monday in February, the Superintendent of the section to which the district belongs shall appoint another day for the holding of such meeting.

Superinten

to Provincial Secretary.

XXI. For the school district in which no election of dent to report school trustees has been made within the time hereby prescribed, the Superintendent of Education for the section to which such school district belongs shall report the same to the Provincial Secretary, and it shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to appoint trustees subject to the provisions in the next following section.

Names of

school trustees to be

XXII Within fifteen days after the time appointed for such election, the school trustees in office, the parish

priest,

Lt.-Governor

priest, or clergyman, or minister of the most nu-submitted to merous congregation, as the case may be, may submit in Council. to their Superintendent of Education, the names of so many persons as school trustees as are required by this Act, and the Superintendent of Education shall report to the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, who may thereupon appoint such person or persons to be school trustees under this Act. Any person elected to fill an occasional vacancy, on the board of school trustees, shall hold office only for the unexpired term of the person in whose place he is elected to serve, and whenever such vacancy occurs the chairman of the board of school trustees shall call the meeting for the new election

ing-when to

XXIII. In incorporated cities and towns all annual Annual meetmeetings in each ward shall be held on the first Mon- be held. day of February in every year, commencing at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and shall be called by the chairman of the respective boards of school trustees, excepting when the minority avail themselves of clause nineteen, and it shall be the duty of the board of school trustees to furnish the said chairman with a copy of the voters' list for such ward.

ELECTORS.

XXIV. Except as provided for the first election of Electors. trustees no person shall be entitled to vote at any school meeting whatever, unless he shall have been assessed and shall have paid school tax or school rates in the district within the last twelve months; and in case an objection be made to the right of any person to vote in a district, the chairman shall, at the request of any elector present, require the person whose right of voting is objected to, to make the following declaration : "I A. B., do declare or affirm that I have been rated Form of de on the assessment roll of this school district, and that I have paid a public school tax in this district within the last twelve months, and that I am legally qualified to vote at this election."

Thereupon the person making such declaration shall be permitted to vote.

claration.

eligible.

XXV. Any resident free-holder or house-holder, of Who shall be the full age of twenty-one years, shall have a vote,

and

Who shall vote.

Form of declaration.

School assessment.

How to be laid.

Assessment.

and shall be eligible for election at the first school meeting.

XXVI. In incorporated cities or towns no person shall be entitled to vote at any school meeting for the election of school trustees, or any school question whatsoever except in the district to which he belongs as a Protestant or Roman Catholic; and unless his name be upon the revised municipal voters' list for the ward in which he offers to vote; and in case any objection be made to the right of any person to vote in a ward, the chairman or returning officer of the election shall, at the request of any elector present, require the person whose right of voting is objected to, to make the following declaration :

"I, A. B., do declare or affirm that I have been rated on the assessment roll of this school district and that I am legally qualified to vote at this election."

Thereupon the person making such declaration shall be permitted to vote.

SCHOOL ASSESSMENT.

XXVII. At any annual school meeting it shall be the duty of the electors to decide upon the amount of money to be raised in their School district for common school purposes, to supplement the government grant for the year, and such sum shall, in every case, be raised by assessment on the real and personal property within the school district; but no rate shall be levied for the building, repairing, or improving a school house to exceed in any one year one cent on the dollar on the estimated value of the property.

XXVIII. The school assessment shall be laid equally according to valuation, upon rateable real and personal property in the school district, and shall be payable by and recoverable from the owner, occupier or possessor of the property liable to be rated, and shall if not paid, be a special mortgage, and not requiring regis tration to preserve it, on all real estate.

XXIX. The corporations situated in a locality where different school districts are established and persons who are neither Protestants nor Catholics, shall be assessed only by the trustees of the school district of the

majority;