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been recognized by the Board of Education, as the legal site and Schoolhouse for the District, wherein the same are situate. Then and in such case, it shall be illegal for the original owner, tenant or occupant of such land, or any person or persons in trust for such owner, tenant or oc- cupant, by deed or otherwise, whether registered 0r unregistered, in any manner to interfere with such site or Schoolhouse thereon erected, or to prevent the free and peaceable possession and use thereof, and access thereto and thereover by, or to the Trustees, Masters, or Children, or the Inhabitants of' the District or Board of Educa- tion, or others, for the purposes of education, unless such interference shall be expressly sanc- tioned by the terms of any Deed, Lease, or agree- ment given by the owner, tenant, or occupant of, or person entitled to the land, on which the Schoolhouse is, or shall be erected, and any con- veyance or deed of the site, heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, shall be ineffectual to pass any estate therein, so as to enable the grantee, or re-lease, or person to whom it is or shall be conveyed, to interfere with such site or School- house thereon, or any of the aforesaid parties in the free and peaceable use, occupation, and pos- session of the same as aforesaid. '

LV I. From and after the passing of this Act, the number of male District Schools for Char- lottetown and the Common and Royalty thereof shall not exceed nine, and it shall be the duty of the resident householders within such districts respectively, having children under the age of seventeen years, to meet together, from time to time, as the necessity shall arise, for the purpose of electing Trustees, in the same manner, in all respects, as is provided by this Act for the election and re-election of Trustees for the ordinary School Districts.

LVII. The Board of Education shall have power, from time to time, when they shall deem expedient, to divide the City of Charlottetown, and the Common and Royalty thereof, into School Districts, the whole not to exceed the number of nine, including those now established, and to alter such division from time to time, and re-arrange such districts as occasion may require, and such division or alterations shall be notified by advertisement in the Royal Gazette news‘ paper, from time to time, immediately after the same shall have been made. Provided always, nevertheless, that, until any new division or alteration be made and announced, the districts as now constituted and in operation shall con- tinue and be in force.

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LVIII. There shall be allowed in‘ Charlotte— town, and the Common and Royalty thereof, not more than three masters of the highest or second class, who shall be assigned by the Board of Education to such Districts (with the consent of the Trustees thereof,) within the said City, as they may deem advisable, having a regard to the ages and state of proficiency of the children in the several districts, and giving preference to the districts in which shall reside those most advanced or proficient, and for each of the other districts in the said City, Common and Royalty, there shall be employed a master or teacher of the first or lowest class; provided always, that, if the inhabitants of any one of said districts, instead of sending their children to the school in their own district, if such shall be in opera- tion, shall send them to the school in any other district of the Town, Common or Royalty, they may do so, unless the children at such last mentioned school shall exceed sixty in number, in which case, upon a representation made by the Trustees of such last mentioned school, or other persons interested therein, or who shall desire to send their children thereto, of the necessity of having an additional master or teacher, as an assistant therein, it shall be com- petent for the Board of Education to inquire into the matter, and, if they see fit so to do, to appoint an additional master or teacher, of either class, as an assistant Teacher in such school; provided further, that the Board shall not have power to appoint such assistant master or teach- er if the number of masters and assistants in Charlottetown, Common and Royalty then actually engaged and receiving Government pay, exclusive of the masters and teachers of the Normal Female Schools, shall amount to twelve; provided further, that no teacher in Charlottetown, under this Act, shall be entitled to a salary unless he or she shall have taught at least thirty scholars, and shall produce certificates to that effect. I

LIX. The scholars. receiving instruction in Charlottetown, and the Common and Royalty thereof, at any of the schools therein receiving support from the Government, shall pay, at the time of their first admission into said schools, and thereafter quarterly, in advance, each the sum of one shilling and six-pence, tobe- collected by the Teach-er of each school and paid over, if a District School, to the Trustees thereof, and if a Female School, to the Secretary of the Board of Education, and to be applied by such Trustees, as the Secretary of the said Board, respectively,