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in the said Town, and also by a member of the Board of Education.

LXV. A sum of money sufficient to defray the expenses of fitting up said Orphan School- house, or room, and the rent thereof, with books and fuel for the same, shall be paid. an- nually out of the public Treasury of this Island, into the hands of the Secretary of the Board of Education for such purposes, andsaid Secre— tary shall account for the same to the Board.

LXVI. The said SchDOl and the Teacher thereof, shall in all respects, as far as circum- stances shall admit, be conformable and sub- ject to the several enactments, rules and regu- lations prescribed for other Schools and Teach- ers, in and by this Act, and the number ot scholars to be limited for the said School, either as regards sex or the aggregate of both sexes, as well as the superiority of claims for admission thereto, shall from time to time, as occasion may require, be ordered and regulated by the said Board of Education.

LXVII. It shall be the duty of the senior of Her Majesty’s Justices of the Peace, resident for the time in Georgetown ; and he is hereby required annually during the continuance of this Act, on the first Tuesday in June, in each year, to convene a public meeting of the in- habitants, householders in Georgetown, its Common and Royalty, having children between five and sixteen years, to be holden at the Court House in said Town; such meeting to be convened by such justice giving, or causing

to be given, at least eight days notice thereof

in writing, the same to be published by being posted in three or more public places in said Town and Common, and three or more public places in the said Royalty, and the inhabitants, householders, or a majority present at such meeting, shall elect five fit and proper persons, being also« such resident householders as afore- said, to be Trustees of the male and female Schools in Georgetown now established or to be established under this Act; and such. Trus- tees so to be elected shall have the control of said Schools, and the selection of the Teachers, and make regulations respecting the location thereof, and. the Teachers thereof shall be en- titled to receive payment of their salaries quar- terly, by warrant on the Treasurer of this Is- land, on producing a certificate that the same is due, signed by a majority of the Trustees and certified by the. School Visitor and the Secretary of the Board of Education, and that

the Teacher has been actually teaching the number of scholars required by Law, in the case of District Schools, during the period for which the sum Specified in the certificate is payable.

‘LXVIII. The children of the inhabitants of

Georgetown Common and Royalty may attend

the Schools in Georgetbwn, mentioned in the last preceding section, but this privilege shun: not interfere with the erection of district Schools in Georgetown Royalty, in the same manneras in other districts under this Act.

LXlX. The scholars receiving instruction at the said schools in Georgetown,shall pay quarter- ly each, the sum of two shillings and six pence, to be collected by the Teachers and paid over to the Trustees of the said School, appointed as hereinbefore mentioned, and to be applied by them to the purchasing of books and fuel, and to pay for rent and repairs of Schoolhouse; and other necessary purposes connected with

the School, and if the Trustees shall find that

the said quarterly payment is not sufficient for the purposes aforesaid, then they may order a further payment to be made by each scholar, not exceeding in any case the sum of two shil- lings and six—pence quarterly, in addition to» the first mentioned quarterly payment, and if the said sums, or either of them, or any part thereof be not paid, the scholar in arrear may be debarred from further instruction at said. School until the same be paid, and the said quarterly payment or any part thereof, shall be recoverable by the Teacher in the name of the Trustees, or a majority of them, before a Court of Commissioners for the recovery of Small Debts, at Georgetown, from the parents or guar- dians of the scholars.

LXX. Two of the Trustees of the George- town Schools shall go out of office annually on the first Tuesday in July, in, rotation, in the manner provided in respect to District Schools. That is to say the two persons first nominated shall go out, and the inhabitants of the said Town and the Common and Royalty thereof at their annual meeting, as hereinafter provided, shall elect two persons to supply their places. Power being nevertheless given to the said in- habitantsto. re- elect such two retiring Trustees, or either of them, if they shall see fit so to do ; their names or the name of such one of them being then placed at the bottom of the list, and in all cases of the election or re«election. of Trustees, notice thereof shall be thereupon, immediately