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removing him from the school, before the ex- piration of his agreement, shall be obliged to lodge with the Board a written statement of such complaint, and, at the same time, to send a copy thereof to the teacher, and the Board may enquire into such complaint in such way as to them may seem most fit, and the evidence as well on the part of the trustees or inhabi- tants in support of the charge or complaint, as on the part of the teacher in answer thereto, may be taken by affidavit or written depositions before any Justice of the Peace for the County, to be nominated by the said Board for that purpose, and transmitted to the said Board for their consideration and final decision thereon ; provided always that the Board may, if they think fit, require the parties and their witnesses to appear personally before them, in or touch- ing the matter of such investigation,.and, on such complaint being established, the said Board may, in their discretion, supersede such teacher, and authorise the Trustees of the District to engage another teacher in his place, although the term of the agreement with the teacher so suspended may not have expired, but such last mentioned teacher shall, never- theless, be entitled to receive the proportion of his salary up to the time of his dismissal.

XIV. The Secretary of the Board of Educa- tion shall, as heretofore, keep a book or register in which, from time to time, shall be entered the several School Districts in this Island, pro- perly constituted and in operation, and having teachers therein entitled to support under this Act, and the inhabitants or teachers of all School Districts claiming support under this Act shall cause the particulars and extent thereof to be forwarded to the Secretary of the Board of Education, who shall enter the same in rotation, as they come into his ofiice, in the said Book or Register, and all such School Districts erected after this Act shall go into operation shall be entered and registered within three months after the day when the determination of the said Board shall be notified respecting the same, as hereinafter mentioned, and no new School District, in addition to those in existence and established at the time of the passing of this Act, shall be sanctioned by the said Board, nor shall any such new District, or the Teachertherein, be entitled to any allow-~ ance under this Act' until the same has been referred to‘the Lieutenant Governor in Council“, ahd‘tthecites-ti’onjof‘rsuch new District and the granting er shth’filluwance shall have been

sanctioned by Special order suede by? the Lieutenant Governor in Councildirected'to the Board of Education. _ ' 7 ' ' Y “‘

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and take to themselves, and: their successors in

office, in cases where thesowuersgof‘: theilands refuse conveying them.ltothe«Trustees :ocfithe District, or will not otherwise securethem: to the inhabitants of the District,:by"conveyance deeds and conveyances; of thepieees Oilan'd whereon the schoolhouses; now orhereafter to be erected shall bersituate; and; shall'hold the same in trust for thetinhabitants ofthe District where the same landsere situate for .the»,_pur- poses of Education endef this. Act.-. When and so often as at leasttwo-thirds of the inhabitants, resident house-holderswithin any School Dis~ trict, now registered. or. hereafter to become registered undergthisiAct, shall- desire .to alter the site of the schoolhouse .thereinyand shall is-ig- nify such their desireflinwriting, to. the Board-of Education, specifying therein the site to which the schoolhouse is proposed to bezremo‘ved, and being also accompanied, by a' written memoran— dum from the-owner orlessee of the contem- plated site, ofl‘eringito execute a. deed orlease thereof to the, Board of Education, or to the Trustees of such ,school for the purposes there- of. It shalltbe-glawful for the said Board, if they see fit so todo, .to make an order :for such alteration to be made when and so seen as the contemplated site - shall be conveyed to - the Board of Education, or otherwise, inaccordance with the last precedingsection of this Act.

XVI. The Board’of Education, for the time being, with the congent 0f the administrator of the Government in Council,‘and“without ap- pointing commissioners V’for :that'purp’ose, as hereinafter mentioned;"may ‘alter, ‘ enlarge or diminish the size Or'boundaries of any school district er districts now or hereafter established, and also may"re-arrange'the boundaries and diminish the nu‘mber'of‘diStricts where" necessary or desirable, and,“at tithe"Same" time, ' change the site of the schoolhouse or houses therein, seas to meet the altered circumstances ofsthe districts: Cdistriie‘tsieed "may misses orders necessary ‘V’fo’r' .efli'ecting‘,,an‘d perfecting“, such change ' of’s'i‘te for ‘other“'altération‘siihereinbefore mentioned, and in y Whéfe’afi Zapplica- ti'ongshall be ,made‘iiin, t'df thé‘lBoard, signed b y" atyl‘e‘a’st teniiaigatiraats’, he;u§eh,oldefrs, in any such" district for: ;’di$tri¢1‘s",'i,ii§jwhich any such alteration ‘ or“; {reesth‘teligEmTQQE is § pro posed tobe made, requesting “su‘éh 'aIteratiOn “or re-