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V. The Secretary so appointed by the Lieu- tenant Governor in Council shall be paid the sum of seventy-five pounds for his services and to provide necessary stationery and pay other contingent expenses.

VI; Each member of the Board shall receive ninéi'pounds yearly for his services, except the two examining members, who shall be paid twenty pounds a year each ; the salary of each member to be subject to a deduction of fifteen shillings for every time he shall be absent from any monthly sitting of the Board, without sufficient excuse.

VII. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, at any time and from time to time, re- move or supersede any member or members of the Board, and nominate and appoint a new member or members thereto, instead of the member or members so removed or superseded, and when and so often as any vacancy or vacancies shall occur in such Board, by death or otherwise, the said Lieutenant Governor in Council shall appoint a fit person, or fit per- sons to fill such vacancy or vacancies.

VIII. No Schoolmaster or mistress licensed to teach. under this Act, or under the said hereby repealed Acts, or any former Law relating to Education, who shall have been, or may or shall hereafter be, absent from this Island, or- who shall have discontinued the practice of, teaching, or not been employed therein under any agreement to teach under this Act, or-any present Act relating to Edu- cation, for the Space of two consecutive years, shall hereafter be. permitted or qualified to teach under this. Act, unless he or she shall again appeanbefore the Board and be examined and receive from the Board a new license or certificate to teach.

IX. Any person who may be a candidate to be- come a District Teacher or Schoolmaster, or mis- tress, in this Island, shall, on one of the bi-monthly meetings of. the Board, or any other day which the said Board shall appoint, submit himself or herself to an examination before the Examiners of the Board, and if the Board shall, on re- ceiving the report of the Examiners, be satisfied with the qualifications of such candidate, they shall give him or her a certificate of his having passed such examination ; provided that no such certificate shall be granted to any person who shall not have produced to the Board a certificate of good moral character, signed by, at least two persons of respectability, one of

whom shall be a Clergyman or Justice of the Peace, resident in the neighborhood where the applicant may have last resided or usually resides.

X. If any School Visitor shall report to the Board of Education that any teacher, licensed to teach under any of the former Acts relating to Education, is unqualified to teach, the Board of Education may, at its discretion, order such teacher to be re-examined before the Board, and upon such re-examination shall grant, or refuse, a certificate or License to teach to such person, and if a new certificate or license as aforesaid be refused to such person by the Board his former certificate or license shall be deemed to be cancelled.

XI. It shall be the duty of the Board of Education, assisted by the Visitors of Schools, if they require it, to prepare suitable forms and regulations for making all returns required by this Act and conducting all necessary proceed- ings thereunder, and to cause a copy of the same, with such instructions as they shall deem necessary for the guidance of District and other schools, the same not being incon- sistent with this Act, as also a copy of this Act, to be furnished to each teacher having an engagement to teach under this Act, which Act and documents shall be at all times kept in each schoolhouse by the teacher, and shall be open to the inspection of the Trustees of such school

and all persons by law autherized to visit the same.

XII. Upon complaint made to the Board, of

gross misconduct or neglect of duty on the part

of any person holding a certificate as a District Teacher, the said Board, after due investiga- tion and satisfactory proof of such misconduct or neglect of duty, shall have power to cancel or revoke the certificate held by such District Teacher as aforesaid, and shall also have the same power if any such teacher as aforesaid, having entered into an engagement to teach in any District as hereinafter mentioned, do not complete the whole term of his engagement, unless such teacher be prevented from so doing by sickness or other incapacity, or unless the

said engagement be dissolved by order or per- mission of the Board.

XIII. In the event of any dispute between any of the trustees or the inhabitants of any District and the teacher as to his conduct as teacher, the trustees or inhabitants intending to prosecute such complaint, with the view of