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XXXVII. All males and females over five

vcars, and not exceeding seventeen years of’

age, residing in any school district in this ls— land, shall be entitled to attend the school therein the ’l‘eacher'whereof shall receive pay under "this Act, and the said Teacher shall be bound ‘to receive and instruct all such children.

XXXVIII. In all cases the vacation of each school constituted. and regulated .under this Act or now in operation, excepting always the schools in rJharlottetowa and Georgetown, shall be two in number inveach year, that is to say a. spring vacation extending from the tenth dav of May to the thirty-first day of the same month, and an autumnal vacation of twenty-one davs, to take place in the month of October, and which shall be fixed by the respective Trustees of the several schools, and no deduc- tion shall be made from the salary of the Teacher, nor any time :added to the period of his service on account of such vacations being allowed, and every alternate Saturday shall be allowed as a holiday to the Teacher in .each district school.

XXXIX. The inhabitants of any school. district within this Island, who shall have pro- vided a school-house therein, in conformity

with all the provisions of this Act, shall, and]

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lTrustees of the schoolin any seliool district, shalt

have been made under and by virtue of the laws heretofore in force, relating to Education, and suéh Trustees shall be in office at the passing of this Act. They shall continue and be held to be the Trustees of such schOol, under and for the {purposes of this Act.

X-L. In order to obviate the necessity and consequent expense of a more formal proot'of' the calling- of any meeting, for the appointment of Trustees under this Act, or any former Act relating to Education, an affidavit of the,posting of notices for the calling of such meeting, shall in all cases of the appointment of Trustees whica shall hereafter take place, be made by the per— son posting such notices, or other person who can prove the fact of the several notices having been duly posted before any Justice of the Peace, for the Countyswherein the School Dis-- trict is situate ; which affidavit shall be in the form, or to the elfect, prescribed in Schedule (E), to this Act annexed, and shall be allixeil to the Registeror books of record kept by the Trustees of‘the school therein 3 and a cepy of such affidavit, certified by any two of the Trus- tees of said school for the time being, shall be

prime fizcie evidence in any Court of Law or Equity, or before any court or tribunal, or per~

they are hereby required to nominate and ap- $30113 whatsower of due notice of such meeting

point five Trustees, such nomination and ap- having been given, ,

pointment to take place at a meeting of the in— llttblt‘dIIt-S'Of such district, called by a written or printed notice, signed by at least three resi- dent heuseholders within said school district, and posted in at least'three of the most public places within the same seven days prior to such meeting, which notice may be in the form of the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (1)), and a majority consisting of at least nine per- sons, of the resident householders present at such meeting, shall be competent to appoint such Trustees, and it shall be thejdnty of such 'i‘rustees,three of whom shall be a quorum, to examine the school of said district (piarterly in each year, and at all times in conjunction with the Visitor bf schoels for the County, to in- quire into the order and direct the discipline and regulations of ‘such school, and also to give any licensed Teacher who has had the management thereof, the necessary certificates

; XLI. In each schOol district now erected, or ihereaftcr to be constituted by virtue of this i-Act, a majority of the Trustees thereof shall ‘Ehave power to assess all the inhabitants, house- ? holders, resident therein, who shall have a chi'l ior-c‘hildren within the ages of five and seven‘ iteen years of his own, or under his care an-l l guardianship, and who shall have been so resi- ldent for six months previous to the making of gthe assessment; and no other person or per- isons ,whomsoever, in a sum to provide the inecessary books and mapsdirected to be found 3by the School Visitor, and the fuel required :thfll‘c'i": and such Trustees as aforesaid, or the imajority thereof, are hereby empowered to ap- ;portion the said assessment between such resi- gdent householders, according to the number of :children within the ages aforesaid respectively, belonging to them. The assessment upon each

required‘by this Act ; and it shall be the further parentto beincreasedin proportion to the number duty of such Trustees to forward a notice of of his or her childzcn within suchages; and such

their appointment immediately after such ap-'

pointment to the Board of Education, provided always that where the appointment of the

assessment shall be recoverable with costs as heremaltcr, 1n the forty-ninth section of this “Act directed. And when recovered shall bf