applied for the purposes for which the same 
     
     "shall have been levied. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XLIL The Trustees of any District School, 
     
     or a majority of them, shall have power to 
     
     order books or maps to be provided for the use 
     
     of such schools ; and shall have power to assess 
     
     the resident householders having children, as 
     
     in the last preceeding section mentioned within 
     
     the said district, for the cost of such books and 
     
     maps; and which assesSment shall be recoverable 
     
     with costs, in the manner pointed out by the 
     
     forty-ninth section of this Act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XLIII. No parent or guardian, or other per- 
     
     son, shall be liable or required to pay any sum 
     
     or amount, per head or otherwise, for or on ac- 
     
     count of any child attending any school, the 
     
     Teacher whereof shall receive pay under the 
     
     authority of this Act, provided always that no- 
     
     thing herein contained shall extender be con- 
     
     strued to extend, to prevent the inhabitants, or 
     
     any one or more of the inhabitants of any school 
     
     district in this Island from voluntarily subscrib- 
     
     ing any sum or sums of money whatsoever, to- 
     
     wards the pay or support of the Teacher of the 
     
     school therein, in addition to the allowance to 
     
     which such teacher may be entitled under this 
     
     Act. And in all cases where any such volun- 
     
     tary subscription may be entered into, and 
     
     signed by any inhabitant or inhabitants as 
     
     aforesaid, either as an inducement to any 
     
    
   
   
    
     efficient master to take charge of a school,‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     or for any other reason whatsoever. The 
     
     Master or Teacher of the said school shall be 
     
     entitled to demand and receive from the person 
     
     or persons respectively, signing the same, the 
     
     amount of his or their respective subscriptions, 
     
     in accordance with the terms thereof; and in 
     
     default of payment, such teacher shall be en- 
     
     titled to sue for the same, in manner by law 
     
     provided for the recovery of small debts. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XLIV. Two of the Trustees of every school 
     
     appointed by virtue of the Laws heretofore in 
     
     force, or hereafter to be appointed by virtue of 
     
     this Act, shall, in rotation, go out of office in 
     
     the month of July in each year,‘ commencing 
     
     with the two members first nominated and ap. 
     
     pointed. And the inhabitants, resident house- 
     
     holders in such District, wherein is the school to 
     
     which they shall be appointed trustees, at ameet- 
     
     ing to be held on any day in the month of July, 
     
     yearly; and to be called-by the Trustees of said 
     
     school after notice thereof given in.the manner 
     
     provided by the thirty-ninth section of this Act, 
     
    
   
   
    
     shall elect two new Trustees. in theirsstead, hav- . 
     
    
   
   
    
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     'ing the like power and authority; and until 
     
    
   
   
    
     such election shall be had, the two retiring 
     
     Trustees shall remain in office, provided, never- 
     
     theless, that if the said inhabitants think fit, 
     
     they may re-appoint, at the bottom of the list, 
     
     such Trustees going out by rotation, and im- 
     
     mediately after such election or re-election. 
     
     And whether new appointments be made or not, 
     
     theTrustees of said school shall notify the pro- 
     
     ceedings to the Secretary of the Board of Edn- 
     
     cation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XLV. In the event of any vacancy or vacan- 
     
     cies occurring from time to time, in any Board 
     
     of Trustees for any school district, appointed or 
     
     elected by virtue of the laws heretofore in force, 
     
     or hereafter to be appointed or elected under 
     
     this Act, by reason at the death, absence, or 
     
     refusal to act, of any Trustee or Trustees after 
     
     his or their appointment or election. The in— 
     
     habitants, householders of such district, are 
     
     hereby empowered to proceed to call a meeting 
     
     in the same manner as provided for thefirst or 
     
     annual meeting of Trustees, and to choose or 
     
     elect one or more person or persons to supply 
     
     such vacancy or vacancies. And the Trustee 
     
     or Trustees so chosen or elected, during the 
     
     'currency of any year, shall have the same 
     
     power in all respects, as if he or they had been 
     
     elected at the commencement of the year, or at 
     
     the last previous general election of Trustees. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XLVI. In the event of any disputes or 
     
     doubts arising or existing as .to the legal 
     
     election or resignation of any School Trustee 
     
     or Trustees, or the right of any person or 
     
     persons to assume the office or exercise the 
     
     duties of Trustee or Trustees of suchschool, 
     
     the Board of Education are hereby authorized 
     
     and empowered to inquire into and determine 
     
     the same, and, if they deem it advisable, on any 
     
     account, to order a new election of “the whole, 
     
     or any less number, of the said Trustees, and, 
     
     for the better ascertaining of the truth in such 
     
     case, to require the personal attendance before 
     
     the said Board, and to examine, on oath, any 
     
     witness or witnesses whose evidence may be 
     
     deemed necessary on such enquiry, and any 
     
     witness who shall refuse to attend so to be 
     
     examined, after his reasonable expenses for 
     
     doing so shall have been tendered to him, 
     
     shallbediable to pay to the party complaining 
     
     a fine of rnot more than five pounds, nor less 
     
     than one pound, the same to be recovered, with 
     
     costs,-in such manner as debts under the Act 
     
     relating to Small Debts are now recovered.