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     ROYAL GAZETTE‘ 
     
    
     certiﬁcate of qualiﬁcation, as mentioned and re- 
     
     quired in and by the Twenty-eighth Section of 
     
     the said recited Act of the 'l‘wenty-tourth 
     
     Victoria, Chapter thirty-six, the sum of forty- 
     
     ﬁve pounds per annum. Provided always that 
     
     until a teacher of any district or town school in 
     
     this Island shall have been actually engaged as 
     
     a teacher, in conformity with the provisions of 
     
     the laws relating to Education, for a period of 
     
     three years, he shall not be entitled to the full 
     
     salary in the last preceding section directed to 
     
     be paid to the teachers of the several classes, 
     
     but the salary of such teacher shall be reduced 
     
     yearly and every year until he shall have com- 
     
     pleted three years of teaching under the said Act 
     
     or this Act by deducting the sum of ﬁve pounds 
     
     therefrom in each case. 
     
    
     II. The several and respective salaries afore- 
     
     said shall be paid by Warrant on the Public 
     
     Treasury of this Island, in the same way and 
     
     manner, at such time or times, and under and 
     
     subject to the same provisos, restrictions and 
     
     qualiﬁcations, and only on production of the 
     
     same certiﬁcates, attestations and papers, and 
     
     performance of such services as are required by 
     
     the said Acts hereby continued, and shall also 
     
     be subject to be reduced in amount for want of 
     
     the average daily attendance of scholars, as in 
     
     the said recited Act provided and directed. 
     
    
     III. No teacher engaged before the passing 
     
     of this Act for any school district or school in 
     
     any town in this Island under the provisions of 
     
     . the laws relating to Education, shall be entitled 
     
     to claim or be paid from the Treasury of this 
     
     Island that portion of his salary payable by 
     
     parents of children under the provisions of the 
     
     Act of the 26th Victoria, Chapter ﬁve, until 
     
     after the expiration of the current quarter of 
     
     such teacher’s engagement, which shall expire 
     
     next after the passing of this Act ; but the same 
     
     shall be paid and recovered by and from the 
     
     parents of children, as heretofore, and until the 
     
     expiration of such current quarter of each 
     
     teacher, as aforesaid, all the powers, limitations 
     
     directions and provisions of the said recited 
     
     Act of the Seventy-sixth Victoria, Chapter ﬁve, 
     
     shall remain in force for the purpose of 
     
     enabling such teacher to recover said portion of 
     
     his salary from the parents of children. 
     
    
     IV. Nothing in this Act contained shall 
     
     exempt, or be held or construed to exempt, the 
     
     inhabitants of any town or school district in 
     
    
     this Island from making up and paying any de- 
     
     ﬁciency in the salaries of teachers which may 
     
     be occasioned by the attendance of scholars fall- 
     
     ing below the average, as mentioned and re- 
     
     quired in and by the said hereinbefore recited 
     
    
     Acts. 
     
    
     V. Instead of the Form of Agreement con- 
     
     tained in Schedule A, to the Act of the Twenty- 
     
     sixth Victoria, Chapter ﬁve, the Form of Agree- 
     
     ment contained in Schedule A, to this Act 
     
     annexed, shall in all cases be used. 
     
    
     VI. The average number of scholars for daily 
     
     attendance at district schools shall hereafter be 
     
     in the following proportion to the number of 
     
     children between the ages of ﬁve and sixteen 
     
     years in such districts respectiVely, that is to 
     
     say: In districts where there are forty children 
     
     and upwards, but less than ﬁfty, within the 
     
     ages aforesaid, the average number“ of Scholars 
     
     for daily attendance shall be twenty; in dis 
     
     tricts where there is the number of ﬁfty chil- 
     
     dren, and less than sixty, Within the ages afore- 
     
     said, the average daily attendance shall be 
     
     twenty-ﬁve scholars; and in districts where 
     
     there are sixty children and upwards, the 
     
     average daily attendance at the schools therein 
     
     shall be thirty; and in all cases Where the 
     
     average daily attendance of scholars at such 
     
     schools shall hereafter be found to be less than 
     
     the numbers hereinbefore prescribed for such 
     
     scholars respectively, the salary allowed by this 
     
     Act to the teachers shall be reduced, such re- 
     
     duction to bear the same proportion to the 
     
     number of scholars deﬁcient of, or less than the 
     
     aforesaid averages respectively, as the said 
     
     teacher’s salary bears to such average ; and such 
     
     reduction in the teacher’s salary shall be raised 
     
     and made good to him in the way and manner 
     
     prescribed by the laws now in force relating to 
     
     Education, provided always that such daily 
     
     average attendance shall in every case be reckoned 
     
     half yearly. - 
     
    
     VII. Any part or parts, clause or clauses, of 
     
     the said hereinbefore recited Act of the twenty— 
     
     fourth Victoria, Chapter thirty-six, and of the 
     
     twenty-sixth Victoria, Chapter ﬁve, which are 
     
     in any way contrary to or inconsistent with the 
     
     provisions of this Act, shall be and the same are 
     
     hereby repealed. 
     
    
     VIII. That the trustees of a school or school 
     
     districts shall only be required to sign individ- 
     
     ually the teacher’s certiﬁcate in presence of a