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     thereof are in poor circumstances and reguire 
     
     pecuniary assistance to enable them to build a 
     
     schoolhouse therein, then it shall be lawful for 
     
     the Lieutenant Governor in Council to grant 
     
     the sum of five pounds to the trustees of such 
     
     district to be eXpended in erecting such school- 
     
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     XXIV. Every schoolhouse hereafter to be 
     
     erected and used as such, within any dis- 
     
     trict now or hereafter established under this 
     
     Act, and not already contracted to be built, 
     
     shall not be less in clear area than four hundred 
     
     square feet, nor in the height of post than ten 
     
     feet clear between the floor and ceiling, or be 
     
     built nearer to the highway than ten yards. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXV. In all cases where a schoolhouse is 
     
     now or shall hereafter be erected on Church 
     
     grounds, and the trustees or managers of such 
     
     Church property are desirous of obtaining the 
     
     benefits of this Act, and of having such school 
     
     established as a district school, a lease of such 
     
     schoolhouse shall be given by the parties in 
     
     whom such property is vested, or who shall 
     
     have the legal controul over the same, to the 
     
     Board of Education, for the time being, to 
     
     hold to them and their successors in office for 
     
     such term as may be required for the purposes 
     
    
   
   
    
     of this Act, or as may be agreed upon in that 
     
     behalf. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXVI. The public schoolhouse in every 
     
     district established or regulated under this or 
     
     any former Act relating to Education may, 
     
     with the consent of the majority of the trustees 
     
     thereof, be used by the licensed teacher thereof 
     
     for the purpose of teaching night or evening 
     
     classes therein, for his or her own benefit, and 
     
     such schoolhouse may be used as a place of 
     
     worship, or for any other lawful public meeting, 
     
     with the consent of the trustees, as aforesrid, 
     
     and at such time as they may appoint; pro- 
     
     vided always, that in no case shall it interfere 
     
     with the duties of such licensed teacher, and 
     
     provided further, that the Board of Education 
     
     shall have full power to prevent any such public 
     
     schoolhouse being used at any time during the 
     
     regular school hours in each day for any other 
     
     purpose, ‘or‘ by any other person than such 
     
     licensed teacher,‘for teaching a public school 
     
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     XXVII. The average number of scholars for 
     
     daily attendance at‘distrietls'chools shallhere- 
     
     after 'be1in‘the following preportion to the 
     
     number of children,3betv‘veen the ages of five 
     
     and ‘stxteen years, in such distri’Cts’ respectively, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     that is to say, in districts where there are fort r 
     
     children and upwards, but less than fifty with- 
     
     in the ages aforesaid the average number of 
     
     scholars for daily attendance shall be twenty. 
     
     In districts where there is the number of iiny 
     
     children, and less than sixty within the ages 
     
     aforesaid 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 school 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 herein before prescribed for such 
     
     schools, respectively the salary allowed by this 
     
     Act, to the Teachers of such schools shall be 
     
     reduced ; such reduction to bear the same pro- 
     
     portion to the number of scholars deficient of, 
     
     or less than the aforesaid averages respectively. 
     
     as the said Teacher's salary bears to such aver? 
     
     age, which said average shall be reckoned half 
     
     yearly, and all parents of children within the 
     
     bounds of such district, shall be liable to make 
     
     up and contribute towards such deficiency in 
     
     proportion to the number of children within the 
     
     said ages, which such parents may have re- 
     
     spectively, and in default of such contribution, 
     
     after the same shall have been duly demanded, 
     
     the said amount so to be deducted from the. 
     
     said salary shall be raised by an assessment to 
     
     be levied by the Trustees, on the parents or 
     
     guardians of all children in the said school 
     
     district; such assessment to be apportioned as 
     
     to them, or a majority of them, shall, under 
     
     the circumstances of the case, and due regard 
     
     being had to the means of the various parties, 
     
     appear just and reasonable, and to be levied. 
     
     raised, and recovered, in such manner, and 
     
     subject to such rules, conditions, and regula- 
     
     tions, as are prescribed for levying or recover- 
     
     ing assessment by this Act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXVIII. N o Schoolmaster or Teacher shall 
     
     be entitled to any allowance by virtue of this 
     
     Act, unless the inhabitants of his, or her school 
     
     district shall have first provided a sufficient 
     
     schoolhouse to be exclusively used for that pur- 
     
     pose, (except as in this Act provided) and also 
     
     that there have been at the least forty children 
     
     between theages of five and sixteen, resident 
     
     within his or her school distrlct for the six 
     
     months immediately preceding the period of 
     
     his or her claiming his allowance, and that the 
     
     average daily attendance of scholars during the 
     
     said six months, shall not have been lessthan 
     
     twenty. Provided always that this provision 
     
     shall not extend to school districts now or'hcrc-