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     ment as aforesaid shall in no case be entered' 
     
    
   
   
    
     into for a longer or shorter period than 
     
     twelve months from the commencement 
     
     thereof, and every such agreement and en- 
     
     gagement shall be duly made and entered 
     
     into in writing between the said Teacher and 
     
     the School Trustees, to be appointed as by 
     
     this Act directed, and. shall be in the form or 
     
     to the effect prescribed. in the schedule to 
     
     this Act annexed, marked A. - 
     
    
   
   
    
     LXXXIX. It shall be the duty of the 
     
     Trustees of all Schools in this Island, and 
     
     they are hereby required in all cases, when 
     
     entering into an egagement or agreement 
     
     with any Teacher, to state and set forth in 
     
     every such agreement what is the total num- 
     
     ber of scholars or children within the age of 
     
     five and seventeen years in their District, 
     
     and also the average daily attendance of 
     
     scholars required by this Act for such 
     
     school when the same is a district school. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XC. The Journal or Register required b 
     
     the fifty-fourth section of this Act to be kept 
     
     by every Licensed Teacher, and forwarded 
     
     by him or her to the Secretary of the Board 
     
     of Education, shall, before being so for- 
     
     warded, be certified to as to the correctness 
     
     thereof, upon oath,by every such Teacher be- 
     
     fore a Justice of the Peace. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XCI. When, and as often as the resident 
     
     householders in any two adjoining country 
     
     School districts in this Island, having child- 
     
     ren within the age of five and seventeen 
     
     years, or the Trustees of such Districts, shall 
     
     be desirous of obtaining the establishment 
     
     of a Grammar School in lieu of the two dis- 
     
     trict Schools within their districts, and the 
     
     Trustees of both of said districts, on behalf 
     
     of such resident householders therein as 
     
     aforesaid, shall signify such, their desire, in 
     
     writing, to the Board of Education, and shall 
     
     provide a suitable building for the purpose 
     
     of such Grammar School, the same to be of 
     
     not less area than six hundred square feet, 
     
     and to be at least ten feet in the height of 
     
     the post, that then, and in every such case, 
     
     the said Board of Education shall have power, 
     
    
   
   
    
     and they are hereby required to merge said p 
     
    
   
   
    
     two districts into one and to establish therein 
     
     a Grammar School, in lieu of the two district 
     
     Schools theretofore in operation in such dis- 
     
     tricts, and to appoint a Teacher to such Gram- 
     
     mar School, who shall be qualified to teach 
     
     the various branches hereinafter specified, 
     
     and the Board of Education shall have 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     power at any time, upon the application of 
     
     the Trustees of any such“ Grammar School 
     
     as aforesaid, to appoint an Usher or assist- 
     
     ant Teacher to such school. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XCII. The Board of Education. shall like- 
     
     wise have power at their discretion, subject 
     
     to the proviso as to the number of Grammar 
     
     Schools in the next section set forth, to 
     
     establish in any country School district in 
     
     this Island, a Grammar School in lieu of the 
     
     district School, should it appear to them to 
     
     be necessary or advisable, and an application 
     
     be made to them by the Trustees or house- 
     
     holders of the district, and the said Board of 
     
     Education shall appoint to shch Grammar 
     
     School a Teacher possessing the qualifica I 
     
     tions hereinafter prescribed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XCIII. The number of Grammar Schools 
     
     in each of the Counties of this Island, to be 
     
     allowed or recognized under this Act, over and 
     
     above those Grammar Schools formed by the 
     
    
   
   
    
     y junction of two District Schools under this Act, 
     
    
   
   
    
     or in Charlottetown, Georgetown, or summer- 
     
     side, shall not exceed the following number, 
     
     that is to say, in Prince County three, in King’s 
     
     County three, and in Queen’s County five, un- 
     
     less the establishment of an additional Gram- 
     
     mar School, or additional Grammar Schools, 
     
     shall, on recommendation of the Board of Edu- 
     
     cation, be sanctioned by 0 rder of the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor in Council. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XCIV. The Board of Education, at any time, 
     
     if they, on examination, or the report of the 
     
     examiners, find that a candidate for a Teacher’s 
     
     license is not likely to become fitted to be a 
     
     Teacher without attending at the Normal School, 
     
     shall require such candidate to attend at such 
     
     Normal School for any period they may think 
     
     fit, not exceeding five months, before they will 
     
     again allow such candidate to offer himself for 
     
     examination. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XCV. From and after the passing. of this 
     
     Act, the Board of Education shall have power 
     
     to continue in Georgetown a Grammar School, 
     
     in addition to the male and female Schools which 
     
     are hereby authorized to be established and 
     
     rovided for therein, and in Summerside a Gram- 
     
     mar School in addition to the District School 
     
     already established therein, respectively ; and 
     
     the administrator of the Government, for the 
     
     time being, in Council, shall from time to 
     
     time, appoint the Teachers to such Grammar 
     
     Schools, whose qualifications for teaching shall 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘be those in this Act prescribed, and such