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     An Act to revive and continue a Certain Act 
     
    
   
   
    
     therein mentioned. 
     
     [Passed 24th April,'1868.~1 
     
    
   
   
    
     IIEREAS the Act made andpassedin the- 
     
    
   
   
    
     V' Twenty-secondyear of the reign of Her 
     
     present Majesty, Chapter eight, intituled “ An 
     
     Act for regulating the size and quality of fish 
     
     barrels and tierces,_and the weight of fish made 
     
     up therein, and for the appointment‘of fish in- 
     
     spectors, - also ’ to regulate the inspection of 
     
     pickled fish for sale Within this Island, and to 
     
     repeal a certain Act therein mentioned,” has 
     
     been allowed to expire contrary to the intention 
     
     ‘Uf theLegislature, and it is deemed expedient 
     
     to revive and continue the same—Be it there- 
     
     fore enacted, by theuLieutenant Governor, Coun- 
     
     cil, and Assembly, that the said recited Act of 
     
     the Twenty-second 'year of the reign of Her 
     
     said Majesty Queen ‘ViCtoria, Chapter eight, 
     
     shall be, and the same is hereby revived and 
     
     continued for the space of ten years from the 
     
     passing hereof, and from thence 'to ,the end of 
     
     the then next session of the, General Assembly 
     
     of this Island and no longer. * 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     An. Act to consolidate antia’mend the L"setrer‘al 
     
     Laws relating to Education. a - 
     
    
   
   
    
     t 1 ' :[Passesttth April, 1868.] 
     
      HEREAS the Laws now in «force estab- 
     
     " lishing a system of —free education in this 
     
    

    
     ISland require consolidation and amendment 1' 
     
     I. Be it therefore-enacted by the Lieutenant 
     
     Governor, Council and Assembly, that from 
     
     and after ‘the .‘passing of this Act, the several 
     
     Acts-ilie‘reinafter mentioned, that is to say : 'An 
     
     Act, 'made ‘and fpaSsed in the twenty-fourth 
     
     year of the reign of, Her present Majes- 
     
    
   
   
    
     Iity, Chapter thirty-six, An Act made and, 
     
    
   
   
    
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     passed in the twenty-sixth year of the same 
     
     reign, Chapter’five, an Act made'and passed in 
     
     the thirtieth year of the same reign, Chapter 
     
     eight, (except as hereinafter except‘ed,) and for 
     
     the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and the 
     
     sixth, Seventh, twelfth ‘and "thirteenth sections 
     
     of the Act Of the tiventy-seventh Victoria, 
     
     Chapter thirty-one, shall be and the same are 
     
     hereby Severally and reSpect‘i‘vely repealed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     II‘. From and after the pas<ing of this Act 
     
     the Lieutenant Governor in Council shall nomi- 
     
     nate and appoint Eleven fit and proper persons. 
     
     to be and constitute a Board of Education, one 
     
     of which number shall be appointed by tllu 
     
     Lieutenant Governor in Council "to 5 be the 
     
     Secretary of the Board, and two othermembers 
     
     thereof shall, in like manner, be appointed a~z 
     
     examining members, Whose duty it shall be tn 
     
     examine candidates for licenses to teach, under 
     
     the orders and regulations of the Board, and to 
     
     attend the meetings of such Board‘as ordinary 
     
     members theme-f. ' 
     
    

    
     ' III. Five members oi? the Board shall, be a. 
     
     quorum, and the Board shall meet on the last 
     
     Thursday in each month, and shall give notice 
     
     of the place and time of every such monthly 
     
     meeting, by advertizing 'the same in the It'y/N/ 
     
     Gazette newspaper of this Island, atleast ten 
     
     days previous to such' meeting, and the said 
     
     Board may meet on such other and further d ays 
     
     as they may deem necessary, from time to time, 
     
     without such notice being required to'be' given. 
     
    

    
     IV. The regular examination meetings 01 
     
     the Board shall be once in every two months, 
     
     on the last Thursday in the month, commencing 
     
     with the month of '{January in each year, and 
     
     in'eaeh case, for the, purpose of examination, 
     
     the Board may adjourn from day today, and 
     
     also hold special meetings for the same purpose, 
     
     asp'may be arranged or ordered by the Board 
     
     from time to time. ‘