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     V. The Secretary so appointed by the Lieu- 
     
     tenant Governor in Council shall be paid the 
     
     sum of seventy-five pounds for his services and 
     
     to provide necessary stationery and pay other 
     
     contingent expenses. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI; Each member of the Board shall receive 
     
     ninéi'pounds yearly for his services, except the 
     
     two examining members, who shall be paid 
     
     twenty pounds a year each ; the salary of each 
     
     member to be subject to a deduction of fifteen 
     
     shillings for every time he shall be absent from 
     
     any monthly sitting of the Board, without 
     
     sufficient excuse. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VII. The Lieutenant Governor in Council 
     
     may, at any time and from time to time, re- 
     
     move or supersede any member or members of 
     
     the Board, and nominate and appoint a new 
     
     member or members thereto, instead of the 
     
     member or members so removed or superseded, 
     
     and when and so often as any vacancy or 
     
     vacancies shall occur in such Board, by death 
     
     or otherwise, the said Lieutenant Governor in 
     
     Council shall appoint a fit person, or fit per- 
     
     sons to fill such vacancy or vacancies. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. No Schoolmaster or mistress licensed 
     
     to teach. under this Act, or under the said 
     
     hereby repealed Acts, or any former Law 
     
     relating to Education, who shall have been, or 
     
     may or shall hereafter be, absent from this 
     
     Island, or- who shall have discontinued the 
     
     practice of, teaching, or not been employed 
     
     therein under any agreement to teach under 
     
     this Act, or-any present Act relating to Edu- 
     
     cation, for the Space of two consecutive years, 
     
     shall hereafter be. permitted or qualified to 
     
     teach under this. Act, unless he or she shall 
     
     again appeanbefore the Board and be examined 
     
     and receive from the Board a new license or 
     
     certificate to teach. 
     
    
   
   
    
     IX. Any person who may be a candidate to be- 
     
     come a District Teacher or Schoolmaster, or mis- 
     
     tress, in this Island, shall, on one of the bi-monthly 
     
     meetings of. the Board, or any other day which 
     
     the said Board shall appoint, submit himself or 
     
     herself to an examination before the Examiners 
     
     of the Board, and if the Board shall, on re- 
     
     ceiving the report of the Examiners, be satisfied 
     
     with the qualifications of such candidate, they 
     
     shall give him or her a certificate of his having 
     
     passed such examination ; provided that no 
     
     such certificate shall be granted to any person 
     
     who shall not have produced to the Board a 
     
     certificate of good moral character, signed by, 
     
     at least two persons of respectability, one of 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     whom shall be a Clergyman or Justice of the 
     
     Peace, resident in the neighborhood where the 
     
     applicant may have last resided or usually 
     
     resides. 
     
    
   
   
    
     X. If any School Visitor shall report to the 
     
     Board of Education that any teacher, licensed 
     
     to teach under any of the former Acts relating 
     
     to Education, is unqualified to teach, the Board 
     
     of Education may, at its discretion, order such 
     
     teacher to be re-examined before the Board, 
     
     and upon such re-examination shall grant, or 
     
     refuse, a certificate or License to teach to such 
     
     person, and if a new certificate or license as 
     
     aforesaid be refused to such person by the 
     
     Board his former certificate or license shall be 
     
     deemed to be cancelled. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XI. It shall be the duty of the Board of 
     
     Education, assisted by the Visitors of Schools, 
     
     if they require it, to prepare suitable forms and 
     
     regulations for making all returns required by 
     
     this Act and conducting all necessary proceed- 
     
     ings thereunder, and to cause a copy of the 
     
     same, with such instructions as they shall 
     
     deem necessary for the guidance of District 
     
     and other schools, the same not being incon- 
     
     sistent with this Act, as also a copy of this Act, 
     
     to be furnished to each teacher having an 
     
     engagement to teach under this Act, which Act 
     
     and documents shall be at all times kept in each 
     
     schoolhouse by the teacher, and shall be open 
     
     to the inspection of the Trustees of such school 
     
    
   
   
    
     and all persons by law autherized to visit the 
     
     same. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XII. Upon complaint made to the Board, of 
     
    
   
   
    
     gross misconduct or neglect of duty on the part 
     
    
   
   
    
     of any person holding a certificate as a District 
     
     Teacher, the said Board, after due investiga- 
     
     tion and satisfactory proof of such misconduct 
     
     or neglect of duty, shall have power to cancel 
     
     or revoke the certificate held by such District 
     
     Teacher as aforesaid, and shall also have the 
     
     same power if any such teacher as aforesaid, 
     
     having entered into an engagement to teach in 
     
     any District as hereinafter mentioned, do not 
     
     complete the whole term of his engagement, 
     
     unless such teacher be prevented from so doing 
     
     by sickness or other incapacity, or unless the 
     
    
   
   
    
     said engagement be dissolved by order or per- 
     
     mission of the Board. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XIII. In the event of any dispute between 
     
     any of the trustees or the inhabitants of any 
     
     District and the teacher as to his conduct as 
     
     teacher, the trustees or inhabitants intending 
     
     to prosecute such complaint, with the view of