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     XXXVII. All males and females over five 
     
    
   
   
    
     vcars, and not exceeding seventeen years of’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     age, residing in any school district in this ls— 
     
     land, shall be entitled to attend the school 
     
     therein the ’l‘eacher'whereof shall receive pay 
     
     under "this Act, and the said Teacher shall be 
     
     bound ‘to receive and instruct all such children. 
     
    
   
   
    
     XXXVIII. In all cases the vacation of each 
     
     school constituted. and regulated .under this 
     
     Act or now in operation, excepting always the 
     
     schools in rJharlottetowa and Georgetown, shall 
     
     be two in number inveach year, that is to say 
     
     a. spring vacation extending from the tenth 
     
     dav of May to the thirty-first day of the same 
     
     month, and an autumnal vacation of twenty-one 
     
     davs, to take place in the month of October, 
     
     and which shall be fixed by the respective 
     
     Trustees of the several schools, and no deduc- 
     
     tion shall be made from the salary of the 
     
     Teacher, nor any time :added to the period of 
     
     his service on account of such vacations being 
     
     allowed, and every alternate Saturday shall be 
     
     allowed as a holiday to the Teacher in .each 
     
     district school. 
     
    

    
     XXXIX. The inhabitants of any school. 
     
     district within this Island, who shall have pro- 
     
     vided a school-house therein, in conformity 
     
    
   
   
    
     with all the provisions of this Act, shall, and] 
     
    
   
   
    
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     lTrustees of the schoolin any seliool district, shalt 
     
    
   
   
    
     have been made under and by virtue of the 
     
     laws heretofore in force, relating to Education, 
     
     and suéh Trustees shall be in office at the passing 
     
     of this Act. They shall continue and be held 
     
     to be the Trustees of such schOol, under and for 
     
     the {purposes of this Act. 
     
    
   
   
    
     X-L. In order to obviate the necessity and 
     
     consequent expense of a more formal proot'of' 
     
     the calling- of any meeting, for the appointment 
     
     of Trustees under this Act, or any former Act 
     
     relating to Education, an affidavit of the,posting 
     
     of notices for the calling of such meeting, shall 
     
     in all cases of the appointment of Trustees whica 
     
     shall hereafter take place, be made by the per— 
     
     son posting such notices, or other person who 
     
     can prove the fact of the several notices having 
     
     been duly posted before any Justice of the 
     
     Peace, for the Countyswherein the School Dis-- 
     
     trict is situate ; which affidavit shall be in the 
     
     form, or to the elfect, prescribed in Schedule 
     
     (E), to this Act annexed, and shall be allixeil 
     
     to the Registeror books of record kept by the 
     
     Trustees of‘the school therein 3 and a cepy of 
     
     such affidavit, certified by any two of the Trus- 
     
     tees of said school for the time being, shall be 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     prime fizcie evidence in any Court of Law or 
     
     Equity, or before any court or tribunal, or per~ 
     
    
   
   
    
     they are hereby required to nominate and ap- $30113 whatsower of due notice of such meeting 
     
    
   
   
    
     point five Trustees, such nomination and ap-  having been given, , 
     
    
   
   
    
     pointment to take place at a meeting of the in— 
     
     llttblt‘dIIt-S'Of such district, called by a written 
     
     or printed notice, signed by at least three resi- 
     
     dent heuseholders within said school district, 
     
     and posted in at least'three of the most public 
     
     places within the same seven days prior to such 
     
     meeting, which notice may be in the form of 
     
     the Schedule to this Act annexed, marked (1)), 
     
     and a majority consisting of at least nine per- 
     
     sons, of the resident householders present at 
     
     such meeting, shall be competent to appoint 
     
     such Trustees, and it shall be thejdnty of such 
     
     'i‘rustees,three of whom shall be a quorum, to 
     
     examine the school of said district (piarterly in 
     
     each year, and at all times in conjunction with 
     
     the Visitor bf schoels for the County, to in- 
     
     quire into the order and direct the discipline 
     
     and regulations of ‘such school, and also to 
     
     give any licensed Teacher who has had the 
     
     management thereof, the necessary certificates 
     
    
   
   
    
     ; XLI. In each schOol district now erected, or 
     
     ihereaftcr to be constituted by virtue of this 
     
     i-Act, a majority of the Trustees thereof shall 
     
     ‘Ehave power to assess all the inhabitants, house- 
     
     ? holders, resident therein, who shall have a chi'l 
     
     ior-c‘hildren within the ages of five and seven‘ 
     
     iteen years of his own, or under his care an-l 
     
     l guardianship, and who shall have been so resi- 
     
     ldent for six months previous to the making of 
     
     gthe assessment; and no other person or per- 
     
     isons ,whomsoever, in a sum to provide the 
     
     inecessary books and mapsdirected to be found 
     
     3by the School Visitor, and the fuel required 
     
     :thfll‘c'i": and such Trustees as aforesaid, or the 
     
     imajority thereof, are hereby empowered to ap- 
     
     ;portion the said assessment between such resi- 
     
     gdent householders, according to the number of 
     
     :children within the ages aforesaid respectively, 
     
     belonging to them. The assessment upon each 
     
    
   
   
    
     required‘by this Act ; and it shall be the further parentto beincreasedin proportion to the number 
     
     duty of such Trustees to forward a notice of of his or her childzcn within suchages; and such 
     
    
   
   
    
     their appointment immediately after such ap-' 
     
    
   
   
    
     pointment to the Board of Education, provided 
     
     always that where the appointment of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     assessment shall be recoverable with costs as 
     
     heremaltcr, 1n the forty-ninth section of this 
     
     “Act directed. And when recovered shall bf