books and readers as are authorized by the Council of Public Instruction and the Committees thereof; fill up the blanks, papers and documents submitted to him by the School-Commissioners (or Trustees), and Inspectors ;) .keep a school register in which shall be entered the names of the visitors to the school and their remarks, and also the books, registers or copy-books for pupils; to preserve the pupils' school copy-books in the chest or cupboard intended for that purpose; never to use the class rooms for any other purpose than teaching, without a special permission from the chairman of the Commissioners (or Trustees); to receive in the class rooms during school hours such persons as have a right to visit the school and no others; observe the rules of strict discipline in and during school hours, but not to use corporal punishment except with great discretion and in extreme cases only; always to keep himself properly clothed, and on this point to set à good example of cleanliness and propriety; to receive the parents of the pupils and all visitors with respect and politeness; carefully to keep the Journal of Education (or Journal de l'Instruction Publique (as the case may be) in the archives of the school and to keep the school-house in good order; in a word to fulfil all the duties of a good teacher.

This engagement is entered into for and in consideration of the price and sum of dollars, for the school year, which the said School-Commissioners (or Trustees) bind themselves to pay to the said

teacher, in the following manner, that is to say: (mention the terms of payment) which sum the said Commissioners (or Trustees) oblige and bind themselves to pay to the said master, in lawful current money and not otherwise, wishing and intending that neither the secretary-treasurer nor any other person for them, shall make any bargain with the said teacher as to the mode of payment of his salary, but that the salary shall be paid him in money and at the dates agreed upon; the said Commissioners or Trustees) hereby submitting to the provi sions of law which substitute the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the. said teacher, in any suit for the recovery of the said salary or part thereof, in default of payment of said salary to the teacher in whole or in part.

A copy of this engagement or a duplicate thereof, is transmitted to the Superintendent, by consent of the parties.

In default of any other engage.nent for next year, the present engagement shall continue to be in force between the parties for next year, and until it shall have been regularly cancelled.

And the parties have signed, the same having been first duly read.

An act to amend the law respecting public instruction, in so far as respects the city of Sherbrooke.

[Assented to 28th December, 1876.]

HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent

of the Legislature of Quebec, enacts as follows:

sioners.

1. Hereafter there shall be in the city of Sherbrooke Two boards two boards of school-commissioners, and each of such of commisboards shall be composed of five commissioners, and shall Corporation. be under its own name a body politie and corporate, with all the powers and privileges of corporations.

2. One of such boards shall be "The board of roman Roman "Catholic catholic school commissioners of the city of Sherbrooke,' Board. and the members thereof shall be roman catholics. The other shall be "The board of protestant school-commis- Protestant sioners of, the city of Sherbrooke," and the members Board. thereof shall be protestants.

3. The members of each of such boards shall be elected Election of by proprietors resident in the city and possessors of real members. estate of value sufficient to entitle them to vote at municipal elections in the city..

elected.

4. The members of the roman catholic board shall be By whom elected by roman catholic proprietors; and those of the protestant board by protestant proprietors.

5. The first election of all the. commissioners shall be 1st election. held on the second monday of march next; and the subsequent elections shall be held like those of the other Subsequent commissioners under the general law,

elections.

missioners.

6. The present commissioners shall remain in office Present comuntil the election of commissioners in virtue of the preceding section.

Application of general

law.

Division of

7. All provisions of law respecting school-commissioners and schools in general, shall apply also to each of such boards and to the members thereof, save in so far as the same be inconsistent with this act.

8. Any property constituting the assets of the present present pro- school-commissioners, shall be valued by the city valua

perty.

Certificate of

and effect

thereof.

tors..

The moneys and movables shall be divided by such valuators in equal shares between the board of the roman catholic commissioners and the board of the protestant commissioners.

Each of the immovables shall belong to that board of commissioners which shall offer the highest price therefor; provided that the first bid be the value set upon the same by the valuators.

9. Every adjudication of real estate made in virtue of adjudication the preceding section, shall be established by a certificate in duplicate, made and signed by the secretary-treasurers. of the two boards of commissioners; and every certificate so made shall be an authentic title transferring the property in the real estate therein specified.

Division of

grant.

One of the duplicates of each such certificate shall be filed in the archives of each of the two boards of commisşioners.

A copy of each such certificate, certified by the two secretary-treasurers, may be enregistered in the office of the proper registration division, with the same effect as if it were a deed of sale in the usual form.

10. The annual grant of the government of this province government for the support of schools in the city of Sherbrooke, shall be divided between the board of roman catholic school commissioners and the board of protestant school-commissioners, according to the relative proportion of the roman catholic and protestant population of such city, and according to the then last census.

Tax estab lished or

altered by Boards.

Notice to be

Treas. of City.

11. The two boards of commissioners may from time to time meet together and agree with respect to the esfablishing or altering. the amount of the tax to be levied on the taxable real estate of the city for such purposes; provided that such tax be not in any case less than two mills or more than four mills in the dollar.

12. The boards of commissioners shall be bound to ingiven to Sec. form the secretary-treasurer of the city of Sherbrooke, on or before the first day of april in each year, of the amount of tax required for school purposes, for the following year. In the absence of notice to such effect, the two boards of

commissioners shall be deemed as not having been able to come to an understanding.

If the two boards are unable to agree with respect to If unable to the establishment of such amount, before the first of April agree. in each year, the tax to be levied shall be three mills in the dollar, for the year beginning on the first of July following.'

13. The city council at the first session thereof, after Resolution of the first of May in each year, shall, by resolution, declare Council. the tax to be levied for the current year, and such tax shall then become due..

14. It shall be the duty of the council of the city of Levying of Sherbrooke, to cause to be levied by its secretary-treasu- tax. rer, out of the taxable real estate of the municipality, the tax which shall have been determined by the two boards of commissioners; or that of three mills in the dollar, if such boards have not been able to come to an understanding.

15. Such tax shall be known as "the city school tax." Idem. It may be levied and recovered at the same time as the other taxes of the city, and shall further, for the purpose of the collection thereof, be deemed to be. a municipal tax of the city; provided always that cor- Corporations porations and companies, which may have been or which exempt from shall be exempted from municipal taxes by by-law of the tax, to be city council, shall nevertheless be liable for the school liable for

tax.

municipal

School tax.

16. Real estate belonging to religious, charitable, or Real Estate educational institutions or corporations, and occupied by exempt from school tax. them for the objects for which they were established and not solely possessed for the purpose of deriving a revenue therefrom, shall be exempt from the city school tax. ·

17. The city school tax shall be payable by proprietors Tax payable of real estate, to the exclusion of tenants.

The tenant shall not be bound to re imburse the proprietor for the amount thereof unless it has been expressly stipulated.

by proprietors.

Terms in

Such tax shall not be considered as included under the name of "municipal taxes," or "city taxes," or "corpo- leases defined. ration taxes," or under the words "all taxes," in any lease passed after the coming into force of this act; but it must be, expressly mentioned under the name of “the city school tax."

The usufructuary or occupant, under an emphyteutic Usufructuary lease shall be deemed to be the proprietor, as shall also and emphythe occupant when the proprietor is unknown.

teutic leases.

Statement of

real estate.

Valuators for

18. The city council shall cause to be drawn up by the valuators, between the first day of april and the first day of june, in each year, a statement of the real estate in the municipality.

The valuators of the city, for the purpose of this act that purpose..shall be in equal number, roman catholics and protestants; one roman catholic and one protestant to act as such in each ward. The appointments required therefor are hereby authorized.

Their expenses.

•Contents of statement.

Statements to be divided into 4 panels. Panel No. 1.

Panel No. 2.

Panel No. 3

Panel No. 4.

The sums paid for the salaries of the valuators and their expenses incurred in drawing up and publishing each statement, shall be deducted from the amount to be paid by the city to the boards of school-commissioners.

19. Such statement shall show opposite the description: of each lot or property the amount of the valuation thereof, the name of the owner and the sum to be levied on such lot or property for the city school tax for the year.

The amount of the valuation and the name of the owner shall be the same as stated on the valuation roll in force in the city for municipal purposes..

20. Such statement shall be divided into four distinct panels.

Panel number one shall comprise the taxable real estate belonging exclusively to roman catholics.

Panel number two shall comprise the taxable real estate belonging exclusively to protestants.

Panel number three shall comprise the taxable real estate belonging:

1: To corporations or incorporated companies subject to taxation under this act;

2. To persons professing neither the roman catholic nor protestant religion, or whose religion is unknown; 3. To persons who have stated their wish in writing that their property shall be entered in such panel;

4. To commercial firms or partnerships who have not declared by their agent or by one of their members, their intention of having their property entered on the first or second panel ;

5. Lastly property belonging partially or jointly to persons, some of whom profess the roman catholic and others the protestant faith.

Panel number four shall comprise all real estate exempt from taxation, which shall be the same as that mentioned in section 41 of the act of this province 39 Vict., ch. 50..

Entry of taxable prop21. Properties possessed for revenue purposes by erties belong. religious, charitable or educational institutions or coring to reli- porations, shall be entered on panel number one or panel gious bodies. number two according to the religious denomination to