or over he shall then be paid in the proportion which the number of days during which he has taught bears to the whole number of teaching days in the year. ness. (2) In case of sickness, certified by a medical man, he shall Case ct sickbe entitled to his salary during such sickness for a period not Four weeks exceeding four weeks for the entire year; which period may allowed. be increased at the pleasure of the trustees. 48 V. c. 50, s. 47. 48. Every master and assistant of a high school shall, in the Teachers suborganization, discipline, management and classification of the ject to regulapupils be subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by Education the Education Department. 48 V. c. 50, s. 48. Department. 49. The provisions of The Public Schools Act, respect- Superannuing superannuation shall apply to masters and assistants of ation. high schools. 48 V. c. 50, s. 49. TERMS. Rev. Stat. c. 225. 50. The high schools shall open on the seventh day of Terms. January, and close on the Thursday before Easter; they shall re-open on the first Tuesday after Easter, and close on the first Friday of July; they shall re-open on the last Monday of August, and close on the twenty-second day of December. 48 V. c. 50, s. 50. PREPARATORY CLASSES OR SCHOOLS. classes. 51.-(1) It shall be competent for the board of trustees of Preparatory any high school to establish a preparatory school, class, or classes, for the preparation of pupils for admission to such high school. (2) No master or assistant employed in the high school Proviso as to shall teach in such preparatory school, class, or classes. teaching. (3) No part of the legislative grant or of the county As to legisla assessment for high school purposes shall be applied towards tive grant. the expenses of the establishment, teaching or maintenance of such preparatory school, class, or classes. (4) No additional local assessment for high school purposes As to assess shall be applied towards such expenses without the consent of ment. the council of the municipality in which the high school is situated. 48 V. c. 50, s. 51. LEGISLATIVE GRANT. ment payable 52. Any sum of money appropriated by the Legislative High School Assembly for high school purposes shall be apportioned by apportionthe Minister of Education on the basis of salaries paid to half-yearly. masters and assistants, the character and equipment of school buildings and appendages, and the average attendance of pupils, according to such regulations as may be passed from Condition of Allowance for elementary military instruction. Inspection. Masters of certain High Schools shall make and orological time to time by the Education Department, approved by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council; and all moneys so apportioned shall be payable half-yearly to the treasurer of the high school board entitled to receive it, in such manner as may be determined by the Lieutenant-Governor, and notice of such apportionment shall be sent to each county clerk. 48 V. c. 50, s. 52. 53. No high school which is not conducted according to this Act, and to the regulations prescribed by the Education Department, shall be entitled to receive any part of the high school fund; nor unless a sum is provided from local sources, exclusive of fees, at least equal to the minimum sum apportioned to such high school, from the high school fund, and expended for high school purposes. 48 V. c. 50, s. 53. 54. (1) It shall be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor in Council to prescribe a course of elementary military instruction for high school pupils, and to appropriate out of any money granted for the purpose a sum not exceeding $50 per annum to any school employing a competent drill instructor, and in which school a class of not less than twenty-five pupils has been taught for a period of at least six months. 48 V. c. 50, s. 54 (1); 50 V. c. 40, s. 7. (2) Such classes and instruction shall be subject to such inspection and oversight as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. may direct. 48 V. c. 50, s. 54 (2). METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. 55. The master of every high school at which a meteorological station is or may be authorized by the Education Department shall make the requisite observations for keeping, and transmit mete shall keep, a meteorological journal embracing such observaobservations. tions, and kept according to such form as may from time to time be directed by the Education Department, and all such journals or abstracts of them shall be sent monthly by such master to the Minister of Education. 48 V. c. 50, s. 55. Allowance for making meteorological report. be 56. Every high school meteorological station at which the daily observations are made, as required by law, may paid an apportionment, additional to that made to the High School out of the high school fund, at a rate not exceeding $15 per month for each consecutive month during which such duty is performed, and satisfactory journals or monthly abstracts thereof are furnished to the Minister of Education (according to the form and regulations provided by the Education Department), by the head master observer, who shall certify that the observations required have been made with due care and regularity. 48 V. c. 50, s. 56; 5Q V. c. 40, s. 8. Trustees not 57. No high school trustee shall enter into any contract, High School agreement, engagement or promise of any kind, either in his to contract own name, or in the name of another, and either alone or with Board. jointly with another, or in which he has any pecuniary interest, profit, or promised or expected benefit, with the corporation of which he is a member, or have any pecuniary claim upon or receive compensation from such corporation for any work, engagement, employment, or duty on behalf of such corporation, and every such contract, agreement, engagement or promise shall be null and void, and such trustee shall also ipso facto vacate his seat, and a majority of the other trustees shall declare the same vacant, and notify the clerk of the municipality. 48 V. c. 50, s. 57. 58. If a trustee of any high school is convicted of any Vacancy in felony or misdemeanor, or becomes insane, or absents himself office of trustee, when from the meetings of the board for three consecutive months, caused. without being authorized by resolution entered upon its minutes, or ceases to be a resident within the school municipality for which he is a trustee, such trustee shall ipso facto vacate his seat, and the remaining trustees shall declare his seat vacant, and notify the clerk of the municipality accordingly. V. c. 50, s. 58. 48 59. Any person who wilfully interrupts or disquiets any Penalty for high school established and conducted under the authority of disturbing High Schools. this Act, by rude or indecent behaviour, or by making a noise either within the place where such school is kept or held, or so near thereto as to disturb the order or exercises of the high school shall, for each offence, on conviction thereof before. a Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, on the affidavit of one credible witness, forfeit and pay for public school purposes to the school section, city, town or village within which the offence was committed, such sum not exceeding $20 together with the costs of conviction, as the said Police Magistrate or Justice may think fit. 48 V. c. 50, s. 59. AUTHORIZED BOOKS. 60. No teacher shall use or permit to be used as text books Only authorany books in a high school, except such as are authorized by ized text be the Education Department, and no portion of the legislative used. or municipal grant shall be paid to any school in which unauthorized books are used. 50 V. c. 40, s. 9. text-book. 61. Any authorized text book in actual use in any high Change of school may be changed by the teacher of such school for any other authorized text book in the same subject on the written approval of the trustees, provided always such change is made at the beginning of a school term, and at least six months after such approval has been given. 50 V. c. 40, s. 9. Substitution of unauthorized textbooks. 62. In case any teacher or other person shall negligently or wilfully substitute any unauthorized text book in place of any authorized text book in actual use upon the same subject in his school, he shall for each such offence, on conviction thereof before a Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace, as the case may be, be liable to a penalty not exceeding $10, payable to the municipality for high school purposes, together with costs, as the Police Magistrate or Justice may think fit. 50 V. c. 40, 8. 9. CHAPTER 227. An Act respecting Separate Schools. SHORT TITLE, s. 1. PROTESTANT AND COLOURED SEPARATE SCHOOLS, SS. 2-17. Establishment, ss. 2 (1), 7. Limits, ss. 2, (2). Commencement, s. 4. Provisions as to salary, ss. 35, 38, Settlement of disputes, ss. 36, 37. ASSESSMENTS, ss. 40-55. Trustees and their election, ss. 3,5. AGREEMENT WITH MUNICIPAL COUNCIL Union of wards, s. 6. Exemption from and right to cer ain rates and grants, ss. 8-11,14. Election of trustees, ss. 22, 23. VILLAGES: Election of trustees, ss. 30, 31. TEACHERS: Agreements with, s. 33. Duties of, s. 34. FOR PAYMENT IN LIEU OF RATE, 8. 56. Deduction to be made by inspector from county rate, s. 57. Borrowing powers, s. 58. Legislative grant, s. 59. Not to share local assessment for Return to Minister of Education, Model schools, s. 65. Appointment of trustee of high Disagreement between trustees Fenalties and prohibitions, ss. 80 98. Recovery of penalties, s, 99. ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Separate Schools Act." Short title. 49 V. c. 46, s. 1. PROTESTANT AND COLOURED SEPARATE SCHOOLS. schools for and coloured 2.-(1) Upon the application in writing of five or more Conditions on heads of families resident in any township, city, town or incor- which separate porated village, being Protestants, the municipal council of the Protestants said township or the board of school trustees of any such city, people may be town or incorporated village, shall authorize the establishment established. therein of one or more separate schools for Protestants; and upon the application in writing of five or more heads of families resident in any township, city, town or incorporated village, being coloured people, the council of such township or the board of school trustees of any such city, town or incorporated village, shall authorize the establishment therein of one or more separate schools for coloured people, and in every such case, such council or board, as the case may be, shall prescribe the limits of the section or sections of such schools. (2) No person shall be a supporter of any separate school Restriction. for coloured people unless he resides within three miles in a direct line of the site of the school house for such separate school. 49 V. c. 46, s. 3. trustees. 3. There shall be three trustees for each separate school, Election of and the first meeting for the election of such trustees shall be held and conducted in the manner and according to section 27 of this Act. 49 V. c. 46, s. 4. regulations. 4. On the twenty-fifth day of December next, following the Commencedate of the application mentioned in section 2 of this Act, each ment and such separate school shall go into operation, and shall, with respect to the persons for whom such school has been established, be under the same regulations as public schools generally. 49 V. c. 46, s. 5. defined. 5. None but coloured people shall vote at the election of Voters trustees of any separate school established for coloured people, and none but the persons petitioning for the establishment of, or sending children to, a Protestant separate school shall vote at the election of trustees of such school. 49 V. c. 46, s. 6. a wards in cities and towns. 6. In any city or town the persons who make application, Union of according to the provisions of section 2 of this Act may have separate school in each ward, or in two or more wards united, as the said persons may judge expedient. 49 V. c. 46, s. 7. 7. No Protestant separate school shall be allowed in any Special condischool section, except when the teacher of the public school in tions. such section is a Roman Catholic. 49 V. c. 46, s. 8. |