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At the General Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia,

begun and holden at Halifax, on Thursday, the four-
teenth day of February ‚A. D., 1907, in the seventh
year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord EDWARD THE
SEVENTH, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the British
Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the
Faith, Emperor of India, being the First Session of
the Thirty-Fourth General Assembly convened in the
Province.

*In the time of His Honour the HONOURABLE DUNCAN CAMERON FRASER, Lieutenant
Governor; The Honourable Monson H. Goudge, President of the Legislative Council;
Edward M. Farrell. Speaker of the House of Assembly; George H. Murray, Provincial
Secretary; and George W. Kyte, Clerk of the House of Assembly.

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Be it enacted by the Governor, Council, and Assembly, as follows:

1. This Act

Act."

may be cited as "The Technical Education Citation.

DIRECTOR OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

2. (1) The Governor-in-Council may appoint a person Director. to be Director of Technical Education, who shall be an officer of the Council of Public Instruction, and shall be paid such annual salary (and receive such allowances) as the Governorin-Council determines.

Duties of Directors.

Gov.-in-Council may accept gifts

Act.

(2) The Council of Public Instruction shall, upon the recommendation of the Director, provide the Director with such assistants as may be found necessary, and shall define their duties and fix the salaries they shall receive.

3. The duties of the Director of Technical Education shall be as follows:

:

(a) To exercise general supervision over the conduct and management of all schools established or carried on under the provisions of this Act;

(b) To report to and advise the Council as to all matters relating to engineering, mining and industrial education;

(e) To promote the establishment and efficiency of local technical schools and other schools under his supervision;

(d) To report annually to the Legislature on the state of technical education in the province, and as to the condition and efficiency of the schools under his supervision, with detailed accounts of the expenditure of the moneys appropriated for the support of the same;

(e) Such other duties as the Council of Public Instruction from time to time prescribes.

4. The Governor-in-Council, on behalf of the province, for object of this may accept, take, hold and administer any gifts, bequests or devises of real or personal property of every kind which may be made for the furtherance of any of the objects of this Act.

When estab. lished.

Name of institution.

TECHNICAL COLLEGE.

5. There shall be established at Halifax an institution for the purpose of affording facilities for scientific research and instruction and professional training in civil, mining, mechanical, chemical, metallurgical and electrical engineering or any other departments which may from time to time be added.

6. The institution shall be called the Nova Scotia Technical College.

Fower to borrow. 7. The Governor-in-Council is hereby authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding $100,000, and to expend the same in securing a site, erecting a building and in providing

adequate apparatus, plant, books, materials and appliances for the purposes of said institution.

lations.

8. The Council of Public Instruction may from time to Rules and regu time make such rules and regulations as it deems expedient for the efficient conduct of the said institution, and may amend or repeal the same.

institution.

9. The Director of Technical Education shall be the Principal of principal of the said institution.

Professors.

10. The Council of Public Instruction shall, upon the Appointment recommendation of the principal, appoint such professors and instructors as the Council considers requisite for the purposes for which the institution is established.

11 (1) The members of the teaching staff of the insti- Teaching staff.. tution having the rank of professors, and such representative of any university of the province or elsewhere as the Council may select, shall constitute a body corporate, under the name of the Nova Scotia Technical College.

(2) The said corporation shall have power to grant such degrees as it may determine, to prescribe the several qualifications therefor, the course of study to be pursued in the several departments, and in respect to all matters of discipline and all matters connected with the educational work of the institution shall have the conduct and control thereof.

(3) In the event of any part or parts of the course of study prescribed for the said institution for the first and second years being included in the educational work done in the universities recognized by the Council in this province or elsewhere, the Council of Public Instruction shall exclude such part or parts from the course of study of the said institution.

(4) The principal shall report from time to time the proceedings of the corporation to the Council of Public Instruction, and the Council may modify or reverse any action or ruling taken or made by the corporation.

penditure, how

12. The annual expenditure incurred in connection with Annual Exthe institution shall be defrayed out of the provincial defrayed. treasury.

Local schools.

When estab. lished.

Rules and regulations.

LOCAL TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.

13. The Governor-in-Council may from time to time establish, in such places as it may be deemed advisable, local technical schools to furnish industrial education of such character and extent as will most effectively meet the requirements of the population and industries of the locality.

14. No such local technical school shall be established until the necessity or desirability thereof, the amount of local aid to be furnished, the facilities which can be afforded and the advantages to be derived have been reported upon by the Director of Technical Education, and he has recommended the establishment of such school.

15. (1) The Council of Public Instruction may make such rules and regulations as they deem advisable for the support, conduct and management of the school.

(2) Subject to such regulations the Council may associate the Board of School Commissioners of the place in which the school is established, or a committee thereof, or any other person or persons with the Director in the management of any local technical school.

Instructors. 16. The Council of Public Instruction shall, upon the recommendation of the Director, appoint such instructors as may be required for the carrying on of such schools and shall fix their salaries.

Maintenance.

Schools for
Miners.

Purposes.

17. Such sums as may be required in addition to the local aid provided, for the establishment and maintenance of the local technical schools shall be paid out of the provincial treasury.

SCHOOLS FOR MINERS.

18. The schools of instruction for miners established under the provisions of chapter 22 of the Revised Statutes, 1900, "Of Schools of Instruction for Miners," are hereby continued and hereafter the establishment and maintenance of such schools shall be under the direction of the Council of Public Instruction.

19. Such schools shall be for the purpose of instructing persons who wish to prepare themselves to undergo examination by the board of examiners for the purpose of

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