"in his hands" in the fourth line of the same Section, had never been inserted therein. XX. This Act shall be called and known as The Sei- Short title. gniorial Amendment Act of 1856." CAP. LIV. An Act to make better provision for promotion of superior Education and the establishment and support of Normal Schools in Lower Canada and for other purposes. W [Assented to 19th June, 1856.] HEREAS it is expedient to establish a permanent Fund Preamble. for the promotion of superior Education and the support of Normal Schools in Lower Canada, and to make other provision for the same purpose: Therefore, Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of Canada, enacts as follows: as an invest tion in Lower Canada. I. The Estates and Property of the late Order of Jesuits, Jesuits' estates whether in possession or reversion, including all sums funded appropriated or invested, or to be funded or invested, as forming part thereof, ment Fund for and the principal of all moneys which have arisen or shall arise Superior Edufrom the sale or commutation of any part of the said Estates or Property, are hereby appropriated to the purposes of this Act, and shall form a Fund to be called the "Lower Canada Superior Education Investment Fund," and shall be under the control and management of the Governor in Council, for the purposes of this Act; and the said Fund shall be understood to be intended by the words "the said Investment Fund," whenever they occur in this Act. II. The revenues and interest arising from the said Investment Revenues and Fund, that is to say:-The revenues and interest hereafter to interest to arise from the real property forming part of the Jesuits' Estates, form an Inor from moneys funded or invested as belonging to the said for the said Estates, or from any property, real or personal, reversible to the purposes, said Estates as part of them,-the revenue and interest of investments made or to be made, and of debentures held or to be held, on account of the said Estates,-the income and interest to arise from investments to be made out of the moneys received or to be received from commutations effected or to be effected in the Seigniories forming part of the said Estates, or out of the moneys to be received from the collection of any arrears of revenues, interest, and of debts now due, being part of the said Estates, and out of all moneys which, in lieu of any Seigniorial right to be abolished or commuted, will, as part of the said Estates, become due and payable under the Seigniorial Act of 1854, and the Seigniorial Amendment Act of 1855, or under any other Provincial Act enacted or to be enacted, in relation. to to the abolition or commutation of feudal rights and duties in Lower Canada,—the revenue and interest to arise from investments to be made out of the moneys to be received from the sale of any portion of the said Estates, or from the sale or redemption of any rente foncière or rente constituée, being part Unexpender of the said Estates,-shall, with the unexpended and unclaimed yearly balances of the Common School Fund for Lower Canada, and the sum hereinafter directed to be paid yearly out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, and with any sum to be taken for the purpose in any year out of the Common School Fund of Lower Canada, form a Fund, to be called the "Lower Canada Superior Education Income Fund;" and the said Fund shall be understood to be intended by the words "the said Income Fund," whenever they occur in this Act. balance of Common School Fund for L. C. to form part of Income Fund. Property belonging to may be sold when the sale will increase III. Whenever it shall appear to the Governor in Council that the said Income Fund may be increased by the sale and by Jesuits' estates the investment of the proceeds of the sale of any portion of the said Estates, or of any rente foncière or rente constituée then forming part of them, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to order such sale to be made, and to direct that the moneys realized by it be invested in provincial debentures or other securities, the annual interest or income whereof shall form part of the said Income Fund. the said Income Fund. Fund. Yearly approIV. There shall be annually placed to the credit of the said priation to- Income Fund, the sum of five thousand pounds currency, out of wards Income the Consolidated Revenue Fund of this Province, which sum shall form part of the said Income Fund, and be appropriated Income Fund accordingly; and if in any year the said Income Fund shall fall to be made up short of the sum of twenty-two thousand pounds, then such sum to £22,000 per as may be necessary to make it equal to twenty-two thousand pounds, shall be taken from the Common School Fund of Lower Canada, and added to the said Income Fund for that year, as part thereof. annum. Apportionment of Income Fund among Su perior Educational Institutions, by the Superintendent of Schools. Balance of In V. The said Income Fund, or such part thereof as the Governor in Council shall from time to time direct, shall be annually apportioned by the Superintendent of Schools for Lower Canada, in such manner, and to and amongst such Universities, Colleges, Seminaries, Academies, High or Superior Schools, Model Schools and Educational Institutions, other than the ordinary Elementary Schools, and in such sums or proportions to each of them, as the Governor in Council shall approve; and the grants or amounts so apportioned shall be paid by the Receiver General, on the warrant of the Governor, to the said Superintendent, who shall pay the same to the respective Educational Institutions entitled to them. VI. If in any one year the whole of said Income Fund be not come (if any), apportioned, the balance not distributed shall remain for further distribution as is before provided, or shall, if the Governor shall how to be applied. SO so direct, be invested, and the income or the interest of the investment shall be added to the said Income Fund, and the principal shall form part of the said Investment Fund. to be yearly, VII. Grants to be made under this Act out of the said Income Grants from Fund shall be for the year only, and not permanent; and the Income Fund Governor in Council may attach to such grants any conditions and may be which may be deemed advantageous for the furtherance of Su- conditional. perior Education. no claim. VIII. No grant shall be made to any Educational Institution Certain Instinot actually in operation, nor to any Institution owning real tutions to have estate, whose liabilities shall exceed two thirds of the value of such real estate. IX. Any Educational Institution desirous of obtaining a Application grant under this Act, shall make application to that effect to for aid out of the said Superintendent of Schools, before or during the month Income Fund of July in every year: and the Superintendent shall not recom- Report to acmend any grant to any Educational Institution whose applica- company aption shall not be accompanied by a Report, shewing, with plication; reference to such Institution: 1. The composition of the governing body; 2. The number and names of the Professors, Teachers or 3. The number of persons taught, distinguishing those un- 4. The general course of instruction, and the books used; 6. The value of the real estate of the Institution, if it holds 7. A statement of its liabilities; 8. The number of persons taught gratuitously, or taught and boarded gratuitously; 9. The number of books, globes and maps possessed by the Institution, and the value of any museum and philosophical apparatus belonging to it. what it must contain X. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, to direct Yearly aid out that out of the said Income Fund, a sum not exceeding five of Income hundred pounds currency, be yearly or during any number of and township Fund to parish years set apart and appropriated as an aid towards the forma- Libraries. tion of Parish and Township Libraries, in localities in Lower Canada where adequate contributions may have been made by the School Municipalities or otherwise for the same purpose; such aid to be given in money or in books as the Governor in Council shall direct and upon such conditions as he shall think proper; and such Libraries shall be under such management, Management inspection and regulations as the Superintendent of Schools of Libraries. shall from time to time determine with the approval of the Governor in Council. XI. Recital. Governor in Council to es- Schools in Superintendent of Schools to have the control and to make regula XI. And inasmuch as it is necessary to make further provision for the establishment and maintenance of one or more Normal Schools in Lower Canada: Be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to adopt all needful measures for the establishment in Lower Canada of one or more Normal Schools, containing one or more Model Schools, for the instruction and training of Teachers of Common Schools in the science of Education and art of Teaching,-to select the location of such School or Schools, and to erect or procure and furnish the buildings requisite for the same; aud the said Normal Schools shall be under the control of the Superintendent of Schools for Lower Canada, who, for their establishment and maintenance, shall from time to time make such arrangements as the Governor in Council shall direct; and shall, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, cause to be made from time to time such rules and regulations as may be required for the management of such Normal Schools, and for prescribing the terms and conditions on which Students shall be received and instructed therein, the course of instruction to be gone through and the manner and form in which the Registers and books shall be kept, and certificates of attendance granted to Students; and shall likewise, subject to such approval, Teachers, &c. determine who shall be the Teachers and the persons to be employed therein, and the number and remuneration of such Teachers and persons to be so employed; and Reports shall be made from time to time by the Principals of such Normal Schools to the Superintendent of Schools, containing such particulars as he shall direct, whenever need shall be or he shall require such Reports. tions, with approval of Governor in Council. And appoint Reports to be made to him. Students in Norinal Schools may obtain certificates as Teachers. Yearly allow ance for ex penses of Nor mal Schools. And in aid of Teachers in training. XII. On the presentation by any Student to the Superintendent of Schools, of a certificate under the hand and seal of the Principal of any such Normal School, that such Student has gone through a regular course of study therein, the said Superintendent may grant to such Student a certificate or diploma of qualification which shall be valid until revoked for some breach of good conduct or of good morals by such Student, and by virtue whereof, while it remain valid, such Student shall be eligible to be employed as Teacher in any Academy, Model School or Elementary School under the control of School Commissioners or Trustees of dissentient Schools. XIII. A sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred pounds shall be allowed yearly out of the Common School Fund for Lower Canada to defray the Salaries of officers and other contingent expenses of such Normal School or Normal Schools; and a sum not exceeding one thousand pounds shall be allowed yearly out of the said Income Fund, as an aid to facilitate the attendance of teachers in training at the Normal School or Normal Schools. tioned is in XIV. In case the two sums mentioned in the preceding section Further albe found insufficient, it shall be lawful for the Governor in lowance if Council to order that out of the said Income Fund a certain the last mensum be yearly set apart and appropriated for the support and sufficient. maintenance of the said Normal School or Normal Schools, which sum so set apart and appropriated yearly, shall not exceed in any one year the sum of two thousand five hundred pounds. XV. And inasmuch as it is necessary to provide for the pur- Recital. chase of such site or sites, and for erecting or procuring and furnishing of such buildings, as may be requisite for the said Normal School or Normal Schools, it shall be lawful for the Normal School Governor in Council to order that out of the said Income Fund the Building Fund sum of two thousand pounds be for such purposes yearly set constituted. apart and appropriated to form a fund to be called "The Lower Canada Normal School Building Fund," and any sum so yearly set apart and appropriated shall be invested or placed at interest as the Governor in Council shall direct; and the income and interest shall, like the principal, form part of the said Fund: the moneys and interest which may be realized by the sale Proceeds of which the Governor in Council may direct to be made of any Sale of present site and the buildings thereon already acquired for Normal buildings to School purposes in Lower Canada, and not deemed convenient such Fund. for such purposes, shall form part of the last mentioned Fund, and shall be invested or placed at interest in the like manner as any other sum forming part thereof. form part of XVI. Any excess or amount of the Lower Canada Normal Application of School Building Fund which shall not be actually required for any excess of the purposes for which the fund is constituted, shall, in the such Fund. discretion of the Governor in Council and as he may direct, either revert to and form part of the said Lower Canada Superior Education Income Fund, or be invested as part of the said Lower Canada Superior Education Investment Fund, in which last case the income and interest arising from such investment shall form part of the said Income Fund. XVII. The foregoing sections shall apply only to Lower Preceding secCanada; and so much of the Act 14 & 15 Victoria, chaptered 97, tions to apply intituled, An Act to provide for the establishment of a Normal only to L. C. School, and further to promote Education in Lower Canada, as provides for the establishment of a Normal School in Lower Canada, and as may be inconsistent with any of the provisions contained in the foregoing sections, is hereby repealed; Provided Proviso nevertheless, that the said Income Fund shall be and remain Income Fund chargeable chargeable with the payment of the Salaries of the Inspectors of with InspectCommon Schools, under said last mentioned Act. ors' salaries. XVIII. And inasmuch as it is necessary to grant Provincial aid Recital. to certain Educational Institutions in Upper Canada, to the like amount to which it is hereby granted to similar Institutions in Lower |