CHAP. VIII.

AN ACT to make Permanent and Extend the Provisions of the Laws now in force for the Establishment and Regulation of Common Schools throughout this Province, and for granting to His Majesty a Further Sum of Money to Promote and Encourage Edueation within the same.

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

MOST GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN,

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WHEREAS it would greatly tend to advance the happiness of society to Disseminate Moral and Religious Instruction among people, and to render Permanent the Laws now in force relating to Common Schools: We, Your Majesty's dutiful and loyal Subjects, the Commons of Upper-Canada, in Provincial Parliament assembled, most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and

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BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper-Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, “An Act to Repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, 'An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further Provision for the Government of the said Province;"" and by the authority of the same,→

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The money so grant. ed to be at the dispo

sal of the General

Board of Education for this Province, for

the purchase of books.

Which shall be dis

tributed by the Gene

Fal Board to the seve

ral District Boards.

District Boards, at their discretion, to distribute such books,

&c.

day Schools, and the remote settlements.

That for the benefit of all classes of His Majesty's subjects, and for the encouragement of Sunday Schools, and for affording the means of moral and religious instruction to the more indigent and remote settlements in the several Districts throughout this Province, there shall be annually paid, in addition to the sum now by law directed to be paid for the use and benefit of Common Schools, the further sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds; which said sum of One Hundred and Fifty Pounds shall be appropriated and applied in manuer and form as is hereinafter directed.

II. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the monies hereby granted shall be at the disposal of the General Board that is, or may be, appointed by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province, for the superintendance of Education within the same, to be by them laid out and expended for the purchasing of Books and Tracts, designed to afford moral and religious instruction; which said Books and Tracts, when so purchased, shall be distributed by the said General Board, in equal proportion, amongst the several District Boards of Education throughout this Province.

III And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the several District Boards of Education to make and order at their discretion a distribution of such

For the use of Sun- Books and Tracts for the use and encouragement of Sunday Schools, and to the benefit of the more indigent and remote settlements in their respective Districts.

8th clause 1st Geo. IV. ch 7th,

IV. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the eighth clause of an Act passed in the first year of the Reign of His Present Majesty, entitled, “An Act to amend and continue, under certain modifications, an Act passed in the fifty-sixth year

of His Majesty's Reign, entitled, 'An Act granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money to be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this Province, and to provide for the Regulation of the said Common Schools,"" be, and the same is hereby repealed.

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V. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions of the above-recited Act, and so much of an Act sed in the fifty-sixth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money to be applied to the use of Common Schools throughout this Province, and to provide for the Regulations of the said Common Schools," as is now in force, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to extend to all Schools that are now, or may hereafter be, established and kept among the Indians who shall be resident within the limits of any organized County or Township within this Province, excepting such Schools as shall or may be otherwise provided for.-Provided nevertheless, That in all reports that may be made to the Board of Education before the first day of June next after the passing of this Act, from any School kept for the instruction and edu cation of the children of the Indians, it shall not be necessary to certify to such Board, that the Trustees of the School so reporting. were chosen on the first day of June last, any law or usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding.

every

Repealed.

The provisions of the above Act;

And the 56th Geo III. ch. 36.

To extend to the Indians.

Certificate in suet cases dispensed with,

No Teacher to re ceive any money be the District Board;

VI. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Teacher of a Common School, before he shall be entitled to fore examination by receive any portion of public money, shall be examined by the Board of Education in the District in which he shall have taught, or is about to teach, a Common School, or shall obtain a Certificate from at least one member of such Board, certifying his ability and of said Board certify-fitness to teach the same, due regard at all times being had to the degree of education wanting, or to the branches necessary to be

O a certificate from at least one member

ing his ability.

taught in the Township, Village, or place in which such Teacher hath undertaken, or is about to undertake, to teach a Common School.

VII. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Monies hereby granted to His Majesty shall be paid by the Keceiver General of this Province in discharge of such warrant or warrants as shall for the purpose herein set forth, be issued by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, or person administering the Government of this Province for the time being, and shall be accounted for by the Receiver General to His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, through the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury for the time being, in such manner and form as His Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, shall be graciously pleased to direct.

PREAMBLE.

CHAP. IX.

AN ACT to Amend, and make Perpetual an Act passed in the fiftyninth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Repeal part of, and Amend the Laws now in force for Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair the Public Highways and Roads in this Province;" and also to Amend an Act passed in the fiftieth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to Provide for the Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair, the Public Highways and Roads in this Province," and to Repeal the Laws now in force for that purpose.

[PASSED JAN. 19th, 1824.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to Amend and make Perpetual a certain Act of the Parliament of this Province, passed in the fifty

ninth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, "An Act to repeal part of, and amend the Laws now in force, for Laying Out, Amending, and Keeping in Repair, the Public Highways and Roads in this Province: "

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Assembly of the Province of Upper-Canada, constituted and assembled by virtue of, and under the authority of an Act passed in the Parliament of Great Britain, entitled, "An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed in the fourteenth year of His Late Majesty's Reign, entitled, 'An Act for making more effectual Provision for the Government of the Province of Quebec, in North America, and to make further Provision for the Government of the said Province;"" and by the authority of the same,―That the Fourteenth Clause of the said recited Act, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed.

II. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person liable to perform Statute Labour on the highways, (except such persons as being resident in any Town in this Province, shall be liable by law to perform more than six days labour,) may compound for such duty, if he or they think fit, by paying to the Officer herein-after mentioned the sum of Two Shillings and Sixpence for, and in lieu of, each day's duty or labour respectively, at the time, and in the manner directed by Law.

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HI. And be it further Enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person residing in any Town in this Province shall be liable by law to work on the High-ways and Roads more than six days in any one year, he shall, in lieu of such labour, pay to the Surveyor of Streets, to be appointed as is herein-after mentioned,