NEW BILLS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1005, 22 July 1881, Page 2

NEW BILLS.

Amongst the Bills now before the House of Representatives, and copies of which have been received by us, are “The Education Act Amendment Act,” “AuActto Provide for the Reduction of the Price Charged for Miners’ Rights” (introduced by Mr Pyke), and “The Counties Act Amendment Act ” (introduced by Mr J. B. Fisher), The Education Act Provides that every school which is conducted in accordance with the provisions of “The Education Act, 1877,” and regulalations framed thereunder, in respect of the qualifications of teachers, course of instruction, attendance nt school, and inspection by an inspector of the Board of Education, shall be deemed a public school within the meaning of the Act. No grant shall bo made under this Act to any school in respect of any instruction in religious subjects, nor shall it be required that the school shall be in connection with a religious denomination, or that religious instruction shall be given in the school. Every such school shall be entitled to receive the same capitation allowance as is granted to public schools established under the Act, provided that no such school shall be entitled to a share in such funds unless the average number of pupils attending the same be 25 or more. The Act for the Reduction of the Miner’s Right Fee Provides that from and after January Ist, 1882, the sum which shall be paid for a minor’s right under Sections 12 and 13 of the Act shall be at the rate of 10a, instead of LI as therein provided ; and such sections shall thereafter be read as if the words “ ten shillings ” were therein inserted, inserted, instead of the words “ one pound.” The Counties Amendment Act Provides that the county electors of every county shall, upon the first Wednesday in November in the present and every successive year, elect a county chairman. Any person qualified to be, and not incapable of being, a county councillor may be elected to be a county chairman. Any person being a county councillor who shall bo elected county chairman shall thereby vacate his offico of comity councillor.

Any person being county chairman who shall be elected a county councillor shall thereby vacate his office of county chairman,

The county chairman shall be a county councillor by virtue of his office. The chairman may resign his office, by writing under his hand addressed to the council, or to tho clerk of tho council, and in such ease, or in case of his death, incapacity, or ouster of office, his office shall become vacant, and such vacancy shall bo an extraordinary vacancy. In any extraordinary vacancy of tho office of chairman, the council may appoint any person qualified to bo, and not being incapable of being, a county councillor to the office of chairman, and such person so appointed shall hold office until such vacancy is filled by tho election of a new chairman.

If any extraordinary vacancy in the office of chairman occurs within three mouths before tho day hereinbefore appointed for tho annual election of chairman, the chairman appointed as in tho last preceding section shall continue to hold tho office of chairman, until the day after such annual election.

If a councillor shall he appointed to hold temporarily tho office of chairman, he shall not thereby vacate his office of councillor.