THE NEW EDUCATION BILL.

Evening Star, Issue 2859, 18 April 1872, Page 2

THE NEW EDUCATION BILL.

The following are the clauses referred to in the concluding paragraph of our leader:— 45. Every Board shall by and out of moneys at its disposal make such provision from time to time as to them shall seem fit for the following purposes, namely For the payment of salaries and other expenses connected with the carrying on of the business of such Board. For the expense of purchasing or renting school sites, playgrounds, and buildings, or for erecting, fitting up, and improving school buildings. For the payment of teachers’ salaries. For the maintenance and education of pupil-teachers. For the establishment and support of a model school or schools. For the maintenance of free schools and the payment of school fees for poor scholars. For the establishing of scholarships. For subsidizing school libraiics. For aiding schools, being public schools within the meaning of this Act, other than Provincial schools. And generally for the payment of all expenses necessarily incurred by such Board or any School Committee under their supervision in the carrying *out of any of the provisions of this Act.' Provided always that no Board shall be liable for the payment of any expenditure incurred by any School Committee or teacher, unless such expenditure shall have been previously sanctioned by such Board. 50. The Governor may advanced to any Board out of any sjf4jis>pecifically appropriated by the General for the purpose, any sum or sum's lie- fit, and on such security terms.and'conditions as he may think fit for the-purpose of defraying the cost of providing any school buildings which by this Act is to be defrayed by such Board, and the Governor may also empower Boards to borrow money on security of an assignment of the Provincial school rates, and in either case may fix the term for which such loan may be made, not exceeding in any case three years. 51. The Governor may, in accordance with regulations under this Act gran tout of any money from time to time appropriated for the purpose, either specially or generally for the purposes of this Act by the General Assembly, any sum or sums of money for the following purposes, namely : For the payment of salaries and other expenses of the department of education. For the establishment and maintenance of a Colonial Normal or Training College, or for aiding any Model Schools cstabUsed under this Act,

In augmentation of the salaries of public school teachers, whether they he teachers in Provincial or Aided schools. For the establishment and maintenance of special scholarships available at such Colleges or Universities within the Colony as the Minister may approve to be competed for by pupil-teachers and other teachers certified by a Government Inspector of Schools as especially successful or meritorious. For loans or advances to Boards for the erection of school buildings, as hereinbefore provided, and for any other purposes to which such moneys are expressly authorized to be applied by this Act. Provided always that giants towards the augmentation of teachers’ salaries 'shall be by capitation grants on the average attendance and on the number of scholars certified by a Government Inspector of Schools to have been effectively taught, and shall not in the case of any teacher exceed one-third of the amount of the payment made to such teacher on account of salary by the Board, the School Committee, or School Managers. And provided also that no grant shall be made to any school in respect of any instruction in religious subjects. 52. It shall be lawful for the Board of any Province to grant any sum or sums in aid of the efforts made by private individuals or associations for the promotion of education in localities within such Province in which, from the smallnes, or scattered position, or the unsettled nature of the population, or from other causes, no School District shall have been proclaimed. Provided that in the case of a school so aided it be a public school within the meaning of this Act, and provided also that where aid is so granted a teacher may be engaged and required to teach from house to house or in two or more localities during the year. 53. It shall be lawful for the Board of auy Province to giant any sum or sums in aid of the efforts of private individuals or associations for the maintenance of schools within School Districts within such Province, and such schools are hereinafter referred to as ‘’Aided Schools.” Provided every school so aided be a public school within the meaning of this Act, and be under the management of not fewer than five School Managers to be approved by the Board. 54. If the Minister shall at anytime be satisfied that the Board of any Province in any case shall without reasonable cause have refused aid to any such school as, by the two preceding sections the Board is empowered to aid. and the managers of which shall have complied or be ready to comply with the provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Minister to give such pecuniary aid as he may think fit to such school, and the amount so given from time to time shall be charged by the Colonial Treasurer against the capitation nroney of the said Province, as hereinafter provided in the case of insufficient school accommodation.