Education Acts Compilation.

incorporated company) in any contract under which any money is to be paid by the Board, he shall immediately thereupon cease to be a member of the Board : Provided that it shall be lawful for the Board to pay any member residing at a distance from the ordinary 5 place of meeting of the Board reasonable travelling-expenses. 37. (1.) If the place of any member of the Board shall become vacant for any of the causes aforesaid, such vacancy shall be deemed to be an extraordinary vacancy. (2.) The Chairman of the Board shall fix a day on or before 10 which the Committees of the several school districts shall each transmit the name of a person qualified to fill such vacancy, and shall publicly notify the names so transmitted, and appoint a day on which each Committee shall send in the name of a person so notified, and a day on which the election shall be held. 15 (3.) All the proceedings in and about such election shall be conducted in the same manner as in the case of ordinary elections. (4.) The member then elected shall retain his office so long as the vacating member would have retained the same if no such vacancy had occurred. 20 38. No act of the Board shall be questioned on the ground of any informality in the election of a member, nor on the ground that the seat of any member is vacant, or that any supposed member thereof is incapable of being a member. 39. Each Board shall be a body corporate under the name of 25 " The Education Board of the District of [naming it]," and by such name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, and may take and hold land for the purposes of this Act, and may do and suffer all such acts and things as bodies corporate may do and suffer. 40. The Governor in Council may from time to time make 30 such regulations as he thinks fit in order to give full effect to the purposes of this Act with respect to the election of members of Boards. Property of Boards. 41. (1.) All real and personal property immediately before the 35 coming into operation of this Act vested in, belonging to, or under the control of the Education Board of any then existing education district for educational purposes shall, on the coming into operation of this Act, be vested in the Education Board of such district constituted under this Act, to be held by it for the purposes of this Act 40 within such district. (2.) Where a new district is constituted under this Act, all such property within or held in trust for educational purposes for such new district which was formerly vested in the Board of the original district shall vest in the Board of the new district. 45 (3.) Nothing in this section contained shall extend or apply to reserves for educational purposes which by or under any law or authority have been set apart as endowments for educational purposes in any district, but all such endowments shall in any of the cases hereinbefore provided for be dealt with in the manner provided 50 by " The Education Reserves Act, 1877."

Provision for vacancy in Board. 1877, No. 21, sec. 22

Acts of Board not to be questioned for informality, &c. Ibid, sec. 23

Boards incorporated. Ibid, sec. 24

Regulations. 1900, No. 16, sec. 23

Property acquired io vest in Boards constituted by this A-t. 1877, No. 21, pec. 25

Provision in respect of new districts.

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