Education Acts Compilation.

Teachers of schools in office to continue in same. 1877, No. 21, sec. 46

Complement of teaching staff. 1901, No. 38, sec. 3

Teachers' salaries. Ibid, sec. 4

Head teacher's residence. Ibid, sec. 7

Rents, house allowances. Ibid, see. 8

Duration of appointment of school-teacher. 1877, No. 21, sec. 47

Summary dismissal in certain cases.

Teacher's occupation of schoolhouse. Ibid, sec. 48 Proceedings against a teacher refusing to give up schoolhouse on demand. Ibid, sec. 49

Certificates of competency will be issued to teachers after examination held in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations to be made as hereinafter provided : Provided that the Committee may recommend teachers to the Board for appointment, and may also recommend the suspension or 5 dismissal of any such teacher; but no appointment, suspension, or dismissal shall take place until the Committee have been first consulted. 58. All teachers of schools at or immediately before the coming into operation of this Act holding office under the provisions of 10 " The Education Act, 1877," or any Act or Ordinance thereby repealed, shall, subject to any express provisions of this Act, continue to hold such office as if this Act had not come into operation. 59. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, the number of teachers and pupil-teachers in every public school shall be such as is 15 prescribed for the average attendance thereat in the Fourth and Fifth Schedules hereto. 60. The salaries of the teachers and pupil-teachers in any public school shall be the salaries assigned to such teachers and pupil-teachers in the Fourth Schedule hereto. 20 Provided that, if the Governor at any time decides that the salaries in the Fifth Schedule hereto shall be payable in lieu of those in the Fourth Schedule, he may, by Order in Council, declare that the salaries paid to teachers and pupil-teachers shall thereafter be the salaries named in the Fifth Schedule hereto. 25 61. In the case of a school having more than twenty children in average daily attendance, the Board shall, at its discretion, either provide a residence for the head teacher of the school or pay to him annually the house allowance prescribed in the Sixth Schedule hereto. 30 62. It shall be lawful for a Board to pay rents of school buildings or house allowances to head teachers as provided by the last preceding section out of any moneys from time to time appropriated by the General Assembly for that purpose. 63. No school-teacher appointed or whose appointment is con- 35 firmed under this Act shall be at liberty to relinquish his said engagement without giving to the Chairman of the Committee, and also to the Secretary of the Board under which he holds his appointment, at least one month's notice in writing of his intention to do so; and such engagement shall not be determined by any Board 40 except on giving three months' notice, signed by its Secretary. Nothing contained in this Act shall preclude or prevent the Committee from suspending, and the Board from peremptorily dismissing any school-teacher for immoral conduct or gross misbehaviour. 45 64. The teacher's occupation of the schoolhouse, and land attached thereto, or teacher's house, if one be provided, is hereby declared to be an occupancy by sufferance only. 65. In case a teacher shall refuse or neglect to deliver up possession of the schoolhouse and land attached, or of the house, as the case 50 may be, after demand in writing made by or on behalf of the Board, the Magistrate whose Court shall be nearest to the locality shall, on

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