II.—School Administration.

1. The Board will establish Public Schools of two hinds :—(1.) Schools having not less than twenty-five children in attendance. (2.) Half-time Schools, in thinly populated districts, where not more than fifteen children may be able to attend, under regulations adapted to the requirements of the district. page 4 Itinerant Teachers will also be appointed in districts where no such schools can be established.

2. The teaching in the Schools shall be five hours daily, during five days in each week, one half-hour of which may be devoted to Religious Instruction. A time-table of the hours of teaching shall be hung up in the Schools, and Religious Instruction may be given in accordance with the 46th section of the Act. Where no such Religious instruction is given, the whole time shall be devoted to ordinary teaching.

3. The Vacations shall be as follows:—Four weeks at Christmas, and two weeks in mid-winter; and the Queen's Birthday, the Anniversary of the Province, Good Friday, Easter Monday and Tuesday, shall be observed as holidays.

4. Such Books only as are sanctioned by the Board, shall be used at the Schools established by the Board.

5. In every School established by the Board, Forms and Registers supplied by the Board, shall be kept by the Teacher.

6. Applicants for the office of Teachers will be required to produce certificates of competency, and moral character, and to undergo such examination as the Board may prescribe.

7. The course of instruction in the Schools shall include Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Composition, History, Geography, and Military drill: and one hour in each week shall be devoted to teaching the science of common things.