3. That there be granted to the said Chancellor, President, and Scholars of King's College at Fredericton, in the Province of New Brunswick, and their successors, for the endowment of the said College, and also the establishment and support of Collegiate Schools, the yearly sum of eleven hundred pounds, to be paid from the Treasury of the Province, and drawn out of the same by Warrants of the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief of this Province for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's Council.

4. Provided always, That the sum of money hereby granted is upon condition, that His Majesty will be graciously pleased to grant for the further endowment of the said King's College the annual sum of one thousand pounds sterling, out of His Majesty's Casual Revenue of this Province, or from such other branch of His Majesty's Royal Revenue as he may be pleased to appoint for that purpose; provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall extend or be construed to authorize the appropriation of any part of the Public Revenue of this Province, without the consent of the Legislature thereof.

5. Whereas His Excellency Sir Howard Douglas, Baronet, Lieutenant Governor of this Province, and Chancellor of the said University, has been pleased to intimate his wish and intention to make a donation of the sum of one hundred pounds, to be placed in some safe funds on interest, and the yearly interest to be applied to the purchase of a suitable Medal or prize for the best composition in prose or verse in the Greek, Latin, or English language, on such subject as the Chancellor for the time being may appoint, under any regulations to be made for that purpose by the Chancellor and College Council; and it is the express desire of His Excellency, that the said sum should be placed in the Treasury of the Province, under the security of the Legislature ;-Upon the said sum of one hundred pounds being paid by His Excellency into the Treasury of the Province, the same may be applied to the public service of the Province, to be disposed of as other public moneys by the Legislature; and that yearly and every year from henceforth for ever there be paid out of the Treasury of this Province to the Chancellor of the said University for the time being, the sum of ten pounds, to be applied and disposed of according to the munificent intention of the donor.

6. And whereas many of the provisions of the several Acts for the establishment of Grammar Schools in the several Counties of this Province have been found inadequate for the purposes thereby intended, and it has become expedient to alter and make the same more effectual;-An Act made and passed in the fifty sixth year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to establish Grammar Schools in the several Counties of this Province; also, an Act made and passed in the fourth year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to alter the Act for the establishment of Grammar Schools in the several Counties of this Province, be and the same are hereby repealed; saving and reserving nevertheless to the Trustees and Directors of any Grammar Schools, all such sum or sums of money which may be due and payable to them at the time of passing this Act, under and by virtue of any of the provisions of the said last two recited Acts.

7. His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's Council, shall be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint during pleasure, and to remove as he shall see fit, three or more fit and proper persons in the several Counties of this Province, the Counties of York and Charlotte, and the City and County of Saint John excepted, to be Trustees and Directors of the Grammar Schools in each of the said Counties, except as aforesaid, and for which they shall be respectively appointed.

8. The said Trustees and Directors of the said Grammar Schools in each of the said Counties respectively, except as aforesaid, or the major part of them, shall form and constitute a Board for the management of the said Schools respectively, with full power and authority to procure and provide proper places whereon to erect suitable buildings for the said Schools in their respective Counties, and to accept and receive donations for the erection of such buildings and for the endowment of the said Schools, and to purchase and hold lands and real estate in trust and for the use of such Schools, and that they be enabled to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, by the name and description of Trustees and Directors of their respective Schools.

9. The said Trustees and Directors, or the major part of

them, in each of their respective Counties, except as aforesaid, are hereby empowered to procure and retain a Master or Usher for their said respective Schools, and to make and establish bye laws, ordinances, and regulations for the government of the said Schools, and to enforce obedience to the same by expulsion or other public censure as they may judge proper, and to fix and determine the rates of tuition at the said Schools; provided always, that no such bye laws, ordinances, or regulations shall have any force or effect until they shall have received the approbation of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being.

10. No Master or Masters, Usher or Ushers shall be employed to teach in any School or Schools now established or hereafter to be established in this Province, unless such Master or Usher shall be duly qualified and licenced as is required in and by His Majesty's Royal Instructions.

11. The said Trustees and Directors shall hold public visitations and examinations of the said Schools twice in each and every year, that is to say, on the first Monday in May and the first Monday in November.

12. The Scholars shall be taught in the said Schools English Grammar, the Latin and Greek Languages, Orthography, the use of the Globes, and the practical branches of the Mathematics, and such other useful learning as may be judged necessary; and the said Trustees and Directors for the respective Counties shall be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to nominate and send to the said Schools any number of boys not exceeding eight to any one School, to be taught gratis, and such boys shall be instructed in all the branches of education which are taught at the said Schools respectively, or such parts thereof as the said Trustees and Directors shall direct, and in the same manner as any other Scholars; and on the removal of any such boys from the said Schools respectively, the Trustees and Directors shall and may appoint and send others in their stead, so as to keep up at all times the full number of eight free Scholars in each of the said Schools; provided always, that such boys be poor orphans or children whose parents cannot afford to pay for their education.

13. The sum of one hundred pounds annually shall be included in the estimate of the ordinary expenses of the Province

for each of the following Counties, that is to say, the Counties of Northumberland, Sunbury, Westmorland, Gloucester, and Kent, and Queen's and King's Counties; which said sum of one hundred pounds shall be granted annually for the payment of the Masters thereof respectively; the same to be drawn on the certificate of the Trustees and Directors in favour of the person or persons entitled thereto.

14. No Grammar School in any of the said last mentioned Counties shall be entitled to the said sum of one hundred pounds in the next preceding Section mentioned, unless the inhabitants of the County in which such School shall be established shall have raised or subscribed, and bona fide to be paid, the further sum of fifty pounds in aid and support of the Master thereof.

15. Whenever the said Trustees and Directors in any of the said Counties last mentioned, shall certify to His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being, that a building suitable for a Grammar School hath been provided in such County, and that they, the said Trustees and Directors, have provided a competent Master to manage and teach the said School, and that the sum of fifty pounds hath been raised or subscribed, and to be bona fide paid by the inhabitants of such County to the said Trustees and Directors of such School in aid of the support and maintenance of the said Master, that then and in such case it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being, by and with the advice and consent of His Majesty's Council, to draw on the Treasury of the Province for one half of the said sum of one hundred pounds in favour of the Master or Teacher of the said School, and so to draw from time to time on the Treasury upon the like certificate, in half yearly payments for the use of such School; provided always, that all the sums of money which shall be borne upon the estimate as aforesaid from year to year for the use of such Schools, and which shall not be drawn from the Treasury of the Province pursuant to this Act, shall revert to the Provincial fund, to be appropriated by the Legislature.

16. No part of the said sum of fifty pounds to be raised by the inhabitants of any of the said last mentioned Counties in aid and support of any Grammar School within the same, shall

be borne, paid, or subscribed by the Master or Usher of such School.

17. From and after the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty, no beneficed Clergyman of the Established Church, or Minister of any other sect or denomination of Christians, having the spiritual charge of any Parish or Congregation, shall be eligible, or be appointed Master or Usher of any Grammar School in any of the said last mentioned Counties.

18. All those persons who have at any time been appointed Trustees and Directors of any Grammar Schools under and by virtue of the provisions of the hereinbefore last recited Acts, shall remain and continue in office, and the rules, ordinances, regulations, and bye laws by them respectively made and passed, and which have been duly approved of for the government of any Grammar School, shall be construed and taken to be in full force and effect, and in the same manner as if the said Acts had not been repealed.

19. The said Trustees and Directors of the respective Grammar Schools for the said Counties last mentioned, shall be at all times accountable to the Legislature of the Province for their conduct and the management of the money to be vested in them by virtue and in pursuance of this Act.

20. That there be granted to the President and Directors of the Public Grammar School in the City of Saint John, the yearly sum of fifty pounds in addition to the sum of one hundred pounds now by law granted, the same to be applied to the support of the Master or Usher of the said School, and to defray the contingent expenses thereof.

21. This Act shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such.

5th WILLIAM 4th-CHAPTER 30.

An Act to amend the Law relating to the Public Grammar School in the City of Saint John.

Section.

1. Repeal of Section.

Section.

2. Public Examinations to be held, when. Passed 17th March 1835.

WHEREAS the days for holding the public examinations of