ACCOUNTS OF THE CHURCH FROM 18T MAY, 1868, TO 30TH APRIL, 1869, AS AUDITED FOR PRESENTATION TO THE SYNOD.

CHAPTER XIII.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION FOR UPPER CANADA, 1869.

February 15th, 1869. Several Communications were laid before the Council. The following Report of the Committee on Text Books were read and adopted. In reply to enquiries relative to a revised list of Books for use in the Common Schools, the Committee deem it proper to state that in view of anticipated legislation on the subject, they feel it to be their duty to refrain for the present from any alterations further than that the Books on English subjects, authorized for Grammar Schools, may also be used in the Common Schools.

tion.

They recommend that a notice to this effect be inserted in the Journal of Educa

The Committee on Text Books also recommend the authorization of Collier's Outlines of General History for use in Grammar Schools, and that Collier's Great Events of History shall be recommended, but not prescribed.

Ordered, That a Communication be addressed to the Government on the subject of the duty on Publishers' materials, in accordance with a Draft of a Letter on the subject now submitted.

Ordered, That the Headmaster of the Normal School be requested to furnish the Council with information as to any Regulations, or usages, observed by the Masters of the Normal School in regard to the admission of Students, their continuance in the Institution, and their dismission.

February 26th, 1869. Several Communications were laid before the Council.

Ordered, That Messieurs Dredge and Company be informed that their application has been approved in respect to the following School Books, but that specimen copies of each Book must be furnished to the Council for examination and approval, as to qualify and mechanical execution, and that such further conditions as may be required by the Council will be hereafter communicated. The Books which may now be published are: The Canadian National Series of Reading Books, as revised by the Text Book Committee. The National Arithmetic by Doctor J. H. Sangster. Lovell's General Geography. Easy Lessons in General Geography, as revised by the Committee.

The Secretary was instructed to insert an Advertisement in each of the Toronto Daily Papers to the effect, that certain Text Books at present authorized for use in the Public Schools of Ontario may now be reprinted by any Publisher within the Dominion, on conditions that may be learned on application to the Secretary of the Council at the Education Office.

March 8th, 1869. Several Communications were laid before the Council.

Ordered, That the Local Superintendent of Gwillianbury East be informed that the use of Books not authorized by the Council cannot be permitted, and that Pupils should not be suffered to provide themselves with fresh copies of the old series for use in the Schools.

The following Report from the Text Book Committee was read:

The Text Book Committee beg leave to report that, having considered the subject of the reprinting of those Books, of which the exclusive privilege of publication for one year has expired, they recommend that no revised edition of the Canadian Readers shall be sanctioned before July, 1870. They also submit, herewith, some memoranda as approved by them. They have examined the Copy Books of Mr. Vere Foster that have been laid before them, but are not prepared to recommend them for authorization by the Council.

Memorandum of the Text Book Committee.

1. That it is the duty of the Council, in their acceptance of, and subsequent action regarding the copyright of any Book authorized by them to be used in the Public Schools to secure the interests of the Public by the issue of a good and suitable edition at a reasonable price, and, at the same time, to provide, so far as the Council properly can for the adequate remuneration of both Author, or Editor, and Publisher.

2. That the interest of the public are sufficiently secured by the existing arrangement, that no Book shall be authorized by the Council without their previous examination and approval of matter, paper, typography, binding and price.

3. That the interests of the Publisher are also sufficiently provided for by the existing arrangement, that he shall have exclusive rights for one year, and that this time may be extended at the discretion of the Council.

4. That, with a view to the adequate remuneration of the Author, or Editor, and the encouragement of the preparation of literary and scientific works by Canadians, no extension of time shall be granted, nor any new edition authorized, without payment by the Publisher for the privilege, the amount of such payment to be determined by three umpires, one to be selected by the Council of Public Instruction, one by the Publisher, and the third to be selected by the two previously appointed. Such Umpires shall also decide whether all, or a portion, and, if a portion what portion, shall be paid in acknowledgement to the Author, or Editor, for the new, or revised, edition, even although the latter shall have been prepared by another Editor especially employed for the work.

5. That the Council shall decide the best means of applying the balance, if any. 6. That, in those cases, in which works that are not portions of a series are approved by the Council before publication, Tenders shall be invited by public advertisement from Publishers within Canada for the purchase of the exclusive right of publishing for at least one year, such Tenders to state the retail price at which copies will be sold, and also whether the whole, or if only part, of each Book will be executed within the Dominion.

The Report of the Committee having been adopted, it was,

Ordered, 1. That the new editions shall be equal to the former ones in typography, paper, illustrations and binding, as shown in the standard copy.

2. That the new editions shall not be published, or advertised, under the designation of new, or revised, editions until such emendations as may have been approved by the Council shall be communicated.

3. It is the intention of the Council not to make any emendations in the Readers before July, 1870.

4. That each Publisher shall give security, himself in $2,000 and two Sureties in $1,000 each, guaranteeing that the edition, when completed, shall in style and character be, including each separate copy, in accordance with the first of these conditions.

5. That each Publisher shall pay, before the receipt of the authorization from the Council, such sum as may be decided upon by the arbitration specified in Article Number 4 of the Memoranda.

6. That all new Editions, after July, 1870, shall be printed in Canada, on paper made in the Dominion, and shall also be bound therein.

7. That the necessary Bonds shall be prepared at the expense of the Publishers and executed before the permission to print the new Editions has been granted.

That the Publishers shall be informed that it is the intention of the Council that the National Arithmetic shall be revised, previously to the issuing of any new Edi

tion.

Ordered, That the Regulation in Section 11, Number 4, of the Grammar School Regulations be amended so as to read as follows: :

4. To afford every possible facility for learning French, Girls may, at the option of the Trustees, be admitted to any Grammar School on passing the preliminary and final entrance Examinations required for the admission of Boys. Girls, thus admitted, will take French and the English subjects of the Classical course for Boys, but, in

order to be returned, or recognized as Grammar School Pupils, they must be engaged in one of the prescribed Programmes of Studies for the Grammar Schools.*

April 10th, 1869. Several Communications were laid before the Council. Ordered, That the salary of Mr. James L. Hughes be increased to $700; that of Mr. Archibald to $600, and that of Mrs. Cullen to $700 to take effect from the 1st April, instant, and an allowance at the rate of $50 per annum be granted to Mr. James Ryan, Caretaker, to take effect from his removal from the Rooms formerly occupied by him, on the 1st of September.

Ordered, That the revision of the Readers be completed so that the amendment may be ready for the inspection of Publishers after January the 1st, 1870, so that the revised edition may be issued after July the 1st of the same year, but that the use of such edition shall not be obligatory before January the 1st, 1871. That the fourth Article of the Memoranda, adopted on 8th March shall be carried out, in the case of all Publishers of the revised editions.

Ordered, That January the 1st, 1870, shall be substituted for July, 1870, in the Minutes, Numbers 3 and 6 of the Council of March the 8th, 1869. That the words "or advertise" be inserted after the words "to print" in Minute Number 7 of the same Meeting.

Ordered, That Miss Whitcomb be permitted to use her elementary Arithmetic in her own School until another shall have been sanctioned.

The Part Song Book having been published, as directed by the Council on the 10th of November, 1868, is now authorized for use in the Public Schools. The Letter of Messieurs W. C. Chewett and Company and of Messieurs Groombridge and Son, with the accompanying Books are referred to the Text Book Committee.

April 26th, 1869. Several Communications were laid before the Council. The following Report from the Text Book Committee was read and adopted. The Committee on Text Books have examined the copy of an Elementary Arithmetic by the Reverend B. Smith and Mr. A. McMurchy, submitted by Messieurs Chewett and Company, and recommend it, when completed, for authorization by the Council, on the usual conditions as to the surrender of copyright. They have also considered the proposition of Messieurs Groombridge and Son, relative to Baiff's introduction to Scientific Chemistry, but cannot recommend the Book for use in Schools.

Ordered, That the Elementary Arithmetic shall not be required to be in use before January the 1st, 1870, and that the Publishers shall be allowed one year's exclusive rights in regard to it from that date.

Ordered, That the following words be substituted for the first part of the Council Minute of April the 19th. That the revision shall be completed so as to be ready for

* The Editor of The Globe having taken exception to this revised Regulation of the Council of Public Instruction in regard to the admission of Girls into, and their attendance at, the Grammar Schools, the Chief Superintendent addressed the following letter to the Editor of that Paper:

I observe by remarks made in The Globe that exception is taken to the modified Regulations permitting the admission of Girls to the Grammar Schools upon the same conditions as Boys, as if the intimation given by the Honourable the Attorney General to the Legislative Assembly during the last Session had not been carried into effect.

I never saw, or heard, until last Saturday that the idea was ever entertained by anybody that Girls should be recognised as Pupils for the distribution of the Grammar School Fund. for the study of French merely, or upon any other conditions than those prescribed for Boys. The advocates for the admission of Girls to the Grammar Schools have equally advocated the study of Latin by Girls, as well as by Boys: nor was it ever hinted in the Legislative Assembly that the conditions for the admission of Girls should be different from that for the admission of Boys. It is worthy of remark here that there has been a Course of Studies prescribed for Grammar Schools, to which Girls, as well as Boys, are eligible for admission under the modified Regulations, and ere, of course, to be accounted as Grammar School Pupils. Mr. Boyd's Grammar School Bill [given on page 6 of the next Volume] was intended to place both classes of Pupils upon the same footing. The Second Section of his Bill is as follows:

"2 The appropriation payable half-yearly to the Grammar Schools shall be made to each School conducted according to Law, upon the basis of the daily average attendance at such Schools, of Pupils, in the Programme of Studies, prescribed according to Law, for Grammar Schools; such attendance shall be certified by the Head Master and Trustees, and verified by the Inspector of Grammar Schools; it being nevertheless understood, that the word Pupil includes Girls as well as Boys.'

It is clear, therefore, that Mr. Boyd's Bill did not contemplate including Girls as Pupils in Grammar Schools upon any other conditions than those applied to Boys; and it was in accordance with Mr. Boyd's Bill that the Attorney General gave the intimation, and the Council of Public Instruction adopted (in my absence) modified Regulations for the admission of Girls upon the same terms as Boys in the Grammar Schools. EGERTON RYERSON.

TORONTO, April 20th, 1869.

inspection after October the 1st of the current year, but that the revised editions shall not be advertised before January the 1st, 1870. That copies of such Editions, if the submitted specimens have previously received the approval of the Council, may be sold after July the 1st, 1870.

Ordered, That on Miss Clark's resignation taking effect, Miss McClausland be appointed 1st Assistant in the Girls' Model School, and Miss H. Jones, 2nd Assistant. The salaries to remain as at present.

Ordered, That the various recent Minutes on the subject of the publication of Text Books be consolidated and printed.

May 10th, 1869. A Communication from Messieurs A. Dredge and Company, requesting permission to publish an Edition of the English Grammar was laid before the Council.

The following Report from the Committee was read and adopted.

The Committee on Text Books beg leave to report that they have considered the letter from Messieures Dredge and Company of the 4th instant, and recommend that no application to reprint an authorized Book the copyright which has been surrendered to the Chief Superintendent shall be entertained before the expiration of a year from the date of authorization, nor at that time unless the Council have decided not to extend the period.

The Regulations on the publication of authorized Text Books, as revised and reprinted, were approved.

August 7th, 1869. A Meeting having been called for 3 o'clock p.m. the only Members present were The Reverend John McCaul, L.L.D. The Reverend John Jennings, D.D.

A complete copy of Smith and McMurchy's Elementary Arithmetic having been laid before the Members present, as submitted by Messieurs Copp, Clark and Company, the legal Successors of W. C. Chewett and Company; and the Chairman of the Text Book Committee having expressed his satisfaction with the Books as completed, the Members present, considering the necessity for the immediate issue of the Book to meet the wants of the Pupils of the Public Schools at the end of the Summer Vacation now drawing to a close, assumed the responsibility of sanctioning such issue, under the authorization of the Council, as provided for in the Report of the Text Book Committee adopted by the Council on April the 26th, 1869.

October 4th, 1869. The Council met, pursuant to notice at half past eleven o'clock a.m., to receive His Excellency the Governor General and His Royal Highness Prince Arthur. [For the proceedings of this Reception see pages 273-281].

October 11th, 1869. Several Communications were laid before the Council. Additional Certificates having been submitted by Mr. John Roberts, his application for a pension for 16 years' service was sanctioned.

The following Report was presented from the Text Book Committee, and adopted. The Committee on Text Books beg leave to present the five Readers, with such alterations as seems to be necessary. In this revision they have acted on the principle which, as they understand, was sanctioned by the Council, that the same paging shall be retained in the new Edition.

Ordered, That the resignation of Mr. Archibald of the Boys' Model School, be accepted, and that Mr. William Scott be appointed Second Assistant in the Boys' Model School with the same salary.

Ordered, That the Letters of Mr. Wright, Mr. Ferrill and Mr. Steiger be referred to the Committee on Text Books.

Ordered, That the names of the Sureties submitted by Messieurs Campbell and Son and Messieurs A. Dredge and Company be approved.

Ordered, That Daniel McMichael, LL.D., be appointed Arbitrator, on behalf of the Council, with respect to the revised Reading Books, under Clause Five of the printed Regulations, respecting the publication of Text Books.