Penalty for false school reports and registers. Recovery by distress. Application of penalty. Trustees per sible for of them shall, for every week after such fifteenth day of January, and until such report has been prepared and presented, forfeit the sum of $5 to be sued for by the county inspector, and collected and applied in the manner provided for by this Act. 48 V. c. 49, s. 264. 264.—(1) If any trustee of a public school knowingly signs a false report, or if any teacher of a public school keeps a false school register, or makes a false return, with the view of obtaining a larger sum than the just proportion of school moneys coming to such school, the trustee or teacher shall, for every offence, forfeit to the public school fund of the township the sum of $20 for which any person whatever may prosecute him before a Justice of the Peace, and the trustee or teacher may be convicted on the oath of one credible witness other than the prosecutor. (2) If, upon conviction, the penalty is not forthwith paid, the same shall, under the warrant of the Justice, be levied with costs by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender. (3) The penalty, when so paid or collected, shall by the Justice be paid over to the said public school fund. 48 V. c. 49, s. 265. 265.-(1) The trustees of every school section shall be personally respon sonally responsible for the amount of any school moneys forfeited by or lost to the school section in consequence of the neglect of duty of the trustees during their continuance in office. moneys lost. No inspector, teacher, etc., books, maps, etc. (2) The amount thus forfeited or lost shall be collected and applied in the manner provided for by this Act. 48 V. c. 49, s. 266. GENERAL PROHIBITIONS. 266. No teacher, trustee, inspector, or other person offtrustee, cially connected with the Education Department, the normal, to act as agent model, public, or high schools or collegiate institutes, shall for the sale of become or act as agent for any person or persons to sell, or in any way to promote the sale for such person or persons, of any school, library, prize or text-book, map, chart, school apparatus, furniture or stationery, or to receive compensation or other remuneration or equivalent for such sale, or for the promotion of sale in any way whatsoever. 48 V. c. 49, s. 267. under this Act shall be recoverable. HOW FINES AND PENALTIES MAY BE RECOVERED. How penalties 267-(1) Unless it is in this Act otherwise provided, all fines, penalties, and forfeitures recoverable by summary proceedings, inay be sued for, recovered, and enforced, with costs, by and before any Police Magistrate or Justice of the Peace having jurisdiction within the school section, city, town, or village in which such fine or penalty has been incurred. (2) If the fine or penalty and costs are not forthwith paid, the same shall, by and under the warrant of the convicting Justice, be enforced, levied and collected with costs, by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the offender, and shall be by the Police Magistrate or Justice paid over to the school treasurer of the school section, city, town, or village, or other party entitled thereto. (3) In default of such distress, the Police Magistrate or Justice shall, by his warrant, cause the offender to be imprisoned for any time not exceeding thirty days, unless the fine and costs, and the reasonable expenses of endeavouring to collect the same, are sooner paid. 48 V. c. 49, s. 268. CONFIRMING AND SAVING CLAUSES. granted before school pur 268. All lands which, previous to the twenty-fourth School lands day of July, 1850, were granted devised or otherwise con- f850 vested in veyed to any person or persons in trust for common trustees for school purposes, and held by such person or persons poses. and their heirs or other successors in the trust, and have been heretofore vested in the public school trustees of the school section or division in which such lands are respectively situate, shall continue vested in such trustees, and shall continue to be held by said trustees and their successors upon the like trusts and subject to the same conditions and estates upon or subject to which the said lands are now respectively held. 48 V. c. 49, s. 269. 269. All school sections existing on the 2nd day of Unions existMarch, 1877, and all unions of school sections comprised March, 1877 ing 2nd of parts of the same or different municipalities which confirmed. on that date existed in fact, and whether formed in accordance with the provisions of the law in that behalf or not, are to be deemed to have been legally formed, and such unions shall continue to exist, subject, however, to the provisions of this Act so far as applicable, as if they had been formed thereunder; and in cases where any union has heretofore been adjudged by any Court or Judge to have been illegally formed, or where any proceedings were pending at said date on that ground, further proceedings may be stayed, upon payment of such costs or expenses, if any, as the Court or Judge may award. 48 V. c. 49, s. 270. sections and 270. In the case of union school sections existing on the Elections of 2nd day of March, 1877, and composed of portions of adjoin- trustees, inspection and ing townships or portions of a township or townships, and taxation in a town or incorporated village, every such union school section union school shall, for the purposes of the election of trustees, be deemed divisionsexistone school section or division, and shall be considered in respect ing on 2nd to inspection and taxation for school purposes as belonging to the township, town or village in which the school-house is situated. 48 V. c. 49, s. 271. March, 1877. Law as to 271. Nothing in this Act contained, shall affect Roman Catholic separate schools, unless where such schools are arate Schools expressly referred to. 48 V. c. 49, s. 273. Catholic Sep not affected. FORM A. (Section 135.) FORM OF SCHOOL DEBENTURE. PROVINCE OF ONTARIO. $ Debenture of the The corporation of the interest at the rate of year from the date hereof; and to pay per cent. per annum, half-yearly, to the Bearer of the annexed coupons respectively, upon the presentation thereof at the said Bank. this day of Issued at 18 by virtue and under the authority of The Public Schools Act of Ontario, being chapter 227 of the Revised Statutes of Ontario, 1887, and pursuant to By-law No. of said of passed on the day of intituled "A By-law to raise by way of loan the sum of the purposes therein mentioned" (or as the case may be). C. D., Treasurer, Census of all children between the age of seven and thirteen in the (city, town or incorporated village) (as the case may be) of Name. Age. Parent or Guardian. Residence. 48 V. c. 49. Sched. C PREPARATORY CLASSES OR SCHOOLS, LEGISLATIVE GRANT, SS. 52-54. ASSESSMENT FOR HIGH SCHOOL PUR- METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, SS. POSES: Obligatory, ss. 32-35. Discretionary, s. 36. Payment of moneys, s. 37 (1). 55, 56. PENALTY FOR DISTURBING SCHOOL, AUTHORIZED BOOKS, Ss. 60-62. ER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of enacts as follows: GENERAL. 1. This Act may be cited as "The High Schools Act." 48 V. Short title. c. 50, s. 1. 2. "High Schools" shall include collegiate institutes, unless Interpretaa contrary meaning appears. 48 V. c. 50, s. 2. tion. zations con 3. All high school and collegiate institute divisions and Existing High districts, together with all elections and appointments to office, School organi and all agreements, contracts, assessments, and rate-bills, here- tinued. tofore duly made in relation to high schools and collegiate institutes, existing at the passing of this Act, and all powers and duties connected therewith, shall continue in full force and effect, subject to the provisions of this Act. 48 V. c. 50, s. 3. School. 4. There shall be a high school or high schools or colle- Name of each giate institute in every county and union of counties, to be County High distinguished by prefixing to the words "High School" or "Collegiate Institute," the name of the city, town or village within the limits of which the high school or collegiate institute is Separating a county from union for purposes. situated, but such high school or collegiate institute shall nevertheless be deemed to be one of the high schools or collegiate institutes of the county, and within the municipal jurisdiction of the county council. 48 V. c. 50, s. 4. 5. In the case of a union of counties, the county council upon a written requisition of a majority of the reeves and High School deputy-reeves of any one county of such union, shall constitute such county a separate county for high school purposes; in which case such county shall contribute the equivalent of the legislative grant to each of the high schools which may be established therein, and in such amount separately from any other county within the jurisdiction of the county council; and upon the like requisition the county council shall pass the requisite by-law for abolishing existing high school districts within such county, and deal with all matters relating to the high schools therein. 48 V. c. 50, s. 5. Electoral Discontinu School. 6. The county council may constitute an electoral district a separate district for high school purposes, in order that it may contribute to the support of one or more high schools therein, as the council may determine for such purpose, and in such amount separately from any other electoral district under the jurisdiction of such county council. 48 V. c. 50, s. 6. 7. Every county council, at or before its June session ance of High in any year, but not later, may, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor, on the report and recommendation of the Minister of Education, change the location of or discontinue, at the end of the civil year, any existing high school in any part of the county within the jurisdiction of the said county council. 48 V. c. 50, s. 7. Establishment Schools-re striction. 8. Additional high schools may, subject to the approval of of New High the Lieutenant-Governor in council, be established by a county council in any county, on or before its June session in any year, providing the high school fund, is sufficient to allow of an apportionment at the rate of not less than $400 per annum to be made to such additional high school, without diminishing the fund which was available for high schools during the next preceding year. 48 V. c. 50, s. 8. Establishment year. 9. Within the restrictions prescribed in section 8, it shall at end of the be lawful for the Lieutenant-Governor, on the report and ecommendation of the Minister of Education, to authorize the establishment of an additional high school in any county at the end of the then civil year. 48 V. c. 50, s. 9. Cities and towns separated to be counties for High School purposes. 10.-(1) For all high school purposes every city and town separated for municipal purposes from the county in which it is situated, shall be a county: and its municipal council shall be invested with all the high school powers possessed by county, city, or town councils. 48 V. c. 50, s. 10. |