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sioners or trustees of any school municipality, he shall there-
by incur, for each day during which he retains, appropriates or
refuses to deliver such book, paper, thing, money or sum of
money, insignia or any other object whatever, a fine of not Fine.
less than five or more than twenty dollars.

fine after

notice.

Such fine may be sued for and be recovered in one and the Recovery of same action, after notice from the superintendent ordering him notice by suto deposit or deliver into the hands of the person indicated in perintendent. such notice, which may be served by a bailiff of the Superior Service of Court, upon the person mentioned in the notice, either in person or at his domicile; and the said bailiff shall make his return of such service to the superintendent, under his oath of office, and thenceforward the said notice or return shall be authentic. 40 V., c. 22, s. 22 § 1.

action.

2199. The superintendent may, in the same action, demand What may be the return of such books, papers or things, money or sums of joined in money, insignia, or other objects whatever, and the defendant may be condemned thereto upon such penalties as the court may inflict.

The judgment shall in all cases carry costs and shall be exe- Judgment. cuted in the usual manner.

Superior

The Superior Court shall alone have jurisdiction to hear Suit in and decide such actions, whatever be the amount. 40 V., c. 22, Court. s. 22 § 2.

2200. The fine to which the defendant shall be condemned Fine and imunder articles 2198 and 2199 shall be considered as a personal prisonment. debt against him, and the court may condemn the defendant to be imprisoned, in default of payment of the fine, or in default of the defendant returning, within the delay mentioned, the said books, papers, things, money, insignia, or other objects whatever or any of them. 40 V., c. 22, s. 22 § 3.

2201. The said fine shall be recoverable before the Su- Recovery and applicaperior Court, and, as soon as recovered, shall be paid over into tion of fine. the hands of the superintendent, who shall deduct the expenses occasioned by such suit, and the balance shall form part of the common school fund and shall be employed as such. 40 V., c. 22, s. 22 § 4.

2202. All actions brought under article 2198 shall be in Suits in name the name of the superintendent. 40 V., c. 22, s. 22 § 5.

of superintendent.

Apportionment of grants.

Grants, how paid.

Superior education grant to be

CHAPTER FIFTH.

SUPERIOR EDUCATION.

2203. The superintendent shall annually apportion to and amongst the universities, colleges, seminaries, academies, high or superior schools, model schools or educational institutions other than the ordinary elementary schools, the whole or such part of the said grants for education, according to the recommendation of the Roman Catholic or Protestant Committee, as the case may be, as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council prescribes, and in such proportions as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council approves.

The grants so apportioned shall be paid by the Provincial Treasurer, on the warrant of the Lieutenant-Governor, to the superintendent, who shall pay the same to the respective educational institutions above mentioned entitled to them. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 6; 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 95.

2204. The total aid to universities, classical colleges, industrial colleges, academies and model schools granted under divided pro- the provisions of this title, shall be divided between the totality portionately of the Roman Catholic and Protestant institutions respectively, man Catholic in the relative proportion of the respective Roman Catholic and Protest- and Protestant populations of the Province according to the then last census. 32 V., c. 16, s. 4.

between Ro

ant institu

tions.

Grants, to be annual, may

be condi

tional, and

2. Such grants, so made out of the income fund, shall be for the year only, and are not permanent.

The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may attach to them any are not per- conditions which are deemed advantageous for the furtherance of superior education. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 7.

manent.

Apportion

ment of sums

licenses of marriages among Protestants.

2205. The sums paid over to the Provincial Treasurer, arising from arising from the celebration of marriages by Protestant ministers, shall be by him annually paid over to the superintendent to be apportioned, under the authority of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, and in accordance with the recommendation of the Protestant Committee of the Council of Public Instruction, among the Protestant institutions of superior education, in addition to and in the same manner as the other grants to these institutions. 35 V., c. 3, ss. 4 and 5: 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 96. (See article 1210.)

Interest on certain sum applied to support of Protestant superior

schools.

2206. After the effecting of the settlement of the Jesuits' Estates, under the Act 51-52 Victoria, chapter 13, the interest from the investment of the sum of sixty thousand dollars, granted under section 4 of the said act, shall be annually apportioned by the Protestant Committee with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, among the Protestant institutions of superior education, in addition to, and in the same manner as any sums by law granted for the purpose of Protestant superior education. 51-52 V., c. 13, s. 4.

stitutions in

2207. No grant shall be made to any superior educational Grants institution not actually in operation, or to any institution limited to inowning real estate, whose liabilities exceed two-thirds of the operation. value of such real estate, nor to any ordinary model school or educational institution which has not fulfilled the conditions prescribed by law. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 8; 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 97.

2208. Any educational institution, desirous of obtaining a Proceedings grant out of the income fund, shall, before or during the to obtain a month of July in every year, make application to that effect to grant. the superintendent, who shall not recommend any grant to any educational institution whose application is not accompanied by a report, shewing:

1. The composition of the governing body;

2. The number and names of the directors, principals, professors, teachers or lecturers;

3. The number of pupils, distinguishing those under sixteen
years and those above that age;

4. The general course of instruction and the books used;
5. The annual cost of maintaining the institution, and the
sources from which the means are derived;

6. The value of the real estate of the institution, if it own

any;

7. A statement of its liabilities;

8. The number of pupils taught gratuitously, or taught and boarded gratuitously;

9. The number of books, globes and maps possessed by the institution, and the value of any museum and philosophical apparatus belonging to it. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 9; 51-52 V., c. 36, s. 98.

CHAPTER SIXTH.

NORMAL SCHOOLS.

SECTION I.

BUILDING FUND FOR NORMAL SCHOOLS, &c.

2209. The Lieutenant-Governor in Council may adopt all Establishneedful measures for the establishment in the Province of one ment of normal schools. or more normal schools, containing one or more model schools, for the instruction and training of teachers of public schools in the science of education and art of teaching. He may select the location of such schools, and cause to be erected or procured and furnished the buildings requisite for the same. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 11.

2210. To provide for the purchase of such site or sites, and Certain for erecting or procuring and furnishing the buildings which amount ap

the erection

of the necessary build

ings.

propriated for may be required for such normal schools, the LieutenantGovernor in Council may order that, out of the said income fund, the sum of eight thousand dollars be yearly set aside and appropriated to form a fund to be called the "normal school building fund of the Province of Quebec;" and any sum so yearly set apart and appropriated shall be invested or placed at interest as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may direct: and the income and interest shall, like the principal, form part of the said fund. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 12.

Proceeds of

sale of unsuit

able buildings to be added to the building fund.

How unexpended balance of

the building

fund shall be disposed of.

Appropriation for the salaries of

2211. The moneys realized by the sale, which the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may direct to be made, of any site and the buildings thereon acquired for normal school purposes in the Province and not deemed convenient for such purposes. shall form part of the normal school building fund of the Province, and shall be invested or placed at interest in the like manner as any other sum forming part thereof. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 12 § 2. See 16 V., c. 74, s. 5.

2212. Any excess or amount of the normal school building fund, not actually required for the purposes for which the fund is constituted, shall, in the discretion of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council and as he may direct, either revert to and form part of the superior education income fund of the Province, or be invested as part of the superior education investment fund.

2. The income and interest, in the latter case, arising from such investment shall form part of the income fund. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 13.

2213. A sum not exceeding six thousand dollars shall be allowed yearly out of the common school fund for the Pronormal school vince, to defray the salaries of officers and other contingent

teachers.

In case such

expenses of normal schools; and a sum not exceeding four thousand dollars shall be allowed yearly, out of the income fund, as an aid to facilitate the attendance of teachers in training at normal schools. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 14.

2214. In case the two sums mentioned in the preceding appropriation article are found insufficient, the Lieutenant-Governor in Coun

be insufficient..

cil

may order that, out of the said income fund, a certain sum be yearly appropriated for the support and maintenance of normal schools, which sum, so set apart and appropriated yearly, shall not exceed in any one year the sum of ten thousand dollars. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 15.

Schools to be

SECTION II.

MANAGEMENT OF NORMAL SCHOOLS.

2215. Normal schools shall be subject to the regulations under con- provided for by article 2220, and shall be under the control of intendent. the superintendent, who, for their establishment and mainten

trol of super

ance, shall from time to time make such arrangements as the Lieutenant-Governor in Council may direct.

The principal of each normal school shall report to superintendent, giving such details as are required by superintendent from time to time. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 16; V., c. 15, s. 23.

the Report by the principals to superinten39 dent.

and profes

2216. The professors, directors and principals of nor- Appointment mal schools are appointed or removed by the Lieutenant- of principals Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Roman sors of norCatholic or Protestant Committee of the Council of Public In- mal schools. struction, according as such appointments or removals concern Roman Catholic or Protestant normal schools. 39 V., c. 15, s. 23.

2217. The principal of every normal school shall, before Conditions admitting any pupil into such school, make him sign, in pre-admission to imposed upo sence of two witnesses, a document or obligation, by which he normal shall bind himself to pay his board therein, or, if he be a bursar, schools. to refund in certain cases the amount of his bursary, and to pay such sum as shall be required, according to the conditions, which shall, from time to time, be fixed by the LieutenantGovernor in Council.

2. Every father, tutor, or friend, may sign such document Powers of and bind himself, either in such quality or personally, for the parents, &c., respecting payment of all sums of money exigible under the document or obligations. obligation and the conditions so fixed by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council.

own name.

3. The Attorney-General, upon the recommendation of the Principal principal of every normal school, and in the name of the may sue in his latter, may sue in any competent court of justice, for the recovery of all sums due under such obligation, and shall be solely designated in such suit by the words "the principal of the normal school of......" adding thereto the name of the school.

dered to

4. He shall account to the superintendent for all sums col- Account lected in virtue of this article, and this article shall apply to be rento the recovery of any sum due to normal schools under superinregulations now in force. 31 V., c. 22, s. 6; 51-52 V., c. 36, tendent. 8. 99.

schools, on

2218. On the presentation, by any student to the superin- Students in tendent, of a certificate under the hand and seal of the princi- normal pal of any such normal school, that such student has gone completion of through a regular course of study therein, the superinten- a regular dent may grant to such student a diploma of qualification study, may which shall be valid, until revoked for some breach of good receive a cerconduct or of good morals. C. S. L. C., c. 15, s. 17.

tificate.

2219. By virtue of such diploma and while it remains Effect of such valid, such person shall be eligible to be employed as teacher certificate. according to the grade of the diploma obtained by him, in any

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