CHAPTER 86. An Act to amend "The Public Schools Act." [Assented to January 28th, 1916.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the 1. Chapter 165 of the Revised Statutes of Manitoba, 1913, "The Public is hereby amended as follows: amended. (a) Paragraph (s) of section 2 of the said Act is hereby re- Paragraph (s) of pealed; section 2 repealed. (b) Sub-section (2) of section 252 of the said Act is hereby Sub-section (2) repealed; (c) Section 137 of said Act is hereby repealed. of section 252 repealed. Section 137 re pealed. 2. This Act shall come into force on the day it is assented to. CHAPTER 87. An Act to amend "The Public Schools Act." H1 [Assented to March 10th, 1916.] IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the of section 46 of 1. Paragraph (a) of section 46 of the said Act is hereby Paragraph (a) amended by adding thereto at the end thereof the following "The Public words, "such minutes shall be recorded in the English language." Schools Act" amended. amended. 2. Section 46 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding Section 46 thereto the following paragraph: and address of ployed. (h) To report to the Department of Education within five Report of name days after the opening of each term the name or names of the teacher or teacher or teachers employed for the said term, together with teachers emthe post office address in each case; and, whenever the school is not put in operation within five days after the opening of any term to so report, giving the reason. amended. 3. Section 47 of the said Act is hereby amended by striking Section 47 out the word "twenty" in the third line thereof and substituting therefor the words "twenty-five." of section 57 4. Paragraph (q) of section 57 of the said Act is hereby Paragraph (q) amended by striking out the words "and from pupils whose amended. parents or guardians reside on land in the school district exempt from taxation" in the second and third lines thereof. section 57 amended. 5. Paragraph (r) of section 57 of the said Act is hereby Paragraph (r) of amended by striking out the words "The Children's Act" and substituting therefor the words "The School Attendance Act." amended. 6. Section 57 of the said Act is hereby further amended Section 57 by adding thereto the following paragraph: parents residing from taxation. (s) In the case of children whose parents or guardians re- Amount to be side on land in a school district exempt from taxation, which contributed by children shall have the right to attend the school maintained on land exempt in the school district in which they reside, and the parents or guardians of each family of such children shall contribute towards the funds of the district annually a sum equal to the average amount of school taxes paid by the actual taxpayers of the district as long as any of such children are in attendance Trustees to colat the said school, and the trustees are hereby authorized to lect amount. collect such sum. 7. The said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the Section 57A following section: added. When deemed inadvisable to keep school notify depart 57A. If for any cause the board of trustees of any school district deems it inadvisable or inexpedient to keep its school open trustees to open as provided in paragraph (ƒ) of section 57 of this Act, it shall submit a statement of the facts to the Department, which in its discretion shall have power to make such order with respect thereto as it may deem fit, and it shall be the duty of the board to carry out the provisions of such order. ment.. Section 62 amended. Who cannot be elected trustee. Section 75 amended. Section 128 of "The Assessment Act" to 8. Section 62 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph: (b) After the first election, no one shall be elected a trustee who is indebted to the district in respect of taxes other than taxes for the current year. 9. Section 75 of the said Act is hereby amended by adding thereto the following sub-section : (a) The provisions of section 128 of "The Assessment Act" shall mutatis mutandis apply to taxes levied or to be apply to school levied in school districts in unorganized territory, and the powers conferred upon councils of rural municipalities in subsection (2) of the said section may be exercised by boards of school trustees in such territory. taxes levied in unorganized territory. Sections 97 and 10. Section 97 of the said Act and the various sub-sections sub-sections 2 to thereto (numbers (2) to (8) inclusive) are hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor: 8 repealed and a new section substituted. Council of rural munici pality to have power to form school districts board of trustees therefor. 97. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in this Act every council of a rural municipality shall have power by by-law to form a school district comprising all the lands contained in and to establish such municipality save and except therefrom such lands as are comprised in any union school district or school districts, and to establish a board of school trustees therefor, on the approval of such by-law by a majority of all the duly qualified municipal electors in such district who vote on such by-law at any municipal election. Council to have power to sub mit by-law for establishing a board of trustees upon petition of 15 per cent. of qualified electors. Date of first election of trustees. (2) Every council of a rural municipality shall have power to submit such by-law to the municipal electors at any municipal election; and the council of any rural municipality shall, on receipt, prior to the first day of October in any year, of petitions from fifteen per cent. of the duly qualified resident municipal electors whose names appear upon the last revised municipal voters' list, submit a by-law to the said electors at the next ensuing municipal election providing for the establishment of such a board; all the provisions of "The Municipal Act" relating to the submission of a by-law to a vote of the electors shall apply to the submission of such by-law. (3) The first election of municipal trustees shall take place on the third Monday in July following the passing of the said by-law, two trustees being elected for each of the wards into which the municipality is divided, and the said trustees shall take office on the first day of August following; and after the first election one of the said trustees in each ward (to be |