up until the day of Examination. These Questions shall embrace all the subjects to the extent prescribed, and shall be of such a character as shall elicit a competent knowledge of those subjects.

5. Papers to be sent to Local Inspector.-The Examination Papers, so prepared, with the value assigned to each Question, and Directions from the Chief Superintendent of Education, are to be transmitted by the said Chief Superintendent to the Inspector of Public Schools of the City, Town, or County, (as the case may be).

6. Numerical Value of Answers.-The Central Committee will, on the margin of the Questions prepared by them, assign a numerical value to each Question, or part of a Question, according to their judgment of its relative importance. Where the Questions sent from the Department are not used, the Local Examiners shall, in like manner, asign values to those which they may prepare.

7. Answers to reach a Minimum Value of Fifty per cent.-In order that a Candidate may obtain Admission to the High School, or Collegiate Institute, the sum of his remarks must amount to at least fifty per cent. of the assigned value of the answers given in the margin of the Examination Questions. The Local Examiners shall give marks for the Answers to every Question in correspondence with the number assigned to the Question, and the completeness and accuracy of the Answers.

8. Viva Voce and Special Examinations in Reading, etcetera.-The Examination, except in Reading, shall be conducted on paper; but the Board of Examiners may subject the Candidates to additional viva voce examination in such subjects as they may think proper, of the result of which a record and report shall be made.

9. Parents may decide as to whether Pupils shall go to the High School.—Although Pupils are eligible for promotion from the Public to the High Schools, after passing a satisfactory examination in the subjects of the first four Classes of the former, it is at the option of the Parents, or Guardians of Pupils whether they shall enter the High School, or not, before they complete the whole Programme of Studies in the Public Schools, when they can enter an advanced Class in the High School.

10. Duties of Inspectors.-The Local Inspector shall be responsible to the Department for the safe keeping, unopened, of the Examination Papers, until the day of the Examination. He shall also, at the close of the examination of Candidates for Admission, submit the Answers of Candidates to the Local Board for examination and report. No Certificate of Admission shall be awarded to a Candidate until the High School Inspectors report to the Chief Superintendent of Education that, in their opinion, the Candidate has shown a competent knowledge of the subjects in which he was examined, as provided for in these Regulations.

11. Regulations for Examinations.-The presiding Inspector, or Examiner, must be punctual in distributing the Papers, and in directing the Candidates to sign their Papers at the close of the allotted time. No writing, other than the signature, should be permitted after the order to sign is given. The Candidates are required to be in their allotted places in the Room before the hour appointed for the commencement of the Examination. If a Candidate be not present until after the commencement of the Examinations, he cannot be allowed any additional time on account of such absence.

12. No Information to Candidates.-Each Examiner, by his consenting to act, binds himself in honour to give no information to Candidates, directly, or indirectly, by which the Examination of that Candidate might be affected.

13. Time and Place of Examination.-The Examination of Candidates for Admission to the High School, or Collegiate Institute, shall be held in such place as may be agreed upon by the Examiners, immediately after the Christmas and Summer Vacations, and at the beginning of the Autumn Term.

14. Proceedings at each Examination.-The Local Inspector, or one of his Colleagues, as appointed, shall preside at the opening of the Examination, and at nine

o'clock on the morning of the first day, in the presence of such of his Colleagues as may be there, and of the Candidates, the presiding Examiner shall break the Seal of the Package of Examination Papers received from the Department, or appointed for that Examination. He shall also break open the Seal of each additional packet of Examination Papers as required, in the presence of a Co-Examiner and of the Candidates. He shall further see that at least one Examiner is present during the whole time of the Examination, in each Room ocupied by the Candidates. The Local Board shall, if desirable, appoint one, or more, of its Members, (1), to preside at the Examination in any of the subjects named in the Programme; (2) to read and report upon the Answers as they are received.

15. What Candidates shall do.-The Candidates, in preparing their Answers will write only on one page of each sheet. They will also write their names on each sheet, and, having arranged their Papers in the order of the Questions, will fold them once across and write on the outside sheet their names. After the Papers are once handed in, the Examiners will not allow any alteration thereof, and the presiding Inspector is responsible for the subsequent safe keeping of the same, until he has sent them to the Education Department, or, (in the case of an Examiner), until he has handed them to the Local Inspector.

16. Irregular Conduct to be Punished.-In the event of a Candidate copying from another, or allowing another to copy from him, or taking into the Room any Book, Notes, or anything from which he might derive assistance in the Examination, it shall be the duty of the presiding Examiner, if he obtain clear evidence of the fact at the time of its occurrence, to cause such Candidate at once to leave the Room; neither shall such Candidate be permitted to enter during the remaining part of the Examination, and his name shall be struck off the list. If, however, the evidence of such case be not clear at the time, or be obtained after the conclusion of the Examination, the Examiner shall report the case at a General Meeting of the Examiners, who shall reject the Candidate if they deem the evidence conclusive.

17. Two Examiners to Act.-In examining the Answers to Candidates, it is desirable that at least two Examiners should look over each Paper.

18. Provisional Admission of Pupils.-All Candidates passing a satisfactory Examination before the Local Board shall be entitled, on the report of the High School Inspectors, to receive from it a Certificate of eligibility for admission, so soon as the High School Inspectors shall have reported thereon, in accordance with Regulation Ten, but, in the meantime, the Local Board of Examiners shall have authority to admit provisionally thereto any Pupil who shall have passed satisfactorily to them the required Examination in the Questions, and under the Regulations and directions aforesaid.

19. Admission of Candidates to be Approved. The attendance of Candidates at a High School, or Collegiate Institute, will not be credited in making the Apportionment to such School, or Institute, unless their admission be favourably reported upon by the High School Inspectors, as being agreeable to the Regulations; and no Pupil shall be continued in any High School, or Collegiate Institute, who shall not have been reported as having passed the approved preliminary Examination for Admission, as notified by the Chief Superintendent of Education.

20. Report to the Chief Superintendent.-The Local Inspector shall prepare a return, (in the form provided for that purpose), with respect to each Examination, and forward the same, together with the Answers of the Pupils, to the Chief Superintendent of Education, immediately after the Examination, in order that the same may be reported upon to the Chief Superintendent by the High School Inspectors. The Inspectors may, in such report, require from any Pupil further tests of proficiency in any subject of the prescribed Programme of Examinations, by viva voce Examination. or otherwise, at the next visitation of the School.

21. Where the Examination Papers sent out by the Department are not used, (as explained in Number Six of these Regulations), they are to be returned unopened, together with printed copies of those prepared and used by the Local Board of Examiners. The Answers are, in all cases, to be sent to the Education Department.

22. Pupils admitted since August, 1873.-There having been no Regulations, or Programme in force since August, 1872, as contemplated by Law, and great diversity having been found to exist in the number and extent of the subjects, in the character of the Questions, in the modes of Examination, and in the standards adopted by the Local Boards, the Council directs that Pupils admitted to the High Schools, or Collegiate Institutes, since August, 1872, shall be examined under the present Regulations, and their respective admissions be thereupon confirmed, or disallowed, as to their continuance in the School, as in the case of new Pupils.

23. Pupils entering the High Schools must take either the English, or Classical, Course of Studies.

24. Pupils shall be arranged in Classes corresponding to their respective degrees of proficiency. There may be two, or more, divisions in each Class, and each Pupil shall be advanced from one division, or class, to another, with reference to attainments, without hegard to time, according to the judgment of the Head Master; and, if any difference take place between the Parent, or Guardian, of a Pupil and the Head Master, in regard to the advancement of such Pupil, the Inspector of the High School shall decide.

25. No departure from the prescribed Programme is allowable. Where options are authorized, the permission must not be given to any Pupil without the recommendation of the Head Master and the sanction of the Board of Trustees.

26. Pupils who have been admitted to the High School and Collegiate Institutes must be taught those subjects of the first four Classes of the Public School Programme with which they are not acquainted.

27. Stationery to be provided.-The High School Board will provide the Stationery required for conducting the Examinations.

28. The High School Inspectors shall, at their visits to the Schools, or otherwise, ascertain and see that the foregoing Regulations have been duly and uniformly carried out.

29. The High School Inspectors will meet respecting the Admission of the Candidates on the receipt of the Local Reports at the Education Department after the Christmas and Midsummer Vacations, and at the beginning of the Autumn Term, and Pupils not then approved will not be reckoned in the Apportionment of the Grant for the then current half year.

X. Subjects of Examination for the Admission of Pupils to High Schools and Collegiate Institutes.

(Prescribed by the Council of Public Instruction on the 20th day of May, and approved by His Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, on the 2nd day of June, 1873).

The Subjects of Examination for Admission to the High Schools or Collegiate Institutes shall be the same as those prescribed for the first four Classes of the Public Schools, but for Pupils intended for the Classical Course, the entrance test in Arithmetic shall be the standard prescribed for the Third Class in the Public Schools, and the following subjects of the Fourth Class shall be omitted, videlicet:- -Christian Morals, Animal Kingdom, and Elements of Chemistry and Botany.

XI. Explanatory Memoranda on the Programmes of Course of Study for the High Schools and Collegiate Institutes.

1. The fundamental principle of our System of Public Instruction is, that every youth, before proceeding to the subjects of a higher English, or of a Classical, Education, shall first be grounded in the elementary subjects of a Public School Education. No Candidates are, therefore, eligible for admission to the High Schools except those who have manifested proficiency, by passing a satisfactory examination in the subjects of the first four Classes of the Public School Programme.

2. The objects and duties of the High Schools are two-fold:

First, commencing with Pupils who, (whether educated in either a Public, or Private School), are qualified as above, the High Schools are intended to complete a good English Education, by educating Pupils not only for Commercial, Manufacturing and Agricultural pursuits, but for fulfilling with efficiency, honour and usefulness, the duties of Municipal Councillors, Legislators, and various Public Offices in the service of the Country.

The Second object and duty of the High Schools, (commencing also with Pupils qualified as above), is to teach the languages of Greece and Rome, of Germany and France, the Mathematics, etcetera, so far as to prepare youth for certain professions, and especially for the Universities, where will be completed the education of men for the learned professions, and for Professorships in the Colleges, and Masterships in the Collegiate Institutes and High Schools.

NOTE. This Programme, being based upon the provision of the Consolidated High School Law of 1871, is the same as that printed on pages 110-113 of the Twenty-fourth Volume of this Documentary History, and is, therefore, not repeated here.

HIGH SCHOOLS.-LEGAL DECISION OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.THE TRUSTEES OF THE PORT ROWAN HIGH SCHOOL VERSUS THE CORPORATION OF THE TOWNSHIP OF WALSINGHAM.

Digest of the Case. On an application for a Mandamus to compel a Municipal Corporation to provide $286.74 for a Board of School Trustees, they were described in the proceedings as "The Trustees of the Port Rowan High School." On the 1st of July, 1872, a demand was made on the Township Corporation, headed, "School Section, No. 12, Walsingham, Port Rowan, July 1st, 1872," and stating that the amount required was "for expenses of conducting High School;" and was signed "William Ross, Secretary and Treasurer of Port Rowan High School Board."

Held by the Court.-1. That the description of the Trustees was sufficient; for that although "The Trustees of the Port Rowan County High School" would appear to be more correct, yet by the Act, 34th Victoria, Chapter 33, did not in express terms give any corporate designation, and the Township Corporation by their action had shown that they fully understood the Body with whom they were dealing.

2. That the demand was sufficient, being signed by the Secretary and Treasurer, the Officer and organ of the Board, and having been recognized by the Resolution of the Township Council as the demand of the Board.

3. That it was not necessary to give the Estimates on which the sums required were based; there being a difference in this respect between the Grammar School and Common School Act.

4. That the purposes for which the money was stated to be required, videlicet, "For expenses of conducting High School," and "current expenses of High School," fell within the meaning of the words "maintenance and School Accommodation," used in the Statute.