Education Acts Compilation.

District High Schools. 80. (1.) Any Board, on receiving an application in writing from the Committee, may, w r ith the express sanction of the Minister previously obtained, convert any public school in the district into and 5 establish the same as a district high school. (2.) Every grammar school or high school at or immediately before the coming into operation of this Act under the charge of any School Committee or Education Board, by virtue of the provisions of " The Education Act, 1877," or any Act or Ordinance thereby 10 repealed, shall, unless otherwise provided, be deemed to be a district high school under this Act. 81. (1.) Every such district high school shall be under the charge of a head master, and such number of duly qualified masters and assistants as the Board shall from time to time consider neces15 sary. (2.) Ali the branches of a libeial education, comprising Latin and Greek classics, French and other modern languages, mathematics, and such other branches of science as the advancement of the colony and the increase of the population may from time to time 20 require, may be taught in such school. For such higher education, fees shall be paid by the pupils at such rates as shall be fixed by regulations. (3.) In every district high school instruction shall also be given in the ordinary branches of education prescribed by this Act to be <i 5 given in public schools. 82. Notwithstanding anything in this Act, it shall be lawful for any Board, with the sanction of the Minister, to make such additions to the staff of any district high school and to pay such additional sums as salaries to such staff as may be prescribed by 30 regulations, such payment to be made out of moneys appropriated by the General Assembly for that purpose, and distributed to the Boards in accordance with such regulations. Provided that the staff of such school shall, in regard to the children not receiving secondary instruction thereat, be as strong as 35 if the school were not a district high school. 83. (1.) In the various school districts the Board may from time to time expend in the purchase of books, to be placed in the school library, any sum or sums of money equal to any sum or sums of. money which shall have been raised by public subscription or other--40 wise within such school district. (2.) The Board shall make such provision as may seem fit for the safe custody and care of such books and for the use thereof. The word " book " in this section shall be deemed to include all works of art, and all scientific apparatus which may 45 be required for the purpose of illustration in lectures, and all specimens of natural history for the formation of museums. Secondary Schools. 84. In sections eighty-four to ninety-seven hereof, if not incon-c-r. sistent with the context, — oU

District high schools may be Board! 8 ' 1877, No. 21, sec. 55 course of L n 1 st h ruo h ion . in Ib ? d> S ,ec°s6' Additions to staff of hlgh 1901, No. 38, sec. 9 school libraries may be estab i ; shed. l ' °' 21, sec ' s7 interpretation. 1903, No. 73, sec. 2

Course of instruction in high schools. Ibid, sec. 56

Additions to staff of district high schools. 1901, No. 38, sec. 9

School libraries may be established. 1877, No. 21, sec. 57

Interpretation. 1903, No. 73, sec. 2

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