Extract from "Duties of Local Superintendent," as defined by the Board of School Trustees for 1858: "To make an Annual Report, and submit the same to the Board, at such time as the Board may appoint, in each year, recording the position of the Schools, in regard to Statistics, Cost, System of Teaching, Examinations, and such other matters as may be usefully discussed and recorded." WARD OF SAINT ANDREW. BOBERT ARMSTRONG, Esq. | HENRY GODSON, Esq. WARD OF SAINT GEORGE. J. ADAMS, Esq., M.D. | HON. JOHN MCMURRICH. WARD OF SAINT PATRICK. W. W. OGDEN, Esq., M.D. | JOHN BAXTER, Esq. STANDING COMMITTEES. I. On Finance, Assessment, and Salaries. MESSRS. BAXTER, ADAMS, JARDINE, COATSWORTH, EDWARDS. III. On Sites and Buildings. MESSRS. OGDEN, BAIN, SPENCE, WRIGHT. N.B.-The Chairman of the Board is ex-officio a member of all Standing Committees. OFFICERS OF THE BOARD FOR 1867. G. A. BARBER, Esq., Secretary. REV. JAMES PORTER, Local Superintendent. VII. Special Matters worthy of Record 1. Action of Standing Committee on Sites and Buildings, respecting new School House, St. John's Ward.......... 2. Report of Standing Committee on School Management, on their 3. John Street School, and the Military Authorities 4. Dr. Ogden's motion on Religious Instruction in the City Schools 5. Permission to Children to attend Meetings, held by Sunday School Teacher's Provincial Association......... 6. Resolution of respect to the memory of the late Jesse Ketchum, Esq.. B. Number of Pupils on the several School Registers C. Analysis of Attendance at the several Schools D. Average Registered Monthly Attendance E. Average Monthly Attendance in the respective Divisions F. Number of Pupils instructed in various subjects G. School Libraries-Volumes contained and Volumes issued... H. Comparative Statement of City Schools, under specific headings. A. Examination Papers at Combined Examination B. List of Pupils who received Scholarships, Prizes, and Certificates, as results of the Combined Examimation..... C. Summary of Certificates of Honour, distributed after the Summer E. Standard for the Attainments of Pupils in the several Divisions... 88 F. List of Books prescribed for the use of Pupils in the several Divisions ANNUAL REPORT OF THE LOCAL SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CITY OF TORONTO. GENTLEMEN, In submitting to you the following Report on the Common Schools of this City, for the year 1867, I beg permission to observe that I discharge this duty with peculiar satisfaction. The year now under review has been the most prosperous in the history of the Schools under your charge, as respects both the number of pupils in attendance, and, since the erection of the large School Houses in 1854, the cost, per pupil, of their instruction, whether calculated on the basis of monthly registration or on that of daily average attendance. In every month of 1867 the number of pupils on the School Registers has been larger than in 1866, as has also the daily average attendance. Notwithstanding the inferior accommodation afforded by the two temporary school rooms on Centre Street, and the consequently low attendance of late at those schools, the average daily attendance throughout the city has increased, as compared with that of last year, to the extent of 215 pupils. The new and commodious School House on Elizabeth Street, which it is expected will be opened at the beginning of the year 1868, will accommodate from 250 to 300 pupils, and will both receive those who have hitherto attended Centre Street School, and afford temporary relief to the Louisa Street School, which has long suffered from being overcrowded. During the year 1867 the Rev. Mr. Boddy has continued to give religious instruction to the children of parents of his own communion, at the Park School; and the Rev. Mr. Baldwin has performed a similar good office at the Victoria Street School. In the early Spring, Brigade-Major Denison informed me with regret, that it was no longer in his power to furnish instruction in military drill to the senior male pupils of the City Schools, as recent military arrangements had not left a sufficient number of suitable men under his command available for that purpose. The venerable benefactor to our City Schools, and to many others, Jesse Ketchum, Esq., was removed by death) shortly before the period at which the pupils of the Schools were accustomed to look for the distribution of his annual bounty from his own hands, or from those of his respected agent, the Rev. Dr. Richardson. That gentle |