3. THE USUAL WINTER EXAMINATION.

The Winter Public Examination of the Park, Elizabeth Street, York Street, and Givins Street Schools, as ordered by the Board, took place on Wednesday, December 20th, and that of all the other City Schools on Thursday, December 21st. There were distributed in the several Schools, 481 Certificates of Honour, namely, 223 in the Male Departments, and 258 in the Female Departments, for regularity and punctuality of attendance, combined with uniformly good conduct throughout the session, which began on Wednesday, August 16th, and ended on the day of the Examination.

In closing this Report I desire to express the pleasure with which I contemplate the recent legislation which has provided for the attendance of studiously inclined girls at the High Schools of the Province.

I earnestly hope that the gentlemen who are entrusted with the management of the High School of this City will be able and disposed to make such liberal and enlightened arrangements as will permit a few of our more advanced female pupils to compete for scholarships in that institution, and see no reason to doubt that they will be as successful as the boys have proved during the last eleven

years.

JAMES PORTER,

Office of Inspector of City Public Schools,

TORONTO, JANUARY, 1872.

Inspector.

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Submitted to the Board, January 7th, 1872, and referred to the Committee on School Management, and the Committee on Internal Economy, in order to their joint action. Reported on by said Committees, and ordered to be printed for the information of the rate-payers.

Miss McBride also held a 1 B County Board Certificate up to August 31st, at which date it expired.