Each Board of Trustees may readily determine its share of the County Fund, since the table shows the rate per pupil. This rate, multiplied by the average number of pupils attending the school compared with the average number of the county for full term time, will give the amount apportioned on account of pupils. If the school has been open full time there should be an additional amount of $15 per term for services of teacher, and in "poor districts" $20. For each teaching day the school has been closed during the term, there will be deducted from that amount the proportion which the number of teaching days lost bears to the full term.

TABLE XI.-SUPERIOR SCHOOLS.

This table gives the details as to the disbursements of $11,103.75, as shown in Table IX to have been given for Superior School service during the year.

During the term ended December 31st, 1888, there were 45 Superior Schools in operation, and 47 during the following term. There are 49 Superior Schools allowed by law for the Province on the basis of population, apportioned to the several counties as follows: Albert, 2; Carleton, 4; Charlotte, 4; Gloucester, 3; Kent, 3; Kings, 4; Madawaska, 1; Northumberland, 4; Queens, 2; Restigouche, 1; St. John, 8; Sunbury, 1; Victoria, 1; Westmorland, 6; York, 5. An additional school may be established in each county on the recommendation of the Inspector, and several of the counties have availed themselves of this provision.

The following provisions are prescribed by the Board of Education respecting the Standards of Instruction given in the schools:

1. Superior Schools in Cities, Incorporated Towns, and in Towns having four Graded Departments.-Boards of Trustees shall provide for giving instruction in at least Standards IX and X. When instruction is not provided for, or not given in advance of Standard X, work in Standard VIII may be required of the Teacher, provided the daily average attendance of pupils in the higher Standards is not more than 25. Should Standards IX, X, and XI be taught, no work in a lower Standard shall be required of the Teacher, unless a Provincial licensed assistant is employed, having a separate class-room.

2. Superior Schools in Towns or Villages having three Graded Departments. The highest department shall constitute the Superior School, and shall not be called upon to perform work under Standard VII of the graded course, or IV of the ungraded course.

3. Superior Schools in Districts having two Graded Departments.-The second or highest department shall form the Superior School, and shall not be called upon to perform work under Standard IV of the graded course, or III of the ungraded course.

4. Superior Schools in Districts having no Graded Schools.—An ungraded school in a country district may be recognized as a Superior School, provided

there are competent pupils studying some branch of Mathematics, Language, or Natural Science in advance of Standard V of the ungraded course, and that a class-room assistant is employed, if the daily average attendance of pupils is 30 or upwards.

Those provisions are being satisfactorily carried out, and the schools, as will be seen from the Inspectors' reports, are well taught. Those in rural districts under the operation of the last named provision above are supplying better and more advanced instruction than the ordinary school can be expected to give.

The number of pupils receiving instruction in the Superior Schools in advance of Standard VIII was 153 for the second term of 1888, and 135 for the first term of 1889.

TABLE XII.-GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.

This table gives the details of the Provincial disbursements of $4,286.35 to Grammar Schools; gives also the local salaries, and the number of pupils at each school in advance of Standard VIII. The total number of pupils enrolled for the second term of 1888 was 2,642, increase 30, and for the first term of 1889, 2,699, increase 41. These numbers are included in Table I; and all except those representing pupils in advance of Standard VIII are included in Table III. During the second term 494 were in advance of this standard, increase 76, and 396 during the first term, increase 9.

local salaries paid to the head masters for the year This amount does not include the University grant

The total amount of was $6,135, increase $100. of $1,000 to the Collegiate School.

TABLE XIII. THE PROVINCIAL NORMAL SCHOOL.

This table gives details as to the attendance of student teachers, and the salaries of the instructors. The number presented for examination for license at the close of the session was 198, of whom 25 were enrolled in the French Department, increase for the year 35. Other details will be found in the Principal's Report.

The Normal School has at no time during its history been better equipped for successfully carrying on its work than it has been during the past year. The teaching staff has never been more complete or efficient. The accession of Mr. John Brittain to the staff, at the beginning of the year, has greatly strengthened it. His intimate acquaintance with Natural and Physical Science, and his methods of presenting his instructions have given an impetus to these studies, in which the instruction has heretofore been somewhat weak. In the subjects, too, of Form Study and Drawing, he has awakened much interest Additional apparatus has been supplied; among the most important of which are sixty Chemical sets, which allows each student-teacher the use of a set while under instruction in Chemistry, so that he may perform the experiments

himself, as needed in connection with each lecture. The necessary apparatus for Form Study and Drawing has also been provided. The prominent place which these subjects occupy in the institution, and the equipment which has been provided for teaching them, are more than justified. They are necessary elements in our school work-essential factors in the complete training and education of the boys and girls of this country if they are to be prepared to keep abreast of this inventive and progressive age.

The French Department has been provided during the year with a spacious, well lighted, and well ventilated class room, inferior to no class room. in the building, and has been furnished with the most approved desks and seats.

TABLE XIV.-EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS.

These examinations are conducted by the Chief Superintendent in conformity with published regulations of the Board of Education. The papers were estimated the past year by Thomas Harrison, LL.D., Prof. L. W. Bailey, Ph.D., Prof. H. S. Bridges, A.M., Ph.D., George W. Mersereau, A.B., James Vroom, and Mrs. de Soyres. The papers submitted to candidates for the several classes of license at the June examination are appended to this report. The following is a summary of the examination:

The number admitted to examination was 265; 238 received license of some class.

One hundred and ninety-eight of the candidates were admitted to examination as being classified student-teachers of the Normal School; 55 were teachers seeking an advanced class, or Provincial License; 12 were admitted as having undergone training at a Normal School not in New Brunswick.

Of the 238 teachers who received Provincial licenses 6 males obtained the first class, 30 males the second class, 14 males the third class, 22 females received the first, 89 females the second class, 77 females the third class. The above numbers include the number of Acadian candidates who attended the examinations in December, 1888, and May, 1889, the details of which are shown in the table.

All the candidates, except Acadian candidates, for whom special provision is made under Reg. 30-4, were examined by the Examiner in reading-Dr. Burwash, of Mount Allison University-in accordance with the Regulations of the Board of Education.

Licenses are granted in accordance with the following standards of award:

(a) To obtain the class worked for, the average Examiners' marks (the provisions respecting spelling being duly observed), must be 50 or upwards; to obtain the next lower class, the average must be 40 or upwards; and to obtain the second below the one worked for, the average must be at least 30.

(b) In each case, no mark may be further below half of the required average than the actual average is above the requirement, with this limitation that where there are more than one paper demanded under one general subject (as in the case of

History, Mathematics, etc.), if the average of the marks on these papers equals the required general average, these papers shall be exempt from the operation of the principle.

(c) In order to obtain a License of the Grammar School Class, candidates will be required to make a general average of 50 or upwards on the whole examination, with no mark in the English branches further below 37 than such average is above 50. In Latin the average of marks must be 50 or upwards, and in Greek 37 or upwards. Candidates for this License who are Graduates in Arts, or who have previously made an average of 75 or upwards on the syllabus prescribed for the first class, are to work papers on those subjects only which are peculiar to the syllabus for the Grammar School Class.

The following is the provision respecting Spelling and Writing:

Spelling and Writing: Each examiner shall note and report the number of ordinary words mis-spelled by each candidate; and the average of marks obtained by any candidate on his whole examination shall be increased or diminished by 5 as many times as the number of words so reported shall be less or more than 6. Each Examiner shall also give a special credit or demerit of 1 to each candidate for neatness and legibility of Writing when these qualities are markedly present or absent (as the case may be), and the average of marks obtained by any candidate on his whole examination shall be further increased or diminished by the sum of such credits or demerits. At the semi-annual examination, an exercise in spelling shall, on application, be prepared for candidates who at any previous examination made an average of 50 or upwards on the papers of the first class, with no mark further below 35 than the average of marks is above 50, and were debarred from receiving license of the first class by reason of bad spelling. The exercise shall not exceed one hour in length, and shall be confined to common words, and any such candidate making no more than six errors shall be granted a license of the first class without further examination.

Each candidate is notified by the Chief Superintendent of the result of his examination, and is furnished with a memorandum of the estimates placed upon his papers by the Examiners. The names of the successful candidates are appended to the table.

TABLE XV.-SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

The Provincial aid to School Libraries for the year was $204.53. Several claims for bonus were sent in too late to appear in the year's accounts, but will appear in the next annual report. Details will be found in the Table. There is, I am glad to say, an increasing interest being taken in the establishing and enlarging of District Libraries. The amount for the past year is the largest yet expended by the Province in any one year.

The following are the provisions under which bonus is granted:

Libraries. Whenever any School District shall raise a sum of money for the purpose of establishing a Library, or adding thereto, the Board of Education may grant to it a sum equal to one-half the amount so raised, not to exceed twenty dollars in any one year, to be expended in the purchase of books therefor.

REGULATION 33-School Libraries.-No book hostile to the Christian religion, or of an immoral or sectarian character, shall be permitted in the School Library. The

Trustees shall hold School Libraries in trust as part of the School property of the District, and shall make such regulations for the preservation and circulation of the books as they shall deem necessary.

TABLES XVI, XVII, AND XVIII.

Details will be found in these tables respecting the travelling allowance paid to Student-Teachers attending the Provincial Normal School; together with the statement of the Chief Superintendent's drafts to Teachers and Boards of Trustees, and a summary of Provincial expenditure for school service to December 31st, 1889.

School-House Grants to Poor Districts.

During the year closed December 31st, 1889, the sum of $1,360 was paid to the Boards of Trustees for Poor Districts in aid of school-houses as follows: