Of the fund, $2,509.52 were apportioned as extra aid to Boards of Trustees in poor districts.

First Term, 1892.-The amonnt of the County Fund apportioned this term to Boards of Trustees was $45,917.70. Of this sum, $22,714.22 were apportioned to the Boards of Trustees in respect of the services of teachers(according to the length of these services within the prescribed terms).

The balance of the fund, $23,203.48 was apportioned to the several Boardsof Trustees in each county in proportion to the average attendance of pupils the length of time the schools were open.

Of the fund, $2,210.71 were apportioned as extra aid to Boards of Trustees in poor districts.

The County Fund is withheld from Boards of Trustees which refuse to comply with the Inspectors' recommendation in respect of apparatus, repairs, etc. Other details will be found in the tables.

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 dis-tricts" $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.-GRANTS TO THE BLIND ASYLUM, HALIFAX, AND TO THE DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION, FREDERICTON.

The following provisions for the education of the Blind and of the DeafMute children of the province were enacted at the last session of the Legislature:

"For every blind person received into the Halifax Asylum or other Institution for the Blind, approved as aforesaid pursuant to this Act, and educated and boarded therein, the Board of Managers of such School or Institution for the Blind shall be entitled to receive from the Provincial Treasury, at the rate of seventy-five dollars per annum payable half-yearly, and also to receive at the same rate from the County School Fundof the Municipality to which the said blind person belongs. This Section to apply to the blind persons in attendance at the Halifax Institution at the time of the passing of this Act."

"The Trustees or Board of Managers of the Deaf and Dumb Institution in Fredericton shall be entitled to receive from the County School Fund of the County to which any deaf or deaf-mute person received into the said Institution, and educated and. boarded therein, belongs, at the rate of sixty dollars per year, payable half-yearly. This Section to be applicable to children at the Institution at the time of the passing of this Act."

Under these provisions the Managers of the Blind Asylum, Halifax,

received for the Term ended on the 30th of June, 1892, the sum of $487.50 as a Provincial Grant, and the same amount from the County Funds of Albert, Carleton, Kings, Northumberland, Restigouche, Saint John and Westmorland. The Institution at Fredericton for the education of the Deaf and DeafMute children of the province received from the County Fund of nine Counties the sum of $810.

All the Counties, with the exception of Gloucester, Madawaska, Queens, Sunbury and Victoria, sent pupils to one or both of these Institutions. The aggregate amount contributed from the County funds was $1,297.50.

Other details will be found in the Table.

TABLE XII. SUPERIOR SCHOOLS.

The total amount disbursed during the year for Superior School service was $11,868.46. During the term ended December, 1891, there were 48 Superior schools in operation, and 49 the following term. According to the census of 1891, the number of Superior schools allowed by law for the several counties on the basis of population will be as follows: Albert, 1; Carleton, 3; Charlotte, 4; Gloucester, 4; Kent, 4; Kings, 4; Madawaska, 1; Northumberland, 4; Queens, 2; Restigouche, 1; St. John, 8; Sunbury, 1; Victoria, 1; Westmorland, 7; York, 5. Total for the Province, 50. Albert and Carleton have lost one each, as compared with the allotment on the basis of the former census; while Gloucester, Kent and Westmorland have gained one each. There is a gain of one for the Province.

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.-Thesecond 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 IV of the ungraded course, and that a class-room assistant is employed, if the daily average attendance of pupils is 30 or upwards.

The School accommodation, appliances and premises in all Superior Schools must be satisfactory to the Inspector, who shall report thereon to the Chief Superintendent.

At the closing Examinations in 1895 and thereafter, Candidates who may wish to qualify themselves for the Principalship of Superior Schools will be required to pass an examination in Elementary Latin Grammar, and One Book of Caesar, or its equivalent.

The number of pupils receiving instruction in the Superior Schools in advance of Standard VIII, was 221 for the second term of 1891-an increase of 33 on the number for the corresponding term of 1890, and 230 for the first term of 1892-an increase on corresponding term of previous year of 7.

The following table shows the Superior Schools which have pupils above grade VIII, and the number of pupils in the higher grades:

Superior Schools giving Instruction above Grade VIII.

TABLE XIII.-GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.

The total number of pupils enrolled in the Grammar Schools during the Second Term of 1891 was 2,762, an increase of 39; and for the First Term of 1892, 2,773, an increase of 22. During the Second Term of 1891 there were in attendance 464 pupils above Standard VIII, increase 78; and 439 the First Term of 1892, increase 42. It will be seen that of the 14 Grammar Schools in operation during the year, the enrolment of pupils above Grade VIII was less than 20 in Albert, Gloucester, Kings, Queens, Restigouche, Sunbury, Victoria and Westmorland.

By reference to the foregoing table of Superior Schools it will be seen that the Superior Schools at Moncton, St. Stephen, Dorchester and Newcastle considerably exceeded this average, and, with one exception, had a larger attendance of advanced pupils than the Grammar Schools of the Counties in which they are respectively situated. In this connection I wish to repeat what I said in my last Annual Report, that "these facts indicate unmistakably the desirability of a re-organization of Grammar and High Schools of the Province, so that results may be obtained more commensurate with the expenditure, and that the Common Schools, the High Schools, the Grammar Schools and the University may be so articulated as to become a constant source of strength and growth each to the others. The number of pupils, in both Superior and Grammar Schools, who were pursuing the Classical Course was for the Second Term of 1891, 471; and for the First Term of 1892, 441. These figures are of importance as indicating the chief source from which the University is to draw an annual supply of regular matriculants.

The Provincial disbursements to Grammar Schools for the year was $4,445.89, an increase of $196.11. The total amount of local salaries paid to the head masters for the year was $6,160.00, an increase of $75. This amount does not include the University grant of $1,000 to the Collegiate School. The average salary of Grammar School Principals (not including the Collegiate School) was $785.06, a decrease of $9.72.

TABLE XIV.-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 251, of whom 29 were enrolled in the French Department, increase for the year, 27. Other details will be found in the Principal's Report.

LOCAL ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS.

In my report for 1891 I recommended the establishing of a system of local examinations including examinations for admission to the Normal School. In support of such recommendation it was urged "that under the existing arrangement the candinates who fail are obliged to incur, in many cases, considerable

expense in travelling to Fredericton from remote parts of the Province, and in returning after having failed to pass the test. Both the expense of attending the examinations, and the mortification resulting from failure to pass, would be lessened, if an opportunity were offered of attending examinations nearer their own homes. Besides the local examinations would attract a larger number of candidates, and would probably, even with more rigid tests than at present, increase the number seeking admission to the Normal School. The scarcity of Teachers in many parts of the Province shows the need of a larger supply than the Normal School, notwithstanding a gradually increasing attendance, has up to the present, been able to provide."

The Board of Education considered these recommendations in December last, and has authorized the following provisions in regard thereto :

There shall be in each school year one session of the Normal School, consisting of two terms. The first term (except for the French Department) shall begin on the first teaching day in September, and close on the last teaching day in December. The second term shall begin on the first teaching day in January and close on the Friday next preceding the second Tuesday in June.

Times and Stations of Examinations : (1) Examinations for admission to the Normal School shall be held in each year at Fredericton, St. John, Moncton, St. Stephen, Chatham, Bathurst, Campbellton, Woodstock, Andover, and such other places as the Board of Education may hereafter determine, on the first Tuesday of July, beginning at 9 o'clock in the forenoon.

A supplementary entrance examination will (on application to the Principal not later than the 15th day of August) be held at the opening of the Normal School in Fredericton in September, 1893, for those candidates who shall have failed to present themselves for examination in July, or having attended shall have failed to pass.

(2) Closing examinations shall be held each year at Fredericton, St. John and Chatham, beginning at 9 o'clock a. m., on the second Tuesday in June. For StudentTeachers in the French Department, and other candidates for Third Class License, a closing examination for Third Class only shall be held at Fredericton twice each year, beginning respectively on the Tuesday next preceding the last Friday of May, and on the Tuesday next preceding the week in which Christmas falls. All candidates, other than those presented by the Principal of the Normal School, required to be examined in Reading at the Fredericton station shall present themselves in the Assembly Hall of the Normal School at 2 o'clock p. m., on the day immediately preceding the date fixed for the opening of the written examination, for examination in Reading.

Application for admission to the Normal School Entrance Examinations should be addressed to the Inspector within whose Inspectoral District the Candidate wishes to write, not later than the 24th day of May in each year. The application shall state the class for which the Candidate wishes to be examined. An Examination Fee of $1 must accompany each application.

The necessary stationery, uniform in quality and arrangement, will be provided for all candidates at these examinations. To meet in part the expenses incurred and for other reasons, it was decided to charge the small fee of one dollar to each candidate.