It will be seen from the table given below that 57 per cent. of the amount paid for Teachers' salaries is derived from the Provincial Revenue and the County Fund.

TABLE IX.-DISBURSEMEETS OF PROVINCIAL GRANTS.

The total amount of Provincial Grants to Teachers for the year ended June 30th, 1893, was as follows:

Of the above sum, $7,254.13 were paid as special grants to teachers in poor districts, an increase of $506.52 on special grants of previous year.

The total expenditure during the year for the Gramınar, Superior and Common Schools (not including district assessments for school buildings, apparatus, fuel, etc.,) is approximately as follows:

PROVINCIAL GRANT FOR SCHOOLS FROM THE YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1886, TO THE YEAR ENDING JUNE, 1893, INCLUSIVE, AND NUMBER

This amount does not include the sum of $1,162.50 paid to the School for the Blind in Halifax, for the support and education of sixteen New Brunswick pupils.

It will be seen from the table given above that there has been an increase of 65 teachers in the last two years, and an increase of Provincial Grants for the same time of $9,990.74. The increase in the Provincial Grants is accounted for not only by the increase in the number of teachers employed, but by an upward tendency in the class of teachers employed. The increase in the number of Teachers of the First Class during the last two years has been 64; of the Second Class, 30, and the decrease of the Third Class, 29. These facts show decided progress from an educational standpoint.

TABLE X. - APPORTIONMENT OF COUNTY FUND TO SCHOOL TRUSTEES.

Under the provisions of the law for the distribution of the County Fund, the following amonnts were paid:

Term ending Dec., 1892:

To Boards of Trustees in respect of the services of teachers,.
In respect of average attendance of pupils.....

$24,926 11

21,102 63

$46,028 74

586 46

600 00

$47,215 20

$23,310 07

To Boards of Trustees in respect of Teachers,...

Total to Boards of Trustees,.

To Institution for Deaf and Dumb (Table XI),.

"School for the Blind, Halifax

Total for Term,

$47,215 20

Of the above amount $4,866.47 was paid as extra aid to Poor Districts. It will be seen from the last column of this table that in respect to attendance of pupils the Districts in the County of Gloucester show the maximum average per pupil received from the County Funds, viz.: 93 cts, for Ordinary Districts and $1.24 for Poor Districts; and that the County of Queens shows the minimum average per pupil from County Fund, viz.: 29 cts. for Ordinary Districts and 39 cts. for Poor Districts. The general average for the province is 57 cts. for Ordinary Districts and 76 cts. for 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.

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 Deaf Mute children of the province were enacted in 1892:

"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 $75 per annum payable halfyearly, and also to receive at the same rate from the County School Fund of 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 te 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 $60 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 December, 1892, the sum of $600 from the Provincial revenue, and an equal sum, in the aggregate, from the County Funds of Albert, Carleton, Kings, Northumberland, Queens, Restigouche, St. John, and Westmorland; and for the Term ended June, 1893, $562.50 from the Province, and an equal sum from the Counties named above. The total number of New Brunswick pupils was 16 for the First Term named and 15 for the Second.

At the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb there was an attendance of 23 pupils for the term ended December, 1892, and 32 for the term ended June, 1893; on account of these the Institution drew from the County Fund of the several Counties from which the pupils came, $586.46 for the First Term named and $920.05 for the Second Term.

Other interesting details will be found in the table, and in the Reports of the Principals found in Appendix E, to which I beg to direct attention.

The total amount disbursed during the year for Superior School service was $12,007.54. During the term ended December, 1892, there were 48 schools in operation, and 50 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 are 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 Province, 50.

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 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 Cæsar, or its equivalent.

The number of pupils receiving instruction in the Superior Schools in advance of Standard VIII, was 242 for the Second Term of 1892, an increase of 21 on the number for the corresponding term of 1891, and 248 for the First Term of 1893-an increase on corresponding term of previous year of 18.

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.

The Provincial disbursements to Grammar Schools for the year was $4,564.71, an increase of $118.82. The total amount of local salaries paid to the head masters for the year was $6,442.50, an increase of $282.50. The average

salary of Grammar School Principals was $781.50.

The total number of pupils enrolled in the Grammar School departments for the Second Term of 1892 was 737, an increase of 31; and for the First Term of 1893, 697, an increase of 14.

The total number of pupils above Grade VIII. for the two terms named was 540 and 476 respetively, an increase on the corresponding terms of the previous years of 76 and 37 respectively. Only four of the Grammar Schools, those of Carleton, Charlotte, St. John and York, have an enrolment, each, of more than 20 pupils above Grade VIII. These four had an aggregate of pupils above Grade VIII. of 421 for the Second Term of 1892, and 365 for the First Term of 1893. In other words, of all the pupils above Grade VIII. enrolled in the Grammar Schools, 77 per cent, are found in four schools, and only 23 per cent. in the other ten schools.

It is evident that the Legislature in establishing the system of Superior Schools for the parishes, and Grammar Schools for the counties, intended and expected that these classes of schools respectively would extend their influence beyond the bounds of the districts in which they are severally located, and attract advanced pupils from all parts of their respective parishes or counties. With this object in view the Superior Schools have been made free, conditionally, to all pupils resident in the parish, and the Grammar Schools to all resident in the county.

Now, while it is gratifying to note that Superior Schools are, for the most part, accomplishing the work for which they were designed, it requires but a glance at the returns from the Grammar Schools to see that many of them are not contributing to the work of secondary education to a degree commensurate with the grants they receive from the Provincial revenues. The movement of population has left several of them without the local patronage necessary to supply a sufficient number of pupils for the advanced grades. They do not attract pupils from other parts of the county; for pupils who go from home for the purpose of better educational privileges than their own districts afford, generally prefer to go to the towns and cities, or to private schools. These and other causes combined have reduced several of the Grammar Schools to a status little above that of an ordinary District School.

In seeking a remedy for the conditions to which I have called attention, I have found so many interests involved, that I hesitate to propose any very radical changes to take effect at once. It seems to me preferable to pursue a