Each room to rank as a district Not to exceed 79 per cent. of teacher's salary Payable at end of each term Or end of school year Payable to teacher for arrears of salary Under clause 4 Provided further that in any district where more than one teacher is employed each room shall rank as a district under the provisions of clauses 1, 2 and 3 of this section when the average attendance of the whole school shall at least equal twenty pupils to each teacher employed: Provided further that if the sum of the grants payable to any district under clauses 1 or 2 of this section shall exceed 70 per cent. of the salary actually earned by the teacher or teachers employed in the district during the year the amount of the grant payable at the end of the second term of the year shall be reduced so that the total amount of the grant paid shall equal the said 70 per cent.: Provided further that payments may be made in respect of the amounts earned under clause 1 or clause 2 of this section. at the end of the school terms ending on the thirtieth day of June and the thirty-first day of December in each year on receipt of the returns hereinafter provided and on receipt of the treasurer's bond and teacher's agreement as provided in The School Ordinance: Provided further that in case the school of any district is open only during a portion of the year payment may be made to such district in respect of the amounts earned under clause 1 or clause 2 of this section as soon as the school closes for the year on receipt of the returns, bond and agreement mentioned in the next preceding proviso: Provided further that when the return of the treasurer of any district as hereinafter provided shows that the district is indebted to any teacher or teachers the grant payable to such district under clause 1 or clause 2 of this section or such portion of it to the amount of such indebtedness shall be paid proportionately to such teacher or teachers: Provided further that the grant earned by any district under if no inspection clause 4 of this section shall be paid to such district at the end of the school year and in case the school of any district is not inspected during the year the district shall be paid for such year such grant as it may be entitled to upon the basis of the grading its school attains on the first inspection in the following year. Teacher attending convention School closed by reason of disease 4. Any district whose school has been closed on account of the absence of the teacher in attending a teachers' institute or convention held under the regulations of the department shall be entitled to all grants as if the school had been actually in operation during such period. 5. If in any district the school has been closed by the written order of a duly qualified medical practitioner on account of the prevalence within the district of any disease the Lieutenant Governor in Council may pay grants in respect of such days as the school has been closed but in no case shall such grants be paid for more than thirty teaching days in the calendar year. 6. The Lieutenant Governor in Council may order the pay- Special grant ment of a special grant to any school whether organized according to law or not. be forwarded 7. The secretary, treasurer and teacher of every district Statements to shall at the end of each school term forward to the commissioner such statements respecting the school and district as are necessary to enable him to apportion the grants to which it may be entitled under the Ordinance and such statements shall be verified by declaration and shall be in form prescribed by the commissioner. of average 8. For the purpose of estimating the grant which may be Computation earned by any school on account of the attendance of pupils the average attendance for any calendar month during which the school is kept open shall be calculated by dividing the aggregate days attendance for such month by the number of days school is kept open during such month; the percentage of attendance for any month school is kept open shall be calculated by dividing the average attendance for such month by the number of pupils in actual attendance during such month; and the percentage of attendance for any term shall be calculated by dividing the sum of the monthly percentages of attendance by the number of such monthly percentages of attendance. library or 9. The board of every district receiving a grant under clause Purchase of 3 of section 3 hereof shall expend one-half of the amount of school equipsuch grant received in each and every year on the purchase of men out of books for a school library and such books shall be selected clause 3 from a list authorized and furnished by the department: [Provided that on the recommendation of an inspector the Commissioner of Education may authorize the board of any district to expend any portion of such grant on the purchase of equipment and apparatus in lieu of books for a school library.] c. 10, s. 2. grant under section 165 of School Ordinance 10. In all cases where two or more districts have entered Grants for into an agreement as provided in section 165 of The School Ordi- cases under nance there shall be paid at the end of each school term from and out of the moneys appropriated by the Legislative Assembly for school purposes 1. To every district providing the means of conveyance for children from one district to another the sum of 60 cents per diem for each day upon which such conveyance is provided in accordance withe the regulations of the department; 2. To every district agreeing as aforesaid to educate the children of one or more districts the sum of 4 cents per diem for each pupil in average daily attendance who has been conveyed to and from the school house in such district or educated therein in accordance with the regulations of the department; Commence ment Provided that the total number of days in each year for which such grants may become payable shall not exceed 210: Provided further that in case the number of children conveyed from one district to another in accordance with the terms of the agreement falls below an average of six for any term the grant payable under subclause 1 of section 10 hereof shall be paid in the proportion that the average number of children conveyed for the term bears to six: Provided further that the total amount of the grant which shall be payable under subclause 2 of section 10 hereof shall not exceed for any term the amount of 40 cents per diem unless it is satisfactorily shown that the presence of such children necessitated the employment of one or more additional teachers in which case the total amount of the grant thus earned shall be paid. 11. This Ordinance shall come into force on the first day of January, 1902. CHAPTER 107. An Ordinance for the Protection of Useful Birds. (Chapter 11 of 1902.) THE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Useful Birds Ordi- Short title nance." 2. No person shall fire at, hunt, take or kill any bird what- Birds soever except crows, eagles, goshawks, pigeon hawks, duck protected hawks, Cooper's hawks, hawk owls, blackbirds, cowbirds, grackles, English sparrows, loons, cormorants, pelicans, and mergansers, and such birds as are dealt with in The Game Ordi nance. 3. No person shall at any time disturb, injure or take the Nests and nests or eggs of any bird not mentioned in section 2 of this eggs Ordinance. 4. Guardians appointed under the provisions of The Game Guardians Ordinance shall be guardians under this Ordinance for the purpose of enforcing its provisions. scientific 5. The Commissioner of Agriculture may upon application Birds or being made to him and upon payment of a fee of $5 grant any eggs for person a license for the current calendar year to procure for purposes scientific purposes specimens of birds and their eggs protected by this Ordinance. 6. Any person contravening any of the provisions of this Penalty Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding $25. of Ordinance 7. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be deemed to Application affect the provisions of The Game Ordinance or to apply to domestic birds. CHAPTER 108. An Ordinance respecting Drainage. (Chapter 6 of 1903, 1st session.) THE Lieutenant Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Territories enacts as follows: SHORT TITLE. Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Drainage Ordinance." INTERPRETATION. Interpretation 2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires— 1. The expression "department" means the Department of Public Works for the Territories; 2. The expression "commissioner" means the Commissioner of Public Works for the Territories; 3. The expression "engineer" means any engineer or land surveyor employed from time to time to perform any of the duties necessary for the carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance; 4. The expression "road" means and includes any public trail, road or highway including any road allowance laid out under the provisions of the Dominion Lands Act; 5. The expression "report" includes all maps, plans and estimates of cost of any work undertaken under this Ordinance; 6. The expression "owner" includes any person who by any right, title or estate whatsoever is or is entitled to land and the executor or administrator of an owner, the guardian of an infant owner, any person entitled to sell or convey the land, an agent of an owner under a general power of attorney or under a power of attorney empowering him to deal with the land and as regards roads, the Commissioner of Public Works; 7. The expression "judge" means a judge of the Supreme Court of the Territories usually exercising jurisdiction in the district in which any ditch or any proposed ditch is or will be situate; 8. The expression "clerk" or "clerk of the court" or "clerk of the Supreme Court" means any clerk or deputy clerk of the Supreme Court of the Territories in whose district any ditch or proposed ditch under this Ordinance is or will be situate: |