Attorney General, under his control. In regard to myself, he offered to increase my salary out of these profits to the extent of fifty pounds a year, and the others in proportion. Under the circumstances I felt indisposed to accept his offer for the reasons given in the following Letter, which I addressed to him on the subject:

LETTER OF J. GEORGE HODGINS TO DOCTOR RYERSON.

After fully considering your kind offer to increase my salary out of the Depository funds at the rate of Fifty pounds a year, I feel that it would be better for me to leave the matter in abeyance until after the next Session of the Legislature, as, in the meantime, there would then be an opportunity to get a Commission appointed, as proposed by Mr. Brown, on the subject of the Depository.

It is now twelve years since the Depository was established. During that time I have made the purchases for it amounting in the aggregate to nearly $350,000. I have supervised all its operations, and have stood, as it were, between you, and all personal loss, or anxiety, on its account. All of its Invoices, Sales, Bills, Despatch Lists, etcetera, have statedly passed under my notice. It has also been my daily practice, (in order to give satisfaction, and to prevent complaints,) to examine and revise the selections of Books sent out daily for Public Libraries and Prizes. Indeed, were it my own private business, I could not bestow on it more solicitude and care, or render the details of its working more complete. And I have the satisfaction to know that, in this latter respect, it is in excellent order, and that, for years past, no complaints have reached the Department in regard to anything sent out, but quite the contrary. As to its financial success, I need only refer you to the Balance Sheet of last year, by which, as you are aware, that on the $20,000 to $25,000 worth of articles sent out (and it is the same nearly every year,) it has cleared an average of nearly $1,000 per annum, over and above its working expenses, and the assumed depreciation caused by "old stock," etcetera. Such being the prosperous state of the Depository, I feel that £50, (although probably as much as you could venture, on your own responsibility, to name just now,) is a very inadequate sum to grant from its surplus funds for my care and trouble. Had I, however, been in receipt of the £100 from the time when the Honourable J. A. Macdonald virtually authorized you, in the meantime, to increase my salary and those of others out of the Depository Moneys, (which he considered under your own control), I should, by this time, have been able to return nearly all the Salary which has been advanced to me up to the present, in the expectation that the repeated promises of Members of the late (J. A. Macdonald) Government would be realised. I have the satisfaction to know that you felt and appreciated the close and unremitting character of my work, when you generously offered me, three, or four, years ago, £50 per annum out of your own salary, while I conducted the Correspondence of the Department, etcetera, but which, of course, under no circumstances, could I accept. As it is, by close management, (although my expenses are large,) I am endeavouring slowly to lessen this advance, and hope to be able to reduce it by the end of this year. If I had this advance paid off, I would be content with what the Government might consider just and proper. But rather than subject you now to attack on my account for the small sum of £50, I would prefer for the present to wait, and in the meantime, to have the consciousness, in case of attack, that, for all my care and labour in managing the Depository and contributing to its success, I have received no remuneration whatever from its funds.

It is worthy of remark that in reorganizing the Depository in 1855, the Legislature provided for the payment of the Salaries of persons employed in its managemnt, out of a special fund set apart annually from the Consolidated Revenue for that purpose, and not out of the Depository Funds themselves. The Depository has since that time,

however, assumed the whole charge for these Salaries, as well as for the whole cost of its management. The Grant then made has been returned, and has been available for other purposes.

Including the $100 for one map, and an average of from $70 to $80 for each of the other maps, the total cost of all the maps constructed for the Department would not exceed the £300 which was the estimated value by the Crown Lands Department of the construction of only one of them. Thus, at a very inadequate cost, the Department has acquired the proprietary in these Maps for the benefit of the Public Schools, and of the general public, which is of a highly permanent value.

In regard to the refusal of the Government to recognise my status as a Deputy, until 1855, I do not propose to say anything, as it was fully recognized in 1857, when a "good service allowance of £50 was granted to me for services then rendered in the formation of a new Department of the Government. I am now in my twentieth year of service in this Department,-the senior of many in the Public Service, who now rank above me, but such a distinction was not known up to that time, or even until 1855, when I was formally appointed and gazetted as a Deputy in what was subsequently termed, in a Letter from the Secretary of the Province, "a new Department."

For my own satisfaction, and for your kind consideration I have thought it best to pen down, with many thanks, what I had to say on this subject. TORONTO, December 9th, 1863.

J. GEORGE HODGINS.

I. LETTER FROM THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION TO THE HONOURABLE J. O. BUREAU, SECRETARY OF THE PROVINCE, AS ΤΟ THE DISPOSAL OF THE MODEL SCHOOL GRANT.

I have the honour to submit the following facts and recommendations for the favourable consideration of His Excellency the Governor General-in-Council.

In the Grammar School Amendment Bill, which was before the Legislative Assembly, when it was recently brought to an abrupt termination, I had prepared to submit several Sections, of which the following is the most important:

"21. It may and shall be lawful for the Council of Public Instruction to apply, as far as it shall deem expedient, the public money set apart for the support of a Model Grammar School for Upper Canada, to provide for the more efficient inspection of Grammar Schools, and of Union Grammar and Common Schools,-for the inspection of Separate Schools, and for the support of an additional Master, or Masters, in the Normal School for Upper Canada, with a special view to the training of Teachers for the Grammar Schools, and to assist, when judged necessary, said Teachers to avail themselves of such training."

As the Model Grammar School year closes in July, I beg to submit that the Governor General-in-Council be pleased to authorize the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada to do what is proposed in the above clause until the ensuing Session of the Legislature.

I feel it my duty to recommend this course, after long and anxious consideration, and in accordance with the suggestion of the Rector of the Model Grammar School himself, and several Members of the Legislature, including a Member of the present Administration.

When the Model Grammar School was established, it was expected that nearly every County in Upper Canada would be represented in it, and provision was made for that purpose. That important object has not been realized; and although the attendance at the School has been larger during the last year, than during any previous year, (one part of the year it being 100,-the number limited by the Regulations), the attendance, as in former years, has been chiefly from Toronto and its neighbourhood. I do not think it is just to the General Fund to maintain an additional Toronto Grammar School.

During the past year a training class of Candidates for Masterships in the Grammar Schools has been successfully established,-consisting, to a considerable extent, of Students in the University, for whose training and assistance special Regulations have been made. But it has been found that the instruction given in all subjects,

except Greek, Latin, and French, can be given in the Normal School to better advantage than in the Model Grammar School. It will, therefore, be necessary to employ an additional Master, or Masters, in the Normal School to teach the Classics and French. But, if that which is proposed in the above Section of the Grammar School Amendment Bill can be accomplished, it will save, or add, to the General School Fund for distribution to the Grammar Schools not less than Two thousand dollars per annum.

I, therefore, respectfully recommend that the Governor General-in-Council be pleased to authorize the Council of Public Instruction to do what is proposed in the above Section of the Grammar School Bill until the ensuing Session of the Legislature. TORONTO, May 15th, 1863. EGERTON RYERSON.

REPLY TO THE FOREGOING TO THE REVEREND DOCTOR RYERSON.

I have the honour to enclose herein, for your information, a copy of an Order-inCouncil on your Letter of the 15th of May last. The receipt of which was acknowledged in a Letter from this Office, under date the 20th of May.

QUEBEC, July 9th, 1863.

E. A. MEREDITH, Assistant Secretary.

COPY OF A REPORT OF A COMMITTEE OF THE HONOURABLE THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, Approved BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR GENERALE-IN-COUNCIL ON THE 7TH JULY, 1863.

On a Communication, dated the 15th of May, 1863, from the Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada, stating that in the Grammar School Amendment Bill, which was before the Legislative Assembly when it was recently brought to an abrupt termination, he had prepared to submit several Sections of the Bill, of which the following is the most important.

It may and shall be lawful for the Council of Public Instruction to apply, as far as it shall deem expedient, the public money now set apart for the support of a Model Grammar School for Upper Canada, to provide for the more efficient inspection 0. Grammar Schools, and of Union Grammar and Common Schools,-for the inspection of Separate Schools, and for the support of an additional Master, or Masters, in the Normal School for Upper Canada, with a special view to the training of Teachers for the Grammar Schools, and to assist, when judged necessary, said Teachers to avail themselves of such training.

That, as the Model Grammar School year closes in July, he submits that the Council of Public Instruction for Upper Canada be authorized to do what is proposed in the above Section of the Bill until the ensuing Session of the Legislature

That, when the Model Grammar School was established, it was expected that nearly every County in Upper Canada would be represented in it, and provision was made for that purpose.

That that important object has not been realized; and although the attendance at the School has been larger during the last year than during any previous year, (some parts of the year it being 100, the number limited by the Regulations,) the attendance, as in former years, has been chiefly from Toronto and its neighbourhood. He does not think it is just to the general Fund to maintain one additional Toronto Grammar School in Toronto.

That, during the last year a training class of Candidates for Masterships in the Grammar Schools has been successfully established. But it has been found that the instructions given in all subjects except Greek, Latin and French, can be given in the Normal School to better advantage than in the Model Grammar School. That it will be necessary to employ an additional Master, or Masters, in the Normal School to teach the Classics and French. But, if what is proposed in the above section of the Grammar School Bill can be accomplished, it will save, or add, to the General School Fund for distribution, not less than Two thousand dollars, ($2,000), per annum.

The Honourable the Attorney General for Upper Canada, reports that with respect to the Reverend Superintendent's observations of the failure of the Model Grammar School, in realizing the expectation which had been formed on its establishment, he entirely concurs in the same, and he also concurs in the opinion also expressed in the

same Letter that it is not just to the General School Fund to maintain an additional Toronto Grammar School.

He, therefore, recommends the discontinuance in this month of July, being the close of the School year, of the said Model Grammar School, (in connection with the Normal and Model Schools,) of Upper Canada, and the discontinuance of any grant of money for the purpose of such Model Grammar School, and that any Order-in-Council, or Instructions heretofore passed, or given, in reference to the same, be revoked.

As to the other suggestions contained in the Chief Superintendent's Letter-The Attorney General recommends the postponement of the consideration thereof until Parliament may see fit to authorize the establishment of a Training Class in the Normal School for Teachers for the Grammar Schools.

The Committee submit the above recommendations for your Excellency's approval. QUEBEC, 7th July, 1863. Certified, C. H. LEE, Clerk of the Executive Council.

CHAPTER VIII.

APPORTIONMENT OF THE LEGISLATIVE SCHOOL GRANT FOR UPPER CANADA, FOR 1863.

I. CIRCULAR TO THE CLERK OF EACH COUNTY, CITY, TOWN AND VIILAGE MUNICIPALITY IN UPPER CANADA.

Having received from the Finance Minister's Department a Statement of the amount of the Legislative Grant available for Common Schools in 1863, I have the honour to transmit herewith, a copy of the apportionment for the current year, of that Grant to each City, Town, Village and Township in Upper Canada. This apportionment will be payable at this Office, to the agent of the Treasurer of your Municipality, on the 1st of July, provided that the School Accounts have been duly audited, and, together with the Auditors and Local Superintendents' Reports, have been transmitted to the Department.

The basis of apportionment to the several Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages and Townships for this year, is the Census Returns of 1861. By this means a just and equitable apportionment has been made to those new and thinly settled Counties, where poor Schools have heretofore existed, and where the ordinary Legislative and Municipal grants were not in former years sufficient to enable the Trustees to sustain the Schools during the whole year.

Where Separate Schools exist, the sum apportioned to the Municipality has been divided among the Common and Roman Catholic Separate Schools, therein, according to the average attendance of Pupils at both classes of Schools during last year, as reported by the Trustees.

The gross sum apportioned to all the Schools this year is the same as that apportioned last year.

The apportionment is made on the supposition that the amount placed in the Estimates for the support of Common Schools, as presented to the House of Assembly before the dissolution, will be voted on the Meeting of Parliament. But, according to an intimation made to me, by order of the Finance Minister, that part of it which depends upon the annual vote of Parliament, (namely four-ninths), will not be payable until it is voted by Parliament, the Legislative Assembly having been dissolved before the Estimates were passed. There is, however, I think, no doubt, that the whole sum will be voted on the re-assembling of Parliament.

I trust that the liberality of your Council will be increased in proportion to the growing necessity and importance of providing for the sound and thorough education of all the youth of the land.

TORONTO, 18th June, 1863.

EGERTON RYERSON.