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Bellechasses. 1987 2156 2039 312 211 8385 1510 1078 75090 1573 1450 ] 8689, 11900 1488 1573 1775 2045 1763) 298 12920 13529 1313 1621 14 348 1943 1599 342 10363 11946 2129 2971 18 3044 1952 1265 687 10125 13518 1223 1689 22 4320 2040 1594 514 12612 14557 2733 3763 27 735 1461 1363) 102 6098 9151 1824 2161 2 300 276 1107 64 238 1465 374 290 84 204 2283 415 528 76 141 273 45 28 7396 536 451 93 3517 3743 577 819 4 167 11 1021 183 400 47 118 69 600 397 290 4022 4349 675 807 22 170 23 981 1101 140 161 511 14 8640 1916 1790] 152 10636 12350 2208) 2700 8 641 13 343 272 435 1312 180 415 14240 4911 3214 3344 28683 36173 5984 7128 10 1502 32 1029, 1264 1421 4426 606 8840 1424 7400 10061 7783 569 8 538 22 508 36 700 20 360 369 18 337 482 405 1376 110 299 37 360 325 394 454 1421 150 488 443 1315, 107 302 3481 3781 435 1423 165 462 359 531 416 1465, 105] 328 8ག གདས ད གད ོཚ 243 10 3498) 354 331 452 907 132 401 6 248 180 46 1311 707 308 213 32 10 332 97 360 373 45 343 271 83 139 158 51 81 10 480 52 54802 48323 32572 17270 245367 290050 44771 51537 210 12397 473 7166 9913 9765 30621 3909) Total... 205963 82437 58716 26087 422573 511917 78729 92704 401 21697 907 13302 16574 17278 54028 6413 11243 200 Thus marked are on the S. side of the river St. Lawrence. + Thus marked are on the N. side of the river St. Lawrence. 562938337 26601 11901 3762 254 195 462 21952 10192 229293 6044 7001 2180 85 944 28229 5175 1240 504 11775 243 1431 3 23 830 291 581 79 6042 32 28 1933 14 3 61 12167 1669 764 689 9240 56 39 20 18 1344 139 25 67 411 29 21 1334 34 46 3762 254 195 462 21952 10192 229293 6044 7001 2180 85 944 29229 5175 1240 504 11775 243 1431 61 12467 1669 761 689 9210 56 19 4388 9662 428 489 79 464 184 466 330 10 10 14 115 *3559 64941 48413 22335 5278 408 334 924 34620 15069 403472 7019 7811 2461 107-5577 50824 76022503 1282 21594 313 1499 Who have arrived by sea, since 1st May, 1825. Who have arrived by any other way than by sea, since 1st May, 1825. : Who have arrived since 1st May, 1825. about 20,000l.; in 1831, it will be about 26,000l., giving an average for each scholar in 1830, of 10s. 4d.; in 1831, of 11s. 2d. a fit age to attend school, are receiving a school education. In some counties only one child in twelve, and one in ten, are at school. The average throughout the province, of the children at school is one out of three. VII. The prevailing, or most numerical creed in Lower Canada, is the Roman Catholic faith, the clergy of which are educated in Canada, and have no connexion with the Pope; they are not paid by go- The proportion which the number of children, revernment, but have for their support the 26th part of ceiving instruction, bears to the whole population, is all the grain raised on the lands of Catholics. Hay about one in twelve throughout the province, instead and potatoes are exempted from the charge, and if of one in four, the proportion in the adjoining state the Catholic turn Protestant, or sell his lands to a of New York. The counties of Montmorency, StanProtestant, the estate is no longer subject to this mo- | stead, Sherbrooke, and Lotbinière, are the only counderate tythe. The church is governed by a Romish | ties out of forty-one where nearly all the children, of Bishop (a Canadian born and educated), who receives, in addition to the rent of some lands of little value, the sum of 1,000l. per annum from Great Britain, which is the only charge for the Catholic Church establishment. The income of the Curés, whose numbers are about 200, average 3001. per annum, by which they are enabled to live respectably, and even hospitably. In aid of the bishop or primate, there are two coadjutors or titular bishops, and four vicars general, and there are upwards of 200 vicaries, curés, &c. Several religious communities, exists, viz. the Hotel Dieu de Montreal, founded in 1664, and containing 37 religieuses professes; the Congregation de Nôtre Dame à Montreal (in 1650), with 81 professes; the Hôpital general de Montreal (1753), with 29 professes; the Hotel Dieu de Quebec (founded in 1637, pour les pauvres Malades"), with 34 religieuses professes; the Ursulines de Quebec, with 56 professes; the Hopital general de Quebec (1693), with 50 professes; and the Ursulines des trois rivières (founded in 1677, "pour l'instruction et pour les pauvres Malades"), with 34 professes: all these establishments have novices and postulants. The Church of England establishment consists of a bishop (of Quebec) and 40 clergymen; the Presbyterians of the Church of Scotland are about 14 in number, and there are 12 Wesleyan ministers. The ecclesiastical charges, voted in the parliamentary estimates for the term from 1st April 1834, to 31st March 1835, are, bishop of Quebec's salary 3000l.; archdeacon ditto, 500l.; rector ditto 400l., and house-rent, 901.; minister of Trinity Chapel, Quebec, 2001; Montreal rector, 3001.; Three Rivers, ditto, 2001.; William Henry ditto, 1501.; Durham ditto, 100.; Chatham ditto, 100/.; Caldwell manor ditto, 1001.; St. Armand, ditto, 1007.; Evening lectures at Quebec, 100l.; Verger of ditto, 1504.; Quebec Presbyterian minister, 501.; Montreal ditto, 501; Argenteuil ditto, 100l.; Roman Catholic bishops of Quebec, 1000l. In addition to the foregoing, there is a charge of 4,000l. to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in all our North American provinces, making a total of 10,6907. The number of churches in Lower Canada is about thirty. One-seventh of the whole of the lands in the townships, is set apart as a provision for the Protestant Church. VIII. A Committee of the Canadian House of Assembly, thus reports on the subject of education in 1832 In 1830, there were 981 schools; in 1831, 1216; teachers in 1830, 947; in 1831, 1305; scholars in 1830, 41,791; in 1831, 45,203. [In 1829, the total number of children reported as receiving elementary education, was only 18,410, of which 3,675 were under the Royal Institution.] The number of scholars taught gratuitously, has increased from 21,622, to 23,805. Those who pay, from 16,591 to 18,016. The whole amount of expenses for elementary schools, paid out of the public chest, in 1830, was | Your Committee has observed with satisfaction, that, out of the whole number of schools, viz. :— 1216, 142 (chiefly in the towns of Montreal, Quebec, Three Rivers, and Laprairie), have 6,281 scholars, who pay for their education, or receive it in convents, or at a low rate in institutions which derive no support from the public money. In Quebec there are no less than 2,525 scholars at elementary schools, and whose parents pay for their education and entirely support forty-one schools, at a rate of payment from 1s. to 2s. 6d. per month." The money paid towards public schools by the House of Assembly was, in 1829, 6,4391.; 1830, 18,0881.; 1831, 17,3177.; 1832, 23,3247.; making in four years 65,168/ sterling, or 72,4091. currency, distributed through upwards of 2,000 schools annually. The lands granted to the Jesuits by the old French government, and which fell into the Crown on the demise of the last of the Jesuits, in 1800, have been granted by the government for purposes of education. Return of the Institutions for the Instruction of Youth in Lower Canada. [Canadian Commissioners Report, 1836.]-PROTESTANT. 1. Royal Grammar School, Quebec; 2001. a year, and 901. a year school-house rent, from Jesuits' estates. Twenty free scholars, 11 pay for their tuition; all day-scholars. Terms, under 12, 81., above 12 and under 13, 10l. per an., above 13, 121. per. an. French and English taught; course of instruction as in the grammar schools in the United Kingdom. 2. Royal Grammar School, Montreal; 2001. a year. and 541. a year school-house rent, from Jesuits' estates. Twenty free scholars admitted, 15 scholars pay for their education; all day scholars. Terms, highest 10., lowest 81. per an.; instruction as in grammar-school at Quebec; and this school is in posses sion of an extensive apparatus for experiments in natural philosophy. 3. Seminary at Chambly; contributions of students a private institution lately established under the patro nage of the Lord Bishop of Quebec. Board and tui tion according to age of student, 40l., 50l. and 751, pe an.; day-scholars, 151, and 201, per an. There are 17 boarders and 9 day-sholars. Those who pay 751. pe an. are young men studying for holy orders, and other finishing their education. CATHOLIC.-1. Seminary of Quebec; no revenue specifically appropriated to the purposes of education but possessed of several estates. Value, made many years ago, computed at 1,2491. a year, besides larg contributions in grain, and the lods et ventes on mu tations of property, which amount to a considerabl sum. Attended by 188 students; the terms for tuition and board, 177. 10s. per an.; for tuition only, 14. pe an. Poor children instructed gratis. The seminar of Quebec was erected by letters patent of the French authorized to establish a seminary at Montreal, and Crown, dated in April 1663. 2. Seminary at Montreal; in possession of estates valued many years ago at about 2,000l. a year, besides large contributions in grain, and lods et ventes on mutations of property, which in the seigniory of Montreal, comprehending the whole of the town, must amount to a large sum. Attended by 260 students; terms for board and tuition per an. 21., for tuition only, 17. 158. Instruction as at the seminary of Quebec. The ecclesiastics of St. Sulpice, at Paris, were allowed to hold the Island of Montreal in Mortmain, by letters patent of the French Crown, dated in May 1677. 3. Seminary at Nicolet; supported principally by private contributions. The number of students, or the price paid for tuition, not known. 4. Seminary at St. Hyacinthe; as No. 3. General Statement of Education in the Province of Lower Canada, made from the Returns transmitted to the House of Assembly by the Visitors named in virtue of the Act 1st William IV. chapter 7. The following abstract of the New School Act may considered useful for imitation in our other colobet, or even in the mother country: "For one elementary school in a central situation in each st, the present act grants 201. per annum; and for one arate school for girls in every school district in the Ran Catholic parishes or missions, where there is a rch or chapel, at the rate of 201. per annum, provided that such girl's schools be open for tuition to all the female children of the parish or mission at the same rate as other schools. An additional 10s. for each school district allowed to the school visitors, for prizes so distributed among the scholars of the girl's school in the Catholic parishes. The superiors and professors of colleges and academies, and the presidents of education societies now existing, may act as visitors of schools. Any three school visitors may extend the age (above 15 years) at which pupils may be admitted and made part of the number required by law to give a right to such allowance, according to the population of the county, parish, or township, on making an entry thereof in the minute book of the school, and they may also alter the the number of schools recommended in the returns does school hours, under peculiar circumstances, on making a not exceed the number fixed for such county by this act. like entry. Returns of schools hereafter to be made up on The visitors are authorised to augment the number of poor the 15th May and 15th November, and payments made at children whom the trustees may place in each school from those times. If the visitors find a school kept bona fide ten to fifteen by an entry in the minute book, provided that from second Monday in August in any district, which twenty regularly attending and paying pupils are at such would have been entitled to an allowance, if the meeting of school. The visitors may also dispense with the condition the inhabitants had taken place, and trustees elected ac- which requires that no poor child can be admitted gratis, cording to law, they are authorised to grant the allowance unless there is one of the same family attending the school for the time in which it has been kept by an entry in the and paid for. If the visitor find in any school a teacher school minute book. If the visitors find a school bona fide qualified to teach, and actually teaching both French and held in any school district (but not the regularly established English, on making an entry thereof in the minute book, district school) for more than thirty-five regular pupils, such teacher shall be entitled to 41. per annum, in addition they may certify the same by an entry in the school minute to the 20 already granted. Copies of this act to be sent to book of the district, and include the master in their return, the members for the county, for each school district, and a who shall become entitled to the allowance, provided that | sufficient number of the returns required by the law." Number of Elementary Schools in each County, number of Scholars taught, amount paid for the support of such Schools, and other particulars relating to the Province of Lower Canada, to 15th November, 1835. [B. B. No return for 1836.] |