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CONTENTS.

PART I.-GENERAL REPORT.

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TABLE A.-Receipts and Expenditure of Public School Moneys

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TABLE B.-School Population; Ages of Pupils; Pupils attending Public Schools;
Average Attendance....

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TABLE C.-Number of Pupils in the different branches of Instruction

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TABLE D.-Religious Denominations; Certificates; Annual Salaries of Teachers.
TABLE E-School Boards and Rural School Corporations ....
TABLE F.-Roman Catholic Separate Schools.

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TABLE G.-High Schools; Receipts and Expenditure; Pupils; Number of Schools 15
TABLE H.-High Schools; Number of Pupils in the various branches; Miscel-
laneous information; Head Masters and their Universities
TABLE I.-Normal and Model Schools

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TABLE J.-Free Public Libraries........

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TABLE K.-Summary of Maps, Apparatus and Prize Books, supplied to the Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages, during the year

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(1) Table showing the value of articles sent out from the Education Depository during the years 1851 to 1878 inclusive

XIV. TABLE N.-General Statistical Abstract of the progress of Education in Ontario,

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TABLE A.-Moneys; Amount received and expended in support of Public Schools.......
TABLE B.-Pupils; Pupils attending the Public Schools, Ages of Pupils, &c...........
TABLE C.-Number of Pupils in the different branches of Public School Education............
TABLE D.-The Number, Religious Denominations, Certificates and Salaries of Public
School Teachers

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TABLE E.-Schools; Number of Public, Schools, School-houses, Visits, Lectures and time the Public Schools have been kept open; Prayers, Examinations, &c. 45

TABLE F.-The Roman Catholic Separate Schools

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THE HIGH SCHOOLS,

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TABLE G.-Moneys received and expended in support of High Schools; Pupils; Fees 50 TABLE H.-Number of Pupils in the various branches of instruction; Miscellaneous information; Head Masters and their Universities

THE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

TABLE I TORONTO NORMAL SCHOOL.-Number of Students, their Residences and Religious
Denominations..........

OTTAWA NORMAL SCHOOL.-Number of Students, their Residences and Religious
Denominations..........

THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

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TABLE J.-Moneys; Number of volumes and miscellaneous information; other Libraries. 72

THE PUBLIC AND HIGH SCHOOLS.

TABLE K.-Maps and apparatus supplied by the Education Department

THE SUPERANNUATED PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. TABLE L.-Names and periods of Service of Teachers and their Pensions

THE EDUCATIONAL SUMMARY.

TABLE M.-Number of Institutions and Pupils, and moneys expended for Educational

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TABLE N.-General Statistical Abstract of the Educational progress of Ontario

PART III-APPENDICES.

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A.-Report of Dr. May on Department at the Paris Exhibition
B.-Report of J. A. McLellan, Esq., LL.D.; J. M. Buchan, Esq., M.A., and S. Arthur
Marling, Esq., M. A., Inspectors of High Schools.............................

ADDENDUM No. 1.-Comparative Table for 1877 and 1878, showing the progress or decline of each High School

C.-Annual Report of the Minister of Education, and of the Sub-Committee of the Central Committee of Examiners, on County Model Schools

D.-EXTRACTS FROM REPORTS OF INSPECTORS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Donald McDairmid, Esq., M.D., Glengarry

A. McNaughton, Esq.. Stormont.

Arthur Brown, Esq., Dundas

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Rev. Thos. Garrett, B.A., Russell
W. R. Bigg, Esq., No. 1 Leeds........
Henry L. Slack, Esq., M.A., Lanark

R. G. Scott, Esq., B.A., Renfrew..........
G. D. Platt, Esq., B.A., Prince Edward.........
W. Mackintosh, Esq., Hastings, North ....
John Johnston, Esq., Hastings, South

C. D. Curry, Esq., B.A., Haliburton

J. McBrien, Esq., Ontario............

D. Fotheringham, Esq., North York

J. Hodgson, Esq, South York...................................

M. J. Kelly, Esq., M.D., Brant, and City of Brantford ...

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J. B. Somerset, Esq., Lincoln

T. Girardot, Esq., No. 1 Essex, Towns of Sandwich and Amherstburgh............... 128
J. R. Miller, Esq., Parry Sound

II. Appointment of additional Sub-Examiners for December Examination.. 130
III. Regulations respecting Appeals by Candidates at Examinations.
IV. Re Intermediate Examination at St. Thomas and Berlin........
V. High School established at Mount Forest
Examination Frauds.......................

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VII. Irregularities at Berlin and St. Thomas High School Examinations ...... 133
VIII. Leave of Absence granted to Dr. S. P. May ......

IX. Certificates granted Teachers who passed examination in December, but
whose Certificates were cancelled on account of being implicated in
examination frauds........

X. Appointment of Sub-Examiners for July Examinations
XI. Certificates granted to Candidates deprived of them owing to the frauds
at the July Examinations

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XII. Collingwood High School, established as a Collegiate Institute ...
XIII. Reimbursing the Trustees of S. S. No. 4, Oakland..........................
XIV. Revised Regulations as to Public and High Schools........
XV. Surrender of High School Lands, Niagara
XVI. Surrender of High School Lands, Newmarket
XVII. Regulations as to Authorized Text Books...........

XIX. W. J. Graham appointed caretaker of the Museum.......

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Omission of Text Books from list of approved Library and Prize Books.. 135
Sub-Examiners for December Intermediate Examinations

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Sub-Examiner appointed for December Intermediate Examinations...... 135