BILL No. 56 of 1926.

An Act to amend The School Grants Act. (Assented to , 1926.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The School Grants Act Amendment Act, 1926." Z. The School Grants Act, being

chapter of the Revised Statutes of Alberta, 1922, is amended by adding thereto as

section 26a the following: "ZGa.-

(1) In addition to the grants in the preceding

section there shall be paid to every rural district whose assessed valuation for supplementary revenue purposes added to the actual cash value of all personal property which would be subject to assessment and taxation for school pur­ poses were it situated in a village school district (which two sums of money are hereinafter collectively called 'an assess­ ment') is less than seventy-five thousand dollars per teacher, the following grants, namely: "(

a) to a district having an assessment of less than ten thousand dollars per teacher the sum of two dollars and eighty cents per teacher per teaching day; "(

b) to a district having an assessment of ten thousand dollars or more, but .less than fifteen thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of two dollars and sixty cents per teacher per teaching day; " (

c) to a district having an assessment of fifteen thou­ sand dollars or more, but less than twenty thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of two dollars and forty cents per teacher per teaching day; "(

d) to a distric1 having an assessment of twenty thousand dollars or more, but less than twenty-five thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of two dollars and twenty cents per teacher per teaching day; "(

e) to a district having an assessment of twenty-five thousand dollars or more, but less than thirty thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of two dollars per teacher per teaching day; "(

I) to a district having an assessment of thirty thousand dollars or more, but less than thirty-five thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of one dollar and eighty cents per teacher per teaching day; 2 "(

g) to a district having an assessment of thirty-five thousand dollars or more, but less than forty thou­ sand dollars per teacher, the sum of one dollar and sixty cents per teacher per teaching day; .. (

h) to a district having an assessment of forty thou­ sand dollars or more, but less than forty-five thou­ sand dollars per teacher, the sum of one dollar and forty cents per teacher per teaching day; .. (

i) to a district having an assessment of forty-five thousand dollars or more, but less tha.n fifty thou­ sand dollars per teacher, the sum of one dollar and twenty cents per teacher per teaching day; ., (

j) to a district having an assessment of fifty thousand dollars or more, but less than fifty-five . thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of one dollar per teacher per teaching day; .. (

k) to a district having an assessment of fifty­ five thousand dollars or more, but less than sixty thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of eighty cents per teacher per teaching day; "(

l) to a district having an assessment of sixty thousand dollars or more, but less than sixty-five thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of sixty cents per teacher per teaching day; "(

m) to a district having an assessment of sixty­ five thousand dollars or more, but less than seventy thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of forty cents per teacher per teaching day; .. (

n) to a district having an assessment of seventy thousand dollars or more, but less than seventy-five thousand dollars per teacher, the sum of twenty cents per teacher per teaching day . ..

(2) The grants payable under this

section may be paid direct to the teacher or teachers at the discretion of the Minister . ..

(3) The Minister may reduce or withdraw the grants provided in this

section where the average attendance in any school district is less than five . ..

(4) In any school district receiving special aid under this

section the Minister may make such arrangements in­ cluding the provision of transportation or the payment of board and lodging as will in his opinion provide educational facilities for the children of such district at a minimum cost "

(5) The grants provided in this

section shall be payable in respect of teaching days after the last day of March, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-six, but shall not be payable in respect of more than one hU11dred and sixty days in anyone calendar year." 3. This Act shall come into force on ................. . No. 56. SIXTH SESSION FIFTH LEGISLATURE GEORGE V BILL

An Act to ·Amend The School Grants Act. Recei ved and read the First time .................... . Second time .................. . Third time ................... , RON. MR. BAKER. EDMONTON: W. D. McLEAN, ACTING KING'S PRINTER A.D. 1926. Title: 1926 (5th, 6th) Bill 56,

An Act to amend The School Grants Act