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An Act respecting the Appointaient of a Commission for the Ottawa Separate Schools.

Preamble.

Whereas the Board of Trustées of the Roman Catholic Separate Schools for the City of Ottawa has heretofore neglected and refused to conduct the said schools according to law, and it is désirable to provide for the appointment of a Commission to conduct and manage the .'^aid schools in case the Board makes further default;

Therefore His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Législative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows: —

Appoinlment of Commission.

1. Whenever the said Board shall neglect or refuse to conduct the schools under its control according to law the Minister, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, may appoint a Commission of not less than three nor more than seven persons to act in place of the Board.

Power s of Commission.

2. The Commission may take possession of and administer the property and assets of or under the control of the Board and may levy

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and collect ain- rates and taxes which the Board might otherwise be entitled to levy and collect and shall exercise and perform the rights, powers, privilèges and duties of the Board in place of the Board.

Restoring Board.

3. The conduct and management of the schools shall be restored to the Board by the Minister of Education whenever it shall appear that the schools will be conducted by the Board according to law.

Détermination of the right to appoint commission.

4. If any question arises as to whether the circumstances justify the appointment or the continuance of a commission it shall be determined on summary application to the Suprême Court at Toronto.

Order of Suprême Court.

5. The Suprême Court may on summary application make any order that may be necessarj' to secure to the Commission appointed under this Act possession of the property and assets to which it is entitled.

Minister may appoint.

6. The Commission shall be a Corporation and the Minister of Education with the approval aforesaid may appoint Commissioners in addition to or in substitution for Commissioners theretofore appointed, provided the number of persons forming a Commission shall not at any time exceed seven.

Duty of commission. {Rev. Stat., c. 270.)

7. The Commission shall conduct the said schools in accordance with The Separate Schools Act.

Advance of manies to commission.

8. The Minister of Education, with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, ma}' from time to time advance monies from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to the Commission to enable it to carry on the schools under its control.

9. This Act shall come into force on and from a day to be named by the Lieutenant-Governor in Council by his proclamation.

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No. 154. 1917.