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much the greater 'part of the teachers’ salaries. was continued un- , , til the year 1852. A Board of Education, consisting of five mem- 37!’ bers, was established in the year 1850. Provision was, in the . . same year, made for the extension of educational grants to the Acadian schools. That money might be provided for the main- _ _ _ tenance of public schools, the sale of glebe and school lands-— 3 2 - V reserved by the British Government when the Island was divided ' among the proprietors—was authorized and the proceeds of . the sale were funded. ' , At theopening of the Legislative session of 1829, Lieutenant Governor Ready referred to the material progress that had been made throughout the colony, pointed to the requirement of a , “classical school,” and suggested the establishmentof The Cen- .3 tral Academy. This suggestion was not carried out until 1836. 1 ‘, _ In the} month of June of that year The Central Academy was opened. Its first Principal was the Rev. Charles Lloyd. - Mr. Alexander Brown was promoted frOm the Grammar School i 3 ' ' to be‘his assistant. Following Mr. Lloyd, the Rev. James Wad- I . dell, of Truro, Nova Scotia, was for several years, or until the _ a I . . end 'of September, 1845, the headmaster of The Academy. But "V ' the expectations of its promoters were not fully realized. In the V session ,of 1843, the Act of the Legislature establishing .it was amended. It was placed under the control of trustees, of whom the Chief Justice, the President of the Legislative COuncil and ' . , ' the Speaker Of the ’HOuse of Assembly, together with ten other ‘ i ' . . gentlemen appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, , l . were members. The trustees obtained in 1844 the services of Ed~ ii? . ward Rupert .Humphreys, of Magdalen 'College, Cambridge, as headmaster, and with him was associated Mr. James Porteous.

Mr. John Kenny joined the staff of the Academy in the same year,

and Mr. John Arbuckle in 1845. In August of the year 1847, Mr. Humphreys was succeeded by Mr. William Cundall, who held the position until the year 1856, when he resigned to become cash- ier of the Bank of Prince Edward Island. Mr. John Kenny suc- ceeded to the position, and'was headmaster until the year 1860,

when the Central Academy was superseded by Prince of Wales College. '-

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