in the old Roman Catholic Chapel, where there were two rooms and 128 pupils, who paid a tuition fee of eighteen pence a quarter. None of these class rooms were very suitable. Low ceilings and poor ventilation. Furniture deficient. Water closets — where there were any were in a disgraceful condition. The schools were situated in public halls or private buildings, often on second floors which necessitated climb¬ ing two sets of stairs, which were in all cases very inferior and in some cases unsafe. The average yearly salary of teachers on the Island was £40 Stirling. With the passing of the Public School Act of 1877 and the pro¬ hibiting of religious instruction in the public schools, beyond the reading of the Bible, the Christian Brothers relinguished their position as teachers, and St . Patrick's Hall was rented in part by the City Board of School Trustees as a public school, and named Queen Square School. Today the whole building is occupied as a school. The Wesleyan Methodist School on Upper was rented by the School Board on 10th August 1877, and in 1890 purchased for $23,000, and named Prince Street School. The School Board realized additional classrooms were necessary, and decided to erect a new school in the western end of the City, and on 29th April, 1878, the corner stone of West Kent School was laid by Sir Robert Hodgson , Lieutenant Governor , when over twelve hundred school children attended the ceremony. On 1st January, 1917, the School Board rented St . Joseph's Convent as a public school, and named it School. All these four schools have had large additions since first taken over Prince Street School, 1899. liiill