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     3	                    Manitoba School Question
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     5	               The Laurier and Greenway Compromise
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     9	TERMS OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA AND THE
    10	GOVERNMENT OF MANITOBA FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF THE SCHOOL QUESTION,
    11	NOVEMBER 16, 1896.
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    13	     1.   Legislation shall be introduced and passed at the next
    14	regular session of the Legislature of Manitoba embodying the
    15	provisions hereinafter set forth in amendment to the "Public
    16	Schools Act," for the purpose of settling the educational questions
    17	that have been in dispute in that province.
    18	     2.   Religious teaching to be conducted as hereinafter
    19	provided: --
    20	     (1)  If authorized by a resolution passed by a majority of the
    21	school trustees, or,
    22	     (2)  If a petition be presented to the board of school
    23	trustees asking for religious teaching and signed by the parents or
    24	guardians of at least ten children attending the school in the case
    25	of a rural district, or by the parents or guardians of at least
    26	twenty-five children attending the school in a city, town or
    27	village.
    28	     (3)  Such religious teaching to take place between the hours
    29	of 3.30 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and to be conducted by any
    30	Christian clergyman whose charge includes any portion of the school
    31	district, or by a person duly authorized by such clergyman, or by
    32	a teacher when so authorized.
    33	     (4)  Where so specified in such resolution of the trustees, or
    34	where so required by the petition of the parents or guardians,
    35	religious teaching during the prescribed period may take place only
    36	on certain specified days of the week instead of on every teaching
    37	day.
    38	     (5)  In any school in towns and cities where the average
    39	attendance of Roman Catholic children is forty or upwards, and in
    40	villages and rural districts where the average attendance of such
    41	children is twenty-five or upwards, the trustees shall, if required
    42	by the petition of the parents or guardians of such number of Roman
    43	Catholic children respectively, employ at least one duly
    44	certificated Roman Catholic teacher in such school.
    45	     In any school in towns and cities where the average attendance
    46	of non-Roman Catholic children is forty or upwards, and in villages
    47	and rural districts where the average attendance of such children
    48	is twenty-five or upwards, the trustees shall, if required by the
    49	petition of the parents or guardians of such children, employ at
    50	least one duly certificated non-Roman Catholic teacher.
    51	     (6)  Where religious teaching is required to be carried on in
    52	any school in pursuance of the foregoing provisions, and there are
    53	Roman Catholic children and non-Roman Catholic children attending
    54	such school, and the school-room accommodations does not permit of
    55	the pupils being placed in separate rooms for the purpose of
    56	religious teaching, provisions shall be made by regulations of the
    57	Department of Education (which regulations the Board of school
    58	trustees shall observe) whereby the time allotted for religious
    59	teaching shall be divided in such a way that religious teaching of
    60	the Roman Catholic children shall be carried on during the
    61	prescribed period on one-half of the teaching days in each month,
    62	and the religious teaching of the non-Roman Catholic children may
    63	be carried on during the prescribed period on one-half of the
    64	teaching days in each month.
    65	     (7)  The Department of Education shall have the power to make
    66	regulations not inconsistent with the principles of this Act for
    67	the carrying into effect the provisions of this Act.
    68	     (8)  No separation of the pupils by religious denominations
    69	shall take place during the secular school work.
    70	     (9)  Where the school room accommodation at the disposal of
    71	the trustees permits, instead of alloting different days of the
    72	week to the different denominations for the purpose of religious
    73	teaching, the pupils may be separated when the hour for religious
    74	teaching arrives, and placed in separate rooms.
    75	     (10) Where ten of the pupils in any school speak the French
    76	language (or any language other than English) as their native
    77	language, the teaching of such pupils shall be conducted in French
    78	(or such other language), and English upon the bilingual system.
    79	     (11) No pupils to be permitted to be present at any religious
    80	teaching unless the parents or guardians of such pupils desire it. 
    81	In case the parents or guardians do not desire the attendance of
    82	the pupils at such religious teaching, then the pupils shall be
    83	dismissed before the exercises, or shall remain in another room.
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    86	SOURCE:
    87		Canada,  (1897), no. 35, 1-2.