[18th September, 1883.]

1. The Order in Council made on the twenty-third day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and prescribing regulations for the auditing of the accounts of School Committees, is hereby repealed.

2. Every School Committee shall, not later than the fifteenth day of January in every year, make up its accounts for the year ending the thirty-first day of December previous, and shall immediately thereafter submit the same to an Auditor appointed by the Board of the education district within which the school or schools under the jurisdiction of the Committee are situated.

3. The Board of each education district shall, in the month of December in every year, appoint an Auditor or Auditors to audit the accounts of the School Committees within the district in or for which such Board is constituted, and shall in the same month notify to each School Committee the name of the Auditor who is appointed to audit the accounts of such Committee for the year in which such appointment is made.

4. The Auditor appointed to audit the accounts of any School Committee shall have access to all the books and accounts of the Committee and any of its officers, and shall examine the general statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Committee, and verify the same with the accounts and vouchers relating thereto, and shall either certify under his hand the same as found by him to be correct, duly vouched, and in accordance with law, and specially report to the Education Board of the district in what respect he finds it incorrect, unvouched, or not in accordance with law.