[21st December, 1880.]

The Minister of Education may, on application being made to him by any Education Board, grant to any person who shall have served as pupil-teacher under such Board for a term of three years or more, and who shall have passed the final examination of the pupil-teachers' course as prescribed by such Board, a district license tenable for two years from the date at which the aforesaid final examination was passed, and during such two years such district license shall, within the education district of the Board by which such application shall have been made, have the force of a certificate granted under "The Education Act, 1877."