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ratepayers belonging to the same religion organizes its own schools, engages 
its teachers and taxes itself for their support. while the subsidies voted 
by the Legislature are apportioned by the Superintendent of Education 
among the Roman Catholic and Protestant schools proportionally to the 
number of pupils enrolled ir the previous year. 
Dairy School and official laboratory of the Province at St. Hyacinthe