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NATURAL RESOURCES OF QUEBEC 
posed of two committees, the Roman Catholic Committee, having charge 
of Roman Catholic Schools, and the Protestant Committee, which controls 
Protestant Schools. Each committee makes its own regulations for the 
organization, administration and discipline of its respective schools. The 
Roman Catholic Committee consists of a number of high dignitaries of 
the Roman Catholic church, who are members ex-officio, together with 
a number of Roman Catholic laymen appointed by the Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor in Council. The Protestant Committee is made up of Protestant 
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members. both from church and laity, equal in number to the lay members 
on the Roman Catholic Committee, appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor 
in Council. The Superintendent of Education is assisted by an English 
secretary and a French secretary, each having the rank of deputy minister. 
These secretaries also act as secretaries of the Roman Catholic and the 
Protestant Committees of the Council, respectively. 
Public School System.—Religion is thus a dominating influence 
in the organization of the educational system of Quebec, the most out- 
standing feature being that the public schools are religious in their control 
and distinctively either Roman Catholic or Protestant. For purposes 
of primary education the province is divided into school municipalities, 
the boundaries of which are usually coincident with those of the parishes.