Normal School for Upper Canada
This is to Certify, That Emily H. Jennings having attended the Normal School during the Eleventh Session, 1853-1854, and having been carefully examined in the several Branches taught therein, is hereby recommended to the Chief Superintendent of Schools, as eligible to receive a First Class Certificate of Qualification, as a Common School Teacher in Upper Canada, according to the "Programme of the Examination and Classification of Common School Teachers" adopted by the Council of Public Instruction, on the 3rd day of [October?] [185?]
Tho J. Robertson {signed} Head Master.
William [?] AB {signed} Second Master.
In accordance with the foregoing recommendation, and under the authority of the Forty-fourth Section of the Upper Canada School of Arts of 1850 (13th and 14th Victoria, chapter 48)
I do hereby Grant to Emily H. Jennings
A First Class Certificate of Qualification as a Common School Teacher; which Certificate shall be valid in any part of Upper Canada, until revoked by me.
Dated at the Education Office, Toronto, this Twentieth day of April, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-four.
E. Ryerson {signed} Chief Superintendent of Schools for U. C.
located in Certificate Register A, of the Department, Number 152
[?] Hooper {signed}