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the School Board, has been laid off by two competent sur-
veyors, into sixty-seven school districts. A map of the
county, with the school districts all distinctly marked and
bounded, has been filed with the return of the surveyors
whereby the duties of the Board, in the execution of the law,
will be greatly facilitated.

TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES GRANTED.

Certificates have been granted to one hundred and six
teachers after thorough examination in the different branches
required, to wit: Seven of the first grade and ninety-nine of the
second grade. In the discharge of this part of my duty I have
to acknowledge the valuable aid afforded me by Professor
Phil M. Leakin, of the State Normal School Department.
The most of these teachers have been engaged in our own
schools, others have found employment in other counties of
this State, some iu the adjoining counties of the States of
Pennsylvania and Delaware.

STUDENT TEACHERS IN NORMAL SCHOOL.

Certificates for admission to the Normal School were grant-
ed to six student teachers, who attended the two first sessions
of that school with very decided advantage TO THEMSELVES.
Three of the six still remain at the school, and authority has
already been granted to two others to enter for the term com-
mencing on the 7th of January next. The great difficulty
in obtaining a large attendance at that school is the cost of
boarding.

SUGGESTIONS FOR AID TO TEACHERS IN ATTENDING THAT SCHOOL.

If a fund could be created to aid the teachers in paying
their Board while attending the school, to be furnished to
them, either as a gratuity or as a loan, to be refunded by
them in periodical deductions from their future salaries as
teachers or otherwise, many more would gladly avail them-
selves of the advantages of this valuable auxiliary in the
great cause in which we are laboring, and I respectfully
suggest that this subject be presented to the consideration of
the Legislature.

VISITATION OF THE SCHOOLS OF THE COUNTY.

Since the organization of the system, I have been enabled
to visit the whole of the sixty-seven schools of the county,
many of them at several different times; spending from half
an hour to two hours in each; observing the discipline of the
school; the deportment and progress of the pupils, and the